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XIAMEN, China, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milesight, a global AIoT solution provider, announced its upgrade of brand identity earlier this year, marking the embarking on a new journey to AIoT.
State-of-the-art Technologies in the AIoT Industry
5G, LoRaWAN® and AIoT Technologies are essential driving forces towards the trend of IoE (Internet of Everything). With the development and maturity of these advanced technologies, they combine with each other, become popular, and penetrate into all walks of life. To further announce the entry into AIoT industry, Milesigiht unveiled a new brand identity. Moreover, a new headquarters, itself a smart building empowered by Milesight AIoT solutions, has been established and fully operational.
First-Rate Milesight Products
As a fast-growing AIoT solution provider, Milesight manufactures products with exceptional flexibility and reliability for the global market. 5G AIoT Camera, a milestone of Milesight's initial success in combining 5G and AIoT, is a breakthrough in the field of video surveillance and IoT, which is beyond just data collection and drawing actionable insights. It can transmit and receive video data wirelessly through a SIM card, and ingest various sensor data, like temperature and water level information.
For more information about Video Surveillance, please visit: https://www.milesight.com/
Furthermore, another successful example of converging IoT and LoRaWAN® technologies is IAQ Sensor, which provides straightforward data directly shown on display and cloud platform to help people see and improve the indoor air quality, reinforce health, and maintain business continuity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 47,000 IAQ Sensors were deployed in Canadian Schools, helping increase ventilation and filtration, while building a healthier learning environment for students.
For more information about IoT, please visit: https://www.milesight-iot.com/
Committed to Providing AIoT Products and Solutions
By perfectly combining cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, LoRaWAN®, AI and IoT, Milesight is heading for a new journey to AIoT, with a commitment to offering more and more advanced AIoT solutions such as smart city, smart building, smart agriculture etc., contributing to a more intelligent and connected world.
Milesight is always passionate about connectivity of everything. With the new brand identity, Milesight will keep thriving in AIoT world with more connected and integrated products and solutions to come.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Corrections Department seeking to ensure access for prison inmates to medication that reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms or cravings.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque by the ACLU and Disability Rights New Mexico on behalf of a 28-year-old woman incarcerated at a state prison in Grants.
The woman began using heroin as a teenager and more recently was diagnosed with “opioid use disorder” and prescribed methadone that reduces opioid craving and withdrawal. She lost access to the medication while incarcerated.
The lawsuit contends that denying inmates access to anti-craving and withdrawal medications such as methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone constitutes cruel and unusual punishment that is prohibited by the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“Without access to their doctor-prescribed medication in prison, people with opioid use disorder suffer painful withdrawal and face high risk of relapse, overdose, and death—both while they are in prison and upon their return home,” the ACLU said in a news release.
Corrections Department officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
New Mexico state government has been at the forefront of strategies to reduce the toll of drug use and addiction — from the distribution of overdose antidote drugs to legal immunity provisions for people who may implicate themselves in crimes by seeking overdose treatment for themselves or others.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation this year that allows broad access to test strips that can detect the presence of the potent opiate fentanyl and potentially help avoid deadly overdoses. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lawsuit-seeks-access-to-withdrawal-medication-for-17658263.php | 2022-12-16 12:17:11 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lawsuit-seeks-access-to-withdrawal-medication-for-17658263.php |
Which laundry hamper cabinet is best?
A laundry hamper cabinet takes the function of a laundry basket and turns it into a practical piece of stylish furniture. While not portable like the laundry basket, the cabinet provides you with additional storage space and leaves dirty clothes tucked out of sight to keep your bedroom or bathroom tidy. Take a look at the Crosley Furniture Tara Linen Hamper for an attractive, compact cabinet that will look great in any home.
What to know before you buy a laundry hamper cabinet
Materials
A laundry hamper cabinet is heavier and more permanent than the standard laundry hamper. It’s designed as its own piece of furniture. This makes solid woods such as bamboo and engineered wood such as medium-density fiberboard the most popular materials when it comes to the cabinet’s frame.
On the inside, the cabinet features a metal basket or cloth bag for holding the dirty clothes. Baskets are sturdier, but bags are often easier to pull out and carry to the laundry room without the need to switch to a separate laundry basket. Cloth bags can retain odors but are also machine-washable.
Metal hardware vs. cutout handles
There are two types of handles most commonly associated with laundry hamper cabinets.
- Metal handles come in different shapes, sizes and colors. They are screwed into the door for opening and closing.
- Handles carved directly into the wood or fiberboard surface of the cabinet door or lid provide a sleek, natural-looking design. They are often used in conjunction with bamboo furniture.
Single vs. double hamper
A hamper cabinet with one compartment takes up less space and is more affordable. However, a cabinet with two or even three built-in hampers instead is a great convenience.
With separate compartments, you can sort out light and dark items as you go. When it comes time to do laundry, you don’t have to worry about sorting clothes over the washing machine.
What to look for in a quality laundry hamper cabinet
Storage space
Most laundry hamper cabinets have a basic shelf on top for storing or displaying items—but the best cabinets go a step further. They include one to three drawers or tiered shelving. This minimizes the need for additional cabinetry and can be a real asset when furnishing a small bedroom or bathroom.
Tilt-out design
A helpful laundry hamper cabinets features a tilt-out door. This makes it easier to scoop out dirty laundry and also saves space. It leaves the top of the cabinet free as a storage area and means you don’t have to bother with opening and closing doors to get to the laundry bag or basket. The tilt-out bin opens and shuts with one easy motion.
Removable laundry bag
The best laundry cabinets feature a bag or basket on the inside that is entirely removable. This way you can remove all the laundry together instead of digging out all the clothes individually. A durable cloth such as canvas tends to work best for portability but a metal frame with a cloth lining has more structure and support.
How much you can expect to spend on a laundry hamper cabinet
A single-hamper cabinet usually costs $50-$200. A double- or triple-hamper cabinet costs $80-$400.
Laundry hamper cabinet FAQ
What’s the difference between wood and fiberboard?
A. Natural wood is a solid, organic material that comes from trees. Fiberboard uses wood particles and other non-organic materials to make a lightweight alternative designed to resemble wood. It’s less expensive but can also be less durable.
Can a laundry cabinet get wet?
A. Since laundry cabinets are often kept in the bathroom and come into contact with wet clothes, they tend to be reliably water-resistant. Fiberboard can get wet and natural wood can handle moisture as long as the surface has been properly treated.
What’s the best laundry hamper cabinet to buy?
Top laundry hamper cabinet
Crosley Furniture Tara Linen Hamper
What you need to know: This cottage-style pine cabinet has a birch veneer and a tilt-out hamper with a cloth laundry bag and metal handle. It measures 35.35 inches tall and 18 inches across.
What you’ll love: It holds two loads’ worth of laundry and the cloth bag is easily removable. It comes in vintage gray or vintage white with a sleek, classic design.
What you should consider: It’s listed as being easy to assemble, but many buyers have found it difficult to assemble.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Macy’s
Top laundry hamper cabinet for the money
Oceanstar Spa-Style Bamboo Laundry Hamper
What you need to know: This spa-inspired cabinet is constructed from bamboo with a cutout handle and a lid on top that opens to a canvas-lined metal laundry basket. It measures 25 inches tall and 20 inches across.
What you’ll love: The bamboo is attractive with a beautiful natural finish. It’s well-made and assembly is easy. The metal rods make the canvas laundry basket sturdy.
What you should consider: The way it opens and closes provides no permanent shelving space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Macy’s
Worth checking out
Evideco Tilt-Out Laundry Hamper
What you need to know: This fiberboard cabinet features cutout handles and a tilt-out hamper with a cloth laundry bag. It measures 38.5 inches tall and 14.4 inches across.
What you’ll love: The cloth bag is easily removable and machine-washable. There are two shelves for storage instead of the standard one. It comes in white, bamboo and white with an oak brown door.
What you should consider: There are no walls to completely conceal the laundry basket.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot and Wayfair
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DALLAS — Editor's note: The video published above is a report from last year's expunction expo.
The Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, Dallas County District Clerk’s Office and Dallas County Public Defender’s Office began hosting the 6th Annual Dallas County Expunction Expo, starting July 5.
People with offenses on their criminal record may qualify for an expunction if any of the following apply:
- You were arrested but a charge was never filed, was no-billed by the grand jury, or was rejected by the District Attorney’s Office
- Your felony, Class A misdemeanor, or Class B misdemeanor charge was dismissed without any type of community supervision or probation prior to the dismissal
- Your Class C misdemeanor was dismissed, or you successfully completed Class C deferred adjudication
- You were acquitted (found "not guilty") of your charge by a judge, jury, or appellate court
- You were convicted of a crime but later pardoned by the Texas Governor or the United States President
- You were convicted before Sept. 01, 2021 for Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon under Section 46.02(a) of the Penal Code
In 2021, the Expunction Expo received the most applications ever in one week (more than 1,300). Nearly half of all of those applying met the requirements and were invited to participate in last year’s expo, according to the district attorney's office.
A case is not eligible for an expunction, if:
- The case is still pending
- You were convicted in the case, even if you only paid a fine
- You received probation, community supervision or deferred adjudication for a felony, Class A misdemeanor, or Class B misdemeanor you want expunged, even if your case was later dismissed
- The case you want expunged is a felony, and you were arrested for another offense at the same time that resulted in a conviction, probation, community supervision, or deferred adjudication.
The expo runs from July 5 to July 11, and only Dallas County offenses will be considered. Anyone interested in applying can do so here on the Dallas County District Clerk’s website.
Participants will be notified by phone and email no later than Sept. 12, 2022, if they qualify to participate in the 2022 expunction expo. Those granted expunctions will be celebrated at a graduation ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023.
Since the expunction expo started in 2017, it has helped clear more than 1,700 criminal records.
More Dallas headlines: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-2022-expunction-expo/287-2ca1619f-b809-4bec-b0e4-6c009acc5c29 | 2022-07-05 20:47:06 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-2022-expunction-expo/287-2ca1619f-b809-4bec-b0e4-6c009acc5c29 |
MONDAY
Lawton Public School Foundation Change Challenge all week.
Central Middle — Special Olympic $1 Polar Bear fundraiser all week; Cougar Coffee sales all week; Academic Team practice, 3 p.m.; Chess Club, 3:00 p.m.
Eisenhower High — 9th grade class meeting, 3rd hour; Academic Team practice, 2:30 p.m.; Key Club meetings, 2:30 p.m.; Anime meets all week, 2:30 p.m.
Lawton High — Art, Social Studies and Native American Club meetings, 2:30 p.m.; Stomp practice, 2:30 p.m.; Student Council, 2:30 p.m.; Table Top meeting, 3 p.m.; ACT tutoring, 3 p.m.; Leadership Club, 3 p.m.
MacArthur High — Crochet and K-Pop Club meetings, 2:30 p.m.; Poetry Out Loud, 2:30 p.m.
Pat Henry Elementary — 5th grade to STARBASE.
Whittier Elementary — Breakfast starts at 8:20 a.m. followed by Wake-up in the gym every morning.
TUESDAY
Central Middle — Partners Club meets, 7:45 a.m.; Art Club, 3 p.m.
Eisenhower High — Pep rally, 1:55 p.m.; Youth & Government meeting, 2:30 p.m.
Freedom Elementary — Art Club, 3:40.
Lawton High — English, Aviation and Chess Club meetings, 2:30 p.m.; NHS, 2:30 p.m.; Stomp practice, 2:30 p.m.; band rehearsal, 3 p.m.; Anime Club, 3:05 p.m.
MacArthur High — Key Club meets, 2:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Eisenhower High — African American Club, 2:30 p.m.; Chess Club, 2:30 p.m.
Eisenhower Middle — FCA, 7:40 a.m.
Freedom Elementary — Spring pictures taken today.
Lawton High — FCA, 7 a.m.; Poetry Out Loud competition, 8:45 a.m.; Academic Team practice, 2:30 p.m.; Stomp practice, 2:30 p.m.
MacArthur High — FCA, 7:15 a.m.; Great Plains Tech Center interviews; senior Alayna Vines will sign her Letter of Intent to play volleyball for Bethel College in Kansas, 2:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Eisenhower High — GSA, 2:30 p.m.; Youth & Government, 2:30 p.m.
Eisenhower Elementary — PTA New Year New Me picture fundraiser; G2G meets, 5:30 p.m.
Lawton High — Unified Club meets, 7:10 a.m.; Science, Math and Military Child Club meetings, 2:30 p.m.; Stomp practice, 2:30 p.m.; Gentlemen of LHS, 2:30 p.m.
Woodland Hills Elementary — Popcorn/Candy sales today for delivery tomorrow.
FRIDAY
Eisenhower High — Great Plains Tech Center interviews in the library.
Freedom Elementary — Freedom Monthly assembly, 9:30 a.m.; Robotics Club, 3:40 p.m.
Learning Tree Academy — Multicultural Week Parade of Nations, 10 a.m.
MacArthur High — Mr. MHS assembly and crowning, 10:15 a.m.
Pat Henry Elementary — Snack Attack; JAG assembly, 2:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
LPS Blood Bowl Challenge sponsored by Arvest Bank in the Cameron University McCasland Ballroom, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Lawton High — Academic Team to Rose State College.
MacArthur High — Winter Wonderland semi-formal dance in the gym. | https://www.swoknews.com/news/this-week-in-lps/article_38f9be10-4763-5df5-853f-a3a6b59d8160.html | 2023-01-22 09:36:02 | 1 | https://www.swoknews.com/news/this-week-in-lps/article_38f9be10-4763-5df5-853f-a3a6b59d8160.html |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An online citizen journalist from Texas asked federal appeals court judges Wednesday to revive her lawsuit against authorities who her arrested for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police — a case that has drawn attention from national media organizations and free speech advocates.
A state judge dismissed the criminal case against Priscilla Villarreal in 2018, saying the law used to arrested her in 2017 was deemed unconstitutionally vague, according to court briefs.
Villarreal, known online as “La Gordiloca,” then filed a lawsuit against the city of Laredo, Webb County and the police officers and prosecutors involved in her arrest. She said she’s entitled to damages because she never should have been arrested for posting information on her Facebook page, “ Lagordiloca News LaredoTx. ”
“I had to make the point that it’s not right to get arrested for my freedom of speech and freedom of the press,” Villarreal said outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building where arguments were heard Wednesday by the court’s 16 active judges.
Among those on her side in the case are the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists.
“If the First Amendment stands for anything, it is the fundamental truth that the people, and the press on behalf of the people, must be able to ask questions of government officials without fear of harassment, prosecution, or imprisonment,” they say in a brief filed with Texas news outlets and media organizations.
In a competing brief, the state of Texas says the issues are more nuanced and rejects the notion that the woman known as La Gordiloca was arrested for simply asking a question.
Villarreal has not shown that the officials who had her arrested knew there was no probable cause to do so, the Texas brief states. It also says a magistrate judge issued the warrant and “the officers reasonably relied upon the neutral magistrate’s conclusion that there was probable cause to arrest Villarreal for violating a facially valid statute.”
Some of the judges hearing the case Wednesday asked questions about that point.
“Wouldn’t judges know more than police officers do?” Judge Catharina Haynes asked Villarreal’s lawyer, J.T. Morris, who said police and prosecutors had no probable cause to investigate or seek the warrant in the first place.
The law, according to court records, defines the criminal “misuse of official information” as using information that “has not been made public … with intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud another.” Authorities had argued that Villarreal could benefit from using the information — the identities of a person who killed himself and a family involved in a car accident — to gain fame on her Facebook page.
A 5th Circuit panel revived Villarreal’s lawsuit in a 2-1 decision in November 2021. But the full court vacated that ruling, deciding to grant Wednesday’s rehearing before all 16 active judges. In that decision, Judge James Ho wrote that Villarreal’s arrest was “an obvious violation of the Constitution.”
Ho questioned lawyers for Texas and Laredo on Wednesday about scenarios in which seeking information from public officials can be criminalized. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/ap-citizen-journalists-lawsuit-heard-by-federal-appeals-court/ | 2023-01-25 21:45:24 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/ap-citizen-journalists-lawsuit-heard-by-federal-appeals-court/ |
Teen tied to bed escapes from home; 3 family members indicted, police say
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A mother, stepfather and stepgrandfather in Ohio have been indicted on charges in connection with the alleged abuse of a teen after police say she escaped her family’s home and sought help at a nearby business.
The identities of the accused have not been identified to protect the victim’s identity.
The stepfather is accused of tying his teenage stepdaughter to her bed on Aug. 16 because the family feared she would run away, Fairfield Township police say the suspect claimed.
WXIX reports an officer’s bodycam recording captured the stepfather explaining that he used zip ties to hook the teen to a bed and wrapped a ratchet strap around her feet to ensure the teen could not leave her bed.
Fairfield Police Sgt. Brandon McCroskey said the family admitted to doing their actions.
The stepfather reportedly told police the teen had threatened to kill them, and they had been trying to get her to see her counselor.
Fairfield Township Police said the teen’s mother would allegedly cut her free from the bed, but that was only to use the bathroom.
Once the teen relieved herself, her mother allegedly tied her back down to the bed.
In the bodycam video, the stepfather told police the girl had a kitchen knife, and he had woken up with her standing above his head. When asked, he said he did not call police after that incident.
Police said the teen managed to escape the house and run to a nearby business, where an employee called for help.
The teen had injuries to her eyes, neck, wrists and burns on her palms, according to police.
They were severe enough for first responders to take her to the hospital for treatment.
“If you’re a parent or guardian and you’re aware that a child in your custody is being abused, and you do nothing, you could easily be subjected to criminal liability and charged for that,” McCroskey said. “I’ve had a couple of cases myself where that’s occurred, this being one of them.”
The child’s grandfather was also indicted on charges Wednesday for knowing the alleged criminal activity took place, according to police.
The family trio is facing a total of 14 charges, 13 of which are felonies related to abduction and child endangering. The stepfather alone was indicted on six charges, according to police.
Authorities said it is unclear if the alleged abuse happened on more than one occasion.
The teen is currently in the care of children’s services. Police said other children were removed from the family’s home as well.
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ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG) today reported its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Management will host a webcast conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. ET/4:15 p.m. CT. To listen to the call, and for printer-friendly formats of this release and the "CFO Commentary" and "Supplemental Quarterly Data," which may also be referenced during the call, please visit ajg.com/IR. These documents contain both GAAP and non-GAAP measures. Investors and other users of this information should read carefully the section entitled "Information Regarding Non-GAAP Measures" beginning on page 9.
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"We had a fantastic start to 2022!" said J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO. "Our core brokerage and risk management segments combined to post 30% growth in revenue, including more than 10% organic revenue growth and $380 million of acquired rollover revenues. Our bottom line results were equally as strong with net earnings growth of 28%, adjusted EBITDAC growth of 34% and adjusted EBITDAC margin expansion of 55 basis points.
"During the quarter, we completed 5 new tuck-in mergers with approximately $32 million of annualized revenue, and we were recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 11th year in a row!
"Overall, first quarter rate and exposure increases were broad-based, driven by firm global P/C rates across nearly all geographies and lines of business, and our clients' continued growth. First quarter 2022 global P/C renewal premium increases of 8% were consistent with fourth quarter levels adjusting for line of coverage seasonality. Additionally, the extremely tight labor market is favorably impacting our benefits and HR consulting business, resulting in more project work and higher covered lives as well as contributing to increased new arising claims for our risk management business.
"Looking ahead, we see robust demand for our services continuing as clients look to manage their risk and human capital challenges. Our team has the expertise, the service capabilities, and the desire to help clients and prospects navigate the current environment!"
Impact Related to Ukraine/Russia Conflict
Gallagher does not have any offices or direct operations within Ukraine or Russia. While we had a small number of clients that were based in or had operations within Russia, we have suspended those relationships and are no longer providing services to these clients. We have also implemented robust procedures designed to ensure that we are in compliance with all applicable sanctions laws.
We currently estimate these actions will adversely impact full year 2022 brokerage segment annual revenues by up to $10 million and full year 2022 net after tax earnings by up to $0.03 per share, with a $0.01 adverse impact in first quarter of 2022. The indirect impact of the ongoing conflict is difficult to estimate, but we currently believe it will not be significant to our full year 2022 financial results.
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Corporate Segment Reported GAAP Information (dollars in millions):
Interest and banking costs and debt - At March 31, 2022, Gallagher had $1,600.0 million of borrowings from public debt, $4,448.0 million of borrowings from private placements and no short-term borrowings under its line of credit facility. In addition, Gallagher had $173.4 million outstanding under a revolving loan facility that provides funding for premium finance receivables, which are fully collateralized by the underlying premiums held by insurance carriers, and as such are excluded from our debt covenant computations.
Clean energy - Consists of the operating results related to our investments in clean coal production plants and royalty income from clean coal licenses related to Chem-Mod LLC. The production of IRC Section 45 clean energy tax credits ceased in December 2021, which reduced the royalty income received by Chem-Mod LLC and net earnings generated by our investments in clean coal production plants. Additional information regarding these results is available in the "CFO Commentary" at ajg.com/IR.
Acquisition costs - Consists mostly of external professional fees and other due diligence costs related to acquisitions. On occasion, Gallagher enters into forward currency hedges for the purchase price of committed, but not yet funded, acquisitions with funding requirements in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. The gains or losses, if any, associated with these hedge transactions is also included.
Corporate - Consists of overhead allocations mostly related to corporate staff compensation, other corporate level activities, and net unrealized foreign exchange remeasurement. In addition, includes the tax expense related to partial taxation of foreign earnings, nondeductible executive compensation and entertainment expenses and the tax benefit from vesting of employee equity awards.
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Gallagher allocates the provision for income taxes to its Brokerage and Risk Management segments using the local country statutory rates. Gallagher's consolidated effective tax rate for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was 18.3% and 3.6%, respectively. In first quarter of 2022, Gallagher increased its state effective income tax rate, which resulted in the overall U.S. effective income tax rate increasing from 25% to 26% and caused Gallagher to incur additional income tax expense during the quarter and recognized a one-time benefit related to the revaluation of certain deferred income tax assets to the higher income tax rate. In addition, the production of IRC Section 45 clean energy tax credits ceased in December 2021.
Gallagher will host a webcast conference call on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. ET/4:15 p.m. CT. To listen to this call, please go to ajg.com/IR. The call will be available for replay at such website for at least 90 days.
About Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has operations in 68 countries and offers client-service capabilities in more than 150 countries around the world through a network of correspondent brokers and consultants.
Cautionary Information
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "anticipates," "believes," "contemplates," "see," "should," "could," "will," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans" and variations thereof and similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding changes in our expenses in the next several quarters; the impact of the Ukraine/Russia conflict; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic recovery; anticipated future results or performance of any segment or the Company as a whole; the premium rate environment and the state of insurance markets; and the economic environment.
Gallagher's actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Readers are therefore cautioned against relying on any of the forward-looking statements, which are neither statements of historical fact nor guarantees or assurances of future performance. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include changes in worldwide and national economic conditions, including the pace of economic recovery following COVID-19; our actual acquisition opportunities; or other factors like the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine; trade wars or tariffs; political unrest in the U.S. or other countries around the world; changes in premium rates and in insurance markets generally; and changes in the insurance brokerage industry's competitive landscape.
In particular, the global spread of COVID-19 has created significant volatility and uncertainty and economic disruption that may impact our forward-looking statements. The extent to which the pandemic impacts our business, operations and financial results will depend on numerous evolving factors, many of which are not within our control and that we may not be able to accurately predict, including: its duration and scope; governmental, business and individuals' actions that have been and continue to be taken in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on economic activity and actions taken in response; the effect on our clients and client demand for our services; the ability of our clients to pay their insurance premiums which could impact our commission and fee revenues for our services; the number of new arising workers compensation and general liability claims; and the long-term impact of employees working from home, including increased technology costs, and employees' holistic wellbeing.
Please refer to Gallagher's filings with the SEC, including Item 1A, "Risk Factors," of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, its subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for a more detailed discussion of these and other factors that could impact its forward-looking statements. The COVID-19 pandemic currently amplifies, and in the future could continue to amplify, the risks, uncertainties and assumptions, reflected in such risk factors. Any forward-looking statement made by Gallagher in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by applicable law, Gallagher does not undertake to update the information included herein or the corresponding earnings release posted on Gallagher's website.
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In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with GAAP, this press release provides information regarding EBITDAC, EBITDAC margin, adjusted EBITDAC, adjusted EBITDAC margin, diluted net earnings per share, as adjusted (adjusted EPS), adjusted revenue, adjusted compensation and operating expenses, adjusted compensation expense ratio, adjusted operating expense ratio and organic revenue. These measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative to, the GAAP information provided in this press release. Gallagher's management believes that these presentations provide useful information to management, analysts and investors regarding financial and business trends relating to Gallagher's results of operations and financial condition or because they provide investors with measures that our chief operating decision maker uses when reviewing the company's performance. See further below for definitions and additional reasons each of these measures is useful to investors. Gallagher's industry peers may provide similar supplemental non-GAAP information with respect to one or more of these measures, although they may not use the same or comparable terminology and may not make identical adjustments. The non-GAAP information provided by Gallagher should be used in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the GAAP information provided. As disclosed in its most recent Proxy Statement, Gallagher makes determinations regarding certain elements of executive officer incentive compensation, performance share awards and annual cash incentive awards, partly on the basis of measures related to adjusted EBITDAC.
Adjusted Non-GAAP presentation - Gallagher believes that the adjusted non-GAAP presentations of the current and prior period information presented in this earnings release provide stockholders and other interested persons with useful information regarding certain financial metrics of Gallagher that may assist such persons in analyzing Gallagher's operating results as they develop a future earnings outlook for Gallagher. The after-tax amounts related to the adjustments were computed using the normalized effective tax rate for each respective period. See page 13 and 14 for a reconciliation of the adjustments made to income taxes.
- Adjusted measures - Revenues (for the Brokerage segment), revenues before reimbursements (for the Risk Management segment), net earnings, compensation expense and operating expense, respectively, each adjusted to exclude the following, as applicable:
- Adjusted ratios - Adjusted compensation expense and adjusted operating expense, respectively, each divided by adjusted revenues.
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- EBITDAC and EBITDAC margin - EBITDAC is net earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, amortization and the change in estimated acquisition earnout payables and EBITDAC margin is EBITDAC divided by total revenues (for the Brokerage segment) and revenues before reimbursements (for the Risk Management segment). These measures for the Brokerage and Risk Management segments provide a meaningful representation of Gallagher's operating performance for the overall business and provide a meaningful way to measure its financial performance on an ongoing basis.
- Adjusted EBITDAC and Adjusted EBITDAC Margin - Adjusted EBITDAC is EBITDAC adjusted to exclude net gains on divestitures, acquisition integration costs, workforce related charges, lease termination related charges, acquisition related adjustments, transaction related costs, legal and income tax related costs and the period-over-period impact of foreign currency translation, as applicable and Adjusted EBITDAC margin is Adjusted EBITDAC divided by total adjusted revenues (defined above). These measures for the Brokerage and Risk Management segments provide a meaningful representation of Gallagher's operating performance, and are also presented to improve the comparability of our results between periods by eliminating the impact of the items that have a high degree of variability.
- Adjusted EPS and Adjusted Net Earnings - Adjusted net earnings have been adjusted to exclude the after-tax impact of net gains on divestitures, acquisition integration costs, the impact of foreign currency translation, workforce related charges, lease termination related charges, acquisition related adjustments, transaction related costs, amortization of intangible assets, legal and income tax related costs and effective income tax rate impact, as applicable. Adjusted EPS is Adjusted Net Earnings divided by diluted weighted average shares outstanding. This measure provides a meaningful representation of Gallagher's operating performance (and as such should not be used as a measure of Gallagher's liquidity), and for the overall business is also presented to improve the comparability of our results between periods by eliminating the impact of the items that have a high degree of variability. This is the first quarter we have excluded amortization of intangible assets from adjusted EPS, and we have provided the same adjustment for the prior period for comparability.
Organic Revenues (a non-GAAP measure) - For the Brokerage segment, organic change in base commission and fee revenues, supplemental revenues and contingent revenues exclude the first twelve months of such revenues generated from acquisitions and such revenues related to divested operations in each year presented. These revenues are excluded from organic revenues in order to help interested persons analyze the revenue growth associated with the operations that were a part of Gallagher in both the current and prior period. In addition, organic change in base commission and fee revenues, supplemental revenues and contingent revenues excludes the period-over-period impact of foreign currency translation to improve the comparability of our results between periods by eliminating the impact of the items that have a high degree of variability. For the Risk Management segment, organic change in fee revenues excludes the first twelve months of fee revenues generated from acquisitions in each year presented. In addition, change in organic growth excludes the period-over-period impact of foreign currency translation to improve the comparability of our results between periods by eliminating the impact of the items that have a high degree of variability.
These revenue items are excluded from organic revenues in order to determine a comparable, but non-GAAP, measurement of revenue growth that is associated with the revenue sources that are expected to continue in the current year and beyond. Gallagher has historically viewed organic revenue growth as an important indicator when assessing and evaluating the performance of its Brokerage and Risk Management segments. Gallagher also believes that using this non-GAAP measure allows readers of our financial statements to measure, analyze and compare the growth from its Brokerage and Risk Management segments in a meaningful and consistent manner.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Information Presented to GAAP Measures - This press release includes tabular reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures, as follows: for EBITDAC (on pages 11 and 12), for adjusted revenues, adjusted EBITDAC and adjusted diluted net earnings per share (on page 1), for organic revenue measures (on pages 3 and 5, respectively, for the Brokerage and Risk Management segments), for adjusted compensation and operating expenses and adjusted EBITDAC margin (on pages 4, 5 and 6, respectively, for the Brokerage and Risk Management segments).
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) declared the regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share on Nucor's common stock. This cash dividend is payable on November 10, 2022 to stockholders of record on September 30, 2022 and is Nucor's 198th consecutive quarterly cash dividend.
Nucor and its affiliates are manufacturers of steel and steel products, with operating facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Products produced include: carbon and alloy steel -- in bars, beams, sheet and plate; hollow structural section tubing; electrical conduit; steel racking; steel piling; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; precision castings; steel fasteners; metal building systems; insulated metal panels; overhead doors; steel grating; and wire and wire mesh. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron / direct reduced iron; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap. Nucor is North America's largest recycler.
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The corporate card alternative combines quick card issuance along with seamless payments management, instant reconciliation and best-in-class integration with ERP systems
SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During the company's annual Illuminate Conference, Tipalti, the leading automated global payables solution, announced the general availability of the Tipalti Card, as well as its upcoming Tipalti Expenses and new third-party integrations. The Tipalti Card combines quick virtual card issuance with end-to-end supplier payments management. By bringing simplicity, convenience and security to virtual credit or debit transactions, it allows users to easily manage and control business spend, reduce costs and improve profitability. When integrated with Tipalti's award-winning accounts payable solution, these innovations further the company's ability to address the concerns and complexities of running the finance operation.
"As transaction volumes continue to increase, high-velocity companies are increasingly looking to streamline inefficiencies, manage uncontrolled spending and break down silos impeding both security and visibility," said Bar Winkler, GM of Tipalti Card and Approve. "Through the Tipalti Card, we believe we have found an answer to these pain-points and more, complete with new and innovative features that will completely reimagine how financial leaders structure their transactions."
While traditional cards can be fraught with complex reconciliation processes, fraud risk and spending irregularities, the Tipalti Card functions by offering accounts payable (AP) management at scale, streamlining once burdensome processes with a centralized and easy-to-use system. The card is designed to treat card transactions like other payment methods that Tipalti offers, providing customers with end-to-end payments oversight with all the advantages of traditional card payments.
"As our company experienced rapid growth, we needed a corporate card-alternative that enables upfront controls and virtual flexibility without compromising security. Tipalti Cards is just that," said Kathleen Simon, Executive VP of Finance at Influential, the industry leader in influencer marketing. "The Tipalti Card has saved us as much as an entire week's worth of work. We're now able to empower our departments and contractors with accessibility and real-time communications, in addition to providing real-time visibility to the accounting team."
Tipalti Card Benefits:
- Automatic Reconciliation: Significantly reduces the finance team's workload with automatic card payment reconciliation, as card transactions are automatically captured and processed like other payment methods.
- Employee Friendly: Create credit or debit cards on-demand with the right controls and approvals.
- Centralize Spend and Improve Visibility: Manage all purchases in one place, whether it was placed with a Tipalti Card, US ACH, Global ACH, wire transfer, PayPal, prepaid debit card or check.
- Control Spend and Reduce Fraud: Easily issue cards with robust controls such as spend limits, vendor limits and approved categories.
- Cash-Back: Users earn a cash rebate for every dollar spent via a Tipalti Card. The more transactions made, the more cash-back is earned.
Currently, while Tipalti Card customers must have a U.S. entity, the card will be accepted internationally and can be used for non-USD transactions. ERP support is compatible with NetSuite, with future Card ERP integrations coming soon.
Tipalti also highlighted its product roadmap at Illuminate, announcing it will be offering an Expense Management solution in 2023. Tipalti Expenses will simplify expense management and reconciliation by capturing, organizing and centralizing all expenses in one seamless platform. Unique to the Tipalti Card, this also includes the reimbursement (actual payments to the employee) of those expenses in the U.S. and anywhere around the world. Alongside PO management, accounts payable, cards and global payments, it enables businesses to gain even better visibility and control. The solution will simplify the employee's flow, helping them get access to the products, services and vendors they need to get their work done. It also minimizes the necessity for employees to ask the finance team questions while still providing insight into employee requests, expenses and reimbursements.
Additionally, Tipalti shared news on several third-party integrations coming soon which will provide customers with the ability to seamlessly aggregate data and holistically review everything from purchases and renewals to contracts in a unified environment. These integrations include:
- DocuSign integration enables businesses to have full control and visibility into the status of the contract, including signatories, right from the Tipalti PO Management Contracts Repository.
- Datarails integration provides an intuitive Datarails dashboard view of Tipalti data with at-a-glance visibility into payables and expenses which improves decision making.
- CloudEagle integration gives users intuitive visibility into SaaS spend helping finance save on software spend, while streamlining the renewal and buying process.
- PowerBI integration enables finance users to view all Tipalti finance data in one place using a predefined dashboard or building their own, empowering users to utilize KPI's and trends.
- Tableau BI integration supports Tableau's analytics tool, making it easy for users to view and understand their data.
To learn more about the Tipalti Card, visit https://tipalti.com/card/.
About Tipalti
Tipalti comes from the Hebrew expression for "We handled it." Tipalti is the only company handling both Accounts Payable and Global Partner Payments workflows for high-velocity companies across the entire financial operations cycle: onboarding and managing global suppliers, instituting procurement controls, streamlining invoice processing and approvals, executing payments around the world and reconciling payables data across a multi-subsidiary finance organization. Tipalti enables high-growth companies to scale quickly by making payables strategic with operational, compliance, and financial controls. Thousands of companies, such as Amazon Twitch, GoDaddy, Roku, WordPress.com, and ZipRecruiter use Tipalti to reduce operational workload by 80% and accelerate the financial close by 25%, while strengthening financial controls and spend visibility. For more information, visit tipalti.com.
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Andy Huse had heard the arguments over the origin of the Cuban sandwich for years. It's been a long-standing debate between Tampa and Miami, which both claim ownership of the popular meal.
So he and two other researchers set out to find the final answer and settle the debate. And they landed on one conclusion: the sandwich's origin is, well, Cuba.
"I just think leaving Cuba out of the discussion for so long really blunted our understanding of where it came from, and making it kind of a Florida story instead of a Cuba story," Huse said.
In his view, there is room for Florida to be part of the narrative – Miami, Tampa and other U.S. cities added their own touches and brought popularity to the sandwich – but the story is one of immigration and evolution.
Huse is a librarian at the University of South Florida and explored these topics in a new book he co-wrote, The Cuban Sandwich: A History In Layers.
The book unpacks these layers of history like those of the sandwich itself – Cuban bread filled with seasoned pork, sweet ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard – to understand where it came from and how it has evolved. It weaves together research and profiles of artisans who are making the sandwich in different parts of the world today.
"I knew that just writing a bunch of history about the Cuban sandwich might interest a few people, but bringing up to the present day and really recognizing the people who are out there doing it was really important," Huse said.
It's an immigrant story at its heart
Huse and his team never found a "smoking gun" that defined the exact place where the sandwich was invented, but they never intended to find one, anyway. That's not how history usually works, he said.
"You don't know you have something great until several years later. It's down the line, and then everyone's arguing about who came up with it," he said.
Huse co-wrote the book with Barbara Cruz, professor of social science education at the University of South Florida, and Jeff Houck, vice president of marketing for the Columbia Restaurant Group in Tampa. Cruz emphasized that, ultimately, the Cuban sandwich has an immigrant story.
"It was born in Cuba, from the mixto – literally mixed sandwich – meaning, you know, mixed different kinds of meats, for example, and cheese," she said. "And by way of cigar workers going to Key West, then coming to Ybor City and Tampa."
Between 1890 and 1950, Tampa had the largest enclave of Cubans in the United States. Then, the Cuban revolution at the end of the 1950s resulted in an influx of immigrants in Miami, and with each change in migration, new ways to make the sandwich emerged.
"Havana conceived [the sandwich], it's safe to say, but Tampa really curated it for a long time," Huse said. "I think that's a good descriptor. You know, they tinkered with the sandwich, but they came upon, I'd say by the '40s and '50s, a fairly stable creation that often included turkey and almost always included salami."
The inclusion of the salami, like other additions and changes to the sandwich's recipe, can be a sore subject. But Huse said that when they looked at records of sandwiches in Cuba back in the '50s, they found the exact same one Tampa is known for – with salami included.
Miami, for its part, added an innovation: the iron press, which gives the Cubano a thin look and crunchy feel that a lot of people now recognize it for.
So what is the best Cuban sandwich?
Cruz, who was born in Cuba and raised in Miami but has lived part of her adult life in Tampa, said that when the authors get asked what their favorite Cubano is, they explain that they consider themselves "mood Cuban sandwich eaters."
"When we are in Miami and we're standing at a ventanita, you know, you're there with a café con leche or a colada in one hand and a Cuban sandwich in one hand, that is the best Cuban sandwich to have at that time," she said.
Other times, when they're in Tampa, "the beautiful crusty bread that La Segunda Central Bakery provides is the perfect foil for the insides of the Cuban sandwich, so it really kind of depends."
Huse and Cruz recognized that there may still be a lot to discover about the Cuban sandwich.
They started to write the book in 2020, right when the COVID-19 pandemic began, so they could not travel across the United States or to Cuba like they had wanted. The diplomatic relationship between the two countries was also limiting.
Because of these obstacles, they encourage others in the introduction to the book to continue the work, and expand on the knowledge that they have gleaned, all while keeping Cubans front and center.
"Barbara has described the sandwich like it belongs to immigrants, but it's interesting too, because then you've got other hairs to split there. So you've got your immigrants, and you've got exiles too," Huse said. "So you've got this idea that to what extent does the Cuban sandwich still belong to Cuba? And to what extent has it become really a totem of exile in Miami and beyond?"
He wonders if there will ever be a time when Cubans on the island will be able to afford a Cuban sandwich, or find all the ingredients needed to make one, like people in the U.S. do, because of the conditions there.
"Not just the political stuff, but everything else, you know, the material life in Cuba," he said. "The more research I did, the more I understood how desperate it was and it is, and hopefully that changes. But that was one of the big question marks over the whole thing: 'When will regular Cubans be able to enjoy that too?'"
So regardless of who created it, questions remain over what else there is to learn, and who will be able to enjoy it in the future.
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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s signature tax overhaul nearly five years ago allegedly opened the door for the pharmaceutical giant AbbVie to shield much of its US sales from federal taxes, according to Senate Democratic investigators, who said their new findings reflect a “clear need to reform” the system.
The report Thursday from the Senate Finance Committee comes as Democrats continue to wrangle over a broader rethink of the laws governing the taxes companies pay on income generated in the United States and abroad.
Party lawmakers and top Biden administration officials hope to overhaul the tax code as part of their long-stalled package of economic initiatives, but they have failed to sell their global proposals to Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, a centrist holdout.
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“It’s critical that Congress takes steps to fix this broken system, so nurses and firefighters aren’t paying higher tax rates than Big Pharma,” Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, the chairman of the panel, said in a statement.
Spokespeople for AbbVie did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In investigating AbbVie, the maker of the popular arthritis drug Humira, the Democrats on the Senate’s top tax-focused committee found that the drug company in 2020 generated 75 percent of its sales in the United States — but only reported 1 percent of that income for US tax purposes. According to the report, AbbVie was able to shrink its tax burden as a result of Trump’s 2017 law, which changed how companies calculate their tax bills on profits generated internationally.
Essentially, the law set up a minimum 10.5 percent tax on income derived from patents, trademarks, and other assets abroad. The move was meant to ensure that other changes to the tax code did not spark a wave of offshoring, with companies shifting their operations from the US to low-tax havens overseas.
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But Democrats long have contended that many multinational corporations quickly found novel ways to exploit that system anyway. Some of the world’s most profitable firms spread out their assets in ways that allowed them to pay far less than they should have.
AbbVie benefited because it had based its patents, trademarks, and other assets for the sale of Humira with subsidiaries in Bermuda, while manufacturing key parts of the drug via a branch in Puerto Rico, the Senate Democrats’ investigation found. These and other tactics helped AbbVie sharply reduce the taxes it owed, lowering its effective US rate in 2018 to about 8.7 percent from 19 percent a year earlier, the data show. For 2021, AbbVie expected to pay an estimated effective tax rate of about 12.5 percent, it said earlier this year.
The report also cites AbbVie’s chief executive, Richard A. Gonzalez, who told investors in 2018 that the GOP tax law would lower the company’s effective rate to closer to 9 percent — far less than the 21 percent corporate rate enacted in 2017.
In issuing the findings, top Senate Democrats sought to lay the groundwork for an even deeper investigation targeting the pharmaceutical industry and its sky-high profits. Wyden has demanded similar documents from two other drugmakers, Merck and Abbott. His panel’s report faulted both companies for having “refused to substantively cooperate.”
Earlier this year, Wyden also took aim at Abbott over its role in the national baby formula shortage. The closure of one of its key plants left Wyden concerned that the firm’s tax practices and stock buybacks — meant to maximize profits and investment returns to shareholders — had come at the expense of infant safety. Abbott denied that, stressing in a statement at the time that it is a “responsible and transparent taxpayer” while adding that stock buybacks “are not impacting our ability to invest in or reopen.”
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In the meantime, Democrats have pursued significant changes to the ways that pharmaceutical giants price their drugs and pay taxes.
To lower costs for seniors, party lawmakers proposed granting the government new powers to negotiate some drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. On Wednesday, Democrats took the next procedural step to advance the plan, the details of which were first reported by The Washington Post last week. Party lawmakers hope to adopt it as part of a larger spending package in the Senate using a process known as budget reconciliation. The tactic will allow Democrats to bypass a Republican filibuster even in the narrowly divided Senate.
Manchin has supported efforts to lower drug prices. But he has yet to reach agreement with others in his party on the rest of the package, a successor to the ill-fated Build Back Better Act, which passed the House but foundered in the Senate last year. The West Virginia moderate opposed Democrats’ prior bill, a sprawling $2 trillion measure, arguing it could add to the deficit and worsen inflation. GOP lawmakers, in contrast, long have opposed empowering Medicare to negotiate costs.
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The Biden administration has forged ahead in trying to strike an agreement on a global minimum tax that would discourage companies from taking advantage of low-tax havens. Its fate rests in part on the Senate, which would have to change existing laws to bring the country in line with the rest of the world.
But that proposal also faltered last year, another casualty of Manchin’s resistance to adopting the Build Back Better Act. Republicans, meanwhile, sought to protect their 2017 tax law at all costs, arguing the sum total of changes rejuvenated the US economy. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/07/business/drugmaker-abbvie-shielded-profits-us-taxes-senate-report-says/ | 2022-07-07 23:06:25 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/07/business/drugmaker-abbvie-shielded-profits-us-taxes-senate-report-says/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The author of “Nomadland,” the basis for the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, is working on a book about abortion.
Jessica Bruder will expand upon the reporting for her May cover story in The Atlantic, “The Abortion Underground: Inside the Covert Network Preparing for a Post-Roe Future.” The new book is currently untitled and does not yet have a release date, according to W.W. & Norton & Company, which on Thursday announced the deal with Bruder.
“With the Supreme Court expected to release its decision on the constitutional right to an abortion, Bruder will report from the front lines of the potential crisis, where people who have predicted for years that Roe v. Wade would fall are preparing to meet that challenge in real time,” the announcement reads in part.
Bruder said in a statement that she planned to chronicle “human rights through the lens of abortion. Like ‘Nomadland,’ the focus won’t be politics. It will be all about immersing with people — otherwise ordinary humans slipping the bonds of state control, asserting autonomy in an authoritarian age.”
Bruder’s “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” about transient older Americans, was published in 2017 and adapted into the acclaimed 2020 film starring Frances McDormand. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/nomadland-author-jessica-bruder-works-on-abortion-book/ | 2022-06-23 16:32:40 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/nomadland-author-jessica-bruder-works-on-abortion-book/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump’s business empire whose testimony helped convict the former president’s company of tax fraud, was sentenced Tuesday to five months in jail for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in job perks.
Weisselberg, 75, was promised that sentence in August when he agreed to plead guilty to 15 tax crimes and to testify against the Trump Organization, where he’s worked since the mid-1980s and until his arrest, had served as chief financial officer.
He was handcuffed and taken into custody moments after the sentence was announced and was expected to be taken to New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex. Weisselberg will be eligible for release after a little more than three months if he behaves behind bars.
As part of the plea agreement, Judge Juan Manuel Merchan also ordered Weisselberg to pay nearly $2 million in taxes, penalties and interest — which he has paid as of Jan. 3. Additionally, the judge ordered Weisselberg to complete five years of probation after his jail term is finished.
Weisselberg faced the prospect of up to 15 years in prison — the maximum punishment for the top grand larceny charge — if he were to have reneged on the deal or if he didn’t testify truthfully at the Trump Organization’s trial. He is the only person charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s three-year investigation of Trump and his business practices.
Weisselberg testified for three days, offering a glimpse into the inner workings of Trump’s real estate empire. Weisselberg has worked for Trump’s family for nearly 50 years, starting as an accountant for his developer father, Fred Trump, in 1973 before joining Donald Trump in 1986 and helping expand the family company's focus beyond New York City into a global golf and hotel brand.
Weisselberg told jurors he betrayed the Trump family’s trust by conspiring with a subordinate to hide more than a decade’s worth of extras from his income, including a free Manhattan apartment, luxury cars and his grandchildren’s private school tuition. He said they fudged payroll records and issued falsified W-2 forms.
A Manhattan jury convicted the Trump Organization in December, finding that Weisselberg had been a “high managerial” agent entrusted to act on behalf of the company and its various entities. Weisselberg’s arrangement reduced his own personal income taxes but also saved the company money because it didn’t have to pay him more to cover the cost of the perks.
Prosecutors said other Trump Organization executives also accepted off-the-books compensation. Weisselberg alone was accused of defrauding the federal government, state and city out of more than $900,000 in unpaid taxes and undeserved tax refunds.
The Trump Organization is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday and faces a fine of up to $1.6 million.
Weisselberg testified that neither Trump nor his family knew about the scheme as it was happening, choking up as he told jurors: “It was my own personal greed that led to this.” But prosecutors, in their closing argument, said Trump “knew exactly what was going on” and that evidence, such as a lease he signed for Weisselberg’s apartment, made clear “Mr. Trump is explicitly sanctioning tax fraud.”
A Trump Organization lawyer, Michael van der Veen, has said Weisselberg concocted the scheme without Trump or the Trump family’s knowledge.
Weisselberg said the Trumps remained loyal to him even as the company scrambled to end some of its dubious pay practices following Trump’s 2016 election. He said Trump’s eldest sons, entrusted to run the company while Trump was president, gave him a $200,000 raise after an internal audit found he had been reducing his salary and bonuses by the cost of the perks.
Though he is now on a leave of absence, the company continues to pay Weisselberg $640,000 in salary and $500,000 in holiday bonuses. It punished him only nominally after his arrest in July 2021, reassigning him to senior adviser and moving his office.
He even celebrated his 75th birthday at Trump Tower with cake and colleagues in August, just hours after finalizing the plea agreement that ushered his transformation from loyal executive to prosecution witness.
Rikers Island, a compound of 10 jails on a spit of land in the East River, just off the main runway at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, has been plagued in recent years by violence, inmate deaths and staggering staffing shortages.
Though just 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Trump Tower, it’s a veritable world away from the life of luxury Weisselberg schemed to build — a far cry from the gilded Fifth Avenue offices where he hatched his plot and the Hudson River-view apartment he reaped as a reward. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/trump-executive-allen-weisselberg-gets-5-month-jail-sentence | 2023-01-10 20:17:03 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/trump-executive-allen-weisselberg-gets-5-month-jail-sentence |
Paychex Voice Assist allows users to run hands-free payroll through Google Assistant AI technology
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, has announced an enhanced user experience to Paychex Flex®, the company's SaaS-based HR software solution, a new conversational artificial intelligence (AI) feature called Paychex Voice Assist. Paychex Voice Assist enables payroll admins to run payroll through any Google Assistant-compatible device for a hands-free experience, simplifying and automating the payroll process with the sound of a verified user's voice. Capabilities of the feature include starting a pay period or acting on one already in progress, applying standard pay, making adjustments, reviewing totals, and submitting payroll for processing through a robust and resilient AI assistant with built-in verifications for user authentication
Paychex is the first HCM solutions provider to offer voice-activated payroll. Leveraged with the HCM capabilities of Paychex Flex, Paychex Voice Assist allows busy business leaders and payroll admins to receive real-time notifications with payroll data insights, review and adjust hours and pay rates, and submit checks for payday. The feature also helps to reduce the administrative burden of logging into a payroll system by allowing users to process payroll using Google Assistant-enabled devices—whether that's a phone, smartwatch, speaker, or smart display.
According to a 2022 Paychex analysis of Paychex Flex user data, more than a third of payroll administrators have submitted payroll for their employees from multiple remote locations within a one-month period, demonstrating the need for technology solutions that drive efficiency and improve workflows.
"At Paychex, we're constantly monitoring data, market challenges, and consumer technology trends to innovate to meet the needs of our clients," said Tom Hammond, vice president of Corporate Strategy and Product Management at Paychex. "Paychex Voice Assist was created to drive efficiency, empowering business leaders to manage payroll within seconds from anywhere and at any time."
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Paychex Voice Assist was built with a layered approach for authentication that includes a secure voice pin, voice match technology, and account lock checkpoints as Paychex Flex users engage with the Google Assistant technology to ensure proper verification. To help prevent fraudulent activity, the feature is only available to run payroll for existing employees that have been set up in Paychex Flex.
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Paychex, bringing the power of Google Assistant to human resources professionals around the U.S.," said Rebecca Nathenson, Director of Product Management at Google. "This industry-first product demonstrates voice technology's ability to transform the way we work, enabling hands-free, seamless payroll processing wherever you're located."
Attendees of the 2022 HR Technology Conference & Expo in Las Vegas this September 13-16 will be the first in the industry to test Paychex Voice Assist on the expo floor. Devices with interactive demos will be available at the Paychex booth (#3410) for attendees to experience the capabilities of Paychex Flex and the benefits of an all-in-one HR platform. Paychex experts will also present two in-person educational sessions during the conference highlighting the technology solutions available for today's HR professionals and how businesses can make decisions with HR analytics and reporting. For a complete overview of how to connect with Paychex at HR Tech, visit pages.paychex.com/HR-Tech-Fall-2022.
About Paychex
Paychex, Inc. (Nasdaq:PAYX) is a leading provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services. By combining innovative software-as-a-service technology and mobility platform with dedicated, personal service, Paychex empowers business owners to focus on the growth and management of their business. Backed by 50 years of industry expertise, Paychex serves more than 730,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2022 in the U.S. and Europe, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Learn more about Paychex by visiting www.paychex.com and stay connected on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. said Tuesday it is sanctioning a group of people and firms from Iran, China and Hong Kong associated with the alleged development of Iran’s ballistic missile program.
The network of seven people and six firms “facilitated procurement of sensitive and critical parts and technology for key actors in Iran’s ballistic missile development,” including Iran’s defense ministry and its affiliated firms, according to the Treasury Department.
Among the sanctions targets are the China-based firm Zhejiang Qingji, which has allegedly sold centrifuges and other materials to an Iran-based firm affiliated with the nation’s defense ministry. Also designated for sanctions were several executives at Qingji and the Hong Kong-based Lingoe Process Engineering Limited, which Treasury said served as a front company for the Chinese firm.
Also named is Iran’s Defense Attaché in Beijing, Davoud Damghani, who is alleged to coordinate purchases from China for Iran end-users.
Among other things, the sanctions deny the people and firms access to any property or financial assets held in the U.S. and prevent U.S. companies and citizens from doing business with them.
The latest round of financial penalties comes as Iran recently claimed that it has created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are also high amid months of antigovernment protests in Iran and Western anger at Iran’s export of attack drones to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.
Brian E. Nelson, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the U.S. “will continue to target illicit transnational procurement networks that covertly support Iran’s ballistic missile production and other military programs.”
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Bud Light boosts spending in US to counter sales declines
Bud Light’s parent company said Thursday it will triple its marketing spending in the U.S. this summer as it tries to boost sales that plummeted after the brand partnered with a transgender influencer.
But Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Michel Doukeris also downplayed the impact of the backlash, saying Bud Light’s U.S. sales declines in the first three weeks of April represented only 1% of InBev’s global volumes. Doukeris also said the company sees signs that Bud Light demand is stabilizing.
“We believe we have the experience, the resources and the partners to manage this,” Doukeris said during a conference call with investors Thursday.
On April 1, transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney posted a video of herself cracking open a Bud Light on her Instagram page. She showed off a can with her face on it that Bud Light sent her — one of many corporate freebies she gets and shares with her millions of followers.
Three days after Mulvaney’s post, Kid Rock posted a video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light. InBev shares temporarily plunged. Within weeks, two marketing executives at Anheuser-Busch __ InBev’s U.S. subsidiary — took a leave of absence.
It is unclear if those executives have returned. A message seeking comment from Anheuser-Busch was left Thursday.
Doukeris didn’t reveal updated sales figures Thursday. But in the week ending April 22, Bud Light’s U.S. sales dropped 21% compared to the same week a year ago, with rivals Miller Lite and Coors Lite appearing to pick up those sales, according to Bump Williams Consulting. Bud Light’s U.S. sales are down 3% so far this year.
Doukeris didn’t mention Mulvaney on Thursday’s investor call but decried misinformation about the promotion. Cans featuring Mulvaney weren’t made to be sold to the general public, for example.
“This was one can, one influencer, one post and not a campaign,” he said.
After several weeks of silence on social media, Mulvaney posted a video to her Instagram page this week thanking supporters but also not mentioning Bud Light by name.
“What I’m struggling to understand is the need to dehumanize and to be cruel. I don’t think that’s right,” she said. “I’m just going to go ahead and trust that the people who know me and my heart won’t listen to that noise.”
Doukeris said InBev is providing financial support to delivery drivers, sales representatives, wholesalers and others who are struggling with Bud Light’s sales declines. He didn’t say how much the company is spending.
InBev said Thursday its revenue increased 13% to $14 billion in the first quarter of this year. Global sales volumes were up 1% thanks to strong demand in Asia.
While those sales beat analysts’ forecasts, the Belgium-based company didn’t upgrade its full-year earnings, saying it’s too early to predict the ups and downs in various markets this year.
Doukeris said InBev will reallocate resources from other markets to support U.S. marketing this summer, with a focus on sports and music festivals. He noted that Bud Light was a sponsor of the recent NFL Draft.
“”Everything we do should be about beer and should promote beer. It is an essential part of life’s meaningful moments, whether in sports, music or celebrations,” he said.
Doukeris said the company needs to better understand the social media landscape and how big brands that want to reach a lot of different kinds of customers might face situations like this one.
“We will always be at the table when important topics are debated, but the beer itself should not be the focus of the debate,” he said.
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Asian shares mixed as market await vote results, price data
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections and a major inflation update due later in the week.
U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices fell.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index slipped 0.6% to 27,716.43 after the Cabinet on Tuesday approved a 29.1 trillion yen ($190 billion) supplementary budget to fund planned economic stimulus for the world’s third-largest economy.
Chinese markets declined after the government reported consumer price inflation eased to 2.1% in October from 2.8% in September. Producer price inflation (PPI) dropped into deflationary territory, falling to minus 1.3% from 0.9% in October, the 21st straight month in an even stronger sign that the No. 2 economy is slowing.
“China inflation data printed a rather gloomy picture, with PPI remaining deflationary and CPI much weaker than expected, pointing to waning demand,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 1.5% to 16,307.72 and the Shanghai Composite index shed 0.4% to 3,052.48.
In Seoul, the Kospi gained 0.8% to 2,418.70 while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.6% to 6,999.30.
All eyes were on the elections, which could determine how much is done in the next several years in Washington, and possibly beyond.
Americans were voting at a time of high inflation and warnings of recession and analysts say investors appeared to be betting that Republicans will gain control of at least one house of Congress. That combined with a Democratic White House could stymie progress on legislation and increase the risk of a funding crisis for the federal government.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 0.6% on Tuesday to 3,828.11, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1% to 33,160.83 and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.5%, to 10,616.20.
If Republicans do end up wining control of at least the House of Representatives, the ensuing reaction in financial markets could be modest since stocks already have rallied in anticipation of such a change. A surprise win by Democrats could upset the market if investors expect higher corporate taxes and other policy changes.
But a Republican win could also mean less help from Congress during a possible recession than under a Congress controlled by Democrats. And economists are forecasting a downturn in coming months as interest rate hikes meant to tame inflation put the brakes on business activity and spending.
The important milestone for markets this week than U.S. Election Day may be Thursday’s report on inflation, which will affect the swift interest-rate hikes the Federal Reserve is pushing through to get it under control.
By raising rates, the Fed is intentionally slowing the economy by making it more expensive to borrow money. High rates also tend to drag down prices for stocks and other investments while raising the risk of a recession.
The Fed has already hiked its key overnight rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, up from virtually zero in March, and more investors are expecting it to top 5% next year.
A softer reading than expected on Thursday could give the Fed leeway to loosen up a bit. Economists expect the report to show a continued, slight moderation from a peak set during the summer. But a worse-than-expected reading could have the opposite effect.
They dropped with crypto prices after the world’s biggest crypto exchange by daily volume, Binance, said it intends to buy one of its bigger rivals, FTX.
Binance is making the purchase to help FTX manage a crunch where users have been pulling money out amid fears about its financial strength. It’s the latest crisis of confidence to slam the crypto industry this year, as prices have tumbled in part on worries about higher interest rates.
Bitcoin at one point sank below $17,500 before pulling back to $18,267, down 12.2% from a day earlier, according to CoinDesk.
In other trading Wednesday, U.S. benchmark crude oil gave up 33 cents to $88.59 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Brent crude, the international pricing standard, lost 25 cents to $95.11 per barrel in London.
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BEIJING, July 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The value of trade between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Chinese mainland has surged more than sixfold from $50.77 billion to $360.33 billion, an average annual increase of 8.5 percent since the Hong Kong's return to the motherland 25 years ago, according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
While integrating itself into the country's overall development, Hong Kong has become an important participant in domestic circulation and a key contributor connecting domestic and international circulation.
By the end of 2021, investment from Hong Kong into the mainland had topped $1.4 trillion, accounting for 57.6 percent of the mainland's total attraction of overseas investments.
"Proactively integrating itself into the country's overall development and carving out its role in national strategies, Hong Kong has maintained its strengths in its high degree of openness and in aligning with international rules," Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.
"With continuously expanding areas and enabling mechanisms for Hong Kong's cooperation and exchanges with the mainland, people in Hong Kong now have better opportunities to start their own businesses and make achievements," he added.
Tapping into Greater Bay Area
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), which aims to become a world-class bay area and city cluster, is a significant national project conceived and promoted by President Xi.
On July 1, 2017, Xi witnessed the signing of a framework agreement between the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, and the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao on deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation.
A year later, Xi announced the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, a supergiant sea-crossing traffic project that links Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. It has become a physical symbol of China's vision for the GBA.
On February 18, 2019, the outline development plan for the GBA was unveiled, which envisaged creating a role model of high-quality development, an international first-class bay area and a world-class city cluster.
Last September, a plan was launched for further developing the Qianhai cooperation zone for the southern metropolis of Shenzhen and the HKSAR, with the aim of helping the zone better play an exemplary and leading role in the development of the GBA.
The number of Hong Kong-funded enterprises in the Qianhai zone surged 156 percent year on year in 2021. Of the total foreign investment in actual use in Qianhai last year, 93.8 percent was from Hong Kong.
Individuals from Hong Kong are benefiting from the GBA initiative too. Hong Kong and Macao professionals from eight sectors, including teachers, doctors and tour guides, are now allowed to practice on the mainland with mutual recognition of qualifications. By now, over 3,000 professionals have obtained qualifications on the mainland.
Addressing at the celebration, Xi again said central government fully supports Hong Kong in its effort to seize historic opportunities offered by China's development and actively dovetail itself with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
National governance
"Since Hong Kong's return to the motherland, it has been re-integrated into China's governance system, and a constitutional order was established with the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle as its fundamental guideline," Xi noted.
Chinese citizens who are permanent residents of the HKSAR can participate in the governance of both the SAR and the country as empowered by law.
After its return, at the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) in 1998, deputies from Hong Kong began to participate in the NPC, the highest body of state power, to discuss plans for national development and problems affecting people's lives, and to put the people's expectations at the top of the agenda on state matters.
Meanwhile, more than 5,600 representatives from all walks of life in Hong Kong serve as members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at all levels, including over 200 in the CPPCC National Committee. They are all valued advisors on key national programs and contributors to the development of the country.
Thirty-six deputies from Hong Kong were elected to participate in the work of the 13th NPC, accounting for 1.2 percent of total deputy numbers while over 200 CPPCC members are from the HKSAR, 10 percent of the total. Both ratios significantly exceed Hong Kong's share of the country's population of about 0.5 percent.
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BENTON HARBOR, Mich., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) will release its second-quarter financial results and presentation materials at 4:05 p.m. ET on Monday, July 24, 2023. Whirlpool Corporation will then hold a conference call to discuss its performance with the investment community at 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
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The conference call will be webcast live on the Company's website at www.investors.whirlpoolcorp.com and may be accessed by clicking on the "News & Events" tab located at the top of the page. To listen to the live webcast, participants should visit the site at least 15 minutes prior to the conference call to download any required streaming media software. Key financial statistics, the earnings presentation, and an archived recording of the conference call will be available on the Company's website for at least 30 days.
About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. In an increasingly digital world, the company is driving purposeful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit, Yummly and InSinkErator. In 2022, the company reported approximately $20 billion in annual sales, 61,000 employees and 56 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and 18 House Democrats on Tuesday voted against a resolution that honored the U.S.-Israeli relationship on Israeli Independence Day and expressed support for expanding and strengthening the Abraham Accords — the 2020 agreement establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The resolution — which had bipartisan sponsorship — cleared the chamber in a 401-19 vote. This year marks 75 years since Israel declared its independence.
Massie, who frequently votes against legislation pertaining to international matters, was the only Republican to oppose the measure. He was joined by 18 Democrats, 17 of whom are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Progressives who voted against the measure included Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Andre Carson (Ind.), Mark DeSaulnier (Calif.), Jesús “Chuy” García (Ill.), Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), Jared Huffman (Calif.), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Hank Johnson (Ga.), Summer Lee (Pa.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Delia Ramirez (Ill.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Nydia Velázquez (N.Y.).
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), who is not a member of the Progressive Caucus, also opposed the resolution.
It was not immediately clear why the House Democrats voted against the legislation. But progressives have regularly criticized the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians, particularly under the tenure of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, resolutions similar to the one brought up on Tuesday have been introduced every five years to mark Israel’s Independence Day, known as Yom Ha’atzmaut. This year’s version, however, reportedly broke with previous editions because it did not reference a two-state solution.
The measure considered on Tuesday specifically calls for “encouraging the expansion and strengthening of the Abraham Accords to urge other nations to normalize relations with Israel and ensure that existing agreements reap tangible security and economic benefits for the citizens of those countries and all peoples in the region.”
The Abraham Accords, signed under the Trump administration, normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, making Abu Dhabi the first Arab country to establish relations with Tel Aviv in more than two decades. Bahrain also signed onto the accords after pronouncements from Sudan and Morocco to strengthen relations with Israel.
The resolution also said the House encourages Washington and Tel Aviv “to continue to deepen and expand bilateral cooperation” on economic, security and civilian matters. It “expresses continued support for security assistance to Israel as outlined in the United States-Israel Memorandum of Understanding to ensure that Israel can defend itself by itself.”
Additionally, the resolution stated that the House “supports Israel’s robust involvement as an active member of the community of nations to benefit Israel and the United States as partners who share common values and a commitment to democracy.”
The resolution’s sponsors hailed House approval of the measure.
“The United States and Israel have stood together as partners since Israel’s founding 75 years ago to overcome shared challenges and global threats,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement. “Together, we’ve achieved major milestones, such as the signing of the historic Abraham Accords. I look forward to continuing the longstanding tradition of friendship and partnership between our two countries.”
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) highlighted the history of the “extraordinary and enduring alliance” between Washington and Tel Aviv.
“For 75 years, the United States and Israel have built an extraordinary and enduring alliance based on our shared interests and fundamental values. Together, our two countries have championed democracy, partnered on technological achievements, increased regional security, and celebrated our shared fundamental values,” Manning said.
“On the 75th anniversary of Israel’s independence, I’m proud of the accomplishments our countries have achieved together, including the historic Abraham Accords, and I look forward to strengthening both the historic, bipartisan U.S. Israel relationship, and a two-state solution in the years to come,” she added. | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/massie-18-democrats-vote-against-resolution-to-honor-us-israel-relationship-expand-abraham-accords/ | 2023-04-26 03:38:51 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/massie-18-democrats-vote-against-resolution-to-honor-us-israel-relationship-expand-abraham-accords/ |
Sous vide cooking with Anova
Sous vide isn’t a common way to cook — but it’s getting more popular every day. Sous vide is a French term meaning “under vacuum,” and it’s pretty simple despite looking like an advanced cooking method.
Sous vide involves sealing food — usually meat — in plastic and submerging it in high-temperature water for a specific amount of time. A tool called an immersion circulator or sous vide cooker sits in the water, pumping it past a heating element that maintains a precise temperature.
Although this isn’t the most intuitive way to cook, sous vide cooking doesn’t have to be difficult. And once you start using it, you’ll immediately notice that the resulting meals are packed with the moisture and flavor that makes for a great culinary experience.
What are wet and dry heat?
Put simply, wet heat involves cooking methods that introduce water, and dry heat represents methods that draw water out or evaporate it. For example, boiling and steaming use wet heat, while frying and grilling use dry heat.
Foods such as packaged pasta require wet heat just to reconstitute and make them edible. Using wet heat to cook foods such as meat, though, draws valuable flavor from the meat and wastes it (unless you’re making stock or broth).
But dry heat leads to at least some degree of overcooking, even when you’re careful. It also causes evaporation. Both of these can damage or eliminate the chemicals responsible for delicious flavors and aromas.
Why sous vide cooking is special
Sous vide cooking technically uses wet heat because it doesn’t cause the meat to dry out. Unlike boiling or steaming, though, sous vide cooking doesn’t draw out flavor, because the sealed plastic layer means it’s a closed system.
Since sous vide cooking doesn’t dry food out or pull out important flavors, it can deliver the most succulent meat possible, with the perfect balance of juiciness and flavor. In fact, many professionals and cooking enthusiasts argue that nothing makes a better steak than sous vide.
Where Anova comes in
Anova makes a highly specialized line of products. Aside from sous vide cookers, it only manufactures what are called combination, or “combi,” ovens. Like Anova’s immersion circulators, its combi ovens are essentially consumer-focused versions of powerful machines found in professional kitchens. In that light, it’s no surprise that Anova sous vide circulators consistently get high marks from experts and rave reviews from owners.
Not only are Anova sous vide cookers efficient and reliable, they also offer wireless connectivity that lets you set the temperature and keep track of progress without repeatedly visiting the kitchen.
How sous vide cooking works
- Set up the sous vide bath. To save time, start by mixing hot and cold water from the tap until the sous vide cooker reads close to the desired temperature. You probably already have a stock pot that will work great, although square plastic containers save counter space and insulate slightly better for a more efficient process.
- Prepare the food. Pat the food dry, salt it and season it. Keep in mind that the salt will go a little farther than normal, since you won’t lose any during the grilling or pan-frying process. Despite what some sous vide fans claim, it’s best to salt meat before dropping it in the sous vide bath. Doing so helps it penetrate a millimeter or two deeper into the meat and has zero negative effects.
- Seal the sous vide bag. Place the food in the bag — standard zip-close food storage bags work well if you don’t have access to anything more heavy-duty. You can use a vacuum sealer and special bags that come with pumps and valves for extracting air, but you don’t have to. You can simply leave a small bit of the bag unzipped. Then lower it slowly into the water, keeping the open part dry until the water bath has forced out most of the air.
- Drop the food in the sous vide bath. Once the circulator reads the correct temperature, set the timer and drop the bag in gently. Connect the Anova app to your smartphone or tablet to monitor progress just in case.
- Stop cooking. When the timer’s up, remove the food from the water and let it rest. Smaller foods such as thin steaks and poached eggs can rest at room temperature, but anything thicker will need a quick bath in cold water. This stops the cooking process exactly when you want.
- If you’re cooking meat, sear it. Meat doesn’t look appetizing the moment you remove it from a sous vide bath. That’s because the dry heat of grilling and baking creates a browned layer that’s missing with sous vide. To get this layer, many people sear in a hot cast-iron skillet, but that can lead to accidental overcooking. A high-powered propane torch is better — small kitchen torches aren’t powerful enough to give steaks the perfect sear. Consider a specialized searing attachment, which spreads out the flame for more consistent results.
- Enjoy your meal. Once the sear’s been applied, plate your food and enjoy a succulent culinary delight.
Best Anova sous vide cookers
This one’s the most popular because it’s compact, relatively affordable and serves most people’s needs just fine. It connects to your smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth and has a 750-watt heating element.
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Anova Precision Cooker 1,000 Watts
Its more powerful element makes it a little more consistent than the Nano. It also offers slightly more reliable Wi-Fi connectivity in addition to removable clips instead of the fixed ones found on the less costly model.
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Driven by 1,200 watts and a pump flow of 12 liters per minute, this is the best choice if you frequently make large batches of sous vide dishes at home. Its only drawback is that it’s somewhat costly.
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Other tools that help with sous vide cooking
These durable bags are perfect for sous vide cooking a wide variety of foods. They’re washable and reusable and come with an optional pump that makes extracting air easy.
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Cuisinart Chef’s Classic 8-Quart Stockpot
This rugged stainless steel pot comes with a lid and handles and can help with a lot of kitchen tasks, including sous vide cooking.
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8-Quart Cambro Camwear Container
Cambro containers are exactly what pros use for a huge range of storage and food prep tasks in high-end restaurants. This 8-quart size is the right one for most home kitchens.
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This blowtorch attachment helps create the perfect sear after you pull a steak out of the sous vide water bath.
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This is one of the best handheld blowtorches in existence, no matter what you need it for. It’s the better of the two torch nozzles that work with the Searzall attachment. Use it with a short 1-pound propane cylinder for safe and effective searing.
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SEATTLE — Real Salt Lake (1-0-0) vs. Seattle Sounders FC (1-0-0)
Seattle; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Seattle -142, Real Salt Lake +358, Draw +287; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Jordan Morris leads the Seattle Sounders into a matchup with Real Salt Lake following a two-goal showing against the Colorado Rapids.
The Sounders went 12-17-5 overall and 9-5-3 at home last season. The Sounders scored 47 goals and had a goal differential of +1 last season.
RSL compiled a 12-11-11 record overall in 2022 while finishing 3-9-6 in road matches. RSL scored 43 goals last season, averaging 1.3 per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Sounders: Obed Vargas (injured), Raul Ruidiaz (injured).
RSL: Havelange Beni De Dieu Kei Wonflonhi Jean-Desire (injured), Zack Farnsworth (injured), Rubio Rubin (injured). | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/soccer/sounders-fc/morris-leads-the-seattle-sounders-against-real-salt-lake/281-02d87b8d-83a7-45b7-ac1d-fe0e878d88ad | 2023-03-04 01:24:54 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/soccer/sounders-fc/morris-leads-the-seattle-sounders-against-real-salt-lake/281-02d87b8d-83a7-45b7-ac1d-fe0e878d88ad |
5 teens from Broward County arrested after rash of car burglaries in Hobe Sound
Five boy teens from Broward County have been arrested in connection with a rash of burglaries and a stolen vehicle in Hobe Sound through the help of Martin County Sheriff’s Office road patrol, K-9 and aviation Units, and Florida Highway Patrol.
Residents notified Martin County Sheriff's Office dispatch of a suspicious vehicle, the sheriff's office posted Friday on Facebook.
Deputies attempted a traffic stop but the vehicle fled, the sheriff's office said. The vehicle was forced to stop and the teens fled on foot.
A search of the stolen vehicle revealed a Glock 17, which was confirmed by one of the teens as stolen from a vehicle. Also found was a black ski mask and three window punches.
All five were taken to the Juvenile Detention Center in Fort Pierce.
Arrested were a 14-year-old from West Park; 15-year-olds from Lauderdale Lakes, Sunrise and Fort Lauderdale; and a 16-year-old from Sunrise.
"While we extend our gratitude to all involved with this capture for their swift action, we also want to remind everyone to remain vigilant in safeguarding your properties," the agency posted. "Simple steps like locking car doors, removing valuable items from vehicles, and installing security systems can go a long way in deterring potential criminals. Together, we can make a significant impact in keeping our community secure."
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A race for a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin could determine the future of abortion rights in a state likely to play a crucial role in the 2024 presidential election.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has a 4-3 conservative majority, but conservative Justice Patience Roggensack is opting not to seek another term, evenly splitting the court along ideological lines. Voters will head to the polls for a February primary, which will determine which two justices from a group of two conservative candidates and two liberal candidates will move on to the April general election.
Whoever wins that state Supreme Court seat is likely to weigh in on a consequential lawsuit over a contested 1849 abortion law, which offers no exceptions except for the life of the pregnant person, and the outcome of which could have major implications for one of the country’s few remaining swing states.
Wisconsin-based Democratic strategist Joe Zepecki said that anger following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last year is still motivating voters and will play a crucial role in this year’s state judicial race.
“The midterms did not go the way Republicans thought they would, and I really believe that one of the main reasons behind that was the Dobbs decision. Nothing has fundamentally changed in the landscape,” Zepecki said. “That means that all of a sudden the voters who are passionate about abortion in November of last year aren’t gonna go, ‘Oh, well, we did what we could. Oh, well, we’ll just live with this.’”
State Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) filed a lawsuit last year arguing that legislation passed following the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which allows abortions up until a fetus’s “viability” with limited exceptions afterward, created a conflict with the 1849 abortion law. Depending on how the court rules, it could keep abortion restrictions in place or offer broader exceptions to pregnant people.
Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Wisconsin GOP, argued the focus on abortion was “a dodge” and said the party is “trying desperately to get away from discussions about other issues in which the liberals are horribly out of touch.” He listed school choice, voting changes and Second Amendment rights as other issues that could likely come up.
Two liberal judges — Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz and Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell — and two conservative judges — Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow and former state Supreme Court Judge Daniel Kelly — are vying for the open state Supreme Court justice seat in the Feb. 21 primary.
The top two vote-getters will move on to the general election on April 4, meaning two candidates from the same party or one from each could proceed to the final round.
There are other issues besides abortion at play in the race: Democrats see redistricting and the state’s legislative maps as critical issues. And Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the university’s Elections Research Center, says Republicans are likely hoping several ballot measures they added to the spring election — one on work requirements for welfare recipients and another on bail — will excite their base.
But most of the candidates have made a point of speaking out on abortion. Groups on either side of the issue have also waded into the race, suggesting that it’s likely to play a major role.
Mitchell, one of the liberal justices, issued a statement in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying that “the reality of a reproductive right being taken from women, is both heart-wrenching and disappointing” and that “as an ally, I will always use my male privilege to stand with and to stand up for women’s reproductive rights.”
Protasiewicz, the other liberal justice running, issued a 15-minute ad through her campaign in which she said, “I believe in a woman’s freedom to make her own decision on abortion.”
Jim Dick, a campaign spokesperson for Kelly, one of the conservative candidates, gave a statement to The Hill touting endorsements “by all three major pro-life groups in the state.” One of those, Wisconsin Right to Life PAC, has also endorsed the other conservative candidate, Dorow.
Though some of the candidates have fielded criticism for sharing opinions on the issue, Mitchell and Protasiewicz’s campaigns argued in separate interviews with The Hill that the candidates are allowed to express their own beliefs and have not said how they would rule on a case if it came before them.
“We are judges and we are lawyers, more specifically, so we can have an opinion as to the law that’s already been written and decided on, and both sides can do that,” Mitchell told The Hill, while an official said with Protasiewicz’s campaign said that “there’s nothing that prevents a candidate [from] saying what their beliefs are.”
Meanwhile, outside groups on both sides of the issue have started previewing their involvement in the race.
Stephen Billy, vice president of state affairs at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, an anti-abortion group, said that the organization will be making a six-figure investment in the race.
“We’re not going to let the abortion advocates spend money to lie and to fearmonger, and we’re going to fight back against that with a six-figure investment to make sure that the truth about the pro-life laws in Wisconsin are known and that the voters understand the other side is seeking to make sure that abortion on-demand is the permanent law in Wisconsin,” Billy said.
Steven Webb, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, declined to offer a dollar amount on potential spending in the race but said the organization would be involved.
“We’ve prioritized this election and [are] committed to do the on-the-ground organizing and outreach to inform people about the importance of the race. We will be mobilizing young people, women and people of color to make sure that their voices [are] heard in this election. The investments that we will be making will be around — for education, GOTV campaigns and digital advertisement, direct mail,” he said.
The stakes of the race are also high because Wisconsin is one of the few remaining battleground states, and Democrats are likely to use the abortion issue as one key turnout mechanism in 2024. Should a more a conservative-leaning state Supreme Court rule in favor of more restrictive abortion rules ahead of the presidential election, Democrats will almost certainly seize on any upswell of anger among voters, just as they did in 2022.
At the same time, the Supreme Court’s decision last year has created a patchwork of state laws that have regulated differently on the medical procedure. While Illinois has abortion protections and Michigan, with its newly Democratic-controlled legislature, will likely pass abortion protections, Wisconsin represents a different reality to patients and medical students.
“Right now, Wisconsin is losing OB-GYN practices. Students who want to become OB-GYN doctors have to leave the state to complete their training because you can’t teach the standard care for cases of ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage without fearing that a reverend prosecutor is going to try to throw you in jail,” said Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
“This situation is totally unacceptable to most Wisconsinites, and the Supreme Court election [on] April 4 is the closest thing Wisconsin will have to Kansas’s abortion referendum,” he added.
Retired GOP strategist Brandon Scholz, who called the upcoming election “the single most important race for the Supreme Court” that Wisconsin has ever seen, says this much is clear: Money will continue to pour into the race on the Democratic side, and Republicans will need to compete in terms of fundraising if they want to win.
“If this isn’t a $20 million dollar race, I don’t know what it is,” he said. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/the-high-stakes-race-in-wisconsin-that-could-impact-abortion-rights-and-2024/ | 2023-01-29 20:45:32 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/the-high-stakes-race-in-wisconsin-that-could-impact-abortion-rights-and-2024/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (WLFI) — Senate Bill 1, which proposes banning most abortion procedures in the state, is headed to the full senate. An Indiana Senate committee advanced it today in a 7 to 5 vote.
The committee, however, added a few amendments.
A pregnant person under the age of 16 would be able to get an abortion in the case of rape or incest up to 12 weeks into the pregnancy.
Pregnant women over the age of 16 can only get an abortion in the case of rape or incest up to 8 weeks of pregnancy.
Those who do claim rape or incest would be required to sign an affidavit for their medical file.
The decision follows a day of impassioned testimony from pro-life and pro-choice advocates down at the Indiana statehouse.
One of the people who testified was Sarah Lakin. Lakin spoke about being a 26-year-old single mother who was taking birth control and had no plans to have another child at the time.
When she still became pregnant, she said she got an abortion and has no regrets because it was her choice.
Also testifying has been pro-life strategist Cathy Humbarger, who is one of many advocating for a complete abortion ban with no exceptions.
Doctor Elizabeth Eglen has also spoken before the committee today both as a physician and as a survivor of abuse.
"I also survived a psychologically, physically, and sexually abusive relationship in college," said Doctor Eglen. "I couldn't say no to sex with a man who slept with a loaded handgun under his side of the mattress we shared. Even when I tried he wouldn't listen."
With today's rules committee vote, the bill is sent to the full Senate where lawmakers in the upper chamber will take up the bill on Thursday. | https://www.wlfi.com/news/bill-banning-almost-all-abortions-moves-to-full-indiana-senate/article_911d65ac-0d34-11ed-b91e-bb34a1ac8484.html | 2022-07-27 00:31:49 | 1 | https://www.wlfi.com/news/bill-banning-almost-all-abortions-moves-to-full-indiana-senate/article_911d65ac-0d34-11ed-b91e-bb34a1ac8484.html |
Custom cultural elements, celebrity emcee Kal Penn, Taco Bell's first ever metaverse kissing emote and out-of-this-realm fan experiences come together for the wedding of the year
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- (Taco) Bells are ringing as the lucky couple who will be tying the knot at Taco Bell's metaverse wedding is unveiled! Lifelong Taco Bell fans Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole will say 'I do' on February 24 with an out-of-this-realm wedding celebration in Decentraland.
Winning out over 300 couples who applied to win the Taco Bell metaverse wedding of their dreams, Sheel, a co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, a venture capital firm and Amruta, a lawyer at Instagram, embody what it means to love and live más. No strangers to the joys of virtual partnership, the Bay-area based couple's story started after a mutual friend connected the pair and they shared an hours-long phone call where they learned about each other's lives and upbringings – both of which included a passion for Taco Bell. The pair share an Indian heritage as well as a vegetarian lifestyle, making the eatery's vegetarian* options tried-and-true staples in their everyday lives. It was only fitting that one of their first IRL dates took place over a romantic beach-front meal at Taco Bell's Pacifica location, which has been named the "world's most beautiful Taco Bell." During a trip to Mexico, the lovestruck couple were engaged over a meal of tacos, and the rest is soon to make Taco Bell and metaverse history.
Toast From The Couple
"When we heard about the contest, we knew it was the perfect opportunity for us. Now that we're getting closer to the wedding day, we're excited to see the vision come to life," said bride-to-be Amruta Godbole. "We're really looking forward to sharing the experience with our friends and family from all over the globe - many of whom may not have been able to attend in-person. Some of them still don't totally understand the idea of a metaverse wedding, but once they knock back a couple of virtual bottles of Baja Blasts, I think they'll get in the spirit."
And for groom-to-be, Sheel Mohnot, Taco Bell holds many memories dating all the way back to his childhood, so the wedding is truly a full-circle moment: "Growing up, Taco Bell was one of the only places we'd eat out and going there was a special occasion. Now, while eating out isn't a luxury in the same way - I somehow still find myself coming back to my familiar Taco Bell favorites. We are excited to be a part of the Taco Bell family, as well as experience things we'd never get to do in an IRL wedding - like ride an elephant to the venue!"
Metaverse Wedding Makes History
Sheel and Amruta worked closely with both Taco Bell and their partners to plan an other-worldly event in Decentraland – a 3D browser-based platform allowing shared virtual exploration. The wedding pushes past previous platform limitations with never before seen elements that Decentraland users will be able to view even after the wedding for a limited time. The groom's avatar will ride into the venue on an elephant in a customary baraat procession, paying homage to the duo's Indian roots. Additionally, after saying "I do," the couple will unveil a kissing emote in the metaverse, specifically designed for the occasion. Of course, it wouldn't be a Taco Bell wedding without food! Guests will also bear witness to the largest virtual Cinnabon Delights® cake that the brand has ever created.
Innovative Wedding Ceremony Details
Planning a wedding in the metaverse allowed for the maximum level of creativity and customization to authentically tailor the event to the couple. This includes a notable Master of Ceremonies who will facilitate the wedding. For this memorable occasion, it will be none other than Kal Penn, an American actor who shares the couple's Indian heritage and is thrilled to play a vital role in Sheel and Amruta's matrimonial journey.
Additional customized wedding details include personalized wearables, or avatar outfits, for the couple and their invited guests. Adding to the list of cultural celebrations, the couple will be married under a mandap which forms the sacred space where the couple will say their vows. Under the mandap will be a custom agni, a sacred fire involved in some Indian wedding rituals, designed to look like a hot sauce packet set to flame – merging the best of the couple's culture and Taco Bell's signature flare.
FIRE! Details
In true digital-forward fashion, once the ceremony has concluded, the reception space will open for the couple, their invited guests and public attendees to kick off the party. After enjoying their first dance as a married couple, Amruta will throw a hot sauce bouquet which will turn into an interactive Bouquet Toss Game, with bragging rights as the reward. Both the public who attend the Decentraland wedding and those who visit the venue after the celebration can participate in this fun competition. Additional activities include showing off their moves on the Taco Bell dance floor alongside the Sauce Packet Dancers, snapping some pictures in a photo booth and hitting up the Mtn Dew® Baja Blast® Station. For those looking to enjoy Taco Bell IRL, guests at the public reception will be able to visit the reception's food table and scan a QR code that links to an offer** and a menu curated by the couple featuring their favorite vegetarian dishes for consumers to purchase.
How to Participate
On the big day, 100 of the couple's invited guests will be able to enjoy the wedding ceremony first-hand through the eyes of their avatars, where they'll even have the chance to meet the Master of Ceremonies, Kal Penn.
The public will be able to watch the live wedding on screens set up in secondary realms within Decentraland - visit TacoBell.com/metaverse-wedding to learn more and access the public wedding space on the day of the wedding. After the private baraat procession, the ceremony space will open up in Decentraland's secondary realms where the public can explore the venue, socialize and watch a slideshow about the couple via their avatars. Following the private nuptials on the screens, the reception space will open up for a virtual celebration of a lifetime.
For those who are not able to attend the ceremony in avatar form, popular Twitch streamer and Taco Bell superfan Jordan Payton will be livestreaming his POV of the event so viewers can follow along on their screens. Once the private ceremony is over, the public ceremony space will provide a gateway into the public reception that will be open for fans to enter and kick off the festivities.
A Registry for the Couple and for Fans
Leading up to the wedding day, there will be an open wedding registry on the Taco Bell Discord channel on February 23 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST. Fans can claim drops inspired by the couple's favorite Taco Bell items in the discord channel for digital gift cards and Taco Bell will gift the couple with some items from their curated menu selections too. The registry will function on a traditional first-come, first-serve basis so once the gift has been claimed, the item will no longer be up to gift, so act fast!***
A Private Reception for the Couple
As an extra special wedding present for the bride and groom, Taco Bell will be throwing the newlyweds a private reception at the Pacifica Cantina in the near-future to close the loop on their journey to marriage in one of the places where it all began. Then, the couple plans to take off to New Zealand later in the year for the honeymoon of their dreams.
Taco Bell's metaverse wedding is brought to life in collaboration with creative agencies Deutsch LA, The Electric Factory and livestream production company Mobeon. For more information about how to participate in the out-of-this-realm wedding, please visit TacoBell.com/metaverse-wedding. Follow along on the couple's journey to the mandap through their social channels: Sheel – Instagram and Twitter, Amruta – Instagram and Twitter.
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About Decentraland
Launched in 2020, Decentraland is a virtual social world powered by the Ethereum blockchain and the first decentralized metaverse. Within the Decentraland platform, users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications as well as socialize and attend a wide range of daily community-driven events. Decentraland is unique in that it is owned, created, and governed by the people who use it every day. Through the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), users can submit proposals and even apply for grants for the community to vote on.
*American Vegetarian Association certified Vegetarian food items are lacto-ovo, allowing consumption of dairy and eggs but not animal byproducts. We may use the same frying oil to prepare menu items that could contain meat. Vegetarian and meat ingredients are handled in common, and cross contact may occur, which may not be acceptable to certain types of vegetarian diets. Neither Taco Bell®, our employees, nor our franchisees nor the AVA assume any responsibility for such cross contact.
**Use code JustMarried2302 at checkout from 02/24/23 12:01am to 02/24/23 11:59PM PST in the app to receive (1) one free Mexican Pizza or (1) one free Black Bean Crunchwrap Supreme® with a minimum $15 purchase. Must add selected free item to your order. Offer redeemable only via the Taco Bell app at participating U.S. Taco Bell® locations, while supplies last. Not available with a web pay-ahead, pickup order or delivery order unless placed on Taco Bell app. Delivery is not available in all locations. Prices and items vary. Order minimum does not include free item and is before taxes, fees and tip. Any delivery fee is not a driver tip. Offer valid once per registered user and is nontransferable and cannot be combined with any other offer. No cash value. No upgrades. Additional terms apply: https://www.tacobell.com/legal-notices/terms-of-use.
***NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Only available to the first eligible Taco Bell account holder who redeems the applicable drop using the code provided in the Discord Channel. Must have a registered Taco Bell account. The 11 drops will be for eGift cards ranging in value from $60-$300. eGift Card redeemable via Taco Bell website/app order at participating U.S. locations. Item prices vary. Visit tacobell.com to confirm the prices at your preferred location. If redeemed as part of a delivery order on the app, delivery fee and other fees may apply. Subject to Terms at https://www.tacobell.com/legal-notices/gift-cards-terms-of-use. Limit 1 per email address/registered account. Taco Bell reserves the right to revoke or changes this program or its terms at any time. Void where prohibited. Taco Bell Rewards Program subject to terms and conditions.
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Police in a Northern California city launched an investigation into potentially connected killings after detectives said they noticed patterns in some unsolved shootings.
The Stockton Police Department announced the investigation into the killings in the city, which is about 50 miles south of Sacramento, on Sept. 28.
How many shootings were connected at first?
The department said detectives noticed — in some homicides during the summer — that the victims were alone either during the night or early morning when they were shot and killed. Police also noted the victims were either walking or in their car when each of the killings happened.
The five Stockton shootings from this year took place at the following locations:
- July 8: 5600 block of Kermit Lane, near Elaine and East Robinhood drives, around 12:30 a.m.
- Aug. 11: 4900 block of West Lane, near Bianchi Road, around 9:39 p.m.
- Aug. 30: 800 block of East Hammer Lane, near Shamrock and Tam O’Shanter Drives, around 6:40 a.m.
- Sept. 21: 4400 block of Manchester Avenue, near Rosemarie Lane, around 4:30 a.m.
- Sept. 27: 900 block of Porter Avenue, near Gettysburg Place, around 1:51 a.m.
When did police connect two more shootings from a year prior?
On the night of Oct. 3, Stockton Police announced two other shootings were linked to the serial killings that occurred between July and September of this year. Police said these other shootings happened last year, on April 10, 2021, and April 16, 2021.
The shooting on April 10, 2021, took place in Oakland, about 73 miles west of Stockton, on Harmon Avenue at 4:18 a.m., an Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson told Nexstar affiliate KRON. The one six days later happened in Stockton near Park and Union streets around 3:20 a.m.
The victim of the April 16 shooting survived. The victim of the April 10 shooting died.
Stockton police said the shootings were connected through ballistic evidence.
Who are police searching for?
According to police, they identified a person of interest after scrubbing through hundreds of hours of video. Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said the person of interest could either be a witness or a suspect.
Police also released surveillance video of the person of interest. Before showing the video, McFadden pointed to two distinguishing characteristics — the person’s uneven stride and upright posture.
Aside from this person of interest, nobody has been named a suspect in any of the shootings.
How much is the reward for a suspect’s capture?
Stockton Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Stockton Crime Stoppers and an anonymous donor have contributed to a total reward of $125,000 for information that leads to an arrest. | https://www.kron4.com/news/stockton-serial-killings-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-unsolved-shootings/ | 2022-10-13 16:11:19 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/stockton-serial-killings-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-unsolved-shootings/ |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The sun shone down on Stanley Joliva as medical staff at an open-air clinic hovered around him, pumping air into his lungs and giving him chest compressions until he died.
Nearby, his mother watched.
“Only God knows my pain,” said Viliene Enfant.
Less than an hour later, the body of her 22-year-old son lay on the floor wrapped in a white plastic bag with the date of his death scrawled on top. He joined dozens of other Haitians who have died from cholera during a rapidly spreading outbreak that is straining the resources of nonprofits and local hospitals in a country where fuel, water and other basic supplies are growing scarcer by the day.
Sweat gathered on the foreheads of staff at a Doctors Without Borders treatment center in the capital of Port-au-Prince where some 100 patients arrive every day and at least 20 have died. Families kept rushing in this week with loved ones, sometimes dragging their limp bodies into the crowded outdoors clinic where the smell of waste filled the air.
Dozens of patients sat on white buckets or lay on stretchers as IV lines ran up to bags of rehydrating fluids that gleamed in the sun. So far this month, Doctors Without Borders has treated some 1,800 patients at their four centers in Port-au-Prince.
Across Haiti, many patients are dying because say they’re unable to reach a hospital in time, health officials say. A spike in gang violence has made it unsafe for people to leave their communities and a lack of fuel has shut down public transportation, gas stations and other key businesses including water supply companies.
Enfant sat next to her son’s body as she recalled how Joliva told her he was feeling sick earlier this week. She had already warned him and her two other sons not to bathe or wash clothes in the sewage-contaminated waters that ran through a nearby ravine in their neighborhood — the only source of water for hundreds in that area.
Enfant insisted that her sons buy water to wash clothes and add chlorine if they were going to drink it. As Joliva grew sicker, Enfant tried to care for him on her own.
“I told him, ‘Honey, you need to drink the tea,’” she recalled. “He said again, ‘I feel weak.’ He also said, ‘I am not able to stand up.’”
Cholera is a bacteria that sickens people who swallow contaminated food or water, and it can cause severe vomiting and diarrhea, in some cases leading to death.
Haiti’s first major brush with cholera occurred more than a decade ago when U.N. peacekeepers introduced the bacteria into the country’s biggest river via sewage runoff at their base. Nearly 10,000 people died and thousands of others were sickened.
The cases eventually dwindled to the point where the World Health Organization was expected to declare Haiti cholera-free this year.
But on Oct. 2, Haitian officials announced that cholera had returned.
At least 40 deaths and 1,700 suspected cases have been reported, but officials believe the numbers are much higher, especially in crowded and unsanitary slums and government shelters where thousands of Haitians live.
Worsening the situation is a lack of fuel and water that began to dwindle last month when one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs surrounded a key fuel terminal and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Gas stations and businesses including water companies have closed, forcing an increasing number of people to rely on untreated water.
Shela Jeune, a 21-year-old hot dog vendor whose 2-year-old son has cholera, said she buys small bags of water for her family but doesn’t know if it’s treated. She carried him to the hospital where he remains on IV fluids.
“Everything I give him to eat, he just throws it up,” she said.
Jeune was among dozens of mothers seeking treatment for their children on a recent morning.
Lauriol Chantal, 43, recounted a similar story. Her 15-year-old son would vomit as soon as he finished eating, prompting her to rush him to the treatment center.
While at the center, her son, Alexandro François, told her he felt hot.
“He said to me … ’Mama, could you take me outside to wash me or pour water over my head?’” she said.
She obliged, but suddenly, he collapsed in her arms. The staff ran over to help.
Children younger than age 14 make up half of cholera cases in Haiti, according to UNICEF, with officials warning that growing cases of severe malnutrition also make children more vulnerable to illness.
Haiti’s poverty also has worsened the situation.
“When you are unable to get safe drinking water by tap in your own home, when you don’t have soap or water purifying tablets and you have no access to health services, you may not survive cholera or other waterborne diseases,” said Bruno Maes, Haiti’s UNICEF representative.
Perpety Juste, a 62-year-old grandmother, said one of her three grandchildren became ill this week as she fretted about how their situation might have led to her sickness.
“We spent a lot of days without food, I cannot lie,” she said. “Nobody in my house has a job.”
Juste, who lives with her husband, five children and three grandchildren, said she used to work as a house cleaner until the homeowners fled Haiti.
The increasing demand for help is squeezing Doctors Without Borders and others as they struggle to care for patients with limited fuel.
“It’s a nightmare for the population, and also for us,” said Jean-Marc Biquet, a project coordinator with the organization. “We have two more weeks of fuel.”
Life is paralyzed for many Haitians, including Enfant, as she mourned her son’s death. She wants to bury him in her southern coastal hometown of Les Cayes, but cannot afford the 55,000 gourdes ($430) it would cost to transport his body.
Enfant then fell quiet and gazed into the distance as she continued to sit next to her son’s body — too stunned, she said, to stand up.
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Associated Press writer Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-cholera-overwhelms-haiti-as-cases-deaths-spike-amid-crisis/ | 2022-10-29 20:55:31 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-cholera-overwhelms-haiti-as-cases-deaths-spike-amid-crisis/ |
LONDON (AP) — A teenage man who was reported to British anti-terror authorities by his mother was jailed for life on Friday. Matthew King, 19, will serve a minimum term of six years for plotting a terror attack on police officers or soldiers.
In what was the first terror sentencing in England and Wales to be televised, the judge praised King’s mother for taking her suspicions to the Prevent counter-terror program.
“She took the very bold step of alerting Prevent when she had concerns for her son,” Judge Mark Lucraft said during sentencing at the Old Bailey, the central criminal court in central London. “That cannot have been an easy thing to do in the first place, and in my view she absolutely did the right thing.”
In January, King pleaded guilty to the preparation of terror acts between Dec. 22, 2021 and May 17, 2022.
King, who was radicalized online during the coronavirus pandemic, had expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British Army barracks in east London. He also expressed a desire to travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State.
His desires were thwarted when his mother reported him. Authorities were also tipped off through an anti-terror hotline after he posted a video on a WhatsApp group in April, 2022.
The judge found that King was a dangerous offender who carried a risk of future harm to the public, despite claims by his lawyer that the defendant was on the path to deradicalization.
“It is clear that you are someone who developed an entrenched Islamist extremist mindset, extreme anti-Western views and that you intended to commit terrorist acts both in the U.K. and overseas,” the judge said.
King could be out in five years. He has already spent 367 days in prison, which will be taken into account and deducted from the length of time he has to serve. | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/british-teen-reported-to-anti-terror-police-by-mother-gets-life-sentence-with-minimum-6-year-term/ | 2023-06-03 10:46:10 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/british-teen-reported-to-anti-terror-police-by-mother-gets-life-sentence-with-minimum-6-year-term/ |
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month war.
The collapse of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam and emptying of its reservoir on the Dnieper River added to the misery the region has suffered for more than a year from artillery and missile attacks.
With humanitarian and ecological disasters still unfolding, it’s already clear that tens of thousands of people have been deprived of drinking water, many are homeless, crops are ruined, land mines have been displaced, and the stage is set for long-term electricity shortages.
Some residents of Russia-occupied areas hit by high water complained that help was slow in arriving, with some stranded on roofs and streets passable only by boat in scenes more like natural disasters than wars. Others refused to leave.
The first report of casualties from the disaster emerged, with a mayor reporting three dead. At least 4,000 people have been evacuated from both the Russian and Ukrainian-controlled sides of the river, officials said, with the true scale of the disaster yet to emerge in an affected area that was home to more than 60,000 people. Russia-appointed authorities in the occupied parts of the Kherson region reported 15,000 flooded homes.
The dam and reservoir, essential for fresh water and irrigation for southern Ukraine, lies in the Kherson region that Moscow illegally annexed in September and has occupied for the past year. The reservoir is also critical for water supplies to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
Ukraine holds the Dnieper’s western bank, while Russia controls the low-lying eastern side, which is more vulnerable to flooding.
The high water could wash away this season’s crops, while the depleted Kakhovka reservoir would deny adequate irrigation for years. The reservoir’s loss also complicates any efforts to rebuild and restart the destroyed hydroelectric power station and ensure cooling water for any future attempts to restart the shut-down Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
A day after the dam’s collapse, the cause remained unclear, with both sides blaming each other. Some experts cited wartime damage and neglect, although others argued that Russia might have destroyed it for military reasons. Either way, concluded analyst Michael Kofman, “Russia is responsible, either by virtue of action or by virtue of the fact that it controlled the dam.”
“It’s going to lead to lasting damage to agriculture, provision of drinkable water. And it’s going to wipe out entire communities,” Kofman — who is with the Center for Naval Analyses, a U.S. research group — told “PBS NewsHour.”
Many residents had fled the region because of the fighting, but clear estimates of those remaining weren’t available.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with officials on how to provide drinking water to residents, as well as assess damage to wetlands, farms and other property from what he called “a crime of ecocide” and “a man-made strike on the environment, after which nature will have to recover for decades.”
Speaking in English in a video posted on YouTube, Zelenskyy said it was impossible to predict how much of the chemicals and oil products stored in flooded areas will end up in rivers and the sea.
Ukraine’s agriculture ministry warned, “The fields in the south of Ukraine next year can turn into deserts.”
In the Moscow-controlled city of Oleshky, Lera, 19, told The Associated Press the first floor of her home was flooded.
“Everything around us is floating. People are standing on rooftops and asking for help, but no one is evacuating them,” said Lera, who declined to give her last name for fear of reprisals.
Most Russian troops fled Oleshky shortly after the dam incident, Lera said, although a military checkpoint remains, and boats with people trying to leave have come under fire from soldiers. Her claim couldn’t be independently verified.
Mayor Yevhen Ryschuk, who left the city after the Russians took control last year, reported three dead and said hundreds of residents need to be evacuated from their roofs. He said 90% of Oleshky is flooded and facing a humanitarian crisis without electricity, potable water and food, as well as possible groundwater contamination.
Animals weren’t spared, with some pets trapped. Officials said the Kazkova Dibrova Zoo in Nova Kakhovka was under water and that “only swans and ducks could escape.” Mayor Vladimir Leontyev said that the flooding killed thousands of animals in a nature preserve.
Hundreds of animals trapped in Oleshky require urgent rescue, volunteers helping a local shelter told the AP.
Civilians in the city of Kherson clutched personal belongings as they waded through knee-deep water or rode rubber rafts. Video showed rescuers carrying people to safety, and what looked like the triangular roof of a building floating downstream.
Aerial footage showed flooded streets in the Russia-controlled city of Nova Kakhovka on the eastern side of the Dnieper, where Leontyev said that seven people were missing, although believed to be alive.
In his first public comments on the disaster, Russian President Vladimir Putin repeated Moscow’s line that Ukraine is to blame for destroying the Kakhovka dam.
In a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Putin alleged that Kyiv authorities had escalated “war crimes, openly using terrorist methods and staging acts of sabotage on Russian territory,” the Kremlin said in its account of the call.
It was unclear how the dam disaster would affect the war and Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian troops. Artillery booms served as background to rescue efforts as people scrambled to leave the danger zone.
Kofman, the analyst, said he didn’t think the dam collapse “will substantially affect Ukrainian military prospects when it comes to their offensive this summer.”
“When you look at the situation along the Dnieper River — on the one hand, the flooding is going to damage the defenses that the Russian military built alongside the riverbank,” he told PBS. “On the other hand, it’s going to make a Ukrainian cross-river operation exceedingly difficult.”
Addressing blame, the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said Russia has “a greater and clearer interest in flooding the lower Dnieper despite the damage to their own prepared defensive positions.”
With some indications emerging that Ukraine might already have begun its long-anticipated counteroffensive, the ISW said Russian forces may think breaching the dam could cover a possible retreat and delay Ukraine’s campaign.
Experts noted that the 1950s-era dam, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) to the east of the city of Kherson, was believed to be in disrepair and vulnerable to collapse because water was already brimming over when the wall gave way. It hadn’t been producing power since November, according to officials.
The U.K. Defense Ministry said the Kakhovka reservoir was at record high levels before the breach and that the dam “is likely to deteriorate further over the next few days, causing additional flooding.”
The scale of the damage to the dam was unknown, but officials hoped to rebuild the complex once the Russians leave, said Ihor Syrota, general director of the Ukrainian national hydroelectric company Ukrhydroenergo. Workers, meanwhile, are holding water in other upstream reservoirs to compensate in part for the loss of the dam, he said.
Wheat and corn prices spiked Tuesday on fears over Ukraine’s ability to ship grain to developing nations where people are struggling with hunger and high food prices. Prices stabilized Wednesday.
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Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Hanna Arhirova in Warsaw, Poland, and Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.
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There’s an old saying that adversity makes you stronger. Real life shows that’s not always true, but the adage highlights an evolving debate among scientists about resilience.
After traumatic events and crises such as child abuse, gun violence or a pandemic, what explains why some people bounce back, while others struggle to cope? Is it nature — genes and other inherent traits? Or nurture — life experiences and social interactions?
Decades of research suggest both play a role, but that neither seals a person’s fate.
Although scientists use different definitions, resilience generally refers to the ability to handle severe stress.
“It involves behaviors, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone,’’ according to the American Psychological Association. That effort is harder for some people, because of genetics, biology and life circumstances, evidence suggests.
Landmark U.S. research in the mid 1990s linked adverse childhood experiences with poor mental and physical health in adulthood. It found that every additional adversity added to higher risks later on.
Scientists have conducted numerous studies trying to answer why some kids are more vulnerable to those experiences than others.
California pediatrician and researcher Dr. Thomas Boyce decided to dig deeper into that question because of his own family history. He and his sister, who is two years younger, were extremely close amid sometimes turbulent family circumstances. As they grew into adulthood, Boyce’s life seemed blessed by good luck, while his sister sank into hardship and mental illness.
In laboratory tests, Boyce found that about 1 in 5 kids have elevated biological responses to stress. He found signs of hyperactivity in their brains’ fight-or-flight response and in their stress hormones. Real-world evidence showed kids like these have higher rates of physical and mental troubles when raised in stressful family situations. But evidence also shows these hyper-sensitive kids can thrive with nurturing, supportive parenting, Boyce says.
Ananda Amstadter, who studies traumatic stress and genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University, said her research suggests that stress resilience is roughly half influenced by genes and half by environmental factors. But she emphasized that many genes are likely involved; there is no single “resilience gene.”
In other studies, Duke University researchers Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi have linked variations in genes that help regulate mood with increased risks for depression or antisocial behavior in kids who experienced child abuse or neglect.
But “genes are not destiny,” says Dr. Dennis Charney, academic affairs president at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, who has studied ways to overcome adversity.
Trauma can affect the development of key brain systems that regulate anxiety and fear. Psychotherapy and psychiatric medication can sometimes help people who’ve experienced severe trauma and hardship. And Charney said a loving family, a strong network of friends and positive experiences in school can help counterbalance the ill effects.
With an early childhood in Haiti marked by poverty and other trauma, 19-year-old Steeve Biondolillo seems to have beat long odds.
His desperate parents sent him at age 4 to an orphanage, where he lived for three years.
“I didn’t really understand what was happening,’’ he recalls. “I just got thrown into a big house full of other kids.’’ He remembers feeling frightened and abandoned, certain he’d live there forever.
An American couple visited the orphanage and made plans to adopt him and a younger brother. But then came Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 100,000 and decimated Haiti’s capital and nearby towns.
“All the hope that I had suddenly vanished,’’ Biondolillo said.
Ultimately, the adoption went through, and the family eventually moved to Idaho. Biondolillo’s new life gave him opportunities he never dreamed of, but he says he was still haunted by “the baggage and trauma that I had from Haiti.’’
His adoptive parents got him involved in a local Boys & Girls club, a place where he and his brother could go after school just to be kids and have fun. Biondolillo says supportive adults there gave him space to talk about his life, so different from the other kids,’ and helped him feel welcomed and loved.
Now a college sophomore majoring in social work, he envisions a career working with the needy, helping to give back and nurture others.
It has been a journey, he says, from “scared little kid to me, proud young man with big goals and a big future.’’
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Missing Harlan Co. girl found
Published: Feb. 2, 2023 at 7:04 PM EST|Updated: 23 minutes ago
HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A missing Harlan County girl has been located.
Kentucky State Police asked for assistance locating eight-year-old Ares Asher.
They say she walked away from her residence on Asher St. in Harlan County around 3:50 p.m. on Thursday.
KSP says the missing girl was located about one mile from her home.
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The men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments begin this week, and they offer a multitude of storylines to follow. But for the D.C.-area high school basketball fan, part of the fun might be recognizing a few familiar faces.
Unsurprisingly, Howard leads the way when it comes to local players per team; the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champion has six on its roster. Maryland is close behind with five. On the women’s side, Princeton has the most locals with four.
Here’s a closer look at a few interesting names, followed by a complete list of local participants:
Cinderella star
Elijah Hawkins, Howard: The Bison will make their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1992, and the former DeMatha guard is a big reason. The 5-foot-11 Hawkins, a dynamo in the backcourt, leads the group in scoring at 13 points per game. No. 16 Howard faces Kansas at 2 p.m. Thursday.
Celebrated freshman
Kiki Rice, UCLA: Last season, Rice helped Sidwell Friends ascend to a No. 1 national ranking and earned All-Met Player of the Year honors. Out West, she has continued to play a starring role, averaging 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.1 assists in her debut season. The No. 4 Bruins face Sacramento State at 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
Seasoned vet
Jared Bynum, Providence: The former Georgetown Prep star is in his third season at Providence after transferring from St. Joseph’s in 2019. The crafty guard has turned into a veteran leader, averaging 10 points and 4.3 assists for the Big East contender. On Thursday, he will turn 24. On Friday, the No. 11 Friars take on Kentucky at 7:10 p.m.
Defensive stopper
Ellie Mitchell, Princeton: Mitchell was a cornerstone piece for Georgetown Visitation, and she has made herself indispensable for the Tigers as well. She was the Ivy League’s defensive player of the year for a second straight season. This winter, she averaged a league-high 10.8 rebounds in addition to 2.5 steals. No. 10 Princeton faces N.C. State on Friday at 10 p.m.
NBA draft prospect
Jordan Hawkins, Connecticut: The former DeMatha wing closed his high school career in relative silence; his senior season came during the covid-warped 2020-21 school year. But the dynamic Hawkins has made plenty of noise in Storrs, averaging 16.1 points this season for a buzzy Huskies team. His play has earned him attention from NBA scouts, with several outlets projecting him as a first-round pick in the 2023 draft. No. 4 U-Conn. plays Iona at 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Hometown hero
Abby Meyers, Maryland: The graduate senior has spent much of her college career on this list, earning a spot in the tournament in two of her three seasons with Princeton. The Whitman product transferred to College Park this offseason and took on a leadership role with the Terrapins. She’s averaging 14.5 points, second on the Terps. No. 2 Maryland faces Holy Cross at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
More men’s players to watch:
Favour Aire, Miami (Bishop McNamara)
Noah Batchelor, Maryland (Glenelg Country)
Heru Bligen, Fairleigh Dickinson (St. Andrew’s)
Don Carey, Maryland (Douglass)
Carson Dick, Maryland (Glenelg)
Marcus Dockery, Howard (Bishop O’Connell)
Myles Dread, Penn State (Gonzaga)
RJ Floyd, Maryland (Wise)
Xavier Johnson, Indiana (Bishop O’Connell)
Jordan Miller, Miami (Loudoun Valley)
Makhel Mitchell, Arkansas (Jackson-Reed)
Makhi Mitchell, Arkansas (Jackson-Reed)
Casey Morsell, N.C. State (St. John’s)
Connor Odom, Utah State (Archbishop Spalding)
Jeremy Roach, Duke (Paul VI)
Aaron Roberson, Howard (DeMatha)
Jakai Robinson, Miami (National Christian)
Steve Settle III, Howard (DeMatha)
Cameron Tweedy, Fairleigh Dickinson (Westlake)
Christian Watson, Miami (St. John’s)
Thomas Weaver, Howard (Riverdale Baptist)
Jelani Williams, Howard (Sidwell Friends)
Jahmir Young, Maryland (DeMatha)
More women’s players to watch:
Jakia Brown-Turner, N.C. State (Bishop McNamara)
Jordan Campbell, Florida Gulf Coast (Loudoun Valley)
Chloe Chapman, Georgia (Good Counsel)
Mimi Collins, N.C. State (Paul VI)
Gia Cooke, Maryland (Bishop McNamara)
Lauren Ebo, Notre Dame (Riverdale Baptist)
Clara Ford, Virginia Tech (George Marshall)
Simone Foreman, Holy Cross (St. Andrew’s)
Azzi Fudd, Connecticut (St. John’s)
Jania Hall, Monmouth (Pallotti)
Parker Hill, Princeton (Churchill)
Briana Johns, St. Louis (Edison)
Synia Johnson, East Carolina (Riverdale Baptist)
DJ McFarlane, Tennessee Tech (New Hope Academy)
Amele Ngwafang, Cleveland State (Paint Branch)
Chet Nweke, Princeton (Stone Ridge)
Ashley Owusu, Virginia Tech (Paul VI)
Afia Owusu-Mensah, Sacred Heart (CMIT North)
Bella Perkins, Southern California (Paul VI)
Madison Scott, Mississippi (Bishop McNamara)
Kadidia Toure, James Madison (Good Counsel)
Malu Tshitenge, North Carolina (St. John’s)
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BANGALORE, India, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambee's pollen API is here to help businesses and organizations better manage the pollen season by providing the most hyperlocal pollen data available on the market.
As per AAFA (Asthma and allergy foundation of America), more than 50 million people have various types of allergies each year and it is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness. Pollen affects human well-being with different seasonal allergies and respiratory ailments, making it extremely important to track, says Ambee's co-founder, Madhusudhan Anand. "The problem is, it requires a complex methodology to gather accurate results. Most pollen forecasts right now provide a very broad estimate and part of the problem is that there aren't many observing stations for pollen counts."
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The members of the Nomination Committee ahead of Kindred's Annual General Meeting 2023 have been appointed.
VALLETTA, Malta, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kindred Group plc's (Kindred) Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 13 May 2022 decided that the Nomination Committee, until the general meeting of the shareholders decides otherwise, shall consist of not less than four but no more than five members. The members of the Nomination Committee shall represent all shareholders and be appointed by the largest shareholders at the end of August 2022 having expressed their willingness to participate in the Nomination Committee. Following contacts with Kindred's shareholders the subsequent members have been appointed:
- Keith Meister, Chairman Nomination Committee, Corvex Management LP
- Cedric Boireau, Premier Investissement SAS
- Peter Lundkvist, Third Swedish National Pension Fund
- Anders Ström, Veralda Investment Ltd
Kindred's Chairman of the Board, Evert Carlsson, is co-opted to the Nomination Committee.
The Nomination Committee's duty is to ahead of the 2023 AGM prepare recommendations for the Chairperson of the AGM, Chairperson of the Board of Directors and members of the Board, as well as remuneration to the Board of Directors and auditors.
Shareholders who wish to provide proposals to the Nomination Committee can do this via email to nomination@kindredgroup.com, or via post to Kindred Group plc, Level 6, The Centre, Tigne Point, Sliema, TPO 0001 Malta.
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HOT SPRINGS -- A man was arrested on felony warrants Wednesday stemming from allegations he stole thousands of dollars worth of copper pipes from the vacant Velda Rose Resort hotel in Hot Springs, causing $18,000 in damages.
Sean Michael Dickson, 41, of 106 Gaither St., was taken into custody at his residence shortly after 1:30 p.m. on charges of commercial burglary and first-degree criminal mischief over $5,000, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and theft of scrap metal over $1,000, punishable by up to six years.
Dickson was later released on a $9,500 bond and is set to appear on May 23 in Garland County District Court.
According to a probable cause affidavit, on March 16, Hot Springs police responded to the Velda Rose, 218 Park Ave., regarding someone trespassing on the property of the vacant facility.
Officers located a white 2008 Chevrolet Silverado pickup backed up behind the building on the southwest corner. No one was located in the area, but officers noted the truck was running and had numerous pieces of cut copper pipes in the bed of the truck.
Behind the truck, officers observed where someone had cut through the perimeter fence of the property to gain entry. A large handcart was found just inside the fence that was apparently being used to haul the pipes up from the parking garage area.
The truck was towed to the Police Department and a search warrant executed on it. Detectives located a phone inside the truck. On March 21, police said, Dickson came to the department to claim his keys and phone removed from the truck.
Data removed from the phone showed it was in the Velda Rose building on multiple occasions around the times the owner of the property reported thefts and damages, police said.
A check of LeadsOnline revealed Dickson had sold copper pipe to a recycling company in Little Rock that matched the copper pipe stolen from the hotel, police said. Detectives contacted the company, which provided information showing Dickson had sold copper to it on Feb. 10 for $855.25; on Feb. 28 for $3,828.75; on March 6 for $3,300.25; and on March 13 for $3,898.
Detectives attempted to locate the sources of the copper Dickson had provided at sale and "none of the areas listed as addresses in those locations were found to have copper or construction where this copper would be used," the affidavit says. The affidavit also notes, "None of the persons listed were located or found to be true."
The property manager for the hotel's owner stated the cost of damages from the incident on March 16 was $18,000. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/07/arrest-made-in-spa-city-copper-theft/ | 2023-05-07 09:02:07 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/07/arrest-made-in-spa-city-copper-theft/ |
Several far-right parties, including a successor to the now disbanded Golden Dawn party (supporters pictured here at a rally in 2020) have been banned from contesting Greece's upcoming parliamentary electionImage: Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto/picture alliance
Exclusion of far-right parties narrows field for election
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Fifteen far-right parties wanted to run in Greece's upcoming general election. Almost half were disqualified by the Supreme Court. Their voters are now being courted by other parties in the election.
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Greece goes to the polls on May 21 to elect a new parliament. In the run-up to the election, there has been a major shake-up of the right-wing field. Some 50 political groupings applied to field candidates in the upcoming election. No less than 15 of them are further to the right than the ruling conservative New Democracy (ND) party.
However, not all of them have been cleared to contest the election. One of the parties that has been banned from taking part is the country's highest-profile extreme right-wing party, the Greeks (Hellenes) Party. It was founded by the former lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris, who was an MP for the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party and was long seen as the party's leader-in-waiting.
A self-confessed anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, who has a swastika tattooed on one arm, Kasidiaris was sentenced in October 2020 to 13 years and 6 months in prison for running a criminal organization.
But this has not stopped Kasidiaris from communicating with his supporters, drumming up support for his party and sharing YouTube videos — all from behind bars.
Right-wing extremists excluded by Supreme Court
In early May, however, Greece's Supreme Court put a stop to Kasidiaris' political ambitions by banning his party from the upcoming election. In a 400-page explication of the ruling, the judges outlined why Ilias Kasidiaris had been banned from standing in the election.
To begin with, they argued, Kasidiaris had been found guilty of leading a criminal organization. Furthermore, he was inciting people to violence and promoting a policy that is disrespectful of democracy and sought to weaken both the democratic state and institutions of rule of law.
This was the first time since 1974 that the Supreme Court excluded a party from elections on policy grounds rather than just on formalities.
No neo-Nazis on the ballot
The court's ruling means that no militant, extreme right-wing party will be in the next parliament. The Supreme Court also excluded 13 other parties from the election, some of which also belong to the right wing of the political spectrum.
"There will be no Golden Dawn successor in the next parliament," says Vassiliki Georgiadou, professor of political science at the Panteion University in Athens. "But that doesn't mean that there is no longer a demand for a radical right-wing party like this. The voters for such a party are there."
Georgiadou, an expert in radical right-wing parties, expects that while some of these voters won't vote on May 21, some will look for other extreme right-wing splinter parties whose ideas align with their own.
At least three of these parties were banned from the election on formalities, for example because they had copied parts of each other's names. On the right, all of the parties want "Hellenic" and "Patriotic" in their names, and they all want to attract voters with anti-migrant rhetoric and by speaking out against any form of dialogue with Turkey.
The anti-immigration ticket
The only "Hellenic" party that is still in the race and could even pass the minimum three-percent threshold to enter parliament is Kyriakos Velopoulos' Greek Solution (Elliniki Lisi).
Greek Solution has been in the Greek parliament since 2019 and has much in common with Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. "Velopoulos' party belong to the family of populist, radical parties on the extreme right that are against immigration, multi-culturalism and globalization," explains Georgiadou.
From TV salesman to politics
Velopoulos started out as a salesman on television, selling everything from creams that could allegedly heal any ailment to letters purported to have been written by Jesus Christ. During the pandemic, he claimed that his creams were effective against COVID-19 and therefore made vaccination unnecessary.
Velopoulos likes to portray himself as a conservative eurosceptic. Economically, he is in favor of both the free market and a strong welfare state. Greek Solution is calling for greater support for the lower social classes — but only for Greeks, not for immigrants. Velopoulos has never made a secret of his admiration for Russia either.
He has been a member of parliament for 15 years, initially as an MP for the extreme right-wing LAOS party, which has since virtually merged with the ruling New Democracy party and has three important ministers in the current government. Velopoulos founded his own party in 2016.
The battle for voters on the right has begun
Greek Solution is at present New Democracy's biggest rival on the right. Every vote cast for Greek Solution means one vote less for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' party. This is why it is important for ND to win over as many ultra-conservative voters as it can — which is where the issue of refugees comes in.
Since 2020, PM Mitsotakis has been portraying himself as the man to protect the borders of Greece and Europe against the "migrant invasion." He recently posed for photos at the fence along the Evros River on the border to Turkey, just as Donald Trump did at the fence along the US–Mexican border. He is also standing for election in the Evros constituency to underline his claim that border protection is his priority. Will this be enough to lure voters away from Velopoulos?
"The photo of Mitsotakis beside the fence in Evros will, of course, play a role," says Vassiliki Georgiadou, who feels it is likely to help ND poach votes from the extreme right. Georgiadou is also convinced that Mitsotakis' message will appeal to more than just the right wing. She feels it is likely to speak to large parts of the Greek electorate.
"It's not just conservative and nationalist voters who have a negative attitude to immigration," she says, explaining that this attitude became entrenched in the 1990s. "Even though we have third-generation Albanian migrants in our country, opinion polls show that anti-Albanian feeling is widespread in Greek society." | https://www.dw.com/en/exclusion-of-far-right-parties-narrows-field-for-election/a-65591108?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf | 2023-05-11 14:30:21 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/exclusion-of-far-right-parties-narrows-field-for-election/a-65591108?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf |
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department made a rare intervention Tuesday to try to bring improvements in the beleaguered water system in Mississippi’s capital city, which nearly collapsed in late summer and continues to struggle.
The department filed a proposal to appoint a third-party manager for the Jackson water system. That is meant to be an interim step while the federal government, the city of Jackson and the Mississippi State Department of Health try to negotiate a court-enforced consent decree, the department said in a news release. The goal is to achieve long-term sustainability of the system and the city’s compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and other laws.
The city and the state health department have signed the proposal, which needs approval of a federal judge.
The Justice Department on Tuesday also filed a complaint on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Jackson, alleging that the city has failed to provide drinking water that is reliably compliant with the Safe Drinking Water Act. According to the agreement, that litigation will be put on hold six months while all parties try to improve the water system.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in the news release that the Justice Department is “taking action in federal court to address long-standing failures in the city of Jackson’s public drinking water system.”
“The Department of Justice takes seriously its responsibility to keep the American people safe and to protect their civil rights,” Garland said. “Together with our partners at EPA, we will continue to seek justice for the residents of Jackson, Mississippi. And we will continue to prioritize cases in the communities most burdened by environmental harm.”
In a federal complaint Sept. 27, the NAACP said Mississippi officials “all but assured” a drinking water calamity by depriving Jackson of badly needed funds to upgrade its infrastructure.
The EPA announced in late October that it was investigating whether Mississippi state agencies have discriminated against Jackson by refusing to fund water system improvements in the city of 150,000, where more than 80% of residents are Black and about a quarter of the population lives in poverty.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, said Tuesday that the Jackson water problems were caused by a “crisis of incompetence” in the Democratic-led city.
“It is excellent news for anyone who cares about the people of Jackson that the mayor will no longer be overseeing the city’s water system,” Reeves said.
Like many American cities, Jackson struggles with aging infrastructure with water lines that crack or collapse. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat in the Republican-led state, said the city’s water problems come from decades of deferred maintenance.
Jackson frequently has boil-water notices because of loss of pressure or other problems that can contaminate the water. Some of the mandates are in place for only a few days, while others last weeks. Some only affect specific neighborhoods, usually because of broken pipes in the area. Others affect all customers on the water system.
Edward “Ted” Henifin was appointed Tuesday as interim third-party manager of the Jackson water system and Water Sewer Business Administration, the city’s water billing department. An online profile of Henifin says he is a registered professional engineer who served 15 years as general manager of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District in Virginia. Before that, he served as director of public works for the city of Hampton, Virginia.
The proposal lists 13 projects that Henifin will in charge of implementing. The projects are meant to improve the water system’s near-term stability, according to a news release. Among the most pressing priorities is a winterization project to make the system less vulnerable. A cold snap in 2021 left tens of thousands of people in Jackson without running water after pipes froze.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan, who has been to Jackson four times in the past year, said the Justice Department’s action “marks a critical moment on the path to securing clean, safe water for Jackson residents,″ adding that he is grateful to Garland for acting quickly on the city’s water crisis.
In May, the Justice Department created an environmental justice division, following up on President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign promise to elevate environmental justice issues in an all-of-government approach. The Justice Department said in July that it was investigating illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city.
Jackson has had water problems for decades. Most of the city lost running water for several days after heavy rainfall exacerbated problems at the city’s main water treatment plant in late August. When that happened, Jackson had already been under a boil-water advisory for a month because health inspectors had found cloudy water that could make people ill.
The boil-water advisory was lifted in mid-September, but many people remain skeptical about water quality.
Vangela M. Wade, president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Justice, said the Justice Department announcement Tuesday is “an important and necessary move to ensure that residents of Jackson and surrounding communities have access to safe drinking water — a vital necessity for all communities to thrive.”
“Unfortunately,” Wade said, “the deplorable and unsafe condition of Jackson’s water system didn’t happen overnight but stems from decades of neglect and the intentional disinvestment of resources for the majority-Black municipality.”
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed from Washington.
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(NEXSTAR) – If you are like most Californians that enjoy a night out, you’ve probably had your fill of $18 cocktail menus and pricy craft “bar bites.” Sometimes you just want a casual, cheap drink. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name (is that copyright infringement?).
While you’re unlikely to pull up a barstool anywhere in the state and find Norm and Cliff from “Cheers” sitting next to you, you can find plenty of bars meant for regular folks who want an unpretentious atmosphere. We wanted to know which of those spots are considered the best by reviewers, so we asked for data.
Yelp gave us numbers on the best single dive bar in each state as rated by their users. They also drilled down specifically into California to label 10 top affordable watering holes. Obviously, not every bar is a dive, and some owners don’t even want the label. So we asked Yelp how they define the category.
According to a Yelp spokesperson, dive bars are “typically well-worn bars that offer an inexpensive, simple selection of drinks and are often considered ‘hole-in-the-walls.’”
Yelp allows operators of these establishments to self-identify as “dive bars” on their own Yelp accounts — at which point Yelp’s moderators will conduct a review to ensure the bar meets their criteria — or Yelp’s own users can submit suggestions to the moderators, if they feel a specific bar should be recategorized as a dive.
The top 10 list in Texas is filled with big city bars. In New York, Brooklyn dominates the best dives. But in California, it appears the quality of dive bars improves as you near the border with Mexico, and most of the best spots aren’t easily accessible to the corporate big city crowds.
San Diego is the only big city to make the list from California, landing both Pop’s Liquor Cabinet and Sidecar on the top 10.
Torrance Brew Yard was the top overall dive, one of two Los Angeles County entries.
“I think some of their food is better then some of the local specialized restaurants,” one Long Beach Yelper said of the Brew Yard.
Orange and Imperial Counties also landed multiple top picks from Yelpers. E’s Locker Room in Red Bluff – south of Redding – was the lone Northern California entry on the list.
Unfortunately, the ownership of E’s reports a recent fire is likely to keep Northern California’s top pick closed until summer.
If you don’t see your favorite dive on the list, maybe you should consider that a good thing. Do you really want crowds to find out about your secret hideout? | https://www.kron4.com/news/the-10-best-dive-bars-in-california-according-to-yelp/ | 2022-11-18 16:54:00 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/the-10-best-dive-bars-in-california-according-to-yelp/ |
The Cats traveled to Arkansas without a point guard and came back with a 88-79 victory, thanks to a big push from a career-high 37 points from Antonio Reeves and 21 points from Jacob Toppin. UK Sports Network's Tom Leach joins us to talk about the amazing end to the regular season.
Four Wildcats win SEC honors, including Reeves earning the Co-Sixth-Man of the Year award.
Spring football is here! Head Coach Mark Stoops took the podium to catch BBN up on all the post-season happenings.
Kentucky Gymnastics went undefeated in Memorial Coliseum this season,the first time since 1984. Baseball swept Indiana State.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)Los Angeles Dodgers fans made their feelings known as Juan Soto stepped into the batter’s box, just in case the Washington Nationals star didn’t get their message at the All-Star Game.
”Future Dodger!” the crowd of 48,647 chanted. They heartily applauded Soto in his first at-bat.
Whether he ends up in LA or not, Soto put on a show.
His two-run triple capped a four-run fifth inning and the lowly Washington Nationals defeated the NL West-leading Dodgers 4-1 on Monday night, snapping Los Angeles’ 11-game home winning streak.
”Our best player, Soto, comes up with a big hit and drove in some runs,” Nats manager Dave Martinez said. ”It was a big moment for Juan to come through.”
The Nationals (33-65) brought the worst record in the majors into Dodger Stadium, where they won for the first time since the 2019 NL Division Series, against the team with baseball’s best record (64-31). The Dodgers’ season-high eight-game overall winning streak ended.
”They shut down a really good team,” Martinez said of his bullpen. ”Guys played with a lot of energy.”
Soto said before the game he’s trying not to think about the trade talk swirling around him ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline. The chatter isn’t affecting him at the plate. Soto is batting .362 with a 1.260 OPS this month, including six homers, a triple and two doubles.
The 23-year-old All-Star right fielder left his trophy from winning last week’s Home Run Derby in the visitors’ clubhouse, knowing that he’d soon be back here. It rested on a wheeled trunk in the middle of the room with a gold link chain wrapped around it and Derby Champ spelled out in platinum.
The Nationals haven’t signaled that they’re looking to unload the left-handed hitter with a .248 average and .895 OPS. But that hasn’t stopped the growing speculation, especially after Soto turned down a long-term contract offer worth $440 million.
”We don’t need anything but I stand by any team can always get better,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said when asked about Soto before the game. ”Juan is a very talented player.”
Soto finished 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk. He chatted up former Nats teammate Trea Turner, with whom he stays in regular contact.
The Nationals batted around in the fifth when Yadiel Hernandez led off with an opposite-field solo shot over the wall in left that tied the game 1-1.
”It just created more excitement in the bullpen,” Hernandez said through a translator.
After two quick outs, Tony Gonsolin (11-1) gave up four straight base hits in his first defeat of the season and his first start since taking the loss for the NL in the All-Star Game. Ehire Adrianza and Victor Robles singled back-to-back before Cesar Hernandez hit a bloop single inside the third-base line to make it 2-1.
”He still is terrific,” Martinez said of Gonsolin. ”He’s got good stuff.”
Soto’s two-run triple over the first-base bag scored two runs to extend Washington’s lead to 4-1.
The Dodgers had the tying runs on base in the bottom of the inning. Max Muncy and Gavin Lux singled back-to-back off Nats starter Paolo Espino. Andres Machado (1-0) came in to strike out Cody Bellinger before walking Trayce Thompson to load the bases. Mookie Betts took a called third strike and Turner lined out to right for the third out.
”I like coming in that situation,” Machado said.
Kyle Finnegan pitched the ninth to earn his third save.
Washington loaded the bases in a messy eighth for Reyes Moronta, who threw 31 pitches and just 15 for strikes. He had two wild pitches and hit Keibert Ruiz before Robles struck out to end the threat.
The Dodgers had the potential tying run at the plate in the eighth. Turner and Jake Lamb singled before Carl Edwards Jr. struck out Muncy for the third out.
Hitting in the ninth spot, Thompson went deep with two strikes and two outs in the third for a 1-0 lead.
Turner’s ground-rule double to deep center in the fourth extended his hitting streak to 12 games. Freddie Freeman went 0 for 4 with a strikeout to end his 12-game hitting streak.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (abdomen) could return Tuesday or Wednesday. … RHP Brusdar Graterol (shoulder) played catch but there’s no timetable for him to get on a mound. … OF Chris Taylor (foot) will have a rehab assignment next week. … RHP Walker Buehler (elbow) played catch for the first time since his flexor strain injury last month.
UP NEXT
Nationals: RHP Josiah Gray (7-6, 4.40 ERA) makes his second career start against his former team. He made his MLB debut at Dodger Stadium last July against the Giants.
Dodgers: RHP Mitch White (1-2, 3.78) faces the Nationals for the first time in his career.
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DALLAS, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Unishippers, one of the nation's only full-service third-party logistics providers, was recognized as one of the top 500 franchises and No. 1 in the Shipping Services category in Entrepreneur's Franchise 500®, the world's first, best, and most comprehensive franchise ranking.
The 44th annual Entrepreneur Franchise 500® is a highly sought-after honor in the franchise industry. Recognized as an invaluable resource for potential franchisees, the 2023 Franchise 500® ranks Unishippers as a top franchise for its outstanding performance in areas including unit growth, financial strength and stability, and brand power.
"Unishippers provides motivated self-starters a world-class business opportunity to own and grow a business and take control of their careers," said Dustin Wesley, Unishippers Senior Vice President of Franchise Development. "Our franchises benefit from our proven model which provides low start-up costs, geographic flexibility and strong operational support, including in-depth training, access to comprehensive shipping tools and resources, exceptional technology, and a reputable carrier network. We are honored to have been recognized in the Franchise 500® rankings and to have been awarded the top spot for Shipping Services."
"The past year underscores the extraordinary opportunities that the franchise industry presents for entrepreneurs of all levels," said Entrepreneur editor in chief Jason Feifer. "The companies named to our 44th annual Franchise 500 list represent some of the most innovative, creative, and trusted brands across many industries and highlight what it takes to build the kind of momentum that drives long-lasting success."
For more than 30 years, Unishippers has been the trusted advisor for small and mid-sized businesses across the country. As one of the nation's only full-service 3PLs, and as part of the Dallas-based global logistics group that includes sister brands Worldwide Express and GlobalTranz, Unishippers offers a comprehensive portfolio of freight (LTL, FTL and specialty options) and small package services. Its 200+ franchises specialize in helping SMBs find affordable solutions for every shipping challenge – from evaluating and streamlining supply chains to selecting the right transportation type and everything in between.
Unishippers previously appeared in the 43rd edition of the Entrepreneur Franchise 500® where the company ranked as one of the Top Fastest Growing Franchises globally, in the U.S. and Canada, as well as one of the Top Low-Cost Franchises and Top Home-based and Mobile Franchises.
To learn more about franchise opportunities at Unishippers, please visit www.unishippersfranchise.com.
Entrepreneur Franchise 500®
In Entrepreneur's continuing effort to best understand and evaluate the ever-changing franchise marketplace, the company's 44-year-old ranking formula continues to
evolve as well. The editorial team researches and assesses several factors that go into the evaluation including costs and fees, size and growth, support, brand strength, and financial strength and stability. Each franchise is given a cumulative score based on an analysis of more than 150 data points, and the 500 franchises with the highest cumulative scores become the Franchise 500® in ranking order.
Over its 44 years in existence, the Franchise 500® has become both a dominant competitive measure for franchisors and a primary research tool for potential franchisees. Unishippers' position on the ranking is a testament to its strength as a franchise opportunity.
To view Unishippers in the full ranking, visit www.entrepreneur.com/franchise500.
About Unishippers and Worldwide Express
Worldwide Express, LLC is a full-service, non-asset-based logistics provider offering more than 121,000 customers access to industry-leading small package, truckload and less-than-truckload shipping solutions. With an annual systemwide revenue approaching $5 billion through a network of company-owned, franchise and agent locations, Worldwide Express, combined with its sister brands GlobalTranz and Unishippers, is the second-largest privately held freight brokerage in the country. As the largest non-retail UPS® Authorized Reseller in the US, the company is a local partner for the global supply chains for shippers of all sizes, from small- to medium-sized businesses to enterprise organizations. This, coupled with a selective portfolio of more than 75 LTL and tens of thousands of truckload carriers, provides clients with an unmatched range of options and flexibility to meet their shipping needs. To learn more, visit www.wwex.com. To learn more about franchise opportunities at Unishippers, please visit www.unishippersfranchise.com.
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Unanimous Vote Reflects Enthusiasm of Workers
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Drivers, mechanics and dispatchers working for Transdev Transportation have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 665. The workers provide paratransit services for San Francisco, Santa Rafael and other cities throughout the Bay Area.
"These workers demonstrated immense solidarity and enthusiasm throughout this campaign and we're honored to represent them," said Tony Delorio, Local 665 Secretary-Treasurer. "We're looking forward to bringing this momentum to the bargaining table."
"We're 100 percent committed to organizing as much of the transit and paratransit industries as humanly possible," said Matt Taibi, Teamsters Passenger Transportation Division Director. "Paratransit workers are everyday heroes who help some of society's most vulnerable people live their lives to the fullest. They deserve a union contract that reflects their service to their communities."
Janet Gunn has been a driver at Transdev for six years.
"We reached out to Local 665 a couple of months ago about organizing because we heard about how good the wages and benefits are for the other paratransit providers in our area that already have a Teamster contract," Gunn said. "I'm so excited to be a part of this!"
Teamsters Local 665 represents over 5,000 members throughout the Bay Area in a wide variety of industries. For more information, go to https://www.teamsters665.org/.
Contact:
Matt McQuaid, (202) 624-6877
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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When vandals attacked four electrical substations in Pierce County, Wash., on Christmas Day, reportedly cutting power to over 15,000 customers and causing at least $3 million of damage, investigators were alarmed — and initially stumped.
But a Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson told The Washington Post that the location of the Christmas Day attacks, in a largely rural portion of Washington south of Seattle, had them confused.
“If it was a message, who is it for? Or is [it] just some people pulling a prank?” Sgt. Darren Moss Jr. said at the time.
On New Year’s Eve, officials neared a possible answer when they arrested two suspects and charged them with conspiracy to damage energy facilities. A criminal complaint filed Tuesday revealed what investigators believe to be their motive: facilitating a burglary at a local business.
Matthew Greenwood, 32, allegedly told investigators upon arrest that he and Jeremy Crahan, 40, attacked the power stations and then broke into a local business and stole from the cash register, according to the complaint.
Greenwood entered the Pierce County substations by using a bolt cutter to break through padlocks and chain-link fences while Crahan served as his getaway driver, investigators allege. Puget Sound Energy and Tacoma Power, which operate the attacked substations, reported that an intruder caused outages by tampering with circuit breakers and, in one instance, trying to pry open a linkage, causing it to spark, court records state.
According to the complaint, damage at two of the substations will take up to 36 months to repair and has forced Tacoma Power to use mobile transformers to maintain power in the meantime at a greatly reduced output.
During the power outage, Greenwood and Crahan allegedly drilled out a lock at the local business while the power was out and stole from the cash register. Investigators did not name the business in the complaint.
The two were also charged with possession of an unregistered firearm after officers recovered a shotgun and a rifle with a homemade silencer from a trailer at a residence the pair allegedly frequented.
Both men are in custody in Seattle, according to a U.S. attorney’s office spokesperson. An attorney for Greenwood declined to comment. An attorney for Crahan said he anticipates his client will plead not guilty.
The outages on Christmas left thousands without electricity and heat, including some who need power for medical devices, U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said in a Justice Department news release on Tuesday.
“We have seen attacks such as these increase in Western Washington and throughout the country and must treat each incident seriously,” Brown said.
Attacks on U.S. power grid infrastructure have surged to their highest yearly level since at least 2012, according to a Politico analysis of Energy Department data in December, which includes threats of attacks or acts of vandalism. Experts warned that the country’s large network of local substations is vulnerable to attacks that could cause widespread outages. The Department of Homeland Security in late November issued a bulletin that included “U.S. critical infrastructure” among potential targets of violence by terrorism threats.
Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan through surveillance footage at the substations and cellphone records, according to the complaint. Investigators found two phone numbers whose registered devices were around all four substations at the times of the attacks. They allegedly were linked to Google accounts in Greenwood and Crahan’s names.
Upon serving a search warrant on the residence that the pair frequented in Puyallup, a Pierce County city about 35 miles south of Seattle near the attacked substations, investigators said that on Dec. 31 they recovered bolt cutters, clothing similar to that worn by figures seen on surveillance footage and the unregistered firearms. Greenwood and Crahan were detained the same day.
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May 18, 1968—July 23, 2023
On Sunday, July 23, 2023, John James Luther
Sorensen, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, joined the heavenly band after multiple strokes and a six-week battle with lung cancer.
John was born in Racine, WI on May 18, 1968 to Kathleen (Shimkus) and James Sorensen. John graduated from Washington Park High School in Racine in 1986, and enlisted in the United States Navy from 1987-1998, serving in the United States Navy Band in Little Creek, VA, Charleston, SC, Great Lakes, IL, and aboard the USS Blue Ridge in Japan and throughout the Western Pacific Unit. John joined the Navy Reserves in 2013 and was a Chief Mass Communication Specialist and the Senior Enlisted Leader to the Navy Reserve Navy Office of Community Outreach. He was a mentor to many sailors and was proud to be a part of the Chief’s Mess.
John married the love of his life, Karen Lewicke, on August 2, 1996 and gained two wonderful children, Erin and Kyle. John and Karen welcomed their daughter, Hannah, into the world in 1999.
John graduated from UW-Parkside with a degree in Music Education in 2001 and has worked as the band director at Wilmot High School from 2001-2023. He received his Master of Music from Carthage College in 2008. John touched the lives of many students through his years of music education and loved to hear from his former students.
He has maintained his love of music through participation in various groups including the Kenosha Pops Band, UW-Parkside Community Band, Racine Concert Band, Swing Nouveau, Wisconsin Chamber Brass Quintet, and Southport Sound.
John was a devoted Christian and member of Reach Ministries, a New Life Kenosha church. He found great joy and comfort in his church family, led by Pastor Russ Scoggins.
He lived each day with joy and appreciation. John loved exploring new restaurants, events, concerts, and nature. He enjoyed time spent with his family, “the cousins”, and also visiting the Northwoods. He was genuinely interested in every person he met and would gladly do anything to help out. He accepted thank-you’s by saying “my pleasure”.
John is survived by his wife, Karen; his children, Dr. Erin (William) Merritt, Kyle Lindquist, and Hannah (Steven Mack) Sorensen; his grandchildren, Elijah and Sierra Merritt; his sister, Edith Sorensen; his sister-in-law, Nancy (Tony) Sattler; and nieces, Annabella and Alyssa Floro.
Visitation will be held on Saturday, July 29, 2023 in the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin Parkside, 900 Wood Rd., Kenosha, WI 53144 from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., immediately followed by a Christian Funeral Service. In lieu of flowers, memorial remembrances for the “John Sorensen Memorial Fund” can be mailed or brought into any Educators Credit Union branch. The donations will help promote music education in the community and are appreciated by the family.
A special thanks to the nurses, doctors, CNAs, and other healthcare professionals at Froedtert Pleasant Prairie, Froedtert Milwaukee, and Aurora Kenosha hospitals. John often commented on the kindness, teamwork, and knowledge they all displayed.
Fair winds and following seas.
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All Things We're Cooking is a series featuring family recipes from you, our readers and listeners, and the special stories behind them. We'll continue to share more of your kitchen gems throughout the holidays.
When Maureen O'Reilly decided it was time to ask where the family's Irish soda bread recipe came from, her husband's Grandma Boyce just laughed.
The recipe had traveled with Grandma Boyce from Ireland, where it was a staple while she was growing up. O'Reilly wanted to make the bread for her husband, Ken, but realized she was going to have to pay close attention to capture the recipe as Grandma Boyce baked, since she made the bread by feel and sight.
"I literally had to stand in the kitchen at her side as she threw flour and sugar and other things into the bowl, and then take them back out as best I could and measure them," O'Reilly said. "Eventually we got to a recipe, and it was always a little bit different each time, but you know, she taught me the basics of how to put it together and bake it."
Boyce's recipe includes sugar, raisins and caraway seeds, but those ingredients weren't in the loaves she had as a child in Ireland. It wasn't until Boyce immigrated to the United States and became a professional chef that the Irish soda bread became more than flour, buttermilk and salt.
O'Reilly said she once asked Grandma Boyce, who died in 1987, about the difference between her recipe and the so-called authentic ones O'Reilly had found during her research.
"She said, 'Yes, yes, that's true. Aren't I lucky? Now I live in a country where I can find those ingredients, where I have enough money to buy those ingredients, and I can add them to my bread and it tastes so much better,'" O'Reilly said, recalling the conversation. "She said it used to be like eating a stone, and now it's like eating cake."
O'Reilly, who lives in Milwaukee, Wis., makes the bread about five times a year — not just on St. Patrick's Day — because family members love it.
"There are people in my immediate family who really, really like it and think of it as a treat ... whether they have it with a beer or a cup of tea," O'Reilly said.
Some of them like the bread in its purest form, while others, including O'Reilly, prefer to spread some Kerrygold Irish butter on top.
No one else in the family has made the recipe with O'Reilly. She's hoping to change that this Christmas, though, and pass the recipe along to her granddaughter because it really is the only Irish soda bread the family wants.
"Over the years, I've tried other types of soda bread. You know, when Martha Stewart came along with her loaf, and other bakers. I've certainly tried all of them," O'Reilly said. "But all of them got thumbs down from the family. They wanted Grandma's loaf."
Irish Soda Bread
Recipe submitted by Maureen O'Reilly
Milwaukee, Wis.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine in a large bowl 4 cups soft wheat flour, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 heaping teaspoons of caraway seeds, and 1 cup raisins (half golden, soaked in hot water for 15 minutes).
Crumble in 1/2 cup unsalted butter with your fingers until the mixture is fragrant with butter, caraway and flour, and pieces of butter are pea-size or larger.
In a second bowl, mix together 1 1/3 cups whole buttermilk, 1 egg and 1 teaspoon baking soda. Beat until foamy.
Add to dry ingredients and combine to make a stiff dough, stopping just when flour disappears.
Grease a 9-inch round pan (glass works well).
Place dough in pan and lightly shape into a dome.
Sprinkle liberally with flour.
Using a sharp knife, cut a cross a half-inch deep into the top.
Bake in preheated oven approximately 1 hour.
Cool in pan 5 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool.
Serve in thick slices with Irish butter and scalding hot tea.
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A top debt ceiling negotiator for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Friday it's time to "press pause" on talks as negotiations with the White House came to an abrupt standstill at the Capitol.
Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., tapped by McCarthy, R-Calif., to lead the talks, emerged from an hourlong session and said gaps remained between House Republicans and the Democratic administration.
"It's time to press pause because it's just not productive," Graves told reporters.
He added that the negotiations have become "just unreasonable" and that it was unclear when talks would resume.
Wall Street turned lower as talks on raising the nation's debt limit came to a sudden halt, raising worries that the country could edge closer to risking a highly damaging default on U.S. government debt.
President Joe Biden's administration is racing to strike a deal with Republicans led by McCarthy as the nation careens toward a potentially catastrophic debt default if the government fails to increase the borrowing limit to keep paying the nation's bills.
White House negotiators declined to comment as they left the quick morning session.
"There are real differences between the parties on budget issues and talks will be difficult," a White House official said. "The President’s team is working hard towards a reasonable bipartisan solution that can pass the House and the Senate."
Negotiators met for a third day behind closed doors at the Capitol with hopes of settling on an agreement this weekend before possible House votes next week. They face a looming deadline as soon as June 1 when the Treasury Department has said it will run out of cash to pay the government's incurred debt.
Experts have warned that even the threat of a debt default would send shockwaves through the economy.
The S&P 500 went from a gain of 0.3% to a loss of 0.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from a gain of 117 points to a loss of about 90 points. Markets had been rising this week on hopes of a deal.
Republicans want to extract steep spending cuts that Biden has so far refused to accept. Any deal would need the support of both Republicans and Democrats to find approval in a divided Congress and be passed into law.
Biden who has been in Japan attending the Group of Seven summit had already planned to cut short the rest of his trip. He is expected to return to Washington later Sunday.
Biden departed early from a dinner with G7 leaders in Hiroshima on Friday night. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden planned to be briefed on the negotiations by his team Friday evening.
There was no immediate reaction from the White House to Graves' comments.
Another Republican negotiator, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, said, "There is a "serious gap" between the sides.
"We're in a tough spot," said McHenry, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, as he left the meeting.
As Republicans demand spending cuts and policy changes, Biden is facing increased pushback from Democrats, particularly progressives, not to give in to demands they argue will be harmful to Americans.
McCarthy faces pressures from his hard-right flank to cut the strongest deal possible for Republicans, and he risks a threat to his leadership as speaker if he fails to deliver.
A day earlier, the conservative House Freedom Caucus said there should be no further discussions until the Senate takes action on the House Republican bill that was approved last month to raise the debt limit into 2024 in exchange for spending caps and policy changes. Biden has said he would veto that Republican measure.
In the Senate, which is controlled by majority Democrats, the Republican leader Mitch McConnell has taken a backseat publicly, and is pushing Biden to strike a deal directly with McCarthy.
McConnell blamed Biden for having "waited months before agreeing to negotiate" with the speaker.
"They are the only two who can reach an agreement," McConnell said in a tweet. "It is past time for the White House to get serious. Time is of the essence."
Democrats are wary of any deal with Republicans, and particularly refuse the Republican proposal to protect defense and veterans accounts from spending caps, arguing that the cuts will fall too heavily on other domestic programs.
Republicans also want to impose stricter work requirements on government aid recipients. Biden has suggested he might be open to considering it, but Democrats in Congress have said is a nonstarter. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/05/19/gop-debt-limit-pause-negotiations | 2023-05-19 16:55:54 | 0 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/05/19/gop-debt-limit-pause-negotiations |
The New York Yankees face the New York Mets in a regular season game on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 (6/14/23) at Citi Field in Queens, New York.
HOW TO WATCH: Fans can watch the game via a free trial to fuboTV or via a subscription to Sling, which is offering 50% off your first month. Both streaming services carry ESPN.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: MLB regular season
Who: Yankees vs. Mets
When: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Where: Citi Field
Time: 7:10 p.m. ET
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Mets start 2-game series with the Yankees
New York Yankees (38-29, third in the AL East) vs. New York Mets (31-35, fourth in the NL East)
New York; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Luis Severino (0-1, 5.75 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 18 strikeouts); Mets: Max Scherzer (5-2, 3.71 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 58 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Mets -148, Yankees +127; over/under is 7 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets begin a two-game series at home against the New York Yankees on Tuesday.
New York has gone 15-12 in home games and 31-35 overall. The Mets have gone 18-33 in games when they have allowed a home run.
New York has a 38-29 record overall and a 17-12 record in road games. The Yankees are 25-10 in games when they record at least eight hits.
Tuesday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Francisco Lindor has 16 doubles and 12 home runs while hitting .216 for the Mets. Francisco Alvarez is 5-for-36 with four home runs over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 2-8, .204 batting average, 5.12 ERA, outscored by 15 runs
Yankees: 4-6, .172 batting average, 2.70 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs
INJURIES: Mets: Pete Alonso: 10-Day IL (wrist), Tim Locastro: 60-Day IL (back), Elieser Hernandez: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Edwin Uceta: 15-Day IL (ankle), Stephen Ridings: 60-Day IL (lat), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (rib), Sam Coonrod: 60-Day IL (lat), Bryce Montes de Oca: 60-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Diaz: 60-Day IL (knee)
Yankees: Nestor Cortes Jr.: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Weber: 60-Day IL (forearm), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (toe), Greg Allen: 10-Day IL (hip), Carlos Rodon: 60-Day IL (forearm), Harrison Bader: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ian Hamilton: 15-Day IL (groin), Jonathan Loaisiga: 60-Day IL (elbow), Lou Trivino: 60-Day IL (elbow), Frankie Montas: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Luis Gil: 60-Day IL (elbow), Scott Effross: 60-Day IL (elbow)
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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Bank's Veterans Business Resource Group provides display area and commemorative ribbons for associates to wear based on their relationship with a veteran
Associates honor veterans by sharing their military experience and gratitude with a special video thanking veterans for their service
River Market building to be illuminated with red, white and blue lights on Veterans Day
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To commemorate Veterans Day, Simmons Bank is honoring the brave men and women who serve or have served our country's military through a series of events designed to recognize their service and sacrifice to protect our freedom. In addition to this year's events, year-round we continue to work across our footprint with community partners to actively recruit veterans to join the Simmons Bank team, while offering an array of military benefits including supplemental pay during military leave and paid military family leave.
"Simmons Bank and our associates are proud to recognize and show our appreciation for veterans and active members of our armed forces throughout the year, especially on Veterans Day when we celebrate those who have protected our freedom," said Jena Compton, EVP, chief people officer at Simmons Bank. "The men and women who serve in the military develop an array of leadership skills including passion, commitment, high performance and teamwork. These values resonate with our Cultural Cornerstones that guide us in our efforts in being a great place to work."
Celebrating Veterans at Simmons Bank
At the beginning of 2022, Simmons Bank launched Business Resource Groups to support associates in an inclusive workplace environment and to provide a forum for colleagues to come together for networking, mentoring and career development. The mission of the Veterans Business Resource Group is to build awareness and provide resources to veterans, their families, and friends of veterans as well as bringing together members of the Simmons community in a supportive environment in furtherance of Simmons' commitment to being Better Together.
This year, the Veterans Business Resource Group created an interactive way for associates to honor our veterans by wearing a ribbon according to their relationship with a veteran the week leading up to Veterans Day. Red ribbons indicate a team member is a veteran, white ribbons indicate an associate is a family member of a veteran and blue ribbons indicated you were the spouse, son or daughter of a veteran.
During the week of Veterans Day, Simmons associates also created a wall mounted display for associates to place photos of their family members who served in the military. Simmons Bank associates shared their personal stories of serving in the armed services while bank associates shared their gratitude to those who have served in a special Veterans Day video. In addition, Simmons hosted a luncheon to honor our veteran and military in Central Arkansas. The Simmons Bank River Market building will be illuminated in red, white and blue in honor of Veterans Day on Nov. 11.
The recognition of veterans is part of a year-round focus at Simmons Bank to honor those who have served in the military.
Memorial Day
Ahead of Memorial Day this year, the Missing Man table was on display in the River Market regional office in Little Rock. The Missing Man table serves as a reminder of fallen, missing or imprisoned U.S. Military Service Members. The table is set with a single place setting to remember those who are absent and cannot attend a meal because of POW or MIA status.
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium and Gold Star Families
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium and the City of Memphis celebrated $2 million in facility improvements to the stadium. The stadium serves as a tribute to the veterans of World War I, World War II and the Korean War. In 2021, Simmons Bank associates honored veterans and their families at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl with a tailgate and free tickets to the Liberty Bowl.
Simmons Bank also donated $110,000 commitment to the Woody Williams Foundation, a charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to raising public awareness to honor, recognize and serve Gold Star Families members and relatives whose loved one made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting our freedom. The donation supports the construction and endowment of the Liberty Park Gold Star Families Memorial Monument in Memphis, Tenn.
Simmons Bank Field at War Memorial Stadium
In partnership with the War Memorial Stadium Commission and the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, Simmons Bank acquired the naming rights to the filed at War Memorial Stadium. The stadium was built in 1948 and serves as a tribute to Arkansans who gave their lives in service to their country during World War I and World War II.
Simmons Bank Open to Honor Veterans
In October, the Korn Ferry Tour released its 2023 line-up and officially announced that the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation will be one of four events making up the expanded Korn Ferry Tour Finals in September next season. The event will take place at The Grove Club in College Grove, Tenn. from September 14-17. Veterans will be honored during the week of the Simons Bank Open.
First Anniversary of the Sergeant Elga Lee Roberts Veterans Center
November 10 marks one year since the grand opening of the Sergeant Elga Lee Roberts Veterans Center in Pine Bluff, Ark., which provides Jefferson County's more than 3800 veterans greater access to inpatient and outpatient care through the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare system. Simmons Bank donated $1 million to support the constriction of the center and the Dr. Josetta Wilkins Jefferson County Health Unit.
About Simmons Bank
Simmons Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ: SFNC), a Mid-South based financial holding company that has paid cash dividends for 113 consecutive years. Simmons Bank operates more than 230 branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Founded in 1903, Simmons Bank offers comprehensive financial solutions delivered with a client-centric approach. In 2022, Simmons Bank was named to Forbes list of "America's Best Banks" for the second consecutive year and to Forbes list of "World's Best Banks" for the third consecutive year. Additional information about Simmons Bank can be found on our website at simmonsbank.com, by following @Simmons_Bank on Twitter or by visiting our newsroom.
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LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties
NEW YORK (AP) — The start of June marks the beginning of Pride month around the U.S. and some parts of the world, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities and to protest against attacks on hard-won civil rights gains.
This year’s Pride takes place in a contentious political climate in which some state legislators have sought to ban drag shows, prohibit gender-affirming care and limit how teachers can talk about sexuality and gender in the classroom.
Events have been disrupted. Performers have been harassed. And in Colorado in November, five people were killed and several injured when a gunman shot them inside a gay nightclub.
“What we’re seeing right now is probably the worst that it’s been since the early days, in terms of the demonization of our communities,” said Jay W. Walker, one of the co-founders of the Reclaim Pride Coalition, a New York City-based group.
But that won’t stop people from coming out to mark Pride this month, he said.
“You can’t keep our communities down. No one can. It’s basic human rights,” Walker said.
HOW IT STARTED
June has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement since New York City’s first Pride march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day” march — on June 28, 1970.
That event marked an act of defiance from the year before, a 1969 uprising at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the gay bar, a crowd partly led by trans women of color channeled their anger to confront authorities. It was a catalyst to what became a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights.
For more than a half-century, the annual marches have been an opportunity to demand action on specific issues such as the AIDS epidemic and same-sex marriage while also serving as a public celebration.
HOW IT’S GOING
These days, Pride celebrations and events can be found all over the country.
Many of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Minneapolis — hold their main marches on the last weekend of June, while some cities host their events throughout the month or even at other times of the year.
Along with the marches, Pride organizers fill the month of June with events ranging from readings and performances to parties and street festivals.
In Florida this weekend, Orlando-area theme parks and hotels will play host to annual Gay Days events, which are going ahead even after Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators passed a series of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, some of which barred classroom discussion of sexual orientation.
Pride events are happening globally as well, drawing major crowds in places including Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, Madrid and Toronto.
At some past events, there have been concerns about commercialism and corporate presence that overshadow real issues that are still unresolved. In New York City for the past few years, there has been a second event on the same day of the larger Pride march. The Reclaim Pride Coalition says their event hearkens back to the spirit of protest that animated Stonewall.
The New York City Dyke March channels the idea that Pride is about protest, not just parades.
WHAT ARE THE FLASHPOINTS?
Pride parades had plenty to celebrate in recent years, such as in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
But the last several years have been more difficult; Pride events were restricted during the pandemic, and when they returned to in-person last year, it was with a sense of urgency, given the rise of hateful rhetoric and anti-LGBTQ legislative action.
Around the country, at least 17 states have put restrictions or bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors, and transgender athletes are facing restrictions at schools in at least 20 states.
“This is a year where sentiment is going to be revolving around resistance and about finding strength and community and centering our joy and our right to exist and our right to be here,” said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign organization.
LGBTQ+ communities, Oakley said, need to “commit ourselves to continued resistance against the forces that are trying to prevent us from being our full, joyful, happy, thriving selves. ... And band together and fight back against the very oppressive forces that are coming for us.”
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Robert Austin Wynns Player Prop Bets: Rockies vs. Nationals - July 26
Published: Jul. 26, 2023 at 10:40 AM CDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
The Colorado Rockies, including Robert Austin Wynns and his .450 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including two extra-base hits but no homers), battle starting pitcher Jake Irvin and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, Wednesday at 12:05 PM ET.
In his last game, he went 1-for-3 with a double against the Marlins.
Robert Austin Wynns Game Info & Props vs. the Nationals
- Game Day: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Game Time: 12:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Nationals Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Nationals Starter: Jake Irvin
- TV Channel: MASN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -154)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +825)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +250)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Robert Austin Wynns At The Plate
- Wynns has three doubles, a home run and five walks while hitting .210.
- Wynns has a base hit in 13 of 24 games played this season (54.2%), but no multi-hit games.
- He has gone deep in only one game this season.
- In five games this season (20.8%), Wynns has picked up an RBI, including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- He has scored in five of 24 games so far this season.
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Robert Austin Wynns Home/Away Batting Splits
Nationals Pitching Rankings
- The 7.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Nationals pitching staff ranks 29th in MLB.
- The Nationals have the 27th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.97).
- Nationals pitchers combine to give up the third-most home runs in baseball (142 total, 1.4 per game).
- Irvin makes the start for the Nationals, his 15th of the season. He is 3-5 with a 5.00 ERA and 53 strikeouts through 68 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Friday, the righty threw 6 2/3 innings against the San Francisco Giants, giving up three earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- In 14 games this season, the 26-year-old has a 5.00 ERA and 7 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .261 to his opponents.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” has long been said to be “unfilmable.” But Noah Baumbach’s energetic movie, streaming Friday on Netflix, makes a spirited argument for its adaptation. In Baumbach’s “White Noise,” Adam Driver stars as Jack Gladney, a college professor with a teeming suburban family (Greta Gerwig co-stars as his wife, Babette). When an “airborne toxic event” consumes their town and sends residents fleeing, a new fear of death pierces Jack’s middle-class existence. In my review, I praised the film’s “giddy gloom” and wholehearted embrace of the book’s dizzying, dense intensity. Be sure to stay for the LCD Soundsystem-soundtracked supermarket dance finale.
— For some, New Year’s Eve was made for movie nights. And to ring in the new year, Turner Classic Movies is programming a festive run of the beloved, martini-swilling detectives Nick and Nora Charles. Beginning at 8 p.m. EST on Saturday, TCM will run a minimarathon of 1934’s “The Thin Man,” 1936’s “After the Thin Man” and 1939’s “Another Thin Man.” As the sophisticated husband-and-wife murder-solving team, William Powell and Myrna Loy remain delightfully fizzy company to cheers with.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
MUSIC
— It’s the number one movie in the land so it makes sense it should be something you’re also listening to. The 22-track soundtrack for “Avatar: The Way of Water” includes the original song “Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” written and performed by The Weeknd, and “The Songcord,” performed by star Zoë Saldana. The soundtrack is by Grammy Award-winning composer Simon Franglen, who worked with composer James Horner on the original “Avatar” film and picked up where Horner left off following his 2015 death. For super-fans, there’s also a new release — “Avatar: The Way of Water (Original Score)” — that includes 11 additional score cues from the film not available on the soundtrack.
— 21 Savage is the final performer for the 2022 season of Amazon Music Live. Streaming live on Thursday night and hosted by hip-hop star 2 Chainz, the new weekly concert series has featured some of the hottest musical acts, like A$AP Rocky, Anitta, Lil Baby, Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Wayne and Kane Brown. 21 Savage’s concert is expected to include cuts from “Her Loss,” his collaborative album with Drake.
— Some Broadway royalty — including Christopher Jackson, Mandy Gonzalez and Joaquina Kalukango — are part of the third annual national PBS concert, “United in Song” alongside Grammy-winning singer Renée Fleming. The special also features Natalie Grant, Matt Doyle, Brett Young and more with the American Pops Orchestra as well as a newly commissioned performance by New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck and soloist Roman Mejia. The special premieres Saturday on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS Video App.
TELEVISION
— CBS will air the 45th annual Kennedy Center Honors, which this year recognized actor George Clooney, the band U2, singers Gladys Knight and Amy Grant and composer Tania León. The Kennedy Center Honors is a lifetime achievement award given to performers for their impact on American culture through the arts. The event was filmed in early December and presenter Julia Roberts wore a custom dress featuring prints of various photos of her good pal Clooney. The Kennedy Center Honors show broadcasts Wednesday night.
— The long-running, feel-good British series “Call the Midwife” premiered its annual Christmas-themed episode this past Sunday on PBS. “Call the Midwife” follows a group of midwives and nuns in east London. Although it takes place in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the series tackles important subjects including infertility, racism, and unwanted pregnancies. “Call the Midwife” is based on a memoir by Jennifer Worth and is narrated by Vanessa Redgrave. Season 12 debuts in March on PBS.
— Alicia Rancilio
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12 hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning in Chicago church
Published: Dec. 5, 2022 at 8:57 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
CHICAGO (WBBM) - The Chicago Fire Department responded to a Level 1 hazmat situation inside a church on the city’s South Side on Sunday morning.
The leak happened around noon at the New Philadelphia Church Baptist.
Fire officials said 12 people were taken to hospitals in good condition.
A gas company is investigating the cause of the leak.
No further information was immediately available.
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Kulwinder Singh Soni’s voice quavered as he recounted the day in March 2020 when an Islamic State gunman burst into a Sikh gurdwara’s prayer hall in Kabul, hurling grenades and firing assault rifles. Among the 25 people killed were Soni’s father, sister-in-law and 4-year-old niece.
Police later warned the family not to attend their funerals because terrorists had planted land mines outside the temple. They were ultimately able to attend, but only after officers did a sweep and cleared them to enter the shrine.
“That’s when we decided we needed to leave Afghanistan,” Soni said. “There was absolutely no future for our family in that country.”
After a two-year struggle to make an exit, including nearly a year under restored rule of the fundamentalist Taliban group, Soni and 12 family members including his mother, siblings, nieces and nephews, arrived in the United States last month.
They are settling in Hicksville, on New York’s Long Island, a community that has come to be a growing refuge for not only Afghan Sikhs but also Hindus, both of them religious minorities that have increasingly suffered discrimination and persecution in their home country.
Sikhs and Hindus make up only a tiny fraction of the population of Afghanistan, which is almost entirely Muslim. Under the Taliban in the late 1990s, they were asked to identify themselves by wearing yellow armbands or badges, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, and in recent years they have been repeatedly targeted by extremists.
In July 2018 an ISIS suicide bomber ambushed a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus as they were on their way to meet President Ashraf Ghani in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing 19. On June 16 of this year, an ISIS gunman attacked a gurdwara, or house of worship, in Kabul, killing one worshipper and wounding seven others. Sikhs have also faced challenges with cremating their dead, which they consider a sacred belief but Islam views as sacrilegious.
As the Aug. 30 one-year anniversary of U.S. forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, a recent report by the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom warns of “a rapid decline and near extinction of the already small Afghan Hindu and Sikh communities” in Afghanistan, in addition to persecution of other religious minorities.
In October 2021, the report says, the Sikh community shared videos of alleged Taliban members vandalizing and ransacking their gurdwara in the neighborhood of Karte Parwan, which is home to the remaining 100 or fewer Sikhs and Hindus in Kabul.
Soni, now 27, still has fresh memories of the 2020 gurdwara attack that ultimately drove the family from the country. When the assailants stormed the prayer hall early that morning, he was in the next room at the Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib, where his father was the chief granthi, or ceremonial reader of the Sikh sacred text.
He saw men running into the temple with shoes, something that is prohibited. As he darted out to stop them, Soni spotted the bodies of a security guard and a teen in a pool of blood right where devotees usually washed their feet before entering. He retreated with two siblings to a room, where they locked the door and hunkered down for several hours.
When the siege ended, Afghan special forces had killed the assailants and rescued at least 80 worshippers. Soni rushed to the prayer hall, where he found his three relatives dead and his mother and older brother wounded.
“My mom told me (the gunman) kept shooting and throwing bombs even as people tried to hide,” Soni said. “My brother heard his daughter’s voice calling out to him to help her. He was helpless.”
In late August of last year, after the Taliban took over Kabul, Soni, one of the few English speakers in his community, assumed the role of a spokesperson and negotiator working to secure their exit from Kabul. He tried to talk the Canadian government into evacuating about 250 Sikhs and Hindus, including his family.
After an ISIS suicide bombing at the airport scuttled that plan and fears escalated under Taliban rule, the women and children in Soni’s family moved to New Delhi and the men shuttled between India and Kabul to care for their sacred shrine. It then took months of struggle and daily communication between the U.S. State Department; the Sikh Coalition, a Sikh American advocacy group; and Afghan Sikhs in Hicksville to get the entire family of 13 to the U.S.
Paramjit Singh Bedi, a longtime community leader who moved to the United States in 1984 and was instrumental in bringing them over, is now hoping to help them get housing, work permits and medical insurance, and the children enrolled in school.
“This family has been through a lot,” Bedi said. “But we are a resilient people and we are strong and steadfast in our faith. I know they will be OK.”
Bedi has advocated for the permanent resettlement of the Afghan Sikh community here, and estimates there are about 200 of them living on Long Island.
There are also about 800 Afghan Hindus in the area, according to Doulat Radhu Bathija, a leader of that community.
Back in Afghanistan, gurdwaras and temples always stood side by side, and Bathija is thrilled that is also the case thousands of miles away on Long Island; in Hicksville, the Guru Nanak Darbar gurdwara is located right next to the Asa’Mai Hindu Temple.
Bathija said he sees the Hindu and Sikh communities as “the same,” and they visit each other’s places of worship and celebrate together Diwali, the festival of lights.
“We get together for weddings and funerals,” he said, “like a family.”
Sikhs and Hindus are not recent migrants to Afghanistan but have hundreds of years of history there. Sikh texts speak of a time when Guru Nanak, the religion’s founder, visited Afghanistan in the 1500s. Yet they are often viewed as infidels, said Jagbir Jhutti-Johal, a professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Women, in particular, have been subjected to severe restrictions under the Taliban.
While as recently as the 1970s there were about 200,000 Sikhs in Afghanistan, Jhutti-Johal anticipates that by the end of this year there may be none left. Over the years, most have moved to India or the West.
Jhutti-Johal believes the West may be the best home for these communities since their Afghan ethnic identity and meager social services in India make things more complicated there.
“They are also going to need access to mental health services after everything they have been through,” she said.
Soni’s family is now trying to win formal asylum in the U.S., and supporters say they have a strong case.
“There is an overwhelming and compelling amount of evidence for how this family experienced religious persecution in Afghanistan because they are Sikhs,” said Mark Reading-Smith, senior managing director of programs for the Sikh Coalition. “They’ve lost more than we can ever imagine.”
The family is slowly recovering. But Soni said he’s not even sure what “normal” life looks like, having grown up bullied and beaten in school and on the street for being Sikh. By comparison, Long Island feels a lot more welcoming.
Soni has been praying at the gurdwara. He loves seeing his little nieces and nephews smile. And his mother does not panic anymore whenever he leaves home.
“She now tells us to go out and enjoy life,” Soni said. “Here, I think, we have the opportunity to become who we want to become.”
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson squeaks through confidence vote but faces battle for survival
By Tara John, Ivana Kottasová, Rob Picheta and Luke McGee, CNN
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a confidence vote by members of his own party — but the final count of lawmakers who rebelled against him was far higher than his supporters expected.
After a tidal wave of recent criticism — which included illegal, lockdown-breaking parties thrown in his Downing Street offices — Johnson squeaked by with 211 votes to 148 in a secret ballot on Monday.
The government hailed the result, with Johnson saying he thought “this is a very good result for politics and for the country.”
“I think it’s a convincing result, a decisive result, and what it means is that as a government we can move on and focus on the stuff that really matters to people,” Johnson said.
Yet his thin margin of victory means that 41% of his own parliamentary party refused to back Johnson, three years after he led the Conservative Party to a landslide victory in the last general election.
Voting began at 6 p.m. (1 p.m. ET) Monday after Johnson urged Conservative lawmakers to back him and reminded them that he had led the party to its biggest electoral win in 40 years, according to a letter he wrote seen by PA Media.
The large rebellion by his lawmakers will leave Johnson’s reputation diminished and could damage his ability to push through legislation. Disappointing results for the party in upcoming polls could also heap more pressure on Johnson, as Conservatives face two difficult parliamentary by-elections in late June.
Despite the victory, the opposition Labour Party has said that by hanging onto power this time, Johnson makes the prospect of an early election even more likely. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer predicted to LBC that Monday’s vote would mark “the beginning of the end” of the Prime Minister’s political career — no matter which way the vote went.
“If you look at the previous examples of no confidence votes, even when Conservative Prime Ministers survive those … the damage is already done,” the opposition leader told LBC Monday. “Usually, they fall reasonably swiftly afterwards.”
Following the vote, Starmer said Johnson was “utterly unfit for the great office he holds” and accused Conservative lawmakers of ignoring the British public. “The Conservative Government now believes that breaking the law is no impediment to making the law.”
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called Johnson an “utterly lame duck” on Twitter following the vote.
“That result is surely the worst of all worlds for the Tories. But much more importantly: at a time of huge challenge, it saddles the UK with an utterly lame duck PM,” Sturgeon said in a tweet on Monday night.
Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May was the last sitting British leader to face a no-confidence vote from their own party. May narrowly survived that vote, which had been called amid months of chaos over her doomed Brexit deal — but she ultimately resigned months later.
Monday’s vote was triggered after more than 54 lawmakers sent letters to the chair of the Tory backbench 1922 committee, following a tidal wave of criticism over a number of scandals that have engulfed Johnson’s premiership for several months.
Last month, a damning report by a senior civil servant found a culture of partying and socializing among Johnson’s staff during Covid-19 lockdown, while millions of Britons were banned from seeing their friends and relatives.
The so-called Partygate scandal plunged his approval ratings and sparked a drumbeat of dissatisfaction among several of his backbenchers. But Johnson has also been criticized for his response to a cost-of-living crisis, and his party suffered heavy losses at local elections in May.
Under Conservative party rules — which can be changed at any time — a leader who survives a confidence vote is safe from such a challenge for 12 months.
But with only 58.6% of Conservative MPs backing Johnson on Monday, the Prime Minister suffered a worse result than his predecessor May, who had the support of 63% of her lawmakers in a much smaller parliamentary party when she faced a confidence vote in 2018.
Despite the worse performance, Johnson insisted it was an “extremely good” result, saying he was not interested in a snap election to gain a new mandate from the public.
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Louisiana vs. JMU Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - February 9
Published: Feb. 9, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST|Updated: 3 hours ago
Thursday's game features the James Madison Dukes (18-6) and the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (14-10) clashing at Atlantic Union Bank Center in what is expected to be a tight matchup, with a projected 64-62 victory for JMU according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 7:00 PM ET on February 9.
The Ragin' Cajuns are coming off of an 81-80 loss to Troy in their last outing on Saturday.
Louisiana vs. JMU Game Info
- When: Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Atlantic Union Bank Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Louisiana vs. JMU Score Prediction
- Prediction: JMU 64, Louisiana 63
Louisiana Schedule Analysis
- In their signature win of the season, which took place on November 7, the Ragin' Cajuns took down the Houston Cougars (No. 76 in our computer rankings) by a score of 55-48.
Louisiana 2022-23 Best Wins
- 61-51 at home over Old Dominion (No. 90) on January 19
- 60-59 on the road over North Texas (No. 112) on November 25
- 68-58 on the road over Georgia Southern (No. 191) on January 26
- 65-51 on the road over Appalachian State (No. 211) on January 28
- 54-38 over Abilene Christian (No. 213) on November 27
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Louisiana Performance Insights
- The Ragin' Cajuns have a +23 scoring differential, putting up 58.8 points per game (298th in college basketball) and conceding 57.8 (42nd in college basketball).
- In conference play, Louisiana is averaging more points (63.2 per game) than it is overall (58.8) in 2022-23.
- At home the Ragin' Cajuns are scoring 62.6 points per game, 4.7 more than they are averaging on the road (57.9).
- At home Louisiana is giving up 53.7 points per game, 8.7 fewer points than it is on the road (62.4).
- In their last 10 games, the Ragin' Cajuns are scoring 64.7 points per game, 5.9 more than their season average (58.8).
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LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man who pointed a crossbow at them over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
Deputies responded around 1 p.m. Sunday following reports of a suicidal man with a knife outside a business in Lancaster, according to a sheriff's department statement.
“The suspect had a knife in hand and refused the deputies’ orders to drop the weapon. Less lethal weapons were deployed but had minimal effect,” the statement said.
Deputies opened fire when the man removed a crossbow with a pistol grip from a backpack and pointed it at them, officials said.
The man, who was not immediately identified, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
No deputies were hurt. A knife and crossbow were recovered at the scene, the statement said. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Man-with-crossbow-shot-by-deputies-sheriff-s-17223294.php | 2022-06-06 21:59:22 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Man-with-crossbow-shot-by-deputies-sheriff-s-17223294.php |
Overall sensitivity of early cancer detection for novel blood-based assay was 82% at 95% specificity; specific cancer detection rates include colorectal (96%), lung (85%), prostate (82%) and breast (73%)
Results, which demonstrate the potential of Harbinger's biology-informed, AI-driven approach, currently being validated in 10,000-subject CORE-HH clinical trial with the Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Findings published in the 2023 ASCO Annua Meeting Proceedings, a Journal of Clinical Oncology supplement
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbinger Health, a biotechnology company pioneering the detection of early cancer, announced today data demonstrating the company's biology-informed, AI-driven platform, HarbingerHx, has the potential for highly sensitive multi-cancer diagnostic accuracy and specifically those with early stage cancer. The abstract, "Novel blood-based assay for detection of early stage multi-cancer," was published in the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting Proceedings, a Journal of Clinical Oncology supplement, as part of the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting held virtually and in Chicago, Illinois from June 2-6, 2023.
"At Harbinger, we know that early detection is the first line of defense against cancer," said Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., CEO of Harbinger Health. "These data gave us the conviction in our platform to form the company and go after the big unsolved problem of accurate, informative early-stage cancer screening. We believe we can advance the universally shared goal of reducing cancer mortality with our blood-based test that combines recent genomic and epigenomic discoveries of early cancer with biology-informed artificial intelligence. This is the next step in advanced cancer care."
Abstract Details and Findings
Harbinger generated data from 1,046 subjects, 621 with newly diagnosed, treatment-naive cancer across 15 different types, and 425 individuals with no history, diagnosis, or cancer symptoms. Using this sample cohort, the Company developed and applied a rigorous framework for predicting the likelihood of cancer using a multi-layered logistic regression-based machine learning algorithm, generating final outputs of binary classification (cancer yes/no).
Overall sensitivity of cancer detection was 82% (95% confidence interval (CI): 72.7-91.0%) at 95% specificity. Notably, the sensitivity was 74% (95% CI: 54.8-92.7%) for stage 1 and 84% (95% CI: 65.3-100%) for stage 2. Furthermore, the Company was able to correctly predict cancer in 95% of patient samples with at least 0.037% tumor fraction. Overall sensitivity for high incident cancers were breast (73%), prostate (82%), lung (85%), and colorectal (96%) at 95% specificity and the overall accuracy of tissue of origin prediction was 86% when the tumor fraction was greater than 0.1% in the top 3 most prevalent cancer types (breast, colorectal and lung). Importantly, technical variability was introduced when performing assay optimization strategies, yet comparable performance was observed when assessing subsets of stably processed samples, indicating robust performance.
"Unlike statistical approaches to identify informative biomarkers, Harbinger's approach is informed by insights into specific biological events early during tumorigenesis, allowing cancer detection in patients with very low levels of circulating tumor DNA," said Professor Franziska Michor, Ph.D., abstract author, scientific advisor and co-founder of Harbinger Health, and Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Data Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. "We are pleased to share this data and look forward to sharing further updates as we progress our CORE-HH clinical trial."
Harbinger's platform is now being validated in a 10,000-subject clinical trial, Cancer Origin Epigenetics – Harbinger Health (CORE-HH, NCT05435066), in conjunction with the Sarah Cannon Research Institute. Currently on target to complete enrollment by year end, the CORE-HH study is designed to enroll a diverse and representative population with and without cancer at up to 40 U.S. sites.
About Harbinger Health
Harbinger Health is pioneering the detection of early cancer and enabling foundationally new approaches to cancer screening, diagnosis and management. The company combines advances in artificial intelligence with proprietary insights into the biology of the beginnings of cancer to identify cancer before it is visible or symptomatic with the aim of developing a low-cost, multi-cancer blood test. Harbinger envisions a future where, instead of keeping cancer from spreading, it could be kept from forming, making a cancer diagnosis a routine health problem to be addressed rather than a life-altering event to be feared with profound implications for people, healthcare systems and societies. Harbinger was founded by Flagship Pioneering after three years of foundational research in its Labs unit and launched in 2020. Learn more about Harbinger by visiting Harbinger-Health.com or following us on Twitter (@harbingerhlth) and LinkedIn.
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An extremist rebel group killed at least 12 people in the northeast of Congo, a local civil society organization said Saturday.
The New Congolese Civil Society organization, or NSCC, said the victims were shot dead by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, a shadowy Islamic State group affiliate that has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern Congo, following a skirmish with a local armed militia.
Conflict in eastern Congo has gone on for decades as myriad armed groups fight for control of valuable mineral resources. There are frequent mass killings, and the violence has triggered an exodus of refugees.
Farmers in nearby villages discovered the bloodied corpses of 12 people in the bush early Friday as they left to work in their fields. John Vuleverio, coordinator of the NSCC, reported that the death toll was still provisional as the search for other bodies continued in the area.
Col. Jean-Baptiste Munyampazi, the administrator of the territory where the bodies were found, declined to provide an official death toll, indicating that government soldiers stationed in the area were actively tracking down the alleged perpetrators.
In June, the ADF is suspected to have killed at least 41 people — most of them students — in a brutal attack on a school in Uganda, near the border with Congo. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-12-killed-in-a-suspected-rebel-attack-in-the-northeast-of-congo-a-civil-society-organizations-says/ | 2023-07-16 13:34:57 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-12-killed-in-a-suspected-rebel-attack-in-the-northeast-of-congo-a-civil-society-organizations-says/ |
New CONNECT integrations create unprecedented visibility into the true value marketing provides
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, today announced a new suite of native, easy-to-deploy integrations for its marketing performance management (MPM) solution. This announcement comes on the heels of Planful's recent acquisition of Plannuh, a leading MPM SaaS vendor. The new CONNECT integrations allow marketers to pull in expense and performance data into MPM from other systems for better visibility into goal achievement and improved decision making based on return on investment (ROI).
CONNECT integrations empower marketing teams to reliably and consistently measure the true business value of marketing campaigns and plans. Now, marketers have the ability to natively integrate with popular CRMs and ad networks, such as Salesforce, Facebook, Google Adwords, and LinkedIn. Marketers can instantly integrate digital ad spend and campaign metrics to gain a deeper understanding of marketing performance and collaborate with the Office of the CFO to define the strategic business value of marketing efforts.
Planful has also added Universal CONNECT to its MPM solution, enabling marketers to leverage their finance team's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, the source of truth for spending, without introducing extra manual work. With MPM's automated expense creation solution, marketing teams get visibility into a real time view of spending in context with their budget and performance to avoid month-end surprises such as finishing over or under budget.
"We are excited to offer this suite of integrations to customers looking to streamline the way marketers create and execute plans, manage budgets, and track performance," said Peter Mahoney, General Manager of Marketing Performance Management, Planful (former CEO of Plannuh). "The entire marketing team, especially CMOs and marketing operations professionals, require a collaborative application that is purpose-built for proving and improving the business value of their marketing."
- True business value calculation in finance-friendly language for a consistent and common approach to calculating key business metrics, such as cost-per-outcome (CPO), ROI, and lifetime value (LTV) over time and across campaign types for better decision making and plan optimization
- Visibility enables agility by giving marketers early and clear insights into campaign performance and spend effectiveness, enabling them to swiftly reevaluate underperforming campaigns, reinforce top-performing programs, and rebalance plans and budgets
- Automated marketing budget management tools to automatically pull marketing advertising campaign spend data from leading ad networks, such as Google Adwords, LinkedIn, and Facebook
- Easy set-up with just a few clicks to integrate with leading CRM solutions, like Salesforce, and popular ad networks, such as Google Adwords, LinkedIn, and Facebook
"Making it seamless and easy to gain visibility into spend and performance, along with bringing deep financial intelligence, was a key part of bringing Plannuh and Planful together–these integrations make that even easier," said Grant Halloran, Planful Chief Executive Officer. "Marketers now have more ways to prove the impact of their marketing and drive more opportunities for business growth, while increasing visibility and collaboration with their finance colleagues."
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Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,300 customers, including 23andMe, Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys and Zappos, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.
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DENVER (AP) — A judge has postponed a Republican-backed recall campaign against Kevin Priola, a Colorado state senator who recently switched parties to Democrat, ruling the effort should be conducted after Priola is sworn in in January to represent a new district created by redistricting.
The ruling temporarily enhances Democrats' prospects of retaining a majority in the state Senate, where they hold a 21-14 advantage, after the Nov. 8 midterm elections. The party holds a larger majority in the House as well as all top statewide offices, including the governorship.
Recall leaders vowed Tuesday to appeal the ruling, which would likely force them to discard more than 15,000 voter signatures they say they've collected to force a recall in the new suburban Denver district that's more favorable to Republicans.
Denver District Court Judge Marie Avery Moses ruled Monday that recall supporters must wait until Jan. 9, when Colorado's 2023 Legislature convenes and Priola is sworn in, to collect signatures in the district, The Colorado Sun reports.
Moses ruled the secretary of state's office erred in approving the recall campaign beforehand. Petitioners had until Nov. 8 to collect enough signatures to force an eventual recall vote, possibly in January.
Priola infuriated Republicans when he announced his party switch in August, saying he was disgusted by the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and what he called his party's refusal to repudiate assertions that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Those assertions have repeatedly been proven false.
Priola also rebuked what he called the GOP’s refusal to take climate change seriously.
A Democrat-backed committee created to fight the recall sued to challenge the secretary of state's ruling.
The secretary of state's office said Tuesday it was reviewing Moses' ruling.
But Michael Fields, who heads the recall committee and is president of the conservative group Advance Colorado Institute, vowed to appeal and said the current effort will continue to collect at least 18,000 valid signatures needed to force a recall.
“Coloradans have a constitutional right to recall our elected officials,” Fields said in a statement.
Senate President Steve Fenberg said that allowing the recall campaign to continue "would have created a cascade of ridiculous recall efforts every redistricting cycle.”
Priola is in his second term as a state senator and is not up for reelection in November. The campaign needs signatures equal to at least 25% of the number of votes cast in the district in the last election to force a vote. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Judge-delays-Colorado-recall-effort-for-senator-17501857.php | 2022-10-11 18:26:12 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Judge-delays-Colorado-recall-effort-for-senator-17501857.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers player Steve Sax has issued a statement saying that his 33-year-old son who had always dreamed of being a pilot was among five U.S. Marines killed during a training flight crash earlier this week in the California desert.
Capt. John J. Sax was among the aircrew of an Osprey tiltrotor aircraft that went down during training in a remote area in Imperial County, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) east of San Diego and about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Yuma, Arizona.
“It is with complete devastation that I announce that my precious son, Johnny was one of the five US Marines that perished on Wednesday, June 8, in the Osprey Military crash near San Diego,” Steve Sax said in a statement published Saturday by CBSLA-TV.
“For those of you that knew Johnny, you saw his huge smile, bright light, his love for his family, the Marines, the joy of flying airplanes and defending our country! He was my hero and the best man I know, there was no better person to defend our country.”
The former Dodger said his son had wanted to be a pilot since he was young and would talk about the types of planes that were flying overhead while playing in the outfield in Little League baseball.
“There was never any doubt from a young age that Johnny would be a pilot and his passion was to fly!” the statement said. “This loss will change my life forever and is a loss to not only the Marines but this world!”
Steve Sax played in the Major Leagues from 1981 to 1994, winning two world championships during his seven years as a second-baseman with the Dodgers. Fans, Major League Baseball and the team offered condolences on social media.
“The Los Angeles Dodgers are saddened to hear about the passing of Steve Sax’s son, John, and the five Marines who lost their lives in this week’s tragic helicopter accident. Our thoughts and condolences go out to their families and friends,” the Dodgers said in a tweet Saturday.
John J. Sax is survived by his wife, Amber, who is pregnant with their second child, and their 20-month-old daughter, said Dodgers spokesperson Steve Brener.
Sax, of Placer, California, was one of two pilots killed in the crash, along with Capt. Nicholas P. Losapio, 31, of Rockingham, New Hampshire.
Also killed were three tiltrotor crew chiefs: Cpl. Nathan E. Carlson, 21, of Winnebago, Illinois; Cpl. Seth D. Rasmuson, 21, of Johnson, Wyoming; and Lance Cpl. Evan A. Strickland, 19, of Valencia, New Mexico.
The Marines were based at Camp Pendleton and assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 364 of Marine Aircraft Group 39, part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing headquartered at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.
The Osprey, a hybrid airplane and helicopter, flew in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has been criticized by some as unsafe. It is designed to take off like a helicopter, rotate its propellers to a horizontal position and cruise like an airplane.
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NEW YORK — The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the heart of the TV show “Smash” will make the leap to an actual Broadway stage next season.
Producers said Wednesday that “Smash” is slated for Broadway in the 2024-25 season, welcome news to many of the show's fans and the Broadway community who embraced its look at the inner workings of their industry.
“'Smash' is near and dear to my heart, and it was always my hope that a musical inspired by the show would eventually come to the stage,” said lead producer Steven Spielberg in a statement.
The new book for “Smash” will be co-written Tony-nominated Rick Elice, who penned “Jersey Boys,” and Tony-winner Bob Martin, who won for “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
No casting for the Broadway version was revealed. The series on NBC lasted two seasons starting in 2012 and starred Megan Hilty, Jeremy Jordan, Katharine McPhee, Leslie Odom Jr., Krysta Rodriguez, Christian Borle and Debra Messing. The songs included "“History is Made at Night,” “Let Me Be Your Star” and “Hang the Moon.”
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, who wrote many of the songs for the TV show and whose credits include the Tony-winning score for the 2007 musical “Hairspray,” will continue with the stage adaptation, as will original choreographer Joshua Bergasse, who has gone on to choreograph “On The Town” and “Gigi.”
In the series — created by playwright Theresa Rebeck, who left after the first season — viewers watched the long process of casting, composing, mounting and rehearsing a Broadway-bound musical, “Bombshell.”
In the second season, a gritty, low-tech off-Broadway show called “Hit List” competed with “Bombshell” for the Tony Award. Since “Hit List” songs included writing credits for Drew Gasparini, Joe Iconis, Andrew McMahon, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Lucie Silvas — in addition to Shaiman and Wittman — it seems that the “Hit List” part of the fictional tale will not make it to “Smash” on Broadway.
The new musical will be helmed by five-time Tony-winning director Susan Stroman. Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron join Spielberg as lead producers.
“Ever since the show ended in 2012, not a week goes by that someone doesn’t ask us when will they see Smash as a musical. We think we’ve come up with something the die-hard series fans will love but that will also be exciting for people who never saw an episode of the show," Meron said in a statement. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/once-tv-show-smash-to-make-broadway-bow/507-ef73d9bd-3bb4-49ba-9e9c-57236a0b5851 | 2023-03-22 21:34:16 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/once-tv-show-smash-to-make-broadway-bow/507-ef73d9bd-3bb4-49ba-9e9c-57236a0b5851 |
DELAND, Fla. – A man accused of pulling a gun during a fight at a DeLand high school football game in September has been arrested, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
Jayvion Barthel, 19, was arrested Monday night.
The sheriff’s office said Barthel was wanted by DeLand Police Department after an incident at a DeLand High School football game on Sept. 3 at the school’s stadium.
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As DeLand police tried to break up the fight, they said Barthel pulled a small gun from his sweatshirt and then ran off before he could be taken into custody.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said Barthel tried to conceal himself from deputies before his arrest and tossed a ghost gun with no serial number that had 7 bullets in a 30-round magazine, along with one in the chamber.
Barthel is facing several charges, including possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent, possession of a weapon on school property and carrying a concealed firearm.
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NATO will boost defense spending to help back Ukraine but the math is tricky. Just ask Luxembourg
BRUSSELS (AP) — When it comes to criticizing the NATO members who fail to spend enough on defense, tiny Luxembourg is an easy target.
One of NATO’s richest countries, and routinely ranked at the top of Europe’s economic growth tables, the Grand Duchy currently spends 0.72% of gross domestic product on its armed forces, according to the organization’s estimates for this year.
That puts it at the foot of the 31-nation military alliance’s charts. Still, the numbers are deceiving, and that goes for other members too, like Germany.
Under a pledge made in 2014, after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, NATO allies agreed to halt the spending cuts they made in calmer times after the Cold War ended, boost their national military budgets and move toward spending 2% of GDP on defense by 2024.
With that target date closing in, and the biggest land war in Europe in decades ravaging Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will commit to a new spending goal at their two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius starting on Tuesday.
“At the summit, allies will set a more ambitious defense investment pledge, to invest a minimum of 2% of GDP annually on defense,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. No date will be set for achieving this target.
While the 2% figure remains as a reference point, it’s a slippery metric.
Growth fluctuates in times of economic boom and bust, and inflation can wreak havoc with the bottom line. NATO estimates that Turkey, with one of the organization’s biggest armed forces, will spend just 1.31% of GDP in 2023, compared to 1.91% before the war started.
Nor does big spending equal wise spending. Correct spending levels on paper don’t translate into adequate and well-equipped forces being quickly dispatched to the battlefield and sustained by efficient supply lines.
Nor does 2% have a direct relationship to any real security threat assessment. The goal was established in peacetime. Things have changed, and Luxembourg’s case provides a salutary lesson about what this guideline can hide.
When grilled by U.S. and European lawmakers about budget priorities, Luxembourg Defense Minister François Bausch said last month that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would have to spend four to five times more than they do now to reach 2% if their economic growth matched that of Luxembourg.
The three Baltic States — so geographically close to Russia and Ukraine, and historically aware of the potential threat that their giant neighbor poses – will all spend just above 2% this year, among only 11 nations to attain the goal, according to NATO estimates.
Sandwiched between France and Belgium, Luxembourg has demographic challenges too. Of its roughly 630,000 passport holders, only 315,000 are Luxembourgers. The number of people ranging in age from 18 to 40 — military service age — is smaller still.
Around 1,000 people are enlisted in the country’s army. That’s small compared to the might of some members, but greater per capita than the number serving in the armed forces of the United Kingdom, one of NATO’s most exemplary national forces.
Plus, unemployment is low in Luxembourg. Relatively high-paying jobs abound. Why join up?
“I want to increase the number of troops in the army. We are looking for 200-300 soldiers already, but it’s not easy,” Bausch said.
Beyond that, Luxembourg spent more than 16% of its defense budget on support for Ukraine — a lot of it ammunition — last year. The government isn’t asking for that money to be reimbursed through a special European Union fund set up to refund nations that help Ukraine defend itself.
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel’s government also meets all of NATO’s planning requirement goals.
“We are fulfilling everything that is demanded of us,” Bausch said, and Luxembourg plans to double defense spending by 2028.
Another country that meets NATO’s planning goals is Germany — Europe’s model of fiscal rectitude and routinely flailed by former U.S. President Donald Trump for failing to boost its military budget.
In an abrupt about-face last year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that his government would spend an additional 100 billion euros ($109 billion) on defense, including on the purchase of high-end U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets.
But under NATO’s spending requirements, little if any of that money can yet count toward its 2% target. Equipment orders aren’t enough. Only when contractors are finally paid can the money be added up.
The summit in Vilnius isn’t likely to solve NATO’s perennial budgeting problem, and the U.S. cajoling of allies sometimes suspected in Trump’s day of free-riding on their partners, like Luxembourg and even Germany, is likely to continue.
“We can’t pass legislation requiring people to spend money. We’re an intergovernmental alliance that commits to collective goals,” a senior NATO official said on condition of anonymity to describe the latest thinking on NATO’s defense-spending pledge.
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GRAY, Maine — When Meaghan Martin was scrolling through Facebook earlier this year, she came across a post that stopped her in her tracks.
Martin, who lives in Standish, is a member of several groups on social media dedicated to saving horses around the country from kill pens and being euthanized. She said she instantly recognized the branding, which is essentially the identification number, of one of the horses being shared.
"That number is actually what saved her," Martin said. "I recognized that brand and said 'Oh, that's one of the babies that I worked with.'"
Martin was a teenager when she first met Saxy at a barn she worked at. The pair and their training were even featured together in a 'Young Rider' magazine article. Eventually, Saxy was sold and went on to become a racehorse. She competed at local fairs and Scarborough Downs but, Martin said, she only took home a few thousand dollars in winnings and never really made a name for herself.
Like so many others, when Saxy’s time was up as a competitor, she was sold to an Amish community in Pennsylvania. Martin believes Saxy was involved in a buggy accident that caused major damage and scarring to her neck and, ultimately lead to the decision to have her euthanized.
"I’ve never come across one in this situation," Martin said. "It was always kind of my worst nightmare."
After she came across the post, Martin immediately felt compelled to help bring Saxy back home to Maine. Her close friend, Kendra Gorham, who owns Red Line Farm in Gray felt the same way. She said after two days of staring at Saxy's post on Facebook, she had an idea.
"I just remember sending her [Meaghan] a message that said 'I will feed her, and I will board her, and she can stay here,'" Gorham said. "'I will help you pay her bed bills, and I will go with you. We can't leave her there. She has to come home.'"
The race to save Saxy was on.
Within 48 hours of that message, Martin had received enough money and supplies to bring Saxy back to Maine.
"People donated blankets, people donated brushes, people donated boots for her feet before we had shoes on her to keep her more comfortable," Martin said. "People were so incredibly generous with their energy, with their money, with their things."
When Martin and Gorham finally got to Pennsylvania, they said it didn’t take long for Saxy to recognize her former handler.
"Meaghan walked up to her and she literally just sniffed her and wrapped her head around her," Gorham said. "I started to cry. It was a pretty cool moment."
"I don't know if she remembered me or not. My gut says there's something familiar there for her, and that she recognized me in some way." Martin said.
Once Saxy was loaded into the truck, it was time to come back home to Maine. It was clear the horse was going to need some extra TLC, particularly her hooves. Martin reached out to a trusted farrier. A farrier is a person who trims and shoes horses' hooves.
"They were in a little bit of a rough condition," Daniel Rand, the farrier, said. "She had some road founder, some thin souls. It's painful to walk on, you know. It's like having no skin on the bottom of your feet and then walking across hot tar."
After 15 years apart, Martin and Saxy are now inseparable. Martin owns two other horses, one of them happens to be Saxy's half-sister. She said she would love to reintroduce the two someday.
In the meantime, once she gets the training she needs, the goal is for Saxy to help others by becoming a therapy horse. Martin runs a small equine-assisted psychotherapy practice and works with people with PTSD and trauma.
"I think that a lot of people would really relate to her story, really relate to the people that we're supposed to keep you safe didn't and, the people that were supposed to take care of you let you down," Martin said. "She's not ready to be in the program yet, but someday, if she's ready, she'll tell us. And if that's what she wants to do then that's what she's gonna get to do. Otherwise, she'll just get to be happy and safe and healthy."
Despite the hardships she has faced, Saxy is having no trouble fitting in at her new home, a reality that never would have been possible without lots of love and a little bit of luck.
"She's my horse legally, yes. And she'll be legally in my name for the rest of her life," Martin said. "But, I didn't do this. This was her whole community who brought her home. I just got to be the person that was lucky enough to make it happen."
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Market driven by new consumer who is digitally native; environmentally, socially, and safety conscious
BOULDER, Colo., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights analyzes the automotive software-defined vehicles (SDV) market—including vehicle manufacturers, software solution providers, industry organizations, tech companies, government employees, and other suppliers. SDVs' new mediums and use cases are the focus of this report.
As consumers continue demanding better and more intuitive experiences, and as the market becomes more saturated with cellular-data-capable EVs with increasing levels of automation, SDVs have a promising future. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, the total average revenue generated from SDVs is expected to grow from $8.6 billion in 2022 to exceed $110.5 billion by 2031, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.8 percent.
"SDVs could transform the automotive industry—generating billions in revenue from new applications and services. Over the next decade and beyond, automakers' large investments will bring new vehicles to market that are designed to function as more than a means of transportation," says Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "SDVs will become a third space in which consumers can engage in experiences such as working, gaming, or escaping from the outside environment."
A new digitally native, environmentally, socially, and safety conscious consumer generation is forcing the automotive industry to cater to it. Today's car buyers are more concerned about sustainability, seamless user experience across all of their devices, and up-to-date safety features than horsepower and brand. EV's potentially longer product lifecycle coupled with the introduction of new software applications opens a plethora of revenue-generating opportunities that automakers can leverage after a car rolls off the lot. If automakers are to realize these benefits, they must quickly transform their development processes to keep up with the speed of innovation while adhering to an automotive regulatory environment that is notoriously slow to adapt or overreact, according to the report.
The report, Leveraging Software-Defined Vehicles for Next-Generation Consumer Experiences, analyzes the global market for SDVs, the new passenger experiences they will enable, and the industry changes needed to facilitate their implementation. It provides an analysis of SDV market issues, business cases, opportunities, and implementation challenges. Global market analyses for capacity and revenue, broken out by segment and region, extend through 2031. The report examines key SDV technologies, use cases, and profiles key market players. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
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Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
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Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has over 16,500 professionals in over 55 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
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Expanding Product Offering to Include Diet-Friendly, Low Sodium Version of the Popular Seasoning
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dan-O's Seasoning, a Dan-tastic diet-friendly blend of low-sodium, all-natural, sugar-free, and non-GMO herbs and spices that enhance the flavor of any recipe, recently announced the launch of their new Everything Bagel Seasoning. The Everything Bagel Seasoning is the newest addition to Dan-O's Seasoning lineup, which currently includes Original, Spicy, and Hot Chipotle Seasoning. Dan-O's Seasoning's recipes have earned them over 2.6 million followers and 39.6 million likes on TikTok.
The new Everything Bagel Seasoning will provide a fresh new twist on classic recipes. Dan-O's Everything Bagel Seasoning has a delicious high flavor profile, the seasoning is also low sodium, gluten-free, sugar-free, and zero calories. Dan-O's Everything Bagel Seasoning brings the crunchy savory flavor of poppy seeds, sesame seeds, onion, and garlic to the classic Dan-O's seasoning profile. The seasoning is now available on danosseasoning.com and on Amazon.
Dan-O's Seasoning was created by Dan Oliver. Dan-O's Seasoning blends only contain 50 milligrams of sodium per serving, compared to other popular seasonings that contain 200 milligrams to 300 milligrams of sodium per serving. Less sodium allows for the spices to truly shine without an overpowering salt taste. Dan-O's Seasoning is compatible with vegan, Keto, Paleo, and Mediterranean diets as well as many other diets, making it accessible to many.
"This is one of the most exciting product releases that we have had to date!" said Dan Oliver, founder of Dan-O's Seasoning. "Our fans have been begging us to make an Everything Bagel blend and we are thrilled to finally bring this product to the market. It's all-natural, diet-friendly, and it tastes Dan-O-Myte! People are going to love it!"
Find the new Dan-O's Everything Bagel Seasoning on Dan-O's website and on Amazon.
Dan-O's Seasoning was founded in 2017 by Louisville, KY native Dan Oliver. Our mission is to change the world one table at a time by offering the best all-natural, sugar-free, low-sodium seasoning products on the market. Our goal is to provide you with real flavors to make healthier food choices without ever sacrificing taste. Dan-O's all-purpose seasoning blends can be found nationwide in over 8,000 retailers including Kroger, Walmart, Hy-vee, Dollar Tree, and more. Additionally, all products are available online through Amazon or on our website at danosseasoning.com. To learn more, follow Dan-O's Seasoning on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
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AUSTIN, Texas and AKRON, Ohio, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RVshare, the largest community for RV owners and renters, is excited to announce its recent support and partnership with Make-A-Wish® Central & South Texas (CSTX). Over the past few years, recreational vehicles gained rapid interest among Wish Kids and families. Make-A-Wish CSTX turned towards RVshare to help grant life-changing wishes by sharing the magic of an RV adventure. The two organizations have shared values around making lifelong memories and sharing unforgettable experiences, and will continue to work together to grant life-changing wishes.
"Since the onset of the pandemic, road trip and camper experiences have become a popular choice for our families, and RVshare stepped in to help us make these wishes an incredible experience for the whole family," said Shelby Gill, Chief Development Officer at Make-A-Wish CSTX. "From our very first conversation, the team at RVshare has been enthusiastic and determined to make RVs and road trip wishes accessible to all of our Wish Kids. We are honored to work with a company whose culture is also rooted in fostering hope and joy."
RVshare has had the incredible privilege of fulfilling wishes for children wanting to experience the thrill of an RV trip this summer. Each family is granted a rental stipend that will allow them to use it on multiple RV adventures with RV rental delivery to any desired destination. If the family doesn't want to actually drive the RV, an RVshare owner will set-up the RV for them at the campground of their choice.
"The two organizations share values around creating lifelong memories, and we are honored to be able to grant these RV travel wishes and bring families the experience of the open road, offering a moment of peace and distance from the everyday pressures at home," said RVshare's Director of Communications Maddi Bourgerie. "An RV adventure is an escape and an unforgettable opportunity to enjoy time with loved ones."
RVshare's company ethos is centered around the spirit of the open road, the spontaneous delight that awaits you on a road trip, and encourages all to explore the great outdoors through RV travel. This month, RVshare recently unveiled their new brand campaign, "Use Your Outside Voice," that perfectly captures the unbridled freedom that an RV trip can bring. As the brand continues and evolves its partnership with Make-A-Wish CSTX, fulfilling wishes together, RVshare looks forward to being a part of fueling inspiration for these children and families to tap into their sense of adventure, catching the spirit of the open road.
RVshare will continue to help grant more wishes in the future by providing families with vehicles of their choice, ranging from luxury motorhomes to family-friendly campers, delivering them to their destination of choice, and inviting them to go somewhere special and do something different.
To learn more about Make-A-Wish CSTX and how to help fulfill wishes, visit www.wish.org/cstx. 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.
Make-A-Wish® Central & South Texas creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child's wish to life, because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness. Headquartered in Austin and San Antonio, TX, Make-A-Wish is the community's leading children's wish-granting organization, serving children in every community across 40 counties. For more information about Make-A-Wish, visit cstx.wish.org
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- WELL's M&A Program is ramping up with multiple signed and actionable LOIs demonstrating its ability to execute on highly accretive capital allocation opportunities.
- WELL forms Provider Solutions Business Unit combining WELL EMR Group, Billing & RCM, and Digital Apps businesses into a robust practitioner enablement platform led by industry veterans Adam Hutton and Paulo Gomes.
- WELL launches comprehensive operating cost optimization initiative designed to derive greater synergies to improve operating cashflow
VANCOUVER, BC, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) (the "Company" or "WELL") — a practitioner focused digital health company that is positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to provide a number of key business updates including a ramp-up in the Company's M&A program and the formation of its Provider Solutions Business Unit.
Following the completion of its recent oversubscribed bought deal private placement led by several large institutional investors, WELL confirms that it is ramping up its M&A program with multiple signed and actionable letters of intent ("LOIs"), demonstrating the Company's ability to execute on highly accretive capital allocation opportunities.
"We recently made the timely and important decision to add significant cash to our balance sheet. Additionally, WELL has a long-dated debt maturity schedule, all vendor takebacks have been retired, and we will continue to generate excess free cashflow beyond any interest or earnout payments." said Hamed Shahbazi, Founder and CEO of WELL. "Our stronger financial position comes at a time where acquisition valuations have fallen and the expected returns on capital allocation have improved. This added liquidity gives WELL the ability to aggressively pursue its goal of increasing intrinsic value on a per-share basis"
A multi-disciplinary team at WELL is collaborating with all functional group and business unit leaders to identify cost optimizations and margin enhancement opportunities that can translate into improvements in operating cashflow.
Amir Javidan, WELL's COO added, "Notwithstanding our profitability and growth which on a combined basis is industry leading within the tech-enabled healthcare industry, we are also embarking on a sweeping operating cost review and optimization initiative. The combined effect of our organic and inorganic growth opportunities and focus on operating cost efficiency will deliver tangible value to WELL shareholders.
Eva Fong, WELL's CFO added, "WELL's business continues to operate very well as our business unit leaders are delivering tangible value to healthcare practitioners across our network and allowing them to focus on what matters-patient care. We are increasingly becoming an indispensable and critical piece of healthcare ecosystem in North America that is relied upon by thousands of healthcare practitioners who are delivering millions of patient visits per year. We recently raised guidance for WELL's annual revenue to over $525 million for the current fiscal year. We look forward to updating our stakeholders and demonstrating our strong performance in the coming days and weeks."
WELL is pleased to announce the formation of its new Provider Solutions Business Unit, which combines the previous WELL EMR Group, Billing and RCM and several Digital Application businesses into a one single practitioner enablement platform. This consolidation is designed to simplify the relationship healthcare providers have with WELL and better promote the breadth and depth of WELL's practitioner enablement platform.
WELL's new Provider Solutions Business Unit encompasses companies and brands including AwareMD, Intrahealth, Oscar Pro, DoctorCare, and CognisantMD. It will comprise of tools and technologies including electronic medical records (EMR), practice management, productivity applications, back-office billing and revenue cycle management, and WELL's apps.health ecosystem. With close to one in four Canadian doctors currently being served by WELL's practitioner focused businesses, the new Provider Solutions Business Unit will further support the onboarding of WELL's technology solutions, positively impacting improved health outcomes by better equipping and empowering healthcare practitioners and their patients.
This integrated offering will not only support in simplifying the relationship we have with our growing network of over 21,000 doctors and healthcare practitioners across the country, but it will also allow WELL to continue to grow our market share through a unique and unified platform offering.
The unit will be run by the current managing directors of DoctorCare, Adam Hutton and Paulo Gomes. Paulo Gomes, founder of DoctorCare, has a deep understanding of the challenges doctors face when running a medical practice, including workflows, technologies, and HR. He has spent his entire career working with primary care physicians in the EMR, pharmaceuticals, and physician services industries. Paulo is also the co-founder of Khure Health, a company that helps primary care doctors identify high-risk patients for rare diseases to help them get on a proper care pathway. Prior to providing operational direction at DoctorCare, Adam Hutton was Vice President of Adoption and Strategic Partnerships at the Ontario Telemedicine Network. He is a proven entrepreneur having started and grown previous health services companies that now support thousands of physicians across Canada.
"Since WELL's inception, we have built our toolkit of tools for practitioners across numerous technology verticals. Moving forward, we have a compelling opportunity to bring the suite of tools to market in a single platform," said Paulo Gomes, Managing Director of WELL Provider Solutions.
"Paulo and I see meaningful opportunities to leverage the apps.health ecosystem, improving the attach rate of services among existing customers, and expanding our platform to new practitioners with a more unified, enterprise grade salesforce," remarked Adam Hutton, Managing Director of WELL Provider Solutions.
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Hamed Shahbazi
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WELL is a technology enabled healthcare company whose overarching objective is to positively impact health outcomes to empower and support healthcare practitioners and their patients. WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services. WELL uses this platform to power healthcare practitioners both inside and outside of WELL's own omni-channel patient services offerings. As such, WELL owns and operates Canada's largest network of outpatient medical clinics serving primary and specialized healthcare services and is the provider of a leading multi-national, multi-disciplinary telehealth offering. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WELL" and trades on the OTCQX under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.'
This news release may contain "Forward-Looking Information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including, without limitation: information regarding DoctorCare's future plans, the new Provider Solutions Business Unit and its positive impact in healthcare, and WELL's future M&A transactions. Forward-Looking Information is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. Forward-Looking Information generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-Looking Information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such Forward Looking Information and, which are not guarantees of future performance. WELL's statements expressed or implied by Forward Looking Information are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of WELL 's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-Looking is Information qualified in its entirety by inherent risks and uncertainties, including: direct and indirect material adverse effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the primary healthcare sector in general; regulatory and legislative changes; that future results may vary from historical results; inability to obtain any requisite future financing on suitable terms; any inability to realize the expected benefits and synergies of acquisitions; that market competition may affect the business, results and financial condition of WELL and other risk factors identified in documents filed by WELL under its profile at www.sedar.com, including its most recent Annual Information Form. Except as required by securities law, WELL does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
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Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting shades new generation of royals as being spoiled: 'Quite different'
Lady Anne Glenconner said younger royals 'seem to complain and whinge'
Lady Anne Glenconner, a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth II and Lady in Waiting to the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, lamented in a recent interview about today's generation of royals, who she said "complain" in public, while previous generations remained loyal to the monarchy.
Prince Harry's tell-all memoir "Spare," named for his role as the younger brother of Prince William - the heir to the British throne – exposed deeply personal details about Harry and the British royal family. Critics and allies of the Royal Family have pushed back on Harry's claims, chastising the Duke of Sussex for airing the Windsors' dirty laundry so publicly.
PRINCE HARRY SAYS 400 PAGES CUT FROM BOOK 'SPARE' BECAUSE WILLIAM, CHARLES WOULD NEVER FORGIVE HIM
Glenconner, 90, who served Queen Elizabeth's younger sister Princess Margaret for 30 years, offered insight into the dynamic between Princess Margaret and the Queen in a new interview with PEOPLE. Glenconner told the outlet that unlike today's generation of royals, Princess Margaret never wavered in her loyalty to the Queen.
"I knew Princess Margaret very, very well. And of course, she was a spare for quite a long time. But I mean, she was always completely loyal to the Queen," Glenconner said.
Glenconner said Princess Margaret's only qualm was that she wished she had received a better education.
"The only thing I ever heard her complain about was that she wish she'd been better educated," Glenconner added. "The Queen had people from Oxford and Cambridge universities and Eton College to tutor her. Princess Margaret was left with the governess. But that was the only thing she ever said — that she wished she'd been better educated. But otherwise, I mean, there was no whinging, no complaining."
Glenconner, whose book "Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life," comes out on Feb. 21, said she hopes the new generations of royals will take a page out of their ancestor's playbook and learn to complain less.
"When I was talking about the young, that's what they do now — they seem to complain and whinge," she said. "My generation lived through the war and had a really awful childhood. My parents were away for three years. I didn't see them. My father was fighting in El Alamein in Egypt, and my uncle was killed. So when we came out of it, we just felt so lucky to be alive. There's so much to enjoy in this world. I think that my, you know."
"I hate banging on about my generation," Glenconner continued, "but we are quite different."
"Spare" is the latest in a string of public pronouncements by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex since they quit royal life in 2020. At the time, they cited what they saw as the media’s racist treatment of the duchess and a lack of support from the palace.
The memoir hit bookstores on Jan. 10. It sold 1.43 million copies during its first day on sale in the U.K., U.S., and Canada, making it the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time, Guinness World Records shared.
Harry’s story is dominated by his rivalry with his elder brother Prince William, who is heir to the British throne, and the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in 1997. Harry alleged that during an argument in 2019, William called Markle "difficult" and "rude," then grabbed him by the collar and knocked him down. Harry said he suffered cuts and bruises from landing on a dog bowl. Harry also alleged that William and his now-wife Kate Middleton "howled with laughter" when he notoriously wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party.
The prince also made damning allegations of a toxic relationship between the monarchy and the press, describing how family members would leak unflattering information about other members in exchange for positive coverage of themselves.
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Company gains momentum with AI kitchen management system providing crew recommendations through deep tech computer vision and machine learning
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PreciTaste, a Vision AI platform and industry leader in operational optimization, has raised $24 million in Series A to continue its mission to become the standard for digital food AI management in fast casual and QSR kitchens. Developed to maximize efficiency, enhance customer experience, and reduce food waste, the largest food chains apply PreciTaste to combat the industry's labor, quality, and sustainability challenges.
PreciTaste adapts to each operation by observing crews, then generates AI agents through data to assist them live onsite. Flexible software applications enable use cases like demand-based cooking and ingredient preparation, real-time task management, or order accuracy. With demand-based forecasts, up to 40% of kitchen tasks are consolidated. With order accuracy guidance, customers are served five times faster.
"PreciTaste's established platform is changing the way food chains operate, and can scale existing and new food concepts," says PreciTaste Co-Founder and CEO, Dr. Ingo Stork. "Our technology also zeroes in on food waste." This is vital to Stork's mission given that, if food waste was a country, it would be the third largest global CO2 emitter (United Nations FAO).
PreciTaste's Series A is led by existing investor Melitas Ventures, a fund that invests in innovative early-stage food and beverage companies, and Cleveland Avenue, a mission-driven investor in food, beverage, and technology companies. Additional investors include Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI), the growth equity fund co-founded by Danny Meyer, the Founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack, and Monogram Capital Partners, a leading consumer-focused growth fund with investments including Chewy.com, Oatly, and Foxtrot.
Dr. Mingu Lee, Managing Partner of Cleveland Avenue, says, "PreciTaste has created an innovative solution for the most critical kitchen management problems. This technology is transformative and is the advantage every kitchen needs to drive sales and profit."
With PreciTaste's Virtual Baker® already managing in-store baking processes in Europe's largest grocery retailer, the company had the infrastructure to expand fast casual and QSR roll-outs in 2020 following the pandemic-spurred digital focus. With 1,500+ food AI systems deployed since, PreciTaste has evolved with a proprietary offline-first AIOS operating system and TasteOS Cloud-based reporting platform.
Powered by Intel Solutions, leveraging the OpenVINO toolkit, PreciTaste's platform accelerates deployment of intelligent devices and analytics, making its technology economical, easily adoptable, and swiftly executable. PreciTaste's partnership with Franke Foodservice Systems, Inc., a leader in implementing kitchen and equipment improvement campaigns for major chains, provides further insights to consider during implementation.
"The technology pays for itself through food waste savings alone and is highly scalable," says Alex Malamatinas, Founder & Managing Partner of Melitas Ventures. "We invest in companies that transform how consumers eat and drink. Through the combination of innovation, infrastructure, and partnerships, PreciTaste is a pioneer in foodservice operations."
Developed by engineers trained at TUM, MIT, IIT, NASA, and other leading institutions, PreciTaste, an offline-first, in-store food software platform, sets the standard for digital food AI management. With $24 million in Series A growth funding, PreciTaste is fast-tracking deployments of its proprietary Vision AI technology protected by 40+ patents, which optimizes operations, leading to labor efficiency, sales growth, and sustainability. It works on Edge Devices, is Cloud and Internet-independent, and data privacy compliant. Series A is led by Melitas Ventures and Cleveland Avenue, and includes Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI) and Monogram Capital Partners. Follow PreciTaste on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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ISTANBUL — People buried under rubble in collapsed buildings in southern Turkey continue to defy the odds, surviving freezing temperatures and a week without water. But the numbers are small, and tired rescue crews know time is running out.
A 40-year-old woman was pulled from the rubble of a five-story building in Islahiye, in Gaziantep province early Monday. Turkish media report that another rescue crew, alerted by a search dog, was in contact with what are believed to be three more survivors – a mother, daughter and baby.
Earlier, 60-year-old Erengul Onder was freed from the rubble in the town of Besni, in Adiyaman province.
The deadly 7.8-magnitude quake that hit last Monday, and the powerful tremors that followed, have killed more than 33,000 people, and experts predict that total is sure to rise. Homeless families shelter in tents erected by AFAD, Turkey's emergency management agency.
In Syria, the U.N. says more than five million people may be without homes after the quake. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said the world has failed the people of northwest Syria, who "rightly feel abandoned."
Washington has asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize the delivery of aid to rebel-held territory in Syria through additional border crossings from Turkey.
Across southern Turkey, residents forced to flee their cracked and damaged homes vent their fury at the sub-standard - possibly illegal - construction practices that they say made this disaster much worse than it needed to be.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said no government could be ready for a disaster of this magnitude, but many wonder what this will mean for his political future.
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Woman charged in fatal hit-and-run that left teacher and father of 10 dead
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - Prosecutors charged a 27-year-old woman in connection to a crash that killed a middle school teacher.
Kyrie Fields of Oregon, Wisconsin, was charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle, KCTV reports.
A probable cause document stated Charles Criniere, a husband and father of 10 children who also was a teacher at Martin City Middle School, was struck and killed while riding his bike the morning of Aug. 27.
Law enforcement found car parts at the scene of the incident and learned that a white Acura MDX was the suspect vehicle. Police found that the car had been set on fire the day after the fatal crash. The document stated that the parts found matched the suspect vehicle.
After detectives found that Fields was the driver of the Acura, they arrested her Monday. While being interviewed, police said she told them she was texting a friend, high on Percocet, and had taken her eyes off the road when she struck Criniere.
Fields also said she was unsure who burned the car, the document stated.
The court record also said Fields admitted to cleaning the car at a friend’s house after the crash, and that there had been blood on the front of the vehicle after the incident.
Prosecutors are requesting a $100,000 bond.
A fundraiser has been set up by a family friend to benefit the Criniere family. Visit GoFundMe to donate money to the family.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) – Daniel Penny was arraigned Friday in connection with the death of Jordan Neely, after Penny was filmed placing Neely in a chokehold for several minutes on an NYC subway train last week.
Penny was walked into the courtroom shortly after 12 p.m. for his arraignment on a charge of manslaughter in the second degree. He did not enter a plea. Prosecutors said they are seeking a grand jury indictment.
The judge set Penny’s bond at $100,000, and Penny was freed pending trial. He must surrender his passport within 48 hours and he cannot leave New York without prior approval.
Penny, a 24-year-old former Marine, appeared in court hours after turning himself in at a police station, after prosecutors said they were charging him in the May 1 death of Neely.
Inside the courtroom, Penny faced straight ahead, his hands still cuffed. He spoke softly, offering one-word answers to Judge Kevin McGrath as his lawyer, Steve Raiser, placed an arm around his shoulder.
Penny’s lawyers have said he was acting in self-defense when he pinned Neely to the floor of the subway car with the help of two other passengers and held him in a chokehold for several minutes.
A freelance journalist who recorded Neely struggling to free himself, then lapsing into unconsciousness, said Neely had been shouting at passengers and begging for money aboard the train but had not gotten physical with anyone. Penny’s lawyers have said he was “threatening” passengers but haven’t elaborated.
Neely’s death has raised an uproar over many issues, including how those with mental illness are treated by the transit system and the city, as well as crime, race and vigilantism. Penny, who is white, was questioned by police in the aftermath but was released without charges. Neely was Black.
Donte Mills, a lawyer for Neely’s family, said Neely wasn’t harming anyone.
“There was no attack,” Mills said at a news conference Friday. “Mr. Neely did not attack anyone. He did not touch anyone. He did not hit anyone. But he was choked to death.”
Penny, Mills said, “acted with indifference. He didn’t care about Jordan, he cared about himself. And we can’t let that stand.”
Neely’s father wept as another family lawyer, Lennon Edwards, recounted the last moments before Penny tackled Neely to the ground and put him in a chokehold.
“What did he think would happen?” Mills asked.
Friends of Neely said the former subway performer, remembered by some commuters for his Michael Jackson impersonations, had been dealing with homelessness and mental illness in recent years.
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RENO, Nevada (AP) — Nevada’s primary on Tuesday will determine whether a former state lawmaker who has been traveling the country repeating the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen will become the Republican Party’s nominee for the office that oversees elections in the state.
Jim Marchant has been active in efforts to cast doubt on the last election, when he lost his bid for a congressional seat. He has appeared at various events with allies of former President Donald Trump, including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has sought to prove that voting machines were somehow manipulated. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden.
An Associated Press investigation last year found that county election offices in Nevada had identified between 93 and 98 potential cases of voter fraud, representing less than 0.3% of Biden’s margin of victory in the state.
Marchant is one of several Republicans across the country running to oversee the next presidential election while denying the outcome of the last one. In February, he told a crowd gathered for a candidates forum that their vote “hasn’t counted for decades.”
Another leading candidate, businessman and former state lawmaker Jesse Haw, has accused Democrats of changing voting rules to manipulate the system and called for voter ID requirements and new restrictions on mail ballots.
Nevada is a pivotal state for Republicans as they look to win a majority in the U.S. Senate. Although Trump lost Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections, he remains a popular figure among Republicans in the state.
In April 2021, Nevada’s Republican Party voted to censure the current secretary of state, Barbara Cegavske, accusing her of failing to fully investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Cegavske has said repeatedly that she found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Term limits bar her from seeking re-election.
Cisco Aguilar, a lawyer and former chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, is running unopposed in the Democratic primary.
Voters also will be deciding between a pair of Las Vegas lawyers in the Republican primary for state attorney general. That race, featuring Tisha Black and Sigal Chattah, has focused more on personal attacks than concerns of voter fraud.
The winner will face Democratic incumbent Aaron Ford in November.
Along with holding events across the country, Marchant helped organize the “America First Secretary of State Coalition,” a group of candidates running to be their state’s top election official who have repeated Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
Marchant also has been working to persuade local officials to toss out voting equipment and instead require that all ballots be cast and counted by hand.
Hand-counting all ballots is not only unreliable, labor-intensive and time-consuming, but also unnecessary, according to election experts. Testing before elections and audits afterward are intended to ensure that votes are recorded accurately and that any problems are identified before election results are certified.
The other GOP candidates are: Sparks City Councilman Kristopher Dahir; John Cardiff Gerhardt; Socorro Keenan; Gerard Ramalho; and Richard Scotti.
Nationally, nearly two dozen Republican candidates are running to be their state’s top election official while denying the result of the 2020 presidential election, according to States United Action, a nonpartisan advocacy organization tracking the candidates.
Among those are Kristina Karamo in Michigan and Kim Crockett in Minnesota, who are favorites to win their primaries in August, and Audrey Trujillo in New Mexico, who has advanced to the general election.
Last month, Georgia’s Jody Hice lost his bid to oust Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in that state’s GOP primary despite having Trump’s endorsement. Raffensperger drew Trump’s ire after he refused the former president’s request to “find” enough votes to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.
The federal government’s leading security experts declared the 2020 presidential election “the most secure in American history,” while Trump’s attorney general at the time said there was no fraud that would have altered the results. There has been no evidence to suggest Trump was cheated out of a second term.
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he never heard of Jeffrey Epstein until after his 2019 arrest
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has testified that he never heard of Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes against teenage girls and young women until the financier was arrested in 2019, according to a transcript of the videotaped deposition released Wednesday.
Dimon said he first heard about it “when the story blew wide open. He was arrested, and all the stories came out about all the people he knows. And the reason I remember that is I was surprised that I didn’t know about it before.”
Asked by a lawyer if he’d ever heard the name Jeffrey Epstein before the arrest, Dimon responded, “Not that I recall.”
Dimon made the revelation during a deposition recorded Friday in New York in connection with lawsuits filed against the nation’s largest bank.
The lawsuits on behalf of Epstein victims and the U.S. Virgin Islands in Manhattan federal court seek to hold JPMorgan financially liable for Epstein’s decadeslong abuse of teenage girls and young women.
The bank, besides denying the allegations, has sued one of its former executives, saying the man hid Epstein’s crimes to keep Epstein as a client.
Epstein was 66 in August 2019 when he apparently killed himself in a Manhattan federal jail cell where he awaited a federal sex trafficking trial after his application for bail was denied. He had pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually abused dozens of girls, some as young as 14.
According to the lawsuits filed late last year, JPMorgan provided Epstein loans and regularly allowed him to withdraw large sums of cash from 1998 through August 2013 even though it knew about his sex trafficking practices.
The 416-page deposition, portions of which were heavily redacted with entire pages blacked out, was released publicly through an agreement among lawyers in the cases.
Confronted at the deposition with an email from Epstein’s former assistant suggesting that Dimon was scheduled to meet with Epstein as far back as 2010, the president and chairman of JPMorgan insisted it was untrue.
“I have never had an appointment with Jeff Epstein. I’ve never met Jeff Epstein. I never knew Jeff Epstein. I never went to Jeff Epstein’s house. I never had a meal with Jeff Epstein. I have no idea what they’re referring to here,” he said.
After the email from Epstein’s assistant asking whether “heavy snacks” or dinner should be prepared for the meeting, Epstein responded “snacks.”
As Dimon responded to being confronted with the email, a lawyer noted that Epstein did not respond by saying, “you’re misinformed, Jamie Dimon is not coming.”
Dimon said, “I don’t know what he thought at the time. He was obviously misinformed. I never — this never took place.”
“I don’t think Jeff Epstein ever arranged for me to meet with anybody, to my knowledge,” he said.
Dimon denied knowing anything about efforts at the bank in 2006 and 2011 to curtail its dealings with Epstein as he faced criminal charges in Florida. After pleading guilty to state charges there, Epstein spent 13 months in jail and paid settlements to victims.
“After he pleaded guilty to the crime he pleaded guilty to, he — we unfortunately continued to bank him, yes,” Dimon said, according to the deposition.
Epstein had a close relationship with Jes Staley, who ran multiple parts of JPMorgan, including its investment bank and wealth management arm, until Staley left the bank in 2013. Staley went on to become CEO of the British bank Barclays, but had to step down from that job when the Epstein indictment was revealed.
JPMorgan is trying to make Staley a defendant in its Epstein legal cases, arguing that he downplayed or hid the issues with Epstein.
At one point in the deposition, Dimon agreed that Epstein was a “disaster” and “terrible” for the bank.
“I think what happened to these women is atrocious, and I’m horrified at the amount of human trafficking that takes place,” he said.
“And I wouldn’t mind personally apologizing to them, not because we committed the crime, we did not, and not because we believe we’re responsible. But that any potential thing, what little role that we could have eased it or helped catch it quicker or something like that, or get it to law enforcement quicker or get law enforcement to react to it quicker, which they obviously didn’t, you know, I would apologize to them for that, yes,” he said.
Throughout the deposition, Dimon insisted that whether to keep Epstein as a client would have ultimately been left up to the company’s general counsel.
Dimon was asked, “If you had known in 2010 that Jeffrey Epstein was a sex trafficker, that Jeffrey Epstein was a client of the bank, that Jeffrey Epstein was withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars of cash every month, would you, as the chief executive officer of the bank, said, ‘We need to get rid of this guy,’ regardless of whether the general counsel told you that that was the right thing to do?”
“I think everyone involved, had they known then what is known today, including me, would have taken that position,” he answered.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced a new effort Wednesday to find ways for the U.S. to stay ahead of China.
“We’re in a large very important, very crucial competition with the Chinese government,” Schumer said.
Schumer is asking lawmakers from both parties to work together a find ways to limit the flow of advanced technology to the Chinese government while increasing investments here at home.
“The Xi regime is working every day to catch up and surpass the United States,” Schumer said.
Democrats say they want to build on the momentum generated by last year’s Chips and Science Act.
“China is a pacing threat and we have to pick up our pace,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said.
Reed said meeting these goals will require international cooperation.
“Showing the Chinese that they would be up against the world if they tried anything,” Reed said.
Schumer said it’s important for Congress to take action as quickly as possible.
Schumer, asked if he expected to have a larger China bill before the end of Congress, said it would be “within the next several months if we can do it. It’s a big undertaking, but that’s what we hope to do.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said the U.S. really needs to stop its reliance on solar panels and EV batteries coming out of China.
“If you really want to do something about China’s competitiveness, put tariffs on them so we can have a fair and level playing field,” Hawley said.
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Number one hotel rewards program teams with The Bachelorette's Jason Tartick, launching golf's newest must-have amenity at select resorts coast-to-coast
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Anyone for a round of golf? With flexible work arrangements on the rise, people are redefining where, when and how they do their best work. Free from eight-hour days in the office, schedules now bend and flex, creating new opportunities to balance work with play. Enter the Wyndham Rewards® Cubicle Caddie, a first-of-its kind tricked out golf cart helping avid golfers worry less about being away from their desk this summer and more about missing par.
Caddies are known for being the ultimate wingmen in the game of golf, helping players unlock their full potential while always having their back in tricky and unexpected situations. The Wyndham Rewards Cubicle Caddie does the same, providing golfers with the tools they need to knock out that unavoidable Zoom call before effortlessly returning their focus to the game. With a retractable green screen, detachable desk, 5G Wi-Fi hotspot, noise cancelling headphones, wrinkle-free blazer and more—there's no better office-on-the-go. The Cubicle Caddie even comes with a built-in escape button —think a barking dog, crying baby or an interrupting co-worker— that golfers can trigger with just one press, letting colleagues know it's time to wrap the call.
The Wyndham Rewards Cubicle Caddie comes at a time when weekday afternoon golf is on the rise—a recent Stanford study showed a 278% increase in Wednesday afternoon play last year vs. 2019—and is endorsed by avid golfer and entrepreneur Jason Tartick. Best known for his popular business podcast, 'Trading Secrets' and bringing his Buffalo charm to the Bachelor franchise, Tartick offers pointers for mixing work and play successfully.
"Don't think of it as blowing off work—think of it as blowing off steam so you can focus on the day's to-do list feeling refreshed and recharged," said Tartick. "As a veteran corporate banker and entertainment personality, I know balancing business and pleasure has always been par for the course. That's the beauty of The Wyndham Rewards Cubicle Caddie. Whether you're waiting to tee off or just coming through the turn, it makes the switch from play to work and back again easier than ever before. It's a hole-in-one."
"We know our members are spending less time in the office and more time working from unconventional places and so, the Cubicle Caddie was born," said Dana Rosenberg, SVP Marketing, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. "Golf is a much-needed escape for so many and now, thanks to the Cubicle Caddie, our members can take advantage of that escape without worrying about what to do should the office come calling. Best of all, at no extra cost to use, it's just one more way Wyndham is rewarding members this summer."
The Wyndham Rewards Cubicle Caddie is available at select golf courses this summer, just ahead of the 2023 Wyndham Championship. Participating hotels and resorts—all of which are part of Wyndham's newly launched Golf Collection—are:
- Cheyenne Mountain Resort, A Dolce by Wyndham (Colorado Springs, CO)
- Grandover Resort & Spa, a Wyndham Grand Hotel (Greensboro, NC)
- Club Wyndham Orange Tree Resort (Scottsdale, AZ)
- Club Wyndham Palm-Aire (Pompano Beach, FL)
- Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Puerto Rico Golf & Beach Resort (Rio Grande, PR)
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' Golf Collection encompasses more than 40 hotels and resorts situated on some of the most picturesque and pristine greens around the world and is the perfect complement to the Company's growing portfolio of all-inclusive, lifestyle, upscale and luxury offerings around the globe. Through September 30, 2023, Wyndham Rewards members can take advantage of special savings on two-night, three-day stay packages for two, complete with complimentary rounds of golf, range buckets and breakfast at select Golf Collection properties.
The Cubicle Caddie hits the green starting today and is available upon request when booking a tee time and renting a golf cart, at no extra cost to Wyndham Rewards members. For more information, including terms and conditions on the above promotion, visit www.wyndhamrewards.com/caddie.
About Wyndham Rewards
Named the number one hotel rewards program by readers of USA TODAY, Wyndham Rewards® is the world's most generous hotel rewards program with more than 50,000 hotels, vacation club resorts and vacation rentals worldwide. Designed for the everyday traveler, members earn a guaranteed 1,000 points with every qualified stay and may redeem points for a range of rewards, including free nights at approximately 9,100 hotels or tens of thousands of vacation club resorts and vacation rentals globally through affiliation with Wyndham Destinations and others. Wyndham Rewards has approximately 101 million enrolled members around the globe. Join for free today at www.wyndhamrewards.com. You've earned this.®
About Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: WH) is the world's largest hotel franchising company by the number of properties, with approximately 9,100 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents. Through its network of approximately 845,000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveler, Wyndham commands a leading presence in the economy and midscale segments of the lodging industry. The Company operates a portfolio of 24 hotel brands, including Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Microtel®, La Quinta®, Baymont®, Wingate®, AmericInn®, Hawthorn Suites®, Trademark Collection® and Wyndham®. The Company's award-winning Wyndham Rewards loyalty program offers approximately 101 million enrolled members the opportunity to redeem points at thousands of hotels, vacation club resorts and vacation rentals globally. For more information, visit www.wyndhamhotels.com.
About the Wyndham Championship
Contested annually on the Donald Ross-designed course at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., the Wyndham Championship was founded in 1938 and is the seventh-oldest event on the PGA TOUR excluding the Majors. The tournament thanks title sponsor Wyndham Rewards and presenting sponsor Truist for their continued support. Additional tournament information is available at www.wyndhamchampionship.com and the tournament's social media channels, including the Wyndham Championship Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) (eHealth.com), a leading private online health insurance marketplace (the "Company"), today announced that on July 1, 2022, the Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors granted an inducement stock unit award to John Dolan, who was appointed Chief Accounting Officer of the Company effective May 31, 2022, covering 66,540 shares of the Company's common stock. In addition, the Compensation Committee granted inducement stock unit awards to two other new employees covering an aggregate of 66,541 shares of the Company's common stock.
The awards were granted under the Company's Amended and Restated 2021 Inducement Plan (the "Inducement Plan"), and each award will be subject to the terms and conditions of a stock unit agreement under the Inducement Plan. Each of the awards will be subject to vesting over four years, with 25% vesting on the first anniversary of the vesting commencement date of May 10, 2022, and the remainder vesting in equal quarterly installments over the subsequent three years, subject to such employee's continued service with the Company through the vesting date and potential acceleration upon certain terminations of employment.
These stock unit awards were granted as inducements material to each new employee's accepting employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) operates a leading health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com with technology that provides consumers with health insurance enrollment solutions. Since 1997, we have connected more than eight million members with quality, affordable health insurance, Medicare options, and ancillary plans. Our proprietary marketplace offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business, and other plans from approximately 200 health insurance carriers across 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany are probing the death of a man who collapsed Monday during a police check in the city of Mannheim, drawing allegations of police violence after a video surfaced allegedly showing him being beaten by officers while lying on the ground.
Gokay Akbulut, a federal lawmaker who represents Mannheim, called Tuesday for a thorough investigation of the case, saying it demonstrated the need for an independent complaints procedure.
Police in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said officers were alerted by a doctor at Mannheim's Central Institute of Mental Health that a patient required help.
The 47-year-old man resisted officers, prompting them to “exert immediate force” whereupon he collapsed and had to be resuscitated, state police said. The man later died in hospital.
A short video posted on social media shows a police officer hitting the head of a man lying on the ground.
Lawmaker Akbulut called for demonstrations “to keep up the pressure so there is a full investigation” and said it was important for police to be properly trained in how to deal with people who have mental health problems. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/German-authorities-probing-man-s-death-during-17144116.php | 2022-05-03 15:17:01 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/German-authorities-probing-man-s-death-during-17144116.php |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The decline of an endangered species of whale slowed last year, as it lost about 2% of its population, but scientists warn the animal still faces existential threats and is losing breeding females too fast.
The North Atlantic right whale's population was more than 480 in 2010 and fell by more than 25% over the following decade. The North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, a group of scientists, government officials and industry members, said Monday that the population fell to an estimated 340 last year.
That is a decline of eight animals from the previous year, when the population was initially thought to be even fewer. The whales are vulnerable to ship collisions and entanglement in commercial fishing gear, and they have suffered from poor reproduction and high mortality in recent years.
"The reality is we are still seeing unsustainable levels of human impacts on the species," said Heather Pettis, research scientist in the New England Aquarium's Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life and executive administrator of the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. "We're still injuring these animals to a point where it's not just about survival. It's about health, it's about reproduction."
The right whales live off the East Coast and migrate every year from calving grounds off Georgia and Florida to feeding grounds off New England and Canada. They were once abundant but were decimated during the commercial whaling era, when they were hunted for their oil and meat.
The whales have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act more than 50 years but have been slow to recover. The population was even lower in 1990, when it was 264, Pettis said. One of the biggest challenges facing the right whales today is that the number of female whales that are capable of breeding appears to be falling.
An article that appeared this month in the scientific journal Frontiers in Marine Science reported that the estimated population of female right whales fell from 185 in 2014 to 142 in 2018. The largest decline was seen in breeding females, and only 72 were estimated to be alive at the beginning of 2018, the article said.
The whales appear to be getting smaller, and that is hurting their ability to reproduce, Peter Corkeron, chair of the Kraus Marine Mammal Conservation Program at the Cabot Center and one of the authors of the article.
"The world needs more fat whales," Corkeron said.
The plight of the right whale has emerged as a major issue for commercial fisheries in the U.S., especially the American lobster industry, which is based mostly in Maine. The whales are particularly vulnerable to becoming entangled in the kind of fixed vertical underwater lines used to fish for lobsters and crabs.
The federal government has crafted new restrictions on lobster fishing in an effort to save the right whale, and fishermen have argued that the rules could put them out of business. A group of lobster fishermen sued to stop the rules, and their case is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The new right whale estimate indicates that the population is stabilizing, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen's Association. The new fishing rules, however, could "decimate the Maine lobster fishery," McCarron said.
Warming oceans are also a concern. The whales are aided by a network of protected zones designed to allow them to eat the tiny organisms they feed on without danger of entanglements and collisions. However, warming waters have caused their food to move, and they have followed it into unprotected areas where they are more vulnerable, scientists have said.
Conservation groups have advocated for vessel speed restrictions and stricter fishing regulations to save the whales.
"These latest population numbers confirm that the species continues to teeter on the verge of functional extinction, and current measures to save it are falling short," said Sarah Sharp, a veterinarian with International Fund for Animal Welfare. "Nevertheless, there is hope on the horizon. Solutions do indeed exist." | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/endangered-whales-decline-slows-but-population-falls-again | 2022-10-24 21:09:06 | 0 | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/endangered-whales-decline-slows-but-population-falls-again |
DALLAS, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roots Food Group, a mission-driven technology, healthcare and food company that believes in creating healthy outcomes through 'Food Is Medicine', announced today its unwavering support and commitment to the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The company's Founder & CEO Robert T. Jones released the following statement:
"The conference and its participants have acknowledged that diet and nutrition are a major contributing factor to the epidemic of chronic disease in America. H.R.5370, a bi-partisan bill from representatives Jim McGovern and the late Jackie Walorski, will begin to restore health and wellness in the U.S. while lowering overall healthcare costs. Further, we salute the State of California and Gov. Gavin Newsom for paving the way with a new CalAIM initiative. This program provides Medically Tailored Meals to qualifying Medi-Cal recipients with chronic disease, reaching over 14 million Californians enrolled in Medicaid."
Over 170 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic disease. Unhealthy eating habits are a primary cause of the escalating federal healthcare spending of over $4 trillion per year, which is expected to grow 56% by 2025 to surpass $6 trillion annually.
'Food is Medicine' refers to a spectrum of health and wellness interventions that recognize and respond to the critical link between nutrition and chronic diseases. Interventions consist of healthy foods that are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals living with or at risk of serious health conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease and hypercholesterolemia.
ROOTS FOOD GROUP is a mission-driven technology, healthcare, and food company that believes in creating healthy outcomes through 'Food is Medicine'. The company manufactures and distributes high quality, earth made, medically tailored food products to healthcare companies and affiliated systems, communities, and direct to the consumer to address the epidemic of chronic disease and other medical conditions. www.RootsFoodGroup.com
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Air Force planes fly over Salina as part of celebration of centennial of aerial refueling
Two planes, one brought into service just four years ago and another the U.S. Air Force has relied on for nearly 50 years, flew as low as 2,000 feet above the Salina Regional Airport on Tuesday in recognition of 100 years of aerial refueling.
Several people gathered at Fossett Plaza just outside the perimeter fence at the airport as the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus and Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker took part in the Air Force event Tuesday, exactly 100 years after the first recorded aerial refueling on June 27, 1923.
The Pegasus was flown by the Air Force Reserve's 931st Air Refueling Wing out of McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, followed close behind by the Stratotanker flown by the Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing out of Forbes Field in Topeka.
According to the Air Force, the flight plan for the aircraft put them over several other landmarks throughout the state, including the University of Kansas in Lawrence, the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas State University in Manhattan and Wichita State University and the Keeper of the Plains sculpture in Wichita.
While flying over the designated landmarks, the refuelers dropped to between 2,000 and 2,500 feet above ground level with the refueling booms of each plane lowered as they flew by.
Bringing out family in Salina
It was an exciting day for everyone, including Loren Banninger, who, along with his wife, Sue, brought their grandson Cole Easterday, 9.
"We came out to see the tankers," Easterday said.
This wasn't the first trip the Banningers and Easterday have taken to the airport to see some of the unique planes that fly in, out and around the general aviation airport, which has also served as a base for military and government operations throughout its history, including as Schilling Air Force Base.
"We have been out here occasionally with family," Loren Banninger said. "We enjoy (seeing the planes). Sue's brother is a retired Air Force general."
He said this wasn't the closest he's been to a KC-135, having been able to fly inside one as part of an aerospace class he took through K-State.
"One of the things we got to do was go up in the tanker," Banninger said. "I got to lay in the (back of the plane) and see the boom (while) they were refueling B-52s that were coming through."
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Kansas-based units flying over other states
In addition to the two planes flying over Kansas, the 100-year celebration was expected to take place with flights over all 50 states.
The 22nd Air Refueling Wing, also based out of McConnell, took several aircraft over Colorado including landmarks in Pueblo, Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
The 22nd also sent one KC-46 to California for that state's celebration, where it participated in a flyover of the base where that first aerial refueling mission happened in 1923, Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.
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The Air Force said aerial refueling serves as a force multiplier, increasing the speed, range, lethality, flexibility and versatility of combat aircraft. Tankers also carry cargo and passengers, perform aeromedical evacuations and enable strategic deterrence for the United States.
“Air refueling propels our nation’s air power across the skies, unleashing its full potential,” said Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander. “It connects our strategic vision with operational reality, ensuring we can reach any corner of the globe with unwavering speed and precision. Air refueling embodies our resolve to defend freedom and project power, leaving an indelible mark on aviation history.” | https://www.salina.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/salina-airport-sees-refuelers-fly-over-for-air-force-celebration/70356707007/ | 2023-06-28 02:45:31 | 0 | https://www.salina.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/salina-airport-sees-refuelers-fly-over-for-air-force-celebration/70356707007/ |
HOUSTON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectGen announced today that the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) approving two interconnection requests associated with ConnectGen's Rail Tie Wind Project, a proposed 504 MW wind energy generation project located in Albany County, Wyoming. The ROD follows the November 2021 release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and documents the completion of the federal authorization to interconnect the project to the WAPA transmission grid, which was concluded after an extensive environmental review per the National Environmental Policy Act.
"The Record of Decision is a major milestone for the Rail Tie Wind Project. It marks the completion of WAPA's multi-year environmental and technical review, including a detailed analysis of the physical, biological, cultural, and socioeconomic effects of the project," Caton Fenz, Chief Executive Officer of ConnectGen, said. "We are pleased that WAPA recognized our considerable efforts to minimize these effects, and we thank the WAPA staff for their efforts and thoughtful review over the past two and a half years."
"Connecting more renewable energy projects to the grid is a critical step in modernizing America's energy infrastructure and meeting our nation's growing energy needs," said WAPA Administrator and CEO Tracey LeBeau. "Our technical analyses found available capacity on WAPA's system and the comprehensive analysis in the EIS provided environmental impact information, both of which informed the interconnection Record of Decision."
WAPA's ROD issuance adds to the roster of major federal, state, and local approvals obtained by the Rail Tie Wind Project. The project previously received a Wind Energy Conversion System permit from the Albany County Board of County Commissioners as well as Section 109 permit approval from the State of Wyoming Industrial Siting Council.
The Rail Tie Wind Project will represent a capital investment of more than $500 million in Albany County and the State of Wyoming, and will generate approximately $130 million in state and local tax revenues during construction and over the life of the project. Twenty percent of the project is sited on state land, and annual wind lease payments to the Office of State Lands and Investments will fund Wyoming's public schools and institutions. The project will support at least 20 permanent operations jobs as well as hundreds of jobs during construction and will generate millions of dollars of new local economic activity through the procurement of goods and services in the area.
ConnectGen is a multi-technology renewable energy platform dedicated to best-in-class greenfield development, origination, execution and operations. ConnectGen has 139 MW in operations and a portfolio of over 20,000 MW of wind, solar and energy storage projects in development across the United States. For more information, please visit www.connectgenllc.com. ConnectGen is a subsidiary of 547 Energy, Quantum Energy Partners' clean energy platform company.
547 Energy aims to maximize value for its investors by partnering with leading entrepreneurs who are driving growth in the clean energy economy. To date, 547 Energy has invested in ConnectGen LLC, BlueFloat Energy LLC, Aer Soleir LLC, NetOn LLC and certain affiliates of ENORA S.A. 547 Energy was founded and is led by industry veteran Gabriel Alonso and is backed by Quantum Energy Partners, a leading provider of capital to the global energy industry. For more information on 547 Energy, please visit www.547energy.com, email info@547energy.com, or contact Travis Salinas at tsalinas@547energy.com.
Founded in 1998, Quantum Energy Partners is a leading global provider of private equity, credit, structured capital and venture capital to the responsibly sourced energy and energy transition & decarbonization sectors (what we call the "Sustainable Energy Ecosystem"), having managed together with its affiliates more than $18 billion in capital commitments since inception. For more information on Quantum, please visit www.quantumep.com or contact Michael Dalton at +1-713-452-2110.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man suspected in an April 4 shooting incident was arrested in Niagara Falls on Saturday following a standoff with Niagara Falls Police.
Curtiss Griggs, 37, reportedly fled NFPD after an attempted arrest around 4:45 p.m. Saturday. Police said he fled into an apartment building on Pine Avenue, near the intersection of 25th Street.
The scene was secured and after a standoff that reportedly lasted about two hours, Griggs surrendered and was taken into custody. He was charged with one count of assault in the first degree and one count of reckless endangerment in the first degree.
Griggs will be arraigned in Niagara Falls City Court on Monday.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions, today announced that CEVA management will participate in the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference on January 10th and 11th, 2023 in New York. To schedule a meeting, please contact your Needham representative.
CEVA's presentation from the conference will be webcast live at 8:00am Eastern on January 10th. Please visit https://wsw.com/webcast/needham128/ceva/2226739 to register to. The presentation will also be available via webcast replay at the same link.
Please visit investors.ceva-dsp.com for more information on upcoming investor events CEVA is scheduled to attend.
CEVA is the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions for a smarter, safer, connected world. We provide Digital Signal Processors, AI engines, wireless platforms, cryptography cores and complementary software for sensor fusion, image enhancement, computer vision, voice input and artificial intelligence. These technologies are offered in combination with our Intrinsix IP integration services, helping our customers address their most complex and time-critical integrated circuit design projects. Leveraging our technologies and chip design skills, many of the world's leading semiconductors, system companies and OEMs create power-efficient, intelligent, secure and connected devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, robotics, industrial, aerospace & defense and IoT.
Our DSP-based solutions include platforms for 5G baseband processing in mobile, IoT and infrastructure, advanced imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low-power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For sensor fusion, our Hillcrest Labs sensor processing technologies provide a broad range of sensor fusion software and inertial measurement unit ("IMU") solutions for markets including hearables, wearables, AR/VR, PC, robotics, remote controls and IoT. For wireless IoT, our platforms for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode), Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11n/ac/ax), Ultra-wideband (UWB), NB-IoT and GNSS are the most broadly licensed connectivity platforms in the industry.
CEVA is a sustainable and environmentally conscious company, adhering to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. As such, we emphasize and focus on environmental preservation, recycling, the welfare of our employees and privacy – which we promote on a corporate level. At CEVA, we are committed to social responsibility, values of preservation and consciousness towards these purposes.
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Olympic Peninsula glaciers expected to melt in 50 years due to climate change, study finds
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Portland State University professor Andrew Fountain has been researching the dwindling glaciers of the American West since the 1980s. He said for years, he studied their retreat dispassionately — as an interesting phenomenon to try to understand. Then last year, he had an epiphany.
"It dawned on me that, 'wait a minute, in 20 or 30 years, everything that I've studied is useless because there are no glaciers,'" Fountain told KUOW.
The Olympic Peninsula has lost 45% of its glacier coverage since 1980, according to a new study by Fountain and coauthors from Washington state and British Columbia.
The peninsula's remaining 250 glaciers, which covered about two square miles at last estimate, should be gone in another 50 years as humanity's pollution continues to overheat the planet, the study found.
Fountain said glaciers worldwide are getting a kind of double whammy: Less snow in the winter and more melt in the summer. Beyond the fascination they provide for a small community of researchers, glaciers serve as frozen reservoirs.
"These glaciers provide water during the hottest, driest parts of the year," Fountain said.
Salmon and people in glacier-fed watersheds rely on nature's ice chests to keep rivers flowing and cool each summer.
Fountain said a rapid end to fossil fuel burning could delay the glacial melt-off by a few decades.
"We have to encourage our lawmakers to start enacting legislation to cut greenhouse gases," Fountain said. "I think, for the foreseeable future, the fate(s) of the glaciers on the Olympic Peninsula are sealed."
Western Washington University glaciologist Douglas Clark, who was not involved in the new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, called its findings "particularly stark."
"That essentially all glaciers in an entire mountain range, the Olympics, will be gone by 2070 should disturb even the most ardent climate contrarian," Clark said by email.
The glaciers of Olympic National Park sit at relatively low elevations, about 5,000 to 6,000 feet, and are shrinking faster than higher-elevation ice fields. Fountain called Olympic glaciers "the canary in the coal mine" for others in the western United States.
"It's the same story as you go from mountain range to mountain range, how they're responding," said Mauri Pelto, a geologist at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts. Pelto has been studying the ice atop the North Cascades for nearly 40 years. "Lots of glaciers have already disappeared."
Though scientists emphasize it is not too late to fend off catastrophic climate change, some amount of warming is already "baked in" to the atmosphere by the pollution already emitted.
"It may be too late for the Olympic glaciers, but perhaps not for those elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest, particularly on our taller (mostly volcanic) peaks," Clark said.
Pelto estimated that three-fourths of glaciers in the North Cascades could not survive the current climate, let alone an even hotter one.
If the region sees more hot summers like it had in 2021, "there's not going to be much left on Glacier Peak or Mount Baker, for sure," Pelto said.
Pelto said glacier research is a mixture of discovery, joy, and sadness.
"Of course, your work is relevant and important, and that keeps you going and keeps you focused," he said. "It's what you have to do."
Fountain said sometimes when thinking about the future of the icy realms he specializes in, he just shakes his head.
"Am I kind of wasting my time here? Maybe I should be doing something else," he said. "But you've got to fight the good fight when you can. And that's what I think a lot of the glaciologists are doing now." | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/environment/2022/05/07/olympic-peninsula-glaciers-disappear-climate-change-human-pollution-study/65354100007/ | 2022-05-07 14:43:02 | 0 | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/environment/2022/05/07/olympic-peninsula-glaciers-disappear-climate-change-human-pollution-study/65354100007/ |
Van Gundy, Kolber, Rose and Young are among roughly 20 ESPN personalities laid off
(AP) - Jeff Van Gundy, Suzy Kolber, Jalen Rose and Steve Young are among roughly 20 ESPN commentators and reporters who were laid off on Friday as part of job cuts by the network.
ESPN had planned this additional round involving on-air talent to prevent further reductions to off-air staff after two rounds of mandated cuts by its corporate owner, the Walt Disney Company.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February that the company would reduce 7,000 jobs either through not filling positions or layoffs.
Friday’s announcement resembled what happened in April of 2017, when reporters and hosts were informed at one time that they would no longer be on the air.
“Given the current environment, ESPN has determined it necessary to identify some additional cost savings in the area of public-facing commentator salaries, and that process has begun. This exercise will include a small group of job cuts in the short-term and an ongoing focus on managing costs when we negotiate individual contract renewals in the months ahead,” ESPN said in a statement. “This is an extremely challenging process, involving individuals who have had tremendous impact on our company. These difficult decisions, based more on overall efficiency than merit, will help us meet our financial targets and ensure future growth.”
The New York Post first reported the layoffs of Van Gundy and Rose.
Van Gundy had been the network’s top NBA analyst since 2007 and recently completed calling a record 17th NBA Finals. Kolber was a longtime ESPN veteran, including being the co-host of a nightly show when ESPN2 debuted in 1993.
She was also the host of ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” show.
“Today I join the many hard-working colleagues who have been laid off. Heartbreaking-but 27 years at ESPN was a good run. So grateful for a 38 yr career! Longevity for a woman in this business is something I’m especially proud of,” Kolber said on social media.
Rose had also been with ESPN since 2007. He was mainly part of the NBA studio shows but also did a radio show for 11 years and was a co-host when Mike Greenberg’s “Get Up” morning show premiered in 2018.
ESPN’s NFL coverage and the radio side, were the ones to take the biggest hits.
Longtime draft analyst Todd McShay, who also contributed to college football coverage, and analyst Matt Hasselbeck were also laid off.
ESPN Radio’s morning show team of Max Kellerman and Keyshawn Johnson as well as afternoon host Jason Fitz were also affected. Kellerman also did an afternoon show on ESPN, but that was unlikely to continue after Pat McAfee signed to bring his show to the network’s airwaves in the fall.
Others include “SportsCenter” anchor Ashley Brewer, radio and ACC Network host Jordan Cornette, college basketball analyst LaPhonso Ellis, NBA reporter Nick Friedell, baseball writer Joon Lee and “College GameDay” analyst David Pollack.
Most will be bought out of their contracts and receive their full pay. If they want to take another job, they would have to negotiate an exit arrangement with ESPN.
Johnson and Rose might be the first two to come to mind after Shannon Sharpe left FS1′s “Undisputed” due to increased tensions with co-host Skip Bayless.
ESPN is expected to continue assessing its talent pool over the next year as contracts are reviewed or negotiated for renewal. It had already started some reductions by not renewing the contracts of NHL studio analyst Chris Chelios, longtime “SportsCenter” anchor Neil Everett and NFL analyst Rob Ninkovich.
While its NFL, NHL and baseball contracts are set well into the future, negotiations for the renewal of NBA rights is expected to begin next year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press examination of the ethics practices of U.S. Supreme Court justices relied on documents obtained from more than 100 public records requests to public colleges, universities and other institutions that have hosted the justices over the past decade.
Here’s a look at how the reporting was done:
To conduct its review, the AP surveyed local news stories and social media and obtained data from ScotusTracker, a website that logs justices’ activities, to develop a list of appearances over the past 10 years.
In late 2022 and early this year, the AP submitted records requests to the public institutions on that list, citing individual state statutes that require the disclosure of certain documents to the public.
The requests sought a broad range of information, including details about any contracts or riders for the appearances; transportation to and from events as well as food and lodging; the recording policy for the event, and any gift or honorarium discussed or offered, including book sales.
The AP separately queried more than 100 private colleges, universities and charities that have also hosted justices or organized events for them, requesting that they provide the same information that was asked of public institutions. Some confirmed basic details of the visits, but few provided substantive information.
The AP cataloged the travel and perks afforded to the justices. The AP also compiled lists of guests, including donors and politicians, who were invited to private receptions with justices and vetted them wherever possible against information in federal court records, Federal Election Commission filings, online photo albums of events and other publicly available data.
The responses among public institutions varied widely. Some schools, including the University of Rhode Island, Ohio State University, Stony Brook University and the University of California, Davis, provided records free of charge. Some schools turned over thousands of pages of records, including George Mason University and the University of Kentucky.
McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, produced 104 pages of records in March and then, following a $110 payment, shipped by mail a box of blue folders containing hundreds more pages. A reporting trip was also taken there so that a journalist could observe firsthand the site of a dinner that the college organized for Justice Clarence Thomas.
In some instances, AP filed multiple requests with the same institution, either because the school asked that the initial request be substantially narrowed or because an initial response suggested that even more details might be available. In the case of the University of Texas at Tyler, for instance, the AP filed a follow-up request to obtain a guest list for a dinner with Thomas. A follow-up request was filed with the University of Mississippi for the cost of a flight that carried Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Antonin Scalia and Scalia’s son and grandson in 2014.
Some institutions were less forthcoming. The AP went to the Illinois state attorney general to get a binding opinion directing the Chicago Public Library to produce documents related to a visit by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Other schools, including the University of Arizona, have said their search for records remained ongoing after more than six months.
The AP did pay some schools for documents, including $140 to Michigan State University; $159.24 to the University of Minnesota and roughly $150 to the University of Mississippi.
But some schools responded to records requests with fee demands that the AP deemed unreasonable. The initial fee cited by the University of Georgia for processing two requests was $18,800.50, though it was later reduced after the AP narrowed its request.
The AP also sought comment from the universities that supplied the records, the donors mentioned in the story and the Supreme Court itself, which provided a statement responding to the findings.
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By JAKE BLEIBERG and KEVIN MCGILL
Associated Press
KEITHVILLE, La. (AP) — Communities from Texas to Florida commenced assisting survivors and cleaning up Thursday after tornadoes left scattered destruction and at least three people dead across the South. To the north, blizzards continued to pound the Midwest as more ice and snow headed toward New England.
Three straight days of volatile weather in the South continued Thursday as a possible tornado wrecked a building housing a cotton gin in rural Georgia and forecasters issued a stream of tornado warnings across the Florida peninsula.
The same storm front had spawned twisters as it marched from central Texas across Louisiana, where all three storm deaths were confirmed, before destroying farm buildings in Mississippi and tearing roofs off other buildings in Alabama.
In Union Parish, Louisiana, near the Arkansas line, volunteers stocked a gymnasium with donated clothing and other supplies for dozens whose homes were badly damaged or destroyed.
“It shows that people love you,” said Patsy Andrews, who survived the storm hunkered in a bath tub with her three children. “It shows that people care.”
Andrews teared up as she recounted how winds blew open her front door early Wednesday in the Union County community of Farmerville as tornado alerts sounded. Windows started breaking with a popping noise like gunfire, she said, as the family crawled into the bathroom.
“The only thing we know to do was just crying, we was screaming, just calling on Jesus,” Andrews said. She added: “We all grabbed each other, we jumped in the tub. All we could do was just pray. It was very devastating.”
A few others caught in the storm’s path weren’t so fortunate.
A man who was out buying groceries Tuesday when a suspected tornado struck rural Keithville, Lousiana, returned to find his mobile home swept away and his wife and 8-year-old son missing. Hours later, authorities discovered the body of Nikolus Little in the woods. His mother, Yoshiko A. Smith, was found dead later, under storm debris.
“He just went to go shopping for his family, came home and the house was gone,” Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Sgt. Casey Jones said.
A third death was confirmed west of New Orleans in St. Charles Parish, where Sheriff Greg Champagne said eight people went to hospitals with injuries Wednesday and a woman was found dead outside a home.
“There was debris everywhere. She could have been struck. We don’t know for sure,” Champagne said. “But this was a horrific and a very violent tornado.”
The National Weather Service can take days to confirm whether destructive winds were in fact tornadoes. Data compiled by the Southern Regional Climate Center at Texas A&M University showed nearly 50 tornadoes reported across six states since Tuesday — the vast majority of them in Louisiana and Mississippi.
In New Orleans, a home collapsed injuring four people, and five people were injured in New Iberia, Louisiana, where a possible tornado smashed the windows of Iberia Medical Center, authorities said.
“When I came out, all the windows were broken,” Lindsey Ronsonet, who was with a friend seeking treatment when the storm hit, told KATC-TV. “They had rain everywhere in there.”
In Mississippi, a suspected tornado destroyed four large chicken houses, one containing 5,000 roosters, Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said. In Summerville, Alabama, Fire Chief Michael Aaron said storm winds tore away roofing and downed power lines.
Before the storm front began to move offshore, police in rural Doerun, Georgia, reported a suspected tornado had struck a large building housing a cotton gin, leaving a sagging heap of bent metal. No injuries were reported, the police department said in a Facebook post.
Further to the north, the National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings Thursday in the Dakotas as well as portions of Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska.
Roger Hainy, who owns a farm near Wessington Springs in central South Dakota, said he was shut in after blowing snow formed drifts that made the roads impassable. His farm lost power earlier in the week when freezing rain hit the area and Hainy’s electricity was “blinking on and off” on Thursday.
“Back when I was a kid we used to have 3-day blizzards, but this one is going to be 4 days,” Hainy said. “It’s been a long time since we’ve had one like this.”
In Bismark, North Dakota, an additional 4 inches (10 centimeters) of snow were expected Thursday to top a foot that has already accumulated. Wind gusts of 60 miles per hour (96 kph) prompted a no-travel advisory for major highways.
“The wind and ice — it’s miserable, and a lot of people are in the ditches,” said Dean Cota, manager of the Stamart Travel Center, where the parking lot was full of truckers waiting out the storm. “Everything’s just slick and it’s blowing vehicles right off the road.”
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state is well prepared for an expected several inches of snow in some areas over the coming days. During a briefing in Albany, Hochul said that in addition to snow, strong winds that could topple power lines posed a threat.
“We have utility crews all set, already on the ground, ready to respond as quickly as possible,” she said.
Forecasters expect more blizzard conditions in places across the Upper Midwest, and ice and snow from the central Appalachians into the Northeast. The National Weather Service issued an ice storm warning Thursday in parts of four states and a winter storm warning through Friday night from Pennsylvania to Maine.
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McGill reported from New Orleans. Associated Press writers James MacPherson in Bismarck, North Dakota; Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; John Raby in Charleston, West Virginia; Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this story.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden celebrated a quiet Christmas with his family at the White House and spoke with service members stationed around the world.
“They’re away from their families to protect us,” Biden said in a tweet. “And they have the thanks of a grateful, indebted president.”
The White House said Biden and the first lady, Jill, called members of the Army stationed at Panama City, Panama; the Navy aboard the USS The Sullivans in the Arabian Sea; the Marine Corps at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego; the Air Force at Okinawa, Japan; the Space Force in Europe; and the Coast Guard aboard the cutter Bertholf in Alameda, California.
This is Biden’s second Christmas as president. On Saturday, Biden and his family joined a Mass on Christmas Eve at the White House and continued their holiday tradition of an Italian dinner.
The president and first lady on Friday also carried on another tradition with their second holiday visit to Children’s National Hospital. Biden was the first sitting president to join his wife when they visited hospitalized children and their families before Christmas last year, according to the White House.
Surrounded by Christmas trees and holiday decorations, the first lady read “The Snowy Day” with the president’s help holding up the book.
Biden last week encouraged national unity in a recorded address, calling out the nation’s political divisions and saying he hoped “this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another.”
“So, this Christmas, let’s spread a little kindness,” he said. | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-biden-first-lady-thank-service-members-in-christmas-calls/ | 2022-12-26 00:44:51 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-biden-first-lady-thank-service-members-in-christmas-calls/ |
Columbia Animal Services continues free pet adoptions
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Columbia Animal Services is continuing free pet adoptions.
The adoption period for September is running from Sept. 16 - Sept. 21.
Adoptions are taking place at Columbia Animal Services, 127 Humane Lane, Columbia SC, 29209.
“We are looking forward to participating in this year’s annual Clear the Shelters event. Clear the Shelters is a great opportunity for shelter pets to find homes and it also helps ease capacity issues in local shelters. All adoptions will be free for the duration of the event, September 16 – September 21, making this the perfect opportunity to adopt,” said Victoria Riles Columbia Animal Services Superintendent.
More information about pet adoptions can be found at the link here.
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