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Perhaps it's apt that to watch the new Apple TV comedy Shrinking is to reckon inevitably with its extended family.
That family includes Ted Lasso, with which Shrinking shares two of its creators, TV comedy veteran Bill Lawrence (who created Ted with Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly) and Brett Goldstein (who writes for Ted and plays Roy Kent). But there's also the past work of Jason Segel, the star and the other creator. Segel's roles as men who are often sad and awkward go at least as far back as Freaks and Geeks, but he's also an interesting, idiosyncratic screenwriter who's written or co-written projects for himself including The Muppets, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and the captivating, oddball AMC drama series Dispatches from Elsewhere.
Shrinking itself is, at heart, a family story. Jimmy (Segel) is a therapist who's also the recently widowed father of a 17-year-old daughter named Alice (Lukita Maxwell). He's working to reconfigure their relationship in a new way, shaped by his grief and hers. But Jimmy's real family is larger than that. It includes his neighbor, Liz (Christa Miller) and her husband Derek (Ted McGinley); his best friend Brian (Michael Urie), from whom he's estranged a bit when the story opens; a young patient named Sean (Luke Tennie) who needs some extra help with trauma related to his military service; and Jimmy's two colleagues at the office, Paul (Harrison Ford) and Gaby (Jessica Williams).
I ask you to pause for a moment and review the number of potential MVPs who are part of that cast. Just sit with it. And that's before Wendie Malick shows up.
The hook of Shrinking, as it's been described, is that because Jimmy is going through so much, he becomes radically honest with his patients and starts telling them what he really thinks about, for instance, their terrible spouses. And there is a little bit of that. A small part of Jimmy's larger sense of crisis and mess is that on top of his own struggles, he has to listen to everybody else's — one of the themes of the show is that even your therapist has stuff. But mostly, that's a shorthand that makes this sound a little more high-concept, and a little less rich, than it is.
For the most part, this is an ensemble comedy-drama (leaning more toward comedy) about a bunch of people with problems. It's joined to Segel's past work through his years-long exploration of the humor that underlies melancholy, and it's joined to Ted Lasso through the two things that show is most effectively about (neither of which is sports): pain and decency.
At its best, Ted Lasso is not about people who are "nice" as much as its reputation might suggest; it's about people who are hurting and decent. They are doing their best for each other. They are struggling, they make terrible errors, and they cause hurt. But, even when punched in the gut, they often redouble their efforts to be better than the sum of their wounds and losses. And one of the challenges of that show, at least for people who are suspicious of sentimentality, is that because it's about sports, it sometimes makes its themes literal. Community equals team equals AFC Richmond; support equals pep talks equals halftime coaching. For some people, having those strings plucked is satisfying and magical, even when you know it's happening. For others, it tips over into something that's almost distasteful, a bit aggressively on the nose.
To the degree Shrinking shares these themes with Ted, it asserts them less directly. Support and kindness take the form of a talk between friends, a drive to work, a place to stay, an invitation, an apology. Community is cobbled together from people who choose each other on a daily basis; their team jerseys are figurative. Without the big moments that big games and big plays can bring, the scale is smaller. The show is quieter, even though it's packed to the gills with good jokes delivered by this genuinely stupendous cast. And unlike Ted, Jimmy is not a central character who is expected to bear the weight of working miracles or near-miracles; it is a show less reliant on one guy to be its foundational emotional messenger.
Segel has been playing sad men — or at least men with a streak of gloom, men who seem to understand disappointment — for so long that one could miss how seriously he takes his work and how different these men really are. He's almost made a study of the Man With Big Feelings in both his acting and his writing, from the highly sensitive teenager he played in Freaks and Geeks to the literally naked depression of Forgetting Sarah Marshall to the squishy-hearted married man of How I Met Your Mother, the deeply feeling searcher of The Muppets, and even the frustrated criminal holding a rich couple hostage in the Netflix thriller Windfall. Now he's helped create Jimmy, a man who has devoted his life to the task of learning to manage emotion. Segel is very, very good here, too, even when Jimmy is frustrating, as he often is.
The biggest headline about Shrinking has probably been the involvement of Harrison Ford, who gives the funniest performance I've seen from him ... maybe ever? Maybe since Working Girl? Not the dry, sprinkled wit — however devastatingly dashing it is — of Indiana Jones or Han Solo, but what feels like a whole new comic gear. When you take very good comedy writing and you give it to someone as gifted with the control of his voice and his face as Ford, it comes back to you as exceptional comedy. He offers a reminder that he is a fabulous comic actor and an stupendous comic reactor, even if these skills have not been his bread and butter. To laugh out loud, not figuratively but literally, is relatively rare when I watch things at home; it was not rare while watching this performance.
But wait! Jessica Williams as Gaby is also so, so good, as a woman who has very particular relationships with Jimmy, with Paul, with Liz, with Alice — you can see how Gaby is a good therapist, because she intuitively gives each conversation what it needs. (She's also particularly funny in a few early scenes with Ford that jolted me into cackles using some unexpected music cues, and her surprising friendship with Liz deepens both characters.)
And Michael Urie! The divine Michael Urie, yet another person who is good in everything in which I have ever seen him — and another riotous reactor — has just-right best-friend chemistry with Segel, as the two of them explore the way a friendship can be challenged, and not just strengthened, by hard times. Christa Miller is terrific, Maxwell and Tennie (the two actors I knew the least well) are terrific, and can I just say: Bless Ted McGinley, who has been a reliable ingredient in comedies going back to Happy Days. Here, he may not have a ton of screen time, but every time he's called upon to give life to Derek's loving, good-hearted, but sometimes acerbic take on being a suburban husband and father, he nails it to the wall. It's a confident, knowing bit of work, and maybe the best-ever use of his talent.
All of these characters keep being mixed up in different combinations as the episodes roll out (I have seen nine out of what will be 10): Jimmy and Alice, Jimmy and Paul, Jimmy and Gaby, Jimmy and Paul and Gaby — but also Gaby and Liz, Alice and Paul, Liz and Sean, Paul and Sean, Brian and Paul, Brian and Gaby. No matter how they're combined, something good happens, like a very well-thought-out wardrobe where six or seven strong pieces make 30 great outfits. That's how the best ensemble shows work.
As if all that weren't enough, this is the first show I have ever seen that pulls off a good "Casimir Pulaski Day" joke, or would ever think to try one.
So yes, there are family relationships between Shrinking and Ted Lasso, Shrinking and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Shrinking and How I Met Your Mother. But as this very show would eagerly remind you, relationships are complicated. And on its own terms, the show is a bright spot in a very crowded landscape that isn't always this good at taking pain and decency — and comedy — and giving them all room to breathe.
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US, Philippines agree on larger American military presence
By JIM GOMEZ
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines have announced an agreement to expand American military presence in the Southeast Asian country, where U.S. forces and weaponry will be granted access to four more Philippine military camps under a 2014 defense pact. The agreement between the longtime treaty allies was made public Thursday during the visit of U.S. Secretary Lloyd Austin and will give U.S. forces additional staging ground in Asia to ramp up deterrence against China’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/01/us-philippines-agree-on-larger-american-military-presence/ | 2023-02-02 07:42:22 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/01/us-philippines-agree-on-larger-american-military-presence/ |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Here are some of the women to watch at Wimbledon, which begins at the All England Club on Monday:
Seeded: 1
Career-Best Ranking: 1
Country: Poland
Age: 22
2023 Record: 37-6 (Playing at Bad Homburg Open this week)
2023 Titles: 3
Career Titles: 14
Grand Slam Titles: 4 — French Open (3: 2020, 2022, 2023), U.S. Open (1: 2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Lost in 3rd Round, 2021-4th, 2019-1st, 2018-Did Not Play, 2017-DNP
Aces: Coming off a title at the French Open. … Career mark of 5-3 at Wimbledon is by far her worst at a major. … Only Grand Slam tournament where she has not at least reached the semifinals. … A year ago, her 37-match unbeaten streak, which included six tournament titles, ended with a third-round loss to Alize Cornet at Wimbledon. … Took over at No. 1 in the rankings in April 2022 after Ash Barty retired.
She Said It: “I’m 22, so I literally don’t know what my limits are.”
Seeded: 2
Career-Best Ranking: 2
Country: Belarus
Age: 25
2023 Record: 35-7
2023 Titles: 3
Career Titles: 13
Grand Slam Titles: 1 — Australian Open (2023)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Barred, 2021-SF, 2019-1st, 2018-1st, 2017-2nd
Aces: Like other players from Russia and Belarus, was not allowed to compete at Wimbledon in 2022 because of the invasion of Ukraine. That ban was lifted by the All England Club this year. … Faced two opponents from Ukraine at this year’s French Open; stayed away from news conferences after two other matches when she said she was uncomfortable with questions being asked about the war. … First career Grand Slam title came in January at Melbourne Park. She credited both an improved serve — she worked with a biomechanics expert to retool the motion — and improved outlook. … Only woman to reach at least the semifinals at the past three majors.
She Said It: “I felt disrespected. I felt like a journalist (tried) to put the words in my mouth. I didn’t feel comfortable. This is just the way I felt.”
Seeded: 3
Career-Best Ranking: 3
Country: Kazakhstan
Age: 24
2023 Record: 31-8
2023 Titles: 2
Career Titles: 5
Grand Slam Titles: 1 — Wimbledon (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Won Championship, 2021-4th, 2019-DNP, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Defending champion at Wimbledon. … Withdrew before the third round of the French Open and before her opening match at a grass-court tune-up tournament in England because of a viral illness. … Was the runner-up at the Australian Open in January. … Nearly completed the so-called Sunshine Double on hard courts this season, winning title at Indian Wells, California, in March, then reaching final at Miami in April. … Big serve is as dangerous as any on tour; has 316 aces this season, 50 more than anyone else.
She Said It: “For sure, that’s the goal, to be in the second week of all the Grand Slam, to play finals.”
Seeded: 4
Career-Best Ranking: 3
Country: United States
Age: 29
2023 Record: 27-10
2023 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 2
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Quarterfinals, French Open (2021, 2022, 2023), Australian Open (2022), U.S. Open (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-3rd, 2021-2nd, 2019-1st, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Reached the WTA Finals for the first time last season after cracking the Top 10 for the first time. … Breakthrough season included three Slam quarterfinals before a loss to the No. 1 seed and eventual champion each time: Ash Barty at Australian Open; Iga Swiatek at French Open and U.S. Open. … Coached by David Witt, who used to work with Venus Williams. … Parents own NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
She Said It: “I’m good with being under the radar; I’m good with not being under the radar. I mean, whatever. It doesn’t really matter.”
Seeded: 6
Career-Best Ranking: 2
Country: Tunisia
Age: 28
2023 Record: 16-9
2023 Titles: 1
Career Titles: 4
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Runner-Up, Wimbledon (2022), U.S. Open (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Runner-Up, 2021-QF, 2019-1st, 2018-2nd, 2017-1st
Aces: Breakthrough 2022 included runs to the finals at Wimbledon and U.S. Open. … First woman from North Africa and first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final. … Half of her four career titles were earned on grass courts. … Represented by management company founded by Naomi Osaka and her agent. … Husband is her fitness trainer.
She Said It: “We always want to do better, unless we win the title.”
Seeded: 7
Career-Best Ranking: 4
Country: United States
Age: 19
2023 Record: 27-10 (Playing at Eastbourne this week)
2023 Titles: 1
Career Titles: 3
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Runner-Up, French Open (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-3rd, 2021-4th, 2019-4th, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Became a star at age 15 at Wimbledon, when she was the youngest qualifier in tournament history and beat Venus Williams in the first round before making it all the way to the fourth round. … Made the final at the French Open last year in singles and doubles. … Has been ranked No. 1 in doubles. … In 2022, became youngest American woman since 1994 to qualify for the WTA Finals in singles. Also earned doubles berth.
She Said It: “Every time I go back to Wimbledon, I get those memories of that run. I feel it’s just going to be like that for the rest of my career.”
Seeded: 16
Career-Best Ranking: 16
Country: Czech Republic
Age: 26
2023 Record: 25-8
2023 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 1
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Runner-Up, French Open (2023)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-1st, 2021-QF, 2019-QF, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open by saving a match point and winning the last five games against Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals. … Plays a varied game that includes plenty of spins and angles but also forays to the net. … Ranks 10th on tour among players with more than 25 matches this season by winning 75% of her service games. … Wimbledon is the only major where she has reached the quarterfinals twice.
She Said It: “To call myself a Grand Slam finalist, it’s an amazing achievement and, for sure, big motivation for me to work in the future and to get a chance again to play for these big titles.”
Seeded: N/A
Career-Best Ranking: 1
Country: United States
Age: 43
2023 Record: 2-3
2023 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 49
Grand Slam Titles: 7 — Wimbledon (5: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008), U.S. Open (2: 2000, 2001)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-DNP, 2021-2nd, 2019-1st, 2018-3rd, 2017-RU
Aces: Making her 24th appearance in singles at the All England Club after receiving a wild-card invitation. … Hadn’t played since early January until returning to action at a grass-court event in the Netherlands in June. … In addition to her five singles championships at Wimbledon, she was the runner-up four times, including three to her now-retired younger sister, Serena.
She Said It: “I’m trying to get better every day. I think that, no matter what happens to you in life, you always hold your head up high. You give a hundred, million percent. That’s what I do every single day. That’s something that I can be proud of.”
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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FORT MILL, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A significant and at times controversial figure, evangelist Pat Robertson is being remembered in a variety of ways around Charlotte, where he had a significant indirect impact on the area’s history.
Robertson, who died Thursday at the age of 93, founded what came to be known as the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia. The network’s early days, which consisted of only a handful of television stations, marked the start of a number of religious broadcasters, including Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
The Bakkers would later leave the network, move to Charlotte and begin work on their Praise the Lord, or PTL, ministry. Fort Mill was its base of operations before scandal would plague the ministry in the 1980s.
Jim Bakker made this statement Thursday on Robertson’s death:
“My heart is broken on hearing of the passing of my dear friend and mentor Pat Robertson. He is truly the father of Christian television, who I had the privilege of working with for eight years. His voice and wisdom will be greatly missed in these difficult times on Earth. He leaves a great legacy of being the first Christian television broadcaster and the first to bring the charismatic message to the world. Among his achievements is the founding of Regent University. His spirit-filled voice and wisdom will be missed by millions of people. I know for sure he is in Heaven with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and millions of souls that he was won for the Lord.”
Jim Bakker
Many of the reminders of Robertson’s indirect influence are in what is left, physically, of the Bakker empire, which includes the Indian Land-based INSP Network.
CEO David Cerullo said in a statement, in part:
“This was a personal loss. I had the privilege of knowing Pat. He had been an inspiration to me and the Inspiration Ministries family. He was here in Lancaster County, S.C., for the dedication of our campus and became a source of encouragement.”
David Cerullo
Robertson was also known for his friendship with Charlotte native the Rev. Billy Graham. In a statement, Graham’s son Franklin Graham said, in part:
“I will miss Pat, but I know that I will see him again one day. I’m sure that his family would appreciate our prayers. I’m grateful for how Pat Robertson helped bring Jesus Christ into the mainstream. He set the standard for others to follow. So many people in Christian broadcasting measured their TV programs based on the standard at CBN. Pat had a high bar and I appreciate that. He also set a standard in his willingness to engage the culture in topics of faith. My father would preach a Crusade and it would be on television several times a year for a few days, but this is something that Pat did every day. He shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ every chance he had. There’s no question he was a trailblazer, and I thank God for him.”
Franklin Graham
Despite the significant indirect connections to the Charlotte area, Robertson is also being remembered for the controversies over the decades from statements he either made in public or on his “700 Club” program, making statements on LGBTQ issues, feminism, church and state separation, and abortion — even claiming that natural disasters and terrorist attacks are caused by those very issues. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/fort-mill/pat-robertson-helped-launch-jim-and-tammy-faye-bakker/ | 2023-06-09 02:03:35 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/fort-mill/pat-robertson-helped-launch-jim-and-tammy-faye-bakker/ |
BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Staypineapple, a hospitality company based in the Pacific Northwest, is pleased to announce the appointment of Casey Barks as Corporate Director of Marketing.
"We are delighted to welcome Casey Barks to the Staypineapple Family," said Steve Allison, Chief Revenue Officer for Staypineapple. "Casey brings a wealth of marketing, communications, and public relations experience and extensive hospitality industry knowledge to his role."
In his new position at Staypineapple, Barks is responsible for developing, leading, and executing strategic marketing, public relations, and media planning.
Barks began his marketing career in San Francisco with the Ritz-Carlton Club & Residences. From there, he served as Marketing Account Manager for Andrew Freeman & Co. and as Director of Marketing for Tacolicious Restaurant Group. Barks then spent eight progressive years with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, culminating with Regional Director of Public Relations for the hotel group's Pacific Northwest Region. Most recently, he successfully led marketing, messaging strategy, PR, and media relations as the Marketing & Communications Director for Willamette Valley Vineyards and the company's subsidiary brands and labels.
Barks holds a degree in both Public Relations and Advertising from Northern Arizona University.
Staypineapple is a brand of upscale, out-of-the-ordinary boutique hotels in urban markets nationwide, owned and managed by Pineapple Hospitality, based in Bellevue, Wash. Focused on thoughtful service and design, with an uncanny knack for anticipating needs, the dog-friendly hotels wholeheartedly embrace the pineapple's symbol of hospitality and joy. For more information or to make a reservation, visit Staypineapple.com or call (866) 866-7977. Follow Staypineapple on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Explosion reported at Chicago building
Published: Sep. 20, 2022 at 10:13 AM CDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
(Gray News) - First responders are at the scene of an explosion at a Chicago building on Tuesday morning.
The Chicago Fire Department said an adjacent building is being evacuated.
Six people have been transported from the scene, with three victims serious to critical, the fire department said.
The explosion happened at Central and West End, and a mass casualty EMS bus is now heading to Washington and Central, the fire department tweeted.
The source of the explosion isn’t known.
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LOS ANGELES -- The one where Matthew Perry tries to make amends with Keanu Reeves: The "Friends" star appeared at the LA Times Festival of Books on Saturday, and, during a panel, told the audience that he plans to remove Reeves' name from future editions of his 2022 memoir "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," CNN reported.
The memoir is a candid telling of Perry's struggle with substance abuse and addiction, but the actor faced backlash last fall for references to Reeves that some found offensive, including in one excerpt about his friend River Phoenix's 1993 death.
"River was a beautiful man, inside and out -- too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down," Perry wrote. "Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?"
Perry previously apologized for the comment, saying in a statement to People in October 2022 that he's "a big fan" of Reeves and had just chosen a "random name" in the prose. "I apologize. I should have used my own name instead," he added in the statement.
SEE MORE: Matthew Perry recounts how Jennifer Aniston confronted him about his substance abuse
On Saturday, Perry addressed the Reeves mention once more, this time telling the audience "I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do," according to the LA Times.
"I pulled his name because I live on the same street," Perry said during the panel, noting that "any future versions of the book will not have his name in it."
While Perry had previously apologized to Reeves, he also mentioned on Saturday that he's yet to apologize to the "Matrix" star in person.
"If I run into the guy, I'll apologize. It was just stupid," Perry concluded.
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(WFRV) – A woman from Glenmore is facing multiple charges after a head-on crash in Brown County that left one person dead and another seriously injured.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Local 5, 47-year-old Paula Mejia is facing two charges, including homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, after a deadly crash on April 12. On April 12 around 9:15 p.m., authorities were sent to French Road for a two-vehicle crash.
When an officer arrived, one vehicle was in flames and a passerby signaled to the officer about a woman who was trapped in her vehicle. The woman, who was identified as Mejia, was eventually removed from the vehicle before the flames got to her.
Mejia was reportedly conscious but did not remember anything. The other vehicle had two passengers.
The driver of the vehicle was unresponsive with ‘obvious’ injuries. A young man was in the front passenger seat. Authorities say he was ‘crushed’ between the dashboard and seat.
The young man was later airlifted to a local hospital. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities spoke to witnesses at the scene. One of the witnesses said she was out at a work party with Paula. The witness said Mejia was seen drinking between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Another witness said they were also out to dinner and drinks with Mejia at the same time. Mejia reportedly went to two different establishments.
The initial investigation reportedly showed that Mejia crossed the centerline on French road and hit the other vehicle head-on.
Mejia was sent to a hospital, where authorities asked her some questions. According to the complaint, Mejia admitted to drinking and said she had two beers.
She reportedly denied submitting to an evidentiary chemical test of her blood. However, authorities ended up getting a warrant.
In the complaint, it claims that Mejia asked if a lawyer could delay or stop the blood draw. Two vials of blood were taken from Mejia. They were eventually taken to the Post Office and mailed.
The young man reportedly suffered two broken femurs, a broken elbow and a broken wrist. The complaint says the boy would need a ‘few’ surgeries.
Mejia is charged with the following:
- Homicide by Intoxicated Use of a Vehicle
- Felony
- Up to 25 years in prison
- Injury by Intoxicated Use of a Vehicle
- Felony
- Up to 12 and a half years in prison
Court records show that Mejia was due in court on April 17 for her initial appearance. Her arrest records show that a $25,000 cash bond was set.
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Feb. 13
Today you can expect a high near 55 degrees and a 90% chance of showers during the day with a possible thunderstorm after 11 a.m. Tonight should be cloudy during the evening and gradually clearing with a low around 34 degrees. There is a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8 p.m. and showers between 8 and 11 p.m. Yesterday's high was 78 degrees and the low was 36.
Last year on this date the high was 82 degrees and the low was 44. Fifty years ago on this date the high was 55 degrees, the low was 41 and there was 17 hundredths of an inch of rain. One hundred years ago the high was 71 degrees and the low was 28.
The record high for Feb. 13 is 89 degrees, set in 1957. The record low is 21 degrees, set in 1948. Record snowfall for this date is 4 inches in 1908.
Feb. 12
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Today is expected to be sunny and breezy with a high near 77 degrees. Winds will be from the south southeast and could gust as high as 34 mph. There may be blowing dust after 4 p.m. Tonight should bring increasing clouds with a low around 37 degrees.
Yesterday's high was 70 degrees and the low was 50.
Last year on this date the high was 80 degrees and the low was 40. Fifty years ago on this date the high was 59 degrees, the low was 44 and there was 4 hundredths of an inch of rain. One hundred years ago the high was 64 degrees and the low was 32.
The record high for Feb. 12 is 87 degrees, set in 2016. The record low is 20 degrees, set in 1948. Record snowfall for this date is 1.1 inches, set in 1946.
Feb. 11
Last year on this date the high was 79 degrees and the low was 42. Fifty years ago on this date the high was 60 degrees, the low was 48 and there was a trace amount of rain. One hundred years ago the high was 64 degrees and the low was 32.
Feb. 10
Last year on this date the high was 78 degrees and the low was 40. Fifty years ago on this date the high was 62 degrees and the low was 43. One hundred years ago the high was 58 degrees and the low was 40.
Feb. 9
Last year on this date the high was 77 degrees and the low was 36. Fifty years ago on this date the high was 61 degrees and the low was 43. One hundred years ago the high was 56 degrees, the low was 41 and there was 6 hundredths of an inch of rain.
Feb. 8
Last year on this date the high was 73 degrees and the low was 44. Fifty years ago on this date the high was 63 degrees and the low was 44. One hundred years ago the high was 65 degrees and the low was 35.
Feb. 7
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Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, was rushed to the hospital on Thursday, according to a report by Entertainment Tonight, citing a LA County Sheriff's Office spokesperson.
TMZ was first to report the news.
LA County Fire Department spokesperson Kaitlyn Aldana told CNN that emergency responders were dispatched to a call in the 5000 block of Normandy Dr in Agoura Hills, California, at 10:37am local time for a cardiac arrest. Aldana would not confirm the name of the the patient, who could not be identified due to privacy laws, but said the patient was taken to a to a local hospital at 11:17am.
A spokesperson for the LA County Sheriff told CNN they assisted fire officials on a medical call this morning, but also would not confirm the patient's name.
When reached by CNN, a representative for Presley declined to comment.
Presley was most recently seen on Tuesday night at the Golden Globe Awards, which she attended with her mother Priscilla to support the Baz Luhrmann film "Elvis," about her late father.
In 2020, Presley's son Benjamin Keough died by suicide at the age of 27. Last July, Presley marked the second anniversary of Keough's death on Instagram, sharing a photo of their matching foot tattoos.
Presley, who has previously been married to Michael Lockwood, Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and Danny Keough, has three other children -- actress Riley Keough, Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood.
In September, Presley wrote an essay for National Grief Awareness Day, in which she opened up about the loss of her son.
"My and my three daughters' lives as we knew it were completely detonated and destroyed by his death. We live in this every. Single. Day," she wrote. "Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not 'get over it,' you do not 'move on,' period."
Presley also said in the essay that she found comfort in the company of people who have faced similar tragedy, adding that her daughters help keep her going.
"I keep going for my girls," she wrote. "I keep going because my son made it very clear in his final moments that taking care of his little sisters and looking out for them were on the forefront of his concerns and his mind. He absolutely adored them and they him."
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Trash talk show maven Jerry Springer, who died last Thursday at 79 after battling pancreatic cancer, will forever be remembered as a former mayor and city councilman of Cincinnati and as the host of one of daytime TV's most infamous programs. But a few people got to see another side of Springer through a unique connection he had to Dallas.
Springer appeared on an episode of Kidd Kraddick's syndicated morning radio show on Jan. 8, 2010, the date of Elvis Presley's birthday. Springer talked about his love for The King's music and shocked the show's hosts by singing an Elvis song that sounded incredibly close to the real McCoy.
Radio host Big Al Mack owned and ran a restaurant in Dallas called Big Al's McKinney Avenue Tavern and invited Springer to host a show at his place. The show became a regular event for Big Al's place for the next few years on Elvis' birthday.
"I'm always looking for doing a different type of promotion for my restaurant," Mack says. "I asked if he'd do that at the restaurant and he did. We ended up doing that three or four years in a row where he'd come down on Elvis' birthday or around Elvis' birthday and sing a couple of songs."
The event helped create a friendship between Mack and Springer.
"It became a regular thing where he'd look forward to it and I would look forward to it," Mack says.
The annual Elvis karaoke competition attracted a huge crowd of fans willing to shout Springer's trademark "Jer-ry!" The chant followed him throughout his TV talk show's 27-season run and long after its final episode aired in 2018 — when Springer held back tears while giving his final "Final Thought" and urged his viewers to "Take care of yourselves and each other," a catchphrase he used throughout his TV career from his days as a TV news commentator to his chair-flinging TV fight fest.
As videos of Springer's performers found their way online and captured the attention of outlets like the internet tabloid TMZ, his Elvis covers became another strange facet of his persona. Springer sang songs such as "Love Me Tender" and "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" on talk shows, at speeches and even at a wedding reception. Springer appeared on the most recent season of the FOX singing competition The Masked Singer as a character named "Beetle."
"He had the deep voice and he would sing and wouldn't dress like [Elvis] or anything," Mack says. "Everybody would holler out 'Jerry! Jerry!' Everybody loved it. I've had several people that have reached out to me since he passed away and said thank you for making him so accessible to me and I didn't do a whole lot. He was the one that did it and people loved it."
Springer would often stay late into the night for Big Al's annual karaoke show to sign autographs and take pictures for everyone who wanted one. Mack says he was gracious and friendly to everyone who met him.
"He was a very humble guy," Mack says. "He realized that people wanted to hang out with him and he did as much as he could to accommodate everybody."
Mack had to close his popular McKinney Avenue bar, but he's since reopened in Waxahachie with Big Al's Down the Hatch Restaurant and Bar. Springer's annual show may not have continued at his new place, but Mack says they kept in touch, exchanging messages, updates about their families and jokes.
"He never took himself too serious," Mack says. "He knew what his show was. It was junk food, but he took it the way it was. I remember one time he came down and we were talking on the show and I don't know how it came up but we were talking about how when we're boarding an airplane as normal people, we try not to make eye contact with the people sitting in first class, and he leaned over and said, 'There's other people on your plane?'" | https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/for-years-jerry-springer-came-to-dallas-to-host-elvis-karaoke-nights-no-really-16461089 | 2023-05-02 17:31:00 | 1 | https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/for-years-jerry-springer-came-to-dallas-to-host-elvis-karaoke-nights-no-really-16461089 |
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Josh Lee, CEO of Swit Technologies Inc., and Choi Jin-hwan, CEO of SK Broadband, have signed a commitment between the two companies for an investment of 4 million USD into Swit.
SK Group is the second largest corporate group in Korea by asset size after Samsung Group, and SK Telecom ranks first in wireless communications. SK Broadband and SK Telecom have been making strategic investments in the global collaboration platform market. They are working in partnership with Swit, a Work OS that shows fast growth and immense potential in this sector. The investment is expected to revolutionize the way people work.
Effective immediately, SK Broadband and Swit will organize a dedicated team for joint sales and marketing, and Swit's service will be provided to all SK Broadband clients and companies interested in innovating their workflow and accelerating the digital transformation of their companies.
The investment by SK Broadband shows its enthusiasm to work with Swit to actively target the hybrid work market, which has seen increased demand amid the pandemic.
Lee Bang-yeol, Vice President at SK Broadband confirmed, "This partnership will be a great opportunity for SK Broadband and its clients to establish a more productive work environment and foster a company culture that re-humanizes work."
"The pandemic has caused a fundamental change in how businesses function and there has been a surge in inquiries about work management from mid-sized and large enterprises. As hybrid work environments become more common, they pose their own set of challenges that Swit's Work OS has been designed to handle with ease. With the strategic partnership with SK Broadband, Swit will lead the digital transformation of companies in Korea." Swit's co-founder Josh Lee said.
Swit is a one-of-a-kind, enterprise-level SaaS solution that provides company-wide collaboration and project management. It was named to G2's 'Best Software List' in project management. Swit was also selected as number one in Meets Requirements, Ease of Use, and Ease of Admin out of global software.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers placed star outside linebacker T.J. Watt on injured reserve Thursday, meaning he will miss a minimum of four games while recovering from a left pectoral injury.
The Steelers already had ruled Watt out for Sunday's visit by New England. The NFL's reigning defensive player of the year sustained the injury in the fourth quarter of last week's overtime victory against Cincinnati.
Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said earlier in the week that Watt's injury wasn't as bad as initially feared. Watt received multiple opinions during the week and does not need surgery, which opened the door for him to return at some point this season.
The Steelers filled Watt's spot on the 53-man roster by signing David Anenih off Tennessee's practice squad. Anenih spent training camp with the Titans after being signed as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Houston. Tennessee waived Anenih before signing him to the practice squad.
Anenih collected 20 1/2 sacks in four seasons with the Cougars.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jonnifer Neal's Kia was stolen twice in one day — first from in front of her Chicago home and later from outside the mechanic shop where she took it to get fixed.
But Neal’s ordeal didn’t end there. After her car was recovered a month later, she was stopped by police twice coming home from work because a police error caused the Optima to remain listed as stolen. The same error resulted in officers waking her up at 3 a.m. another night. On yet another occasion, a swarm of officers pulled her over as she was traveling to Mississippi, handcuffing and placing her in the back of a cruiser for more than an hour.
The Kia now sits in her garage.
“It’s been a few months, but honestly I’m still nervous,” Neal said. “I drive that car maybe once in a blue moon and I loved that car.”
Neal’s story is one of thousands from Kia and Hyundai owners across the country whose cars were stolen or damaged in the past two years.
The sharp uptick has been linked to viral videos, posted to TikTok and other social media platforms, teaching people how to start the cars with USB cables and exploit a security vulnerability in some models sold in the U.S. without engine immobilizers, a standard feature on most cars since the 1990s preventing the engine from starting unless the key is present.
But unlike some social media-driven trends that seemingly disappear just as police get a handle on them, the car thefts have continued. Hyundai has tried to work with TikTok and other platforms to remove the videos, but as new ones surface fresh waves of thefts occur, illustrating the lingering effects of dangerous content that gains traction with teens looking for ways to go viral.
It’s a phenomenon known as performance crime. Police departments in a dozen cities have said it factors into an increase they’ve seen in juveniles arrested or charged with car thefts. Still, criminology experts caution that the role teens are playing in the theft increases — which began during the pandemic and aren't limited to Kia and Hyundai — may be artificially inflated because teenagers inexperienced at crime are more likely to be caught.
Attorneys general from 17 states have called on federal regulators to issue a mandatory recall, arguing the voluntary software fixes issued by the companies aren't enough. Multiple cities including Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York have filed or announced plans to join legal action against the automakers, which also are facing class-action and civil lawsuits from consumers like Neal. One such lawsuit was settled for roughly $200 million last week.
The National Highway and Safety Administration blames the trend for at least 14 crashes and eight fatalities, but lawyers suing the carmakers say the number is likely much higher.
Morgan Kornfeind was driving to a yoga class in Portland, Oregon, at the end of March when a man in a stolen Kia barreled into her as he drove the wrong way while fleeing police. The 25-year-old suffered lacerations, broken bones and extensive injuries to her leg. She needed surgery and attends multiple medical appointments every week.
“I’m unable to work my job that I love dearly. I’m unable to practice yoga or walk my dogs. I’ve missed planned trips with friends because of my ongoing rehab. The idea of ever driving again causes me great distress,” she wrote in a statement.
Earlier this month in Milwaukee, a stolen Kia collided with a school bus, leaving a 15-year-old who was hanging out the window in critical condition. Police later arrested four 14-year-olds, one of whom allegedly was driving.
Many of the calls for accountability have been directed at the automakers. MLG Attorneys at Law, a California law firm specializing in automotive defect lawsuits, has received more than 4,000 inquiries from victims like Kornfeind.
“And the amazing thing is it’s not slowing down,” said Randy Shrewsberry, MLG chief strategy officer.
But some police departments, victims and the automakers also point the finger at social media platforms. Videos posted on YouTube in recent weeks show people breaking into various cars or using a USB cable to hotwire cars. The company removed the videos when notified by The Associated Press.
YouTube removed videos depicting what's known as the “Kia Challenge” in recent months, spokesperson Elena Hernandez said in a statement, while stressing the company considers context when making those decisions.
“We might allow some videos if they’re meant to be educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic,” Hernandez wrote.
In a statement, a TikTok spokesperson pushed back on assertions that many of the dangerous challenges mentioned in news reports had reached mass popularity on the platform.
“There is no evidence any of these challenges ever ‘trended’ on TikTok, and there is a clear documented history that many challenges falsely associated with TikTok pre-date the platform entirely,” TikTok spokesperson Ben Rathe said.
Hany Farid, who stepped down in January from TikTok’s U.S. content advisory council because he felt unable to affect change, said TikTok tends to be defensive when criticized for its content moderation practices. He acknowledged the challenge of knowing where some trends originate because content moves quickly between platforms.
“It’s very much a Whack-A-Mole problem,” said Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California, Berkeley. “Because these platforms were not designed to be safe for kids, or for anybody."
TikTok's enforcement report from the last three months of 2022 showed 5% of the videos the company removed were due to dangerous acts and challenges, with 82% removed within 24 hours.
Like many social platforms, TikTok screens content with a combination of artificial intelligence and human moderators who try to catch whatever AI might miss. A spokesperson said it's easier for technology to spot certain violations, like nudity, than things like teens breaking into cars. The human moderators are a second level of screening when content is questionable.
Users also sometimes subvert the platform's controls by misspelling or changing words in hashtags. Some see that as a loophole deserving attention. TikTok says it monitors misspellings and touted the content being forced away from mainstream hashtags as a success.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, did not reply to a request for comment on how it screens for similar videos.
While the Kia Challenge is the social media crime trend of the moment, it's not the first. And, experts say, it's not indicative of social media creating a paradigm shift in criminal activity.
In LaGrange, Georgia, a city of about 31,000 people close to the Alabama border, before the Kia Challenge the police dealt with fallout from the “Orbeez Challenge,” which directed people to use toy or airsoft guns to shoot small, gel-filled balls called Orbeez at strangers or friends. Lt. Mark Cavender said officers were alarmed when they saw middle schoolers using toy guns painted black to look like real weapons, immediately putting out warnings to stop.
Michael Scott, director of the Problem-Oriented Policing Center at Arizona State University, said social media hasn't completely changed crime.
“Social media seems to be a radically new thing, but the only new things are the speed and the breadth,” Scott said.
There are also plenty of examples of trends in criminal activity spreading before social media existed as it does now. Before there were “rob mobs” there was “wilding” in the 1980s, in which groups of people gathered in public to cause chaos, vandalize or steal property. And before the Kia Challenge, there were groups of teens in the 1990s who figured out they could steal General Motors vehicles using a screwdriver.
Scott, who was an officer in the St. Louis Police Department at the time, said the carmaker was slow to act when officers noticed the uptick in their cars being stolen.
“Even without social media, that technique spread around the country,” he said. “What social media changed, was it sped up the process. Before, you had to know or meet someone who had figured out that all you needed was a screwdriver.”
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President Biden will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping Monday for the first time since taking office. The encounter comes while mistrust between the countries is running particularly deep.
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Prepares for Installation of 500-Kilowatt Solar Generation System in Eddy County
Joins Innovative Demand Response Program to Support Reliability of North Dakota's Electrical Grid
DALLAS, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodnight Midstream LLC ("Goodnight"), a leading midstream produced water infrastructure company, today announced two new initiatives with industry-leading partners aimed at expanding the utilization of renewable energy and supporting grid reliability.
Goodnight has signed a definitive agreement for the installation of a 500-kilowatt solar generation system at one of its Llano pipeline receipt points in Eddy County. Goodnight will lease the photovoltaic supplemental power system from Priority Power, a leader in energy optimization and infrastructure, offering smart energy solutions and streamlined transitions to carbon neutrality. The system is expected to begin commercial operations during the fourth quarter of 2022, and Goodnight's ongoing produced water operations will enable an estimated 750 MWh of solar energy annually to be sold back to the New Mexico power grid for use by other customers in the region.
The Company today also announced that it has entered into a groundbreaking demand response program in North Dakota, in partnership with Power-on-Demand, LLC, which will provide a 500-kilowatt battery energy storage system for temporary power that can be utilized during operating peaks and demand changes. The program is designed to support the Southwest Power Pool Operating Reserves in improving the reliability, resiliency and sustainability of the grid, and managing peak demand for customers across a multi-state footprint. The program is expected to be operational by the end of 2022 and to expand to up to 14 additional sites in the state in the coming two to three years.
The program builds on Goodnight's current participation in the ERCOT demand response program that is increasingly critical to enhancing electrical reliability and combatting intermittency issues in the state of Texas.
"At Goodnight, our business is centered around an environmentally conscious approach and these recent initiatives underscore our commitment to expand our ESG efforts even further," said Patrick Walker, CEO of Goodnight Midstream. "As we provide safe, efficient and sustainable produced water services, we are continuously evaluating and identifying new ways to reduce emissions and have a positive impact on the environment. We look forward to continue working with industry leaders and innovators to enhance the amount of renewable energy that supports our infrastructure and operations, while simultaneously facilitating the delivery of reliable, sustainable energy to the communities in which we operate."
In 2021, Goodnight transported over 100 million barrels of produced water through its pipelines, resulting in 18,600 metric tons of reduced carbon dioxide emissions. That is equivalent to avoiding more than 11.9 million truck miles or removing 4,046 cars from the road.
About Goodnight Midstream LLC
Goodnight Midstream builds and operates midstream oilfield water infrastructure for oil and gas producers. The Company owns and operates an extensive network of water gathering pipelines and saltwater disposal wells focused on gathering, transporting, reusing and disposing of produced saltwater for its customers. Goodnight's midstream approach minimizes environmental impact and improves health and safety while lowering lease operating expenses and improving reliability for its customers. Goodnight operates in the most active basins in the United States with significant positions in the Permian Basin, Bakken and Eagle Ford shales. For more information, please visit www.goodnightmidstream.com.
About Priority Power
Priority Power is leading the Energy Transition with proven integrity, trust and transparency. Priority Power combines energy optimization and infrastructure expertise, with our proprietary technology, PriorityView, to help large scale commercial/industrial businesses achieve decarbonization and sustainability goals while also maximizing savings and efficiency. Priority Power serves over 7,000 clients, totaling $2.7 billion in energy spend, across nearly every industry and vertical. Priority has over $230 million of energy infrastructure projects completed, and over $1 billion in energy infrastructure projects in process. For more information on Priority Power, please visit www.prioritypower.com.
About Power-on-Demand, LLC
Power-on-Demand builds, owns and operates large-scale, industrial battery energy storage systems and behind the meter power solutions to assist our customers in meeting power reliability needs, while also optimizing power program revenues available with electric utilities. We utilize the latest technologies and systems that can easily integrate into an existing facility for the short, medium or long-term helping to support our customers with energy transition initiatives. For more information, please visit www.pod-llc.com.
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FedEx imposters allegedly force way into apartment, shoot man
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BRONX, New York (WABC) — Police released video of two men allegedly posing as FedEx workers during a violent, targeted home invasion in the Bronx.
The video shows the men wearing FedEx shirts and carrying a package.
It happened on Wednesday, June 8 at 9:20 a.m. near Willis Avenue and East 135 Street.
They pushed their way inside an apartment, then shot a 23-year-old man in the chest.
Police say the victim is a drill rapper who was taken to the hospital in stable condition. He was also later charged with possession of a gun.
The robbers took off with his cell phone inside a black Nissan Rogue with a rear Connecticut license plate. The vehicle was last spotted traveling westbound on East 135th Street.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) – Rep. George Santos was noticeably absent from a meeting Wednesday between the governor of New York and her state’s congressional delegation.
“No one noticed George Santos was not here,” Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) said.
Despite being a current member of New York’s congressional delegation, Santos didn’t get an invite to meet with Gov. Kathy Hochul on Capitol Hill.
“We’re talking about their work on committees and he’s not a committee member,” Hochul said.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) described the meeting as productive “partly because we had no charlatans like George Santos in the meeting.”
The meeting comes only hours after Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), confronted Santos on the House floor, telling him he doesn’t belong in Congress. It’s an idea Molinaro and Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) agree with.
“And I’m glad he said directly to Congressman Santos what many of us have been saying and thinking,” Molinaro said.
“I’m glad Sen. Romney joined what myself and my New York colleagues, Democrat and Republican, have been saying for weeks,” Ryan said.
Romney is only one of the numerous lawmakers from both parties calling on Santos to step down.
“George is just playing a game now and it’s detrimental, not only to this institution and the work we do, it’s detrimental to him,” Molinaro said.
Rep. Nick La Lota says Santos is hurting New York.
“He’s literally taking all the oxygen out of the room and any work that we can do on either side of the aisle that is beneficial to the people that we represent,” La Lota said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The following is a list of initial public offerings planned for the coming week. Sources include IPO ETF manager Renaissance Capital, and SEC filings.
Ispire Technology - Los Angeles, 3 million shares, priced $6-$8, managed by Tiger Brokers/TFI Securities. Proposed Nasdaq symbol ISPR. Business: Sells tobacco and cannabis vape devices.
Mangoceuticals - Dallas, Texas, 1.3 million shares, priced at $4, managed by Boustead Securities. Proposed Nasdaq symbol MGRX. Business: Provides an erectile dysfunction product via telehealth.
Ohmyhome - Singapore, 3.3 million shares, priced $4-$5, managed by Prime Number Capital. Proposed Nasdaq symbol OMH. Business: Operates a real estate brokerage and property services platform in Singapore.
U Power - Shanghai, China, 2.5 million shares, priced $6-$8, managed by AMTD Global Markets/WestPark Capital. Proposed Nasdaq symbol UCAR. Business: Launching automated battery-swapping stations for electric vehicles in China. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/initial-public-offerings-scheduled-to-debut-next-17845872.php | 2023-03-17 19:54:53 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/initial-public-offerings-scheduled-to-debut-next-17845872.php |
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A historic train station in Phillipsburg is finding new life as a museum, and is set to reopen soon. WDIY’s Sarit Laschinsky has more.
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LA's Chef Michael Montilla is delivering fine dining to your doorstep, all customized by you.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Montilla Meals is launching a custom fine dining meal delivery service. The menu features delicious dishes ranging from pan-seared branzino to a plant-based Beyond Burger. They are currently delivering meals every Monday and Friday from Malibu to Mid-City to the Valley. "There's nothing more creative than my guests being one step away from working the line," executive chef and founder Michael Montilla shares. Now that can be done from home. He feels the build your own meal model is "offering fresh high quality ingredients, making our guests feel good about what they're choosing to put into their bodies." Each person ordering has a variety of options to choose from in each of these categories: meal bases, proteins, starches, sauces, sides and desserts. Proteins include: Grilled New York Steak, Rib Eye, Mary's Organic Chicken, Salmon, Chilean Sea Bass, Shrimp, Pan Seared Branzino, Free-Range Turkey Burger, Wagyu Blend Beef Patty, Teriyaki Tofu, Puerto Rican Red Beans with Sofrito,100% Plant-Based Beyond Burger Patty. Meal bases include: Sautéed vegetables, Grilled vegetables, Kale, Spinach Spaghetti Squash and Roasted Zucchini Boats. Sauces include fresh tomato, basil & garlic, Chimichurri, Teriyaki, Soy / Hoisin Glaze. Red Wine Port and Lemon Butter with Thyme. Complete meals range from $20.00 - $29.00. Pre-ordering for delivery September 14 is open now at www.montillameals.com
About Montilla Meals: Montilla Meals is the first fine dining build your own meal delivery service in California. Company Founder and Executive Chef, Michael Montilla, formerly of Wolfgang Puck's Spago, also owns a boutique catering and events business, Michael Montilla Exquisite Events. His gourmet home delivery concept is expanding to allow customers to choose the exact meal they want to eat. Montilla wants in-home dining to be more of "an elevated to-go experience." Now he is letting customers create their own meals from high end proteins, sides and sauces. With the use of ghost kitchens, he would like to bring this concept to New York and San Francisco in 2023. More information and meal ordering can be found at: www.montillameals.com.
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Philadelphia (WPHL)- Philadelphia police are searching for the man responsible for shooting and killing a man in Fairhill Wednesday.
The shooting happened on the 3400 block of N. 2nd Street at approximately 1:07 am.
Officers in the A Street and Allegheny Avenue area heard gunfire coming from the 3400 block of N. 2nd Street.
Upon arriving to the scene, a civilian pointed to where a 55-year-old man was lying face up on the street. Police say the man was unresponsive and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the face.
Police rushed the victim to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced at 1:15 am by doctors, police say.
According to police, the suspect is a man, medium build, 5’9″, wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers.
READ MORE: Missing man from Clearview may be in Ogontz: police
No arrests were made, and no weapons were recovered.
By: Doc Louallen/ PHL17 Digital Reporter
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Collaboration to drive education, innovation and integrated solutions for improved indoor air quality and home safety
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation, through its indoor air quality and Kidde safety brands, and The Procter & Gamble Company's portfolio of Home Care brands, including Swiffer and Febreze, are announcing a collaborative effort to improve access to education and tools needed to create safer and healthier homes.
Over half of Americans1 are more concerned about having a healthy home since the start of the pandemic, and many want to take action to improve the health of their indoor environments. While tackling total home health can seem challenging, there are small steps people can take to create a big impact. For example, dust accumulates quickly indoors and contains bacteria, dander and allergens that can cause irritation, respiratory issues and allergic reactions. Dust can be easily managed with solutions that trap and lock particles, improving indoor air quality and the overall health of the home. Another example of a small action with a significant safety impact is to test your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms weekly.
To help families with simple solutions to improve home health, Carrier and P&G Home Care have come together to develop a multi-faceted campaign focused on empowering and equipping consumers with useful insights, recommended actions and reliable products. This strategic collaboration will include specific efforts around:
- Education to raise awareness of what a healthy home is and how to maintain one. Click here to learn about spring cleaning for healthier indoor air and increased safety
- Innovation for products that make creating healthier and safer spaces easier
- Integrated Solutions that simplify experiences with more holistic options
"During the last two years, consumers have taken greater interest in their overall wellbeing," said Isis Wu, Vice President & General Manager, Residential Fire and Healthy Homes, Carrier Fire & Security. "Healthy homes include several elements such as indoor air quality, dust removal and increased safety, among others. Addressing this complex challenge can be overwhelming, which is why we look forward to collaborating with P&G to drive awareness of simple ways to enhance home health. There's a lot more to learn and education to do; this is just the beginning."
Kristine Decker, Senior Vice President, Global Home Care, Procter & Gamble, added, "Our brands help make it easier to keep your home clean and healthy, which is why we're excited to partner with Carrier on tools that empower people to create indoor environments that support their wellbeing."
The collaboration between Carrier and P&G Home Care is expected to expand as the Healthy Homes initiative evolves in alignment with consumer needs and behaviors.
To learn more about creating a safer, healthier home, visit corporate.carrier.com/healthyhomes.
About Carrier
As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit www.Corporate.Carrier.com or follow us on social media at @Carrier.
About P&G
P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands. For other P&G news, visit us at http://www.pg.com/news.
1 Survey Method: This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Carrier from August 4-6, 2020 among 2,034 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, of whom 1,381 are homeowners. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Florida law that he says is aimed at limiting the rights of drag performers.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell of Orlando wrote in his order that “this statute is specifically designed to suppress the speech of drag queen performers.”
“In the words of the bill’s sponsor in the House, State Representative Randy Fine: “…HB 1423…will protect our children by ending the gateway propaganda to this evil — ‘Drag Queen Story Time,'” Presnell’s ruling said.
Fine, a Republican from Brevard County, declined to comment.
The court battle was initiated by the Hamburger Mary’s restaurant in Orlando over a law that contains penalties for any venue allowing children into a sexually explicit “adult live performance.” The law includes potential first-degree misdemeanor charges for violators.
“Of course, it’s constitutional to prevent the sexualization of children by limiting access to adult live performances,” said Jeremy Redfern, a spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the law in May. “We believe the judge’s opinion is dead wrong and look forward to prevailing on appeal.”
Hamburger Mary’s filed a lawsuit in May against DeSantis, the state, and Melanie Griffin, secretary of Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation. DeSantis and the state have since been dropped as defendants, with Griffin remaining.
The downtown restaurant’s lawsuit argued the law would have a “chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of the citizens of Florida.”
Hamburger Mary’s, which opened in 2008, has hosted drag performances that include bingo, trivia and comedy. After the law was signed, the restaurant restricted children from drag shows and then lost 20% of its bookings, according to the lawsuit.
Presnell’s order prevents the state agency from enforcing the law pending the outcome of a trial. He also denied the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Hamburger Mary’s is represented by Brice Timmons, the same civil rights attorney who represented the Friends of George’s theater company in a case that led to federal judge ruling a Tennessee law restricting drag shows was unconstitutional.
“It’s wonderful that yet one more court has vindicated the rights of people, especially drag queens, to express themselves,” Timmons said Friday.
Timmons said the owners of Hamburger Mary’s “just changed the world for queer people everywhere.”
“The judge today protected the rights of every single person in the United States to be who they are and to express themselves in ways that don’t hurt other people,” Timmons said.
In his order, Presnell expressed concerns about vagueness in the law, particularly lines about “lewd conduct” and “lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts.”
“Not only does the statute fail to define these terms, but one must resort to state jury instructions to find any definition of ‘lewd conduct,'” Presnell wrote.
Presnell, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, questioned what the line about “prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts” would mean for cancer survivors.
“It is this vague language — dangerously susceptible to standardless, overbroad enforcement which could sweep up substantial protected speech — which distinguishes [the new Florida law] and renders Plaintiff’s claim likely to succeed on the merits,” Presnell wrote.
State lawyers had argued Florida’s “Protection of Children Act” does not target drag shows.
“The Act does not prevent establishments from continuing to stage ‘adult live performances’ or deny access by adults to those performances,” the state’s argument read. “It merely requires the exclusion of children for whom the performance would not be age-appropriate. And contrary to [Hamburger Mary’s] implication, the Act does not target drag shows; by its terms, it protects children from exposure to any kind of sexually explicit live performance that is obscene for the age of the child present.”
But that claim received pushback from Timmons and Presnell at a June 6 hearing, with the part of the law that read “lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts” being called out.
Timmons said there were only two people who would have prosthetic breasts: women who had undergone mastectomies or drag performers.
Staff writer Steven Lemongello contributed to this report. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06/23/federal-judge-blocks-florida-law-aimed-at-drag-performers/ | 2023-06-24 02:05:53 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06/23/federal-judge-blocks-florida-law-aimed-at-drag-performers/ |
MILANO, Metropolitan City of Milan — Heavy rainfall triggered landslides early Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia that left as many as 12 people missing as it cut a muddy swath through a port town, collapsing buildings and sweeping cars into the sea.
The force of the mud sliding down mountainsides was strong enough to send cars and buses into the sea at the port of Casamicciola, on the north end of the island. Streets were impassable and mayors on the island urged people to stay at home. At least 100 people were reported stranded.
There was confusion over the death toll. Italian Vice Premier Matteo Salvini initially said that eight people had been confirmed dead. The interior minister later said that no deaths had yet been confirmed, while 10-12 were missing.
The mayor of Naples was quoted by the news agency ANSA as saying one body had been recovered on the island. Ischia sits in the Bay of Naples.
“The situation is very complicated and very serious because probably some of those people are under the mud,” Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told RAI state TV from an emergency command center in Rome.
ANSA reported that at least 10 buildings had collapsed. One family with a newborn that was previously reported missing had been located and was receiving medical care, according to the Naples prefect.
Video from the island showed small bulldozers clearing roads, while residents used hoses to try to get mud out of their homes.
Firefighters and the Coast Guard were working on rescue efforts. Reinforcements arrived by ferry, including teams of sniffer dogs to help the search efforts.
The densely populated mountainous island is a popular tourist destination for both its beaches and spas. A 4.0-magnitude quake on the island in 2017 killed two people, causing significant damage to the towns of Casamicciola and neighboring Lacco Ameno. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/italian-island-landslide/507-1cd733ce-d4c0-4cfe-a2ad-11723773e2e3 | 2022-11-26 18:58:27 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/italian-island-landslide/507-1cd733ce-d4c0-4cfe-a2ad-11723773e2e3 |
Mcmunn, David Allen
April 14, 2023, age 76
Published: Apr. 21, 2023 at 5:02 PM MDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
KIMBERLY—David passed away peacefully at 76, surrounded by his family in Kimberly, ID on April 14, 2023.
He loved his children Tracy Crumrine of Wendell, ID; Eric McMunn of Lincolnton, Georgia; Scott McMunn of Longview, Washington and his Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren. He loved building his street rods & driving them to all the car shows. He was a loving husband to his wife and best friend Barbara. He especially loved his brother-in-laws Vern Hamel & Danny Caywood and all his car buddy’s in Twin Falls, Idaho.
A Memorial service will be held on Friday June 2, 2023 at 1pm at Snake River Canyon National Cemetery in Buhl, Idaho. Arrangements are under the direction of Rosenau Funeral Home.
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The Department of Transportation is investigating a Delta Air Lines incident where a plane full of passengers sat on the tarmac at Harry Reid International Airport for hours as temperaturesrose over 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Passengers who were traveling from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday sat on the tarmac for at least three hours after their flight was delayed. The extreme heat caused paramedics to be called to assist people for "heat-related discomfort," according to several reports and social media posts from passengers. The flight was ultimately canceled, and passengers were let off the plane.
"Airlines are required to provide comfortable cabin temperatures during tarmac delays and as such USDOT is investigating the situation that Delta passengers experienced during a tarmac delay at Harry Reid International Airport and will hold the airline accountable for any violations," the Department of Transportation said in a statement obtained by Scripps News.
Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Reuters he was left disturbed after hearing about the accounts from passengers.
"The reports are shocking and we are investigating. I want to know how it was possible for passengers to be left in triple-digit heat onboard an aircraft for that long. Even at normal temperatures, a tarmac delay is not supposed to go that long and we have rules about that, which we are actively enforcing right now," said Buttigieg.
Scripps News reached out to Delta for comment, but the airline did not respond. However, the airline told CNN they are investigating the incident and made a "compensatory offer" to the passengers.
"Delta teams are looking into the circumstances that led to uncomfortable temperatures inside the cabin and we appreciate the efforts of our people and first responders at Harry Reid International," said Delta.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A stolen car in the Portland Metro area was sold to a used car dealership in Portland only to later be sold to someone in Hawaii – and no one was the wiser.
What makes this story even stranger is that the used car dealership and the DMV didn’t break any laws doing it.
Lauren Murdoch said her ‘99 Subaru was stolen in November 2021 with the title to her car and other personal documents inside. She reported the vehicle stolen to police and the Oregon DMV the next day.
After a year passed, she gave up hope.
So she went back to the DMV to recover her title, only to find out that her car was listed in the DMV’s database at Blue Line Auto group, a used car dealership in Southeast Portland, only two weeks after it was stolen.
“The DMV had the information, and if they would’ve just notified me when they got the information, I could have recovered my car,” Murdoch said.
Lauren’s car had not been flagged because, according to Oregon law, the DMV is only required to run a car’s VIN number to check if it’s stolen when someone comes in to transfer a car title into someone else’s name.
“It blows my mind that they’re not legally required to do that,” Murdoch said. “And it’s crazy that the DMV won’t notify somebody if their stolen car is entered into their system.”
Dustin Van Doozer, the owner of the Blue Line Auto dealership, was also shocked to learn about this.
“If a car can be popped around from my dealer inventory, sitting there for three or four months, go across the ocean and then be licensed in Hawaii and the DMV in Hawaii doesn’t catch this, the DMV in Oregon doesn’t catch this, the shipping company doesn’t catch this…that has to be fixed,” Van Doozer said.
Van Doozer has been in the used car business for more than two decades. He’s required to enter cars’ VIN numbers into his account with the DMV. All these years, he says, he thought the DMV’s system was making sure these cars were legitimate.
“And if we enter this into a DMV website, this should flag immediately, this should pop up. There should be some way that we can enter a VIN number somewhere to where we can know instantly if a car is reported stolen at that moment,” he said.
Years ago, Van Doozer said dealerships used to be able to call law enforcement non-emergency to ask them to run a VIN number within minutes before buying a car.
“The sheriff’s office now requires us to send an email with the VIN number and they get back to you within three or four business days,” he said.
He said that delayed service doesn’t work for their business model, especially since weekends are their busiest, adding that “a legitimate customer might move on to another dealer.”
“And so back in the day, they used to do that and there is a way to do it,” Van Doozer said. “They’ve just gotten lazy and they don’t care anymore, essentially.”
Murdoch hopes her story about her stolen car can open people’s eyes to what she says is a “surprisingly inadequate” system.
“It’s a tragedy that Oregon, having such a problem with vehicle theft, hasn’t addressed this issue on a more systemic level,” Murdoch said. “I would really just like our legislators and ODOT to understand that we can do better; we can make a better net to catch vehicle theft.”
There’s currently a patchwork of statewide and national databases for stolen cars that DMVs use, but they’re not fully universalized across the U.S. – nor fully required.
Had someone in Oregon bought her car from Van Doozer’s dealership and tried to transfer the title, then the Oregon DMV would have caught it. But because it was bought from someone outside Oregon, it didn’t raise any red flags.
Dave Adams at the Oregon DMV told KOIN 6 that Oregon is one of the worst states in the nation for car theft.
“When there is a stolen vehicle, people try to point blame, but the bottom line is there are bad people and they’re smart, and sometimes there’s nothing you can do to stop them from getting away with it,” Adams said.
Murdoch said she hopes her story reminds people to not leave important documents in the car. | https://www.koin.com/news/portland/womans-stolen-car-was-sold-to-a-dealership-shipped-to-hawaii-how-was-it-all-legal/ | 2023-03-15 05:52:20 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/portland/womans-stolen-car-was-sold-to-a-dealership-shipped-to-hawaii-how-was-it-all-legal/ |
(KTLA) – Ever wonder how hackers get your password and gain access to your account?
Recent research has identified several major ways:
- Password theft
- Password guessing
- Unauthorized password resetting or bypass
“The biggest reason why people hate passwords is they’re all being told that they all need to be longer and longer and more complex,” started Roger Grimes, a Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at security awareness training company KnowBe4.
He says phishing emails are a top way hackers get our passwords. You’ve seen them before – they say your Netflix account is about to be deactivated, your Facebook account has a copyright issue or something needs to be fixed with your Instagram.
They trick us into handing over our information by making us log into a page that looks like the real thing but instantly sends our username and password to hackers, who immediately take over our accounts.
Another top way your password gets out into the wild: when a website is hacked. This is a treasure trove for hackers, since they often get access to millions of usernames and password combinations they can then try on other websites.
“If you’re a normal everyday internet user, twice a year your password is stolen from a website you belong to,” explained Grimes.
This is why you should never reuse the same password over and over, or even a variation of that password.
“People think they’re being really crafty but probably 80-90 percent of passwords are fairly predictable even if I don’t know you,” explained Grimes.
The passwords you create are easy for hackers to guess using simple software.
“I know of hackers today routine guessing up to 16 to 18 characters human created passwords all the time just as what they do every single day,” said Grimes.
So, how do you protect yourself and your accounts?
First, don’t get tricked.
Learn the signs of phishing emails and social engineering and slow down, especially if a message urges you to act immediately.
Also, keep the software on your devices up to date, enable two factor authentication on your accounts and most importantly, use a password manager.
“As far as we know, an 11 or 12 character perfectly random password is unguessable, uncrackable,” said Grimes.
Good choices for password managers include Bitwarden (free!), Dashlane and 1Password. Google and Apple also have built in password managers, but I typically only recommend those if you’re sticking to just their products.
If you must create a password yourself on the fly, try a passphrase instead. This is a long, random sentence that you can remember, but that would be tough for someone else to guess. Just don’t use common phrases. | https://www.cbs42.com/tech-news/how-hackers-get-your-password/ | 2022-05-22 20:13:08 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/tech-news/how-hackers-get-your-password/ |
Q: I filled out my tax preparer’s organizer. As usual, my pile of documents included our property taxes, medical expenses, mortgage interest and donations, plus a few other things. But, I just got an email from my tax person saying I really didn’t need to gather all of that stuff. Why is that?
A: As they say, old habits die hard. It is true, if you are like most people, your effort to gather all of those receipts and statements to document your itemized deductions is probably no longer necessary. Since 2018, under the current tax law, they basically doubled the standard deduction. This effectively eliminated the need for most taxpayers to even think about claiming itemized deductions.
For example, for those who file as a married couple, the standard deduction for 2022 is $27,700. If you both happen to be over age 65, it jumps to $30,700. This dollar amount is the bogey to compare to your level of itemized deductions.
There are four main categories of itemized deductions to consider. You might not even come close to needing to itemize your deductions. The categories are the taxes you paid, your mortgage interest, your donations to charity, and your medical and dental expenses. If you are moderately good at math, you can probably tally them all up in your head to see if gathering up all of the necessary documentation is worth your effort.
First, add up the property taxes and state income taxes you paid last year. Remember, though, the maximum for this category is capped at $10,000. Next, add in the amount of mortgage interest you paid last year, if any. Then, total up your cash and in-kind donations made to charities. Finally, there’s one more complex category. Add up your medical and dental expenses. Do some mental math to see if they exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income.
For example, let’s say your adjusted gross income is $100,000. Unless these expenses exceed $7,500, none of your medical and dental expenses will be tax deductible.
The bottom line is this. If you are married, don’t have a mortgage, or don’t give away a lot and you don’t have big medical and dental expenses, it’s highly unlikely your itemized deductions will exceed your automatic standard deduction. On the other hand, certain single filers, and even some married filers, might still end up needing to itemize. It only takes a little understanding to figure out if you can avoid the tax gathering work or not. According to recent stats, only about 10% to 15% of all taxpayers itemize their deductions. If you don’t fall into this group, welcome to the world of tax simplicity! | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/business/jason-p-tank-standard-deduction-and-tax-simplicity/article_edda3e2a-b3b3-11ed-8e13-c37395dd02f7.html | 2023-02-26 21:48:26 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/business/jason-p-tank-standard-deduction-and-tax-simplicity/article_edda3e2a-b3b3-11ed-8e13-c37395dd02f7.html |
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fined by police on Friday for taking off his seat belt to film a social media video in a moving car.
Sunak, 42, has apologized for making an "error of judgment" while recording a message for Instagram from the back of an official government car during a visit to northwest England on Thursday.
The Lancashire Police force said it had looked into video “circulating on social media showing an individual failing to wear a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car in Lancashire.” The force said, without naming Sunak, that it had “issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of fixed penalty.”
Failing to wear a seat belt is punishable by a penalty of up to 500 pounds ($620), though fixed penalty notices for such offenses are usually 100 pounds ($124) if paid promptly.
The conditional offer means that the person fined accepts guilt but doesn't have to go to court. Police didn't say how much Sunak was fined.
Sunak's office said in a statement that "the prime minister fully accepts this was a mistake and has apologized. He will of course comply with the fixed penalty.”
It’s the second time Sunak has been fined during his political career. Last year, when he was Treasury chief, he was fined 50 pounds for breaching pandemic lockdown rules by briefly attending a party inside government offices. He was one of dozens of officials fined over the “partygate” scandal, including then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Ashlyn Krueger 2023 Libema Open Odds
Ashlyn Krueger's round of 16 match in the Libema Open will be against Victoria Azarenka. Krueger has +5000 odds to win this tournament at Autotron Rosmalen.
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Krueger at the 2023 Libema Open
- Next Round: Round of 16
- Tournament Dates: June 9-18
- Venue: Autotron Rosmalen
- Location: Rosmalen, Netherlands
- Court Surface: Grass
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On Wednesday, June 14 at 5:00 AM ET, in the round of 16 of the the Libema Open, Krueger will play Azarenka, after beating Rebecca Peterson 6-1, 6-2.
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Dangerous doses of melatonin found in sleep aids, study says
(CNN) - New research shows some sleeping aid gummies may have potentially dangerous amounts of melatonin in them.
The journal JAMA published a research letter on Tuesday where researchers tested 25 products labeled as melatonin gummies at an outside lab.
Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate sleep.
According to the researchers, 88% of the gummies tested were labeled inaccurately.
One of the products actually contained 347% more melatonin than what was listed on the label.
An expert says consuming a gummy with extremely high levels of melatonin can be dangerous and have side effects.
Researchers say all of the gummies are products displayed on the National Institute of Health database, a database where the public can check to see labels of dietary supplements sold in the U.S.
Researchers also found in their study that some of the products also contained cannabidiol or CBD, which is found in cannabis.
They say some of those products also mislabeled how much CBD was used as an ingredient.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, it is illegal to market CBD by adding it to a food or labeling it as a dietary supplement.
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JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC IS THE FIRST AND ONLY HYALURONIC ACID (HA) FILLER TO RECEIVE U.S. FDA APPROVAL FOR IMPROVING JAWLINE DEFINITION
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company (NYSE: ABBV), announced the U.S. FDA approval of JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC for the improvement of jawline definition in adults over the age of 21 with moderate to severe loss of jawline definition. 1
"The approval of JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC represents the largest leap in innovation for our U.S. HA portfolio since the introduction of JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC, 2" said Carrie Strom, President, Global Allergan Aesthetics and Senior Vice President, AbbVie. "JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC complements our existing product line to provide even more structure, cohesivity and lift capacity to create an improved jawline that appears more defined in real life and on camera. JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC is what our providers have been asking for to deliver the jaw-dropping results their patients are seeking. 1"
As the category leader, the JUVÉDERM® Collection of Fillers offers the broadest portfolio of specifically designed treatment options, and this latest approval of JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC marks the sixth product offering in the lineup alongside JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC, JUVÉDERM® VOLLURE® XC, JUVÉDERM® Ultra Plus XC, JUVÉDERM® Ultra XC, and JUVÉDERM® VOLBELLA® XC.1-3,5-7
In the pivotal clinical study, JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC was found to effectively improve jawline definition (69.9%, 102/146) at six months. Participants reported satisfaction using the Satisfaction with Lower Face and Jawline module of the FACE-Q questionnaire, most treatment group participants (82.3%, 116/141) reported satisfaction with the appearance of their lower face and jawline through 12 months following treatment with JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC. 4 Additionally, 81.5% (119/146) of participants at six months were satisfied with how sculpted (well-defined) their jawline looked compared to 12.2% (19/156) at baseline. At six months, 70.5% (103/146) of participants were satisfied with how smooth their lower face looked (i.e., no jowls or folds of fatty skin) compared to 7.7% (12/156) at baseline and 73.1% (106/145) of participants at six months were satisfied with how nice their lower face looked compared to 9.0% (14/156) at baseline. 4
"Requests for treatment in the lower facial region transcend age, gender, race, and ethnicity in my practice. As people age, many factors can contribute to how the lower face changes, such as genetics and soft tissue loss," says Dr. Jeremy Green, a fellowship-trained board-certified Miami cosmetic dermatologist and pivotal clinical trial investigator. "This can cause reduced definition around the jawline area that may impact and change the shape of the face and lead to the appearance of jowls. Clinical trial participants reported high satisfaction with the results of their treatment. In fact, at six months post-treatment, 89.7% (131/146) of treatment group participants were willing to recommend the treatment to a friend, with the majority continuing to recommend treatment at 12 months (87.2%, 123/141). 4 I am excited to now be able to offer this treatment option to all of my patients seeking an improved jawline."
Commonly reported side effects in the clinical study included tenderness, lumps/bumps, pain, swelling, firmness, bruising, redness, itching, and discoloration at the injection sites, as reported in participants' 30-day daily diaries. These side effects are consistent with HA filler injection and were usually mild (causing little discomfort and no effect on daily activities) or moderate (causing some discomfort and effect on daily activities) in severity. Most of these side effects went away on their own within two weeks. Participants also reported similar side effects after maintenance injection. 1
Allergan Aesthetics is dedicated to training health care providers on safe and effective use of all its products. Allergan Medical Institute will be providing an in-depth product training program for JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC, which will include facial anatomy, considerations for safe injection in this area, appropriate patient selection, and aseptic technique. Training will begin in fall of 2022. JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC will be more broadly available to consumers in early 2023.
For more information on the JUVÉDERM® Collection of Fillers, visit Juvederm.com and follow @JUVÉDERM on Instagram.
Consumers and new patients who receive an aesthetic treatment with a product from the JUVÉDERM® Collection of Fillers can also enroll in Allē, Allergan Aesthetics' loyalty rewards program. Consumers can enroll to unlock access to curated content, exclusive offers, and personalized rewards that can be used for savings on the Allergan Aesthetics portfolio of products and redeemed at a participating provider's office, subject to applicable program terms and conditions. Allē is the first and only loyalty program in the aesthetics market to also offer consumers the ability to earn points on over 40 non-Allergan Aesthetics treatments and brands. To learn more about Allē, visit Alle.com.
About Allergan Aesthetics
At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit www.AllerganAesthetics.com.
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
JUVÉDERM® Injectable Gel Fillers Important Information
APPROVED USES
JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC injectable gel is for deep injection to improve moderate to severe loss of jawline definition in adults over the age of 21.
JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC injectable gel is for deep injection in the cheek area to correct age-related volume loss and for augmentation of the chin region to improve the chin profile in adults over 21.
JUVÉDERM® VOLLURE® XC, JUVÉDERM® Ultra Plus XC, and JUVÉDERM® Ultra XC injectable gels are for injection into the facial tissue for the correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds. JUVÉDERM® VOLLURE® XC injectable gel is for adults over 21.
JUVÉDERM® Ultra XC injectable gel is also for injection into the lips and perioral area for lip augmentation in adults over 21.
JUVÉDERM® VOLBELLA® XC injectable gel is indicated for injection into the lips for lip augmentation and correction of perioral lines, and for injection into the undereye hollows to improve the appearance of undereye hollows in adults over the age of 21.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Are there any reasons why I should not receive any JUVÉDERM® formulation?
Do not use these products if you have a history of multiple severe allergies or severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis), or if you are allergic to lidocaine or the Gram-positive bacterial proteins used in these products, or if you have had previous allergic reactions to hyaluronic acid fillers.
What warnings should my doctor advise me about?
- One of the risks with using dermal fillers is the unintentional injection into a blood vessel. The chances of this happening are very small, but if it does happen, the complications can be serious and may be permanent. These complications, which have been reported for facial injections, can include vision abnormalities, blindness, stroke, temporary scabs, or permanent scarring of the skin. Most of these events are irreversible.
- The use of dermal fillers where skin sores, pimples, rashes, hives, cysts, or infections are present should be postponed, as this may delay healing or make skin problems worse
- The effectiveness of removal of any dermal filler has not been studied.
What precautions should my doctor advise me about?
- JUVÉDERM® VOLBELLA® XC should only be injected into undereye hollows by doctors who have completed the necessary training for this treatment area. To find a doctor, visit Juvederm.com/find-a-specialist. Doctors who complete the training will be listed with a symbol
- The safety of these products for use during pregnancy or while breastfeeding has not been studied
- The safety of JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC has not been studied in patients under 35 years or over 65 years for cheek augmentation, or under 22 years and over 80 years for chin augmentation. The safety of JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC, JUVÉDERM® VOLLURE® XC and JUVÉDERM® VOLBELLA® XC has not been studied in patients under 22 years, and the safety of JUVÉDERM® Ultra Plus XC and JUVÉDERM® Ultra XC has not been studied in patients under 18 years
- The safety and effectiveness of treatment with JUVÉDERM® products in anatomical regions outside of their approved uses have not been established in clinical studies
- If you have a history of excessive scarring (thick, hard scars) or pigmentation disorders, treatment in these patients has not been studied and may result in additional scars or changes in pigmentation
- If you are planning other procedures including laser treatments or a chemical peel, there is a possible risk of inflammation at the treatment site if these procedures are performed closely before or after JUVÉDERM® injectable gel treatment
- Tell your doctor if you are on therapy used to reduce your body's natural defense system (such as steroids, chemotherapy, and medicines to treat autoimmune diseases, HIV, and AIDs), as these may increase your risk of infection; and medications that can prolong bleeding (such as aspirin, ibuprofen, or other blood thinners), as these may result in increased bruising or bleeding at the injection site
- Minimize strenuous exercise, exposure to extensive sun or heat, and alcoholic beverages within the first 24 hours following treatment, as these may cause temporary redness, swelling, and/or itching at the injection site
- JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC was not studied in patients with significant loose skin of the chin, neck, or jaw
- The effect of JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC injection into the chin on facial hair growth has not been studied
- Patients who experience skin injury near the site of JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC injection may be at a higher risk for adverse events
- Tell your doctor if you have already been injected with dermal fillers in the same area as the one(s) you are about to be treated for. This information helps your doctor decide when and whether you should get treatment
What are possible side effects of treatment?
The most commonly reported side effects with JUVÉDERM® injectable gels were redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, firmness, lumps/bumps, bruising, discoloration, and itching. For JUVÉDERM® VOLBELLA® XC, dryness was also reported.
These side effects are consistent with other facial injection procedures, and most will resolve with time. Your doctor may choose to treat side effects persisting over 30 days with antibiotics, steroids, or hyaluronidase (an enzyme that breaks down hyaluronic acid).
As with all skin injection procedures, there is a risk of infection.
To report a side effect with any product in the JUVÉDERM® Collection, please call the Allergan® Product Support Department at 1‑877‑345‑5372. Please also visit Juvederm.com or talk to your doctor for more information.
Products in the JUVÉDERM® Collection are available only by a licensed physician or properly licensed practitioner.
References
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC Patient Label 2022
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® VOLUMA® XC Patient Label 2020
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® VOLBELLA® XC Patient Label 2020
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® VOLUX™ XC Directions For Use 2022
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® VOLLURE® XC Patient Label 2020
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® Ultra Plus XC Patient Label 2020
- Allergan Data On File JUVÉDERM® Ultra XC Patient Label 2020
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United Methodists opened the annual meeting of the North Alabama Conference on Wednesday in Huntsville and on Thursday welcomed a report from the financially struggling Birmingham-Southern College, which is affiliated with the conference.
“Will you express your gratitude for an amazing turnaround?” said Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, head of the North Alabama Conference. Several hundred delegates stood to applaud before Birmingham-Southern College President Daniel Coleman approached the podium to deliver a report.
“It’ been a tough year, I’ll just tell you that,” Coleman said. “Miracles do happen.”
Coleman recapped the passage of state legislation, signed by Gov. Kay Ivey on June 16, that will allow the college to take up to a $30 million loan to help it stay open.
“We’re looking for about $40 million to bridge us,” Coleman said. “This will allow us to restructure some debt. Our endowment has dwindled significantly.”
Coleman said he plans to meet with City of Birmingham officials over the coming weeks and with Jefferson County officials. The school hopes to get $5 million in funding from the city and $2.5 million from the county, he said.
The college has lined up about $46 million in pledges from its donors and hopes to get to $75 million or more in pledges by October, when the fundraising campaign will go public, he said. The school needs to restructure debt, rebuild the endowment and rebuild student enrollment, he said.
Coleman said that despite 3,300 applications received from prospective students, news about the college’s financial predicament early this year dampened enrollment.
“When the news hit that we might not be around, you can imagine we didn’t get a lot of deposits,” he said.
More than 10 percent of the student body left, he said.
Coleman said 2023 fall enrollment will be in the range of about 750 to 775 students. With increased financial stability, he’s hoping the college will get back to an enrollment of about 1,200 to 1,500 students in the future.
“I want to assure you, we are the same Birmingham-Southern we’ve always been,” Coleman said.
Prospective BSC students continue to be high academic achievers, with a median 26 ACT score and an average 3.7 GPA in high school, he said.
BSC students are about 74 percent white, 14 percent African-American, 5 percent Hispanic and 2 percent Asian, Coleman said.
Several faculty members have left, but the college has hired 12 new faculty, he said. The student to faculty ratio will be about 9-to-1, he said.
“We are still very much a Christian school, which is of course very important, because we’re a Methodist school,” Coleman said.
About 70.4 percent of students identify as Christian, but 28.4 percent have no religious identification, he said.
“I think that reflects the broader society today and is something that concerns me personally,” Coleman said. “It’s a school where Christ is alive and well with people in their day to day lives and Christianity is practiced in lots of different forms regularly on our campus.”
BSC has been running deficits every year and draining its endowment. It has gone from a $48 million endowment in 2012 to between $20 million and $25 million in endowment now. The college’s debt has been reduced from $68 million in 2012 to about $27 million now.
Birmingham-Southern College formed from a 1918 merger of Southern University, dating to 1856, and Birmingham College, dating to 1898, both founded by the Methodist Church.
The United Methodist North Alabama Conference, which has its headquarters on the BSC campus, supports BSC by pledging $250,000 annually for scholarships, but is facing a crisis of its own and also had a tough year. Since last year, 333 of 638 churches have disaffiliated, leaving 305 churches.
See also: Birmingham-Southern College touts its value in economic impact statement
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A New Bakery Coming To Doylestown, PA Is Changing The Cookie Game
A new bakery and ice cream shop is opening in Doylestown, PA and these desserts look like nothing I’ve seen before.
I saw these heart-shaped cookies and cookie bars on my Instagram feed and just had to know where they came from.
It turns out, they all came from this cute bakery that’s opening up soon called Moms Cookie Bar, and these desserts are taking the way you eat cookies up a notch.
They’ve posted some pictures of the cookies and ice creams on their Instagram and Facebook pages already, and everything looks so good.
It looks like the shop will be a cross between a bakery and an ice cream store.
Whoever is in charge of their social media accounts for sure deserves a raise because these pictures have me waiting for this grand opening.
The picture that caught my eye was of one of their cookie bars, which is what I’m assuming is going to be their trademark item.
It’s basically a little rectangular cookie that has a bunch of fillings inside.
One that they offer is a chocolate chip cookie bar with Oreos inside which looks insane.
The one that’s really catching my eye is the chocolate chip cookie bar stuffed with kinder chocolate and cookie butter.
This is a really cool bakery with some unique treats that are coming to the area.
If you’re looking to go out and try this new shop, their grand opening is happening on Saturday, July 30 from 11 am - 10 pm. Moms Cookie Bar is located at 21 N Main St, Doylestown, PA, 18901, right near La La Lobster. | https://wpst.com/a-new-bakery-coming-to-doylestown-pa-is-changing-the-cookie-game/ | 2022-07-07 14:41:56 | 1 | https://wpst.com/a-new-bakery-coming-to-doylestown-pa-is-changing-the-cookie-game/ |
BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Up to 2.4 million trees would be cut down as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure.
New Jersey environmental officials say the plan to kill trees in a section of Bass River State Forest is designed to better protect against catastrophic wildfires, adding it will mostly affect small, scrawny trees — not the towering giants for which the Pinelands National Refuge is known and loved.
But the plan, adopted Oct. 14 by the New Jersey Pinelands Commission and set to begin in April, has split environmentalists. Some say it is a reasonable and necessary response to the dangers of wildfires, while others say it is an unconscionable waste of trees that would no longer be able to store carbon as climate change imperils the globe.
Foes are also upset about the possible use of herbicides to prevent invasive species regeneration, noting that the Pinelands sits atop an aquifer that contains some of the purest drinking water in the nation.
And some of them fear the plan could be a back door to logging the protected woodlands under the guise of fire protection, despite the state’s denials.
“In order to save the forest, they have to cut down the forest,” said Jeff Tittel, the retired former director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, calling the plan “shameful” and “Orwellian.”
Pinelands Commissioner Mark Lohbauer voted against the plan, calling it ill-advised on many levels. He says it could harm rare snakes, and adds that he has researched forestry tactics from western states and believes that tree-thinning is ineffective in preventing large wildfires.
“We are in an era of climate change; it’s incumbent on us to do our utmost to preserve these trees that are sequestering carbon,” he said. “If we don’t have an absolutely essential reason for cutting down trees, we shouldn’t do it.”
The plan involves about 1,300 acres (526 hectares), a miniscule percentage of the 1.1-million-acre (445,150-hectare) Pinelands preserve, which enjoys federal and state protection, and has been named a unique biosphere by the United Nations.
Most of the trees to be killed are 2 inches (5 centimeters) or less in diameter, the state said. Dense undergrowth of these smaller trees can act as “ladder fuel,” carrying fire from the forest floor up to the treetops, where flames can spread rapidly and wind can intensify to whip up blazes, the state Department of Environmental Protection said in a statement.
A Pinelands commissioner calculated that 2.4 million trees would be removed by using data from the state’s application, multiplying the percentage of tree density reduction by the amount of land affected.
The department would not say whether it believes that number is accurate, nor would it offer a number of its own. But it did say “the total number of trees thinned could be significant.”
“This is like liquid gasoline in the Pinelands,” said Todd Wyckoff, chief of the New Jersey Forest Service, as he touched a scrawny pine tree of the type that will most often be cut during the project. “I see a forest at risk from fire. I look at this as restoring the forest to more of what it should be.”
Tree thinning is an accepted form of forest management in many areas of the country, done in the name of preventing fires from becoming larger than they otherwise might be, and is supported by government foresters as well as timber industry officials. But some conservation groups say thinning does not work.
New Jersey says the cutting will center on the smallest snow-bent pitch pine trees, “and an intact canopy will be maintained across the site.”
The state’s application, however, envisions that canopy cover will be reduced from 68% to 43% on over 1,000 acres (405 hectares), with even larger decreases planned for smaller sections.
And scrawny trees aren’t the only ones that will be cut: Many thick, tall trees on either side of some roads will be cut down to create more of a fire break, where firefighters can defend against a spreading blaze.
The affected area has about 2,000 trees per acre — four times the normal density in the Pinelands, according to the state.
Most of the cut trees will be ground into wood chips that will remain on the forest floor, eventually returning to the soil, the department said, adding, “It is not anticipated that any material of commercial value will be produced because of this project.”
Some environmentalists fear that might not be true, that felled trees could be harvested and sold as cord wood, wood pellets or even used in making glue.
“I’m opposed to the removal of any of that material,” Lohbauer said. “That material belongs in the forest where it will support habitat and eventually be recycled” into the soil. “Even if they use it for wood pellets, which are popular for burning in wood stoves, that releases the carbon.”
John Cecil, an assistant commissioner with the department, said his agency is not looking to make a profit from any wood products that might be removed from the site.
But he said that if some felled trees “could be put to good use and generate revenue for the taxpayers, why wouldn’t we do that? If there’s a way to do this that preserves the essential goals of this plan and brings some revenue back in, that’s not the end of the world. Maybe you could get a couple fence posts out of these trees.”
Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the Pinelands district occupies 22% of New Jersey’s land area, is home to 135 rare plant and animal species, and is the largest body of open space on the mid-Atlantic seaboard between Richmond, Virginia, and Boston. It also includes an aquifer that is the source of 17 trillion gallons (64 trillion liters) of drinking water.
“It is unacceptable to be cutting down trees in a climate emergency, and cutting 2.4 million small trees will severely reduce the future ability to store carbon,” said Bill Wolfe, a former department official who runs an environmental blog.
Carleton Montgomery, executive director of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, supports the plan.
The group said opponents are using the number of trees to be cut “to (elicit) shock and horror,” saying that by focusing on the number rather than size of trees to be cut, they “are quite literally missing the forest for the trees. The resulting forest will be a healthy native Pine Barrens habitat.”
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So-called Doomsday Glacier 'in trouble,' scientists say after finding formations under ice shelf
Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" — nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise — is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research.
The Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida and is located in West Antarctica. Part of what holds it in place is an ice shelf that juts out onto the surface of the ocean. The shelf acts like a cork, holding the glacier back on the land and providing an important defense against sea level rise.
But the crucial ice shelf is highly vulnerable as the ocean warms.
In two studies, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, scientists revealed while the pace of melting underneath much of the ice shelf is slower than previously thought, deep cracks and "staircase" formations in the ice are melting much faster.
As climate change accelerates, the Thwaites Glacier is rapidly changing.
Every year it sheds billions of tons of ice into the ocean, contributing about 4% of annual sea level rise. Particularly rapid melting happens at the point where the glacier meets the seafloor, which has retreated nearly nine miles since the late 1990s, exposing a larger slice of ice to relatively warm ocean water.
The complete collapse of the Thwaites itself could lead to sea level rise of more than two feet, which would be enough to devastate coastal communities around the world. But the Thwaites is also acting like a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, and scientists have estimated global sea level could ultimately rise around 10 feet if the Thwaites collapsed.
While it could take hundreds or thousands of years, the ice shelf could disintegrate much sooner, triggering a retreat of the glacier which is both unstable and potentially irreversible.
To better understand the reshaping of the remote coastline, a team of U.S. and British scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration traveled to the glacier in late 2019.
Using a hot water drill, they bored a hole nearly 2,000 feet deep into the ice and, over a five-day period, sent down various instruments to take measurements from the glacier.
The instruments included a torpedo-like robot called Icefin, which allowed them access to areas previously almost impossible to survey. The remotely-operated vehicle took images and recorded information about the temperature and salinity of the water, as well as ocean currents.
It was able to "swim up to these really dynamic places and take data from the sea floor all the way to the ice," Britney Schmidt, an associate professor at Cornell University and a lead author on one of the papers, told CNN.
The results of the research reveal "a very nuanced and complex picture," Peter Davis, an oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey and a lead author on the other paper, told CNN.
The scientists found even though the glacier is receding, the rate of melting beneath much of the flat part of the ice shelf was lower than expected. The melt rate averaged 2 to 5.4 meters a year, according to the study, less than previous models had projected.
Melting is being suppressed by a layer of colder, fresher water at the base of the glacier, between the ice shelf and the ocean, according to the research.
"The glacier is still in trouble," Davis said in a statement, adding, "What we have found is that despite small amounts of melting there is still rapid glacier retreat, so it seems that it doesn't take a lot to push the glacier out of balance."
The scientists were also surprised by a second finding. They discovered an underwater glacial landscape much more complex than expected, dominated by strange staircaselike terraces and crevasses — big cracks going all the way through the ice shelf.
Melting was particularly rapid in these areas, the research team found. Warm, salty water was able to funnel through and widen cracks and crevasses, contributing to instabilities in the glacier.
"The glacier is not just melting up, but it's melting out," Schmidt said.
Melting along the sloped ice of the cracks and terraces "may become the primary trigger for ice shelf collapse," according to the studies' authors.
The findings add a new layer to a slew of alarming studies pointing to the glacier's rapid melting.
A 2021 study found the ice shelf could shatter within the next five years, and last year scientists said the Thwaites Glacier is hanging on "by its fingernails" as the planet warms, with the potential for rapid retreat in the coming years.
"We knew these glaciers were changing. We knew it was related to ocean temperature. We knew there was melting going on. We knew that the atmosphere was warming. And we knew that the glaciers were falling apart," Schmidt said.
What the latest research does is provide "the missing pieces" to work out exactly how this change is happening, she said.
David Rounce, a glaciologist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in the study, told CNN the new research offered "novel insights into how rapidly the bottom of the ice shelf is melting and the mechanisms by which it's melting, which are very important for improving our understanding and ability to model how Thwaites will change in the future."
Davis said the research can help make more accurate projections about sea level rise, which can be fed into efforts to mitigate climate change and protect coastal communities. From a more personal perspective, he said, he also hopes it prompts people "to sit up and take notice of the changes that are occurring."
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SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to TrendForce's research data, the COVID-19 outbreak has exacted a toll on the LED video wall industry. Fortunately, the market started to recover in 2021.
In this context, industry concentration further increased. As TrendForce's research data showed, the top ten global LED video wall manufacturers' market shares grew to 71% in 2021, which was expected to continuously improve this year. With the expansion of Chinese domestic demand, nearly 40% of global LED video wall demand centers on the Chinese market.
It can be seen from the 2021 financial results of Chinese public listed companies that the overall shipments of the five leading LED video wall makers amounted to more than 1,600,000㎡, among which Unilumin contributed 814,550.04㎡, comprising over 50% of total shipments and ranking first out of all LED video wall listed companies. The company's sales volume from 2017 to 2021 proved that its product sales mushroomed in 2021.
In the emerging application fields of LED video wall, Unilumin has significant sway, particularly in virtual production market. Combined LED video wall with XR technology, Unilumin has created a large number of international virtual studios.
In autostereoscopic 3D display market, Unilumin's LED metasight solution has created new landmarks in cities, like the 7000㎡ LED screen with autostereoscopic 3D innovative contents provided for Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia.
In sports display market, Unilumin has been recognized as one of the LED video wall suppliers of world-class events such as the Winter Olympic Games and World Cup. For instance, Unilumin offered two LED score screens to Lusail Stadium and installed a total of 3600㎡ LED video wall and integrated solution outside the stadium during 2022 World Cup.
According to TrendForce's research data, Unilumin's overseas revenue for the first half of 2022 came up to RMB 1.759 billion (+51.87% YoY), the highest among listed LED video wall companies.
For the first nine months of 2022, Unilumin's revenue and net profit increased synchronously: revenue reached RMB 4.915 billion (+1.71% YoY) and net profit RMB 254 million (+22.44% YoY) .
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The honeymoon for Lincoln Riley and USC is over, the adoration and goodwill earned from a stunning 11-win season squandered suddenly in a Dallas debacle two months ago.
The concerns that arose out of that Cotton Bowl defeat still remain. But as USC opens spring practice Sunday, so do many of the players who kept USC in contention for the College Football Playoff, chief among them a Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback.
There are plenty of questions still to be answered with Year 2 under Riley underway. Here’s who we’ll be keeping a close eye on this spring:
No arrival has been more highly anticipated this spring than that of the nation’s top skill-position prospect. Before Branch enrolled, he was already drawing comparisons to Miami Dolphins receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle. Though those expectations might be unfair for a freshman, the five-star recruit seems like the real deal at first glance.
Branch is an electrifying athlete with elite track speed, capable of cutting on a dime. As a high school sophomore, he ran 10.33 seconds for 100 meters and had the best triple jump in the state in 2021. He’s a big play waiting to happen.
We won’t get to see much of that big-play athleticism until mid-April when USC has its spring game. But it’s a safe bet we’ll be hearing plenty about Branch over the next month.
USC no longer has the nation’s sack leader to lean on, and for a defense that finished among the worst in the nation in spite of Tuli Tuipulotu’s presence, that’s a scary thought.
How the Trojans rebuild that pass rush will be a pressing question this spring. Could Lucas be the answer? A former five-star prospect, Lucas definitely looks the part at 6-6, 270 pounds, but he barely got on the field as a freshman for Texas A&M.
USC is hoping a change of scenery could unlock Lucas. If it doesn’t, the options on the edge are awfully limited. Romello Height is returning from an injury. Korey Foreman has yet to figure it out. It gets thin in a hurry after that.
USC’s linebackers wore down at the end of last season. Depth at the position wore thin. And in turn, everything else broke down for USC’s defense.
So it was no surprise when the portal opened this offseason that USC honed in on its linebacking corps. And in Mason Cobb, it found a proven talent, capable of anchoring a group that was often adrift last season.
Cobb racked up 96 tackles for Oklahoma State in 2022, earning All-Big 12 second-team honors. He should step in immediately to lead USC’s defense. Expect Shane Lee to shift to weakside linebacker with Eric Gentry set to miss all of spring after surgery.
No freshman has received more buzz during winter workouts than Tackett Curtis, whom Riley lauded on early signing day as “the best inside linebacker in the country.”
Curtis was a force as a high school senior. It doesn’t seem unrealistic to think he could make an immediate impact as a college freshman. The question is where he fits in a completely remade USC linebacking corps that’s likely to be led by Cobb.
Regardless, it doesn’t seem like it’ll be long before Curtis is a critical part of the Trojans defense.
The last time USC saw Dorian Singer, he was dusting its secondary for 141 yards and three scores in the desert. That performance must’ve made a pretty memorable impression on Riley, who snagged Singer out of the transfer portal to replace its own top receiver.
Singer might not be an NFL prospect as was Jordan Addison, but the former walk-on was certainly prolific as Arizona’s lead receiver last season, finishing second in the Pac-12 and 14th nationally in receiving yards.
He joins a deep receivers corps that lost four players to the portal and has no obvious No. 1. Singer seems the obvious choice for that role, but Mario Williams, Tahj Washington and others might have something to say about that.
How does one top a Heisman-winning season? That’s the question for USC’s quarterback as spring begins.
It’s been nearly 50 years since the Heisman had its only repeat winner, so the odds of that happening are pretty long. Could Williams really be better for USC than he was last season? Let’s not forget how jaw-dropping his numbers were as a sophomore: school records in total yardage (4,919) and passing touchdowns (42), as well as rushing yards (382) and touchdowns (10) by a quarterback. Plus the most touchdowns accounted for in college football (52).
The microscopes are going to come out this season, as scouts from every NFL team will come to the Coliseum to search for nits to pick. Riley has never had one of his Heisman-winning quarterbacks return until Williams. Underestimating what they’re capable of in Year 3 together would be unwise.
For the second straight year, USC seems to have found its lead back in the transfer portal.
Austin Jones might have something to say about that, but Lloyd arrives at USC with pedigree as a starting back in the SEC. Last season at South Carolina, he racked up 749 total yards and 11 touchdowns in nine games, proving himself as the kind of all-purpose threat Riley demands in his offense.
On a per-play basis, Jones’ 6.1-yard rushing average last season was more efficient. But he also struggled mightily in pass protection, while Lloyd is a bowling ball of a back, with about 20 extra pounds on his counterpart. Both should have significant roles, but how the hierarchy plays out will be a point of intrigue heading into the season.
We kept calling for the Raleek Brown breakout performance last season, and though there were plenty of impressive glimpses, it never quite manifested amid a crowded USC backfield.
That room isn’t any less crowded this season with the arrival of Lloyd, as well as freshmen Quinten Joyner and A’Marion Peterson. Expect USC to manufacture ways to get the ball in Brown’s hands, even if that means lining him up in the slot. He’s too electric to leave unused.
The state’s top prospect in 2022, Jackson dealt with a series of nagging injuries that limited his progress as a freshman. With USC’s top corner off to the NFL, Jackson should have every chance to earn that role this spring.
At 6-1 and 190 pounds, Jackson has the looks of a prototype shutdown defender, along with the physicality and strength to make an impact in the run game. If he can iron out some of his inconsistencies in coverage — and stay healthy — he has the talent to be one of the Pac-12’s top corners this season.
Sure, this might be cheating. But all three of USC’s incoming transfers on the offensive line — Jarrett Kingston, Michael Tarquin, Ethan White — will be watched closely this spring. All might wind up starting in the fall.
All three have extensive starting experience. Kingston spent all of last season as Washington State’s left tackle after starting at left guard the previous season. Tarquin was Florida’s right tackle for eight games in 2022, while White spent the last two years as the Gators’ left guard.
Those three positions are wide open heading into the spring, with only Justin Dedich and Jonah Monheim assured of roles right now.
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VALPARAISO — Porter County’s bridges are older than the state average, 54 years old compared to the state average of 45, but the county’s increased focus on bridges is paying off.
Just 6.5% of bridges in the county have load limits posted compared with the state average of 13.8%, according to a new report by United Consulting.
“We still have some of the oldest bridges in the state,” said Robert Thompson, director of the Department of Development and Stormwater Management. “We’re working on it. That is changing.”
Helping that along came an increased focus on bridges, beginning around 2017, when Thompson’s department took the highway engineering staff under its wing. The bridge tax doubled, then doubled again. “Now all of a sudden we do have a very nice funding coming in here,” he said.
Doubling the bridge tax doesn’t affect taxpayers. Rather, it diverts a larger share of the property taxes already collected to work on the county’s bridges. And even with the doubling cube moved twice, Porter County still has one of the lowest bridge tax rates in the state.
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The United Consulting report gave the county a list of 16 bridges to replace and ranked them by priority, including a timetable for getting the work done.
The estimated cost for replacing all 16 bridges was pegged at $26.6 million.
Three other bridges were flagged for rehabilitation, for about $755,000.
“We probably have 12 bridges that are either under construction or under contract with a consultant for design,” Thompson said, with more on the list for this summer.
“This year could be a very busy year,” he said. At any one time, the county is working on 12 to 15 of its 132 bridges.
Putting off work is a lousy option.
“We’ve had three bridges fail on us,” Thompson said.
Two were closed, with an engineer’s “critical finding” giving the county a certain number of days to repair. One of them was Bridge 84, on 800 South just west of Hebron. “That was one of our worst bridges in the county,” he said.
Bridge 135, on Old Porter Road near the Portage/Burns Harbor border, was memorable. A crew doing work nearby noticed that a beam was slowly sagging as traffic crossed it. “We closed it immediately,” Thompson said.
Bridge 56 is on County Road 1050 South just east of Baums Bridge Road, crossing over Pleasant Township Ditch. That failed bridge was closed in May 2022, Thompson said.
A United Consulting inspector saw a single-axle delivery truck cross over the bridge during the inspection, and beams were deflecting. “Two beams had dropped a couple of inches,” Thompson said.
Bridge 73 is on 50 West between 600 South and Ind. 8. During the 2018 flood, “one abutment wall dropped about a foot.” Fortunately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for the replacement.
As the county replaces bridges, new ones are getting longer.
“A 100-year flood will pass underneath the bridge and there will not be any overtopping,” he said. Bridge 131's span will be almost double the original size because of a hydraulic analysis. That bridge is on County Road 200 West over Damon Run.
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LONDON (AP) — An American woman who left the U.K. after killing a teenager in a road accident was given an eight-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday, though she declined to come to Britain for the court hearing.
Anne Sacoolas, 45, was sentenced over an August 2019 accident in which 19-year-old Harry Dunn was killed when his motorcycle collided with a car outside RAF Croughton, an air base in eastern England that is used by U.S. forces. Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road at the time.
Sacoolas and her husband, an American intelligence officer, returned to the U.S. days after the accident. The U.S. government invoked diplomatic immunity on her behalf, prompting an outcry in Britain and causing tensions between the governments in London and Washington.
Sacoolas admitted causing death by careless driving, which carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment. Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Sacoolas’ actions were “not far short of deliberately dangerous driving,” but she reduced the penalty because of Sacoolas’ guilty plea and previous good character.
The suspended sentence means that Sacoolas faces jail if she commits another offense within a year — though the judge acknowledged the sentence could not be enforced if she remains in the U.S.
The sentencing follows a three-year campaign by Dunn’s family, who met with politicians on both sides of the Atlantic in a campaign to get Sacoolas to face British justice. American authorities refused to extradite her.
Sacoolas entered a guilty plea in October, but the U.S. administration advised her not to come to Britain for sentencing. She attended the hearing at London’s Central Criminal Court by video link.
Lawyer Ben Cooper said Sacoolas had not asked for the diplomatic immunity asserted on her behalf by the U.S. government. He read a statement from Sacoolas in which she said she was “deeply sorry for the pain I have caused.”
“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about Harry,” the statement said.
The judge said the “calm and dignified persistence” of Dunn’s parents had led Sacoolas to acknowledge guilt and appear before the court.
Dunn’s mother Charlotte Charles said in a victim impact statement that her son’s death “haunts me every minute of every day and I’m not sure how I’m ever going to get over it.”
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MIAMI (AP) — MIAMI (AP) — The Hackett Group Inc. (HCKT) on Tuesday reported profit of $8.2 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Miami-based company said it had profit of 30 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 37 cents per share.
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The consulting company posted revenue of $71.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $69.8 million.
For the current quarter ending in June, Hackett Group expects its per-share earnings to range from 36 cents to 39 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $72.5 million to $74 million for the fiscal second quarter.
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Propel Park represents industrial opportunity for New Orleans East
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, economic development partners from the state, region, and city, recognized the groundbreaking of Propel Park, alongside the project developer, Industrial Realty Group, LLC (IRG) and the builder, Impetus. The new industrial and office development, the first facility of its kind within New Orleans city limits in over 20 years, is located within NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) campus, and construction will now begin on the 50-acre campus.
"Doubling-down on the importance and success of NASA Michoud, Propel Park will welcome new companies and drive new growth for New Orleans East," said Michael Hecht, President and CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc. "MAF is a world-class facility, designing and assembling the biggest rockets and the longest windmill blades in human history, so it makes great sense to create a new facility to allow others to be near and leverage this capacity."
Once complete, the project will generate over 1 million square feet of new modernized industrial space, which represents a unique and powerful opportunity for continued advanced manufacturing and distribution growth in New Orleans East.
"There has been incredible momentum on site," said Stuart Lichter, President of IRG. "Our team has already begun the preliminary site preparations to ready the ground for construction. We anticipate more tenants will join the project in 2023."
This new regional asset will bolster business attraction efforts, providing a new location for companies in need of facilities for light assembly, manufacturing, distribution, and office operations.
"IRG and Textron's investment in New Orleans East at Propel Park will indeed propel the campus forward, providing economic opportunity for a new generation and building on the foundation that the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility has stewarded for over a half century," said Mayor LaToya Cantrell. "This project undoubtedly will create more jobs and spur additional investment in our community, and we look forward to continuing to support this development through all its phases."
For decades, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility has been a driver of economic activity and job growth, which continues with this project that will bring new private sector activity and provide high-growth, high-wage jobs for New Orleans East residents. While already a thriving industrial area, Propel Park reinforces further development and growth of New Orleans East as a whole.
"Propel Park is creating a new era of growth for high-demand advanced manufacturing jobs in New Orleans," says Lynnette White-Colin, Senior VP Small Business Growth at New Orleans Business Alliance. "As the first major new industrial construction project in the city in decades, Propel Park proves New Orleans East is poised to strengthen its position as a center of opportunity for residents and businesses. NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility is a long-time driver of high-quality jobs, and today's investment demonstrates the next step in the city's increased economic prosperity. NOLABA looks forward to working with our future Propel Park tenants to ensure New Orleans' skilled workforce is tapped into new job opportunities at this site."
The project's first tenant, Textron Systems, has signed a ten-year lease to relocate from their existing space within an MAF building into a brand new, 97,025 square foot distribution hub. Their presence will occupy a portion of the first phase of the development, a 260,000 square foot warehouse building, and demonstrates the ability for Propel Park to serve as an expansion option for existing Michoud tenants.
"We are proud to expand our footprint in New Orleans East, as this project will provide a safe, secure, and efficient location to conduct our material logistics operations. We have enjoyed a long partnership with the Michoud campus, and this project will serve as an excellent complement to our shipyard operations," Ryan Schaffernocker, Vice President Sea Systems at Textron Systems.
With 50 acres of developable land, Propel Park is expected to include up to 1.3 million square feet of buildings developed in phases. Potential uses include light assembly, manufacturing, distribution, and office space. The site is inherently secure with a 19 ½ foot levee and substantial onsite pumps, as well as access to a deep-water port.
"The development of Propel Park demonstrates the importance of community partnerships in attracting businesses and creating jobs in New Orleans, especially in New Orleans East. We all must have a seat at the table to help New Orleans continue to grow and thrive," said Taurus Wright, Director of Economic Development for Entergy New Orleans. "This economic development project will offer vast opportunities for additional industrial growth with its proximity to the airport, highways, ports, and the rich culture of New Orleans."
Construction of the project is being performed by Impetus, a regional general contractor specializing in the building and infrastructure spaces.
"We are honored to have been selected as the design-build partner by IRG to bring this development to life. At Impetus, we have an innovative approach to project delivery, much in line with the kind of innovation for which the NASA Michoud Facility has long been known," said Nick Moldaner, Chief Operating Officer for Impetus, the builder leading the project. "With Impetus self-performing more than 40% of the work at Propel Park to date and a significant number of local sub-contracting partners involved, the capability and talent pool in the Greater New Orleans region has shined. The economic impact during construction has already been apparent and will continue to thrive as new tenants and job opportunities are added as the park expands."
IRG was represented by Bill Boyer of CBRE and Leon ("Lee") Audibert of Property One for this transaction. For more information about available space, contact Lee at leon@propertyone.com or Bill at Bill.Boyer@cbre.com and visit propelneworleans.com
About IRG About Industrial Realty Group (IRG). IRG is a nationwide real estate development and investment firm specializing in the acquisition, development, and management of commercial and industrial real estate throughout the United States. IRG, through its affiliated partnerships and limited liability companies, operates a portfolio containing over 150 properties in 31 states with over 100 million square feet of rentable space. IRG is nationally recognized as a leading force behind the adaptive reuse of commercial and industrial real estate, solving some of America's most difficult real estate challenges. Learn more at www.industrialrealtygroup.com.
About Greater New Orleans, Inc.
GNO, Inc. is the regional economic development organization for Southeast Louisiana. GNO, Inc.'s mission is to create a Greater New Orleans with a thriving economy and an excellent quality of life, for everyone. More information can be found at www.gnoinc.org.
About New Orleans Business Alliance
One of fewer than 80 Accredited Economic Development Organizations worldwide, the New Orleans Business Alliance is the official public-private partnership created to increase economic gains for the city of New Orleans. Through a direct partnership with the City of New Orleans and strong connectivity with the business community, the New Orleans Business Alliance works to ensure the economic security of all New Orleanians by diversifying the local economy, developing local talent, and expanding entrepreneurial opportunity. Through an inclusive economic development strategy, we will create a more equitable and prosperous future for all. Learn more at www.nolaba.org.
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PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — A loud boom prefaced a streaking fireball spotted in three Southern states, scientists confirmed Thursday.
More than 30 people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported seeing the exceptionally bright meteor in the sky around 8 a.m. Wednesday after hearing loud booms in Claiborne County, Mississippi, and surrounding areas, NASA reported. It was first spotted 54 miles (87 kilometers) above the Mississippi River, near Alcorn, Mississippi, officials said.
“This is one of the nicer events I have seen in the GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mappers) data,” said Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The object, which scientists called a bolide, moved southwest at a speed of 55,000 miles per hour (88,500 kilometers per hour), breaking into pieces as it descended deeper into Earth’s atmosphere. It disintegrated about 34 miles (55 kilometers) above a swampy area north of the unincorporated Concordia Parish community of Minorca in Louisiana.
One witness told the Vicksburg Post that she heard a loud noise and then looked up and saw an “orange fireball the size of a basketball, with a white tail behind it,” heading west toward the Mississippi River.
The Claiborne County Emergency Management Agency posted a statement on Facebook confirming the reports and noting that Grand Gulf Nuclear Station was not involved.
“Citizens of Claiborne County, local officials are aware of the loud sound that was heard throughout the county,” the post read. “Grand Gulf Nuclear Station was not involved in this occurrence and the site is secure. ... There is no threat to the county and no action is to be taken.”
The fragmentation of the fireball generated enough energy to create shockwaves that spread to the ground, producing the booms and vibrations felt by people in the area, NASA said.
At its peak, the fireball was more than 10 times brighter than a full moon, NASA said.
“What struck me as unusual was how few eyewitness reports we had given the skies were so clear,” said Cooke. “More people heard it than saw it.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fireball-spotted-over-southern-Mississippi-NASA-17134983.php | 2022-04-28 23:38:17 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fireball-spotted-over-southern-Mississippi-NASA-17134983.php |
(The Hill) – Southwest Airlines canceled nearly two-thirds of its flights on Wednesday as the carrier continued to grapple with the recent winter storm.
Of the 2,749 canceled flights within, into, or out of the United States on Wednesday, 2,507 were Southwest flights, according to FlightAware.
Southwest canceled 2,694 flights on Tuesday. The carrier has also already canceled 2,348 flights for Thursday amid efforts to trim its schedules and reposition its crews and planes.
“I want everyone who is dealing with the problems we’ve been facing, whether you haven’t been able to get to where you need to go or you’re one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline, to know is that we’re doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. And please also hear that I’m truly sorry,” Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said in a video apology on Tuesday.
Southwest said it was uniquely affected by winter storms that slammed airports in Chicago and Denver, two of the airline’s largest hubs.
Southwest’s workers have also long complained that the likelihood of meltdowns is increased at Southwest because the airline has failed to modernize its decades-old communications systems.
“The tools we use to recover from disruption serve us well, 99 percent of the time; but clearly, we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what’s happening right now,” Jordan said.
The mass cancelations have gained the attention of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who spoke to Jordan on Tuesday and indicated it expects Southwest to live up to commitments like paying for affected passengers’ meal vouchers and hotels.
“Where most airlines saw their performance start to improve, Southwest’s has actually moved in the other direction,” Buttigieg said on “NBC Nightly News” on Tuesday evening.
“You’ve got passengers who are stranded, you’ve got passengers who can’t get ahold of customer service, it’s an unacceptable situation,” he said. | https://phl17.com/nmw/more-than-2700-flights-canceled-as-southwest-struggles-persist/ | 2022-12-28 19:14:18 | 0 | https://phl17.com/nmw/more-than-2700-flights-canceled-as-southwest-struggles-persist/ |
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Striking nurses and other health workers have brought Zimbabwe’s government hospitals to a near standstill, straining a once vibrant public health system now plagued by a lack of medicines and basic supplies such as gloves.
The health professionals stopped working Monday after rejecting the government’s offer of a 100% pay rise which they say is inadequate to meet their needs amid skyrocketing inflation of 130%.
Health workers want to be paid in United States dollars because salaries in local currency are being eroded by inflation, Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo said. Most health workers are taking home less than $200 a month, he said.
“We are hungry … the situation is no longer sustainable. Health workers are walking to work because they can’t afford bus fare. Everything is benchmarked in U.S. dollars except our salaries,” said Dongo.
Dozens of nurses in uniform, some doctors wearing stethoscopes around their necks and other health workers marched, sang and chanted at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, one of the country’s largest public hospitals. Others carried placards reading “Bring back our dignity.”
Similar strikes were taking place at other hospitals across the country, said Dongo.
Desperate patients sat in the hospital parking lot or on the hospital grounds with little hope of getting help.
“I slept here but no one is attending to me. The nurses and doctors say they should be paid more money before they can treat me,” lamented Tobias Shavane, who said he was injured in a traffic crash on Monday. A dirty bandage served as a sling for his arm while his swollen hand was strapped to a blood-stained piece of a cardboard box.
“They told me my situation is not an emergency. I have nowhere else to go because I can’t afford to go to a private hospital,” said Miriam Matembo, who brought her 11-year-old daughter who was suffering from stomach pains. The girl lay on ground, visibly in pain. “I may just have to return home with her, or visit a prophet.”
Unions representing teachers have announced that they intend to strike, also demanding payment in U.S. dollars. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government says it’s not able to pay in greenbacks.
In addition to offering all civil servants a 100% pay increase in local currency, the government says it is negotiating with bakers to try to reduce the price of bread, which, like other basics such as cooking oil and gas, is now out of reach for many people.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is blamed for increasing fuel and food prices. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Zimbabwe’s inflation rate has nearly doubled, according to official statistics.
Many fear Zimbabwe could return to the hyperinflation of 2008 which reached 500 billion %, according to the International Monetary Fund. That economic catastrophe forced the government to adopt a multi-currency system in 2009 in which U.S. dollars and the South African rand were accepted as legal tender.
The U.S. dollar continues to dominate as prices in local currency are often benchmarked to the rates for the American currency on the flourishing illegal market, where most individuals and companies get their foreign currency.
Zimbabweans who earn in local currency such as government workers must source dollars on the illegal market to pay for goods and services that are increasingly being charged in U.S. dollars.
Retailers said the rising rates for U.S. dollars on the illegal market are forcing them to frequently increase prices, often every few days, to allow them to restock. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/nurses-at-zimbabwes-public-hospitals-strike-for-better-pay/ | 2022-06-21 22:03:47 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/nurses-at-zimbabwes-public-hospitals-strike-for-better-pay/ |
Juvenile suspect in Raleigh mass shooting will face charges as an adult, prosecutor says
By Aya Elamroussi, Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN
A 15-year-old will be charged as an adult for allegedly carrying out a mass shooting that left five people dead Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, prosecutors said, as calls to curb gun violence are renewed once again in the US.
The suspect, identified by police as a White male juvenile, was taken into custody by law enforcement after an hours-long manhunt Thursday.
The sprawling crime scene of more than two miles across the Raleigh neighborhood of Hedingham also left two people wounded in the attack, officials said. One of the five victims killed was off-duty police officer Gabriel Torres, 29, who shot while on his way to work.
“My heart is heavy, because we don’t have answers as to why this tragedy occurred,” Raleigh Police Chief Estella D. Patterson said during a news briefing Friday.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman told CNN on Friday her office intends on charging the suspect as an adult.
He is hospitalized in critical condition following his apprehension Thursday night after a standoff with police, officials said. Freeman said her office is monitoring the suspect’s condition.
As authorities investigate, few details have been provided related to how exactly the shooting unfolded.
In one of four 911 calls obtained by CNN, a caller told a dispatcher that the shooter was wearing camouflage and looked like he was 16. The caller said the gunman “walked by and shot” a police officer “for no reason.” Another caller reported that two neighbors had been shot. A third caller reported that a “kid running around here with a shotgun” shot a person and “ran back into the woods.”
The suspect donned camouflage clothing and carried a camouflage backpack, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. After the shooting, a handgun and long gun were recovered, according to the source.
The other deceased victims identified by police are Nicole Conners, 52; Sue Karnatz, 49; Mary Marshall, 35; and James Roger Thompson, 16.
The two victims who were wounded include a responding police officer, who was later released from care.
Marcille Lynn Gardner, 59, remains in critical condition, Patterson said.
The mass shooting prompted a response from President Joe Biden, who lamented the harrowing loss of Americans to gun violence yet again and reiterated his call for an assault weapon ban.
“Enough,” Biden said. “We’ve grieved and prayed with too many families who have had to bear the terrible burden of these mass shootings.
“Too many families have had spouses, parents, and children taken from them forever,” the President added.
Families, community in mourning
Biden’s remarks come as the Raleigh community grieves the sudden loss of loved ones and neighbors.
Karnatz, one of the victims killed, was described by her husband, Tom, as a loving wife and mother to three boys, whose ages are 10, 13 and 14.
“We had plans together for growing old. Always together. Now those plans are laid to waste,” he wrote Friday on social media.
Christine Hines, who is Karnatz’ neighbor, said she feels as if her heart had been pierced by the loss. The pair had seen each other the day of the shooting while walking their dogs.
Marshall, another victim who was killed, was also walking her dog when she heard gunshots ring out, her sister Meaghan McCrickard told CNN.
After hearing the shots, Marshall called her fiancé to tell him about the firing and said she was heading back to the house, McCrickard said.
“She was my hero despite being my younger sister,” McCrickard added. The sisters were three years apart.
Marshall, a culinary arts alumnus of Wake Technical Community College, was described by faculty and classmates as “a hard worker with a good attitude and a determination to succeed,” the school said in a statement.
Thompson was a junior at Knightdale High School when he was fatally shot Thursday, principal Keith Richardson said in a statement.
“It is an unexpected loss and we are saddened by it,” said Richardson, noting that counseling and crisis services are available for students and staff.
‘It could have been us,’ teen says
Those who witnessed some of the violence unfold also described their anguish over what their neighbors endured.
A resident, who asked not to be identified, stood beside her 15-year-old daughter as she recounted that police cars, ambulances and fire trucks were descending when a neighbor approached.
“She had seen a ghost,” the resident said. “She comes towards us, and I’m, like, what happened, and she said, ‘I just witnessed my neighbor being shot in the driveway.’ She was completely in shock.”
The resident and her daughter locked themselves in a bedroom after an officer in an unmarked car told them there was an active shooter.
“I started crying,” her daughter recalled. And on Friday morning, she cried again.
“Imagining what people are going through,” she said. “And the fact that it was so close to us. It could have been us.”
McCrickard, Marshall’s sister, expressed frustration that gun violence has not been restrained further.
“We want to take this unimaginable opportunity to beg our local, national, and country leaders to finally step up and do something about gun control,” McCrickard said. “Being a leader is about leading and making decisions that benefit, support and keep our country safe. How many times do we have to hear our leaders say, ‘We’re sorry’ and ‘Something must be done?’ We demand action.”
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper echoed Biden’s sentiments following the shooting, saying the Raleigh community’s pain is unimaginable.
“We’re sad. We’re angry and we want to know the answers to all the questions,” the governor said. “Those questions will be answered. Some today and more over time. But I think we all know the core truth: No neighborhood, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in their communities.”
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(KTLA) – Burger King plans to turn up the heat this summer with new fiery chicken nuggets, a new take on one of the company’s staple menu items. A new frozen drink that has a hint of heat will also be introduced to menus nationwide, the company announced Monday
The fiery nuggets and the Frozen Fanta Kicken’ Mango drink will be available on menus for a limited time beginning on June 19 until Aug.17, according to a news release.
The nuggets will be coated with a spicy glaze to give them an extra kick, while the new drink will have a combination of mango, citrus and spicy chili flavors.
Burger King will also give out a small Frozen Fanta Kickin’ Mango drink for free to Royal Perk reward members to celebrate its release and to help keep customers cool on July 26, which is historically the hottest day of the year.
The one-day deal can only be redeemed on the Burger King app or website.
People interested in trying the new menu items can do so at a nearby Burger King restaurant. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/burger-king-to-add-spicy-nuggets-new-drink-to-menus-nationwide-2/ | 2023-06-14 13:47:03 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/burger-king-to-add-spicy-nuggets-new-drink-to-menus-nationwide-2/ |
Miles Sanders is heading to Carolina.
Sanders, the running back who has spent his entire career with the Eagles, agreed to a contract today with the Panthers, according to multiple reports.
The 25-year-old Sanders is coming off the best season of his career. He carried 259 times for 1,269 yards and 11 touchdowns last season in Philadelphia, all career highs.
In Carolina Sanders will join a backfield with Chuba Hubbard, and he’ll be taking handoffs either from Andy Dalton or from the quarterback the Panthers select with the first overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft.
The Panthers have likely decided not to re-sign free agent running back D’Onta Foreman. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/panthers-agree-to-sign-miles-sanders | 2023-06-30 22:49:06 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/panthers-agree-to-sign-miles-sanders |
DEAR ABBY: A year ago, when I discovered my husband's porn videos and naked pictures of his ex-girlfriends, he assured me he would delete them. It has been a year, and he still hasn't done it. When I mention it, he claims he doesn't look at them and doesn't have time to delete them. I ask him to be honest with me about if he intends to keep them, but he insists he "will" delete them. It makes me believe he has an emotional attachment to these women. How should I continue to deal with this issue? -- HE'S GOT A WIFE NOW
DEAR WIFE: Your husband may be less emotionally attached to the ex-girlfriends than titillated by their pictures. From what you have written, your husband isn't being completely honest with you. And THAT is the issue you should be dealing with, with the help of a licensed counselor, because solid marriages are based on trust, and there can't be trust without honesty.
DEAR ABBY: I am currently in a relationship that is approaching the seven-year mark. We dated in our 20s and rekindled in our 40s. We live together, but I'm afraid we are growing apart. Due to health issues, I don't work; he works second shift. I cry easily and have always been an emotional person.
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When there are disagreements, we can usually work it out. My problem is, I think about the discussion later and have more to say or ask. He then tells me we have already talked about it and he's not discussing it again. He says I "overanalyze everything." It's not that. I just have another question or something I left out.
His refusal to talk makes me feel as though things are unresolved. He just downright won't talk about something we have already discussed! Please help me to understand if I am too demanding and should just leave it alone. -- UNANSWERED IN ILLINOIS
DEAR UNANSWERED: It isn't "too demanding" to want to discuss something further. If revisiting the issue would rekindle the disagreement, your partner is far too controlling. If you have a question, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to ask without it leading to conflict. To deny you that opportunity seems disrespectful.
Give it more time after a disagreement and decide if it's really necessary to revisit the subject. When you do, avoid reapproaching it in a way that could be perceived as an invitation to another argument. | https://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/columnists/dear-abby-husband-keeps-explicit-media-from-previous-relationships/article_343c5fe8-c5a2-11ec-bcaf-bfa7ecae374f.html | 2022-05-04 21:05:25 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/columnists/dear-abby-husband-keeps-explicit-media-from-previous-relationships/article_343c5fe8-c5a2-11ec-bcaf-bfa7ecae374f.html |
When federal student loan borrowers take a breath from celebrating the cancelation of some or all of their federal student loans, millions of them could be in for a nasty surprise:
While President Biden's sweeping student debt relief won't be subject to federal income tax, in seven states borrowers may have to pay state income tax on all those canceled loans.
Before 2021, student debt cancelation was generally considered a form of income, and therefore taxable both at the federal and usually state level. But in March of 2021, the American Rescue Plan changed that, at least temporarily: Until the end of 2025, Congress said, the U.S. government will not consider canceled student loan debts to be taxable income.
Now that the Biden administration has unveiled its sweeping new debt cancelation plan, this federal exemption is a really big deal. That's because most places follow the federal government's lead when it comes to income tax.
"The majority of states that have an income tax essentially say, 'Whatever the federal government says is gross income, we say the same thing,' " explains John Brooks, a Fordham University professor who studies both tax policy and student loan law.
But seven states are out of step with federal tax policy and have either said they will tax debt relief or still have policies that could require it, barring a change in state law.
States where borrowers may be taxed for loan cancellation
1. North Carolina
Like most states, North Carolina conforms to federal tax law. What's interesting here is that the state decided, in spite of Congress, to tax student debt relief.
In a statement, the North Carolina Department of Revenue tells NPR the state's General Assembly chose not to adopt the federal student debt tax exemption. "The Department is monitoring any further enactments by the General Assembly that could change the taxability of student loan forgiveness in North Carolina," a spokesperson says.
But for now, it's taxable. And the Assembly has given no indication it will change that.
2. Indiana
Like North Carolina, Indiana tends to follow federal tax policy, but has similarly chosen to break with Congress on this. Tax officials there have confirmed (to the AP) that residents will be expected to list any debt relief they receive under taxable income.
3. Mississippi
Now things get more complicated. Unlike most states, Mississippi doesn't follow federal tax policy, so the changes in the American Rescue Plan don't mean much there. That's no guarantee they will ultimately tax debt relief; it just means that, right now, there's nothing on the state's books to exempt canceled loans.
As such, Mississippi's Department of Revenue has reportedly confirmed that under current state law, student debt relief is taxable.
4. Arkansas
Like Mississippi, Arkansas' tax policies don't follow federal policy, so, again, there's no obvious exemption on the books there to protect debt relief from being taxed. But... Arkansas has not yet said it will tax these canceled loans.
In an email to NPR, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration says, "Our Department is currently reviewing whether debt forgiveness in this scenario is subject to state income tax in Arkansas. If we determine this is indeed subject to state income tax, legislative action would be required to change/exempt it. The next session of the Arkansas General Assembly is scheduled to begin in early 2023."
5. Minnesota
Now the murky gets even murkier. While most states mirror federal tax policy, some are simply out-of-date, like Minnesota. It conforms to federal policy that pre-dates the American Rescue Plan, going back to 2018, when debt relief was still considered taxable.
The fact that Minnesota could technically tax debt relief is not an intentional response to the news, says Jared Walczak of the Tax Foundation. Walczak advises state leaders on tax policy and has been paying close attention to this income tax conundrum.
"They did not go through with this saying, 'Well, if President Biden makes this policy enactment, we are going to tax this.' This is just the continuation of existing law. It's where pretty much every state would have been a year ago."
But most states have updated their policies, Walczak says. Minnesota and a handful of other states, "because of the quirks of their tax codes, have not. That is something they could potentially fix."
Minnesota's Democratic governor tried to fix it, introducing a tax bill during the last legislative session that would have brought the state up-to-date, "however, that legislation was not passed so Minnesota is currently out of conformity with federal law in that area," a spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Revenue writes in an email to NPR.
"If the state does not conform to this federal law, then Minnesota taxpayers who have their student debt discharged will have to add back this amount for Minnesota income tax purposes."
6. Wisconsin
Like Minnesota, Wisconsin also conforms to outdated federal tax policy, in this case from 2020, just a few months before the ARPA exempted student debt relief.
"It hasn't updated it since then," says Brooks at Fordham University, "which is not to say that they don't want to. It just doesn't seem to be an immediate priority right now in their legislative calendar." Brooks says that's in part because the federal debt relief action is still brand new.
Both Minnesota and Wisconsin could still update their state tax policies and choose to exempt student debt relief. Though any changes would need to happen by early 2023, before tax season, or last-minute tweaks could lead to widespread confusion.
7. California
Believe it or not, it's possible this Democratic stronghold could find itself having to tax millions of Californians who qualify for Biden's debt relief plan – because the state conforms to federal tax policy from 2015, according to the Tax Foundation. It does have tax exclusions on the books for some specific kinds of debt relief, like loans canceled through an income-based repayment plan, but, depending on whom you ask, it's either unclear or unlikely that those can be applied to Biden's recent announcement.
In an email to NPR, a spokesperson for the California Franchise Tax Board says they can't yet say if debt relief in California will be taxable because they need more information from the U.S. Department of Education. "We are saying the loan forgiveness (i.e., cancellation of indebtedness) would be taxable in California UNLESS this federal student loan debt is repaid or canceled pursuant to 1098e of Title 20 of the United States Code."
Secret decoder ring: That section of the tax code refers to debts discharged through income-based repayment plans. And, says Walczak, "I can't imagine any scenario in which [debt under the Biden plan] would be forgiven under those sections."
In other words, California leaders will likely need to take some additional action if they don't want the state taxing millions of student loan borrowers there.
How much income tax borrowers may have to pay
President Biden's loan forgiveness plan would cancel up to $10,000 in debt for individuals who earn less than $125,000 a year, or less than $250,000 a year for couples; and it would cancel up to $20,000 for borrowers who received a Pell Grant in college and meet those income requirements.
Assuming a hypothetical state income tax rate of 5%, a borrower who receives $10,000 in debt cancellation would be on the hook for $500 in state income tax, and a borrower who receives the Pell-eligible $20,000 in relief could have to pay as much as $1,000 to the state.
That may be a high bar for some borrowers. After all, this relief is a debt reset; it's not a windfall of dollars that can then be used to pay off an unexpected tax liability.
"A lot of people anticipate some amount of return and really depend on that at the end of the year to get that money back. So if that gets wiped out, I could see that really disrupting people's financial planning," says Colin Stroud, who lives in Madison, Wisc., and says he qualifies for $10,000 in debt cancellation.
Stroud says, while he can afford the added tax bill if it comes to that, "I just don't understand why you would want to spring this on people. I don't know what is gained by it."
Also, while we're talking about only a handful of states, this is not only a handful of borrowers.
According to federal data from March 2022, almost 8 million federal student loan borrowers live in just these seven states, and the vast majority likely qualify for debt relief.
What borrowers should know about filing their taxes
There's one more reason this muddle could cause yet more confusion come tax time:
The U.S. government has instructed student loan servicing companies not to mail a federal 1099-C form to the millions of borrowers who receive debt relief. This matters, a lot.
In the past, the 1099-C form has been sent not only to borrowers who receive debt relief, notifying them of their tax burden, but also to state tax authorities.
This year, though, because debt relief is not considered taxable income at the federal level, the U.S. government won't be sending out 1099-C forms. That's because if 40 million borrowers receive a form suggesting they owe federal income tax on their debt relief, when they don't, "that would confuse the heck out of a lot of taxpayers," Brooks says.
But without this 1099-C form, it's state tax authorities who'll be confused.
States that want to collect income tax on these canceled student debts won't have a clear way of knowing who got help and who didn't. Tax preparers and tax preparation software can ask borrowers if they received debt relief, and borrowers will have a legal responsibility to answer truthfully, but, without that 1099-C, states will have to rely on the word of borrowers.
Brooks and Walczak both say many borrowers might not report their debt relief as income – not because they're trying to commit fraud but because it simply wouldn't occur to them that it would be taxable, since they're not being asked to pay federal income taxes.
"This is difficult. This is new. People aren't necessarily expecting it, and especially if you don't have documentation being sent to you like you would with just about any other form of debt discharge. It's putting people at a disadvantage," Walczak says.
"If borrowers don't report it," Brooks says, "the state tax agencies don't know that there was cancellation. Everybody just moves on, and it doesn't actually get taxed at the state level in a practical sense, even if the state law says that it should be."
Brooks and Walczak recommend borrowers in these states stay tuned.
It's possible, perhaps even likely, that, given these complications, one or more of these states will update their tax policies in the coming months and follow Congress' lead after all.
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Mount Union track and field makes it another Ohio Athletic Conference championship sweep
ALLIANCE — Make it three straight Ohio Athletic Conference title sweeps for the Mount Union men's and women's track and field teams.
The Purple Raiders collected two more OAC championship trophies Friday at Larry Kehres Stadium. The men's team won their 12th straight conference title and 39th overall. The women's team won their third straight title and 11th overall.
Mount Union's Jared Storm was selected the OAC men's sprinter of the year. Teammate Drake Willenborg was named men's field athlete of the year. Head coach Kevin Lucas and his staff were voted men's coaching staff of the year.
Storm won the 100 and 200-meter dashes and ran on Mount Union's winning 400 relay. Willenborg won the discus, finished second in the javelin and came in seventh in the shot put.
Mount Union's Kenadee Wayt was named OAC women's sprinter of the year. She won the 100, 200 and ran on the Purple Raiders' winning 400 and 1,600 relays.
Storm, Andrew McVicker, Tyler Gill and Tylir Shannon won the 400 relay in a meet-record 40.62 seconds. Matt McBride set a meet record in the 400, winning in 46.27. His time ranks No. 1 in the nation.
Brody Coleman won the triple jump and Dominic Deshuk won the 400 hurdles. McBride and Gill teamed up with Justin Knoch and Josh Fouche on the Purple Raiders' winning 1,600 relay.
Wayt set women's meet records in the 100 (11.79) and 200 (24.04). Her 200 time ranks No. 1 in the nation. She ran the 400 relay with Lauren Roncone, Madison Miles and Carlie Pratt and the 1,600 relay with Miles, Taylor Cupp and Julia Henderson.
Kennady Gibbins swept the 100 and 400 hurdles. Miles also won the 400. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/track-field/2023/05/06/mount-union-ohio-athletic-conference-mens-and-womens-track-and-field-championships/70189909007/ | 2023-05-06 12:50:14 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/college/track-field/2023/05/06/mount-union-ohio-athletic-conference-mens-and-womens-track-and-field-championships/70189909007/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country’s oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.
Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60 per barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed to analyze the situation before deciding on a specific response but that it would not accept the price ceiling. Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap’s European backers would come to rue their decision.
“From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil,” Ulyanov tweeted. “Moscow has already made it clear that it will not supply oil to those countries that support anti-market price caps. Wait, very soon the EU will accuse Russia of using oil as a weapon.”
The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, called Saturday for a lower price cap, saying the one adopted by the EU and the Group of Seven leading economies didn’t go far enough.
“It would be necessary to lower it to $30 in order to destroy the enemy’s economy faster,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy’s office, wrote on Telegram, staking out a position also favored by Poland — a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Under Friday’s agreements, insurance companies and other firms needed to ship oil would only be able to deal with Russian crude if the oil is priced at or below the cap. Most insurers are located in the EU and the United Kingdom and could be required to observe the ceiling.
Russia’s crude has already been selling for around $60 a barrel, a deep discount from international benchmark Brent, which closed Friday at $85.42 per barrel.
The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil “will continue to be in demand” and criticized the price limit as “reshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets.” A post on the embassy’s Telegram channel predicted the per-barrel cap would lead to “a widespread increase in uncertainty and higher costs for consumers of raw materials.”
“What happens in China will help shape whether the price cap has any teeth,” said Jim Burkhard, an oil markets analyst with IHS Markit. He said dampened demand from China means most Russian crude exports are already selling below $60.
The price cap aims to put an economic squeeze on Russia and further crimp its ability to finance a war that has killed an untold number of civilians and fighters, driven millions of Ukrainians from their homes, and weighed on the world economy for more than nine months.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that since Friday Russia’s forces had fired five missiles, carried out 27 airstrikes and launched 44 shelling attacks against Ukraine’s military positions and civilian infrastructure.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the president’s office, said the attacks killed one civilian and wounded four others in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. According to the U.K. Defense Ministry, Russian forces “continue to invest a large element of their overall military effort and firepower” around the small Donestsk city of Bakhmut, which they have spent weeks trying to capture.
In southern Ukraine’s Kherson province, whose capital city of the same name was liberated by Ukrainian forces three weeks ago following a Russian retreat, Gov. Yaroslav Yanushkevich said evacuations of civilians stuck in Russian-held territory across the Dnieper River would resume temporarily.
Russian forces pulled back to the river’s eastern bank last month. Yanushkevich said a ban on crossing the waterway would be lifted during daylight hours for three days for Ukrainian citizens who “did not have time to leave the temporarily occupied territory.” His announcement cited a “possible intensification of hostilities in this area.”
Kherson is one of four regions that Putin illegally annexed in September and vowed to defend as Russian territory. From their new positions, Russian troops have regularly shelled Kherson city and nearby infrastructure in recent days, leaving many residents without power. Running water remained unavailable in much of the city.
The other regions annexed in violation of international law are Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian authorities also reported intense fighting in Luhansk and Russian shelling of northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, which Russia’s soldiers mostly withdrew from in September.
The mayor of the city of Kharkiv, which remained under Ukrainian control during Russia’s occupation of other parts of the region, said some 500 apartment buildings were damaged beyond repair, and nearly 220 schools and kindergartens were damaged or destroyed. He estimated the cost of the damage at $9 billion.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Saturday in Minsk with the president and defense minister of Belarus, which hosts Russian troops and artillery. Belarus has said its own forces are not taking part in the war, but Ukrainian officials have frequently expressed concern that they could be be induced to cross the border into northern Ukraine.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting that his troops and Russian forces train in coordination. “We ready ourselves as one grouping, one army. Everyone knows it. We were not hiding it,” he was quoted as saying by the news agency Interfax.
Inna Varenytsia in Kherson, Ukraine, and Frank Bajak in Boston contributed to this report. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/russia-rejects-60-a-barrel-cap-on-its-oil-warns-of-cutoffs/ | 2022-12-03 18:53:26 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/russia-rejects-60-a-barrel-cap-on-its-oil-warns-of-cutoffs/ |
(The Hill) – Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz’s campaign is taking a jab at Democratic opponent John Fetterman after the lieutenant governor’s campaign ridiculed — and raised money off of — a video showing the GOP hopeful shopping for groceries while complaining about the price of crudité.
“If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly,” Rachel Tripp, Oz’s senior communications advisor, said in a statement, which was first reported by Insider.
The statement was criticized by Fetterman in a tweet on Tuesday evening.
“I had a stroke. I survived it. I’m truly so grateful to still be here today,” he said. “I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could *never* imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges.”
On Tuesday, Fetterman’s campaign released a letter signed by over 100 Pennsylvania doctors warning against Oz’s candidacy. In an event promoting the letter, Val Arkoosh, a physician who ran in the Democratic Senate primary earlier this year, slammed Oz’s comments.
“No real doctor, or any decent human being, to be honest, would ever mock a stroke victim who is recovering from that stroke, in the way that Dr. Oz is mocking John Fetterman,” Arkoosh said.
At issue was a video made in April that showed Oz grocery shopping as he sought to make the case that inflation was making items such as asparagus, broccoli, guacamole, and salsa more expensive. In the video, he referred to the store name as “Wegner’s,” what appeared to be a combination of Wegmans and Redner’s.
Oz also referred to the items as crudité, which Fetterman mocked, saying in a tweet, “in PA we call this a… veggie tray.”
Fetterman’s campaign said it had raised more than half a million dollars off the viral video within a day, including more than $65,000 from a sticker that has the phrase “Wegners: Let them eat Crudite” on it.
The produce-centric tit-for-tat comes as Fetterman’s campaign seeks to portray Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey who is out of touch with Pennsylvania voters.
Oz’s team, meanwhile, has sought to show Fetterman as inauthentically engaging with voters on the ground, at one point sending out a “basement tracker” update of the Senate hopeful.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, keeping the Democrat off the campaign trail for several months.
The Senate race, one of many that could determine control of the currently 50-50 upper chamber, has become one of the most closely watched in the nation. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/oz-campaign-bites-down-on-crudite-if-fetterman-had-ever-eaten-a-vegetable-maybe-he-wouldnt-have-had-a-major-stroke/ | 2022-08-24 04:06:11 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/oz-campaign-bites-down-on-crudite-if-fetterman-had-ever-eaten-a-vegetable-maybe-he-wouldnt-have-had-a-major-stroke/ |
BOSTON - The second-seed Lehigh Mountain Hawks opened up Patriot League Tournament play with a, 5-1 win over Army West Point. Chloe Hess with a commanding performance in the circle for the Mountain Hawks.
Hess would toss a complete game, allowing just four hits to go along with one run, and striking out six Black Knights batters in the win.
In the early going it was looking like anyone's game, the Mountain Hawks opening the scoring in the second inning. Rory Dudley reaching on an error which allowed Brooke Cannon to score, 1-0.
The Black Knights tied things up in the fourth inning with with an RBI double by Kaci Donaldson.
All Mountain Hawks the rest of the way, starting in the bottom of the fifth inning. Lily Owens ripped an RBI single to break the tie, few batters later Sydney Parlett would reach on a fielder's choice that allowed Owens to score, 3-1 Mountain Hawks.
Sixth inning, two more Mountain Hawks runs are put on the board. Emily Cimino with a two-run double to center field, 5-1. Hess would shutdown the Black Knights in the seventh to secure the win.
Lehigh will take on the top-seed, Boston University on Friday morning with the first pitch scheduled for 11:00 AM. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/lehigh-rallies-to-open-it-patriot-league-tournament-with-a-win/article_0f172420-f047-11ed-af2a-0348043848b9.html | 2023-05-11 23:10:59 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/lehigh-rallies-to-open-it-patriot-league-tournament-with-a-win/article_0f172420-f047-11ed-af2a-0348043848b9.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection released video on Wednesday of a tour led by a Republican lawmaker the day before the attack, showing participants taking photos of stairwells and tunnels in the Capitol complex.
The panel released the video as it renewed calls for the GOP lawmaker, Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, to speak to the committee about the tour. Loudermilk has so far declined the interview and denied any wrongdoing, and the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police said in a letter to Republicans this week that after reviewing surveillance video, “we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.”
Still, the committee says it has questions. In addition to the surveillance video, the footage released by the panel also includes video of an unidentified man walking toward the Capitol on Jan. 6 holding a flagpole that appears to have a sharpened end, which he says is “for a certain person.” The committee says the man who took the video, who is not seen in the footage but is laughing and urging on the man with the flag, is one of the tour participants who was taking photos inside the Capitol the day before.
Later footage taken by the same man shows people approaching the Capitol. The man taking the video then makes apparent threats toward Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and New York Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“They’re coming in, coming in like white on rice for Pelosi, Nadler, even you, AOC,” the man says in the video released by the committee. “We’re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. … When I get done with you, you’re going to need a shine on top of that bald head.”
The panel did not say whether the man got into the Capitol or whether he has faced any charges. While more than 800 people have been charged for breaking into the building, or for violently beating police officers, thousands of other protesters were outside the building or on the National Mall and did not engage in violence. The breach temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
In a Wednesday letter to Loudermilk renewing the request for an interview, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, said the panel “had hoped to show you the video evidence when you met with us” but was releasing it publicly because Loudermilk had so far declined. Thompson said the areas photographed and recorded by some on the tour are “not typically of interest to tourists, including hallways, staircases, and security checkpoints.”
Another member of the panel, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, tweeted after the video was released: “Please take a look. These are not normal tour routes, the Capitol was closed to tours.”
The back-and-forth with Loudermilk has underscored the committee’s difficulty in getting any information from Republicans who were communicating with President Donald Trump, the White House or the rioters during the insurrection or beforehand as Trump strategized about how to overturn his election defeat. While the panel has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, five GOP lawmakers have defied subpoenas, including House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, who spoke with Trump that day.
Loudermilk has not been subpoenaed, and there is no evidence that he knew that any of the participants on his tour were outside the Capitol the next day.
The Georgia Republican said in a statement after the video’s release that the panel is “is undermining the Capitol Police and doubling down on their smear campaign.” He said there is “nothing there” and noted that none of the locations they visited were breached on Jan. 6.
“As Capitol Police confirmed, nothing about this visit with constituents was suspicious,” Loudermilk said. In interview with reporters in the Capitol, he said he condemned the violent language against lawmakers but that “no one in that group showed that kind of aggression that day.”
Police reviewed the footage of Loudermilk’s tour as the committee requested his interview and after some Democrats said immediately after the attack that Republicans had led “reconnaissance tours” of the Capitol building beforehand. There has been no evidence that happened.
“This false narrative that the Committee and Democrats continue to push, that Republicans, including myself, led reconnaissance tours is verifiably false,” Loudermilk said in his statement.
In a letter sent Monday to Republicans on the House Administration Committee, of which Loudermilk is a member, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said there were about 15 people on the tour and that Loudermilk was showing constituents around the Capitol complex, which was closed to visitors at the time because of coronavirus concerns. But they did not enter the Capitol itself. The group also walked around one of the buildings without the congressman, Manger said.
The surveillance video released by the committee shows the group at entrances to tunnels that lead to the Capitol but not entering the building. The Capitol complex includes 20 buildings and facilities, including House and Senate offices, and underground tunnels connect most of the buildings to the Capitol.
“There is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021,” Manger said in the letter. “We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.”
Republicans on the House Administration Committee had previously said they reviewed security footage from Jan. 5 and said there were “no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on.”
But Thompson and Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the chairman and vice-chairwoman of the Jan. 6 panel, said last month that their review of the evidence “directly contradicts that denial.”
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report. | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/jan-6-panel-releases-video-of-capitol-tour-before-attack/ | 2022-06-16 03:13:22 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/jan-6-panel-releases-video-of-capitol-tour-before-attack/ |
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A man who sent threats and photos of a gun to an ex-girlfriend was shot and killed by deputies who were trying to arrest him Wednesday in the third deadly police shooting in South Carolina in four days, authorities said.
The man killed had a gun as the four deputies tried to take him into custody near a Greenville County apartment complex and several shots were fired, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said at a news conference.
Investigators have not determined whether the man fired at officers, Lewis said.
The ex-girlfriend called deputies after receiving the gun photos, saying the former boyfriend had suddenly started contacting her again after they broke up, and officers were trying to arrest the suspect on unlawful communication charges, Lewis said.
The man tried to avoid deputies in the apartment complex parking lot, the sheriff said.
“We do think from the erratic behavior inside the parking lot — he didn’t know what he was going to be arrested for, but he knew law enforcement was behind him,” Lewis said.
The Greenville County Coroner’s Office identified the man killed as Terrance Maurice Sligh, 32, and said an autopsy would be conducted later this week.
Sligh was the third person shot by police in South Carolina the past four days. Deputies in Sumter County killed men in separate shootings on Sunday and Monday.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating all the shootings. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/sheriff-deputies-kill-man-who-sent-ex-girlfriend-gun-pics/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-09-28 22:27:46 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/sheriff-deputies-kill-man-who-sent-ex-girlfriend-gun-pics/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, October 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Diego CA
142 PM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
...Scattered strong thunderstorms will impact portions of north
central San Diego County through 230 PM PDT...
At 141 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
S7 - East Grade Rd, or 11 miles east of Valley Center. This storm was
nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Valley Center, Lake Henshaw, Palomar Mountain State Park, Palomar
Mountain, S7 - East Grade Rd, Hwy 79 Between Santa Ysabel And Warner
Springs, La Jolla Indian Reservation, San Pasqual Indian Reservation,
Rincon Indian Reservation, Pauma Valley and Santa Ysabel Indian
Reservation.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3336 11691 3331 11671 3312 11672 3321 11703
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 017DEG 1KT 3328 11684
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Good Morning Central Coast! I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend and are ready for the week.
To start off there is some dense fog still limiting visibility along the southcoast and in western Santa Barbara County. Take it slow on those roadways. Elsewhere there is more clear air and mild conditions to kick off the work week.
In terms of temperatures this week we will be experiencing a broad cooling trend bringing temperatures back towards normal for this time of year.
We have a low pressure system that has taken over for the ridge of high pressure that we had set up over the state for the past several days which means we can expect slight cooling across the board.
For the interiors the effects will be minimal with temps falling into the low 90s and upper 80s, the coastal valleys for the most part in the upper 60s to low 70s and the beaches will be in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
This pattern of slow cooling will have its grip on the Central Coast at least through Tuesday before some very minimal warming could return. In the mean time there is also a chance for some thunderstorms through the Santa Barbara and Cuyama areas.
Monday through Wednesday thunderstorms bring the possibility of some isolated showers and moments of heavier rainfall through the mountains. During this time frame the low cloud pattern will continue and possibly deepen through may of the coastal valleys especially Lompoc and Santa Maria.
The extended period is looking slightly warmer with partly cloudy skies.
Have a great day Central Coast! | https://www.ksby.com/weather/cooler-temps-begin-alongside-small-rain-chance-mid-week | 2022-10-10 13:10:06 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/weather/cooler-temps-begin-alongside-small-rain-chance-mid-week |
(CNN) — The desert Southwest, an area dealing with long-term megadrought, is bracing for a moderate risk — Level 3 of 4 — of extreme rainfall, which could lead to flash flooding Friday and Saturday.
“A multi-day significant rainfall event is forecast across the Southwest US this weekend,” the Weather Prediction Center said. “Impactful rainfall is most likely across parts of southeast Arizona into southwest New Mexico with storm total amounts approaching 5-6 inches.”
Flood watches are posted for nearly 10 million people across the Southwest, including Tucson, Phoenix, Albuquerque, and El Paso, through Saturday.
Zack Taylor, a senior meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center, pointed out there are multiple factors creating the new surge of moisture, including the remnants of a tropical wave currently over northern Mexico embedded within the larger-scale monsoon.
One thing making the particular event different is the timing of the storms. Typically, monsoon storms are diurnally driven, meaning they occur in the afternoon and early evening. This time, the chance for rain will be around the clock. Storms will fire up in the afternoon and early evening as usual, but will also occur Friday overnight and early Saturday morning.
There are also two time lines as far as the impact goes with the next system: the short term, which would be flash flooding, and the long term, which would be the influence on the rivers, creeks, and streams in the area.
“The main concern is with the flash flooding initially,” Jeff Davis, senior meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Tucson told CNN. “But we’re transitioning into a situation where we may have some of the larger washes that are normally dry and some of the main stem rivers starting to see significant flows by Monday.”
By the end of the weekend, the rain will spread east into Texas, another state experiencing significant drought. By early next week, 3-5 inches of rain is possible from Lubbock, Texas, to Shreveport, Louisiana, increasing the potential for flash flooding in those areas.
Monsoon rains are helping the drought, but not enough
While the desert Southwest may not be known as a wet part of the country, this time of the year is when it is most likely to get rainfall. The rainy season helps the Southwest, but it often leads to superficial improvement.
The drought-plagued region is already dealing with a water crisis, so they need the rain, but it may not be as beneficial as it appears.
One of the concerns with the upcoming heavy rain is it is not expected to surge far enough north or west where the water is needed most: California, Nevada, Oregon, and northern Utah.
“Several large areas of improvement were noted this week, with the heaviest rains and most widespread improvement covering Arizona,” the latest U.S. Drought Monitor details. “After an extended period of serious drought, the heavy rains have prompted broadscale improvement in monsoon-affected areas.”
The recent rains have helped, but only for some areas of the West. Roughly 70% of the West is still in some level of drought, down from 90% just three months ago. Most of the improvements have been in just two states, Arizona and New Mexico. The recent rains have helped those two states even more.
“Monsoonal rains are only a fraction of the water needs of the West,” said Chad Myers, CNN meteorologist. “That said, the recent rains have raised the level of Lake Mead by 1.8 feet over the past three weeks.”
Myers pointed out the main driver for water in this region is the melting winter snowpack, but it doesn’t mean the rainfall isn’t beneficial.
“Although the heaviest of the upcoming rain will miss the Colorado River basin and Lake Mead, plenty will still fall in Utah and Colorado directly into the upper drainage basin of the river,” Myers said.
The US Southwest monsoon officially runs from June 15 to September 30, putting the region beyond the halfway point of the season.
The recent rain in Las Vegas has brought its monsoon total up to 1.29″ marking the wettest monsoon season in a decade. However, the city is still well below where it should be at this time in the year, having received just over half of its average rainfall up through mid-August. The 1.29″ this season already makes 2022 Vegas’ third-wettest monsoon in the 21st century. It comes just two years after the driest monsoon on record back in the summer of 2020 when there was no measurable rain.
Down the road in Tucson, they’ve had a roller coaster of monsoon seasons recently. 2020 was the second-driest on record (1.62″) while 2021 managed to be the third wettest (12.79″). So far this season, a little over 2″ has fallen in the city, below the average to date of 3.48″.
Salt Lake City has had 6.70″ so far this year, but their average is more than 10 inches. It is an ever-present sign of how bad the drought has been over the last few decades in the region that we are celebrating getting a little more than half of what is normal. | https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/desert-southwest-prepares-for-flash-flooding/ | 2022-08-19 20:53:39 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/desert-southwest-prepares-for-flash-flooding/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan postponed the resumption of his protest march on the country’s capital meant to challenge his successor’s government, his party said Tuesday.
Fawad Chaudhry, a senior leader in Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said that instead of on Tuesday as previously announced, the march on Islamabad is now to resume on Thursday. He did not give any reason for the delay.
Khan, who began his protest march late last month in the city of Lahore with thousands of followers, was wounded in a shooting last week when a gunman attacked his convoy, killing one of his supporters. Thirteen other people were also wounded.
The gunman was arrested and has purportedly confessed to an assassination attempt on Khan, according to police. The attack has raised concerns about growing political instability in Pakistan, which has a history of political violence and assassinations.
Following the attack, Khan’s supporters have rallied across the country, at times clashing with police. On Monday, they blocked roads in the Pakistani capital and also in the cities of Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and elsewhere in the country.
Since the shooting, Khan has also claimed that Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and two powerful government and army officials were behind the assassination attempt, without offering any evidence. Authorities have rejected the claim.
Also Tuesday, Khan’s party criticized Sharif’s government after authorities charged the gunman with attempted murder, without investigating officials as the former premier had demanded and whom Khan accused of having links to the attack.
Khan was ousted from office in April in a no-confidence vote in parliament and has since been trying to stage a political comeback. | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-party-says-pakistans-ex-pm-khan-delaying-march-on-islamabad/ | 2022-11-08 12:10:11 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-party-says-pakistans-ex-pm-khan-delaying-march-on-islamabad/ |
Study reveals how indigenous people can help protect the rainforest
It is a strategy that supports these communities in their forest preservation tasks.
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January 24th, 2023A new comparative analysis led by CU Boulder and published by the British science journal PNAS Nexus has found results showing how areas of the Atlantic rainforest in Brazil under the care of indigenous people, who hold title to the land, suffer less deforestation.
The study, which used data between 1985 and 2019, notes that reducing deforestation and increasing reforestation in Brazil's Atlantic Forest was most successful in indigenous communities that had completed a legal process to receive formal recognition of their ancestral rights to the lands, known as land tenure, that those who had not done so.
Rayna Benzeev, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Colorado, noted:
Our study adds an important piece to the growing body of evidence that tenure in Indigenous lands has often improved forest outcomes—including now in the Atlantic Forest, which has experienced high deforestation pressures over a long period of time. Even in highly developed and deforested areas, granting land titles to indigenous peoples significantly improved results.
An ongoing fight
According to Global Forest Watch, between 2000 and 2020 Brazil lost more than 20 million hectares of forest, which is equivalent to 6% of its forest area.
The Brazilian Atlantic forest, considered the second tropical forest in the country after the Amazon, which has an extension of approximately 3,000 km of coastline, is an ecosystem that is heavily harassed by urbanization, agriculture, or logging or mining exploitation.
In this region deforestation is continuous, as well as incidents between tribes, farmers and ranchers or illegal miners.
“Protecting forests is not only important for the trees and the biodiversity. It’s also critical for the people that live within them and depend on them—and accounting for humans is an integral part of the sustainable future of forests,” said Peter Newton, co-author of the study and associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies.
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A new @PNASNexus study by @ERGBerkeley postdoctoral researcher @benzeev_rayna found that Indigenous communities with legal rights to their territories can resist land grabs and better protect and reforest their lands. https://t.co/PgdqMlFmko
— Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources (@NatureAtCal) January 26, 2023
Uphold the law
The Brazilian Constitution establishes in its article 231 their “original rights over the lands that they traditionally occupy, being the responsibility of the Union to demarcate them, protect them and enforce all their assets.”
The study highlights how in his first weeks in office, da Silva issued six decrees revoking or altering measures implemented by his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, which were widely seen as anti-environmental and anti-indigenous. Da Silva also established the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, an unprecedented act in Brazilian history.
“Much of the stagnation in the land tenure process has taken place in recent years and mainly for political reasons. This is exactly what makes the legal component of tenure important: when tenure is legally granted, Indigenous peoples are able to gain territorial autonomy irrespective of political shifts over time,” added Benzeev.
The study also highlighted that after formalizing the tenure rights of these territories, the wooded area increased each year on average by 0.77%, compared to those lands where these rights were not granted.
“The land tenure process is guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution created in 1988. However, the lengthy process has stalled in the past decade for hundreds of Indigenous communities. Since 2012, only one Indigenous community in the study sample had successfully been granted legal land rights—the last step in the tenure process,” stressed the study. | https://aldianews.com/en/politics/policy/rainforest-protectors | 2023-01-31 01:33:10 | 1 | https://aldianews.com/en/politics/policy/rainforest-protectors |
Nicki Minaj had to make her presence known at this year’s Trinidad Carnival. Calling all Barbz…the queen is OUTSIDE! 2020 Trinidad Carnival was the last Nicki sighting in her home country. The Young Money superstar rocked a beautiful purple & blue dress in her last carnival. With 2023 just beginning, Nicki hit us with her first verse of the year on ‘Shake The Place Remix‘ With Machel Montano & Destra.
Now that the queen blessed us with new music…it’s time for new screensavers! Check out some pictures and videos of our queen actin’ up below.
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Nicki Minaj Actin’ BAD At The Trinidad Carnival [Photos] was originally published on hotspotatl.com | https://wzakcleveland.com/playlist/nicki-minaj-actin-bad-at-the-trinidad-carnival-photos/ | 2023-02-23 21:13:19 | 0 | https://wzakcleveland.com/playlist/nicki-minaj-actin-bad-at-the-trinidad-carnival-photos/ |
DUARTE, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AccessHope, LLC, a company changing the way leading edge cancer expertise is delivered, today announced that its chief information officer Abhishek Kumar has won a 2023 Fortress Cyber Security Award in the leadership category. The industry awards hosted by Business Intelligence Group sought to identify and reward the world's leading companies and products that are working to keep data and electronic assets safe among a growing threat of hackers. Recently, AccessHope also achieved HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year and SOC 2 Type I certifications, demonstrating its commitment to meeting healthcare information security and privacy requirements.
"Keeping member data safe continues to be a top priority for AccessHope, and we are dedicated to continually improving our data protection practices to ensure trust with our members," Kumar said. "I am honored to receive a Fortress Cyber Security Award alongside several other innovative leaders who have a proven commitment to protecting sensitive data."
AccessHope's employer benefit remotely connects employer self-funded plans and the treating physicians of employees with cancer to renowned expertise through foundational partnerships with National Cancer Institute (NCI)–Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers for the best outcomes possible. In a peer-reviewed study, AccessHope subspecialists provided evidence-based recommendations that had the potential to influence treatment plans in approximately 93 percent of cases with an average savings of over $19,000 per patient across the entire population.
AccessHope understands the importance of data security to its clients and their members. To this end, the company has received two information security certifications that demonstrate its commitment to data security and privacy best practices:
- SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) Type I Certification was awarded in May 2023: By achieving SOC 2 Type I certification, AccessHope demonstrates its commitment to data security, risk management, and operational excellence, while promoting continuous improvement in data protection practices.
- HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certification was awarded in February 2022: By satisfying federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
For information about AccessHope please visit www.myaccesshope.org. For information about the annual Fortress Cyber Security Awards, please visit www.bintelligence.com/awards/fortress-cybersecurity-award.
About AccessHope
AccessHope, LLC, believes in putting the ever-growing body of cancer knowledge to work for the greater good. The company delivers a revolutionary cancer benefit that is changing the way leading-edge expertise is delivered. Through collaborations with City of Hope, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Emory Healthcare and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and Northwestern Medicine and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, AccessHope shares the latest discoveries in cancer care with employees' plans and local oncologists to help as they develop precise plans for treatment. The company brings the vast expertise of major medical centers to benefit people near and far. They never have to switch doctors. They never have to leave home. It's simply a better approach to cancer. And getting better every day. A subsidiary of City of Hope, a world-renowned independent cancer research and treatment organization, AccessHope offers the benefit to over 5 million members through more than 175 employers, including more than 35 Fortune 500 companies. For more information about AccessHope, visit myaccesshope.org and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Primis, the leading Video Discovery platform for global publishers and founders of Sellers.guide, announced the appointment of Amir Rudner as the company's new VP of R&D.
Amir started his career in the R&D department at Primis 6 and a half years ago. He began working at Primis as a developer and has since climbed the corporate ladder, becoming a team leader, group leader, director, and is now claiming the position of VP. During this period Amir led the development and management of Primis' AMP player, SDK, contextual recommendation engine, and much more.
Eyal Betzalel, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Primis, explained the change of structure as a product of the company's rapid expansion and Rudner's hard work and leadership. "Amir has been a fundamental part of our company for many years and has grown with us," said Betzalel.
"I am thrilled about this opportunity and look forward to reaching new heights within the R&D department and Primis as a whole," said Rudner.
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Primis is the leader in Video Discovery. Our video ad monetization platform increases publishers' revenue by helping users discover high-quality video content. The company's video discovery technology is used by 100s of digital publishers, empowering over 350M uniques with an engagement-based video experience.
In May 2021, we launched Sellers.guide, a free resource to shed light on the ad tech supply chain by comparing ads.txt files with sellers.json.
Primis is owned by Universal McCann and The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE: IPG).
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NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Gregory Brown, renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon, spent years researching a healing process for burn victims. Years later, he applied that same Nobel Prize-winning technology to find a "solution" for anti-aging, patenting the process at the time. And RéVive was born.
"I've been fortunate enough to have had 2 career paths intersect over time. Medicine and skincare. RéVive came to be through my research, when I surreptitiously discovered bioengineered molecules that stimulated wound healing can also reverse signs of aging. Now 25 years later, we still look to the ever-evolving world of science as we develop innovative skincare - giving new life to skin," says RéVive Founder, Dr. Gregory Brown.
RéVive gives new life to skin. Each product in the range has been scientifically formulated using the brand's signature Bio-Renewal Technology to visibly transform & renew, speeding the cellular turnover process and restoring skin to a younger, healthier, more supple version of itself.
RéVive's Bio-Renewal Technology is comprised of three key peptides - this proprietary science is clinically proven to help reduce visible signs of aging and delivers fast results. With increased skin renewal and improved collagen and elastin, skin looks rejuvenated and revitalized. Skin acts younger and looks softer, smoother, and glowing while collagen breakdown is slowed and dark spots are lightened.
ReBuild your skin, from the inside, out.
Now in its 25th year, RéVive has become synonymous with cutting-edge science, offering a collection of products across seven distinct collections – Renewal, Intensité, Fermitif, Perfectif, Supérieur, Sensitif, and Peau.
For this anniversary, RéVive is celebrating and reinvigorating its iconic, heritage franchises with disruptive new launches. Each product innovation offers a fresh take on a beloved classic; packaging updates, formula upgrades, and a ground-breaking extension to a bestselling collection.
"It is unusual to find a brand that can attest to being both heritage and contemporary, to having stood the test of time but also remaining modern and innovative. RéVive is one of those rare brands. We wanted to make the celebration of 25 years about looking forward and setting our sights on a whole new set of brand initiatives," says RéVive CEO, Elana Drell Szyfer.
In 1996, Dr. Brown developed the original Moisturizing Renewal Cream Nightly Retexturizer, the pioneer skincare product that started the RéVive revolution. In Early 2022, RéVive introduced the first of two new additions to the core Renewal collection – the Moisturizing Renewal Day Cream SPF 30 and then in May, the Moisturizing Renewal Lotion Dual Acid Nightly Retexturizer.
RéVive introduced Intensité Volumizing Serum Ultime Targeted Skin Filler, a more powerful reformulation of the coveted Intensité Volumizing Serum. For this launch, the brand partnered exclusively with Neiman Marcus, the brand's first-ever retail partner, offering a series of personal appearances with Dr. Brown alongside exclusive facial events.
"RéVive is one of those remarkable brands that our customers love and has developed a cult following. We are honored to collaborate with Dr. Brown and his team to celebrate the 25th anniversary and serve as the exclusive retailer for their latest, innovative product launch. We always strive to identify and nurture brands that are truly special. RéVive is a perfect example of this as they have been an important partner for us since 1997. We look forward to celebrating many more milestones together in the years ahead," said Lana Todorovich, President and Chief Merchandising Officer, Neiman Marcus Group.
To round out the product launch calendar, RéVive will continue to introduce innovations in both the Fermitif and Masque des Yeux collections this Fall.
As RéVive looks to the future, it is continuing to round out its team, bringing in two new partners - Schoolhouse and Jane Smith Agency – focused on refining its creative strategy.
A first in brand history, RéVive introduced two Brand Ambassadors; celebrity stylist Micaela Erlanger and celebrity facialist Adeela Crown. Adeela's philosophy of achieving über-efficacious, long-term skin-health through a science-lead skincare approach perfectly complements the RéVive ethos. Together, they developed a tailored, individualized approach to facial skincare to be utilized in treatments in both the US and UK. While Micaela is the epitome of beauty inside and out, her deep appreciation for self-care, style, and individual self-expression makes her the perfect RéVive partner. The relationship grew organically from Micaela's own use and appreciation of the RéVive line and her personal skincare philosophy.
Later this Fall, artist and poet Amber Vittoria will join the brand as this year's Artist In Residence. As part of her residency, Amber has designed a special 25th-anniversary logo incorporating her colorful, whimsical, and powerful aesthetic. This partnership will include artist talks with Dr. Brown, a content campaign, and VIP events leading to the limited edition Artjar launch in November 2022.
GIVE NEW LIFE TO SKIN
Founded in 1997, RéVive™ is a luxury skincare line developed by Dr. Gregory Bays Brown, a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. Each product has been scientifically formulated with Bio-Renewal Technology, inspired by patented and Nobel Prize Winning science used by Dr. Brown to heal burn victims. RéVive™ products are formulated with Bio-Renewal Technology, comprised of three key peptides - - this proprietary science is clinically proven to help reduce visible signs of aging and delivers fast results. With increased skin renewal and improved collagen and elastin, skin looks rejuvenated and revitalized and signs of aging are dramatically reduced. The appearance of wrinkles is minimized, skin density and elasticity are increased, collagen breakdown is slowed, and dark spots are lightened. Skin acts younger and looks soft, smooth, and glowing.
RéVive is distributed online and instore in the U.S at luxury retailers such as: Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Nordstrom, as well as specialty retailers such as Bluemercury, Cos Bar, Violet Grey, and Net-A-Porter. Global distribution includes Canada (Holt Renfrew), the UK (Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Flannels, SpaceNK, as well as distribution in Spain, Italy, Greater China, Thailand and Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
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MegaCon Orlando brought out the star power on its final day, hosting a Q&A panel with face of ‘The Mummy’ franchise, Brendan Fraser. Hundreds of fans lined up for more than an hour to see the star speak about his experiences working in Hollywood over the past three decades.
Fraser arrived at the theater a little after 11 a.m. to deafening screams and applause from the audience, who gave the actor a standing ovation as he made his way toward his seat.
Once the actor got settled, the moderator pointed out that many of the audience members were dressed in costumes reflecting some of Fraser’s most iconic roles. When asked what he thought about seeing himself reflected around the room, the actor said “I think it’s great, good fun,” adding " I am impressed that some of you take really early morning makeup calls. That’s not easy!”
The conversation moved quickly with Fraser being asked plenty of questions about “The Mummy,” “Doom Patrol” and other franchises in which he has been involved.
However, one excited fan was able to get a little bit of an inside scoop from the star with regard to a high-profile future project: “Batgirl.” Fraser had nothing but high praise for his co-star Michael Keaton (who returns as Batman in this film) and also wanted to highlight Leslie Grace, who plays the titular hero.
“Leslie Grace is a dynamo,” he said. “I’m telling you she’s going to kill it.”
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He carefully considered his next words to avoid spoilers and said simply of the film “She goes through a crisis of conscience as Batgirl to become who she is, and it’s great. A lot of stuff gets blown up, and Gotham City has never looked better … look for it next year!”
Though fans were of course very excited to hear about Fraser’s upcoming projects, of particular interest to the Orlando crowd was Fraser’s involvement in the Revenge of the Mummy attraction at nearby Universal Studios Florida. After joking with a fan about his role in the ride, Fraser said “Only my finest work for the people in Florida.”
While many of the questions and interactions during the panel were lighthearted and fun, some serious topics did come up. One fan asked about Fraser’s long break from acting, and what motivated him to come back. Clearly feeling emotional Fraser recounted a story about a horse that he owned that helped him deal with some trauma in his past.
“I realized I needed to have a sense of strength, and to listen and not speak back all the time,” he said about the lessons he learned from having the horse. “It was an incredibly healing experience and I [realized] I was ready to get back in the saddle.”
When asked about what part of going to conventions he enjoyed the most, Fraser also had a very heartfelt answer:
“It’s when I see young parents bring their kids to the table. And they say things like thank you for my childhood and have their [own] kid there, we have a connection with each other. It feels like all this, everything I did really was worth it,” he said. “You know, it’s gonna go on to the next generation. I [have] kids and the work becomes less about doing it and more about what you leave behind for them. I feel like I’m just getting started.”
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MULBERRY, Fla. (WFLA) — SR-60 is closed in Polk County due to a major crash.
The road is closed between S. County Line Rd. and Nichols Rd., just west of Mulberry, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
The crash happened at around 5:41 a.m. and involves two vehicles, according to the sheriff’s office. One person died in the collision and five were rushed to the hospital as trauma alerts.
SR-60 will be closed until further notice while authorities investigate the crash.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday named three women to serve as members of the Vatican office that vets bishop nominations, in another first for women to have a say in Catholic Church governance.
The Dicastery for Bishops oversees the work of most of the church’s 5,300 bishops, who run dioceses around the world. The dicastery’s members, who include cardinals, bishops and now women, meet periodically to evaluate proposed new bishops whose names are forwarded by Vatican ambassadors. The ambassadors usually come up with three candidates for each opening after consulting with local church members.
The pope still makes the final call and can bypass candidates proposed by his ambassadors and then vetted by the dicastery. But the addition of women into the consultation process is nevertheless significant and a response to calls to break up the all-male clerical hierarchy of the Holy See and demands that women have a greater say in church decision-making.
The new members are Sister Raffaella Petrini, who already holds a high-ranking Vatican position as the secretary general of the Vatican City State, which runs the Vatican Museums and other administrative parts of the territory.
Also named was Sister Yvonne Reungoat, former superior general of the Daughters of Mary the Helper, a religious order also known as the Salesian Sisters; as well as a laywoman, Maria Lia Zervino, president of a Catholic women’s umbrella group, the World Union of Female Catholic Organizations.
Church doctrine reserves the priesthood for men, given Christ’s apostles were male. Women have often complained they have a second-class status in the church, even though they do the lion’s share of its work running schools, hospitals and passing the faith from generation to generation. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/vatican-names-3-women-to-office-that-vets-bishop-nominations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-07-13 12:43:24 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/vatican-names-3-women-to-office-that-vets-bishop-nominations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Miguel Ayesa scored 23 points as William & Mary beat Mid-Atlantic Christian 116-40 on Thursday night.
Ayesa was 8 of 10 shooting (7 for 9 from distance) for the Tribe (1-1). Jake Milkereit scored 21 points and added six rebounds. Jack Karasinski recorded 12 points and finished 5 of 8 from the field.
Jeremiah Dickerson led the way for the Mustangs with 11 points.
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Votes from several states are still coming in — control of the U.S. House and Senate is up in the air. Georgia is one of the states we're waiting on. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won reelection.
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Votes from several states are still coming in — control of the U.S. House and Senate is up in the air. Georgia is one of the states we're waiting on. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won reelection.
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Wildfire near Hemet that killed 2 grows to 2,400 acres, several structures destroyed
Evacuation orders and a warning remained in place as the fire that exploded near Hemet and claimed two lives and injured a third has burned 2,400 acres, the Riverside County Fire Department said on Tuesday.
The Fairview fire, which ignited around 3 p.m. on Monday and quickly burned 2,000 acres, was 5% contained as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, fire officials said at a news conference.
Officials said that the fire moved in an opposite direction than normal on Monday because of the wind patterns. Rather than coming from the southwest, the winds came from the east and pushed the fire west into Avery Canyon, where it burned rapidly. The change was a result of high pressure hanging in the area, officials said. Unseasonably dry vegetation, long a major challenge, also contributed to the accelerated burn.
The two people who died appeared to be attempting to flee before being overcome by the fire as it tore through the canyon, officials said. It is unclear whether the third person, who officials said was in the same area, was related to the two victims or from the same household. No other fatalities or injuries were reported Tuesday morning.
According to the Riverside County Fire Department, at least seven structures were destroyed and several more sustained damage. Officials estimate that about 3,500 structures remain threatened by the fire.
Forecasters are now calling for the heat wave to last through at least Thursday, with temperatures ‘cooling slowly.’ Another FlexAlert is issued.
Officials said the fire’s atypical burn pattern was a major concern, but forecasting showed the wind was expected to reverse 180 degrees on Tuesday, essentially leading the fire to backtrack in the opposite direction.
The burn zone remained too hot for crews to access Tuesday morning.
Fire teams are attacking the fire from both the ground and the air on Tuesday, including using several air tankers and helicopters to contain the blaze. Officials did not predict any weather that would threaten an air response.
California is experiencing its most severe heat wave this year, leading to elevated fire risks because of the high temperatures, low humidity and severely dry vegetation. Scorching temperatures, with some areas hitting the triple digits and breaking records, are expected to last through Thursday and has raised concerns over public health and power outages. State officials called for a Flex Alert on Tuesday.
Temperatures were expected to hit 107 degrees in Hemet on Tuesday, with wind gusts estimated to reach as high as 20 miles per hour.
As the prolonged heat wave intensifies, officials are pleading with Californians to voluntarily reduce energy consumption or face power outages.
Sgt. Brandi Swan with the Riverside County Sheriff‘s Department said that schools in Hemet Unified School District remain closed because of the fire. Officials also reported that unrelated weather caused a power outage in Hemet.
About 3,500 homes were under evacuation orders Tuesday for the area south of Stetson Avenue, north of Cactus Valley Road, west of Bautista Canyon and east of State Street. Officials also reported additional road closures in the area.
It was unclear when evacuation orders would be lifted, or if residents could return to their homes.
An evacuation warning remained in place for Bautista Canyon Road, south of Stetson Road and north of the Two Streams trailhead.
At sunset Monday, flames raged through the hills above houses as columns of smoke billowed into the sky, reaching the Orange County coast. The fire consumed cars and blackened trees. Television news reports showed aerial shots of structures engulfed in shooting flames.
A row of commercial buildings in Boyle Heights caught fire Monday afternoon.
Some of the homes in the area could be reached on dirt roads, fire officials said. Residents on Twitter noted that many in the area keep horses, complicating evacuations.
Around the same time and about 75 miles north, the Radford fire ignited just west of Sugarloaf near Big Bear Lake. By Tuesday morning, the fire had expanded to 330 acres.
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Six Popularly Traded Crude Oil Grades to Help Purchasers Measure Cost of Emissions Offsets
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Commodity Insights, the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodity and energy markets, has launched the oil industry's first carbon intensity measures for all six crude grades forming the global Brent benchmark, including Dated Brent and BFOE (Brent, Forties, Oseberg, Ekofisk, plus Troll and WTI Midland1). The carbon intensity for these grades will be published in kilogram-per-CO2-equivalent per barrel (kgCO2eq/b) and makes Brent the first carbon-measured global benchmark allowing purchasers of crude grades to evaluate the cost of emission offsets in their supply chains.
Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will publish daily the carbon-associated price premiums of Brent, Forties, Oseberg, Ekofisk, Troll and WTI Midland. These will build on the October-2021-launched, S&P Global Commodity Insights field-by-field oil carbon intensity measures and associated price premiums assessments. Over 100 oil fields are now covered, including those that underpin the six crude grades of the benchmark Brent complex.
Deb Ryan, Head of Low Carbon Commodities, S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: "By adding these six grades that form the global Brent benchmark, the industry now has not only its oil benchmark, but a carbon intensity measure as well. Carbon intensity measures are currently used by the industry to offset emissions, but over time is expected to become an attribute of the traded commodity, like API viscosity and sulfur standards for oils."
As companies look to offset and/or understand the emissions from all their activities, having a crude-grade carbon intensity measure is the next step in the supply chain for downstream purchasers of crude.
Paula VanLaningham, Global Head of Carbon Pricing at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: "By taking a bottoms-up view of the carbon intensity, understanding the carbon price and the cost to offset the emissions, purchasers of crude grades can now start to understand the cost of emissions in their supply chain."
The S&P Global Commodity Insights upstream carbon intensity calculations measure the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from well production to the storage terminal and is designed to reflect the value of upstream-production carbon intensity for a specific crude grade coming from an oil field. The measures reflect the main sources of emissions relevant to specific operations, including production, flaring and venting, maintenance activities, production processing and transport to the storage hub. Emissions generated during the exploration and drilling stages are currently not included as part of the S&P Global Commodity Insights upstream carbon intensity calculation. Proprietary research and analysis is used to calculate results, with the Oil Production Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimator (OPGEE) 2.0 model as the foundation.
The carbon intensity for the crude grades is the production-weighted carbon intensity from the fields that feed each grade, and is evaluated in kgCO2eq/b. These values are updated on the 15th of each month, or the following business day if the 15th falls on a non-business day.
Platts Carbon Intensity Premiums for the crude grades are calculated in $/b, with the value of the carbon intensity premium calculated using the daily Platts Carbon Removal Credit Assessment (Platts CRC). To learn more about the Platts CRC assessment please visit: method_carbon_credits.pdf (spglobal.com)
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1Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, announced on June 8, 2022 that it will reflect cargoes of WTI Midland crude oil in its Dated Brent, Cash BFOE and all related assessments across the Brent complex with effect from June 2023 cargo deliveries.
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AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy Harbor Corp. announced today CICERO Shades of Green (CICERO Green), an internationally recognized leading provider of independent, research-based evaluations of green bond and sustainability financing frameworks, completed a second-party opinion on Energy Harbor's green bond framework and has issued a Medium Green shading on a scale of Light, Medium and Dark. CICERO Green's assessment aligns with the International Capital Markets' Association's Green Bond Principles.
Energy Harbor's green bond framework includes its existing $285 million Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds, which were originally issued to finance construction of air, water and waste control facilities at its nuclear power plants. The Medium Green rating from CICERO Green indicates the projects included in the Energy Harbor $285 million portfolio represent significant steps towards the long-term climate vision.
Earlier this year, Energy Harbor announced its plan to become a 100% carbon free infrastructure company in 2023. The creation and grading of the Green Bond Framework reflects Energy Harbor's commitment to the critical role nuclear technology plays in creating a carbon free power sector by 2035 and addressing climate change.
"The Medium Green rating from CICERO Green is a first for Energy Harbor and reflects our focus on clean power infrastructure that produces electricity free of carbon emissions," said Tanya Rohauer, Energy Harbor Senior Vice President, Commercial Finance and Treasurer.
About Energy Harbor
Energy Harbor is a highly reliable provider of carbon free baseload electricity committed to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles critical to meeting the nation's emissions goals and accelerating the country's clean energy transition. Our success is driven by our unwavering employee commitment to safe, reliable operations, financial stability and best in class service to meet the energy and sustainability needs of our customers.
For more information on Energy Harbor visit www.energyharbor.com
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Any forward-looking statement included in this press release speaks only as of the date hereof, and except as may be required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or circumstances. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of them; nor can the Company assess the impact of each such factor or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. As such, you should not rely on such forward-looking statements.
Further information regarding the Company will be available at www.energyharbor.com under the heading www.energyharbor.com/ir (the "Investor Website"). The Company advises that holders of the Company's securities should review all available information before making any decisions whether to buy or sell any of the Company's securities. Any information in any materials posted on the Investor Website in the future will automatically update and, where applicable, modify or supersede the information contained in this press release and any other information previously posted on the Investor Website.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (AAWW), relating to its proposed acquisition by investors led by Apollo Global Management Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, AAWW shareholders are expected to receive $102.50 in cash per share they own. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/atlas-air-worldwide-holdings-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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Tesla technology inches closer to becoming industry standard as Rivian joins its charging network
DETROIT — Electric vehicle maker Rivian says it will follow General Motors and Ford and join Tesla’s charging network starting next year. The startup truck, SUV and delivery van maker says Tuesday that it will include ports with Tesla’s connector on future Rivian vehicles starting in 2025. It also will offer an adapter for owners of current Rivian EVs. The move is another domino to fall as the auto industry considers switching to Tesla’s connector, which it calls the North American Charging Standard. At present, nearly all automakers other than Tesla use what is called a CCS connector. Tesla has more direct current fast-charging plugs in the U.S. than any other network, and its stations are in prime locations along freeway travel corridors.
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Europe, US urged to investigate the type of AI that powers systems like ChatGPT
LONDON — European Union consumer protection groups are urging regulators to investigate the type of artificial intelligence underpinning systems like ChatGPT over risks that leave people vulnerable. They want action before the bloc’s groundbreaking AI regulations take effect. In a coordinated effort Tuesday, 15 watchdog groups wrote to authorities warning them about a range of concerns around generative artificial intelligence. A transatlantic coalition of consumer groups also wrote to U.S. President Joe Biden asking him to take action to protect consumers from possible harms caused by generative AI. The EU is wrapping up the world’s first set of comprehensive AI rules, but they aren’t expected to take effect for two years.
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Charitable giving in 2022 drops for only the fourth time in 40 years: Giving USA report
NEW YORK — Charitable giving in the United States declined in 2022 -- only the fourth time in four decades that donations did not increase year over year -- according to the Giving USA report released Tuesday. Total giving fell 3.4% in 2022 to $499.3 billion in current dollars, a drop of 10.5% when adjusted for inflation. The downturn in giving has led to issues at Community Help in Park Slope, better known as CHiPS, as it has in many charities across the country. While CHiPS was providing 275 warm meals a day at this time last year, these days it is offering more than 400 meals. And sometimes, they simply run out of food.
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Ending Nigeria’s fuel subsidy pushes a shift to solar. Without a climate plan, progress is at risk
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation. But it also potentially accelerates progress toward reducing emissions in Africa’s largest economy. In a country where only about half of the population has access to grid electricity and those who do still endure blackouts, purchasing the fossil fuel to power backup generators has now become too expensive. That’s increased interest in small solar systems at homes and businesses. But the government hasn’t detailed whether the money it’s saving from the subsidy will go toward sustainable investments or announced any incentives to make solar more affordable and accessible.
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Build begins on Wyoming-to-California power line amid growing wind power concern
RAWLINS, Wyo. — Wyoming and federal officials will formally kick off construction Tuesday of a massive transmission line project to export wind power from Wyoming to southern California. The $3 billion TransWest Express project and the $5 billion Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm have been in the works for over 15 years. Once built, the wind farm will feed electricity into the transmission system. The giant wind project is being built in Wyoming, which has seen a massive build out of wind power — and new farms are meeting more resistance from locals worried about harm to their views and wildlife. Whether opposition grows could depend on how future development occurs.
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Gannett sues Google, Alphabet claiming they have a monopoly on digital advertising
Gannett is suing Google and its parent company Alphabet, claiming that they unlawfully acquired and maintain monopolies on the advertising technology tools that publishers and advertisers use to buy and sell online ad space. The publisher of USA Today alleges in the suit that Google controls how publishers sell their ad slots and forces them to sell an increasing amount of ad space to Google at lower prices. This in turn results in less revenue for publishers and Google’s ad-tech rivals and more money for Google. Gannett CEO Mike Reed said in an opinion piece published Tuesday in USA Today that the company wants to “restore fair competition in a digital advertising marketplace that Google has demolished.”
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Auto tycoon Ghosn files $1 billion lawsuit in Lebanon against Nissan over his imprisonment in Japan
BEIRUT — Lebanese officials say auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Nissan and about a dozen individuals in Beirut over his imprisonment in Japan and what he says is misinformation spread against him. The judicial officials said on Tuesday that Ghosn’s lawsuit accuses Nissan and the individuals of defamation and of “fabricating charges” against him, which eventually put him behind bars in Japan. The lawsuit was filed last month. Ghosn was arrested in Japan in November 2018 on charges of breach of trust, misusing company assets for personal gains and violating securities laws by not fully disclosing his compensation. He had been leading the Japanese automaker Nissan for two decades. He fled to Lebanon in 2019.
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Biden will host a forum about artificial intelligence with technology leaders in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — President Joe Biden will convene a group of technology leaders in San Francisco to debate artificial intelligence. The Biden administration is seeking to figure out how to regulate the emergent field of AI, looking for ways to nurture its potential for economic growth and national security and protect against its potential dangers. The Democratic president plans to meet on Tuesday with eight experts from academia and advocacy groups. White House chief of staff Jeff Zients’ office is developing a set of actions the federal government can take over the coming weeks regarding AI. Biden’s administration wants commitments from private companies to address the possible risks from AI.
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The S&P 500 fell 20.88 points, or 0.5%, to 4,388.71. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 245.25 points, or 0.7%, to 34,053.87. The Nasdaq composite fell 22.28 points, or 0.2% to 13,667.29. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 8.77 points, or 0.5%, to 1,866.70. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/20/business-highlights/32f769b6-0fac-11ee-8d22-5f65b2e2f6ad_story.html | 2023-06-20 21:55:14 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/20/business-highlights/32f769b6-0fac-11ee-8d22-5f65b2e2f6ad_story.html |
The technology firm names new GM of Europe and Chief People Officer
CHICAGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas, a global Human Experience Management (HXM) technology company that simplifies global expansion with unified software and solutions, including Employer of Record (EOR), expands its executive leadership team with the addition of two strategic hires: Ruairi Kelleher as general manager (GM) of Europe, and Michelle Mesina as chief people officer (CPO).
As GM of Europe, Ruairi Kelleher will lead Atlas' business operations and oversee expanded development within the region. As CPO, Michelle Mesina will direct Atlas' internal people strategy to deepen global impact while cultivating rewarding employee experiences for an increasingly diverse workforce.
"Strengthening our foundational leadership team is essential as Atlas continues to evolve our best-in-class HXM technology solution to meet the demands of our customers and launch us into our next phase of growth," said Rick Hammell, CEO of Atlas. "The addition of Ruairi reflects our commitment to meeting the increased demand for global expansion solutions in the untapped market of Europe. Additionally, Michelle's extensive experience in organizational design, cultural alignment and employee wellbeing, will further enhance Atlas' reputation as a purpose-driven employer."
Kelleher brings more than 15 years of experience building and scaling innovative companies via operations, technology, strategy, revenue and M&A activity. Prior to joining Atlas, he served as CEO at global payroll technology company Immedis where he oversaw its 2016 launch and repositioning. Under his stewardship, Immedis emerged as a leader in the payroll space with more than 400 employees and year-over-year growth of more than 100%. As chief executive officer, Kelleher spearheaded the successful Series A and B funding rounds at Immedis and led the commercial practice for expat tax mobility within the Group. Additional previous experience includes consulting for international firms, where he focused on delivering business growth through corporate relationship solutions.
"The value proposition of Atlas' direct model presents a rare opportunity to define the market," said Kelleher. "I am thrilled to join Atlas and help drive the effort as we cement our industry-wide leadership in Europe and beyond."
Michelle Mesina, SPHR, comes to Atlas with over 20 years of experience from start-up, high- growth and transformative environments, helping organizations to scale quickly. She joins Atlas' C-suite following a series of high-profile positions leading HR and people ops for such dynamic companies as Gensler, PowerReviews, project44 and Hazel Technologies. At Hazel Technologies, she had overall responsibility for thought leadership strategies and solutions to attract, engage and retain the best talent.
"Atlas is focused on prioritizing our people and building a workplace culture where everyone can thrive and belong," said Mesina. "I am excited to join Atlas as we progress into our next phase of growth, continuing to deliver the best support to our clients and worksite employees (WSEs) by optimizing how we attract, onboard, develop and retain our people around the world."
The largest direct employer of record (EOR), Atlas brings experience and localized expertise into an enterprise-grade technology platform that empowers innovative companies to onboard, manage and pay global talent. The HXM platform delivers end-to-end EOR solutions with self-service capabilities, real-time insights that optimize business outcomes and human touchpoints along the way. The expansion of the leadership team furthers Atlas' position as the leader in simplifying global people operations in the thriving work-from-anywhere world.
Atlas enables innovative companies to compete in a global economy, believing that businesses should employ whomever they want, wherever the talent exists. As the largest direct employer of record (EOR) with entities in over 160 countries, Atlas is a technology platform that is supported by experts and delivers flexibility for companies to expand across borders, onboard talent, manage compliance, and pay their global workforce without the need for a local entity.
Atlas was built on years of experience navigating the challenges of quickly deploying and paying international employees while ensuring compliance with local regulations. This experience brings localized experience and expertise into an enterprise-grade technology platform that supports thousands of companies and remote teams. The Atlas platform is uniquely designed to deliver end-to-end EOR solutions and empowered user experiences that provide self-service capabilities and real-time insights that lead to improved business outcomes. Learn more at atlasHXM.com.
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GUIYANG, China, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The China International Big Data Industry Expo 2023 kicked off on Friday in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, showcasing the country's latest achievements in the big data industry and promoting relevant business exchanges.
This year's edition focuses on integrating big data and the real economy and the future role of cloud computing. Besides sub-forums, the event also hosts industry competitions and an offline exhibition with six pavilions covering an area of 60,000 square meters, according to 2023 China International Big Data Industry Expo Executive Committee.
During the three-day event, the latest research results and applications in the big data industry are scheduled to be released by institutes, labs, and tech companies, including the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, or the "China Sky Eye", and the Quora-like Chinese online content website, Zhihu.
In April, Zhihu debuted Zhihaitu AI -- a Chinese large language model co-developed with Model Best, a Beijing startup engaged in artificial intelligence models. New progress on Zhihaitu AI will be updated during the expo, said the organizer.
The expo has been held in Guiyang since 2015 and is the first of its kind in China, forming a communication platform for pivotal achievements in the big data industry.
As the country's first national big data comprehensive pilot zone, Guizhou Province has been promoting the big data industry as a backbone of its high-quality social and economic development.
In 2022, Guizhou accelerated the development of the big data industry, and the province's added value of the electronic information manufacturing industry rose by more than 60 percent.
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Moolenaar: Gotion proposal wrong is for Michigan
Gotion Inc. is a subsidiary of China-based Gotion High Tech, and it wants to build a new battery factory in Mecosta County. Gotion High Tech has numerous references in its corporate bylaws requiring loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For example, Article 9 of its articles of association requires Gotion to “set up a Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China. The Company shall ensure necessary conditions for carrying out Party activities.”
As the Congressman for Michigan’s Second Congressional District, I represent the area where the proposed facility would be built. In Congress, I have been working to stop the CCP from expanding its influence in America. I support legislation that would ban the CCP from buying American farmland and I have voted for a bill that bans CCP companies from buying oil from our country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. With regards to the possible project in Mecosta County, I have asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to investigate whether the factory is a security risk. However, this committee, which is made up of nine Biden administration officials, has not responded to that request. This is unacceptable, and the committee should act with greater urgency to provide information to Michigan residents.
In January, I was named by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party to look at the challenges posed by the CCP. There is no doubt that the CCP has engaged in activities that hurt the American people, including the spy balloon, stealing inventions from American companies, and jeopardizing the health of every person in the world with its coverup of COVID-19.
In just a few short months, Republicans and Democrats on the Select Committee have put a spotlight on the CCP’s hostile activities right here in America. In February, the committee highlighted secret CCP police stations in the United States that are used for spying and surveillance, particularly focused on people who speak out against the CCP. Another major concern has been how the CCP is the largest supplier of the chemicals used by Mexican cartels to produce fentanyl, which then comes into Michigan communities and kills our loved ones.
I have also looked at the CCP’s threats to Taiwan. This is an increasingly perilous situation for America’s economy and national security. Taiwan is a vital national security partner for the United States. It also produces many of the chips used in cars, computers, phones, sensors, and so many other products the American people use every day.
Additionally, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Michigan National Guard is training members of the Taiwan military at Camp Grayling. What sense does it make for Michigan to allow a CCP-affiliated company to build a massive factory in our state, while at the same time the Michigan National Guard is helping Taiwan prepare for a possible attack by the CCP? The proposed facility in Mecosta County would be just 100 miles from the Camp Grayling training site.
Gotion Inc.’s American and European partners should take a hard look at buying out their CCP-affiliated partners and moving their company forward independently without CCP influence. Electric vehicles and battery manufacturing have attracted billions of dollars in private investment in recent years and there could be no shortage of interested investors.
Michigan needs more manufacturing and more jobs, but it is crucial to have the right partners investing in our state. The CCP should not be that partner, and no company, or its subsidiaries, that is committed to “carrying out [Chinese Communist] Party activities” should be building facilities in our state. Mecosta County is an excellent location with open land, talented students at Ferris State, and hardworking people who know how to get the job done. Community leaders want to bring more investment and jobs to the area, and they should never have their lives threatened for their efforts. With the right partners and investments, Mecosta County is a community that can grow and thrive.
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Which peacoat for women is best?
The peacoat design has withstood the test of time. It instantly gives any outfit a classic appeal, making peacoats a wintertime closet staple. This iconic winter coat is a timeless piece that has evolved with trending fashion, but a peacoat is a sailor-style coat at its foundation. If you are looking for a peacoat with all the best features of the original peacoat design, check out the London Fog Women’s Double Breasted Peacoat.
What to know before you buy a peacoat
History of the peacoat
History shows that military officials originally wore the peacoat, specifically the British Navy, and then later, the American Navy adapted the design for their officers. In modern times, the design of the peacoat remains primarily unchanged. You may see peacoats in various lengths and colors. Still, the original design almost always has the same functionality, brass or plastic buttons and, of course, the double-breasted design with oversized lapels.
Wearing your peacoat from fall to winter
Depending on the heaviness of the material, you can wear a peacoat with light layers underneath during the cooler fall months. Then during the snowy and freezing months of winter, add more layers for extra insulation.
Whether experiencing a fall chill or a winter storm, the peacoat is versatile and can be dressed up or dressed down for any occasion during the fall and winter. Wool peacoats are warmer than those made from synthetic materials, such as nylon or polyester, though wool blends can still be cozy. Finding the right peacoat means adding a staple piece to your wardrobe that will stay with you for years to come.
Accessories to wear with a peacoat
Women’s peacoats are traditionally made from a thick wool or wool blend material that will keep you warm in all conditions, but all coats, even the timeless wool peacoats, have their limits. To protect the exposed areas from the elements, add some accessories to complete your peacoat look. Cover your hands with a pair of classy-looking leather gloves, and choose a thick hat that goes over your ears. While the collar protects your neck from wind chill, a scarf will provide an extra layer of protection and keep more warmth locked in.
Peacoat for women features
Different peacoat styles
There are three different body styles for the peacoat: the classic, the bridge, and the single-breasted peacoat.
- Classic: The classic style will have that iconic double-breasted cut with a large collar with notch lapels.
- Bridge: The bridge style was designed for offices on bridges or ships where the weather may be windier, so it has a longer length.
- Single-breasted: For many, the double-breasted cut is what makes a peacoat a peacoat, but the single-breasted style gives off a more casual look that has a single row of buttons.
Color
You can find peacoats in a range of hues. Most come in solid colors, but you can also find some in classic prints, such as check or houndstooth. If you’re looking for a versatile option that will go with any outfit, you can’t go wrong with a black peacoat.
You can wear a black peacoat with practically anything, and it will not go out of style. However, if black’s not your vibe, gray, beige or tan are other great neutral hues. You might want a more brightly-colored coat that makes you stand out, even if it won’t go with every outfit you own. Bright red is an excellent stand-out color, but you can pick any shade that takes your fancy.
Length
The standard length for a peacoat is around mid-thigh, but you can also find longer and shorter versions. A long peacoat is great for cold weather as it gives you more coverage and keeps your legs warm. A short peacoat has a slightly more casual and contemporary look that some buyers prefer. You might also choose a shorter-length peacoat if you’re a short person, as it might reach the classic mid-thigh spot on you. In this case, a standard peacoat would be longer than average.
Buttons
The number of buttons on a peacoat has varied throughout history. Of course, buttons are primarily functional, but they can also add detail depending on how they are featured. During WWI, the coats worn often had 10 buttons, but the modern civilian style usually has around six buttons that can come in various shapes, materials and colors. Today, many peacoats still feature an imprint of an anchor on the button to pay tribute to the peacoat’s nautical past.
Pockets
Pockets are convenient in a coat, allowing you to hold items such as your phone, wallet and keys. Almost all women’s peacoats have pockets, but some are larger and more practical than others. With the right pockets, large enough for your essentials, you can enjoy the freedom of ditching your bag. You can usually expect two pockets on a peacoat, one on either side, at around hip height. Some pockets have zippers or buttons to keep your belongings safely inside.
Fit
When considering fit, it is all about what style you are trying to achieve. If you want a peacoat with more coverage, try a peacoat with a longer-length fit. If you want a more casual, cozy look, consider going up a couple of sizes or finding a peacoat with an oversized design.
A classic peacoat should feel fitted around the shoulders, the body length should hit around your mid-thigh, and the sleeve length should stop at your wrist. Women’s peacoats are often slightly tapered at the waist, but you can also find some with a straight fit if you prefer this look.
Peacoat FAQ
Are peacoats still in style?
A. Peacoats are classic wardrobe staples that are unlikely to go out of style any time soon. Part of the appeal of the peacoat is that it works with practically any outfit and it’s timeless, so if you splash out on a high-end coat, you could wear it for decades and still look stylish.
However, if you’re looking for something more on the cutting edge of fashion, you’ll often find trendy variations on the classic peacoat. For instance, peacoats with short, boxy fits can look fresher than those with longer and more tailored fits.
How do you care for a peacoat?
A. A good rule of thumb is to always check the inside label for washing instructions. Otherwise, to keep the shape and color of the coat intact, avoid washing it too often. When you do wash it, turn it inside out and set your washer to a cold, gentle cycle, then air dry.
However, some peacoats are dry-clean-only, so you won’t be able to wash them at home. You can keep these neat by gently spot-cleaning them with a slightly damp cloth.
How do you know if a peacoat is too small?
A. A classic peacoat has a fitted look, but you should still be able to move your arms freely. If you’re stuck between two sizes, consider going with the bigger size, so there is room to wear layers comfortably. A way to check if it is too small is to lay your arms at your side and flex your hands parallel to the ground. If the sleeves do not lightly touch the tops of your hands, consider the next size up.
What’s the best peacoat for women to buy?
Top peacoat for women
London Fog Women’s Double-Breasted Peacoat
What you need to know: This peacoat is made with wool and polyester and has six plastic buttons.
What you’ll love: It comes in five neutral colors and gets you the most bang for your buck since each color comes with a matching scarf.
What you should consider: It runs more on the small side. While reviews say that it’s well-made, some complained about the material being a little itchy around the neck.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top women’s peacoat for the money
Chouyatou Women Elegant Notched Collar Double Breasted Wool Blend Overcoat
What you need to know: The longer silhouette and large pockets gives this peacoat a modern touch at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: The wool fabric comes in several colors, and it has four plastic buttons with two decorative buttons on the back. Most reviews say that it runs true to size and that the quality was better than expected for the price.
What you should consider: Many reviews say that this peacoat is not as fitted as they hoped, and some customers received shorter versions that stopped at the mid-thigh instead of at the knee as shown in the picture online.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Calvin Klein Women’s Double-Breasted Peacoat
What you need to know: This sailor-style coat puts a unique twist on the traditional design with its high neckline that you can fasten in place with two buttons or wear in a classic lapel style.
What you’ll love: It’s made from a blend of nylon and wool, including cashmere, making it soft and warm. It comes in sizes from 0-3XL and a wide range of colors, including black, crimson and oatmeal twill.
What you should consider: The fabric is somewhat thin, so it’s not great for cold weather.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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CHICAGO, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS) and United States Cellular Corporation (NYSE: USM) will be webcasting their third quarter operating results conference call on November 4, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. central time.
The companies will release their financial results on November 3, 2022 after market close.
To listen to the webcast, please visit the events & presentations pages of investors.tdsinc.com or investors.uscellular.com. The presentations will be webcast both live and on-demand. It is recommended that you register at least 15 minutes before the beginning of the presentation to register, download and install any necessary multimedia streaming software.
About TDS
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS), a Fortune 1000® company, provides: wireless; broadband, video and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million customer connections nationwide through its businesses, UScellular, TDS Telecom, and OneNeck IT Solutions. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, TDS employed approximately 8,900 associates as of June 30, 2022.
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Funding for the below items could quickly solve the noise pollution crisis we are all enduring as a community. All it takes is the fortitude to act aggressively.
We need noise cameras to put an end to this noise pollution nightmare. These cameras can record a decibel reading of the noise, issue a ticket, provide actual real-time evidence of the noise offense and location of the occurrence.
Stationary unmanned police car speed cameras to stop the aggressive driving of speeders and drag racers.
Encrypting technology for our police officers to be able to communicate confidentially, which the police do not have.
Increase noise and modified-muffler code violation fines significantly.
I have been writing articles decrying the injustice of noise pollution our citizens are enduring night and day, hoping to see a commitment of action from the city. We need prompt enforcement of the existing laws and increased fines.
Recently, I was told about an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that parallels the underlying issues we are dealing with in Santa Fe. The battle in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco is between liberal prosecutors who don’t want to step on any cultural or racial toes while law enforcement is being crippled by this troubling ambivalence by the authorities.
Similarly, here our elected leaders might be overthinking this noise issue. This noise is simply an intentional assault by a small minority on the rights of the many. The city’s inaction encourages more bravado and intentional racing down streets and revving of engines with modified noise-enhancing mufflers, in direct defiance of civilized society’s laws and order. That is why increased fines and enforcement are imperative.
Enforcement of the noise laws is neither racist nor cultural — it is colorblind. The City Council cannot ignore this reality. Lowriders using gyrations and pneumatics is heritage of the Chicanos, but that’s not what is happening now. Intentional disruption of our community is not the cultural tradition of the Hispanic people here. Please do not confuse this. If these road-rage drivers cannot live without vehicle noise, maybe the racetrack can become a place for these road ragers to blow off their steam in private.
This current intentional attack on human beings’ mental and physical health must be addressed. Repeatedly, scientific medical evidence proves loud noise has a very negative impact on human beings’ mental and physical health.
I am reaching out to city councilors: Partner with your constituents. We can share with you and the police authorities the descriptions and license plate numbers of the 200 most abusive road warriors. Let’s work together. The reality is that the lodgers, restaurants, Realtors and neighborhoods are suffering through negative reviews concerning the loud noise and the inability to sleep.
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Man arrested after chasing victim around gym and firing shots, police say
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA/Gray News) - Authorities in Texas say a man was arrested in a fitness center shooting on Wednesday.
The Amarillo Police Department reports officers were called to a Crunch Fitness location in Amarillo regarding an early morning shooting.
Officers said they were told that a man was chasing another man around the gym and shooting at him.
KFDA reports the men involved were detained for questioning by police, and officers located a gun at the scene.
Amarillo police said 42-year-old Nicholas Frasier was taken into custody. He was booked into the Potter County Jail and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Authorities reported no injuries in the incident, but the gym and a nearby business sustained damage from the bullets.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, has died, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. He was 88.
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, confirmed Kravchuk’s death on the social media app Telegram without giving details of the circumstances. Kravchuk had been in poor health and underwent a heart operation last year.
Kravchuk led Ukraine as its Communist Party boss in the waning years of the Soviet Union, and played a pivotal role in the demise of the USSR before holding the Ukrainian presidency from 1991 through 1994.
He was a driving force in Ukraine's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and later that year joined leaders of Russia and Belarus to sign an agreement on Dec. 8, 1991, which formally declared that the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
As president, Kravchuk agreed to transfer remaining Soviet nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory to Russian control, in a deal backed by the United States.
He lost the 1994 presidential election to former prime minister Leonid Kuchma. In 2020 he returned to politics to try to negotiate a settlement as part of a “contact group” for the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russia-backed separatists had fought Ukrainian forces since 2014.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov wrote on Twitter that with Kravchuk's signature to the Dec. 1991 agreement disbanding the Soviet Union “the Evil Empire disintegrated.”
“Thank you for the peaceful renewal of our Independence. We’re defending it now with weapons in our hands,” Reznikov wrote Tuesday.
Kravchuk's death comes a week after that of the first president of post-Soviet Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who died aged 87 following treatment for COVID-19, according to his wife.
Since Shushkevich’s death, Kravchuk was the last survivor of the three leaders who signed the 1991 deal. Russian president Boris Yeltsin died in 2007 aged 76.
Since annexing Crimea from Ukraine and throwing its weight behind the 2014 separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to cast doubt on Ukraine's statehood and falsely portray the country as an artificial construct of Communist rule — rhetoric that paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In a televised address Feb. 21, three days before the invasion, Putin blamed “historic, strategic mistakes” by Communist leaders for having led to the collapse of the Soviet state. Ukraine “turned to us for financial support many times from the very moment they declared independence,” Putin said in an apparent reference to Kravchuk’s time in office.
Some participants in the historic Dec. 8 meeting at a hunting lodge in the Belovezha forest, in what is now Belarus, pointed to Kravchuk as having played the main role in the demise of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine had declared its sovereignty after an August coup by hardline Communist Party members weakened Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s authority. A week before the Belovezha agreement, Kravchuk was elected president of Ukraine in a vote that also overwhelmingly approved its independence from Moscow.
Participants in the Belovezha talks said Kravchuk rejected any efforts to keep the Soviet Union going with reforms.
“Kravchuk was focused on Ukraine’s independence,” Belarusian leader Shushkevich, who took part in the talks and signed the deal, told The Associated Press in an interview last year. “He was proud that Ukraine declared its independence in a referendum and he was elected president on Dec. 1, 1991.”
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E&C and HR solutions provider, Ethico, unveils the ECOsystem (Ethics & Compliance Optimization System), designed to fulfill the needs of the modern workplace including: scalable risk mitigation, cultural improvements, and more.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethico, a leader in integrated risk management solutions, unveils a coordinated system to meet the demand for ethically run, values-forward businesses. The ECOsystem (Ethics & Compliance Optimization System) provides a holistic approach to improving an organization's risk mitigation and program performance, work culture, and employee engagement metrics.
With Gallup reporting that only 32% of employees in the U.S. claim to be actually engaged at work, it's clear that businesses are leaving a huge amount of profitability and productivity unclaimed. The key to re-engaging the majority of the workforce lies in better work cultures and stronger reputational health, with more demonstrable values in the operations of a business. Ethics, Compliance, and HR functions are perfectly poised to push such initiatives, but as typically under-resourced departments, these ethical professionals need to be empowered by something greater than a patchwork of single solutions in order to achieve their missions.
The ECOsystem is Ethico's way of putting power in the hands of any organization's ethical champions by providing them with: next-generation technology, client-over-everything support, and a holistic approach to redefine their workplaces. By utilizing a collaborative system of solutions, an ethical professional can maintain the oversight necessary to manage risk across multiple sectors and workstreams, while prioritizing the most pressing risks their organization is facing.
Ethico's solutions synergize within the ECOsystem to provide the flexibility and power to establish an authentically ethical culture, with all of its positive externalities. That means: increased employee engagement, reduced turnover, mitigated risk, lower threat of lawsuits and fines, and a more values-driven workplace.
The ECOsystem has fully configurable modules to maintain and upscale the essential pillars of a modern workplace, such as:
- Investigation Process - Case Management Software, Omnichannel Issue Intake, Incident Management, and Data Analytics & Reporting leverage the advantages of Ethico's unique Adaptive Interview methodology to consistently gather and display the most pertinent information from reporters. This provides clear incident data, allowing investigators to close cases up to 2.5 times faster, and allowing E&C and HR professionals to make a clear business case for their programs.
- Work Culture - Exit & Stay Interviews, HR & Compliance Training Libraries, Awareness & Communications, and Ethics Portal promote a culture that lives out the values espoused by an organization while rooting out latent risks within the workforce. This creates a healthy foundation where culture and employees can thrive.
- Risk Mitigation - Sanction Screening, Third Party Risk Monitoring, along with Flexible Disclosures Forms and Conflicts of Interest solutions concentrate oversight on your organization's greatest areas of risk. This provides the risk sensors of an organization the ability to catch risks before they cost the organization revenue.
No matter the challenge a workplace is facing, one or all of the ECOsystem's modules can be leveraged to begin the process of modernizing any workplace, regardless of size, industry, or mission.
"People are sick of wrestling with status quo, Frankenstein solutions that haven't been updated in a decade," said Nick Gallo, Chief Servant and Co-CEO of Ethico. "Ethics should be easy, and that's why we are excited to introduce the ECOsystem to the world. It is exciting to be a part of the next generation of solutions that help folks actually reduce risk while upgrading their ethical foundations to reinforce authentic cultures of integrity."
About Ethico:
Ethico's ECOsystem (Ethics and Compliance Optimization) allows leaders to manage risk, reinforce culture, and establish ethical work environments with flexible & powerful next-gen technology solutions including: Data Analytics & Reporting, Case Management Software, Omnichannel Issue Intake, Flexible Disclosure Forms, Incident Management, Sanction Monitoring, Awareness & Communications, Third Party Risk Management, Ethics Portal, Exit & Stay Interviews, HR & Compliance Training Library, and Conflicts of Interest.
Ethico has made ethics easy for over 25 years by empowering those who care most to Make The World A Better Workplace with holistic tools that help leaders who care to crowdsource risk management at scale effectively, focus efforts on the most meaningful priorities, and create a clear business case that reinforces a true culture of organic integrity.
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Prosecutors point to show tune lyrics, claim Jan. 6th defendant wanted to join a revolution
Texan Christopher Grider’s case will continue Monday, December 16.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Closing arguments in the trial of Christopher Grider are expected to come on Monday, with federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly saying she will rule either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Friday marked the third and potentially most bizarre day of Grider taking the stand. During their cross-examination of Grider, prosecutors played the entire song ‘One Day More’ from the musical Les Miserables. They said Grider sent a link to that song to his wife and friend on January 5th, the day before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors pointed to lyrics in that song, such as “one day more to revolution,” to say it showed Grider intended to be part of a revolution on January 6th.
Grider countered and said that he meant nothing more than to say just one more day until he got to see former President Trump speak in D.C. Grider also said that Les Miserables is his wife’s favorite musical, and that the friend he sent the link to enjoys musical theater.
Prosecutors also tried to discredit Grider’s defense that he was simply in D.C., thinking he would see the former president speaking. They highlighted that Grider is heard on video recordings while inside the Capitol saying “hold the line”, “stop the steal”, and “let us in or we’ll go in.”
Later in the day, we also saw Grider and Judge Kollar-Kotelly in an exchange where she said Grider’s testimony about when he knew he didn’t belong in the Capitol did not match what he said in an earlier plea agreement addressing other charges…. But later said she’d accept and consider both explanations.
Grider told Judge Kollar-Kotelly that part of his motive for being in the capitol on January sixth was to demonstrate that he supported Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) objecting to the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Also, Grider testified that he didn’t intend to disrupt the certification process.
Grider is facing a series of charges related to violence and disorderly conduct in the Capitol, along with obstructing an official proceeding for disrupting the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
As Grider chose a bench trial, not a trial by jury, Judge Kollar-Kotelly will decided whether Grider is innocent or guilty of any of the charges against him.
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By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
Fox’s NFL pregame show is going international for the first time in 13 years for their annual Veterans Day show. This week’s “Fox NFL Sunday” will originate from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The last time the pregame crew went outside the United States was 2009 when the show was at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The show — which also includes Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Jimmy Johnson and Jay Glazer — has originated from service academies two of the past three years. It was at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, last year and U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 2019.
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Tesla has lowered prices across its lineup of electric cars, the third time this year the automaker has lowered prices on at least some of its models.
The Associated Press reported that lowered prices appeared on Tesla’s website Friday. They show discounts of up to $5,000 for the Model S and Model X and $1,000 for the Model 3. The Model Y saw an effective $3,000 price cut with the addition of a new base model starting at $49,990. Previously, the least-expensive Model Y was the $52,990 Long Range version, the price of which is unchanged.
This follows January price cuts of up to 20% across Tesla’s lineup. Tesla then lowered Model S and Model X prices by up to $10,000 in March. It’s quite a change from 2022, when Tesla raised prices multiple times. Tesla hasn’t publicly stated a reason for the latest round of price cuts.
Tesla reported that it delivered 422,875 vehicles in the first quarter of 2023. While that total was 4% higher than the previous quarter and 36% higher year-over-year, it also marked the second quarter in a row in which Tesla produced significantly more vehicles than it delivered to customers. In the past four quarters, Tesla has made about 78,000 more vehicles than it’s sold, based on the automaker’s quarterly disclosures.
As the AP notes, this trend is occurring as Tesla continues to ramp up manufacturing capacity. In addition to its original Fremont, California, factory and newer factories in Austin, Texas, and Shanghai, the automaker brought a German plant online in 2022.
In February, market analysts predicted an EV price war, but outside of Tesla, prices have mostly held steady. The Ford Mustang Mach-E saw a price cut of up to $5,900 in January, but more recently Ford raised prices on the F-150 Lightning pickup truck for a fourth time.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:1 Gold Rush-2nd:9 Winning Spirit-3rd:11 Money Bags, Race Time: 1:45.59
(1st: 1 Gold Rush, 2nd: 9 Winning Spirit, 3rd: 11 Money Bags; Race Time: one: 45.59)
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Students from Courtney Ray's class call out to The Grinch as he hides out on the rooftop of Burlington Elementary School on Monday, December 19, 2022, in South Point, Ohio.
Firefighters Jason Winters, right, and Jack Green speak with preschool students as The Grinch "takes over" Burlington Elementary School on Monday, December 19, 2022, in South Point, Ohio.
Students gather outside of the building to watch as The Grinch "takes over" Burlington Elementary School on Monday, December 19, 2022, in South Point, Ohio.
Students from Courtney Ray's class call out to The Grinch as he hides out on the rooftop of Burlington Elementary School on Monday, December 19, 2022, in South Point, Ohio.
Firefighters Jason Winters, right, and Jack Green speak with preschool students as The Grinch "takes over" Burlington Elementary School on Monday, December 19, 2022, in South Point, Ohio.
Students gather outside of the building to watch as The Grinch "takes over" Burlington Elementary School on Monday, December 19, 2022, in South Point, Ohio.
SOUTH POINT, Ohio — The Grinch made an appearance at Burlington Elementary on Monday, after writing letters to the school last week saying that he was coming to take over as principal and take Christmas.
Law enforcement was on site when the furry, green character kidnapped Principal David Ashworth.
“We were called to Burlington Elementary to try to attempt to find the Grinch. We had some reports that he was running around stealing presents,” said Deputy Brandon Cochran from the Lawrence County Sheriff’s office.
After searching the school, all the classes were led outside to find the Grinch on the roof. The students sang “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” to sway him into a change of heart. After the Grinch came down off the roof, Ashworth was saved.
“Mr. Ashworth is back!” yelled Andie Copley.
Andie is in Courtney Ray’s second grade class. She was excited to see the Grinch and enjoy the movie about the Dr. Seuss character her class was watching later that day.
“We get to spend time with our families,” she said about why she is excited for Christmas.
Jaden Young said he does not like the Grinch because he is mean.
“We’re doing this fun stuff,” Jaden said about why it was a good day.
He is also in Ray’s class.
“This has been the absolute best Christmas at Burlington Elementary we’ve ever had,” Ray said. “It has been nothing short of magical every day from the kids’ eyes and it’s been really awesome.”
In addition to a visit from the Grinch, they also had an Elf on the Shelf situation last week. A different teacher would dress up as the elf each day. One day an elf was duct-taped to a wall. Another day the elf toilet-papered the cafeteria. The day principal Ashworth was the elf, he threw pumpkins off a dump truck.
“We have a super creative school,” he said. “Staff will come up with stuff and we just do it.”
This is Ashworth’s first year as principal at Burlington Elementary. Previously he spent eight years as an assistant principal at Ironton City Schools.
The fire department was also there to assist the sheriff’s office in searching the school and to help the Grinch make his way down off the roof safely.
“We’ve always enjoyed coming down here and working with Burlington Elementary especially when Mr. Ashworth took over. He works really closely with us,” said Lt. Jason Winters of the Fayette Township Fire Department. “A lot of times when we show up on calls, kids are scared of us because of the equipment we wear and things like that. So it familiarizes them with us so that they’re more comfortable with us.”
This year, a student whose class the fire department visited knew exactly what to do when his house caught on fire, and Winters said he prevented his house from burning down.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new bill proposed by Republicans in the Arkansas General Assembly will revise child labor laws in the state and create the "Youth Hiring Act of 2023," which will remove language that children under 16 will need an employment certificate to work.
House Bill 1410 states that children under the age of 16 will no longer have to obtain an employment certificate or permission from the Division of Labor in order to be employed.
Additionally, they will no longer be required to verify proof of their age or get written consent from their parent or guardian as a condition of employment.
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As the majority investor in a new fiber-to-the-premises Internet provider, Oak Hill will partner with Omni Fiber to accelerate the deployment of fiber-based broadband networks in the Midwest.
CINCINNATI and MENLO PARK, Calif., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oak Hill Capital ("Oak Hill") today announced that it formed a new fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) provider, Omni Fiber ("Omni" or the "Company"), to bring to market a new option for high-speed Internet service in small and mid-sized markets in the Midwest that have historically been underserved by the large phone and cable companies.
Oak Hill's $250 million commitment to Omni Fiber out of its latest flagship fund, Oak Hill Capital Partners VI, will fund new network construction to bring state-of-the-art fiber Internet, TV, and phone services to homes and businesses in communities across the Midwest, with initial projects in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
"We are thrilled to partner with Oak Hill and are excited to provide high-quality Internet access options to small and medium communities across the Midwest," said Darrick Zucco, Omni Fiber CEO. "Oak Hill's investment will spur our growth to help bridge the digital divide and establish competitive choice by providing hundreds of thousands of households access to our future-proof, 100% fiber-optic network. We look forward to establishing and maintaining excellent service quality as we support our new customers and communities for years to come."
Omni Fiber will offer affordable, symmetrical speeds of up to 2 Gbps to homes and businesses in small and mid-sized towns in the Midwest where current high-speed options are limited. Omni will deliver what customers expect from their Internet service provider: fast Internet speeds, reliability, complete in-home coverage, and best-in-class local customer service. Omni will not require contracts for residential customers and promises no hidden fees, no data caps, no installation fees, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. With Oak Hill's investment in the Company, Omni will not need to rely on grants or subsidies from federal, state, or local governments to build its network.
Oak Hill is an experienced investor in the FTTP space, and Omni Fiber's executive team has over 80 years of combined experience in building and growing fiber networks. Oak Hill's current broadband investments that enable increased fiber access across the U.S. include MetroNet, one of the nation's largest independently owned, 100 percent fiber optic network providers; Vexus Fiber, an expanding provider in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana; GoNetspeed in the Northeast; Race Communications in California; and Greenlight Networks in upstate New York.
"We believe that reliable, high-speed access to the Internet represents a fundamental catalyst for economic growth and equal opportunity for all Americans, from small towns to big cities," said Scott Baker, Partner at Oak Hill. "We have enjoyed strong relationships with Omni's founding executive team – Darrick Zucco, Steve Gable, Brian Ross and Andres Tovar – for many years. We are excited to formally launch our new partnership with this outstanding team as the Company builds and introduces its fiber network across the Midwest."
About Oak Hill
Oak Hill is a longstanding private equity firm focused on the North America middle-market. Oak Hill applies a specialized, theme-based approach to investing in the following dedicated industry sectors: Media & Communications, Industrials, Services, and Consumer. The Firm implements a highly systematic approach to theme development, proactive origination, and value creation in partnership with management to build franchises of lasting value. Since 1986, Oak Hill and its predecessors have raised approximately $20 billion of initial capital commitments and co-investments, invested in approximately 100 companies, and completed more than 300 add-on acquisitions representing an aggregate enterprise value at acquisition of over $60 billion. For more information, please visit www.oakhill.com.
About Omni Fiber
Founded in 2022, Ohio-based Omni Fiber provides 100% fiber-optic broadband Internet, TV and phone services to residential and business customers in the Midwestern United States. Omni Fiber offers symmetrical speeds of up to 2 Gbps, no-hidden fees, no data caps, Premium Wi-Fi included, local customer service, and competitive pricing. For more information, please visit www.omnifiber.com.
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LONDON, UK — Three young boys who fell through ice covering a lake in central England have died and a fourth remains hospitalized as weather forecasters issued severe weather warnings for large parts of the United Kingdom.
Police in full uniform jumped into the water and broke through the ice using their bare hands to pull the boys, ages 8, 10 and 11, from the icy waters Sunday afternoon and rushed them to the hospital in the West Midlands, about 100 miles north of London. But they could not be revived after suffering cardiac arrest.
The fourth child, who is 6, remains in critical condition. Emergency workers searched through the night and into Monday for two other children who were reportedly with the group, though it is uncertain whether there were additional victims of the tragedy.
“It’s important to stress ... that we’ve had no contact from anybody suggesting that there’s anybody else missing, but until we’re 100% certain we will be carrying on searches throughout the course of today,'' West Midlands Police Superintendent Richard Harris said.
Harris declined to say whether the children were members of a single family.
The news came as the Met Office, Britain’s national weather service, issued severe weather alerts for large parts of the country. Roads in eastern and southeastern England were among the most affected. Some travelers were stuck for hours due to the closure of the UK’s busiest highway, the M25, which circles greater London.
Gatwick and Stansted airports warned of flight delays on Monday, and London City Airport said it was experiencing “some disruption” because aircraft were out of position after flight cancellations on Sunday night.
The country recorded its coldest night of the year so far in northern Scotland at minus 15.7 degrees Celsius (3.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
“Frozen lakes, ponds, canals and reservoirs can look picturesque but they can be lethal, and there are no greater warnings of this than yesterday’s tragic events,'' West Midlands Fire Service area commander Richard Stanton said. “Yesterday’s incident is a stark reminder to us all of the dangers of open water, especially during the winter months.'' | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/uk-gripped-by-winter-storm-3-children-die-after-fall-into-icy-lake/507-793e85ee-3961-4c15-890f-ba5f1219f1bc | 2022-12-12 19:20:50 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/uk-gripped-by-winter-storm-3-children-die-after-fall-into-icy-lake/507-793e85ee-3961-4c15-890f-ba5f1219f1bc |
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin felt “really excited” Wednesday after winning the first women’s World Cup race of 2023.
And it wasn’t because she had just moved within one victory of Lindsey Vonn’s record.
“I skied better than I probably ever have,” Shiffrin said.
The defending overall champion dealt best with difficult course conditions to dominate a floodlit slalom and raise her career tally to 81 World Cup wins. She could match the best mark Thursday at another slalom on the same course.
American standout Vonn set the women’s record of 82 before retiring in 2019. The overall best mark is 86, from Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.
“I’m happy, I’m incredibly happy. I mean, I had so much fun skiing today and it was really my best skiing both runs today,” said Shiffrin, who beat runner-up Petra Vlhová by 0.76 seconds, with the rest of the field finishing more than 1.20 off the pace.
The former overall champion of Slovakia had won the race on the outskirts of the Croatian capital the past three seasons. Vlhová’s rise to the top has motivated Shiffrin.
“I feel like I would not be here tonight with skiing like that, if it wasn’t for Petra pushing the limits in the last three years. She’s been so strong and it has encouraged me to keep working harder and harder and harder,” Shiffrin said.
“Nothing less than the best is going to work. I was taking all the risk I needed and made it on the finish and that’s just an amazing feeling when it’s good enough.”
Shiffrin certainly has been more than just good enough in recent weeks.
The four-time overall champion stretched her winning streak to five races, which included three different events: super-G, giant slalom, and slalom.
Only two female racers have won more races in succession: Swiss skier Vreni Schneider won eight in 1988-89 and Germany’s Katja Seizinger won six in 1997.
Earlier, Shiffrin won back-to-back slaloms in Finland to start the 2022-23 season.
On Wednesday, Shiffrin stood up to the challenge to defend her first-run lead as the last starter on the deteriorating Crveni Spust course.
While no racers remained without mistakes, Shiffrin never got in real trouble in her final run. She even won time on Vlhová at every split and celebrated with both arms up after crossing the finish, followed by two fist pumps.
“That was the most exciting thing of the day, that I felt so good skiing when it’s a bit softer. The victory is incredible, but I’m more happy with how I feel, it’s just calm,” Shiffrin said.
The American said she used new skis which she and her equipment supplier Atomic developed over the past two years. The new set-up is meant to give her a better control on softer courses that have been injected with water and salt — like the one in Zagreb.
Shiffrin drew an unfavorable start number and began the opening run last among the top-seven ranked racers. But she did best to keep the line between the gates, despite being bounced around by ruts and waves in the rather soft snow surface after days with temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees Celsius (50-59 Fahrenheit).
Shiffrin led Anna Swenn Larsson by 0.23 seconds. The Swede won her first World Cup slalom in November and dropped to third after the final run, swapping places with Vlhová.
“These kinds of conditions have been challenging for me, in the last two years especially. But tonight, it was just a really perfect combination of the equipment with my skiing,” Shiffrin said.
“I’m just thankful when it goes well. In the last five races it went really went well. So, now I am just on a groove and keep riding the wave until the wave is over.”
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BEIJING, July 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Thursday visited the Xiqu Center in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, a venue for the art of Chinese traditional theater.
She watched rehearsals of Cantonese opera performances and a Hong Kong orchestra at the opera house and spoke highly of the performances, calling the show a display of the charm of Chinese culture.
During her visit, Peng also talked with young volunteers who were making traditional paper artworks. She encouraged Hong Kong's younger generation to have an in-depth understanding of fine traditional Chinese culture and inherit and promote the culture.
Peng together with Xi left Hong Kong Friday after a two-day trip there for a meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Second Largest Operator of Franchised Sola Salon Studio Locations Prepares for Continued Growth
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salon Freedom Holdings, LLC (Salon Freedom), the fastest growing and second largest operator of franchised Sola Salon Studio locations, is pleased to announce the addition of Erin Bracke to its executive team as Chief Operating Officer effective Monday, December 5th. Erin will lead sales, marketing and operations across the company, from recruiting and on-boarding new Sola Pros to delivering a world class experience to customers every day. She'll contribute to the company's business strategy, while leading the design and deployment of all sales and operational systems, processes and programs.
"We couldn't be more pleased with the addition of Erin to our team," said David Raduziner, Co-Founder and CEO of Salon Freedom. "Erin is an intelligent, energetic and passionate leader, who will continue to build our strong culture for our 1,000+ Sola professionals. She brings a unique combination of sales and operations experience to the company and will be a great resource not only to us but to the entire Sola system."
Erin will be relocating to the Nashville area where Salon Freedom has invested approximately $10 million, with an additional $3+ million planned investment over the next 12 to 24 months. The company plans further development in excess of $10 million in Pennsylvania and New Jersey during that period.
Erin previously served as VP of Field Sales at Vacasa, a tech driven vacation rental management company. "We believe the combination of Erin's tech company and multi-unit rental experience will help drive Salon Freedom toward 100 Sola units and beyond," said Todd Recknagel, Salon Freedom's Board Chair. He added, "Her energy and enthusiasm is contagious." Prior to Vacasa, Erin had a long career in successively more senior operations management roles at Lifetime Fitness, a premium family health and fitness brand.
"Erin is a perfect fit for Salon Freedom's culture of care and support. We can't wait to get her fully engaged with our team and customers," said Steve Breuner, Co-Founder and CMO. "We have no doubt she'll bring a fresh perspective on marketing, sales and operations that will drive our business success as we continue our dramatic growth."
Bo Breuner, Philadelphia Development Director, who is running the fastest growing market in the country for Salon Freedom noted, "We eagerly anticipate the contributions Erin will make to our system bringing new ideas and sophistication to our operations – there's much to learn from her."
About Sola Salon Studios
In 2004, Sola Salons was established with the opening of its first location in Denver, Colorado. Now with more than 645 locations open in the U.S., Canada and Brazil, Sola is proud to offer almost 20,000 independent beauty professionals the freedom and benefits of salon ownership without the risk and overhead of opening a traditional salon. Its innovative salon model empowers hairdressers, estheticians, nail techs and other like-minded professionals to take control and independently manage their careers. Sola provides beauty professionals with beautiful, fully equipped salon studios alongside the support and tools they need to launch their salon business in no time. For more information, please visit www.solasalons.com.
About Salon Freedom Holdings
Salon Freedom was formed in 2008 to develop franchised Sola Salon locations. The company announced a major investment in March, 2022 by Three20 Capital Group, Geneva Glen Capital, and Stonehenge Partners. Salon Freedom currently operates 42 locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Tennessee with an additional 8 locations planned or under construction for completion by Q2 2023.
About Three20 Capital Group
Three20 Capital Group is a private equity firm led by franchise veterans Todd Recknagel and Kristi Mailloux. Three20 has a depth of experience in franchising, distribution, energy efficiency and multi-unit businesses. A sampling of Brands they have partnered with include Massage Envy, Office Pride, Take 5 Oil change, Mr. Handyman, Molly Maid, Quatrro Business Services and AM Conservation Group. www.Three20group.com
About Geneva Glen Capital
Geneva Glen Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm that invests in proven private companies with leading market positions, significant growth potential, and stable cash flows. GGC makes control investments and targets companies headquartered in the U.S. or Canada with EBITDA between $2 million and $20 million. The firm works closely with management teams to establish and execute on a clearly defined value creation and growth plan. www.genevaglencapital.com
About Stonehenge Capital
Stonehenge is an Ohio-based private equity firm serving the lower middle market. Founded in 1999, Stonehenge has a long history of partnering with leading entrepreneurs and managers who are focused on building winning teams, accelerating growth, and creating shareholder value. Stonehenge provides flexible capital that meets the needs of all stakeholders, including majority equity, minority equity, debt, and combinations thereof. Stonehenge has raised more than $1 billion of committed capital and is currently investing out of its fifth institutional fund. www.Stonehengepartners.com
Contact David Raduziner, CEO at draduziner@solasalons.com or Todd Recknagel, Board Chair at todd@three20group.com
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