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The consultant at the center of the nationwide college admissions scandal blamed his “winning at all costs” attitude, which he said was caused in part by suppressed childhood trauma, for his actions in a letter to the judge scheduled to sentence him next week.
William “Rick” Singer, 62, who pleaded guilty in March 2019 to charges including racketeering conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 4 in U.S. District Court in Boston for running the scheme that federal investigators dubbed Operation Varsity Blues.
More than 50 people, including parents, coaches, and others, have already been convicted in the case that involved bribes, embellished athletic accomplishments, and entrance exam cheating to get often undeserving children from wealthy families into some of the most selective universities in the U.S.
In documents submitted to the court on Wednesday, prosecutors asked the judge to give Singer six years, which would be by far the longest sentence in the case. Defense attorneys asked for a year of home confinement, or a maximum of six months behind bars.
“For most of my life, if not all of it, I have thrived on winning at all costs,” Singer wrote in a letter included in his defense’s sentencing memorandum. “My moral compass was broken and, increasingly over time, choosing right over wrong became less important than doing whatever had to be done to be recognized as the ‘best.’”
He expressed remorse in the letter, said he now lives in a trailer park for seniors and can’t get a job despite more than 1,000 attempts.
By getting caught, he has been provided “the opportunity for insight, atonement, and redemption,” he wrote.
His attorneys, citing Singer’s acceptance of responsibility, his cooperation with the government’s investigation, and his lifetime of helping children, recommended a sentence of one year of home confinement, three years of probation and 750 hours of community service. If the judge decides prison time is warranted, they asked for a maximum of six months behind bars.
“His unwanted notoriety has left him unemployable, depriving him of his self-esteem,” the defense wrote. “He has tried to rebuild by volunteering in his community. He has boundless energy and ideas about programming for youth and the underserved. He would be an asset to society if permitted after sentencing to continue his community service efforts.”
One of Singer’s attorneys, Candice Fields, said in an email Thursday that she did not have any further comment.
Singer took in more than $25 million from his clients, paid bribes totaling more than $7 million, and used more than $15 million of his clients’ money for his own benefit, according to prosecutors, who said his pivotal role in the scandal merits a six-year sentence.
“Staggering in scope, Singer’s scheme was also breathtaking in its audacity and the levels of deception it involved,” prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memorandum. “His corruption and manipulation of others were practically limitless. Singer is far and away the most culpable of the Varsity Blues defendants — by orders of magnitude — and is therefore deserving of the longest sentence,” despite his cooperation with investigators, they said.
Prosecutors also asked for three years of probation, nearly $11 million in restitution to the IRS, and forfeiture of about $8.7 million.
A voicemail seeking comment was left with a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.
The longest sentence in the case so far has gone to former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst, who got 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-college-scandal-middleman-blames-winning-at-all-costs/ | 2022-12-29 19:30:13 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-college-scandal-middleman-blames-winning-at-all-costs/ |
Artemis I moon rocket fueling test complete after NASA engineers overcome hydrogen leak
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA encountered some trouble early in the day Wednesday as the space agency tested to determine if a fuel leak on the Artemis I rocket was fixed. Still, engineers were able to problem-solve and move forward with the tanking test that NASA managers are calling successful.
A fuel leak scrubbed the space agency's most recent launch attempt of the mega moon rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this month.
The Space Launch System rocket with the uncrewed Orion spacecraft is slated to launch possibly next week on its maiden voyage known as the Artemis I mission, sending Orion around the moon and back.
On Wednesday, a fueling test at KSC was used to determine if engineers successfully fixed a fuel leak on the giant moon rocket. However, another leak popped up soon after the liquid hydrogen "fast fill" began on the rocket's core stage. Engineers were ultimately able to fill the SLS rocket's core and upper stage, although several hours behind the original timeline.
During the test, NASA attempted a "kinder and gentler" approach using lower pressure to fill the 322-foot-tall SLS rocket with thousands of gallons of cryogenic fuel.
NASA's deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development Tom Whitmeyer explained that unlike liquid oxygen, which is "pumped" into the rocket, hydrogen requires pressure to move the light molecules.
"We're taking these transitions at a slower rate," Whitmeyer said. "The crunch in pressure and temperature changes will be more gradual."
‘Manageable’ liquid hydrogen leak
After a brief delay due to a person within the blast danger zone, Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson gave the "go" to begin fueling at 7:30 a.m. EDT, about a half-hour behind the original timeline.
During the test, both the SLS core and upper stages needed to go through all three phases of fueling, including slow fill, fast fill and replenish.
The first hiccup occurred when the team moved to the fast-fill stage of liquid hydrogen. NASA communications representative Derrol Nail said a 7% leak was detected, much higher than the 4% safety limit.
By mid-morning, NASA engineers successfully troubleshot the leak, which happened in the same manner as during the Sept. 3 launch attempt.
After stopping the propellant fill and warming up the fuel line, the liquid hydrogen fueling continued, but another minor leak popped up - though this one was well below the safety limit. The fix appeared to have worked, and fueling continued into the afternoon.
By 1:30 p.m., the core stage was 100% full of liquid oxygen and hydrogen, and the previous leak was down to 0.5%, which was good news for the launch team.
Nail said the leak was a "manageable" one, and the seal that teams replaced to fix the issue appeared to be working as designed.
NASA TV view of the quick disconnect valve, where the fuel pipe meets the Artemis I rocket.
The launch director gave the "go" to fill the rocket's upper stage just after 2 p.m. The upper stage, or the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), is built by United Launch Alliance and provides the thrust to leave Earth orbit and send Orion onto the moon.
Just before 4 p.m., the rocket was fully fueled, and the liquid hydrogen tank was pressurized to pre-flight levels as it would be on an actual launch day. Another hydrogen leak appeared toward the end of the test above the conservative safety limit but this time in a different spot than the leak discovered earlier in the day.
It's unclear if NASA will call this test successful enough to move forward with another launch attempt.
Blackwell-Thompson said the tanking test "went really well."
As for a possible Sept. 27 launch, Blackwell-Thomson said: "We'll take a look at the data and see what it tells us. I am extremely encouraged by the test today."
The cryo-load test was another long day for NASA teams and lasted about 10 hours.
NASA has now attempted to get the rocket off Earth twice. Both attempts ended in launch scrubs.
During the most recent attempt on Sept. 3, a fuel leak of liquid hydrogen caused the launch director to scrub the liftoff.
The SLS requires more than 700,000 gallons of super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel to lift the 322-foot-tall rocket off the launchpad and into space. While an efficient rocket fuel, hydrogen is a tiny molecule that easily leaks. It has previously created problems for the space shuttle program.
SLS has also experienced hydrogen leaks during wet dress rehearsal tests and a small leak during the first launch attempt.
The SLS rocket, seen on Pad 39B, as the fuel test gets underway.
Teams at KSC launchpad 39B worked for the past two weeks to replace two quick-disconnect seals to the rocket in hopes of fixing the leak, which NASA managers described as a "major leak" well above the 4% limit.
During fueling on Sept. 3, the leak "spiked" to over 8%, KSC Exploration Ground Systems Program deputy manager Jeremy Parsons said.
"The reason where 4% is set is its kind of the flammability of hydrogen and air. So that's where you start to enter a certain amount of risk of flammability," Parsons said.
"It's really a relatively conservative limit," he added.
WHAT IS NASA'S ARTEMIS 1 MISSION GOING TO DO?
NASA SLS Chief engineer John Belvins said after reviewing all possible causes on the fault tree, he doesn't believe any one thing caused the leak.
On the 8-inch seal, engineers found an "indentation" that could have been caused by a hit from what NASA calls FOD, which stands for "foreign object debris." However, no FOD was found near the seal.
Next SLS launch depends on this test and Space Force's decision
Teams are targeting Sept. 27 for liftoff during a 70-minute window opening at 11:37 a.m. EDT. However, that all rides on the outcome of Wednesday's cryo-loading and if NASA gets approval from the Space Force.
"Ultimately, we've mitigated everything that we can think of, and we will know in the (next) 36 hours or so, or 48 hours, how effective those mitigations were," Belvins said Monday.
The Sept. 27 launch date and a backup window on Oct. 2 are under review by the Space Force, which manages the Eastern launch range.
Previously, NASA said the moon rocket would need to roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) due to safety requirements to replace flight termination system (FTS) batteries. The FTS is required on all rockets and would cause the vehicle to self-destruct if it veers off course and threatens the public.
"They're responsible for all the vehicles they launch, not just ours," Blevins said of Space Force. "And they'll make a decision whether we meet the requirements for public safety or not and will adhere to that decision."
The agency submitted a waiver to extend the FTS certification and is waiting to hear back from Space Force.
Tracking the tropics for the October launch window
As NASA managers have alluded to several times during briefings, the agency continues to monitor the tropics and any potential impacts on the Space Coast.
The latest tropical weather outlook shows a disturbance approaching the Caribbean has a high chance of developing into a tropical cyclone over the next five days.
The FOX Forecast Center said that through at least Tuesday, the tropical weather threat will remain in the Caribbean. Still, forecast models show the potential system lifting northward and possibly making it into the Gulf of Mexico.
It is too soon to tell how strong the system will be or who it will threaten. However, NASA leaders will likely keep a close eye on the potential tropical trouble.
If a tropical system approaches, the space agency would likely need to roll the SLS back into the VAB. It takes about three days to prepare for a rollback, and the rocket cannot begin moving to the hangar with more than 46 mph winds. | https://www.wogx.com/news/artemis-i-moon-rocket-fueling-test-complete | 2022-09-22 03:53:24 | 0 | https://www.wogx.com/news/artemis-i-moon-rocket-fueling-test-complete |
AUSTIN, Texas, March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Abrigo, the leading technology provider of compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions for financial institutions, today announced the launch of Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence. This lending decision and monitoring engine is powered by Charm Solutions, a provider of AI technology that helps financial institutions unlock the full potential of their data, identify growth opportunities, optimize operations, and improve financial decisions.
According to FFIEC call report data, small business (SMB) loans made by banks in the U.S. grew to nearly 27 million in 2022. Many institutions have indicated that SMB is a continued, targeted area for growth in 2023, following the successful Paycheck Protection Program during COVID-19, which led many lenders to build or deepen relationships with SMBs in their communities. A barrier to growth for many institutions is efficiency. In a recent Abrigo survey, nearly 60% of financial institutions indicated that efficiency was the top challenge in small business lending.
Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence is embedded into the Abrigo loan origination platform and provides real-time scorecards that include a loan risk rating score, probability of default, and details of how the score was calculated. Using Charm's dynamic models along with existing processes, institutions can improve their decision-making by incorporating an array of data sources and leveraging analytics to gain actionable insights.
The engine leverages self-learning AI to continuously monitor a wide range of current and historical data, loan performance, accounting, and macroeconomic data from more than 1,200 institutions. Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence is transparent, providing institutions insight into the data and processes used for its scoring model. Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence also provides an early warning system alerting banks to changes that may impact an institution's entire loan portfolio before they become an issue.
"By leveraging the power of automation and AI, financial institutions can provide the small businesses in their communities with the funds they need faster while ensuring they have the right risk management controls in place for their lending processes," said Ravi Nemalikanti, CTO of Abrigo. "We are very pleased to partner with Charm to develop this innovative solution that advances our mission to help communities thrive."
"We are proud to power the Abrigo Small Business Intelligence platform with our proprietary AI-technology and help thousands of financial institutions make faster and better decisions to grow their SMB loan portfolio profitably and move the economy forward," said Jacob Malmborg, CEO of Charm Solutions.
For more information about Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence, powered by Charm, please visit https://www.web.abrigo.com/abrigo-small-business-lending-intelligence-get-started.
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Charm Solutions is an AI software platform used by leading lending institutions to quickly and transparently analyze, decision, and monitor SMB loans, and by SMBs to gain insights into their financial health and use Charm's proprietary SMB Score™ report to receive actionable recommendations and efficiently secure the best financing alternatives to grow their business. Learn more at www.charmsolutions.ai
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Abrigo is a leading provider of compliance, credit risk, lending, and asset/liability management solutions and services that help financial institutions thrive. Abrigo accelerates growth, increases client efficiency, and improves customer experience with an easy-to-use and expansive platform. We ensure customer success with our award-winning client service team, advisory expertise, and innovative technology. With a network of 2,400+ FIs, Abrigo offers unique opportunities for insightful peer benchmarks and best practices. Visit abrigo.com to learn more. Follow Abrigo on social media using @WeAreAbrigo.
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Independent investigators reject innocence claim from death row inmate Kevin Cooper
The special counsel appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to look into the case of Kevin Cooper, a death row inmate whose decades-old murder conviction fell under fierce scrutiny in recent years, released a report Friday casting aside the prisoner’s long-standing claims of innocence.
“The evidence of Cooper’s guilt,” the report reads, “is extensive and conclusive.”
The 65-year-old inmate, who was convicted in 1985 of fatally stabbing two children and two adults inside a Chino Hills home two years earlier, has long maintained his innocence, arguing that he was framed by San Bernardino Sheriff’s deputies.
The victims were three family members — Doug and Peggy Ryen and their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica — as well as an unrelated boy, 11-year-old Christopher Hughes. The Ryen’s 8-year-old son, Joshua, survived the attack.
In a videotaped statement played for jurors during Cooper’s trial, Joshua, the sole survivor, said he saw just one man or perhaps a shadow in his home. After he was airlifted to the hospital, he told a deputy and a social worker that his attackers were three white men, but he later said that they were Latino. A month after that, he told a deputy that Cooper, who is Black, was not the killer.
As part of the special counsel’s investigation, which included briefings from both Cooper’s attorneys and representatives from the district attorney’s office in San Bernardino County, the investigators evaluated DNA evidence.
Genetic testing showed that Cooper’s DNA was found inside the Ryen home, as well as on cigarette butts recovered from a station wagon stolen from the family’s home after the slayings, according to the 243-page report. There wasn’t any DNA evidence, the report said, that “points to any other person as the culprit.”
“There is no reasonable possibility that more investigation beyond what has already been conducted in this matter could affect the conclusion that evidence of Cooper’s guilt is conclusive,” the report reads.
Cooper’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In an interview Friday afternoon, San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Jason Anderson said he was not surprised, by the special counsel’s findings. He was relieved, he added, for the surviving victim, as well as the victims’ relatives.
“Very pleased for them,” Anderson said. “Unfortunately, closure should have come a long time ago.”
Newsom’s decision in 2021 to order an independent investigation came after months of mounting pressure from Cooper’s supporters, some who were moved to act after reading about the case in an Opinion article in the New York Times in 2018.
The newspaper’s in-depth examination cited both an appeals court judge saying Cooper had been framed by sheriff’s deputies and a former leader in the FBI’s Los Angeles office saying he believed Cooper was innocent and that the case involved “abject racism.” During a hearing in Cooper’s case, the New York Times report noted, a crowd displayed racist signs, and one man displayed a noose around a stuffed gorilla.
Several months after the article was published, Cooper’s proclamations of innocence continued to gain traction, including winning the support of Kim Kardashian, who tweeted that she’d met with Cooper on death row and believed he’d been wrongfully convicted.
In March 2021, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund sent Newsom a letter urging him to launch an investigation, noting that exonerations are disproportionately likely to result from cases involving Black defendants and white victims.
“No one should serve decades in prison, much less on death row, absent confidence in their conviction,” the letter read.
Two months later, Newsom appointed the international law firm of Morrison Foerster to serve as special counsel to the state Board of Parole Hearings, which is responsible for investigating clemency matters.
In the report released Friday, the special counsel noted they had not addressed several factors deemed outside the scope of their assignment, including whether Cooper’s trial had been unfair and whether the charges lodged against him or the jury’s verdict had been “improperly influenced by Cooper’s race.”
They also didn’t investigate Cooper’s allegations of prosecutorial or law enforcement misconduct, they noted, except in instances in which they determined that they were relevant to Cooper’s claim of innocence.
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Tinsley: Choices change the world
In 2010, two men made very different choices. In Austin, Texas, Joseph Stack, bitter and irate about the IRS, set fire to his home, drove to the Georgetown airport and took off in a single-engine Piper Cherokee. Minutes later, in a suicide crash reminiscent of 9-11, he slammed the plane into the IRS building in Austin. IRS worker, Vernon Hunter died in the flames. Hunter, 67, was a Vietnam veteran, an usher at the St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Austin and dreamed of another career after retirement. Hunter’s children went on record to say they forgave Joe Stack for killing their father.
In Dallas, Andisso Andabo, 22, an Ethiopian immigrant who worked as a mechanic, left the Firestone shop were he worked to make a delivery. Driving along the LBJ freeway in northwest Dallas he saw a car on fire that rolled off the road and landed on its side. Andabo immediately stopped his truck and rushed to the scene. With flames spreading from the engine compartment, he saw a 39-year-old woman trapped inside frozen in terror. He smashed the front window with his bare hands and ripped it off. With the help of others who arrived on the scene, he pulled the woman from the burning car moments before it was engulfed in flames. Afterward, Andabo returned to the Firestone shop and went back to work.
Both of these men made choices. Stack chose to take out his anger, bitterness and resentment in a violent act that took his life and that of an innocent man. Andisso Andabo chose to risk his own safety to help a stranger in a moment of crisis. The different choices made by Stack and Andabo reflect different attitudes that each cultivated in private. Each of us may not know what we would do in a crisis, but we each make choices every day to cultivate attitudes that will determine our actions. Anger, resentment and entitlement will ultimately produce violence and retaliation. Humility, compassion and thoughtfulness will ultimately produce sacrificial acts of kindness.
Jesus defined the term “neighbor” in his famous story about the Good Samaritan who put his life at risk to help a wounded victim who had been robbed and beaten. After stopping to care for the man’s wounds, he carried him to the nearest inn for lodging. "The next day," Jesus said, “he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'"
The attitudes we cultivate, the choices we make and the actions they produce make all the difference in the kind of world we live in. Choices that lead to violent acts of reprisal create a world filled with enemies that feeds on fear and hatred. Choices that lead to acts of kindness create a world filled with neighbors who help one another by demonstrating love, acceptance and understanding.
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Thrive exhibits and presents at Society for Laboratory Automation Annual Meeting in San Diego
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SLAS 2023 – Thrive Bioscience Inc., an innovative provider of automated live cell imaging instruments and software, debuts a new integrated suite of unique and exciting capabilities that significantly advance the field of live cell imaging.
Thrive's CellAssist family of networkable instruments provide unprecedented new capabilities for researchers to automatically capture 1,000's of time-series images now with 100+ focal planes on one to 50 cell culture plates within a controlled environment. Imaging modes include phase contrast and bright-field at 4x, 10x, and 20x in 6-well to 384-well plates.
The CellAssist family includes a benchtop model and a robotic 50-plate model, each producing comprehensive databases of high-quality images, metrics, and documentation that provide researchers groundbreaking insights into cell and tissue dynamics.
New CellAssist family product capabilities include:
- Imaging a 4mm z-range with 100+ focal planes, each 2 µm to 50 µm apart (user-selectable)
- Faster image capture rates (gigabytes of images in minutes)
- Image correction for physical variations in cell culture plates
- Imaging in round bottom plates
- Advanced set-up, networking, and remote access tools
"The CellAssist's unique imaging capabilities have vastly improved organoid imaging, IVF imaging, viral plaque assays, gene editing (CRISPR), and stem cell production for researchers" explained Thomas Farb-Horch, CEO of Thrive.
To find out more about Thrive's different approach to live cell imaging, visit Booth #2443 at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening annual meeting in San Diego, February 26 – 28, 2023. Also attend the Exhibitor Tutorial, "Image Differently - A Solution for Automated Live Cell Imaging" by Alan Blanchard, CSO of Thrive, February 28, 2:00 pm PST, Room 1B, San Diego Convention Center.
About Thrive Bioscience
Thrive Bioscience, located in the Boston area, is an innovative provider of instruments with integrated software tools for live cell, stem cell, and tissue imaging, analytics, and automation. Thrive's instruments enable reproducible cell culture imaging and breakthrough insights into cell dynamics by integrating microscopy and robotics to automatically capture and build databases of terabytes of data. Additional information: www.thrivebio.com.
Thrive Bioscience and CellAssist are registered trademarks of Thrive Bioscience, Inc. Copyright © 2023 Thrive Bioscience, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Former Tupelo High School standout Jett Johnson, now at Mississippi State, will support the Tupelo Police Athletic League through his new NIL deal with Juva Juice.
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Mississippi State linebacker Jett Johnson, a former Tupelo High School standout, is giving back to the Tupelo community.
Juva Juice announced Wednesday that it will support the Tupelo Police Athletic League through its Name Image and Likeness sponsorship of Johnson.
It is the first NIL deal for the company, a juice and smoothie bar.
It was Johnson’s suggestion that the money go to TPAL.
The deal calls for Juva to contribute $20 for each assisted tackle, $25 for each solo tackle, $50 for each sack and $100 for each interception or fumble recovery.
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Because the money is not going to Johnson, it does not violate NCAA rules that say players cannot be paid based on performance.
The company also says it will be running a weekly deal called the “44 Special,” a nod to Johnson’s jersey number.
Johnson played at Tupelo High School under former coach Trent Hammond and was the top-ranked linebacker in Mississippi as a senior when he posted 147 tackles and 15 tackles for loss.
Johnson’s play so far this season would add up to $460. His totals from 2021 would have equalled $2,205.
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NEW YORK — Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he'll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker.
Todd, 51, told viewers that “I've watched too many friends and family let work consume them before it was too late” and that he'd promised his family he wouldn't do that.
Todd has often been an online punching bag for critics, including Donald Trump, during a polarized time, and there were rumors that his time at the show would be short when its executive producer was reassigned at the end of last summer, but NBC gave no indication this was anything other than Todd’s decision. It's unclear when Todd's last show will be, but he told viewers that this would be his final summer.
“I leave feeling concerned about this moment in history but reassured by the standards we've set here,” Todd said. “We didn't tolerate propagandists, and this network and program never will.”
Welker, a former chief White House correspondent, has been at NBC News in Washington since 2011 and has been Todd's chief fill-in for the past three years. She drew praise for moderating the final presidential debate between Trump, a Republican, and Joe Biden, a Democrat, in 2020.
Her “sharp questioning of lawmakers is a masterclass in political interviews,” said Rebecca Blumenstein, NBC News president of editorial, in a memo announcing Welker's elevation on Sunday.
Now Welker, 46, will be thrust into what promises to be another contentious presidential election cycle.
The Sunday morning political interview show has aired since 1947, led by inventor and first host Martha Rountree. Its peak came in the years that Tim Russert moderated, from 1991 until his death in 2008, with its footing less certain since then. Tom Brokaw briefly filled in after Russert’s death, and David Gregory replaced him until being forced out in favor of Todd.
Welker will be the first Black moderator of “Meet the Press” and the first woman since Rountree left in 1953.
Todd said that he was proud of expanding the “Meet the Press” brand to a daily show, which initially aired on MSNBC but was shifted to streaming, along with podcasts and newsletters, even a film festival.
“He transformed the brand into a vital modern-day franchise, expanding its footprint to an array of new mediums, and kept ‘Meet the Press’ at the forefront of political discourse,” Blumenstein said.
It didn’t stop critics from jumping on to social media when they didn’t like an interview Todd conducted. Trump even anointed Todd with one of his signature nicknames, Sleepy Eyes, and later called on NBC to fire Todd in 2020 over its airing of a CBS interview clip with his then-Attorney General William Barr. Todd later said the show had been unaware at the time of a longer soundbite of the interview that would have provided more context, and he apologized for the mistake.
Todd was roasted at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2022 by Trevor Noah, who pointed him out in the audience and said, “How are you doing? I’d ask a follow-up, but I know you don’t know what those are.”
Todd alluded to his critics in announcing his exit on Sunday.
“If you do this job seeking popularity, you are doing this job incorrectly,” he said. “I take the attacks from partisans as compliments. And I take the genuine compliments with a grain of salt when they come from partisans.”
The goal of each show, he said, is to “make you mad, make you think, shake your head in disapproval at some point and nod your head in approval at others.”
In the just-concluded television season, “Meet the Press” was third in viewers after CBS' “Face the Nation” and ABC's “This Week,” each of them averaging between 2.5 million and 2.9 million viewers, the Nielsen ratings company said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/chuck-todd-leaving-nbc-meet-the-press/507-a6abea74-93b1-450e-8cb8-a601a9cc1ea3 | 2023-06-06 05:44:58 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/chuck-todd-leaving-nbc-meet-the-press/507-a6abea74-93b1-450e-8cb8-a601a9cc1ea3 |
Mick and Susie McMurry Award Winner Announced
According to a press release by the Boys and Girls Club of Central Wyoming, Brad Hopkins was awarded this year’s Mick and Susie McMurry Cowboy Code Try Award.
Hopkins, as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Rescue Mission, led a capital campaign that tripled the space to allow adequate housing for the homeless.
The Rescue Mission was founded in 1978 by Reveverand Art Munchler, originally named Soul's Anchor, and had two other reverends take over before Hopkins was appointed as executive director in 2012.
Under Hopkins's leadership, the Rescue Mission opened two thrift stores and serves 2,500 people a year.
Hopkins said in the release:
"The biggest tragedy is a bunch of ‘tries’ up on the shelf. Somebody had an idea, a dream, a vision, but then there was this automatic negative thinking that just left that dream up on the shelf," Hopkins said. "When you’ve got ‘the Try’ in you, you never quit."
Hopkins was born in Dallas, Texas, and was the oldest of four siblings and has been married to his wife, Chrissy, for 29 years.
Hopkins worked with the homeless since 1999 at the Denver Rescue Mission, first as a program coordinator and then as director of its family and senior homeless initiative from 2005 to 2012.
He also served as a board member of the Wyoming Homeless Collaborative from 2014 to 2018.
The Mick and Susie McMurry Cowboy Code Try Award, which is a bronze sculpture by local artist Chris Navarro, will be presented to Brad at the 24th Annual Awards and Recognition Breakfast.
The breakfast on Sept. 14 honors Brad and Jan Cundy and will feature a keynote address by Willie Robertson, hunting enthusiast, CEO, and former star of Duck Dynasty.
The event is free, but guests are asked to make a contribution to support the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Wyoming.
Last year, the Cundy's were given the Cowboy Code Try Award for their donations to the Rotary Club in honor of their son. | https://k2radio.com/mick-and-susie-mcmurry-award-winner-announced/ | 2022-07-19 20:42:05 | 0 | https://k2radio.com/mick-and-susie-mcmurry-award-winner-announced/ |
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DRS Imaging's new high-security document digitization facility in Santa Ana meets SOC 2, HIPAA, and CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) regulations. High-volume scanning of sensitive records is challenging as data and network security violations attract hefty penalties. The new facility will meet the demand for secure scanning in the Santa Ana region.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. , July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - DRS Imaging LLC has launched its newest scanning and document conversion facility in Santa Ana, California. The state-of-the-art bureau is HIPAA-compliant, meets SOC 2 compliance and Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) norms, and is notably one of the few scanning facilities meeting these standards in California, and specifically in Santa Ana.
Incorrect, incomplete or outdated medical information is the number one cause of low-quality healthcare and poor patient outcomes. HIPAA-compliant digital records are a prerequisite to providing high-quality care.
The Santa Ana document conversion facility addresses this need and will be a boon for the region's hospitals, clinics, and government healthcare agencies. The facility is certified by the State of California to process and convert patient records to HIPAA-compliant electronic health records.
The facility also meets the document digitization needs of law enforcement agencies, police and justice departments, and county records offices which must adhere to strict CJIS compliances.
Cliff Newman, Chief Executive Office of DRS Imaging LLC remarked, "This full-production scanning facility is a secured warehouse location that was formerly occupied by a major public safety agency in Orange County. It is ideal for handling sensitive documents such as medical records and case files in access-controlled systems and secured networks. It will completely transform medical and government records management in the area."
Notably, the facility will also be a focal point for DRS Imaging's ongoing Regional Cooperative Agreement Imaging Services contract for the County of Orange.
DRS follows stringent HIPAA security protocols during the scanning process, establishing a chain of trust which is critical for managing confidential documents.
The facility is staffed with over 65 document scanning professionals, expertly trained on industry compliances and security best practices. It also boasts of the latest production scanners and automated data capture technology.
With the launch of this facility, DRS Imaging is well-positioned to provide specialized medical records scanning, county records management services, and government document conversion projects for medical facilities and government agencies throughout the state of California.
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About DRS Imaging: Founded in 1964, DRS Imaging LLC is one of the oldest and largest scanning bureaus in the United States. With scanning facilities in major cities across the US, DRS offers a complete line of on-site and off-site scanning services, including microfilm scanning, document management solutions, and turnkey Check 21 and EMR systems. DRS Imaging has successfully completed more than 50,000 scanning projects, and several of the team have earned the coveted Certified Document Imaging Architect Award from CompTIA for mastery in document conversion.
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First annual Colts Neck Cops vs. Kids Volleyball Classic is set for March
👮♂️ The Colts Neck Cops vs. Kids Volleyball Classic takes place March 9 at the high school
👮♂️ All proceeds benefit the Colts Neck High School Athletic and Physical Education departments
👮♂️ PBA Local 333 will match the funds raised from the event
COLTS NECK — The Monmouth County Township's PBA Local 333 will host its first annual “Cops vs. Kids Volleyball Classic” on Thursday, March 9.
The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Colts Neck High School, 59 Five Points Road. Admission is $5 and all proceeds will benefit the Colts Neck High School Athletic and Physical Education Departments.
“It’s really just to help the kids out. There’s no other reason why we’re doing this except to give back to the community,” said Gabriel Campan, president of the Colts Neck PBA Local 333, who came up with the idea for the tournament.
He said the physical education department at the high school always needs money for new equipment. Since the town is so generous and supportive of the Colts Neck police department, Campan said the cops wanted to do something for the community.
“I know their tennis courts have no nets. They are actually using a new tennis court at the middle school on Cedar Drive. But, this money raised will be put towards their bank for their athletic equipment,” Campan said.
Multiple volleyball games will be played during the classic. There will be 8 teams, two of which consist of members of the police department. The other teams will be a mix of kids, some from the girls’ and boys’ varsity volleyball teams. Gym teachers will serve as the referees. Campan said the kids are so excited to participate.
This is going to be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place tournament. Campan said local gift certificates will be given from Delicious Orchards, Huddy’s Inn, The Colts Neck Pub, which recently opened, and more.
Campan said he didn’t really want sponsorships. But Matt Gaeta of the Colts Neck Sports Foundation wanted to help and give back to the community, as well and offered to do the shirts for the tournament.
Other businesses have also jumped on board to help, including The Business Association of Colts Neck. He also said Mayor Sue Fitzpatrick plans to make an appearance, too.
The PBA is going to match the funds raised, Campan said. So, for example, if the tournament raises $2,000 or $3,000, then the PBA will also give a $2,000 or $3,000 donation as a way of helping out the high school even more.
This event started out as word of mouth so Campan said he has no idea how many people will be in attendance, but it seems the whole town is buzzing and excited about it.
Campan said while he hopes the volleyball classic will be the first of many to come, he said it’s all about fun and bringing the community together.
Jen Ursillo is a reporter and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach her at jennifer.ursillo@townsquaremedia.com
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A woman had an extraordinary college graduation after realizing she was in labor during her school's ceremony.
Kelsey Hudie was already worried something like that could happen on the day she graduated from Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, but she was determined to bask in her achievement.
"Nothing was going to stop me from walking that stage — like 100% — even if I had her first," Hudie said.
Hudie spent the last five years working toward her associate degree in education. On the day of her graduation, Hudie was chasing a high she once felt as a teen.
"When I graduated from high school, apart from having her, that was the best day of my life, and I had the best feeling walking across that stage to get my diploma because it was this feeling of achievement that I had finally done it," she said.
The administrators at Henry Ford College were aware of Hudie's condition, so they did what they could to accommodate her during the ceremony.
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"We care so deeply about our students that we want to meet them where they are," Henry Ford College President Russell Kavalhuna said at the commencement.
He explained Hudie’s situation to the audience.
"There's a few things more important than this college degree, and that’s the thing she’s got to get to. So, I hope you will allow me to quickly move through one degree before we get to the rest of you all," Kavalhuna said.
Hudie gave birth three days after the graduation ceremony.
"I hope one day she just knows how special she is. Even without the graduating and everything, I’ve wanted to be a mom for so long, so I’m just so happy," Hudie said.
Hudie is planning to continue her studies at Eastern Michigan University. Her goal is to become a history teacher.
This story was originally published by Alex Bozarjian and David Kalman at Scripps News Detroit.
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PIKE ROAD, Ala. (AP) — The Montgomery County sheriff said a fleeing robbery suspect exchanged gunfire with a witness who had chased him from the scene. The sheriff told news outlets that the incident was captured on video.
Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham told reporters during a Wednesday news conference that a 16-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday night when he went to the emergency room in a neighboring county for a gunshot wound. The teen's name was not released because of his age.
The robbery occurred Tuesday afternoon at the Dollar General store on Pike Road. Cunningham said the suspect fled on foot but was confronted by a witness in a pickup truck who followed him. He said the 16-year-old shot several times at the driver, and the driver returned fire.
Video captured by a bystander showed a man running through a field and jumping over a fence in the suburban neighborhood while being pursued by the truck. Sporadic gunfire could be heard.
Cunningham played a portion of the video during a news conference Wednesday. A lengthier version was posted on social media.
The sheriff praised both the man who chased the suspect and the person who filmed the incident. Asked about the actions of the witness, Cunningham said the witness was “doing everything the safe way, but this person did not want witnesses."
“I'm just so thankful that the witness was able to do what he had to do to protect himself," the sheriff said.
He said the robbery suspect will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
“If you think you can get out in the community and you fire off rounds like that— like we’re in a war zone — we’re going to come get you and we’re going to put you away,” the sheriff said. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sheriff-Witness-robbery-suspect-exchange-17213622.php | 2022-06-02 00:26:05 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sheriff-Witness-robbery-suspect-exchange-17213622.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has picked a longtime government official and current top aide in the Transportation Department to serve as acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
The White House said Thursday that Polly Trottenberg replaced Billy Nolen, who indicated in April that he planned to leave the FAA.
Trottenberg held a high-ranking job in the Transportation Department during the Obama administration and has most recently been deputy to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. She headed the New York City Transportation Department from 2014 to 2020 and worked as a U.S. Senate aide and at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The FAA, which manages air traffic throughout the nation, has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since March of last year, when Stephen Dickson resigned halfway through his five-year term. Since then, the agency has faced understaffing of air traffic controllers, a technical outage that grounded flights nationwide in January, and several close calls between airline jets.
Biden’s nominee to replace Dickson withdrew this year when it became clear that he would not be confirmed. Republicans said Phil Washington lacked enough aviation experience to run the FAA.
The White House said the administration is conducting a national search for a new nominee. | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/biden-picks-longtime-transportation-official-as-acting-head-of-the-federal-aviation-administration/ | 2023-06-09 11:43:42 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/biden-picks-longtime-transportation-official-as-acting-head-of-the-federal-aviation-administration/ |
Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates ambitious entrepreneurs who are building bolder futures
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Concerto Biosciences today announced that Co-founder and CEO Cheri Ackerman has been selected by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 New England Award finalist.
Now in its 37th year, EY's Entrepreneur Of The Year is recognized as one of the preeminent competitive business awards for transformative entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies who are contributing to a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous world.
Entrepreneurs were evaluated based on their demonstration of building long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth, impact, and other contributions and attributes. Ackerman and other 2023 finalists were selected by an independent panel of judges.
"I am thrilled and honored to be recognized as a finalist for the prestigious Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 New England award, and I'm thankful for all the mentors, advisors, and colleagues who have supported my professional journey and Concerto's growth," said Cheri Ackerman, Co-founder and CEO of Concerto Biosciences. "This is a great opportunity to spotlight the groundbreaking work we're doing at Concerto. We're on a mission to revolutionize the way the world thinks about microbial communities, and I'm grateful to EY for acknowledging our efforts."
Concerto Biosciences is a biotechnology company exploring the microbial world with unmatched experimental depth to find breakthrough microbe-based products. Since launching in 2020, Concerto has measured over 6 million microbial interactions with the company's patented kChip ultra-high-throughput platform, and discovered a specific combination of microbes that may correct the microbial deficiency underlying atopic dermatitis. By partnering with other microbiome, agricultural, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical companies, Concerto endeavors to become the premier catalyst for the development of a new era of microbial products.
Concerto completed a $23 million Series A fundraise last November led by Safar Partners and joined by Horizons Ventures and M Ventures. Concerto is currently diversifying its foundational discovery platform, kChip, across industries as diverse as healthcare, agriculture, and household products.
"This recognition of Cheri Ackerman is so richly deserved by such a talented and inspiring company leader," said Jared Kehe, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Concerto Biosciences. "It is also strong validation of our dream to create a healthier world where microbial ecology enables advanced medicines and environmentally conscious agricultural practices."
EY's regional Entrepreneur Of The Year award winners will be announced on June 7, 2023. Those winners will then be considered by the National judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards, which will be presented in November at the annual Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation's most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award in June 2024.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized more than 11,000 entrepreneurs throughout the US since its inception in 1986, and it has grown to recognize business leaders across 145 cities in over 60 countries around the world.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world's most prestigious business awards program for unstoppable entrepreneurs. These visionary leaders deliver innovation, growth and prosperity that transform our world. The program engages entrepreneurs with insights and experiences that foster growth. It connects them with their peers to strengthen entrepreneurship around the world. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the first and only truly global awards program of its kind. It celebrates entrepreneurs through regional and national awards programs in more than 145 cities in over 60 countries. National Overall Award winners go on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ title. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.
About Concerto Biosciences
Concerto Biosciences explores the microbial world with unmatched experimental depth to find breakthrough microbe-based products. Natural microbial communities all around us are our inspiration: They can improve human health, enhance food quality, and boost crop yield. Creating products that harness these complex capabilities requires an unprecedented understanding of how microbial communities behave. Concerto therefore invented a kChip platform that physically constructs millions of miniature, defined microbial communities simultaneously. By observing the behavior of each community, Concerto learns which microbes, prebiotics, and metabolites drive the behavior of natural communities. In partnership with a diverse array of biotech and biopharma companies, Concerto develops these as products. In our first endeavor, Concerto constructed >6 million communities of skin-dwelling microbes to discover an eczema-alleviating "ensemble" of bacteria that pacifies pathogenic S. aureus. We have since initiated discovery projects in women's health, gut health, and agriculture. With its partners, Concerto is unleashing a new era of microbial research and a treasure trove of microbe-based products.
To learn more about Concerto Biosciences, visit www.concertobio.com.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia defended their vetoes of a strongly backed U.S. resolution that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea, speaking at a first of its kind General Assembly meeting Wednesday.
The debate was held under new rules requiring the General Assembly to examine any veto wielded in the Security Council by one of its five permanent members.
Close allies China and Russia reiterated their opposition to more sanctions, blaming the United States for rising tensions on the Korean peninsula and insisting that what’s needed now is dialogue between North Korea and the Biden administration.
Nearly 70 countries signed up to speak at the open meeting which General Assembly President Abdalla Shahid hailed as making the U.N. more efficient and accountable. “It is with good reason that it has been coined as `revolutionary’ by several world leaders I have recently met,” he said.
Denmark’s U.N. Ambassador Martin Bille Hermann told the 193-member world body as he started his address on behalf of the Nordic countries: “History is being made today.”
The Security Council is entrusted with ensuring international peace and security, he said, and the use of a veto to prevent the council from discharging its duties “is a matter of great concern.”
The General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution on April 26 requiring a debate on the issue not only gives the country or countries casting a veto to explain their reason but it gives all U.N. member nations “a welcome opportunity to share our views on the matter at hand,” Hermann said.
A united Security Council imposed sanctions after North Korea’s first nuclear test explosion in 2006 and tightened them over the years in a total of 10 resolutions seeking — so far unsuccessfully — to rein in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and cut off funding.
The 13-2 Security Council vote on May 26 marked a first serious division among its five veto-wielding permanent members — China, Russia, United States, Britain and France — on a North Korea sanctions resolution.
On Sunday, North Korea fired eight short-range missiles in what appeared to be a single-day record for the country’s ballistic launches. It was the reclusive north Asian country’s 18th round of missile tests in 2022 that included its first launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles in nearly five years.
U.S. deputy ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis told the assembly the record number of launches have taken place as North Korea “is finalizing preparations for a potential seventh nuclear test.”
He called the actions by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK — the country’s official name — “unprovoked.”
De Laurentis stressed that U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken “have repeatedly and publicly said that we seek a dialogue with Pyongyang, without preconditions,” and that message has been passed through private channels, including China.
“The United States is more than prepared to discuss easing sanctions to achieve the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” he said.
Unfortunately, DeLaurentis said, the DPRK has only responded with “destabilizing launches that threaten not only the region but the world.”
Under the General Assembly resolution that required Wednesday’s meeting, the permanent member or members casting a veto are given precedence on the speakers list.
China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun addressed diplomats first, accusing the United States of ignoring positive steps taken by the DPRK and returning to its “old path” of “chanting empty slogans for dialogue and increasing sanctions against the DPRK.”
This has intensified “the DPRK distrust of the U.S.” and brought talks “to a complete deadlock,” he said.
Zhang blamed “the flip-flop of U.S. policies,” its failure to implement results of the DPRK-U.S. dialogue during the Trump administration, and its disregard for the North’s “reasonable concerns” for tensions on the peninsula today.
“Where the situation goes from here will depend to a large extent on the actions of the U.S.,” he said, “and the key lies in whether the U.S. can face up to the crux of the problem, demonstrate a reasonable attitude, and take meaningful concrete actions.”
Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador Anna Evstigneeva said new sanctions against the DPRK “would be a dead end,” stressing that current U.N. sanctions have failed to guarantee security in the region “nor moved us any further toward settling the nuclear missile non-proliferation issues.”
“Anyone who is seriously addressing the North Korean problem has long understood that it’s futile to expect Pyongyang to unconditionally disarm under the threat of a spiral of sanctions,” she said. “The creation of new military blocs in the regions such as the formation of the U.S.-Great Britain and Australia casts serious doubt on the good intentions of these countries,” including in Pyongyang.
North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Kim Song denounced all U.N. sanctions and the proposed U.S. resolution as “illegal,” saying they violate the U.N. Charter and his country’s right to self-defense to prepare for any potential security crisis on the Korean peninsula and in the region.
Modernizing the DPRK’s armaments is essential, he said, to safeguard North Korea’s interests “from direct threat of the United States,” which he insisted has made no move “to abandon its hostile policy.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/china-and-russia-defend-north-korea-vetoes-in-first-at-un/ | 2022-06-09 09:12:26 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/china-and-russia-defend-north-korea-vetoes-in-first-at-un/ |
PepsiCo raised its full-year revenue and earnings forecast Wednesday after stronger-than-expected third quarter sales driven by higher prices.
The Purchase, New York-based snack and drink maker said its sales volumes were down 1% from the July-September period a year ago. But pricing surged 17% as the company tried to recoup double-digit price increases for raw ingredients as well as higher spending on transportation.
PepsiCo said higher prices don’t seem to be deterring customers, who consider brands like Frito-Lay and Cheetos an affordable treat.
“We are carefully watching what happens with the consumer. We obviously exited the third quarter with the consumer still very healthy in terms of our particular categories,” PepsiCo Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston said Wednesday during a conference call with investors. “I’m not sure that’s true broadly with housing and other big ticket purchases”
Broader U.S. grocery prices continued to rise during the third quarter. They have soared 13.5% over the past year, the largest 12-month increase since 1979.
Johnston noted that even with the higher prices, PepsiCo’s gross margins fell due to rising costs. The company also spend more on advertising, including a double-digit increase in marketing for Frito-Lay.
PepsiCo said it now expects full-year organic revenue __ which strips out the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange rates __ to rise 12%, up from 10% previously. The company said it expects earnings per share to rise 10%, from 8% previously.
PepsiCo Inc. shares rose 4% to $169.11 in morning trading.
The company said third-quarter revenue grew 9% to $21.97 billion. That was higher than the $21 billion Wall Street expected, according to analysts polled by FactSet.
Net income rose 21% to $2.7 billion. Excluding one-time items, such as a manufacturing shutdown in Russia, the company earned $1.97 per share. That also beat Wall Street’s forecast of $1.84. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/pepsico-raises-forecasts-after-q3-boosted-by-higher-prices/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-10-12 16:17:59 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/pepsico-raises-forecasts-after-q3-boosted-by-higher-prices/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
D. Keith Grossman to be Appointed as Executive Chairman
Company Announces Preliminary, Unaudited Worldwide Revenue for First Quarter of 2023 of $96.3 Million and Reaffirms Full-Year 2023 Revenue and Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA Guidance
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nevro Corp. (NYSE: NVRO), a global medical device company that is delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions for the treatment of chronic pain, today announced that Kevin Thornal has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of Nevro, effective April 24, 2023, and will also be appointed to the Board of Directors. Mr. Thornal succeeds D. Keith Grossman, who is retiring as Chief Executive Officer and President, also effective April 24, 2023. Mr. Grossman will be appointed to serve as Executive Chairman. The company also announced its preliminary, unaudited revenue for the first quarter of 2023 and reaffirmed its full-year 2023 guidance provided on February 16, 2023.
"On behalf of the Board and our entire company, I am excited to welcome Kevin to the Nevro team," said D. Keith Grossman, Chairman, CEO and President of Nevro. "Throughout his career, Kevin has established an excellent track record of leading medical technology businesses that deliver strong growth and commercial excellence. Kevin is an impressive rising leader in our industry and is an ideal fit in every way with where Nevro is today and where we believe it can go in the future. It's been a great privilege to lead this company over the past four years and extremely rewarding to work alongside the talented and dedicated individuals who are committed to Nevro's vision, mission and values. I look forward to a smooth transition and to working to support Kevin and his team as Executive Chairman."
Mr. Thornal, 49, is a seasoned leader with 20 years of senior management experience, including nearly nine years at Hologic, Inc., where he most recently served as Group President, Global Diagnostic Solutions, since April 2022. Under Kevin's leadership, this group of businesses delivered above-market revenue growth rates, achieving about $2.9 billion in worldwide diagnostics sales including the impact of COVID testing revenue. Mr. Thornal joined Hologic in 2014 as Vice President, Customer Experience, Field Service and Clinical Applications for the Breast and Skeletal Health division. He transitioned to Vice President, Breast and Skeletal Health for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region in early 2016, and was promoted to President, Medical Aesthetics in July 2017. In July 2019, he was promoted to President, Diagnostic Solutions where he led the division during the COVID-19 pandemic, rapidly launching three highly accurate molecular diagnostic COVID-19 tests in the fight against the global pandemic, and leading multiple acquisitions. Prior to Hologic, he held various roles of increasing responsibility at Stryker from 2004 to 2014 in sales, marketing and business development. Mr. Thornal received a BA in History, with minors in English and Secondary Education, from Southern Methodist University.
"I am delighted to join Nevro at this exciting time and look forward to furthering its mission of delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment," said Mr. Thornal. "Keith and the Nevro team have built a powerful platform for Nevro's future. I am proud to join this talented team and am committed to further advancing Nevro's vision and strategy and to delivering attractive returns to our shareholders."
"On behalf of the entire Nevro Board, I would like to thank Keith for his leadership and commitment to the company over the last four years as President and CEO," said Michael DeMane, Lead Director of Nevro. "Keith guided the company through a challenging period in our industry and has built a strong strategy and foundation for the company's future growth. We are pleased that he will continue to serve as our Executive Chairman and look forward to his continued leadership on the Board."
Preliminary, Unaudited First Quarter 2023 Revenue and Full-Year 2023 Guidance
Preliminary, unaudited first quarter 2023 worldwide revenue is expected to be approximately $96.3 million, an increase of 10% as reported and 11% on a constant currency basis compared to the first quarter of 2022. Worldwide PDN indication sales are expected to represent approximately $15.6 million in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 160% compared to the first quarter of 2022. Preliminary, unaudited first quarter 2023 U.S. revenue is expected to be approximately $82.3 million, reflecting growth of 12% over the first quarter of 2022.
The company reaffirmed its full-year 2023 worldwide revenue guidance of approximately $445 million to $455 million and its full-year 2023 non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA guidance of a loss of approximately $5 million to $10 million.
Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA excludes interest, taxes, and non-cash items such as stock-based compensation and depreciation and amortization, as well as litigation-related expenses, certain litigation charges and credits and other adjustments such as restructuring charges. Please see financial table for GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation.
Nevro plans to report its full financial results and provide more detail for its first quarter 2023 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, to be followed by its quarterly conference call at 1:30 pm Pacific Time that day.
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Nevro routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the "Investor Relations" section of its website at www.nevro.com. The company encourages investors and potential investors to consult the Nevro website regularly for important information about Nevro.
About Nevro
Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Nevro is a global medical device company focused on delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment. The company started with a simple mission to help more patients suffering from debilitating pain and developed its proprietary 10 kHz Therapy™, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic innovation that has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 patients globally. Nevro's comprehensive HFX™ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) platform includes a Senza SCS system and support services for the treatment of chronic pain of the trunk and limb and painful diabetic neuropathy.
Senza®, Senza II®, Senza Omnia™, and HFX iQ™ are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro's proprietary 10 kHz Therapy™. Nevro's unique support services provide every patient with an HFX Coach™ throughout their pain relief journey and every physician with HFX Cloud™ insights for enhanced patient and practice management.
SENZA, SENZA II, SENZA OMNIA, OMNIA, HF10, the HF10 logo, 10 kHz Therapy, HFX, the HFX logo, HFX iQ, the HFX iQ logo, HFX Algorithm, HFX CONNECT, the HFX Connect logo, HFX ACCESS, the HFX Access logo, HFX COACH, the HFX Coach logo, HFX CLOUD, the HFX Cloud logo, RELIEF MULTIPLIED, the X logo, NEVRO, and the NEVRO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nevro Corp. Patents covering Senza HFX iQ and other Nevro products are listed at Nevro.com/patents.
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Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements reflecting the company's current beliefs and expectations of management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to: our preliminary, unaudited first quarter 2023 revenue, full-year 2023 financial guidance and statements regarding our future growth or potential. These forward-looking statements are based upon information that is currently available to us or our current expectations, speak only as of the date hereof, and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including our ability to successfully commercialize our products; our ability to manufacture our products to meet demand; the level and availability of third-party payor reimbursement for our products; our ability to effectively manage our anticipated growth and the costs and expenses of operating our business; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary technologies; our ability to operate our business without infringing the intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties; competition in our industry; additional capital and credit availability; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; and product liability claims. These factors, together with those that are described in greater detail in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 21, 2023, as well as any reports that we may file with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the future, may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by our forward-looking statements. We expressly disclaim any obligation, except as required by law, or undertaking to update or revise any such forward-looking statements.
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GAAP to Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation
(unaudited)
(in thousands)
The following table presents a reconciliation of GAAP net income (loss), as prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), to Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure.
Reconciliation of guidance:
Management uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, most specifically Adjusted EBITDA, as a supplement to GAAP financial measures to further evaluate the company's operating performance period over period, analyze the underlying business trends, assess performance relative to competitors and establish operational objectives.
Management believes it is important to provide investors with the same non-GAAP metrics it uses to evaluate the performance and underlying trends of the company's business operations to facilitate comparisons to its historical operating results and evaluate the effectiveness of its operating strategies. Disclosure of these non-GAAP financial measures also facilitates comparisons of the company's underlying operating performance with other companies in the industry that also supplement their GAAP results with non-GAAP financial measures.
EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure, which is calculated by adding interest income and expense, net; provision for income taxes; and depreciation and amortization to net income. In calculating non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA, the company further adjusts for the following items:
- Stock-based compensation expense – The company excludes non-cash costs related to the company's stock-based plans, which include stock options, restricted stock units and performance-based restricted stock units as these expenses do not require cash settlement from the company.
- Certain litigation charges (credits) – The company excludes certain non-recurring litigation charges (credits) associated with patent litigation legal judgement and settlement, which management considers not related to the underlying operating performance of the business.
- Litigation-related expenses – The company excludes legal and professional fees as well as charges and credits associated with certain legal matters, which management considers not related to the underlying operating performance of the business.
- Restructuring charges – The company excludes charges incurred as a direct result of restructuring programs, such as salaries and other compensation-related expenses.
Full-year guidance excludes the impact of foreign currency fluctuations.
The non-GAAP financial measure should not be considered in isolation from, or as a replacement for, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, as it is not prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Amounts may not add due to rounding.
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The victim is 20-year-old Eden Perry, who had a history of shoplifting and sketchy boyfriends, though she had recently started working as live-in help for an older couple, “country-club types,” who are distant relatives. Eden’s mother, Danielle, agreed to the arrangement so that she could get a needed a break from her good-hearted but turbulent daughter. But after Eden’s death, Danielle finds out that her daughter had buddied up to some of the local high school students by throwing parties when her employers were away. On the night of the murder, three of these kids were with Eden.
The police immediately focus on Christopher Mahoun, whose father, Lebanese immigrant Michel, runs a fancy restaurant in town. Christopher had an unreciprocated crush on Eden, and he admits to staying with her after the other two teens, Jack Parrish and Hannah Holt, had left. But Jack and Hannah are hiding something about that night as well — indeed, it seems that everyone in Emerson possesses a guilty secret, bears the scars of a past emotional trauma, or both. They don’t devolve into caricatures because, as in his previous books, Amidon creates fully fleshed characters who are by no means admirable, or even especially likable, but always recognizably human.
He expertly unfolds his tale through five sets of anxious adult eyes, opening with an unwitting witness to the murder’s aftermath who hesitates about going to the police because he wasn’t exactly sober at the time. Patrick, in the process of drinking himself out of his job at a wealth management firm, connects with Danielle through their shared grief; his daughter died two years earlier from drugs, and he still hears her voice speaking to him. Danielle provides an outsider’s view of Emerson to supplement the accounts of Hannah’s stepmother, Alice, and Jack’s mother, Celia, insider’s wives and best friends at the outset who fall out bitterly when Alice concludes that it’s Jack, not Christopher, who killed Eden. Alice has never been pleased about Hannah dating Jack, particularly after learning that his parents had paid off a previous girlfriend who accused him of getting rough with her.
Celia’s husband, Oliver, is one of Emerson’s wealthiest and most powerful men, and when he learns that Alice is accusing their son he exacts ruthless revenge, exposing her party-girl past and an ongoing affair with Michel that blows up her marriage to Hannah’s father. Celia justifies this by telling herself they must protect Jack, doing her best to suppress discomfiting memories of her son’s unsettled inner life. Michel provides the fifth point of view, slowly realizing how tenuous his position in Emerson actually is as it becomes increasingly clear his son is going to be charged with murder.
“Michel, let me explain something to you,” says Christopher’s lawyer. “A white girl just got killed in a three-million-dollar house in a place where there’s one murder a decade. Somebody’s going to have to be guilty of this, and quickly. The only mysteries these people allow are the ones they control.”
Racist social media comments about Christopher make it clear that, although he is the son of a French-educated Maronite Catholic, he might as well be a Muslim terrorist as far as Emerson is concerned; a Brown boy makes a much more attractive culprit than a White scion of privilege. But Christopher has secrets too, and Amidon provides twist after twist as the revelations about what really happened that night grow more sordid and sad. He whipsaws readers’ suspicions among characters while deftly planting clues to the actual killer in plain sight.
Yes, we do find out whodunit — and it’s a great aha! moment — but that doesn’t necessarily mean the perpetrator will be caught or punished. Amidon’s decidedly bleak denouement sends several characters to grim destinies they only partly deserve and shows justice definitely not being served. A touching final scene, seasoned with a dash of mysticism that comes as a surprise from a writer known for gritty realism, offers readers a ray of hope. It can’t entirely lighten the pervasive darkness with which Amidon has so skillfully blanketed Emerson and its inhabitants, but it reminds us that even flawed human beings are capable of surprising acts of generosity and redemption.
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Serena Williams loses first match since announcing retirement
Williams lost in two sets to Belinda Bencic
Serena Williams wore her game face when she stepped out into the stadium for her first match since telling the world she is ready to leave professional tennis.
Greeted by a standing ovation, the 23-time Grand Slam champion didn’t smile. She didn’t wave. She took a sip from a plastic bottle as she walked in. Some folks in the crowd captured the moment with the cameras on their cellphones. Others held aloft handrawn signs — oh, so many signs — with messages such as "Queen" or "Thank you."
No one knows exactly how many more matches Williams will play before she puts her rackets away for good, and the 40-year-old American exited the National Bank Open on Wednesday night with a 6-2, 6-4 loss to Belinda Bencic.
While there were some familiar fist pumps and yells of "Come on!" during competition, it was only afterward that Williams really allowed her feelings to show, her voice shaking and her eyes welling during an on-court interview when Bencic ceded the spotlight.
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"A lot of emotions, obviously," Williams told spectators who offered her encouragement throughout the clear, 75-degree evening.
The second-round match at the hard-court tuneup for the U.S. Open came a day after she announced "the countdown has begun" on her playing career, saying she wants to have another child and pursue business interests.
She did not state precisely what her last event will be, but did make it sound as if her final farewell will come at the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 29 in New York. Williams has won the singles title at Flushing Meadows a half-dozen times — first in 1999; most recently in 2014 — to go along with seven championships apiece at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, plus three at the French Open.
"It’s been a pretty interesting 24 hours," Williams said after Wednesday’s match.
"I’m terrible at goodbyes," she added, her hand on her chest, "but goodbye, Toronto!"
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Next up on her schedule is the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati next week, another event that serves as preparation for the year's last Grand Slam tournament.
Williams, a three-time champion in Canada, started this match, fittingly enough, with an ace. Delivered another later in that game, too, showing off the superb serve that helped her to so many match victories, so many tournament titles, so many weeks at No. 1 in the rankings.
That elite ability showed up occasionally against Bencic, whether the trio of unreturnable serves to close out that opening game or a later putaway swinging volley accented with a shout and a tug on the brim of her white visor.
But because of a leg injury that sidelined her for the last half of 2021 and first half of 2022, she was playing for only the third time in the past 12 months. There were signs of that, as well, and of why Williams is no longer the dominant force she was for so long.
The breaks of her serve that were never quite so frequent when she was younger and at the height of her powers. The not-quite-on-target groundstrokes. The inability to offer up too much resistance while receiving serve; she only earned one break point in the first set, missing a return long to fritter away that chance, and none in the second.
"I wish I could have played better," Williams said, "but Belinda played so well today."
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It did not help Williams that she was facing an opponent 15 years her junior and quite talented, to boot: Bencic is ranked 12th, won a gold medal for Switzerland at the Tokyo Olympics last year and has been a Grand Slam semifinalist.
"It's always an honor to be on the court with her," Bencic said, "and that's why I think tonight is about her."
Bencic took home the Toronto trophy at age 18 in 2015, when she eliminated Williams in the semifinals to earn the distinction of being the youngest woman to beat a player many consider, as one homemade poster in the stands declared Wednesday, the "GOAT" — the greatest of all-time.
In the late match, Bianca Andreescu — the final Canadian left in the singles draw — beat Alize Cornet 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Andreescu won the tournament in 2019 when Williams retired in the final match because of back problems.
Bencic advanced to face two-time major champion Garbiñe Muguruza, who beat Kaia Kanepi 6-4, 6-4. Seeded players who left the draw Wednesday included No. 2 Anett Kontaveit, No. 4 Paula Badosa, No. 5 Ons Jabeur, No. 13 Leylah Fernandez and No. 16 Jelena Ostapenko.
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If there’s one person who is always fine it’s Tracee Ellis Ross. No matter if she’s your fashion goals, beauty goals, natural hair goals, body goals, or just all-around positive vibes goals, one thing we can all agree on is that she’s absolutely goals and now she’s finally letting us in on her secret to how she stays looking so good!
The actress took to Instagram earlier this week to share a compilation video of all of her intense workouts from the year and let’s just say that she’s definitely in perfect shape! The beauty shared highlights from her various workouts, which included cardio, weight training, strength conditioning, and more, all while looking good as she did it.
“A few of this year’s workouts. I ain’t f**kin around!” she captioned the intense video, and she’s certainly not playing around! Check it out below.
Talk about motivation! Is anybody else ready to adopt Tracee’s strict working discipline for 2023? Go, Tracee!
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Penn State prediction vs. Central Michigan: How will young guns handle growing spotlight?
Penn State will go as far as some of its young stars push them this fall.
Saturday will be a time for many of them to get another quality workout leading up to the biggest tests of the season.
Lots of Nittany Lions catching passes and running the football and making tackles. How else best to describe another scrimmage of sorts against a team from the Mid-American Conference? Things probably won't look much different against Central Michigan as they did two weeks earlier against Ohio University.
The Chippewas probably own a more balanced, competent offense but will still be outmanned and overmatched.
The best part of a day like this is how so many promising freshmen and sophomores should get early rotation work − guys Penn State needs to continue developing at this rapid pace to keep this team improving through the season's second half.
When the opponents become Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio State.
More work for promising receivers like Tre Wallace and Omari Evans, for safeties Jaylen Reed and Zakee Wheatley, for defensive linemen Zane Durant and Dani Dennis-Sutton.
For quarterback Drew Allar.
They will be needed for quality depth all season.
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More seasonsing, too, for running backs Nick Singleton and Kaytron Allen and linebackers Abdul Carter and Kobe King and defensive end Chop Robinson. They're playing big roles now. Can they all grow into standouts/stars over the next month?
While the veterans like sixth-year quarterback Sean Clifford will ultimately lead this team, those younger players will determine, truly, how far it will go.
So this is a different kind of non-conference outing as a four-touchdown favorite than in previous seasons. This won't be rare backup time rewards for little-used players with the hope of building depth.
This about providing the proper time for hopeful stars to blossom right in front of you.
For the "now," so to speak.
And Central Michigan should oblige enough with competition. Daniel Richardson is one of the MAC's top quarterbacks and tailback Lew Nicholls III led the nation in rushing last year (1,848 yards, 16 TDs).
Enough work, then, to help get the Lions' youngest, most crucial players a little bit better yet.
Bodani's pick: Penn State 52, Central Michigan 17
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Moderna seeks FDA authorization for updated Covid-19 booster
By Carma Hassan and Brenda Goodman, CNN
Moderna submitted its application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of its updated Covid-19 vaccine booster for use in people age 18 and older the company said in a news release on Tuesday.
This updated formulation is a bivalent vaccine that will combine the original vaccine with one that targets Omicron sublineages BA.4 and BA.5, and would be administered as a 50 microgram dose.
The company says a phase 2/3 clinical trial on these boosters is now underway. The data they have submitted to the FDA comes from experiments in mice as well as data from humans using a different booster which was updated to protect against the BA.1 strain of Omicron.
“We have worked closely with the FDA to ensure that Americans will have access to Moderna’s updated, bivalent booster, which, if authorized, may offer higher, broader, and more durable protection against Covid-19 compared ot the currently authorized booster,” said Stephane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna.
The announcement comes one day after Pfizer and BioNTech said they submitted their application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their bivalent Covid-19 booster for use in people age 12 and older.
When could shots be available?
White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said recently the updated boosters should be available to the public early- to mid-September, but it is ultimately up to the FDA as to when the shot will get the greenlight.
“FDA will be using the totality of the available evidence to authorize the fall bivalent boosters,” FDA spokesperson Abigail Capobianco said in a statement emailed to CNN last week. “There are data on many millions of individuals who have received the prototype component as a booster. As for the BA.4/5 component, a combination of nonclinical data obtained in mice, data from prior variant vaccines (including those to beta, delta, and omicron BA.1), along with our extensive knowledge of the safety and efficacy of the mRNA platforms will be used for this decision-making.”
The booster dose “elicited potent neutralizing antibody responses against the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in all participants regardless of prior infection,” according to data previously released by Moderna in June.
The FDA will now evaluate Moderna’s data, but hasn’t said whether it will convene its vaccine advisers before making a decision on authorization. Such a step could push back when shots can be administered.
Production of the updated shots is already underway. The US government has purchased 105 million bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster doses from Pfizer, and another 66 million updated shots from Moderna.
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Dominating defense was the calling card of Pleasant Hill Southeast Polk as it shut out Davenport North 10-0 in Iowa high school baseball action on June 9.
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Brands need mature digital infrastructure to achieve solid hybrid marketing; SAS Customer Intelligence 360 a Leader
CARY, N.C., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cracking Tomorrow's CX Code, a recent survey from SAS and the CMO Council, found that 2 in 3 marketing leaders say it's very important to deliver hybrid customer experience (CX) to increase personalization, innovation and customer engagement. However, fewer than 1 in 7 marketers say they have the mature digital infrastructure to achieve this. According to The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Marketing Hubs, Q1 2023 "cross-channel marketing hubs (CCMHs) can help marketers overcome data and channel integration issues to consistently engage with customers in their moments of need" – and SAS® Customer Intelligence 360 is named a leader.
SAS received the top score in the current offering category in the evaluation. "For us, this translates as having the strongest CCMH product in the marketplace," said Jonathan Moran, Head of MarTech Solutions Marketing at SAS. "We believe this, combined with the fact that SAS's "robust CCMH delivers on its vision," cements SAS as a vendor that sets forth product priorities and goals and actively meets those goals in a timely manner to deliver a best-in-class offering".
According to the report, "SAS excels at insights-driven customer understanding." It goes on to say that SAS' "robust CCMH delivers on its vision of elevating CX and organizational efficiencies through complete customer understanding, which aligns well with its broader business focus on analytical decision-making."
SAS Customer Intelligence 360 was the only solution to receive a 5/5 score in both the customer data management and measurement and optimization criteria. SAS also received the highest scores possible in the criteria of:
- Localization and global access
- Market approach
- Supporting products and services
Forrester wrote "SAS delivers a highly scalable solution and expert services for enterprises that require analytically driven marketing tools customized to complex business objectives."
"SAS is extremely proud to be named a leader in this evaluation as it transitions from campaign management to marketing hubs," added Moran. "As organizations move to delivering personalized experiences triggered by customer behavior, SAS is very well positioned to assist them in this journey. And that spans everything from data management to audience creation to customer journey orchestration and measurement."
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
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DETROIT (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of randomly killing three people on Detroit streets over roughly two hours may have been emboldened when he didn’t encounter police after the first shooting, the mayor said Monday.
The victims included a single mother of five children who was waiting for a bus Sunday. Lari Brisco was planning to move this week to a suburb closer to her job as a medical assistant at an allergy clinic.
“You never expect gun violence to hit close to home. You always hear about shootings, but it’s never someone you know until it is,” said her boss, Dr. Kathleen Dass.
Police still were sorting out details while a suspect who may have a mental illness remained in custody. The man was peacefully arrested at home after a 12-hour search Sunday, following a tip from someone close to him.
He “terrorized our community,” Chief James White said.
Mayor Mike Duggan said no one called 911 when the first victim, a 28-year-old man, was shot before dawn, less than two miles from a police station.
“At 4:45 on a Sunday morning, not a lot of people are up. Some people might have thought they were hearing firecrackers,” Duggan said. “I think there’s a strong probability he expected to get caught. … And then 35 minutes later he shoots and kills a second individual and proceeds from there.”
The first incident occurred at 4:45 a.m. The suspect shot a man without provocation, walked away and then returned to fire more shots, White said.
About 30 minutes later and three blocks away, police got their first 911 call for a woman in her 40s shot on a sidewalk. Brisco, 43, was the third victim, shot multiple times while waiting for a bus a short distance away.
Dass said her clinic had planned to give Brisco a cake to celebrate her move to a new home.
“My patients loved her because she treated them all like they were her family,” the doctor said.
A fourth shooting occurred at 7:10 a.m. while an 80-year-old man was walking his dog, said Michael McGinnis, major crimes commander. He survived.
A gun found by police matched the bullet casings at the shooting scenes, McGinnis said.
Bishop Daryl Harris of Total Life Christian Ministries said he could “feel the panic” in his congregation when he informed people that an active shooter was at large Sunday.
“Many of our members were distraught as they ran out of the sanctuary to try to call their loved ones and families,” he said.
Duggan described the victims as “innocent people going about their lives on a Sunday morning.”
He lamented that Detroit has limited use of ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detection technology. It’s used in some precincts but not in the area where the shootings occurred. The City Council in June postponed a vote on expansion.
“Every single detective who came to the command center said the same thing: If we had had ShotSpotter, there was an excellent chance we would have arrested him by five in the morning,” the mayor said.
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Cappelletti reported from Lansing.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Aritzia Inc. ("Aritzia" or the "Company") (TSX: ATZ) today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has accepted its notice of intention to proceed with a normal course issuer bid ("NCIB").
Aritzia's Board of Directors believes that an NCIB represents an appropriate and desirable use of its available cash, after prioritizing investments in boutiques and strategic infrastructure, to increase shareholder value and is in the best interest of Aritzia and its shareholders. As at November 27, 2022, the Company had approximately $131.9 million of cash and cash equivalents. Any purchases made under the NCIB will be made by Aritzia subject to favourable market conditions at the prevailing market price at the time of acquisition through the facilities of the TSX and/or alternative Canadian trading systems.
Pursuant to the notice, Aritzia may purchase up to 3,860,745 of its subordinate voting shares ("Shares"), representing approximately 5% of the public float of 77,214,916 Shares, during the twelve-month period commencing January 20, 2023 and ending January 19, 2024. As at January 12, 2023, there were 89,843,643 Shares issued and outstanding. Under the NCIB, other than purchases made under block purchase exemptions, Aritzia may purchase up to 82,277 Shares on the TSX during any trading day, which represents approximately 25% of the average daily trading volume on the TSX for the most recently completed six calendar months (being 329,109 Shares) prior to the TSX's acceptance of the notice of the NCIB. Any Shares purchased under the NCIB will be cancelled.
Although the Company presently intends to purchase Shares under its NCIB, there can be no assurances that any such purchases will be completed. Any purchases made under the normal course issuer bid will be made by Aritzia at the prevailing market price at the time of acquisition and through the facilities of the TSX or alternative Canadian trading systems, as applicable. The Company may rely on an automatic purchase plan during the NCIB. The automatic purchase plan would allow for purchases by the Company of Shares during certain pre-determined blackout periods, subject to certain parameters and approval of the TSX.
Pursuant to the Company's previous notice of intention to conduct an NCIB, the Company sought and received approval from the TSX to purchase up to 3,732,725 of its Shares for the period from January 17, 2022 to January 16, 2023. The Company repurchased a total of 1,783,780 Shares on the market for cancellation at a volume weighted average price of $38.77 per Share for total cash consideration of $69.2 million under that prior bid.
Aritzia is a vertically integrated design house with an innovative global platform, home to an extensive portfolio of exclusive brands for every function and individual aesthetic. We're about good design, quality materials, and timeless style that endures and inspires — all with the wellbeing of our People and Planet in mind. We call this Everyday Luxury.
Founded in 1984, in Vancouver, Canada, we create and curate products that are both beautiful and beautifully made, cultivate aspirational environments, offer engaging service that delights, and connect through captivating communications. We pride ourselves on providing immersive and highly personal shopping experiences at aritzia.com and in our 100+ boutiques throughout North America to everyone, everywhere.
Everyday Luxury. To elevate your world.TM
Certain statements made in this press release may constitute forward-looking information under applicable securities laws, including statements related to the Company's NCIB, investments in boutiques and strategic infrastructure, future purchases of Shares pursuant to the NCIB and potential use of an automatic share purchase plan. Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, targets, performance achievements, prospects or opportunities is forward-looking information. Often but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "believe", "estimate", "plan", "could", "should", "would", "outlook", "forecast", "anticipate", "foresee", "continue" or the negative of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent our expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events or circumstances.
Given this unprecedented period of uncertainty, there can be no assurances regarding: (a) the limitations or restrictions that may be placed on servicing our clients in reopened boutiques or potential re-closing of boutiques; (b) the COVID-19-related impacts on Aritzia's business, operations, supply chain performance and growth strategies; (c) Aritzia's ability to mitigate such impacts, including ongoing measures to enhance short-term liquidity, contain costs and safeguard the business; (d) general economic conditions related to COVID-19 and impacts to consumer discretionary spending and shopping habits; (e) credit, market, currency, interest rates, operational, and liquidity risks generally; (f) geopolitical events; and (g) other risks inherent to Aritzia's business and/or factors beyond its control which could have a material adverse effect on the Company.
Many factors could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements or future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's annual information form dated May 5, 2022 for the fiscal year ended February 27, 2022 (the "AIF"). A copy of the AIF and the Company's other publicly filed documents can be accessed under the Company's profile on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") at www.sedar.com.
The Company cautions that the list of risk factors and uncertainties described in the AIF is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect its results. Readers are urged to consider the risks, uncertainties and assumptions carefully in evaluating the forward-looking information and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. The forward-looking information contained in this press release represents our expectations as of the date of this press release (or as the date they are otherwise stated to be made), and are subject to change after such date. However, we disclaim any intention or obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities laws.
The TSX has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this statement.
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Bryan firefighters recognized for heroic efforts while responding to house fire
While the victim later passed away at a hospital, crews are still being praised for their lifesaving efforts.
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Several Bryan firefighters were recently recognized by the 100 Club for their bravery in pulling a woman out of a burning home last year.
The fire happened in January 2022 on Carter Creek Parkway and firefighters worked together to get the victim out of the house.
While the victim later passed away at a hospital, crews are still being praised for their lifesaving efforts.
“I believe that their efforts helped extend the victim’s chance of survival due to amazing interventions while en route to the hospital,” said Battalion Chief Brian Casto.
“The victim was transported to the nearest hospital where she succumbed to injuries shortly thereafter. Engine 2 and Truck 1 were able to make the grab and give the victim a chance at survival because of the collective team effort of all personnel on the scene. I want to recognize the members of Engine 2 and Truck 1 for their brave and courageous actions,” said Chief Casto.
If you have a first responder that deserves recognition, please send us their information to the First Responders Salute presented by Waltman Grisham. They can be featured on KBTX Tuesday nights at 10 pm.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ari Aster really doesn’t want to talk about “Beau Is Afraid.”
“This is so not the right thing,” he laughed anxiously during a recent press day for his new film. “I shouldn’t be talking about this movie for another 10 years.”
But, alas, the insatiable publicity machine demands Aster feed it something now, undeterred by the director’s protestations, as his three-hour epic of biblical proportions hits theaters on Friday.
“I wish I could just recede as far as possible and have the film just live on its own without any baggage that I’m inadvertently saddling onto it,” he said, aware of the awkward position his reticence puts an interviewer in. “I just want to throw up even hearing myself right now,” he added sheepishly.
Aster’s point is a sympathetic one. “Beau Is Afraid” really is one of those movies best seen with minimal prior knowledge of what you are walking into, aside from the fact that it is three hours of chaos, anxiety and terror.
The movie, a version of which Aster wrote shortly after graduating from the American Film Institute, is clearly a personal project. And while “Beau Is Afraid” is his most labyrinthine feature to date, Aster maintains he ultimately wants people to enjoy it.
“I made something for an audience. I hope that it is exciting and fun and, you know, makes people feel things,” he said, although he acknowledged that he is “prepared for people not knowing quite what to make of it.”
Critics and journalists have thrown out the names of every erudite-sounding auteur they can think in their attempts to describe this movie’s influences: Voltaire, Kafka, Charlie Kaufman, David Lynch. But, taken together, what do those comparisons even communicate about the movie besides that it is absurd?
Without giving more away than what is in the trailer, which itself does a poor job of capturing the kind of movie it advertises, “Beau Is Afraid” follows its sympathetic title character (Joaquin Phoenix) on a desperate journey to get to his mother’s house.
It is billed as Aster’s third horror feature, following the successes of “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” both widely recognized as movies that elevated the current state of the genre. Although decidedly less scary than Aster’s first two films, “Beau Is Afraid” does feel like the final frontier in the director’s conquest of scary movies.
While “Hereditary” was a chilling supernatural story of the demonic, “Midsommar” swung the pendulum the other way, following anthropology students who find themselves in a nightmare devoid of the paranormal and instead driven by human-created terrors.
“Beau Is Afraid” then feels like it lands somewhere in the middle, making it impossible to know whether the fear-inducing aspects of the film are real or in Beau’s head, demonstrating the ways in which we are at the mercy of our fragile brains. Even if the monsters Beau encounters are not an accurate reflection of his metaphysical reality, does that make them any less real?
Aster said he does not put that much thought into the categories his movies fit into, and that the genres ultimately ascribed to them have little to no bearing on his creative process.
“I try to stave them off as far as I can. And then in the end, the boxes they’re put into are boxes that they naturally land in because you have to market the film,” he said. “Over time, it ends up as this thing that is more or less different from whatever was made or whatever the spirit was that it was made in, because that’s the necessary next step.”
As a testament to how averse Aster is to boxes, the director recently revealed that horror wasn’t his first choice when he set out to make his feature directorial debut, much to the dismay of scary movie lovers across the internet.
“Somebody asked me, ‘So, you’re a horror filmmaker?’ And I, for some reason, bristled at that because I knew I wanted to make other kinds of films,” he recalled.
In hindsight, he revealed, those comments may have been an overcorrection.
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A North Carolina-based coffee chain which employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is coming to Birmingham.
Bitty & Beau’s Coffee will open a location at 1625 Oxmoor Rd. later this year, according to the company’s Facebook page.
The company, founded in 2016 in Wilmington, N.C., is the brainchild of a couple, Amy and Ben Wright. The store takes its name from their two children diagnosed with Down syndrome.
It now has 24 locations in 12 states and employs more than 400 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, according to the company.
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LINKÖPING, Sweden, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) is initiating a new business unit to drive innovation and product development within the area of genomics. In the future, Sectra's enterprise diagnostic IT platform will be extended to efficiently handle genomics information—a further step in Sectra's drive towards integrated diagnostics. This multidisciplinary approach is particularly important in cancer care.
"Genetic information is becoming increasingly important in diagnostics and precision medicine, especially within cancer care. Investing in genomics fits perfectly with our long-term ambition to be the leader in diagnostics information technology and has the potential to significantly impact patient care," says Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO of Sectra.
Analysis of genetic information, genomics, is used in healthcare today to better understand and diagnose patients and to predict how an individual patient may react to different treatments. Individualized care based on genetic information is often referred to as precision medicine and is a rapidly growing field.
To leverage the possibilities of precision medicine and to cope with a dramatic increase in the volume of patient data, tomorrow's IT solutions for diagnostics need to provide healthcare providers with information across multiple specialties, including genomics, along with support for integrated diagnostic workflows.
Sectra and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, based in Philadelphia, have initiated a collaboration to facilitate the development of an effective IT solution.
The new business unit is part of Sectra's operating area Business Innovation and is led by Fredrik Lysholm, Ph.D. in Bioinformatics.
The IT solution for genomic information will be part of Sectra's enterprise imaging solution, which provides a unified strategy for all imaging needs while lowering operational costs. The scalable and modular solution, with a VNA at its core, allows healthcare providers to grow from ology to ology and from enterprise to enterprise. Visit Sectra's website to read more about Sectra and why it's top-ranked in "Best in KLAS".
About Sectra
Sectra contributes to a healthier and safer society by assisting health systems throughout the world to enhance the efficiency of care, and authorities and defense forces in Europe to protect society's most sensitive information. The company, founded in 1978, is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with direct sales in 19 countries, and distribution partners worldwide. Sales in the 2021/2022 fiscal year totaled SEK 1,949 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. For more information, visit Sectra's website.
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MARTIN, Tenn. (AP)Jordan Sears had 20 points in UT Martin’s 80-79 victory against Prairie View A&M on Sunday night.
Sears scored the winning basket with 1:29 to go. From there, Prairie View missed two shots before failing to get off a final shot after UT Martin had a turnover and missed two free throws on its last two possessions.
Sears shot 5 for 10 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 9 of 11 from the free throw line for the Skyhawks (3-3). Parker Stewart scored 19 points and added five rebounds. KK Curry shot 6 of 9 from the field and 3 for 3 from the line to finish with 15 points.
The Panthers (3-1) were led by William Douglas, who posted 22 points, six rebounds, six assists and six steals. Prairie View A&M also got 19 points from Jeremiah Gambrell. In addition, Kortrijk Miles finished with 16 points, two steals and two blocks.
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Approximately Half of the Planned Number of Subjects Have Received the First Dose, With No Reported Serious Adverse Events
Study Progressing On Schedule
Topline Results Expected Later This Year
TREVOSE, Pa., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lannett Company, Inc. (NYSE: LCI) today provided an update on its ongoing pivotal clinical trial of biosimilar insulin glargine, a product the company is co-developing with its strategic alliance partners within the HEC Group of companies (HEC).
"We are pleased to report that to date approximately one half of the planned number of subjects in the study have received the first of two doses in the healthy volunteer pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) study of Lannett/HEC's biosimilar insulin glargine. In addition, approximately one third of the subjects have received a second dose," said Tim Crew, chief executive officer of Lannett. "Importantly, no serious adverse events have been reported. The study remains on track and we continue to believe top line results of the study will be available toward the end of this calendar year."
Crew added that if the study is successful, the company anticipates filing the Biologics License Application (BLA) for a biosimilar and interchangeable insulin glargine to Sanofi's Lantus® Solostar in early 2023 and potentially launching the product in the first half of 2024. Biosimilar insulin glargine is the most significant opportunity in the company's current pipeline.
Lantus® is a registered trademark of Sanofi S.A.
About Lannett Company, Inc.:
Lannett Company, founded in 1942, develops, manufactures, packages, markets and distributes generic pharmaceutical products for a wide range of medical indications. For more information, visit the company's website at www.lannett.com.
This news release contains certain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events or future business performance. Any such statement, including, but not limited to, advancing the development of biosimilar insulin glargine, the outcome of the pivotal trial, as well as the timing and outcome of FDA approval and successfully commercializing the product, whether expressed or implied, is subject to market and other conditions, and subject to risks and uncertainties which can cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors which include, but are not limited to, the risk factors discussed in the Company's Form 10-K and other documents filed with the SEC from time to time, including the prospectus supplement related to the proposed offering to be filed with the SEC. These forward-looking statements represent the Company's judgment as of the date of this news release. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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Robert Jaffe Co., LLC
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Feds: Stop making marijuana edibles that look like kids’ snacks
The federal government issued a letter to companies that sell marijuana edibles telling them the packaging on their products are identical to kids' snacks.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration sent a letter Wednesday to six companies selling marijuana edible goods containing Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol also known as (THC) in packaging that is very similar to snacks and candy kids eat, including Doritos, Cheetos, and Nerds candy.
A letter was provided to Delta Munchies, LLC; Exclusive Hemp Farms; North Carolina Hemp Exchange, LLC; Dr. Smoke, LLC; Nikte’s Wholesale, LLC and The Haunted Vapor Room.
RELATED: Mom arrested after daughter allegedly brings THC-laced candy to school and shares it with classmates
Delta-8 THC is a psychoactive substance found in the Cannabis sativa plant and is one of more than 100 cannabinoids produced by the cannabis plant, according to the FDA.
"Marketing edible THC products that can be easily mistaken by children for regular foods is reckless and illegal," Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in an agency release. "Companies must ensure that their products are marketed safely and responsibly, especially when it comes to protecting the well-being of children."
Photo of Delta Munchies and DopeRope bites (Federal Trade Commission)
An example in the letter by the FTC says Dr. Smoke, LLC sells THC-infused Doritos that are marketed in packaging that is nearly the same as that of Doritos Nacho chips, including using the same red background, and the Doritos name and logo, the release notes.
RELATED: CBD vs. THC: What's the difference?
Dr. Smoke also sells THC-infused Cheetos in a bag identical to the Cheetos Crunchy Flamin’ Hot Cheese flavored snacks, including the use of the Chester Cheetah mascot, the letter states.
According to the letter, the advertising by the companies of these products could violate the FTC Act, which bans what the agency calls unfair or deceptive acts "in or affecting commerce, including practices that present unwarranted health or safety risks."
FTC officials gave the six companies 15 days to call them to share specific actions they will take to address the agency's concerns.
Additionally, the letter offers guidance for parents and outlines ways to protect their children from getting their hands on the edibles, including keeping cannabis edibles separate from other foods in the original packaging, child-proofing cabinets and drawers when storing these products, and closing the packaging after each use, and storing it in a safe location away from kids.
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Mother turns to social media as baby formula shortage grows
PHOENIX (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - One mother has discovered that finding the specific type of formula she needs for her infant son is becoming increasingly more difficult amid supply chain issues.
Arizona’s Family reports Jessica Contreras’ son Hartford, who is 6 months old, is dealing with medical issues that limit the type of formula he can use. Hartford has severe allergies and battles moderate eczema.
“Our routine consists of steroids twice a day, pretty much throughout his body,” Contreras said. “Two different types of steroids, moisturizing ointment a few times a day, daily allergy medicine, probiotics and bleach baths three to four times a week.”
The skin conditions have left Hartford with scabs, cuts and bruises all over his skin.
“We found out he was allergic to eggs and casein, which is a protein found in most mammals’ milk, cow’s milk and goat’s milk, so that was helpful because we found out the formula he was using had casein, which most formulas do,” Contreras said.
Contreras can’t breastfeed Hartford, so she turned to social media for help finding the right formula for her child.
“It was beyond what I ever imagined when I posted on Facebook. I really thought I was just asking my friends and family to keep an eye out when they went to the store,” Contreras said. “Within days, I had moms not only in Arizona but throughout the country offering to help me.”
Hartford now has enough formula for a few months, and Contreras acknowledges she is lucky.
“I purchased some formula on OfferUp, and I sent money to women throughout the country, and thankfully they returned formula, but that’s not always the case,” she said.
Contreras now hopes to pay it forward, already sending formula she will not be using to other moms in need.
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ATLANTA (AP) — During the 2022 midterm campaign, President Joe Biden steered clear of Georgia as Sen. Raphael Warnock, like many other battleground-state Democrats, sought to distance himself from the White House amid an inflationary economy and the president's lagging approval ratings.
Now, with Warnock having secured his first full term and Biden buoyed by Democrats' better-than-expected election results, the senator is welcoming the president back to Georgia and to America’s most famous Black church.
The president is set to speak Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist Church as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Biden and Warnock aides said the invitation was issued by the senator, who for 17-plus years has led the church where King once preached, and the White House billed Biden’s planned speech as a “sermon,” noting that he will become the first sitting U.S. president to speak as part of the church’s regular Sunday morning services.
Senior White House adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, said Biden will use his time in Warnock’s pulpit to “reflect on Dr. King’s life and legacy and ways we can go forward together.” She said he will cover a number of issues but will emphasize voting rights and related legislation that has languished on Capitol Hill during Biden’s first two years in office.
“The president has been very clear that voting, the right to vote, the access to vote is a core component of our democracy,” Bottoms said.
King, the civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 after he fueled passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, would have celebrated his 94th birthday on Sunday. Biden will follow his Ebenezer appearance by attending the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference on voting rights in Washington on Monday, the federal holiday that observes King’s birthday.
The president’s stop at Ebenezer is ostensibly an official trip, not a political one. But the timing stands out as the president tries to steady his footing after Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate how the president handled classified documents.
The move, which followed disclosures that some documents from Biden’s tenure as vice president were found at his Delaware residence and at a University of Pennsylvania office he used, complicates, at least politically, a federal inquiry of former President Donald Trump's own handling of classified documents. And it upends a run of victories for Biden, who had been enjoying a drop in inflation, an uptick in his approval ratings and the juxtaposition of a steady White House with a Republican House majority in disarray.
Biden’s chosen venue in Atlanta is especially notable as he looks toward a 2024 reelection campaign after a midterm cycle in which his political reach was so limited. Biden won Georgia in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes out of almost 5 million cast. Political observers expect Georgia to again be pivotal in the 2024 general election, joining Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona as critical battlegrounds.
“Georgia is a good first stop for the president ... it makes perfect sense,” said Quentin Fulks, who managed Warnock’s reelection bid and is among the names being bantered about for a top leadership post in Biden’s 2024 campaign.
Biden scored his narrow Georgia victory over Trump in 2020 by pairing strong Black turnout with a solid performance among moderate white voters who lean Republican but were disenchanted by Trump.
Biden depends on similar coalitions in the Great Lakes region, but Georgia stands out for its large Black electorate that makes the state critical in Democratic primary politics. It's so important, in fact, that Biden recommended that Georgia be included as an early voting state on the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating calendar. Atlanta, meanwhile, is a finalist for Democrats’ 2024 convention.
“We’ve shown that this will remain a winnable state for Democrats,” Fulks said. “It’s been done in a presidential, and now it’s been done in a midterm.”
Bottoms framed the visit more in terms of governing than campaigning but acknowledged the importance of in-person connections with Black leaders and activists in both. When Biden came to Georgia in early 2022 to deliver a speech on voting rights, some activists skipped the event, unhappy with the administration’s efforts to shore up the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court gutted key provisions a decade ago.
Bottoms said Biden planned to speak with civil rights leaders at the church. “There’s no better place to do that than at Ebenezer,” she said but offered no further details.
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said Biden has done a “good job” on civil and voting rights given a closely divided Senate.
Before January, the chamber was 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris providing Democrats a tiebreaking vote. By holding all incumbent seats in the midterms and flipping a GOP-held seat in Pennsylvania, Democrats now hold a 51-49 majority. But it takes 60 votes to move major legislation, including one of Democrats’ proposed voting laws named for the late Atlanta congressman John Lewis, one of Warnock’s parishioners, and Republicans simply aren’t on board with expanding federal power again over state-run elections.
“The Black community isn’t giving up,” Johnson said, crediting Biden with the use of executive orders intended to increase federal authority to ensure local jurisdictions protect voting access for minorities. “But we need policy change that only comes through Congress.”
Bottoms said Warnock and Biden had a “wonderful conversation” Thursday evening about the significance of their Sunday plans.
That’s a turnabout from the recent campaign, when Warnock would barely utter Biden’s name and even then mentioned the president only to remind voters how much he was pressuring Biden to keep his 2020 campaign promise to ease student loan burdens. Warnock celebrated Democratic achievements, including the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, without crediting Biden. When Warnock finally enlisted Biden’s help during a four-week runoff campaign, it was to headline a fundraiser — in Massachusetts, without Warnock in attendance.
Fulks said the president understood all along.
“No candidate can ever completely outrun the national environment, (and) there was no question when we started this race that Georgians wanted a Republican Senate,” he said, referring to the campaign's analysis of a likely Georgia midterm electorate.
“For us, it wasn’t so much, ‘Is President Biden popular?’ or ‘Is he not popular?’” Fulks continued. “It was keeping this race about Georgia and Sen. Warnock. That was the calculus.” | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Biden-welcomed-back-to-Georgia-after-laying-low-17717511.php | 2023-01-14 06:28:37 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Biden-welcomed-back-to-Georgia-after-laying-low-17717511.php |
The successor to the Pagani Huayra, codenamed C10, has finally been revealed. it’s called the Pagani Utopia, and it aims to live up to that lofty name by emphasizing driving purity.
The result of a six-year design process, the Utopia purposely minimizes the spoilers, ducts, and other aerodynamic devices seen on other supercars for a cleaner design, Pagani said in a press release. It’s also recognizably a Pagani, with the automaker’s signature quad headlights (in housings machined from solid aluminum) and centered quad exhaust tips.
Aero devices are subtly integrated with the bodywork. The Utopia has a front splitter, large intakes and vents that channel air through the grille and around the sides of the car, and active flaps at the rear. These combine to give the Utopia near-perfect aerodynamic balance at a wide range of speeds, while reducing the sensitivity to ground clearance for more predictable, safer, handling characteristics, according to Pagani.
Pagani once again turned to Mercedes-AMG for the Utopia’s engine. After ruling out electric and hybrid powertrains, Pagani went with a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12 producing 852 hp at 6,000 rpm and 811 lb-ft of torque between 2,800 rpm and 5,900 rpm. The redline is 6,700 rpm.
The mid-mounted V-12 drives the rear wheels through an Xtrac 7-speed automated-manual transmission (a full-manual version will also be available, Pagani said). A dual-clutch transmission would be more efficient, Pagani noted, but the automaker claims the Xtrac gearbox is lighter and gives the driver more control, adding that its transverse arrangement reduces the polar moment of inertia to keep oversteer in check.
Pagani hasn’t published any performance figures, but with a claimed 2,822-lb dry curb weight, the Utopia should be pretty lively. A carbon-titanium monocoque (with chromium-molybdenum steel subframes) and aluminum suspension components help contribute to that relatively low curb weight. Pagani also claims a 10.5% increase in torsional rigidity over the Huayra monocoque.
The Utopia also gets independent double-wishbone suspension with helical springs and semi-active shocks, as well as a Brembo carbon-ceramic brake system. Wheels measure 21 inches in front and 22 inches in the rear, with standard Pirelli Zero Corsa tires. Pirelli SottoZero tires are also available in the unlikely event owners decide to take their cars out in winter conditions.
The interior features Pagani’s usual high level of craftsmanship, including a steering wheel machined from a single block of aluminum. Pagani also made a point of not including any screens, instead using the space for switches and dials that look right out of an aircraft cockpit.
Pagani plans to build 99 Utopia coupes at an undisclosed price. If the automaker follows the same pattern as the Zonda and Huayra, a Utopia Roadster will follow the coupe, as well as a series of special editions and hardcore track versions.
While the Utopia officially succeeds the Huayra, that car may not go away. After all, Pagani unveiled a new Zonda 760 Roadster in January—more than a decade after production of that car technically ended.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Maine leveraged $272.1 million in federal highway and bridge formula funds in FY 2022 to help jumpstart 396 new improvement projects in communities across the state during the first year of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a review of U.S. Treasury Department data through September 30 shows.
"A key takeaway from the Treasury data is that the bipartisan infrastructure law is working in year-one as intended, with state transportation departments disbursing funds and projects breaking ground," said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black, who prepared the report.
"The economic and quality of life benefits of the infrastructure law will become even more apparent as funding continues in coming years," adds ARTBA Chair Paula Hammond, a WSP USA senior vice president. "The beneficiaries of these long-term investments will be the American traveling public in their communities."
President Joe Biden signed the IIJA into law Nov. 15, 2021. Nearly 90 percent of IIJA's highway funds are dispersed by existing formula to states, with the remainder distributed through discretionary grant awards and other allocated programs.
Nationally, over 29,000 IIJA projects were launched through the end of September. The five largest projects supported by formula funds in Maine are:
- Mill and Fill - Beginning at the Scarborough Town Line and Extending North 7.56 Miles to the Falmouth Town Line - $11.1 million
- Bridge Replacement; International Bridge (#2399) over St. John River - $9.3 million
- Ultra-Thin Bonded Wearing Course 18.14 Miles North of Sidney Town Line - $8.8 million
- Highway Paving Beginning at Route 159 and Extending North 15.84 Miles to T7 R5 Wels Town Line - $6.9 million
- Statewide Striping to Increase Safety on Maine Roads - $5.6 million
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Established in 1902, the Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA advocates for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel.
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Dick Van Dyke sustained “minor injuries” in a Malibu car accident last week amid an ongoing downpour in Los Angeles County, police confirmed Wednesday to CNN.
The 97-year-old actor crashed his silver Lexus into a gate last Wednesday morning, a law enforcement spokesperson told CNN. According to TMZ, the “Mary Poppins” star was bleeding from the nose and mouth and possibly suffered a concussion in the collision.
The screen icon did not go to the hospital after paramedics treated him at the scene, TMZ reported Wednesday. Van Dyke reportedly told responding officers that he lost control of his car and skidded into the gate. The streets of Los Angeles have been especially slick in recent weeks amid heavy, near-constant rain.
TMZ also reported that police filed a request to the California Department of Motor Vehicles for Van Dyke to retake a driving test, partially because of his age. Van Dyke was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the time of the collision, reports said.
Representatives for Van Dyke, law enforcement authorities and the California DMV did not immediately respond Wednesday to inquiries from the L.A. Times. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-20230322-azimx7qnhbcrza6kpnv2yzfs4i-story.html | 2023-03-22 18:30:34 | 1 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-20230322-azimx7qnhbcrza6kpnv2yzfs4i-story.html |
BROOME, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – The results are in for our best wings in Broome County poll. We received nearly 2,400 votes over the weekend and a top 10 has finally been declared.
Here is the list of the top 10 wing spots according to you:
- The Old Union Hotel (584 votes)
- Nip’s Park Ave Saloon (429 votes)
- Fat Cowboy’s BBQ (177 votes)
- Beer Thirty (122 votes)
- The Deacon’s Bench (104 votes)
- The Brickyard Endwell (99 votes)
- The Airport Inn (80 votes)
- Kasey’s Barbeque (79 votes)
- Aiello’s Restaurant (75 votes)
- Fountain’s Tavern (74 votes)
Congratulations to The Old Union Hotel and all of our Top 10 finishers!
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s opposition leader insisted on Monday that there will be no “cooperation” at the local level between his party and the far-right Alternative for Germany after his suggestion that they might somehow work together drew unease within his own conservative bloc.
Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union has long said it won’t work with Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which has drifted steadily further right. Merz reiterated in a ZDF television interview Sunday that there would be no cooperation in the national, state or European parliaments with AfD, which recently has surged in polls.
But he was more equivocal about the situation at town and county level, after the first AfD candidates recently won elections in eastern Germany to lead a county administration and become the full-time mayor of a municipality.
Those were democratic elections that “we have to accept,” Merz said. “And then of course ways have to be sought in local parlaments to organize the town, the countryside or the county together.”
Merz, who has dropped similar but less-noticed hints in recent weeks, didn’t elaborate. Several party allies downplayed his comments, but there were signs of unease.
“The CDU cannot, doesn’t want to and won’t cooperate with a party whose business model is hatred, division and exclusion,” Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner wrote on Twitter. Yvonne Magwas, one of the national parliament’s deputy speakers, wrote: “Whether district council or (national) parliament, right-wing radicals remain right-wing radicals. For Christian Democrats, right-wing radicals are ALWAYS the enemy!”
Merz’s CDU is one of two parties that make up the main conservative opposition bloc. The leader of the other, Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, said that his party “rejects any cooperation with AfD — no matter at what political level.”
“AfD is hostile to democracy, far-right and divides our society,” Markus Soeder wrote on Twitter. “That is not compatible with our values.”
Merz himself then tweeted “to clarify again, and I never put it differently” that the CDU’s existing position remains valid and “there will be no cooperation by the CDU with AfD at local level either.”
Merz drew criticism last week for describing the conservative bloc as an “alternative for Germany with substance.” The bloc currently leads German national polls but with lackluster ratings, and has failed to capitalize fully on discontent with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition. AfD is particularly strong in eastern Germany, where three regions will hold state elections next year.
Merz recently has appeared keen to bolster his party’s appeal to voters on the right, replacing the official responsible for the CDU’s day-to-day political strategy with a law-and-order conservative. Another top aide last week advocated scrapping the individual right to asylum in Europe and replacing it with a system under which a “contingent” of 300,000 to 400,000 refugees per year would be allowed in. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-german-opposition-leader-faces-unease-over-comments-on-cooperation-with-far-right/ | 2023-07-24 11:51:56 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-german-opposition-leader-faces-unease-over-comments-on-cooperation-with-far-right/ |
Industry veteran brings decades of experience and operations expertise to Focus Brands' leadership team
ATLANTA, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Brands®, parent company of iconic brands including Auntie Anne's®, Carvel®, Cinnabon®, Jamba®, McAlister's Deli®, Moe's Southwest Grill® and Schlotzsky's®, announced today that Brendan Berg is joining the company as its new Senior Vice President of Operations for the Restaurant Category. With almost 40 years spent in the restaurant industry working his way up from team member to executive leadership, Brendan's forward-thinking strategies have driven operational performance and profitability on a global scale.
"As a seasoned executive in the QSR industry, Brendan brings a wealth of knowledge and a track record of success to Focus Brands," said Shelley Harris, Restaurant Category President. "We're confident that his ability to lead high-performing teams and achieve operational excellence across our family of brands will play a vital role in our continued successful journey forward."
As Senior Vice President of Operations, Brendan will lead the restaurant category operations team, which is primarily focused on providing efficient operations solutions, increasing unit-level profitability and enhancing the guest experience across all seven brands in the Focus Brands portfolio.
Brendan joins Focus Brands from Church's Chicken where he served as Senior Vice President of U.S. Franchise Operations and Global Operations Services, overseeing all aspects of franchise operations and introducing efficient restaurant management systems globally. Prior to joining Church's Chicken, Brendan spent nearly three decades at Burger King working in learning and development, training and field support across Burger King's domestic and international restaurants.
About Focus Brands
Atlanta-based Focus Brands® is a leading developer of global multi-channel foodservice brands. Focus Brands, through its affiliate brands, is the franchisor and operator of more than 6,400 restaurants, cafes, ice cream shoppes, and bakeries in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and over 55 foreign countries under the Auntie Anne's®, Carvel®, Cinnabon®, Jamba®, Moe's Southwest Grill®, McAlister's Deli®, and Schlotzsky's® brand names, as well as the Seattle's Best Coffee® brand on certain military bases and in certain international markets. Please visit www.focusbrands.com to learn more.
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LOS ANGELES – Eight-time major champion Tom Watson wants answers on the PGA Tour’s new business partnership with Saudi backers of LIV Golf, asking in a letter Monday to Commissioner Jay Monahan if the deal was the only way to solve the tour’s financial hardship.
That was one of several questions posed by Watson in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press and was sent to Monahan, the PGA Tour board and “my fellow players.”
He said the questions were “compounded by the hypocrisy in disregarding the moral issue.”
On the day after Wyndham Clark became the latest major champion by winning the U.S. Open, focus shifted back to an issue that has consumed golf for the last three years. It took a stunning turn June 6 when the PGA Tour announced it had joined with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund and the European tour to put commercial businesses under one roof.
Monahan has referred to it as a “framework agreement” and he had few answers for players in a meeting two weeks ago at the Canadian Open. A Player Advisory Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday ahead of the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.
Monahan, who stepped away for a “medical situation” on Wednesday, is not expected to attend. Two of his top executives are in charge of the tour’s day-to-day operations.
The tour said in the June 6 announcement that Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the Public Investment Fund, would be chairman of the new company and Monahan would be the CEO. Two PGA Tour board members, Ed Herlihy and Jimmy Dunne, would join them on the executive committee.
The deal contains assurances the tour would keep a controlling voting interest in the new commercial entity regardless of how much the PIF contributes, according to a person who has seen the agreement.
The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been made public, said the agreement allows for a financial investment from PIF and pooling the three parties’ current and future golf-related investments. That would include LIV Golf.
The agreement said the new company’s board would have majority representation appointed by the PGA Tour, the person said. The PGA Tour would still have full authority on how it runs its competition.
Still missing are key details such as the future of LIV Golf. Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau have said they are planning for a 2024 season.
Meanwhile, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., suggested Sunday that congressional hearings could be held within weeks.
Blumenthal is chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He said on CBS's “Face the Nation” the subcommittee wants facts on what went into the deal and who was behind it and details on the structure and governance of the new company.
“There are very, very few details,” Blumenthal said. “But remember, what we have here is essentially a repressive, autocratic foreign government taking control over an iconic, cherished American institution for the clear purpose of cleansing its public image,” he said.
One key to the agreement was ending all litigation. The PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf filed a motion on Friday to dismiss with prejudice the antitrust lawsuit LIV players filed in August, the countersuit the tour filed in September and even a PIF appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to avoid having to give depositions in the lawsuits. They cannot be refiled.
Monahan has said the lawsuits — a trial date was not expected until at least the middle of 2024 with plenty of filings in between — had contributed to a “significant” hit to the tour.
Watson said in his letter: “Is the PIF the only viable rescue from the Tour’s financial problems? Was/is there a plan B? And again, what exactly is the exchange?”
He mentioned hypocrisy twice, especially as it relates to criticism from groups such as 9/11 Families United on the tour's reversal.
“My loyalty to golf and this country live in the same place and have held equal and significant weight with me over my lifetime,” Watson said. “Please educate me and others in a way that allows loyalty to both, and in a way that makes it easy to look 9/11 families in the eye and ourselves in the mirror.”
Watson isn’t alone among his questions. The Justice Department’s antitrust division has been reviewing the golf landscape since last summer, and now it is starting to look at the tour’s agreement with the Saudis and whether it violates federal antitrust laws. The inquiry is in its early stages, as the agreement is barely 2 weeks old and still is being finalized.
Monahan has said everything in the framework agreement would be subject to board approval.
Blumenthal told CBS he thought a hearing would be possible “within weeks.”
“The American people deserve a clear look at the facts here,” he said. “Again, not prejudging what the conclusions will be. But what the Saudis are doing here is not taking control of a single team or hiring one player. They are, in effect, taking charge of the entire sport, and it’s not just a Saudi individual. It is the regime.”
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DETROIT — This wasn’t like the uneven and frustrating three-game series in Texas and Oakland on the previous road trip, where they managed to win just one game in each.
It certainly was different from the galling 1-1 split in a two-game series with the Nationals, who have the worst record in Major League Baseball, on the recent homestand.
Nope, this time the results actually followed the discrepancy talent and accomplishment this season.
With a businesslike 7-0 dismantling of Detroit on Thursday afternoon, the Mariners completed a decisive three-game sweep at Comerica Park, looking every bit like a playoff-caliber team while making the hapless Tigers look even worse than their 50-81 record, which is second worst in the American League.
It was their first sweep of the Tigers in Detroit since 2012.
The Mariners improved to 73-58 on the season and moved into a tie with the Rays, who had an off day, for the top wild card spot in the American League. The Blue Jays were also off on Thursday and remain two games back of Tampa and Seattle.
The current road trip will get more difficult for the Mariners as they travel to Cleveland for a weekend series with the Guardians, who lead the AL Central. Seattle just took three of four games vs. Cleveland to close out the recent homestand in games that had a postseason feel.
Seattle got six scoreless innings of work from starter Logan Gilbert and scoreless frames from Matt Brash, Matthew Boyd and Penn Murfee while the offense scored six runs off Tigers starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez to roll to an easy victory.
Gilbert delivered a dominant outing, reminiscent of his work before the All-Star break. Using a lively fastball that was consistently in the upper 90s more than half the time, he carved up Tigers hitters, allowing just three base runners on two hits and a walk while striking out nine hitters to improve to 11-5 on the season and lower his ERA to 3.35.
Of his 84 pitches, 57 were strikes. He had 17 swings and misses including 10 off his fastball. He threw first-pitch strikes to 18 of the 21 batters he faced and he had just four three-ball counts in his outing.
With a comfortable 6-0 lead and given Gilbert’s overall workload that now includes 155 2/3 innings pitched, the Mariners decided to go to the bullpen and give him some additional rest, particularly with no extra rest before his next scheduled start, which would be on Tuesday vs. the White Sox.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday convicted a single father over social media posts critical of the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to two years in prison — a case brought against him after his daughter’s drawing at school opposed the invasion, according to his lawyer and activists.
But Alexei Moskalyov fled house arrest before his verdict was delivered in his Russian hometown of Yefremov and is at large, court officials said. His 13-year-old daughter Maria, who has been taken from him by the authorities, wrote him a supportive letter for his trial from the orphanage where she is living, according to his lawyer, telling him, “Daddy, you’re my hero.”
Moskalyov’s case has drawn international attention and was a grim reminder that the Kremlin is intensifying its crackdown on dissent, targeting more people and handing out harsher punishments for any criticism of the war. The broad government campaign of repression has been unseen since the Soviet era.
Moskalyov, 54, was accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian army, a criminal offense in accordance to a law Russian authorities adopted shortly after sending troops into Ukraine.
He was indicted for a series of social media posts about Russian atrocities in Ukraine and referencing the “terrorist” regime in Moscow that he insists he didn’t make. But, according to his lawyer and activists who supported him throughout the case and trial, his troubles started last spring after his 13-year-old daughter, Maria, drew an antiwar picture at Yefremov School No. 9 that depicted missiles flying over a Russian flag at a woman and child and said, “Glory to Ukraine.”
In April 2022, Moskalyov was fined for critical comments on social media. His apartment was raided in December and a criminal case was opened against him this month. He was placed under house arrest and his daughter was placed into the orphanage.
At the trial, which concluded in one day on Monday, three teachers and the director of Maria’s school testified that they found Moskalyov’s “discrediting” social media posts at random and that Maria’s drawing had nothing to do with the case — contradicting the accounts of his lawyer and other supporters. Men in military uniforms and medals showed up at the courthouse Monday, apparently in support of the authorities.
Moskalyov rejected the accusations and insisted he had nothing to do with the social media posts in question.
In a short closing statement, Moskalyov said he was “against” what the Kremlin insists on calling a “special military operation.”
“How can one feel about death, about people who are dying? Adults are dying, children. … Only negatively — how else can one feel about a war?” he was quoted as saying by Russia’s independent news site Mediazona.
Court officials said Moskalyov fled house arrest overnight from his apartment in Yefremov, about 300 kilometers (about 186 miles) south of Moscow and a similar distance north of the Ukrainian border. He had been wearing a bracelet that tracked his movements but apparently had taken it off.
When an official announced in court Tuesday that Moskalyov had fled, some in attendance shouted, “Bravo!”
Moskalyov’s lawyer Vladimir Biliyenko said he learned of his client’s disappearance at the hearing. Moskalyov was scheduled to appear in court again next week on a petition to restrict his parental rights.
Biliyenko told The Associated Press the authorities’ petition to restrict Moskalyov’s parental rights was based almost solely on his political views and his prosecution for discrediting the army, which they said posed a threat to his daughter.
The officials have also accused Moskalyov of being a negligent parent because Maria stopped attending school after her drawing was reported to the police and she was questioned. According to Biliyenko and Moskalyov’s supporters, she was scared to go back after that and studied at home.
The lawyer described the prosecution of Moskalyov as “bullying of the family.”
The lawyer visited Maria in the orphanage Tuesday and told reporters that while he wasn’t able to see her, local administrators allowed him to photograph a letter she wrote to her father, which ended with, “Daddy, you’re my hero.” Biliyenko also was given two drawings Maria made, depicting a dog and rabbits.
Olga Podolskaya, a member of Yefremov’s municipal council who has been helping Moskalyov, told AP that father and the daughter clearly love each other, and the decision to take Maria away was politically motivated. Maria’s mother left when the girl was 3 and has another family in a different city, Podolskaya told AP by phone.
Podolskaya said the news that Moskalyov escaped house arrest shocked her.
“We’re all really worried, including Alexei’s lawyer,” she said, adding that the hope now was for other relatives to seek custody of Maria.
Biliyenko said after the hearing that he tried calling Moskalyov after his visit to the orphanage, but he wasn’t answering his phone. “I thought that he was being brought here (to the courthouse), because they usually arrive in advance,” he said.
Russian human rights activists say the Kremlin has ramped up pressure on those who disagree with the war. The OVD-Info rights group that tracks political cases and provides legal aid this month has registered an increase in prison sentences for people prosecuted for their antiwar stance, said Daria Korolenko, the group’s lawyer and analyst.
“Repressions are picking up speed,” Korolenko told AP in a phone interview, adding that the numbers are expected to continue growing.
Also on Tuesday, a court in St. Petersburg continued a hearing in the case against Irina Tsibaneva, 60, who is charged with desecrating a grave. In October she left a note on the grave of President Vladimir Putin’s parents that said, among other things: “You raised a monster and a killer.” She faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
Earlier this month, a court in the nearby region of Tver sentenced a married couple to 6 1/2 and 7 years in prison on charges of vandalism and spreading false information about the army. According to OVD-Info, Alexander Martynov and Lyudmila Razumova were charged after critical social media posts and antiwar and antigovernment slogans they allegedly wrote on buildings.
In Moscow last week, police raided two bars suspected of raising funds for Ukraine’s military. According to media reports, police played patriotic songs and forced the guests to sing along during the raid. At least 40 people were briefly detained.
Another recent raid in the capital targeted an event dedicated to the jailed artist Sasha Skochilenko, who is on trial for spreading false information about the army. The event’s participants reported being beaten by police or threatened with rape.
In the far eastern city of Vladivostok, a court reversed the acquittal of a feminist artist who was tried on charges of disseminating pornography after she shared artwork online of women’s bodies. Yulia Tsevtkova’s case drew international outrage and ended in a rare acquittal last year after fears she would be sent to prison. Tsvetkova has since left Russia; a new trial has been ordered for her case.
In Yefremov, Yelena Agafonova, an activist who has been helping the Moskalyov family, told AP after the trial that anyone can run afoul of authorities these days with their comments.
“Perhaps your children will express their opinion somewhere. Perhaps your children will laugh at something somewhere, and they will be in exactly the same situation in which this family is now,” she said. “Perhaps a neighbor, who thinks they saw something (untoward), will report on you. So while you are lying on the couch, this will all happen more, and more, and more.”
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After thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected in Texas' statewide primaries in March, election officials and voting rights groups are stepping up efforts to make sure voters don't run into the same problems with ballot rejections going forward.
Nearly 25,000 mail ballots were rejected for the March 1 primaries — a far higher rate than prior elections.
Some ballots were rejected because identifying data didn't match what was on file. But election officials and voting groups say a design issue with the envelope that Texas voters use to return their mail ballots was most responsible for the rejections.
Grace Chimene, president of the League of Women Voters of Texas, says voters missed important instructions located right under the flap of the mail ballot return envelope. That is where voters have to provide either a partial Social Security number or their driver's license number.
"Voters wouldn't see [the section] if the flap is down," she says. "It's only visible if the flap is up. And the reason behind that was to keep it secret so people couldn't get that [information] when it was going through the mail."
Sam Taylor, assistant secretary of state for communications with the Texas secretary of state's office, says election officials are also convinced that the new voter ID field on the envelope is what led to mass rejections.
"Based on the number of people who just missed it completely, I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to think that some people thought it was just an optional section," Taylor says.
A lot of these changes were prompted by a voting law Republican state leaders enacted last year. Taylor says that among the changes, more information was required to be on the return envelope. That affected the envelope's design.
"There's more language that's required, and as a result there is more language and text competing for the same amount of real estate," he says.
How ballot design factors in
Whitney Quesenbery — the director of the Center for Civic Design, a nonprofit that focuses on using design to improve the function of democracy — says the issues over Texas' mail ballots offer a great example of why design is important.
"There are costs to this," she says. "So, we can see [that] when a vote-by-mail envelope is better designed that fewer are rejected."
Quesenbery says bad design is an issue in a number of states and with different facets of voting.
"Sometimes what I would think of as not great design happens not because someone is trying to trip a voter up, but because they are not a designer," she says. "They are not doing some of the things that we would see in, say, a commercial project — where you try it out. You would test it."
Chimene says the League of Women Voters of Texas has been working with the Center for Civic Design to create a pamphlet for Texas voters that breaks down everything they need to do to make sure their ballot is counted.
"And that involved simplifying the words and using images and graphics and using bolding and other methods that they specialize in to make voter information that makes sense," Chimene says.
The plan is to get county election officials to include these pamphlets with vote-by-mail materials. Chimene says hopefully their easy-to-read guides will clear up any confusion.
Taylor says most counties stocked up on materials for both the March primaries and May's runoffs at the same time, so most voters are still using the old ballot envelopes during Tuesday's runoff elections. And only a few counties sent out their own guides to help voters fill out ballots correctly.
For November, Taylor says there will be a change: The voter ID field that so many voters missed will be highlighted by a big red box.
"We are pretty confident that that's going to address the bulk of the issues, based on what we heard from back in the March 1 primaries," he says. "Counties were telling us that they were going in and physically highlighting the ID field to draw attention to it — and that seemed to help voters pay attention to it more often."
Taylor says the state is also launching TV and radio ads and is having a voter education tour aimed at letting voters know mail-in ballots are different than they were last year.
November is expected to bring in a lot of new voters, which will be yet another test for Texas' new vote-by-mail program.
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Guesty integrates YieldPlanet's synergetic technology directly into the Guesty platform to offer enhanced capabilities for hospitality distribution, revenue management and additional short-term rental and hotel OTA connections on the Guesty Distribution Hub
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Guesty, the leading property management platform for the short-term rental and hospitality industry, today announced the acquisition of hotel-focused revenue and distribution platform, YieldPlanet. The acquisition expands Guesty's offerings and capabilities for traditional hotels, with YieldPlanet's technology integrated within the Guesty platform. Unveiling a new Guesty Distribution Hub, the platform will add direct OTA connections with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google's Hotel & Vacation Rental Search Products, and will allow hospitality operators to manage a classic hotel repertoire, revenue and vacation rental offerings from one dashboard.
The YieldPlanet acquisition and launch of Guesty Distribution Hub comes upon the heels of Guesty's recent $170 million funding round, from top-tier investors Apax Digital Funds, MSD Partners and Sixth Street Growth, with existing investors Viola Growth and Flashpoint also participating. The capital signals investor confidence in the continued growth of the travel and alternative accommodation industry, and is an endorsement of Guesty's pioneering technology, long-term strategy and position as market leader in the hospitality and property management software sector.
"With PMCs competing for diverse consumers and travel personas seeking every accommodation under the sun, we are thrilled to offer additional distribution for our Guesty users through direct integration of YieldPlanet and the formation of the Guesty Distribution Hub," says Yair Holtzer, VP of Strategy at Guesty. "Guesty will offer direct integration with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google's suite of Travel Search products, joining our already impressive OTA integration with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Tripadvisor, Agoda, and misterb&b. We will also maintain additional integrations through our valued partnerships. The product enhancements solidify Guesty's status as the leading flexible Property Management Platform."
Guesty Distribution Hub is the first ever fully holistic hospitality distribution solution. Guesty customers will now access hundreds of hotel and short-term rental distribution channels (Booking Engine, Metasearch, OTA, and GDS), along with integrated financial tools from one dashboard.
"Joining forces with Guesty marks an exciting new chapter for YieldPlanet, allowing us to strengthen and scale our revenue and channel management solutions," says Claudio Limacher, CEO of YieldPlanet. "We will continue to grow YieldPlanet and will now offer direct distribution from within Guesty's platform, offering their clients exciting new opportunities to grow and expand their businesses."
"YieldPlanet's technology, expertise, R&D team, and hotel-focus were a natural fit to join the Guesty family and continue our long-term goal to become the one-stop shop for the hospitality and short-term rental ecosystem," says Amiad Soto, CEO & Co-Founder of Guesty. "YieldPlanet's technology within the Guesty platform, offers best-in-class revenue management, along with its price optimizer product for hotels. Our customers now have access to the widest distribution options on the market from one single dashboard."
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Guesty is the world's leading property management platform for the short-term, vacation rental and hospitality industry. Serving everyone from hosts to hotel brands, customers utilize Guesty's platform and solutions to centralize their reservations, guest communication, operational tasks, cleaning management and more across all the major booking OTA channels, including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Expedia, Agoda, direct booking websites and more. With 14 offices serving customers worldwide, Guesty empowers hospitality operators to save time and resources so that they can focus on maximizing occupancy, ensuring a great guest experience, and growing their business.
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How to Watch the NBA on Sunday: TV Channel, Game Times and Odds
Published: Apr. 30, 2023 at 6:36 AM CDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
Today's NBA Playoff slate has two exciting matchups on the docket. Among those contests is the Miami Heat squaring off against the New York Knicks.
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Today's NBA Games
The New York Knicks play the Miami Heat
The Heat look to pull of an away win at the Knicks on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
Records and Stats
- NY Record: 47-35
- MIA Record: 44-38
- NY Stats: 116.0 PPG (11th in NBA), 113.1 Opp. PPG (12th)
- MIA Stats: 109.5 PPG (30th in NBA), 109.8 Opp. PPG (second)
Players to Watch
- NY Key Player: Julius Randle (25.1 PPG, 10.0 RPG, 4.1 APG)
- MIA Key Player: Bam Adebayo (20.4 PPG, 9.2 RPG, 3.2 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: NY -4.5
- NY Odds to Win: -191
- MIA Odds to Win: +161
- Total: 207.5 points
The Sacramento Kings play host to the Golden State Warriors
The Warriors go on the road to face the Kings on Sunday at 3:30 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ABC
- Game Time: 3:30 PM ET
Records and Stats
- SAC Record: 48-34
- GS Record: 44-38
- SAC Stats: 120.7 PPG (first in NBA), 118.1 Opp. PPG (25th)
- GS Stats: 118.9 PPG (second in NBA), 117.1 Opp. PPG (21st)
Players to Watch
- SAC Key Player: Domantas Sabonis (19.1 PPG, 12.3 RPG, 7.3 APG)
- GS Key Player: Stephen Curry (29.4 PPG, 6.1 RPG, 6.3 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: SAC -1.5
- SAC Odds to Win: -123
- GS Odds to Win: +104
- Total: 229 points
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WASHINGTON — The Mega Millions jackpot is up for grabs once again, with $494 million on the line for Friday's drawing.
The numbers are in for Friday's Mega Millions jackpot, after several months without a grand prize winner. The lottery game says this is its second-largest jackpot this year.
The winning numbers for Friday's $494 million prize were 9-22-26-41-44, Mega Ball 19 and Megaplier 2.
With no big winner from Tuesday night's drawing, the jackpot rose to $494 million — $247.9 million if the winner takes the more popular cash payout.
Mega Millions hasn't seen a winner since July 29, when a single ticket sold in a Chicago suburb won a $1.337 billion prize.
In order to win the Mega Millions grand prize, a player needs to match all five numbers and the gold Mega Ball number. Players face astronomical odds for a jackpot win: 1 in 302.5 million.
If there are no winners on Friday's drawing, players will have another chance to go for the enlarged jackpot on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
Meanwhile, Powerball has an estimated $454 million jackpot up for grabs on Saturday as its own winless streak continues, inching the jackpot closer to the top 10 largest Powerball jackpots ever won. The cash value on the prize is $232.6 million.
Nobody won the Powerball jackpot Wednesday, but three tickets from Wednesday night's drawing won $250,000 after matching four numbers and the Powerball, along with having the "Power Play" feature that multiplied the prize by five times. Those tickets were bought in Colorado, Idaho and Texas.
While Mega Millions and Powerball both hit jackpots over $400 million this week, neither come close to last summer's near-record $1.377 billion Mega Millions jackpot that had Americans in a lottery frenzy in July. A winner in Illinois took home the grand prize. Two people came forward last month to claim it but chose to stay anonymous.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired shares of Amazon common stock between July 30, 2021, and April 28, 2022, inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Amazon.com, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) defendants knew or recklessly disregarded that the Company's infrastructure and fulfillment network investments substantially outpaced demand; 2) those investments were a massive, self-imposed, undue drain on Amazon's financial condition; 3) contrary to defendants' public statements and undisclosed to investors, defendants had already implemented cutbacks to Amazon's fulfillment capacity by July 2021; and 4) as a result of defendants' misrepresentations and omissions, Amazon's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Amazon you have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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One of the biggest strikes in US history is brewing at UPS
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business
Over the past year, the nascent labor movements at mighty corporations like Starbucks and Amazon have grabbed national attention. But less well-known is a looming high-stakes clash between one of America’s oldest unions and the world’s biggest package courier.
Contract negotiations are set to begin in the spring between UPS and the Teamsters Union ahead of their current contract’s expiration at the end of July, 2023. Already, before the talks have even started, labor experts are predicting that the drivers and package handlers will go on strike.
“The question is how long it will be,” said Todd Vachon, professor of Labor Relations at Rutgers. “The union’s president ran and won on taking a more militant approach. Even if they’re very close [to a deal], the rank and file will be hungry to take on the company.”
If that happens, a strike at UPS would affect nearly every household in the country. An estimated 6% of the nation’s gross domestic product is moved in UPS trucks every year. The explosive growth of online retail has made the company and its drivers more crucial than ever to the nation’s struggling supply chain. Beyond the company’s home deliveries, it also delivers many of the goods found in stores, factories and offices.
About 350,000 Teamsters work at UPS as drivers and package sorters out of a global workforce of 534,000 permanent employees. And that’s growing fast — the company has added some 72,000 Teamster-represented jobs since the start of the pandemic.
While there are competing services at FedEx, the US Postal Service and Amazon’s own delivery service, none of them have the capacity to handle more than a small fraction of the 21.5 million US packages that UPS moves daily.
“We want a contract that provides wins for our employees and that provides UPS the flexibility to stay competitive in a rapidly changing industry,” the company said in a statement this month. “UPS and the Teamsters have worked cooperatively for almost 100 years to meet the needs of UPS employees, customers, and the communities where we live and work. We believe we’ll continue to find common ground with the Teamsters and reach an agreement that’s good for everyone involved.”
The union has not gone on strike against UPS since a nearly two-week protest in 1997. If the union does go on strike, it would be the largest strike against a single business in nation’s history.
Anger over current contract
There are certainly signs of strain in relations between the company and the union — both its leadership and its rank-and-file members.
A majority of members voted against ratifying the current contract in 2018, only to see the previous Teamster leadership, led by then-President James Hoffa, put it in place because not enough of the membership participated in the ratification vote to trigger a strike.
The union’s new president, Sean O’Brien, won his office earlier this year by making the UPS contract a central focus of his campaign. He has vowed to make UPS pay Teamster members far more this time and he often talks about a $300 million strike fund the union has accumulated to pay members in case they go on strike.
“Do our members wake up every day wanting a strike. I’d say no. But are they fed up? Yes they’re fed up,” O’Brien told CNN Business last week. “Whether or not there is a strike, that’s totally up to the company. We’re going to utilize as much leverage as we can to get our members the contract they deserve.”
UPS said the average pay for its delivery drivers is $95,000 a year, with benefits such as a traditional pension plan, worth an additional $50,000 a year. UPS’ semi-tractor drivers are paid even more. That’s far higher than most wages at FedEx and Amazon, where many drivers work for small independent contractors.
The current contract expires at 12:01 am August 1. O’Brien vows the union will not grant any kind of contract extension past that deadline.
And he added that on top of improved pay and benefits, the union will demand better working conditions, including adding air conditioning in the panel trucks used for UPS deliveries which the union says poses a health risk for drivers.
“It’s not a heavy lift for the company to install air conditioning,” he said. “There’s a lot of heat stroke going on.”
Record profits at UPS
The company often speaks about how much it values its Teamster-represented workforce.
And in one important way — employment numbers — UPS is one of the best friends labor has in the ranks of US corporate management, despite the obvious tensions. UPS is one of the few unionized employers that is significantly adding payrolls, and to union membership. At other businesses, union membership numbers have been steadily declining or decades.
The increase in Teamsters jobs at UPS has come from the steady growth in online purchases, especially during the pandemic-era surge. Last year, it took only nine months to report what was already a record profit for a full year. UPS ended 2021 with operating income up 50% to $13.1 billion. In the first half of this year, earnings rose another 10% compared with a year ago.
“Everyone keeps getting richer except for our members,” said O’Brien.
UPS CEO Carol Tome, who started that job just as the pandemic began, says that the company’s union contract is a competitive advantage at a time of worker shortages.
She also is trying to assure both investors and UPS customers that the company will be prepared in case the union does go on strike. She declined to comment on what those preparations are.
“Our goal with the Teamsters is win-win-win,” she told investors in July. But she added that UPS is “building contingency plans.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Summer is just around the corner, and travelers who have been patiently awaiting safe travel since the start of the pandemic are ready to buy flights and head out on vacations. Though COVID infection rates have slowed, vaccines are readily available, and many people feel safe traveling again, the pandemic is still having an impact on air traffic.
“While it is great news that travel has fully opened up and families can finally have proper vacations, the combination of increased demand and staff shortages have the potential to cause significant delays and an overall sub-par travel experience,” said Rose Ackerman, the executive editor at Family Destinations Guide.
An increase in demand for air travel combined with staffing shortages could create a perfect storm for a “flightmare” including flight delays or even cancellations.
Air travel tips
Family Destinations Guide shared some tips to ease travel concerns amid a potential “flightmare”:
- Choose flights that depart early in the day. If your flight is canceled last minute, having an earlier flight time increases your chances of being rebooked and arriving at your destination the same day.
- Plan ahead for delays. Delays are likely at every step from check in to security. You will thank yourself for leaving extra time for long lines.
- Familiarize yourself with your travel insurance policies. If you don’t typically purchase travel insurance, it may benefit you to consider it when traveling in a post-pandemic world.
- Remember to be patient with airport and airline staffers. Traveling can be a stressful experience for anyone, but being kind towards airline staffers will make the experience easier for everyone.
According to the Transportation Safety Authority (TSA), air passenger travel is expected to be more concentrated over peak periods, with volumes that could match — or even exceed — those in previous years for the first time since the pandemic began and travel restrictions were implemented.
Beyond staffing shortages and potential delays, there’s another hurdle for would-be summer travelers: cost. Inflation is at a 40-year high, and it’s impacting the travel sector. Domestic airfare prices are up 40% since the beginning of the year, according to airfare comparison site Hopper.
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ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, killing at least 25 people, injuring dozens, and flattening entire blocks as it carved a path of destruction for more than an hour. One person was killed in Alabama.
The tornado devastated a swath of the Mississippi Delta town of Rolling Fork, reducing homes to piles of rubble, flipping cars on their sides and toppling the town’s water tower. Residents hunkered down in bath tubs and hallways during Friday night’s storm and later broke into a John Deere store that they converted into a triage center for the wounded.
“There’s nothing left,” said Wonder Bolden, holding her granddaughter, Journey, while standing outside the remnants of her mother’s now-leveled mobile home in Rolling Fork. “There’s just the breeze that’s running, going through — just nothing.”
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced late Saturday afternoon in a tweet that the death toll had risen to 25 and that dozens of people were injured. Four people previously reported missing had been found.
Other parts of the Deep South were digging out from damage caused by other suspected twisters. One man died in Morgan County, Alabama, the sheriff’s department there said in a tweet.
Throughout Saturday, survivors walked around dazed and in shock as they broke through debris and fallen trees with chain saws, searching for survivors. Power lines were pinned under decades-old oaks, their roots torn from the ground.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued a State of Emergency and vowed to help rebuild as he headed to view the damage in an area speckled with wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields and catfish farming ponds. President Joe Biden also promised federal help, describing the damage as “heartbreaking.”
The damage in Rolling Fork was so widespread that several storm chasers — who follow severe weather and often put up livestreams showing dramatic funnel clouds — pleaded for search and rescue help. Others abandoned the chase to drive injured people to the hospital.
It didn’t help that the community hospital on the west side of town was damaged, forcing patients to be transferred. The tornado also mangled a cotton warehouse and ripped the steeple off a Baptist church.
Sheddrick Bell, his partner and two daughters crouched in a closet of their Rolling Fork home for 15 minutes as the tornado barreled through. Windows broke as his daughters cried and his partner prayed.
“I was just thinking, ‘If I can still open my eyes and move around, I’m good,’” he said.
Rodney Porter, who lives about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Rolling Fork and belongs to a local fire department, said he didn’t know how anyone survived as he delivered water and fuel to families there.
“It’s like a bomb went off,” he said, describing houses stacked on top of houses. Crews even cut gas lines to the town to keep residents and first responders safe.
The warning the National Weather Service issued as the storm hit didn’t mince words: “To protect your life, TAKE COVER NOW!”
Preliminary information based on estimates from storm reports and radar data indicate that the tornado was on the ground for more than an hour and traversed at least 170 miles (274 kilometers), said Lance Perrilloux, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Jackson, Mississippi, office.
“That’s rare — very, very rare,” he said, attributing the long path to widespread atmospheric instability. “All the ingredients were there.”
Perrilloux said preliminary findings are that the tornado began its path of destruction just southwest of Rolling Fork before continuing northeast toward the rural communities of Midnight and Silver City, then moving toward Tchula, Black Hawk and Winona.
The supercell that produced the deadly twister also appeared to produce tornadoes that caused damage in northwest and north-central Alabama, said Brian Squitieri, a severe storms forecaster with the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
In northern Alabama’s Morgan County, a 67-year-old man who became trapped beneath a trailer that flipped over during severe overnight storms was rescued by first responders, but he died later at a hospital, AL.com reported.
Even as survey teams work to assess how many tornadoes struck and their severity, the Storm Prediction Center warned of the potential for hail, wind and possibly a few tornadoes Sunday in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana.
Cornel Knight waited at a relative’s home in Rolling Fork for the tornado to strike with his wife and 3-year-old daughter. Despite the darkness, its path was visible.
“You could see the direction from every transformer that blew,” he said. Just a cornfield away from where he was, the twister struck another relative’s home, collapsing a wall and trapping several people.
Royce Steed, the emergency manager in Humphreys County where Silver City is located, likened the damage to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“It is almost complete devastation,” he said after crews finished searching buildings and switched to damage assessments. “This little old town, I don’t know what the population is, it is more or less wiped off the map.”
In the town, the roof had torn off Noel Crook’s home.
“Yesterday was yesterday and that’s gone – there’s nothing I can do about it,” Crook said. “Tomorrow is not here yet. You don’t have any control over it, so here I am today.”
The tornado looked so powerful on radar as it neared the town of Amory, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Tupelo, that one Mississippi meteorologist paused to say a prayer after new radar information came in.
“Oh man,” WTVA’s Matt Laubhan said on the live broadcast. “Dear Jesus, please help them. Amen.”
Now that town is boiling its water, and a curfew is in effect. Three shelters in the state are feeding the throngs of displaced people.
“It’s a priceless feeling to see the gratitude on people’s faces to know they’re getting a hot meal,” said William Trueblood, of the Salvation Army, as he headed to the area, picking up supplies along the way.
Despite the damage, there were signs of improvement. Power outages, which at one point were affecting more than 75,000 customers in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, had been cut by a third by midafternoon Saturday, according to poweroutage.us.
Meteorologists saw a big tornado risk coming for the general region as much as a week in advance, said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Walker Ashley.
Tornado experts like Ashley have been warning about increased risk exposure in the region because of people building more.
“You mix a particularly socioeconomically vulnerable landscape with a fast-moving, long-track nocturnal tornado, and, disaster will happen,” Ashley said in an email.
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Associated Press writer Emily Wagster Pettus in Rolling Fork, Mississippi; Michael Goldberg in Silver City, Mississippi; Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri; Rick Callahan in Indianapolis; Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas; Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington; Robert Jablon in Los Angeles; Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Maryland; and Jackie Quinn in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report. | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/2-dead-in-missouri-flash-flood-tornado-threat-in-the-south/ | 2023-03-26 00:48:43 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/2-dead-in-missouri-flash-flood-tornado-threat-in-the-south/ |
GRISHAM,
Saxzonee Eva Kaye
Saxzonee Eva Kaye Grisham, 30 of Springfield, Ohio, suddenly departed into Heaven on October 18, 2022. She was a child of God and passionately pursuing ways to further His Kingdom every day. She was full of creativity, big dreams, a loving heart, and generous in every-way you can think of. She was an extraordinary mother. The light of her life was her daughter, Rosewood. They shared a one-of-a-kind bond and were full of smiles and laughter. Saxzonee was a loving daughter and sister. She had this rare gift of seeing the absolute best in all people and could bring so much laughter to a room. She was the rarest and best version of a friend. A treasure to all who knew her. She graduated from Tecumseh High School and earned her education degree from Central State University. Saxzonee was an amazing teacher who was dearly loved by her students. She was preceded in heavenly departure by her beloved aunt Cyndee McKibben (Aunt Nee) and grandparents, Larry and Harriett McKibben. She is survived by her daughter Rosewood Murray; parents Carl and Tara Miller; brother Josh Grisham, sisters Carlee Cravens (Nathan), Emma Shanahan (Aidan), McKibben Miller; grandparents: Carl and Marilyn Miller; nephew, Arthur Shanahan and uncles, aunts, cousins, and best friends. Saxzonee wanted to experience as much in this world as possible and was always ready for the next adventure. She was also ready for Heaven, and because of this if you ever loved her, she would ask that you make Jesus the Savior of your earthly life so we will all be together one day in paradise. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022, from 5-8 p.m. at Heritage Fellowship Church, 105 N. Tecumseh Rd., Springfield. The celebration of life will be held on Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at the church with Pastor Ken Winter officiating. Burial will be in Glen Haven Memorial Garden. In lieu of flowers, if you would like to make a contribution, a trust fund for Rosewood's education has been set up by her grandparents at Park National Bank, New Carlisle, Ohio 45344 all forms of contributions accepted.. checks to: Carl or Tara Miller memo: Evanee Rosewood. Online expressions of sympathy may be made at
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DES MOINES, Iowa – Former Iowa governor Terry Branstad has been named the new president of the World Food Prize.
Branstad served as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and was elected again to serve between 2011 and 2017. The Republican left the governor’s office during his last term to become the U.S. Ambassador to China, a role he served in until 2020.
“We are excited to bring on a leader with both global vision and strong roots in agriculture,” said Paul Schickler, chair of the World Food Prize Foundation. “Amb. Branstad, who was serving as Governor of Iowa when John Ruan, Sr., rescued the World Food Prize and moved it to Iowa, has been a champion of our mission from its earliest days.”
In a statement released Tuesday, Branstad said “I am honored to lead an organization bringing together the world’s greatest agricultural scientists and fostering the next generation of innovators. The World Food Prize is known globally for celebrating groundbreaking advances in biosciences, and I am proud to continue to build upon that Borlaug-Ruan legacy.”
The Des Moines-based organization was created by Iowa native Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. According to the organization, The World Food Prize’s mission is to “elevate innovations and inspire action to sustainably increase the quality, quantity and availability of food for all.”
The WFP awards an annual prize of $250,000 to individuals who have made achievements in addressing food security. | https://who13.com/news/terry-branstad-named-president-of-the-world-food-prize/ | 2023-01-24 19:42:56 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/terry-branstad-named-president-of-the-world-food-prize/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas lawsuit with a key deadline this month is posing a threat to the nationwide availability of medication abortion, which now accounts for the majority of abortions in the U.S.
The case filed by abortion opponents who helped challenge Roe v. Wade seeks to reverse a decades-old approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
If a federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump sides with them, it could halt the supply of the drug mifepristone in all states, both where abortion is banned and where it remains legal.
“It could have an immediate impact on the country,” said Mini Timmaraju, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “In some ways this is a backdoor ban on abortion.”
On Friday, a group of 22 Democratic-led states weighed in, saying the consequences of reversing the approval could be “nothing short of catastrophic. A similar-sized group of Republican states also filed briefs supporting the reversal, saying the ability to order pills by mail undermines their laws banning abortion.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has not indicated exactly when or how he will rule, but groups like Timmaraju’s have been preparing for a possible decision shortly after a Feb. 24 filing deadline. There is scant precedent for a lone judge overruling the FDA’s scientific decisions. A swift appeal of any ruling is likely.
The lawsuit was filed by the group Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned.
“Our representatives in Congress created the FDA and gave the FDA the responsibility to make sure that drugs are safe before they’re allowed on the market … the FDA failed that responsibility,” said Julie Blake, senior counsel for the group.
They argue the FDA overstepped its authority in approving mifepristone by using an accelerated review process reserved for drugs to treat “serious or life-threatening illnesses.”
But in its legal response, the agency said it didn’t accelerate the drug’s approval, which came four years after the manufacturer first submitted its application to market the pill.
The FDA approved mifepristone — in combination with a second drug — as a safe and effective method for ending a pregnancy in 2000. Common side effects include cramping and light bleeding. Cases of more severe bleeding requiring emergency care are very rare.
Halting access to the drug more than 20 years after approval would be “extraordinary and unprecedented,” federal attorneys stated in a legal filing.
Kacsmaryk, who previously ruled against a program providing free birth control to minors in Texas, could also issue a ruling rolling back regulators’ decisions to ease restrictions on the pill’s availability. Those have been based on scientific studies showing women can safely use the drug at home.
In late 2021, the FDA removed a requirement that women pick up the drug in person. Last month the agency dropped another requirement that prevented most pharmacies from dispensing the pill.
Medication abortion accounted for over half of abortions before Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to research from the Guttmacher Institute. It’s grown more important since then, said Elizabeth Nash, state policy analyst for the science-based research group that supports abortion rights.
“The clinics that are open in the receiving states are stretched thin, they don’t have a lot of give in their capacity and being able to provide medication abortion is very, very important,” she said.
Abortion medication is approved for use up to the 10th week of pregnancy. Mifepristone is taken first, swallowed by mouth. The drug dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
Misoprostol, a drug also used to treat stomach ulcers, is taken 24 to 48 hours later. It causes the uterus to cramp and contract, causing bleeding and expelling pregnancy tissue. The combination has been shown to be more than 95% effective in ending pregnancies up to 10 weeks.
If mifepristone is pulled, providers could prescribe misoprostol alone instead, an approach that is used in many parts of the world, but would be a big shift in U.S. practice and has not been found to be quite as effective.
Such a ruling could also increase the need for surgical abortion and further increase wait times at clinics, which are already weekslong in some cases after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe, Nash said.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Perrone contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Wednesday it is making $4.5 billion available through a low-income home energy assistance program to help with heating costs heading into what is expected to be a brutal winter.
Spending for the program is significantly higher than the typical annual funding of about $3.5 billion, but far below the $8 billion the administration and congressional Democrats delivered last winter as part of President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief package.
The money spent last year was by far the largest appropriation in a single year since the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program was established in 1981.
The money will be provided to state, local and tribal governments to help more than 5 million families pay heating and utility bill costs, and can also be used to make home energy repairs.
“One of the best ways a family can reduce their energy bill is to make their home more energy efficient,'' Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd at a union hall in Boston.
“But here’s the challenge for many homeowners — many folks who are here today — you know that energy efficiency upgrades are expensive,” she said. “And even though we know it can save you thousands of dollars in the long run, the upfront cost is often too high for so many families to be able to afford.''
By helping families improve energy efficiency, “we are also lowering energy bills, bringing down household costs, creating jobs and fighting the climate crisis,'' Harris said.
In New England, one of the major utilities has already announced a 60% price hike for electricity this winter. Utilities are also seeking price hikes for natural gas and home heating oil, citing the war in Ukraine and inflation. The top executive of Eversource Energy, New England’s largest energy provider, warned Biden last week that the region may not have enough power if a severe cold spell hits this winter.
“This represents a serious public health and safety threat,'' Eversource CEO Joseph Nolan told Biden, urging the president to use emergency powers to ensure adequate fuel resources in the region.
The announcement of heating assistance comes in the waning days before Tuesday's elections that will determine which party controls Congress. Democrats are trying to contrast their efforts to help middle and low-income people through the $1 trillion infrastructure law and other legislative measures with Republican suggestions they would use the debt limit as leverage for cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits and other federal programs.
“As heating costs increase, it is more important than ever to help families struggling to make ends meet,″ said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Across the country, families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten. The LIHEAP program served more than 5.3 million households last year, and a similar number are expected to participate this year.
The Energy Department is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter. Some worry that heating assistance programs will not be able to make up the difference for struggling families. The situation is even bleaker in Europe, where supply constraints caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are pushing natural gas prices upward and causing painful shortages.
In a related announcement, the Energy Department said Wednesday it will begin allocating $9 billion approved under the new climate and health law for a program aimed at supporting energy upgrades to 1.6 million households over the next 10 years. Officials expect to make funding available starting next year to states and tribes to better protect homes against the weather and install some 500,000 new heat pumps.
The White House also said it is spending $250 million from the Defense Production Act to boost domestic production of heat pumps, which are primarily made in Europe and Asia. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-help-lower-home-heating-costs/507-1bb4e24b-cad5-468a-843a-2e840f587375 | 2022-11-03 01:32:02 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-help-lower-home-heating-costs/507-1bb4e24b-cad5-468a-843a-2e840f587375 |
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inflect, Inc., the world's leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure, announces the promotion of Tim Hoffman to SVP of Strategy and appointment of David McCullough to SVP of Product and Engineering. Together Hoffman and McCullough bring years of experience building and managing teams responsible for creating, building, buying and selling infrastructure solutions for many of the world's largest global networks. In their new capacities, Hoffman and McCullough are positioned to help Inflect revolutionize processes for researching, buying and selling internet infrastructure.
"I couldn't be more thrilled to have both Tim and David joining Inflect's executive team at such a pivotal time," says Mike Nguyen, CEO of Inflect. "Our new executive team is well positioned to help us attract the very best technical and business resources, while continuing to develop new tools to guide buyers through the digital infrastructure purchase journey — from research and exploration to frictionless transaction."
Hoffman has been part of Inflect for three years and will shape the platform's long-term executive strategy. Formerly, he led the Global Network team at Twitter, where he was responsible for the company's worldwide network infrastructure. He also brings executive leadership experience from Megaport, where he served as CTO, with responsibility for all engineering, product, and infrastructure procurement. Hoffman sees an opportunity to greatly improve infrastructure acquisition processes. "Finding the right infrastructure typically requires a lot of manual effort, which presents significant challenges to both buyers and sellers," he says. "Our focus is squarely on customer-centric innovation — building tools, automation, and a fantastic team to be the 'easy button' for infrastructure acquisition in an industry that is long overdue for transformation."
McCullough comes to Inflect with more than 15 years of sales, product, and leadership experience at Megaport, Equinix, and XO Communications. At Inflect, he will lead the company's next wave of product and engineering innovations. "We believe that customers should be able to quickly and easily find infrastructure products that are tailored to their specific needs," says McCullough. "Inflect pioneered end-customer software solutions in this industry. Now we seek to expand on previous work by increasing levels of self-service and automation."
The appointments of Hoffman and McCullough come as Inflect is rapidly scaling its team. Employee headcount has tripled since mid-2021.
Inflect facilitates frictionless transactions for digital infrastructure services, no matter how complex. We believe businesses should be able to easily find and buy the digital infrastructure they need — for every use case and every location in the world. But finding and buying internet infrastructure has historically been a slow, manual process. Inflect's platform simplifies buying and selling of complex infrastructure with an easy-to-use online marketplace, intuitive research tools, and customer and partner management programs.
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Kamloops at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17532073.php | 2022-10-25 05:45:00 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17532073.php |
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were higher Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sep. gained 26 cents at $8.3050 a bushel; Sep. corn rose 16 cents at $5.2750 a bushel; Sep. oats was up 8.75 cents at $4.5575 a bushel; while Aug. soybeans advanced 76 cents at 16.65 a bushel.
Beef was lower and pork higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Aug. live cattle was off .05 cent at $1.3627 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle fell 1.40 cents at $1.7652 a pound; Aug. lean hogs was up .18 cent at $1.2045 a pound. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Grains-higher-Livestock-mixed-17338097.php | 2022-07-29 16:32:35 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Grains-higher-Livestock-mixed-17338097.php |
NPR's A Martinez talks to Jesse Washington, senior writer for ESPN, about the NBA Finals which begin Thursday. The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics to join the Denver Nuggets in the finals.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) — A skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium on Friday, officials said.
In a statement, Washington County Schools Superintendent Jerry Boyd said the diver jumped at the David Crockett High School football stadium in the northeastern Tennessee town of Jonesborough. David Crockett was facing Daniel Boone High School from nearby Gray.
Boyd said the skydiver was a beloved husband, father and grandfather. He said mental health support professionals will be at both schools on Monday.
“Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of the injured skydiver that has passed away,” Boyd said in the statement.
Jump TN, a company in Greeneville, told news outlets in a statement that the 55-year-old man worked with the company and had done more than 1,500 jumps. The company said observers and witnesses did not notice anything unusual about the jump or his parachute, saying it was deployed without incident.
Officials have not yet released the identity of the skydiver.
After the incident, the skydiver was airlifted to the hospital for his injuries and a moment of silence was held. The football game went on with a delayed start. | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-skydiver-dies-in-tennessee-high-school-football-pregame-jump/ | 2022-10-24 02:11:05 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-skydiver-dies-in-tennessee-high-school-football-pregame-jump/ |
After spending over a month in a hospital being treated for clinical depression this year, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., revealed his depression was "in full force" during his first few weeks in the Senate.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May 2022 while campaigning for the Pennsylvania Senate race, resulting in auditory processing issues and depression.
After being sworn into office, the Democrat checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February to be treated for his depression, where he stayed until late March.
"I always treated my depression like I did with losing my hair," Fetterman told People magazine of his mental health battle. "It's just kind of like, 'Oh yeah, that's just part of my makeup.'"
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Fetterman described his one and only midterm debate against Dr. Mehmet Oz as like "trying to run a marathon with a broken ankle." During the debate, Fetterman was granted the use of a closed captioning system so that he would be able to read the questions being asked.
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The Democrat also revealed that his depression after the midterms became so severe he stopped eating and drinking.
"I literally stopped eating and drinking, and I wasn't functional," Fetterman told the outlet.
"After winning, he seemed to be at the lowest. That was, for me, the moment of concern," Gisele Fetterman said of her husband's state of mind following his midterm win.
"There wasn't one person in my life that said, ‘Yeah, you really seem great. You sound fine here,’" Fetterman said, revealing he was "firmly indifferent to living" at the time.
"The conversation I had with my team and my family is that I've got to do something or it could end in the most awful way," the senator said, detailing his decision to seek help. "I wasn't thinking about self-harm, but I was firmly indifferent to living."
Fetterman made his official return to the Senate Monday after his weeks-long hospital stay, telling reporters "it’s great to be back." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/fetterman-says-he-wasnt-functional-after-election-win-i-literally-stopped-eating-and-drinking/article_fbdf6797-2b66-5ca3-9995-fb8958a0aaa1.html | 2023-04-20 00:46:01 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/fetterman-says-he-wasnt-functional-after-election-win-i-literally-stopped-eating-and-drinking/article_fbdf6797-2b66-5ca3-9995-fb8958a0aaa1.html |
WEED, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in rural Northern California injured several people Friday, destroyed multiple homes and forced thousands of residents to flee, jamming roadways at the start of a sweltering Labor Day weekend.
The blaze dubbed the Mill Fire started on or near the property of Roseburg Forest Products, a plant that manufactures wood veneers. It quickly burned through homes, pushed by 35-mph (56-kph) winds.
Annie Peterson said she was sitting on the porch of her home near the Roseburg facility when “all of a sudden we heard a big boom and all that smoke was just rolling over toward us.”
Very quickly her home and about a dozen others were on fire. She said members of her church helped evacuate her and her son, who is immobile. She said the scene of smoke and flames looked like “the world was coming to an end.”
Suzi Brady, a Cal Fire spokeswoman, said several people were injured.
Allison Hendrickson, spokeswoman for Dignity Health North State hospitals, said two people were brought to Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta. One was in stable condition and the other was transferred to UC Davis Medical Center, which has a burn unit.
California is in the grip of a prolonged drought and now a brutal heat wave that is taxing the power grid as people try to stay cool. Residents have been asked for three consecutive days to conserve power during late afternoon and evening hours when energy consumption is highest.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
Southern California saw two large fires break out earlier in the week. The last evacuation orders for those were being lifted around the time the Mill Fire started midday Friday. Flames spread fast and about 7,500 people were under evacuation orders that covered the small city of Weed and surrounding areas, which are about 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of San Francisco.
Olga Hood heard about the fire on her scanner and stepped onto to the front porch of her Weed home to see smoke blowing over the next hill.
With the notorious gusts that tear through the town at the base of Mount Shasta, she didn’t wait for an evacuation order. She packed up her documents, medication and little else, said her granddaughter, Cynthia Jones.
“With the wind in Weed everything like that moves quickly. It’s bad,” Jones said by phone from her home in Medford, Oregon. “It’s not uncommon to have 50 to 60 mph gusts on a normal day. I got blown into a creek as a kid.”
Hood’s home of nearly three decades was spared from a blaze last year and from the devastating Boles Fire that tore through town eight years ago, destroying more than 160 buildings, mostly homes.
Hood wept as she discussed the fire from a relative’s house in the hamlet of Granada, Jones said. She wasn’t able to gather photos that had been important to her late husband.
Willo Balfrey, 82, an artist from Lake Shastina, said she was painting Friday afternoon when her grandson, who is a member of the California Highway Patrol, called to warn her of the fast-spreading flames.
“He said, ‘don’t linger, grab your computer, grab what you need and get out of the house now. It’s coming your way.’ So I did,” Balfrey said.
She grabbed a suitcase full of important documents, as well as water and her computer, iPhone and chargers, and headed out the door.
“I’ve reached the philosophy that if I have all my paperwork, what’s in the house is not that important,” she said.
She stopped to get her neighbor and they drove to a church parking lot in Montague, where about 40 other vehicles were also parked.
Rebecca Taylor, communications director for Roseburg Forest Products based in Springfield, Oregon, said it is unclear if the fire started near or on company property. A large empty building at the edge of company property burned she said. All employees were evacuated, and none have reported injuries, she said.
The plant employs 145 people, although not all were on shift at the time, Taylor said.
“We’re just devastated to see this fire affecting the community in this way,” she said.
In Southern California, firefighters were making progress Friday against two big wildfires.
Containment of the Route Fire along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles increased to 37% and it remained at just over 8 square miles (21 square kilometers) , a Cal Fire statement said. On Wednesday, seven firefighters working in triple-digit temperatures had to be taken to hospitals for treatment of heat illnesses. All were released.
In eastern San Diego County, the Border 32 Fire remained at just under 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) and containment increased to 20%. More than 1,500 people had to evacuate the area near the U.S.-Mexico border when the fire erupted Wednesday. All evacuations were lifted by Friday afternoon.
Two people were hospitalized with burns. Three homes and seven other buildings were destroyed.
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Rodriguez reported from San Francisco, where Associated Press reporter Janie Har contributed. AP reporters Stefanie Dazio and Brian Melley in Los Angeles also contributed. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-thousands-told-to-flee-3-towns-ahead-of-fast-california-fire/ | 2022-09-03 15:20:50 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-thousands-told-to-flee-3-towns-ahead-of-fast-california-fire/ |
Violence broke out in the streets of Italy on Wednesday ahead of a UEFA Champions League match between Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt.
Police in Naples had been on high alert as more than 600 fans from Frankfurt, Germany, arrived despite the city forgoing its allocation of tickets for the round-of-16 match in protest. According to The Associated Press, the numbers were boosted by Atalanta ultras, who have a storied rivalry with Napoli.
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The German club was objecting to a decision by Naples authorities banning any fans who are residents of Frankfurt from buying tickets, following the unrest between supporters during the first leg of the Champions League in Germany.
It all came to a head Wednesday as car windows were broken and fans hurled flares, chairs and other objects as innocent bystanders took shelter in bars and restaurants.
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Police were in riot gear trying to quell the situation as several vehicles were lit up in flames.
"I’m monitoring what has happened on our streets. An unacceptable climate of guerrilla warfare," Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi tweeted. "My thanks go to the police forces who acted to guarantee the safety of the citizens. I appeal to Neapolitans, be responsible."
Italian media reported at least 200 people were arrested.
The match would go on and Napoli would win 3-0.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/italian-authorities-clash-with-soccer-fans-ahead-of-champions-league-match/article_814b05cd-9dea-5b32-9240-489d7ca3abd7.html | 2023-03-16 13:06:54 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/italian-authorities-clash-with-soccer-fans-ahead-of-champions-league-match/article_814b05cd-9dea-5b32-9240-489d7ca3abd7.html |
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Are Bengals overvalued in 2023 betting markets?
July 6, 2023 06:35 AM
Jay Croucher and Drew Dinsick discuss the 2023 betting outlook for the Cincinnati Bengals and explain why, despite a loaded offense, they may be getting overvalued ahead of the season.
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The two Skagit County sites being considered for a new commercial airport were taken off the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission’s list Friday.
The state commission had been looking into 10 possible sites for a new airport.
The sites on the list are what are called greenfield sites — undeveloped, commonly agricultural land that is sought after by construction or manufacturing companies due to it being flexible, open land.
The goal of the state Legislature, which set up the commission, is to have a new airport fully operational by 2050 in order to accommodate an estimated 40 million additional passengers a year that Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Paine Field in Everett will not be able to handle.
Some of this increase can be handled by small airports capable of expansion, but 27 million annual passengers is the expected overflow.
Over the past month, the commission held two virtual public meetings and a virtual open house.
More than 20,000 people attended the open house and more than 300 attended the public meetings.
Those attending were asked to fill out a survey.
It was found that 77% of those attending the open house were fully against Skagit County being considered for an airport, and 11% were OK with it as long as environmental impacts were considered.
Skagit Land Trust Executive Director Molly Doran said environmental impacts made placing an airport in the county difficult.
“I think it’s fantastic how all parts of Skagit County rallied and wrote to WSDOT [Washington State Department of Transportation] that this is not what we want here,” she said.
Skagit County Commissioner Peter Browning said having a commercial airport would have destroyed the agricultural community, not to mention the agricultural land that is among the best in the world.
When looking to narrow down the 10-site list, the consulting firm hired by the commission, Kimley-Horn, looked at which sites would be able to accommodate the most passengers.
The Skagit County Southwest site between La Conner and Mount Vernon was thought to be able to accommodate 6.4 million passengers a year.
The Skagit County Northwest site in the Samish flats northwest of Burlington was thought to be able to accommodate 4.4 million passengers.
Both are significantly below the 27 million passengers the commission is trying to accommodate, Kimley-Horn project manager David Williams said during the commission’s June meeting.
Senior aviation planner Rob Hodgman said during Friday’s commission meeting that the two Skagit County sites are too far north to be of much benefit to the commission’s plan.
“We in Skagit County are very happy with that decision,” Browning said. “For us that’s absolutely fantastic.”
The sites the Kimley-Horn team recommended doing further research on are a site in Thurston County that a 1992 flight study also recommended, and both Pierce County sites that were on the list.
The Pierce County sites will get further scrutiny due to the number of passengers they would be able to accommodate.
“It’s a sigh of relief that we’re taken off the list that we never wanted to be on,” Doran said.
The commission plans to name its top two sites by Oct. 15 and the final location by June 15. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/skagit-county-no-longer-being-considered-for-a-commercial-airport/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-09-24 03:04:37 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/skagit-county-no-longer-being-considered-for-a-commercial-airport/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
MALVERN -- Henderson State University -- which made major cuts nearly a year ago -- is adding a pair of degrees for the fall semester, following approval by the Arkansas State University System board of trustees Friday.
In May 2022, the trustees had unanimously approved cuts to Henderson State that eliminated 88 faculty positions and 25 degree programs, including programs in English, mathematics, biology and chemistry.
ASU System President Chuck Welch had said those cuts were necessary to save the university from financial ruin and closure. The school was $78 million in debt overall because of numerous decisions by previous administrators, a situation that included budgets that overestimated revenue and underestimated costs; unpaid bills to vendors; and depleted reserves.
Since then, the ASU System office in Little Rock and the university staff in Arkadelphia have been working together on HSU's recovery.
The Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Sciences approved Friday provides a pathway for students who desire to explore the world through the natural sciences, according to the ASU System.
The degree plan serves students pursuing prerequisites for medical school, dental school, pharmacy school, dental hygiene school, veterinary school -- such as the one Arkansas State University plans to open in Jonesboro in 2025 or 2026 -- optometry school, and physical therapy school, according to the ASU System.
The students expected to enroll in this program are those currently interested in biology and chemistry, medical school, and other professional pathways, as well as students who are seeking future STEM degrees.
The program has the space and equipment necessary to offer all courses listed, according to the ASU System. "No new faculty are required for this proposed program as it is only comprised of current course offerings."
The other program approved Friday, the Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education, with a focus on Math Education, will require one new full-time faculty member to be hired at $65,000 annually, according to the ASU System.
"Given the changing landscape of teacher licensure in the state of Arkansas, a degree in Secondary Education provides a crucial pathway to teacher licensure in mathematics, [and it's] imperative that Henderson State University continue to offer a route to teacher licensure in the area of mathematics education."
These degrees are part of "rebuilding and reimagining" Henderson State, Welch said. "Math is a major need area for secondary institutions around the state, and HSU had a long history" of teacher education and development.
HSU also continues its climb back from the precipice of fiscal disaster, said Julie Bates, executive vice president of the ASU System. HSU reduced operating expenses and personal services by 5% and 24%, respectively, in fiscal year 2022, and personal services expenses were the lowest in seven years.
That's required "a lot of sacrifice" by everyone associated with the university, as well as plenty of helpful resources from the ASU System, said Chancellor Chuck Ambrose.
The trustees met on the ASU Three Rivers campus on Friday. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/11/henderson-state-adding-2-degrees/ | 2023-03-11 12:08:53 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/11/henderson-state-adding-2-degrees/ |
US Decides To Rejoin UNESCO And Pay Back Dues, To Counter Chinese Influence
June 12, 2023 11:58AM CDT
PARIS (AP) — The U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has announced that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member.
U.S. officials say the decision was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap in UNESCO policymaking.
The U.S. government has presented a plan for paying the arrears in order to rejoin.
UNESCO’s director informed ambassadors of the U.S. decision in a special meeting Monday.
The U.S. was once the agency’s biggest funder.
Its official return is expected to face a vote by UNESCO’s 193 member states next month. | https://www.kfornow.com/us-decides-to-rejoin-unesco-and-pay-back-dues-to-counter-chinese-influence/ | 2023-06-13 11:22:07 | 1 | https://www.kfornow.com/us-decides-to-rejoin-unesco-and-pay-back-dues-to-counter-chinese-influence/ |
Woman brings raccoon to Petco for nail trim, lets other customers kiss it
AUBURN, Maine (Gray News) – Authorities in Maine apparently located a woman who they say brought a baby raccoon into a Petco store to get its nailed trimmed, potentially exposing several people to rabies.
In a Facebook post from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, officials said the woman brought the baby raccoon into the Petco store in Auburn on Tuesday afternoon.
Officials released surveillance photos of the woman holding the animal. In an update to their original post, they said the raccoon tested negative for rabies, so those who came in contact with it do not need to seek treatment.
The unidentified woman in the photos brought the racoon into the store to have its nails trimmed. While waiting, many different people handled the raccoon, and some even kissed it.
The store’s manager was alerted to the raccoon and asked the woman to leave the store. The manager then contacted the Maine CDC and the Maine Warden Service.
It is illegal to own wildlife in Maine, and Petco does not trim raccoon nails.
Rabies is 100% fatal unless treated promptly after exposure. Raccoons are one of the most common carriers of the disease.
Rabies spreads when an infected animal’s saliva gets into a person’s skin, eyes, nose or mouth.
To keep yourself protected, officials said always enjoy wildlife from a distance. Never feed them, approach or handle them, and never attempt to move them.
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Man gets life sentence for killing mail carrier who refused to deliver marijuana package
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after being convicted of killing a mail carrier who instead of delivering a large package of marijuana to his home left a note in the mailbox requiring him to come to a South Carolina post office to pick it up.
Trevor Raekwon Seward, 25, was found guilty of murder of a federal employee in the course of her duties and other crimes in the September 2019 shooting of 64-year-old Irene Pressley as she delivered mail in rural Williamsburg County, federal prosecutors said.
After finding the note in his mailbox instead of the 2-pound (0.9-kilogram) package of marijuana from California he was expecting, Seward confronted Pressley a few minutes later demanding his package. The U.S. Postal Service mail carrier refused, according to court documents.
Seward then got a semi-automatic rifle and waited for Pressley to come down a street in Andrews, firing about 20 times into the back of her mail truck, prosecutors said.
Several bullets hit Pressley. Seward then drove the mail truck into a ditch on an access road at a hunting club, searched through it to try to find his marijuana and anything else valuable, then left the Pressley’s body in her truck, prosecutors said.
The marijuana package was later found on the street where Pressley was killed, according to court records.
In court, Pressley’s sister blamed Seward for the death of 97-year-old father.
“He gave up, because you took his daughter’s life,” Elisha Hubbard said according to WPDE-TV, during Thursday’s sentencing hearing, adding that he loved the treats that Irene Pressley would bring him every day.
Seward listened carefully to Pressley’s family as they spoke at the hearing and stood up when the judge asked him if he wanted to speak.
Seward then said he didn’t “want to cause any more confusion. I don’t have anything to say, ” the TV station reported.
The co-defendant who helped Seward look for the mail carrier was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Jerome Terrell Davis, 31, pleaded guilty to robbery and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute marijuana, prosecutors said.
The value of the marijuana in the package was minimal.
At the time of the murder it would have cost around $1,600 in Colorado, where it was legal, according to state revenue data. Even when marijuana was illegal nationwide, the value of the package would not have exceed $2,600, according to National Drug Intelligence Center data about South Carolina in 2000.
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Where in America can you easily find farm-fresh food?
Portland comes in first and Seattle is in 6th place.
Cook up a locavore feast with our ranking of 2023’s Best Cities to Eat Local Food.
To mark National Small Business Week starting April 30, LawnStarter compared the 200 biggest U.S. cities based on three categories.
We looked for cities with great access to community-supported agriculture (CSAs), u-pick farms, local dairy farms, and on-farm markets. We also considered the number of local food movement groups, among 17 metrics.
Dig into our ranking below. To learn how we ranked the cities, see our methodology.
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The NHRA returns to Pacific Raceways in Kent for the first time since 2019 as drag racing’s 33rd Northwest Nationals begin Friday.
Austin Prock (Top Fuel), John Force (Funny Car) and Matt Hartford (Pro Stock) won the race three years ago, the last time the series was here.
There will be one round of qualifying at 6 p.m. Friday and the final two rounds of qualifying on Saturday at 1:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Television coverage includes qualifying action on FS1 and live eliminations on FOX at 1 p.m. Sunday.
This is the 13th of 22 races during the 2022 season.
Brittany Force, the Top Fuel points leader, was the star driver in Sonoma last weekend.
“It is exciting and it’s great to return to Seattle,” Force said. “It’s been a while, but that’s another race track where I grew up racing in Super Comp, Top Alcohol Dragster, and going there as a kid. (Teammate) Austin (Prock) got his first win there (in 2019) and there are just a lot of great memories there.”
Force is chasing her second world championship.
In Funny Car, John Force made history at Pacific Raceways in 2019 with his 150th career win. The legendary driver returns to Seattle looking for his second win this season and the 10th in his career at the track.
The reigning NHRA Rookie of the Year, Pro Stock’s Dallas Glenn, grew up racing at Pacific Raceways and will get the chance to race at the track for the first time as a professional driver.
He’ll perform in front of family and friends in his RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro. “I’ve made a lot of laps here in a lot of different cars, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to do it in a Pro Stock car,” he said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/nhra-northwest-nationals-return-to-pacific-raceways-this-weekend-for-first-time-since-2019/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-29 03:59:08 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/nhra-northwest-nationals-return-to-pacific-raceways-this-weekend-for-first-time-since-2019/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Environmental Services, Inc., a leader in environmental and sustainability services, will be inducted into the 2022 Indiana Manufacturers Association's (IMA) Hall of Fame on October 19, 2022, in Indianapolis, at the Biltwell Event Center. Heritage Environmental Services was chosen from a select group of Indiana candidates for its the positive achievements and contributions to the industry, as well as an ongoing commitment to its employees and area community.
"As one of the largest environmental services companies, we're proud to employ over 1,400 people – many from within the state of Indiana where we are headquartered," said Ali Alavi, Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel for Heritage Environmental Services. "We support business and manufacturing communities in Indiana and across the country through our commitment to sustainability as we work to find innovative ways to transform our customers' wastestreams into valuable products."
"The Indiana Manufacturers Association instituted the Indiana Manufacturers Hall of Fame Awards in 2015 to help bring awareness and recognition to the many positive contributions of Hoosier manufacturers," said IMA President and CEO Brian Burton. "We congratulate Heritage Environmental Services for their outstanding work and continued dedication to making Indiana a manufacturing powerhouse."
As the most manufacturing-intensive state in the nation, Indiana is the number-one wage payer and employer of Hoosiers. Additionally, manufacturing continues to be the number-one job creator in Indiana.
With over 50 years of experience, Heritage Environmental Services works to help customers manage their hazardous and non-hazardous waste management needs, from transportation, treatment, and disposal to training and emergency response. Heritage Environmental services is proud to provide sustainable methods for managing waste that support Indiana communities and help keep the environment safe and clean.
About Heritage Environmental Services
Heritage Environmental Services is a privately held, family-owned environmental services business with more than 1,400 employees across North America. The company provides a full suite of tailored solutions from emergency response, waste disposal, and sustainability services to onsite support and technical solutions to thousands of customers in hundreds of industries. For over 50 years, Heritage Environmental Services has prioritized the safety of its employees while pursuing its purpose of protecting human health and the environment.
About the Indiana Manufacturers Association
Formed in 1901, the Indiana Manufacturers Association is the second oldest manufacturers association in the country and the only trade association in Indiana that exclusively focuses on manufacturing. Manufacturing is the driving force of Indiana's economy, employing more people and contributing more to Indiana's gross domestic product than any other industry. The Indiana Manufacturers Association, representing more than 1,100 companies, is dedicated to advocating for a business climate that creates, protects, and promotes quality manufacturing jobs in Indiana. The staff of the Indiana Manufacturers Association are recognized experts in areas including tax, environment, labor relations, human resources, energy, workforce development, and health care. To learn more about how membership can be a be a benefit for your company, visit www.indianamfg.com.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against certain officers and directors of NewAge, Inc. ("NewAge" or the "Company") (OTCMKTS: NBEVQ). The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and docketed under 23-cv-00127, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired the securities of NewAge for the time period January 18, 2018 through and including October 18, 2022 (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of federal securities laws and pursue remedies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired NewAge securities during the Class Period, you have until February 6, 2023 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Relevant non-party NewAge purports to produce and sell various beverages and other health products. NewAge wholly owns subsidiaries that sell products under a variety of brand names. NewAge purports to be an "organic and healthy products company intending to become the world's leading social selling and distribution company."
On August 30, 2022, NewAge filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. The bankruptcy plan submitted by NewAge has not been confirmed and all litigation against NewAge is subject to an automatic stay.
During the Class Period, NewAge's Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and various Chief Financial Officers ("CFOs") misrepresented to investors the Company's business relationships, product development, business prospects, adequacy of internal controls, and concealed an internal investigation and subsequent disclosure to the Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
On January 10, 2022, NewAge filed a Form 8-K announcing that its Board and Defendant Brent Willis ("Willis") agreed that Willis would "resign as [CEO], Director, and employee of the Company, effective immediately. The Company and Mr. Willis will determine the terms of his departure at a future date . . . . Ed Brennan will provide additional guidance and direction to the senior management team . . . ." In response, the stock went down 6% on each of the following trading days, from an opening price of $0.98 to a closing price of $0.9251 on January 11, 2022, and from an opening price of $0.935 to a closing price of $0.88 on January 12, 2022.
On May 17, 2022, the Company announced after trading hours that it had concluded that it had received a late notice from Nasdaq regarding the filing of its Form 10-Q. The next day, the stock went down by 8%, from an opening price of $0.391 per share to $0.3591 per share.
On June 8, 2022, after trading had concluded for the day, the Company announced that it was undertaking a review of "strategic alternatives," including "available financing alternatives, a potential financial restructuring, merger, sale or other strategic transaction." The next day, NewAge's share price went down 12%, from $0.42 per share to $0.3703. Following that, the Company's share price closed down 11% (the price per share dropped from $0.3605 to $0.3201 on the day), 5% (the price per share dropped from $0.3112 per share to $0.2902 on the day), and 3% (the price per share dropped from $0.298 per share to $0.29 on the day), respectively.
On August 30, 2022, NewAge announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief. Further, on August 31, 2022, The Wall Street Journal released an article called "New Age Says Cost of Internal Probe Contributed to Bankruptcy," which highlighted the fact that in its Chapter 11 disclosure, NewAge admitted that it had conducted an expensive internal investigation into Ariix, which NewAge had acquired in December 2020, for suspected violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The next day, the stock closed down 39%, from an opening price of $0.2016 per share to $0.1222 per share. It further plummeted on September 2, 2022, closing down 27%, from an opening of $0.20 per share to $0.1482.
On September 2, 2022, after trading hours in the domestic markets had finished for the day, NewAge filed a Form 8-K announcing that it had received writing notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") that, as a result of its filing for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Nasdaq determined that NewAge's securities would be delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange, beginning on September 8, 2022. In response to this news, NewAge stock closed down 9% on September 6, 2022, from an opening price of $0.1368 to a closing price of $0.125.
On October 18, 2022, the SEC announced that it was taking legal action against Defendant Willis. Specifically, he was alleged to have engaged in a "multi-year fraud by disseminating numerous false and misleading press releases and making false public statements concerning NewAge's business dealings, and aided and abetted NewAge's disclosure of material information in violation of Regulation FD," and was accordingly charged under Section 10(b) and corresponding Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act, Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, and with aiding and abetting NewAge's violations of Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act and Regulation FD.
On October 19, 2022, the SEC announced that it had instituted cease-and-desist proceedings against NewAge pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act and Section 21C of the Exchange Act, enjoining NewAge from further violations of the Securities and Exchange Acts, and rules and regulations promulgated under them. In anticipation of these proceedings, NewAge submitted a settlement offer, which the SEC has accepted. The next day, NewAge stock plummeted from an opening price of $0.175 per share to $0.0013 per share, or 93%.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Chiefs Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
The Kansas City Chiefs at the moment have the best odds in the entire NFL to win the Super Bowl at +600.
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Chiefs Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the AFC West: -165
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +600
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Kansas City Betting Insights
- Kansas City covered seven times in 17 matchups with a spread last season.
- Last season, the combined scoring went over the point total eight times in Chiefs games.
- Kansas City ranked 11th in total defense last year (328.2 yards allowed per game), but it thrived on the other side of the ball, ranking best in the with 413.6 total yards per game.
- The Chiefs went 7-1 at home last season and 7-2 away from home.
- When underdogs, Kansas City had only one victory (1-1) versus its 13-2 record when favored.
Chiefs Impact Players
- Patrick Mahomes II threw for 5,250 yards (308.8 per game), completing 67.1% of his throws, with 41 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 17 games last year.
- On the ground, Mahomes scored four touchdowns and picked up 358 yards.
- Travis Kelce had 110 receptions for 1,338 yards (78.7 per game) and 12 touchdowns in 17 games.
- In 17 games a season ago, Jerick McKinnon rushed for 291 yards (17.1 per game) and one TD.
- In 17 games, Isiah Pacheco ran for 830 yards (48.8 per game) and five TDs.
- Nick Bolton delivered two interceptions to go with 180 tackles, 9.0 TFL, two sacks, and three passes defended in 17 games last year.
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Lamborghini will join the ranks of top-level motorsports come 2024 when it enters both the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship with a new LMDh race car.
LMDh is a new race car category which will have its first season in 2023. It is eligible for both the Hypercar class of the WEC as well as the new GTP class of the SportsCar Championship, just like the rival LMH category, and relies on spec chassis similar to current LMP2 chassis.
For its LMDh campaign, Lamborghini will team up with Iron Lynx, and compete as Lamborghini Iron Lynx. Lamborghini will also work with Prema Engineering which offers operational, technical, and engineering support for motorsports.
Iron Lynx is an Italian racing team that currently competes in GT racing with a Ferrari 488 GTE, including in the WEC, but will switch over to a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 in 2023 to mark the new partnership with Lamborghini. Iron Lynx will also field a Huracán GT3 Evo2 through its Iron Dames all-female racing team.
“Ever since we announced our intention to race in the LMDh racing series, it was clear to us that Iron Lynx was the right partner to take such an important step with,” Stephan Winkelmann, Lamborghini’s CEO, said in a statement. “Over the years, Iron Lynx has proven to be a fast, strong and successfully entity, just like the Lamborghini motorsport department.”
Lamborghini is still developing its LMDh. The car will use a chassis sourced from Ligier, one of four chassis suppliers for LMDh, and will run a V-8 hybrid powertrain, with the V-8 to be a new twin-turbo unit developed by Lamborghini’s own Squadra Corse racing arm, though one thought to be related to the twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 fitted in Lamborghini’s Urus SUV. The hybrid component will be a single motor-generator integrated with a 7-speed transmission.
Lamborghini in July named Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti as its first drivers for the campaign.
While Lamborghini’s LMDh will only start racing in 2024, Acura, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac, and Porsche will all field LMDh race cars in the inaugural 2023 season. ByKolles, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Toyota are all committed to the rival LMH race car category.
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WINONA, Minn. (AP) _ Fastenal Co. (FAST) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $284.6 million.
On a per-share basis, the Winona, Minnesota-based company said it had profit of 50 cents.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 48 cents per share.
The maker of industrial and construction fasteners posted revenue of $1.8 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.79 billion.
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Improving National Surveillance for Cronobacter Infection in Infants
ATLANTA, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) has announced the approval of a position statement to recommend making invasive Cronobacter infection in infants nationally notifiable to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Approved by CSTE's Council, the position statement also establishes standardized criteria for case identification and classification (case counting) to be used for public health surveillance purposes and recommends public reporting of confirmed and probable cases. The invasive Cronobacter infection in infants position statement was developed by CSTE members, working closely with CDC experts and representatives of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). The approved position statement will be made available in the coming weeks.
Cronobacter infections are rare, but they can be life-threatening in newborns. Infections in infants usually occur in the first days or weeks of life. "I'd like to commend our members and partners who collaborated on this position statement to advance national surveillance efforts for Cronobacter infections," said CSTE Executive Director Janet Hamilton, MPH. "These efforts will assist public health agencies in quantifying and identifying the cause of Cronobacter infections and, coupled with education efforts, will help protect the health of those most vulnerable. Ultimately, we want these infections to be prevented."
Each year, CSTE considers position statements on an array of subjects, from infectious diseases to substance use and mental health, maternal and child health, injury, as well as chronic diseases and conditions that could affect state or local law, rule, or regulation. CSTE position statements are developed by CSTE members, in close partnership with CDC, and reflect membership consensus opinion on policy issues or surveillance strategies. Position statements are proposed, discussed, and ratified or rejected by the "Council," which is a voting body comprised of State Epidemiologists from all U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia. Standardized surveillance case definitions establish more consistent disease surveillance across the nation, improving national health monitoring and interactions between health care providers and public health disease investigators. For more information on the CSTE position statement process, click here.
About CSTE
Founded in 1951, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) represents the interests of State Epidemiologists from all 50 U.S. states and territories, comprising the Council. CSTE is also the professional home to over 3000 practicing applied epidemiologists working at the state, tribal, local, and territorial levels. For more information, visit www.cste.org.
Contact: Matt Cone, Director of Communications, 770-458-3811, email: mcone@cste.org
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Top Player Prop Bets for Red Sox vs. Angels on May 22, 2023
The Los Angeles Angels host the Boston Red Sox at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Monday at 9:38 PM ET. Those looking to place a player prop wager can find odds for Shohei Ohtani, Rafael Devers and others in this contest.
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Red Sox vs. Angels Game Info
- When: Monday, May 22, 2023 at 9:38 PM ET
- Where: Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California
- How to Watch on TV: MLB Network
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- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -238)
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- Devers has 46 hits with 12 doubles, 13 home runs, 10 walks and 44 RBI.
- He's slashed .253/.296/.533 on the season.
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- Alex Verdugo has recorded 53 hits with 15 doubles, a triple, five home runs and 18 walks. He has driven in 19 runs with three stolen bases.
- He's slashed .296/.373/.475 so far this year.
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- Ohtani has eight doubles, two triples, 11 home runs, 21 walks and 32 RBI (51 total hits). He has swiped six bases.
- He's slashed .287/.360/.539 on the season.
- Ohtani has recorded at least one hit in two games in a row. During his last five outings he is batting .211 with two home runs, two walks and three RBI.
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- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +140)
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- Hunter Renfroe has nine doubles, 10 home runs, 15 walks and 29 RBI (48 total hits).
- He has a slash line of .267/.320/.483 on the season.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of African civil society groups and press associations on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into the death of a Rwanda-based journalist, saying the official explanation lacked backing evidence.
Investigative journalist John Williams Ntwali had previously expressed fears for his life and told the Human Rights Watch rights organization that he had received phone threats and had strangers visiting his house.
His family was informed on Jan. 19 of his death, which Rwandan police attributed to a motorbike accident.
A joint statement by 90 organizations on Tuesday said that no evidence of the accident has yet been released.
“Rwandan authorities have failed to provide a police report, the exact location of the alleged accident, any photo or video evidence or detailed information on the others involved” in the accident, the statement said.
Ntwali has been described as Rwanda’s last independent journalist who exposed alleged human rights violations on detained opposition figures and journalists.
His latest coverage was highlighting the plight of people facing land evictions by the authorities.
United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power on Saturday urged the Rwandan government to independently investigate Ntwali’s death.
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Christina Aguilera is juggling many hats these days — she’s raising two kids, working on new music and is about to headline LA Pride — so how does she cool off after a super busy day?
The Grammy winner will “wine down,” she told People, and described what that looks like. “It’s by the pool. Just relaxing, you don’t have to go in, you can lounge around. I really like it at night. I love a night swim. It just has a sexy vibe to it,” she revealed.
Christina also spoke about her swanky pool, adding, “I literally have it where it lights up in multiple moody colors. So it can be purple, red, green … I’m all about a mood, and all about an ambiance and an aesthetic.”
“I don’t always need to go out or be seen,” she continued. “When you do, that’s great, too. But I love entertaining in the backyard for my friends and my family and bringing everyone in and feeling the togetherness.”
Speaking of the LA Pride Festival, where the “Beautiful” singer will take the stage as this year’s headliner on Saturday, she remarked, “Performing at Pride is so special, because it is unique within the fact that there is such a strong sense of community, and oneness and support and equality where everyone’s just there to have a good time.”
“They don’t try to conform to a rulebook and they want to live colorfully and out loud, and whatever that means to them,” Christina said. “It’s such a crowd of creativity and expression.”
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On this late June day, my garden is flooded with magic afternoon light. My huge bundle of sage plants is crowned with purple flowers. I rub my hands through the herb as I pass by, and its earthy, pungent scent floats up. The mint has run amok, spreading down the stone stairs that lead to the basement. I walk nearby and its bright summery smells rise to greet me. The basil leaves are also starting to look promising and the thyme, which pours itself over a large stone, is spread with tiny purple flowers. The rosemary bush, with its green feathery spindly leaves, is looking healthier than ever.
It’s peak herb season — my very favorite time of year. My cooking feels so inspired when I know I can just pinch some thyme leaves out the kitchen door, or snip some sweet lemon verbena leaves and steep them in some iced tea. Or pull those feathery green rosemary leaves and season a roast chicken. The possibility of adding fresh, herbal flavor brings out the best in my summer cooking. Everything seems to taste so much fuller, larger, and better when fresh herbs are abundant. Whether you grow your own in a large garden or in small pots on your windowsill or buy them at a farmers market or a grocery store, make sure to use the freshest herbs you can find.
Here are three new recipes that are all herb-forward (“herbaceous” as chefs might say) as well as a guide to some of my favorite herbs.
Tomato, mozzarella and herb salad
A classic Caprese salad includes the ripest tomatoes, moist Buffalo mozzarella cheese and fresh basil leaves. (The salad also happens to mimic the colors of the Italian flag.) In my take on a Caprese salad, herbs are used in three different ways. First, cherry tomatoes are roasted with olive oil and basil until they soften and are almost bursting.
When they cool, they are placed on top of a bed of basil pesto, thin slices of mozzarella, and topped with a combination of fresh herbs. You can use any variety of herbs from your garden or farmer’s market; the more herbs you use the more interesting the textures and flavors of the salad. Try not to assemble the salad more than an hour ahead of time for the best texture. Warm crusty bread to soak up all the olive oil and tomato juices is a good idea.
Serves 4.
Ingredients
The cherry tomatoes:
- 2 large basil leaves, torn into small pieces
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes, preferably on the vine, red and yellow, or all red
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
The mozzarella, pesto and herbs
- ½ cup pesto, store bought or see recipe below
- 8 ounces fresh mozzarella, cut into thin slices
- ½ cup fresh herbs, coarsely chopped or torn, like basil, thyme, opal basil, chives, sage, rosemary, dill, etc.
Instructions
- Roast the tomatoes: Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Place the basil in the bottom of a medium gratin dish or shallow casserole or skillet and cover with the tomatoes, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast on the middle shelf for 45 minutes, or until the tomatoes are softened and nearly bursting. Remove and cool.
- Using the back of a spoon or soft spatula, smear the pesto on the bottom of a medium to large serving plate. Place the cooled roasted tomatoes on top and surround with the mozzarella slices. Spoon the juices from the bottom of the roasting pan on top, and then scatter with the combination of fresh herbs.
Basil pesto
This summer sauce is ideal for the roasted cherry tomato and herb salad. It’s also a classic on pasta, or can be brushed on grilled seafood or meats. Pesto can be a dip or spread on crusty bread.
Classic pesto is made with green basil, pine nuts, grated Parmesan cheese and olive oil, pounded into a paste using a mortar and pestle. You can also prepare it in a food processor for a finer, more blended texture.
Ingredients
- 2 packed cups fresh basil
- 1 large or 2 small cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, pistachios or your favorite nut*
- 1/2 cup good quality olive oil, plus 1 tablespoon
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
*If you want a nuttier flavor, toast the nuts in a dry skillet for four minutes.
Instructions
- Pulse the basil leaves in a food processor a few times to chop. Add the garlic and pulse another 10 times.
- Add the pine nuts and, with the motor running slowly, add the ½ cup olive oil through the opening in the top of the processor and blend until smooth. Remove and stir in the cheese; season with salt and pepper.
- Pesto should be stored in a glass jar (plastic isn’t the best) and should be covered with a very thin layer, about 1 tablespoon, of oil on top. Keep in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. It will also keep frozen for several months.
Green herb sauce with marinated grilled skirt steak
This green herb sauce is my take on a classic chimichurri sauce. This one has garlic, parsley, cilantro, olive oil, crushed red pepper and lemon. It can also be served with grilled shrimp or fish, chicken, or as a dip for crackers and vegetables. Skirt steak, flat iron or flank steak is the ideal cut here; the meat is marinated and then grilled over a hot fire. It’s thinly sliced and topped with the pungent green herb sauce.
Serves 4
Ingredients
The steak and marinade
- 2 pound skirt, flat iron, or flank steak
- 1 cup red wine
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- Salt and pepper
The green herb sauce
- 1 scallion, white and green sections, ends trimmed, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 cup parsley with stems
- ½ cup cilantro with stems
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ to 1 teaspoon crushed red chili pepper, depending on how spicy you like it
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Marinate the steak: Place the meat in a large, non-reactive bowl. Add the wine, olive oil, vinegar, rosemary, thyme and a generous amount of salt and pepper. Marinate for at least an hour or cover and refrigerate for up to 24 hours. If refrigerated, bring to room temperature before grilling.
- Make the green herb sauce: Place the scallion and garlic in the bowl of a food processor or blender and chop by pulsing several times. Add the parsley and cilantro and pulse some more. Add the oil, vinegar, crushed red pepper, lemon, and salt and pepper to taste, and pulse until you have a thick sauce. The sauce can be covered and refrigerated for up to 3 days. It can also be frozen for 2 months, but freezing will affect the texture.
- Grill the steak: Preheat the grill (charcoal or gas) until hot, about 400 degrees. Remove the meat from the marinade and place directly on the hot grill. Grill for 5 minutes, baste with some of the marinade and gently flip the meat over. Grill another 5 to 7 minutes, baste again and, depending on the cut and the thickness, cook until the meat registers around 125 degrees on an instant-read thermometer. Remove from the heat and place a few spoonfuls of the green herb sauce on top. Let it sit for 5 minutes and then thinly slice the meat against the grain. Serve with the remaining green sauce on the side.
Herbed farro salad with roasted carrots and leeks
Farros is an ancient whole grain that is prized for its nutty flavor and chewy al dente texture. It pairs well with so many vegetables and herbs. I boil it until almost tender (you want it to still have a “bite”) and then toss it with chopped fresh dill, parsley, mint, and chives and stir with lemon juice and olive oil. Carrots are thinly sliced on the diagonal and roasted with thinly sliced leeks and tossed into the salad. The whole dish can be made hours ahead of time and served as a main course, or side dish. You can also get creative with this salad and add cubes of creamy feta cheese, toasted nuts, raisins, cherry tomatoes and other vegetables.
Serves 2 to 3 as main course and 4 to 6 as side dish.
Ingredients
The roasted carrots and leeks:
- 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil
- 2 medium carrots, ends trimmed, peeled and cut into thin slices on the diagonal
- 1 large leek, white and green sections only, cut lengthwise into thin pieces
- 1 ½ tablespoon lemon juice
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
The farro and herbs:
- 1 ½ cups farro
- 2 ½ tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
- ½ cup parsley, chopped
- 2 ½ tablespoons fresh dill, chopped
- 2 tablespoons minced chives
- 1 scallion, finely chopped, white and green sections
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Fresh mint leaves or dill sprigs as garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Gently toss the carrots, leeks, oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a small roasting pan or oven-proof skillet in one layer and roast on the middle shelf for 20 minutes. The carrots should be just tender and the leek will turn golden brown. Remove from the oven.
- Meanwhile, bring a medium-sized pot of salted water to boil over high heat. Add the farro and cook, stirring, for about 18 minutes. Skim off any foam that forms at the top. The farro is done when it is just soft, but still feels chewy, but is not undercooked. You don’t want it to be fully tender. Drain and place on a serving plate or bowl.
- Immediately, while still hot, toss the farro with the herbs, scallions, oil, lemon juice and add salt and pepper to taste. Add the roasted carrots and leeks and any oil or juices from the bottom of the pan and gently toss. Garnish with mint leaves and or dill sprigs. Serve at room temperature. (The dish can be covered and refrigerated overnight. You may need to give it a gentle toss and add a touch more oil and lemon juice before serving.)
More favorite herb recipes:
- Click here for recipes to make a herb frittata; herb, radish and fennel salad; herb vinaigrette.
- Click here for recipes to make herb-infused roasted beets with herb butter, stir fried cilantro and basil turkey wraps in lettuce leaves, mint and herb syrups.
- Click here for recipes to make green sauce, garlic scape and pistachio pesto, peanut butter sesame sauce with cilantro, cold sesame noodles, maple and chile bbq sauce, summer salsa and cucumber-yogurt sauce.
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District 2 Councilman John Norman told the Reporter-Telegram that he has one question about the upcoming vote about the Hogan Park project.
“What’s the rush?”
Norman said Monday the Midland City Council just got the latest version of the contract with the Permian Basin Quality of Life Conservancy on Wednesday. He said it was the latest back-and-forth of the deal between the City of Midland and the conservancy.
Norman added there are questions that need to addressed, including about how the project has changed with the lower amount of money being raised ($30 million instead of $45 million). He was hoping for more time to let city staff look at the red-line changes and then update city leaders in executive session.
Norman’s question about timing may be even more appropriate, because District 2 Councilman Jack Ladd stated it appeared a baby that he and his wife are expecting could come at any moment. Asking Ladd to make a Tuesday meeting might be a tall task. When asked on Monday if the vote would be postponed, Midland Mayor Lori Blong said via text, “I don’t know yet.”
The vote appears to be headed to a split decision one way or another. Norman said Monday he will not be voting the contract between the city and conservancy if he is pushed to vote on Tuesday. Norman once played a role on the Quality of Place Fundraising Committee for Hogan Park.
The saga that is the Hogan Park project is well-chronicled.
On Thursday, a Reporter-Telegram article stated that the City of Midland put a vote on Tuesday’s agenda regarding a development and lease agreement with the “Permian Basin Quality of Place Conservancy” for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of certain improvements having to do with the park in northeast Midland.
The agreement states that $10 million (minus $5,884,848.42 million that the city has already spent on improvements to the Bill Williams Softball Complex and has encumbered for design services for Hogan Park) will be provided to the Conservancy for development costs.
It also states the city will provide an annual management fee equal to the lesser of $2,000,000 or actual operating costs. The annual management fee can increase annually based on an index escalator not to exceed 1.035.
Norman also stated he has questions about representation on the board that will oversee the park and why a conservancy deal is needed in the first place.
“I don’t think this is a good deal for the city,” said Norman, whose district includes Hogan Park. “I believe the city can do (the Hogan Park project) itself.”
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A new senate bill making its way through the legislature would reshape election law in North Carolina.
SB747, introduced last week and making its way through committees this week, is an omnibus bill that would shift the deadline for mail-in and absentee ballots from three days after election day to 7:30 p.m. on election day. It would also require new signature verification -- using software to verify a person's signature to that on record -- and would change the rules for people who register to vote on election day, making their ballots provisional.
Opponents of the bill say it will prolong an unsavory pattern of voter suppression in the state.
"To our North Carolina lawmakers: this is not a game. Your unchecked power is a remnant of Jim Crow that disproportionately silences black voters and manipulates voting to lock in your own power in perpetuity," said Cassandra Stokes of the NC Black Alliance.
Despite the GOP's recent success in North Carolina, supporters of the legislation say the bill isn't about that.
"They think that if they shore up some of these loopholes we have in the current law, tighten up election administration, that instills more confidence in the public and helps them believe that their vote actually has a meaning," said Andy Jackson of the John Locke Foundation.
While Governor Cooper has vetoed similar legislation in the past -- including an effort to move up the deadline for mail-in ballots -- Jackson says the North Carolina GOP feels emboldened.
"There are supermajorities in both chambers," Jackson said. "So I'm pretty sure Republicans have probably had discussions among themselves before they even put this bill up. And it's going to override the veto in all likelihood."
Common Cause North Carolina opposes the bill and says it will make it more difficult to vote -- a burden that will be felt more acutely by older voters, low-income people, and voters of color.
"It goes back to what someone named Paul Weyrich said back in the 1980s, which is 'Lots of people talk about getting everyone to vote, but I don't want everyone to vote. I want the people who agree with me to vote.'" | https://abc11.com/north-carolina-senate-bill-747-voting/13383719/ | 2023-06-15 03:58:15 | 1 | https://abc11.com/north-carolina-senate-bill-747-voting/13383719/ |
DETROIT, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (AAM), (NYSE: AXL) will participate in the Barclays Global Automotive and Mobility Tech Conference on November 30. AAM is scheduled to present at 10:00 a.m. ET.
A live audio webcast will be accessible through the Investor Relations page on AAM's website (www.aam.com). A replay of the webcast will be available following the event.
As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM (NYSE: AXL) designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with nearly 85 facilities in 18 countries, AAM is bringing the future faster for a safer and more sustainable tomorrow. To learn more, visit aam.com.
Our presentation may contain "forward-looking" statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties described in our most recent filings on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and actual results may differ materially. Our presentation also may include certain non-GAAP financial measures. Information regarding these non-GAAP measures, as well as a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to GAAP financial information, is available on AAM's website (www.aam.com).
Investor Contact:
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Head of Investor Relations
(313) 758-2006
david.lim@aam.com
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Vice President, Marketing & Communications
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Or visit the AAM website at www.aam.com.
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NATO bans TikTok on devices
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN
NATO has officially banned staffers from downloading the social media app TikTok onto their NATO-provided devices, citing security concerns, according to two NATO officials familiar with the matter.
NATO officials sent a note to staff on Friday morning announcing the ban, the officials said. The note made the ban official, but TikTok was not really usable on NATO-issued devices before, anyway, the officials said, because of internal tech restrictions.
“Cyber security is a top priority for NATO. NATO has robust requirements for determining applications for official business use. TikTok is not accessible on NATO devices,” a senior NATO official told CNN.
NATO is the latest governmental body to ban the app over concerns that the Chinese government could have access to TikTok users’ data through its Chinese parent company, Bytedance. The US, UK, Norway, European Parliament and other nations have already banned the app from government-issued devices.
TikTok’s CEO Shou Chew stressed to US lawmakers earlier this month that the company is completely independent from Beijing, and said that he has “seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data; they have never asked us, we have not provided it.”
He added that TikTok is moving its data into the US, to be stored on US soil by the American company Oracle.
“So the risk would be similar to any government going to an American company, asking for data,” he said.
Still, western governments remain skeptical.
TikTok should be “ended one way or another,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress earlier this month in a separate hearing, on the same day Chew was testifying. “Clearly, we, the administration and others are seized with the challenge that it poses and are taking action to address it.”
CNN has reached out to TikTok for comment.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Police said six people are dead and about two dozen hospitalized after a shooting at a July Fourth parade in a Chicago suburb.
Multiple agencies are searching for the gunman responsible for the "random act of violence," Highland Park Police Commander Chris O'Neill said at a Monday afternoon news conference. He said investigators recovered a rifle, and there's no indication the shooter is barricaded or has hostages.
Officials said according to preliminary information, the gunman was acting alone and firing from a roof.
Witnesses described seeing bloodied bodies apparently covered with blankets. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the parade began around 10 a.m. but was suddenly halted 10 minutes later after shots were fired. Several witnesses told the newspaper that they heard gunfire.
Hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fled the parade route, leaving behind chairs, baby strollers and blankets.
A Sun-Times reporter saw blankets placed over three bloodied bodies.
Police told people: “Everybody disburse, please. It is not safe to be here.”
Video shot by a Sun-Times journalist after the gunfire rang out shows a band on a float continuing to play as people run past, screaming. A photo posted to social media appeared to show pools of blood near upturned chairs in downtown Highland Park.
Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks — until she heard people yell about a shooter.
“We just start running in the opposite direction,” she told The Associated Press.
Her 5-year-old son was riding his bike decorated with red and blue curled ribbons. He and other children in the group held small American flags. The city said on its website that the festivities were to include a children’s bike and pet parade.
Troiani said she pushed her son’s bike, running through the neighborhood to get back to their car.
In a video that Troiani shot on her phone, some of the kids are visibly startled at the loud noise and they scramble to the side of the road as a siren wails nearby.
It was just sort of chaos,” she said. “There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.”
Photos: July 4 parade shooting near Chicago
Debbie Glickman, a Highland Park resident, said she was on a parade float with coworkers and the group was preparing to turn onto the main route when she saw people running from the area.
“People started saying: ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, there's a shooter,’” Glickman told the Associated Press. “So we just ran. We just ran. It’s like mass chaos down there.”
She didn’t hear any noises or see anyone who appeared to be injured.
“I’m so freaked out,” she said. “It’s just so sad.”
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Twitter that police are "working hard to bring the shooter into custody."
"The tragedy unfolding in Highland Park is devastating," Lightfoot wrote. "We grieve with the families of the deceased and injured as well as the entire Highland Park community."
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Taijaun Walker refused to be outdueled by Justin Verlander in the Mets’ 2-0 loss to the Astros on Wednesday at Citi Field.
Of late, the right-hander’s starts have only been getting better and better, reminiscent of his first-half performance in 2021 that earned him his first career All-Star nod. Walker threw 7.1 shutout innings in his best start of the season so far, against an Astros lineup that has given the Mets a lot of trouble. Walker at one point retired nine in a row, matching Verlander’s outing inning by inning in the scoreless game.
“I felt like I had everything working today,” said Walker, who was helped by Luis Guillorme’s wizardry at third base. Guillorme fielded 12 of the game’s 27 outs, including 10 of the first 19, on Wednesday.
As excellent of a performance it was, Buck Showalter cut it short in the eighth. Showing a sense of urgency, the Mets skipper pulled Walker after he got one out in the eighth, giving the ball earlier than usual to closer Edwin Diaz so he could face the top of Houston’s order.
Diaz hit his first batter, Jose Altuve, with a 98 mph fastball. Then he gave up a single to Jeremy Pena. Allowing even a small amount of momentum to a fiery Astros offense is never a good scenario. But Diaz bounced back immediately. The closer struck out slugger Yordan Alvarez swinging, then fanned Alex Bregman looking to preserve the scoreless game.
Instead of bringing Diaz back out for the ninth on 14 pitches, Showalter went to reliever Drew Smith. It didn’t end well. Smith coughed up a two-run home run to Astros catcher Jason Castro, who entered the day hitting just .095 and cranked his first home run of the year on Wednesday to break the ice. Showalter said he did not consider using Diaz again in the ninth and was confident Smith was the best relief option in that situation, particularly against the bottom of Houston’s lineup.
“I love the challenge,” Smith said. “I love going into games like that. That’s what you want as a reliever. You want to be in those high-leverage spots. Unfortunately, I didn’t do my job this time. But I’m looking forward to more opportunities in those situations and hopefully bounce back.”
The Mets (47-29) were swept by the Astros in their home-and-home series this year that featured two games at Minute Maid Park and two at Citi Field. The Amazin’s also suffered their first three-game losing streak of the season. That it took until the end of June for the Mets to lose three games in a row is a testament to being a first-place club still holding the best record in the National League. But the race is certainly getting tighter. The Braves (43-32) entered Wednesday four games behind the Mets in the NL East.
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After owning his flat slider to Castro that changed the game, Smith had a positive outlook on the Mets being swept by the Astros. He cited the 2015 Mets going 0-7 against the Cubs in the regular season, only to sweep Chicago in the NLCS. With two major pieces of the team coming back in Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer, the Mets should be stronger on paper if they were to face the Astros in the postseason.
“Anything can happen later on in the year,” Smith said. “Hopefully we see them again.”
Walker’s excellent 2.72 ERA is the best in the Mets starting rotation, among pitchers who are not currently on the injured list, anyway. He high-fived every infielder on the mound before walking into the dugout to a huge standing ovation by the 29,230 in attendance. Walker looked around and took in the crowd noise as he capped a dazzling performance in his 13th start of the year.
The decorated veteran starter in the other dugout flashed a 2.03 ERA when his eight-inning shutout outing was over. Verlander, in his season back from Tommy John surgery, owns the fourth-lowest ERA in the major leagues. Only three Mets hitters reached base against Verlander — a double by Brandon Nimmo, a single by Ender Inciarte and a walk by Pete Alonso.
“As a fan of baseball, you do appreciate what he’s doing at a high level late in his career,” Showalter said of the 39-year-old Verlander. “Who knows, he’ll probably pitch another 4-5 years. He was a challenge, we knew that coming in. Our guy matched him, for the most part. We were in that ballgame because of Taijuan Walker.”
The Mets offense, a unit that is experiencing a lull of late, was held to two hits all afternoon by two Houston arms. One of those hits was a dribber that trailed about two feet away from home plate. Mets bats are 2-for-25 with runners in scoring position in their last three games, dating back to Sunday against the Marlins in Miami. The Mets are 2-5 across their last seven games.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumitomo Corporation of Americas ("SCOA") announced today its partnership with the state of North Dakota to evaluate and develop businesses within the energy transition market, with the intent to accelerate decarbonization in the state and even beyond.
North Dakota is a leader in various industries nationwide, including energy, agriculture, advanced manufacturing and technology. Even more, with a stable tax and regulatory environment and a variety of economic development programs available, North Dakota boasts an ideal ecosystem for developing new business.
"We are excited to get to work with the great state of North Dakota and its innovative leadership team," said Tomonori Wada, President and CEO, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas. "The local government is motivated to drive innovation and make change in the energy transition market, and has created a favorable environment to nurture this kind of innovation. Our shared values and goals for carbon neutrality positions this partnership as a promising recipe for success."
SCOA's business development team brings financial power, a large network of global resources and a deep bench of expertise throughout various industries to this partnership. The agreement, made official through a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two parties, is non-binding and solely for the purpose of facilitating joint collaboration and development of projects within the state of North Dakota.
"We're committed to partnering with the private sector to grow and diversify our economy, and SCOA is well-positioned to help North Dakota create the infrastructure necessary to support clean energy initiatives," North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said. "This partnership has great potential to enhance our research and development, evaluation and business modeling in this sector, and to accelerate our progress as we continue to develop clean energy sources and move toward carbon neutrality by 2030."
Both parties will study wide varieties of possibilities covering Sustainable Aviation Fuel supply chain development, CCS/CCUS project development, Hydrogen/Ammonia supply chain development, Geothermal utilization, CI (Carbon Intensity) measurement and agriculture optimization, and Digital transformation. While these areas are of critical interest, the team is not limiting their efforts and is open to other applicable industries and opportunities.
The MOU proposes an initial period of 10-12 months where the respective parties will set key goals and milestones, identify opportunities, evaluate the market and develop initial strategies based on feasibility studies.
About Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
Established in 1952 and headquartered in New York City, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) has eight offices in major U.S. cities. SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world's leading traders of goods and services. As an integrated business enterprise, the firm has emerged as a major organizer of multinational projects, an expediter of ideas, an important international investor and financier, and a powerful force for distribution of products and global communications through a network of offices worldwide. Its core business units include Tubular Products, Environment and Infrastructure, Steel and Non Ferrous Metals, Transportation and Construction Systems, Chemicals and Electronics, Media and IOT Applications, Real Estate, Mineral Resources and Energy, and Food. For more information, visit www.sumitomocorp.com
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
7-7-4-8
(seven, seven, four, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
7-7-4-8
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna will tour IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York site to see firsthand where the future of computing is being innovated, designed and manufactured. During the visit, IBM will announce a plan to invest $20 billion across the Hudson Valley region over the next 10 years. The goal of the investments, which will be strengthened by close collaboration with New York State, is to expand the vibrant technology ecosystem in New York to unlock new discoveries and opportunities in semiconductors, computers, hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and quantum computers.
IBM has long called New York state home, and its business supports more than 7,500 jobs across the Hudson Valley. This region has been a hub of innovation and manufacturing for decades. From Westchester County to Poughkeepsie to Albany, IBMers are pushing the limits of computing and helping clients embrace digital transformation.
"IBM is deeply honored to host President Biden at our Poughkeepsie site today and we look forward to highlighting our commitments to the innovations that advance America's economy," Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO of IBM, said. "As we tackle large-scale technological challenges in climate, energy, transportation and more, we must continue to invest in innovation and discovery - because advanced technologies are key to solving these problems and driving economic prosperity, including better jobs, for millions of Americans."
President Biden's visit to the IBM Poughkeepsie site highlights the CHIPS and Science Act's unique opportunity to advance American innovation and manufacturing. The technology that IBM delivers today from Poughkeepsie will directly benefit from the CHIPS and Science Act that the President recently signed into law. It will ensure a reliable and secure supply of next-generation chips for today's computers and artificial intelligence platforms as well as fuel the future of quantum computing by accelerating research, expanding the quantum supply chain, and providing more opportunities for researchers to explore business and science applications of quantum systems.
IBM's Poughkeepsie site has helped the country embrace the transformative power of technology since 1941, from manufacturing armaments during World War II to developing and building the latest generation mainframe computers. In Poughkeepsie, IBM builds state-of-the-art mainframe computers that power the global economy. The site also is home to IBM's first Quantum Computation Center – where a large number of real quantum computers run in the cloud. IBM's vision is for Poughkeepsie to become a global hub of the company's quantum computing development, just as it is today for mainframes.
The future of semiconductor technologies also is being created in the Hudson Valley, from Yorktown Heights to Albany and beyond. In Albany, a unique public-private semiconductor ecosystem is where IBM last year announced the first 2 nanometer chip technology, one of the semiconductor industry's biggest breakthroughs of the last decade. The expansion of Albany's collaborative innovation model could be a foundation for the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) that will be implemented as part of the CHIPS and Science Act.
IBM's announcement today builds on and expands these investments in the future of American innovation, and will fuel economic growth and job opportunities for people of all backgrounds to work with cutting-edge systems and accelerate the pace of discovery across the Hudson Valley.
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Bipartisan bill aims to ban federal government from buying drones from countries deemed national security threats such as China
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - As concerns about China’s spying capabilities continue to grow, a bipartisan group of senators say it is time to stop doing business with the Chinese in one specific area.
From the spy balloon to TikTok, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said it is time to put an end to China’s capability to spy on us.
“The government of China has decided to be our enemy. All right. So, we should not be buying anything that gives them the ability to surveil us,” said Scott.
That is why Scott and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) have introduced the American Security Drone Act of 2023. The bill would ban the federal government from buying drones from China and other countries that are deemed to be national security threats.
“If you if you want to worry about national security, if you want to worry about your own security, use American products. Don’t use don’t buy Chinese products. Don’t use Chinese apps. Don’t buy Chinese drones,” Scott said.
The General Services Administration, which buys supplies for the federal government, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Neither did the Chinese Embassy.
In a statement, a White House Official said, “We are reviewing the legislation but have been outspoken about the threat posed by certain foreign manufactured UAS.” UAS is an abbreviation for unmanned aircraft systems.
The Drone Act does a lot of things that are already required because of an executive order signed in 2021 by former President Donald Trump. Sen. Scott said he is optimistic his bill will be on President Joe Biden’s desk by the end of the year.
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NHL teams balance progress, draft lottery as Bedard in play
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen knows if the season ended today, his team would have the best odds to land who many consider the next generational talent in the NHL.
He is also keenly aware that the odds remain higher not to win the NHL’s draft lottery — and the chance to select Connor Bedard on May 8.
“Look, there’s a 25.5% chance for the team to finish last, but it’s still a 74.5% chance that you don’t get it. That’s much greater than 25.5,” Kekalainen said recently. “But we’ll see where it takes us. Wherever we end up in the standings, we get the odds the league gave, and then we hope for the best of luck.”
While the race for the league’s top record was done by midseason thanks to the Boston Bruins’ potential record-setting run, the chase for the worst mark remains up for grabs in the final three weeks.
Columbus is in “first” at 51 points, followed by San Jose (53), Chicago (54) and Anaheim (56).
Even though half of the league’s 32 teams do not make the playoffs, only 11 are eligible for the lottery. The rules instituted in 2022 state a team can move up a maximum of 10 spots.
For the last two years, the team with the worst record has won the lottery, but that often isn’t the case. In 2012, the Blue Jackets had the worst record and lost the top pick to Edmonton.
The last thing any of the coaches at the bottom want to hear, though, is lottery odds — especially if you’re Dallas Eakins, who is in the final year of his contract with the Ducks.
“We want to have development and progress every night,” said Eakins, who is in his fourth season with Anaheim. “We’re not the Boston Bruins right now. That’s why we have to play a perfect game to be in the game. I don’t understand the lottery, to be honest with you. Finishing at the very bottom guarantees you nothing. I’ve seen teams lose the lottery and end up with the best player in the draft.”
San Jose coach David Quinn agreed with Eakins’ assessment. And he knows firsthand about the lottery as an NHL and college coach.
Quinn was with the Rangers when they benefitted in 2020. He also coached Jack Eichel at Boston University when Eichel was the second choice in the 2015 draft by Buffalo — after Edmonton won the lottery and selected Connor McDavid.
“When you’re in the situation that Edmonton and Buffalo were in back then and we are in right now, people are paying attention for various reasons,” he said. “Back then, it was Eichel and McDavid. It was pretty clear McDavid would be the No. 1 pick, but Jack Eichel was going to get a hell of a consolation prize.”
No one expected the Blue Jackets to have the league’s worst record after they made one of the biggest splashes in free agency last year by signing Johnny Gaudreau. But having one of the highest injury rates has reduced them to using most of the season to assess their future.
Columbus, which already has 454 man-games lost to injury, suffered another blow this week when forward Patrik Laine strained a triceps muscle in practice. The Blue Jackets are also missing goaltender Elvis Merzlikins, who is in Latvia to be with his family after his grandmother fell gravely ill.
“If you have 13 guys on injured reserve as we did at one point, it’s hard to expect to win,” Kekalainen said.
Besides measuring their performance during games, Kekalainen and his staff have kept a keen eye on practices to ensure everyone follows the right approach.
“We’ve got some bright young kids here within our group, and they can see a good future in front of them,” he said. “But for the team here, it’s about being professional every day and going on just like you would if you were getting ready for the playoffs. Nobody’s going to take it easy on you.”
While Columbus made some minor moves near the trade deadline, Chicago and San Jose went into liquidation mode to improve their lottery chances. The Blackhawks sent Patrick Kane to the Rangers, while the Sharks traded Timo Meier to New Jersey.
“It’s unfortunate, but I understand it,” Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson said after the Meier trade. “I’ve been around the game long enough to understand what needs to be done from an organizational perspective. It just sucks that I happen to be where I’m at at this stage of my career.”
Chicago coach Luke Richardson also hopes people realize that teams can build a foundation and be in the mix to draft a generational talent.
“I trust the organization and scouting staff with how they approach things,” he said. “I love the energy of our team. What we’re trying to do is starting to show, but we have a long way to go.”
Arizona was near the bottom three spots for most of the season, but a 6-1-3 run in the last 10 games has it at 66 points and tied for the sixth-fewest points in the league.
Coyotes GM Bill Armstrong is OK with his franchise’s chances of landing a top-three pick taking a significant hit.
“As a GM, you never want to take the fight from your team. And so you’ve got to continue that and enjoy what you’re going through and how hard your team is fighting,” he said. “I’ve been through so many drafts that you can’t control where you draft, but you can’t control who you pick, and that’s what you got to worry about. So at the end of the day, no matter where we lie, we’ve got to be good at picking.”
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AP Sports Writers Josh Dubow in San Jose, California, Jordan Cohen in Chicago and John Marshall in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thai lawmakers are gathering Thursday to select a new prime minister, a process whose outcome is far from certain even though the country’s most progressive party won both the popular vote and the most seats in the House of Representatives in the most recent election.
The reformist Move Forward Party’s victory in the May 14 election appeared to spell an end to nine years of unpopular army-supported rule. Two months later, it is unclear if that mandate for change will be honored.
Parliament is due to vote on whether to make Move Forward’s leader, 42-year-old businessman Pita Limjaroenrat, the country’s prime minister. His party captured 151 of the 500 House seats and has assembled a coalition government-in-waiting. The eight parties in the coalition won 312 seats combined, a healthy majority.
But on Wednesday, the Election Commission said it concluded there was evidence that Pita had violated election law, and referred his case to the Constitutional Court for a ruling. If the court accepts the case and finds him guilty, he could lose his House seat, get kicked out of politics and face a prison sentence.
As Pita entered Parliament ahead of the vote on Thursday, he told reporters: “I will do my best to live up to the hope and support that the people have given me.”
The more immediate roadblock to Pita taking power is that the prime minister is elected through a joint vote of the House and the 250-seat Senate, whose members were hand-picked by the military-backed regime established after a 2014 coup. Pita, or any other candidate, needs a minimum of 376 votes to become head of government, meaning he would probably have to shake loose a large number of votes from the Senate, many of whose members appear openly hostile to him.
The biggest hurdle between the liberals backing Move Forward and the deeply conservative Senate is the campaign pledge of Pita’s party to amend a law that makes defaming the royal family punishable by three to 15 years in prison.
The monarchy is sacrosanct to members of Thailand’s royalist establishment, and even minor reforms that might improve and modernize the monarchy’s image are anathema to them. Move Forward’s coalition partners also have not endorsed the proposed legal change, and other parties ruled out joining the coalition over the idea.
Chonlanan Srikaew, the leader of the coalition partner Pheu Thai Party, nominated Pita to start Thursday’s proceedings, which include six hours of debate before an up-or-down vote for prime minister. If Pita does not get the required number, another round of voting is expected to be held next week.
If Pita cannot win over enough senators, his options appear nil. The options for the eight-party coalition as a whole appear more viable.
One option is for the Pheu Thai Party, which used to be the royalist establishment’s top rival, to put forward one of its members as a candidate for prime minister. The party is closely affiliated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire populist who was ousted in a 2006 military coup, in part because his popularity rubbed royalists the wrong way.
Thaksin-backed parties finished first in every election from 2001 until this past May but were blocked or forced from power each time. The 2014 coup seized power from a government that Thaksin’s sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, had formed.
Pheu Thai enrolled three of its members as potential prime minister candidates this year, including Thaksin’s daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Real estate developer Srettha Thavisin, another of the trio, is considered more likely to have his name put forward if Pita isn’t elected.
If the coalition cannot win enough support because Move Forward is a part of it, it could be dropped and other parties recruited to replace it. This could involve ceding the prime minister’s seat to a newly enlisted coalition partner, such as the Bhumjaithai Party, which polled third in the May election and secured 71 House seats. The party’s leader, Anutin Charnvirakul, was health minister in the outgoing government and has made no secret of his political ambitions.
If Pita and Move Forward somehow prevail — and it could take several votes over a period of weeks — their political survival still would sit on a knife’s edge.
There have been fears that Thailand’s conservative ruling establishment would use what its political opponents consider to be dirty tricks to cling to power. For a decade and a half, it has repeatedly utilized the courts and supposedly independent state agencies to issue questionable rulings to cripple or sink political opponents.
The alleged violation against Pita involves undeclared ownership of media company shares, which are banned for Thai lawmakers. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, describes the charges as “bogus,” and says many people will be unwilling to accept them.
“It all depends on how far the royalist conservative establishment wants to go after Pita and prevent a democratic outcome,” Thitinan said.
Michael Montesano, a Thai studies expert who is an associate senior fellow at Singapore’s ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, said Thailand’s political system should “move into closer correspondence with the realities of Thai society and with the aspirations of its younger, well educated members.”
“The biggest question is whether this transition will be painful and even violent, or whether it will be constructive and thus serve the country’s future prospects,” he said.
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The Supreme Court's abortion decision, along with a ruling on guns earlier in the week, continues the current court's move to the political right.
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The Supreme Court's abortion decision, along with a ruling on guns earlier in the week, continues the current court's move to the political right.
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