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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in a new op-ed is calling for his colleagues in both parties to back his permitting reform bill.
“At such a consequential moment in our nation’s history, now is the time for those fortunate enough to be elected leaders to push away the noise of partisan politics that is drowning out common sense. We must ignore the toxic ‘all or nothing’ legislative approach that has made it hard to discern what is truly essential for our nation,” Manchin wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
Manchin in the op-ed hit back at critics on the left and right to his plan to fast-track the approval process for U.S. energy projects, expediting environmental reviews of the proposals.
“Contrary to the radical agenda of Sen. Bernie Sanders and his allies, who seem oblivious to the reality of the global and domestic energy challenges we face, the common-sense permitting reforms contained in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022 will help cut costs and accelerate the building of the critical energy infrastructure we need,” Manchin wrote, referring to the independent Vermont senator.
“Some have said the legislation was crafted without Republican input or that it would make it harder for fossil fuels to be permitted. They are simply wrong. They aren’t being honest about what’s in the bill and how it came to be,” he added.
The West Virginia senator also argued the bill would increase energy supply, bring down energy prices and bolster American energy independence — and underscored his position on the necessity of bipartisan support.
“Even during this historic moment, some say it isn’t enough. They stand in the way of major progress on realistic reforms. Instead they offer a wish list with no chance of passing an evenly divided Senate. We’ve seen this story before, and inaction is no longer an option, for the energy crisis will only get worse the longer we wait,” Manchin wrote.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) promised to include the Energy Independence and Security Act to a crucial government funding measure in exchange for Manchin’s vote on the multi-billion dollar Inflation Reduction Act. The sweeping tax, climate and health care bill passed the Senate and became law last month with the help of the West Virginia Republican’s across-the-aisle support.
But Manchin’s permitting reform bill now faces challenges from both parties. A number of Republicans are saying the bill doesn’t do enough, and some Democrats have raised concerns about climate change and fossil fuels.
Many are urging the bill to be separated from the continuing resolution that would secure government funding.
Congress must pass the continuing resolution by the end of this month to prevent a government shutdown, giving the Senate just days to grapple with whether to include Manchin’s bill in the measure. | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/manchin-makes-push-for-bipartisan-support-of-permitting-reform-we-must-ignore-all-or-nothing-approach/ | 2022-09-26 22:12:36 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/manchin-makes-push-for-bipartisan-support-of-permitting-reform-we-must-ignore-all-or-nothing-approach/ |
ST. LOUIS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Small business industry supply leader Store Supply Warehouse announced Tuesday they have been selected as a Top Workplace in St. Louis for 2022 by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Top Workplaces awards are based solely on feedback captured from one, five-minute employee engagement survey and are published yearly by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers critical to the success of any organization, including alignment, execution, and connection.
"We are thrilled to once again be named a Top Workplace in the small business category" said Jeff Bernth, Chief Marketing Officer at Store Supply Warehouse. "This recognition shows that our incredible team is the reason we are able to deliver on the promises we make to our customers. We aim to create an environment where our employees can learn and thrive." Bernth said.
The Top Workplaces survey was conducted between January and April 2022 and was open to organizations with 50 or more employees in Greater St. Louis.
The full list of honorees can be viewed at : www.stltoday.com/business/workplaces
More information on Store Supply Warehouse can be found at: www.storesupply.com
Store Supply Warehouse has been serving the retail and small business industries for over 25 years, providing store fixtures and supplies for small businesses, online retailers, boutiques and more. They maintain shipping facilities throughout the country and are headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Store Supply Warehouse is available by phone at 1-800-823-8887 or anytime online at storesupply.com.
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Feds want psychological tests for parents of separated kids
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border undergo another round of psychological evaluations to measure how traumatized they were by the Trump-era policy, court documents show.
The request comes in a lawsuit filed by migrants seeking compensation from the government after thousands of children were taken from parents in a policy maligned as inhumane by political and religious leaders around the world. Settlement talks with attorneys and the government broke down late last year.
Justice Department attorneys are also reserving the right to have a psychologist examine the children who were separated, if necessary. The evaluations are routine in emotional-damages claims, but these cases are unusual because the government’s role in traumatizing parents and children by the separations has been well documented.
“President Biden called the Trump family separations criminal and a moral stain on the nation, but now his administration is hiring doctors to try and claim the families didn’t suffer all that much,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and a lawyer for plaintiffs in the effort to compensate migrants.
Government attorneys argued that the migrants “allege that their mental and emotional injuries are ongoing and permanent in nature” and that their injuries are directly related to the government’s policy. They say it is necessary for the government to have its own opportunity to examine them.
The requests came in two cases filed by 11 families. There are nearly two dozen similar cases pending in other courts, and some have already submitted to government-requested psychiatric evaluations.
But the parents have already sat for hourslong depositions in which they recounted what happened in detail. Government investigators have said children separated from their parents showed more fear, feelings of abandonment and post-traumatic stress symptoms than children who were not separated.
Some children believed their parents had abandoned them or had been killed. For some, the mental trauma caused physical symptoms, like chest or heart pain, according to a 2019 report from the inspector general’s office in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Parents studied by Physicians for Human Rights, a nonprofit collective of doctors that works to document human rights violations, exhibited suicidal thoughts and suffered a raft of problems including nightmares, depression, anxiety, panic, worry and difficulty sleeping.
Biden administration officials have decried the Trump-era policies. Biden, a Democrat, said during his presidential campaign the policies were “an outrage, a moral failing and a stain on our national character.”
Justice Department attorneys acknowledge in court documents that parents have already undergone multiple mental health evaluations but say an adult-psychology expert found it was necessary to get another opinion, according to court documents.
“It is standard practice for plaintiffs alleging severe emotional injury to be examined by the opposing party’s expert,” federal attorneys wrote. They point to a similar southern Florida case in which a father and child agreed to the same examination and say it’s “well within” what’s considered appropriate.
An examination would take about eight hours, four hours for clinical interviews and four hours of emotional and trauma testing, federal attorneys wrote. It would not be invasive and would happen at an agreed-upon place and time. The previous evaluations were done by experts chosen by the parents’ lawyers.
The two sides had been negotiating a settlement, but then Biden said that families of separated children deserve some form of compensation. An early proposal of $450,000 per person was reported and was heavily criticized by Republicans. When asked about the proposed figure, Biden said: “That’s not going to happen.”
Talks ended shortly after. The settlement talks had also included discussion of granting the families legal U.S. residency and providing counseling services.
There is a separate legal effort to reunite other families, and there are still hundreds who have not been brought back together. The Biden administration has formed a reunification task force that has reunited roughly 600 families.
Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy meant that any adult caught crossing the border illegally would be prosecuted for illegal entry. Because children cannot be jailed with their family members, families were separated and children were taken into custody by Health and Human Services, which manages unaccompanied children at the border. No system was created to reunite children with their families.
According to the government watchdogs, Trump administration leaders underestimated how difficult it would be to carry out the policy in the field and did not inform local prosecutors and others that children would be separated. They also failed to understand that children would be separated longer than a few hours, and when that was discovered, they pressed on, the watchdogs said.
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Insurance program manager provides express umbrella insurance for real estate and community association clients
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Distinguished Programs ("Distinguished"), a national insurance program manager, announces a higher limit option in the Express Umbrella program. The program now offers limits up to $10M and caters to community associations, homeowner associations, condominium associations and small commercial buildings.
"It can be very expensive and time consuming for brokers to seek out excess limits," said Chris Larson, Product Manager for the Express Umbrella program. "By doubling limit capacity, brokers can submit-quote-bind* for $10M limit with ease through the 24/7 Distinguished Online Portal. It saves time for the brokers, and clients get the coverage they need when they need it. It's a win/win."
The Express Umbrella program is comprised of the Express Real Estate Umbrella and the Express Community Association Umbrella. Key coverages in the program include Director & Officers ("D&O") Follow Form, Pay On Behalf, Defense Outside Limits, and Zero Retention.
"The additional $5M fills a gap with our current limit options for our community associations," noted Barbara Bartson, Managing Vice President of Community Associations program at Distinguished. "Some associations need more limits to provide financial protection and peace of mind. Now, brokers have more flexibility in choosing the limit option that best fits their clients' needs. Plus, with our other product offerings including package, crime, and D&O, brokers can submit business in one place."
The Express Umbrella program is available nationwide except in Georgia and New York state. Brokers can submit business by visiting the Distinguished website.
* For the following states, online binding capability is not available – AK, CO, CT, DE, FL, IN, IA, MT, OH, OR, RI, SC, TN, WV and WY.
Distinguished Programs is a leading national insurance Program Manager providing specialized insurance programs to brokers and agents with specific expertise in Real Estate, Community Associations, Hotels, and Restaurants. Serving the same core markets and partnering with the most stable and reputable carriers, Distinguished Programs' high-limit umbrella programs remain the clear choice in its areas of specialty for superior coverage, competitive pricing, and attentive service. Through thoughtful innovation, stemming back to 1987, Distinguished Programs fosters growth and opportunities for its brokers, carriers, and employees. www.distinguished.com.
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WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs the media after President Biden outlined his proposal to suspend the federal gasoline and diesel taxes. The briefing was scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
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MIAMI — The Atlantic was bustling with activity Tuesday, and forecasters are watching four systems:
A tropical wave over western Africa is expected to move into the Atlantic and a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic could turn into a tropical depression in the next few days. A struggling Hurricane Danielle could lose its tropical strength this week. And Earl turned into a hurricane Tuesday night.
The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday announced it was watching a new tropical wave over western Africa.
The system is forecast to emerge into the eastern Atlantic in a day or two, where conditions could be friendly to some development as it moves west to northwest. It had a 0% chance of formation through the next 48 hours and a low 20% chance of formation through the next five days as of the 8 p.m. Eastern time advisory.
Forecasters are also watching another disturbance in the eastern Atlantic that has a 50% chance of formation through the next 48 hours and a 60% chance of formation through the next five days. The area of low pressure was producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms from the Cabo Verde Islands to several hundred miles southwest.
While the disturbance could turn into a depression as it moves west to west-northwest, forecasters also noted in the advisory that upper-level winds are expected to become “less conducive for development” later this week.
Earl became a hurricane Tuesday night with 80 mph winds, the NHC said in its 8 p.m. advisory.
Hurricane Earl is moving north and this motion is expected to continue into Wednesday with a gradual turn to the north-northeast on Thursday.
On the forecast track, the center of Earl is expected to pass to the southeast of Bermuda by Friday morning. As a result, the Bermuda Weather Service issued a tropical storm watch.
Earl’s wind speeds are expected to peak at 125 mph on Friday, making it a strong Category 3 hurricane.
Hurricane Earl’s wind speeds are expected to peak at 125 mph on Friday, making it a strong Category 3 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. National Hurricane Center
“Earl’s center is expected to pass to the southeast of Bermuda in 48-60 hours,” the NHC said. “However, the size of the wind field of the tropical cyclone is expected to increase significantly, and the Bermuda Weather Service has issued a tropical storm watch for the Island of Bermuda.”
Hurricane Danielle is holding its own over the north-central Atlantic with 75 mph winds, the NHC said in its 8 p.m. advisory.
“The cyclone’s structure has stabilized since early this morning and the cloud tops have been cooling slightly over the past several hours, suggesting that any weakening that had been occurring overnight has temporarily ended,” the NHC said.
The combination of cooler waters and Danielle’s interaction with another system, the NHC said, should cause it to weaken even further, turning into a large post-tropical system by Thursday.
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Metaverse Governance, Safety By Design, and Global Principles for Digital Safety are Top Focuses for 2023
NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActiveFence, the leading trust & safety technology company, announced today that it will be renewing its partnership with the World Economic Forum and joining the WEF's Global Innovators Unicorn Track for promising companies. Renewing and elevating this partnership furthers ActiveFence's commitment to helping to protect the online safety and security of communities and industries worldwide.
Last year, ActiveFence aided the Coalition's efforts to mitigate harmful disinformation narratives surrounding the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, and CEO Noam Schwartz presented new ideas and tactics to combat active disinformation online.
ActiveFence Trust & Safety Vice President Inbal Goldberger also participated in the Forum's working group on developing methods developed for maintaining the metaverse while ensuring safety and protecting users.
Looking ahead to 2023, ActiveFence will continue these efforts, focusing the majority of its efforts at the World Economic Forum expanding key programs around Metaverse Governance- a rapidly-developing facet of the user experience; safety by design best practices; and developing global principles for digital safety. ActiveFence, which employs top-tier trust & safety experts to ensure the identification of online harm, is committed to facilitating conversations around defining best practices, measures and standards for protecting vulnerable groups online.
"We are incredibly proud of how much we were able to achieve collaboratively as a member of the World Economic Forum," said Noam Schwartz, CEO & Founder of ActiveFence. "Going into 2023 we look forward to continuing this partnership and mapping out the framework that will establish Metaverse governance and safety by design best practices."
"We have valued the meaningful ways in which we have made an active contribution to the ongoing conversation on online safety as members of the Forum," said Inbal Goldberger, Vice President of Trust & Safety at ActiveFence. "We share the Forum's values to be forward-thinking while helping others and are anticipating another productive year of partnership."
"As an active member of the Global Coalition for Digital Safety, ActiveFence has made significant contributions towards advancing global digital safety," said Cathy Li, Head of Media, Entertainment and Sport at the World Economic Forum. "We look forward to continuing to explore how we can evolve our approach to detecting online harm in a lasting way."
ActiveFence's technology allows Trust & Safety teams – at platforms of all sizes – to make informed decisions for the well-being of their platforms and users.
ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence's end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more.
Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 95+ languages.
Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date; employs over 300 people worldwide; and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.
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NEW YORK, March 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of ESS Tech Inc. (NYSE: GWH) between August 11, 2022 and December 7, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 13, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased ESS Tech securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the ESS Tech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10877 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 13, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) the purported agreement with Energy Storage Industries Asia Pacific ("ESI") was in fact an undisclosed related party transaction because ESI was a de-facto subsidiary of ESS masquerading as third-party client; (2) ESS misled investors with their partnership announcement to signal business success to investors; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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College coach cuts entire volleyball team; players left scrambling without scholarships
GRAMBLING, La. (KSLA/Gray News) - Grambling State University’s new head volleyball coach Chelsey Lucas has decided to cut the entire team.
KSLA reports Lucas notified the 19 players about the roster change on Monday. She has been the coach of the team since February.
GSU Athletics Communications Director Brian Howard said athletic leaders knew Lucas would be making some changes to the roster, but not to what extent.
“It’s her decision to make, and she’s got some quality players coming on board. I think 13 or 14 are coming on board. So, I hate to say out with the old, but in with the new a little bit,” Howard said.
According to the players, Lucas called individual player meetings and told them their scholarships would not be renewed.
Maurisa Harris, a junior at GSU, said players were advised that their scholarships would not be renewed based on their performance at recent practices held this semester.
Harris said the coach’s decision has left many of her teammates scrambling to find another program to transfer to in the off-season.
GSU Athletic Director Trayveon Scott issued the following statement:
“Just as the transfer portal empowers student-athletes, our coaches are also empowered to make the decisions they deem necessary to advance their programs.”
According to Howard, athletic leaders wish the players whose scholarships were not renewed future success.
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Evoke announces the integration of Ashfield Health marketing and communications agencies to form a new global healthcare brand, experience, and communications platform, purpose-built to make health more human™.
The combination of two leading global healthcare organizations in one agile platform – under the Evoke name – creates one of the industry's deepest and most dynamic marketing and communications offerings. Evoke now has 1,400+ people across global practice area teams and 12 specialty agencies united and defined by the common purpose to make health more human™ and unlock the full potential of its people, brands, organizations and the communities they serve.
"Our market is evolving rapidly, requiring healthcare brands and organizations to be fluid, constantly transforming, and embracing of new technology into their marketing and communications to reach and engage their audiences in the most compelling way. This was the perfect opportunity to create a genuinely different proposition to anything else in the industry – one that thrives in this type of change, giving our clients the ability and confidence to relentlessly focus on building empathetic experiences for patients that build enduring value," said Reid Connolly, CEO and Founder of Evoke.
Evoke's offering is centered around global practice areas in Creative, Communications, Policy & Access, Experience, Data Science, Media, MarTech and Delivery, and will bring the best talent from across the Evoke platform together to solve the most complex of client challenges.
Evoke will now become one of the largest global healthcare marketing and communications organizations and is led by an Executive Committee comprised of:
- Reid Connolly, CEO and Founder of Evoke
- Former Ashfield Health Global President, Amar Urhekar, who takes the new role of Global President overseeing marketing and advertising specialty agencies
- Former Evoke Kyne CEO, David Kyne, who takes the new role of Global President overseeing communications and PR specialty agencies
- Heather Torak, Chief Operating Officer
- Eric Daly, Chief Growth Officer
The Executive Committee is supported by an Executive Leadership Team consisting of specialty agency heads and function leads.
"Evoke is a more agile and adaptive client partner, able to bring talent and technology together at scale for refreshingly seamless partnerships at the therapy area or enterprise level, and also offer the deepest sector expertise through our incredible specialty agencies. We make this possible through our amazing people and leaders who share a powerful and singular focus on making health more human™ – this unites our diverse cultures and inspires us to work harder, better and more human, together," comments Amar Urhekar, Global President.
The integration of Ashfield Health marketing and communications specialty agencies into the Evoke platform has been under way since October 2021. The launch follows the acquisition of UDG Healthcare (Ashfield Health's parent company) in August 2021 by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (which acquired Evoke's parent company, Huntsworth in 2020).
"Our structure celebrates the diversity and uniqueness of the individual agency cultures that exist within our business, while also providing the benefits that only a platform with our scale, diversity and global reach can. We are committed to supporting and challenging our teams, opening up new and unexpected career journeys on a global level, and helping our people grow quickly in a more inclusive, progressive and personalized way," said David Kyne, Global President.
Evoke is also unveiling a new refreshed branding that reflects key brand hallmarks from both businesses and represents the key role of innovation and empathy in making health more human™. The new visual identity and Evoke naming convention is shared by all specialty agencies supporting the united platform structure. Evoke specialty agencies now include:
- Evoke Canale – a PR, integrated communications and investor relations agency for emerging and breakthrough businesses, mainly in the biotech space
- Evoke Create – a creative delivery agency providing performance-based execution of strategic plans for health and life science brands
- Evoke Galliard – a communications agency specializing in scientific storytelling with creativity
- Evoke Incisive Health – healthcare policy and communications consultancy focused on UK and European markets
- Evoke MicroMass – a creative agency with a deep understanding of behavioral science and patient engagement
- Evoke Mind+Matter – a global data-driven marketing agency creating engaging experiences for health and life science brands
- Evoke Kyne – global PR and communications agency working with biopharma, foundations and non-profits, and government organizations
- Evoke Navience – a market access agency helping clients accelerate brand growth from strategy through execution
- Evoke New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and London – a global health and wellness marketing and brand communications agency
Visit www.evokegroup.com to find out more – new website is live on June 6th 2022.
Notes for editors
For further information or to arrange interviews with Reid Connolly or other members of the Evoke Executive Committee please contact:
Ashley Makuh
VP Marketing and Communications, Evoke
+1 732 687 3242
ashley.makuh@evokegroup.com
Simon Hackett
Global Marketing and Communications Director, Evoke
+34 651938132
simon.hackett@evokegroup.com
About Evoke
Evoke is a leading global brand, experience, and communications platform, purpose-built to make health more human™. Organized by global practice areas and specialty agencies, Evoke uses data-driven insights, creativity, and applied innovation to solve the most complex of challenges in today's healthcare market. Evoke is a platform for our people, our clients, and the communities we serve to unlock their full potential.
Evoke is part of Huntsworth (www.huntsworth.com), an international healthcare and communications group. Huntsworth's principal areas of focus are marketing, medical, and immersive communication services for healthcare clients, which are primarily large and mid-sized pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice acquired Huntsworth plc on May 1, 2020.
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By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — There will not be a showdown between Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff at the Australian Open. Instead, it will be the players who beat them Sunday — reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko — who face off for a semifinal berth.
Rybakina eliminated No. 1-seeded Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-4 in Rod Laver Arena, while Ostapenko got past No. 7 Gauff 7-5, 6-3 next door in Margaret Court Arena.
Both the 22nd-seeded Rybakina, a 23-year-old who represents Kazakhstan, and the 17th-seeded Ostapenko, a 25-year-old from Latvia, earned spots in the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park for the first time.
“I played well in the important moments,” said Rybakina, who used her big serve to unsettle Swiatek and got the better of their baseline exchanges. “Of course I’m nervous every time I go on the court, I think like everybody. But I’m calm, always. At least I’m trying not to show too much emotions. My coach says I actually need to show sometimes, so I’m also learning.”
Swiatek is a three-time major champion, including titles at the French Open and U.S. Open last season. She beat Gauff, an 18-year-old American, in the final at Roland Garros last June.
Until Sunday, they both had looked fairly dominant in this event, winning every set they contested, with Swiatek dropping a total of just 15 games and Gauff just 19 through three matches.
One key to Ostapenko vs. Gauff: Ostapenko went 3-for-3 converting her break chances, and Gauff was just 1-for-8 in such situations.
Rybakina’s ranking of No. 25 does not properly reflect her ability or results because her championship at the All England Club in July did not come with any ranking points. The WTA and ATP tours withheld all points at Wimbledon in 2022 after the All England Club barred players from Russia and Belarus from participating because of the invasion of Ukraine.
Rybakina was born in Moscow but has played for Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered her funding to support her tennis career.
Despite her status as a major champion, Rybakina has been out of the spotlight: Her first-round match at Melbourne Park was placed on tiny Court 13 last Monday; her match against two-time Slam champ Garbiñe Muguruza at least year’s U.S. Open was on Court 4.
But her game is worthy of much more attention, as she displayed in knocking out Swiatek.
Rybakina hit six aces and compiled a 24-15 edge in winners against the 21-year-old from Poland, who was a semifinalist a year ago in Australia. That followed Rybakina’s victory over 2022 runner-up Danielle Collins in the third round.
Swiatek was not at her best, and Rybakina had a lot to do with that. In the opening game, Swiatek led 40-love but got broken. In the next, Swiatek held two break points at 15-40 but failed to convert either. So early on, while it ended up being 2-2, it very well could have been 4-0 in Swiatek’s favor.
Rybakina wound up serving out that set at love, capping it with a 113 mph (183 kph) ace, and her dangerous backhand was quite a help, too: She produced six winners off that wing in the first set, compared with zero for Swiatek.
In the second set, Swiatek appeared to have gotten herself back on track, looking very much like the player who put together a 37-match winning streak last year. But that surge didn’t last long, and Rybakina took six of the match’s last seven games.
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Whole Foods Market has temporarily closed its downtown San Francisco location Monday after business hours due to public safety issues, according to a spokesperson for the company.
The closure comes just a year after the store opened at the Trinity S.F. apartment building at Market and Eighth streets in March 2022.
“To ensure the safety of our Team Members, we have made the difficult decision to close the Trinity store for the time being,” a Whole Foods Market spokesperson said in a written statement. “All team members will be transferred to one of our nearby locations.”
Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who lives in the neighborhood and frequented the store, said he’d seen signs that the Whole Foods was struggling. As a near-daily customer, he said, the store had gotten rid of handheld shopping baskets, allowing only carts. An employee told Dorsey that all 250 baskets the store had when it first opened were stolen — something Dorsey said he saw evidence of during neighborhood cleanups on nearby Natoma and Minna streets. Staff also reportedly complained about “people acting out” inside the store, he said.
“It’s obvious to me that, as an employer, Whole Foods has a lot of concerns about the safety of their employees, and ultimately that’s why they made the decision to close,” Dorsey said. “I wish they hadn’t, but I’ve also been in there and seen some things that are off-putting.”
Dorsey seized on the store closure to announce Monday that he wants voters to decide on a ballot measure next year that would re-establish minimum staffing levels for the San Francisco Police Department and set a goal of reaching it in the next five years. Dorsey, a former SFPD spokesman, said he had asked City Attorney David Chiu in late March for help in drafting the language of the potential measure, which could appear on the ballot in March 2024.
“We’re not going to make progress on solving our public safety challenges if we don’t have a fully staffed Police Department,” Dorsey said. “San Franciscans are demanding progress — at least the San Franciscans I represent. People need to know that we are taking these challenges seriously, and that we are pursuing solutions that are as big as our problems.”
Dorsey told the city attorney that he wants his potential ballot measure to set a minimum police staffing level of 2,182 officers — a number previously recommended in an analysis the city uses to decide how many officers it will seek to hire. The number sought by Dorsey is higher than the minimum staffing requirement of 1,971 officers that voters agreed to do away with in 2020. As of last month, the number of full-duty San Francisco police officers who were not on leave was about 1,500.
Dorsey’s push for a new ballot measure comes just after the Board of Supervisors approved Mayor London Breed’s request for another $25 million in police overtime this year. Supervisors are also poised to consider approving a contract with the city police union that would give raises to new and current officers and cost taxpayers about $166.5 million over a three year period.
In order for his staffing proposal to appear before voters, Dorsey would need to get a majority of the 11-member board to send his legislation to the ballot. If that effort fails, supporters could launch a signature-gathering campaign.
The Whole Foods spokesperson said there is no timetable for the store’s possible reopening.
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CHICAGO — A woman was charged after police said she pushed her 3-year-old nephew into Lake Michigan.
Victoria Moreno, 34, was charged with felony attempted first-degree murder and felony aggravated battery of a child after she was arrested Monday.
A police source on Tuesday told WGN Investigates that Navy Pier surveillance video appears to show a woman throwing the 3-year-old boy into Lake Michigan. Police said Moreno did not attempt to rescue the boy.
Fire officials said the boy was pulled from the water in the 700 block of East Grand Avenue around 1 p.m. Monday.
The 3-year-old was in cardiac arrest when he was lifted from the water off Navy Pier and arrived at Lurie Children’s Hospital in very critical condition. The boy is currently on life support.
A source confirmed to WGN that Moreno is the boy’s aunt. A police report said the boy was in the care of his grandmother Monday. When his grandmother went upstairs to change, the boy’s aunt took him out of the home.
Authorities have not released the surveillance video from Navy Pier. | https://wgntv.com/news/woman-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-her-3-year-old-nephew-after-pushing-him-into-lake-michigan-police/ | 2022-09-21 16:33:40 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/woman-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-her-3-year-old-nephew-after-pushing-him-into-lake-michigan-police/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Pacific Island leaders for a two-day summit as the U.S. looks to counter China’s military and economic influence in the region. Pacific Island leaders, meanwhile, see an even more pressing concern: climate change.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off the summit on Wednesday with a luncheon for the Pacific Island leaders and other senior officials from the region. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry held a climate roundtable with the leaders, and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan was joining them for a dinner hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Biden is set to address the leaders at the State Department on Thursday and will host them for a dinner at the White House. The leaders also are to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. business leaders.
Leaders from Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia are attending. Vanuatu and Nauru are sending representatives, and Australia, New Zealand and the secretary-general of the Pacific Island Forum sent observers, according to the White House.
“This summit reflects our deep, enduring partnership with the Pacific Islands; one that’s underpinned by shared history, values, and enduring people-to-people ties,” Blinken told leaders as he opened the summit. Talks are expected to touch on climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and economic recovery, maritime security, environmental protection and the Indo-Pacific.
The first-of-its-kind summit comes as the administration has sought to demonstrate that the U.S. remains committed to being a enduring player in the region.
While the high-level gathering is welcomed by the region’s leaders as a signal of Biden’s commitment to the Pacific, there’s also a healthy skepticism about whether the United States will remain engaged for the longer term in the Pacific Islands. The area has received diminished attention from the U.S. in the aftermath of the Cold War and China has increasingly filled the vacuum, analysts say.
The Solomon Islands has signaled it was unlikely to sign on to a joint statement that the U.S. hoped to have hashed out by the end of the summit, according to a diplomat familiar with summit planning.
The diplomat, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the resistance is driven in part by the Solomon Islands’ tightening relationship with Beijing and in part is seen as an effort to press the U.S. for greater economic assistance.
A senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters before the summit said discussions on the joint statement are still ongoing.
For the Biden administration, stemming the growing influence of China is a high priority. But for many of the Pacific Island leaders, climate change is the existential crisis that demands attention above all else.
Last week at the U.N. General Assembly, Prime Minister Kausea Natano of the tiny island of Tuvalu described how rising sea levels have affected everything from the soil that his people rely on to plant crops, to the homes, roads and power lines that get washed away. The cost of eking out a living, he said, eventually becomes too much to bear, causing families to leave and the nation to disappear.
“This is how our islands will cease to exist,” Natano said.
In June, Inia Seruiratu, Fiji’s minister for defense, said at the Shangri-La Dialogue that “machine guns, fighter jets, gray ships and green battalions are not our primary security concern.”
“The single greatest threat to our very existence is climate change,” he said.
Plans for the summit were announced earlier this month, just days after the Solomon Islands called on the U.S. and Britain not to send naval vessels to the South Pacific nation until approval processes are overhauled. The Solomons in April signed a new security pact with China — a moment that analysts say has created increased urgency for the Biden administration to put greater focus on the region.
The United States and Britain are among countries concerned that a new security pact with Beijing could lead to a Chinese naval base being constructed less than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) off Australia’s northeast coast.
Darshana Baruah, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Beijing has been more present in the region in the last decades.
“The first questions from the islands to the United States are, ‘Is this going to last beyond the current tense cycle? Are you going to keep showing up,?’” Baruah said. “The second question is, ‘What kind of messaging is this sending across the Indo-Pacific? Are you mistakenly giving the impression that if you want Washington’s attention you must grab Beijing’s purse?’”
In the leadup to the summit, Pacific Island leaders made clear that they want increased U.S. assistance on battling the impacts of climate change and help for their economies recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a senior Biden administration official.
The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the “lapse” in the U.S. efforts in the region comes up in “every meeting” with Pacific Island leaders. The White House plans to announce its first U.S. Pacific Island Strategy and announce that the Democratic president will appoint a U.S. envoy to the Pacific Islands Forum.
The U.S. will also be seeking to mend relations with the Marshall Islands, which for decades has been a strong ally but which is in a bitter dispute over a treaty that’s up for renewal.
Just last week, the Marshall Islands pulled out of a negotiating session with the U.S. over their Compact of Free Association, which expires next year. The Marshall Islands says the U.S. isn’t engaging in its claim for proper reparations from the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing in the islands.
The Marshall Islands says there was extensive environmental and health damage from the dozens of tests in the 1940s and ’50s, which a settlement in the 1980s fell well short of addressing.
The U.S. has treated the Marshall Islands, along with nearby Micronesia and Palau, much like territories since World War II, and observers worry that a weakening of those ties would play into the hands of China.
The administration in recent months has sought to have greater presence in the region. In February, Blinken became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Fiji in 37 years. And in recent months, the U.S. along with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the U.K. created an informal group aimed at boosting economic and diplomatic ties with Pacific Island nations dubbed Partners in the Blue Pacific.
During the Fiji visit, Blinken announced the U.S. would open an embassy in the Solomon Islands. The U.S. operated an embassy in the Solomons for five years before closing it in 1993. Since then, U.S. diplomats from neighboring Papua New Guinea have been accredited to the Solomons, which has a U.S. consular agency.
Guadalcanal, the largest landmass in the Solomon Islands, was the site of the crucial battles between Allied forces and Japan early in World War II.
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Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington and Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, contributed reporting. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-biden-looks-to-win-over-pacific-island-leaders-at-summit/ | 2022-09-29 20:03:15 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-biden-looks-to-win-over-pacific-island-leaders-at-summit/ |
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Dalvin Cook rushed for a 53-yard insurance touchdown in the fourth quarter and the Minnesota Vikings held on to beat the injury-riddled Miami Dolphins 24-16 on Sunday.
Cook was quiet most of the afternoon until his score with 3:25 left restored Minnesota's two-touchdown lead.
Miami had rallied behind Teddy Bridgewater, a former Viking who returned Sunday from concussion protocol but was only put into game action after third-stringer Skylar Thompson injured his thumb in the second quarter.
Cook's burst followed a fumble by Dolphins receiver Jaylen Waddle on a drive when Miami was swiftly moving the ball down the field, trailing 16-10.
Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson, who entered the game as the NFL’s leader in receiving yards, had a 47-yard catch-and-run at the end of the third quarter — part of a six-catch, 107-yard performance. That set up a 2-yard touchdown catch by Adam Thielen to make it 16-3.
Facing their fifth-straight fourth-quarter deficit, the Dolphins found the end zone for the first time when Bridgewater threw a 4-yard TD pass to tight end Mike Gesicki.
The Vikings defense came away with an interception and fumble recovery on the Dolphins' next two possessions. Minnesota’s defense sacked Miami’s quarterbacks five times.
The Dolphins defense put together one of its best performances in a while — three sacks, seven quarterback hurries, four tackles for loss — but didn’t get enough help from an offense that could not turn drives into points.
Miami had three receivers — Hill, Waddle and Gesicki — with at least seven catches.
Waddle and Hill both topped 100 receiving yards, and Gesicki had two touchdown catches, including one with less than two minutes left after the game had virtually been decided.
Thompson started in place of Bridgewater and Tua Tagovailoa. He didn't return after injuring his thumb, marking the fourth-consecutive game that a Dolphins starting quarterback was injured.
Bridgewater replaced Thompson with about 11 minutes left in the first half after spending most of the week in the NFL’s concussion protocol. He finished with 329 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Cousins was 20 for 30 with 175 yards and two touchdowns. Cook ran for 77 yards on 13 carries.
Minnesota got Jefferson and Thielen involved on their fifth possession of the game after four-consecutive three-and-outs. The result was a touchdown catch by tight end Irv Smith Jr. for a 7-3 lead.
From the start, Thompson looked more comfortable throwing the ball than he did in last week’s loss to the Jets. But the Dolphins did little to help their rookie quarterback on their first two drives.
Thompson had an impressive third-down scramble on Miami’s opening drive, then followed with a throw to Gesicki in tight coverage for an 18-yard gain.
Miami’s offensive line, playing without starting left tackle Terron Armstead, allowed Patrick Jones to get through to Thompson untouched for an 8-yard sack that knocked the Dolphins out of field goal range.
Miami had another drive in the first half spoiled by five penalties over 10 plays, wiping out gains of 20, 32 and 9 yards.
HONORED
The Dolphins honored Sgt. Dustin Demonte, who along with officer Alex Hamzy, was shot dead in Connecticut last Wednesday. Demonte was a lifelong Dolphins fan and had planned to attend Sunday’s game.
INJURIES
Dolphins: LB Trey Flowers injured his foot in the first quarter and did not return. ... DE Emmanuel Ogbah went to the locker room in the second quarter with a back injury but later returned. ... Nik Needham (foot) was carted off the field in the second quarter and was immediately ruled out. He could not put any weight on his right ankle after suffering an injury covering Thielen. ... Keion Crossen (knee) left just before halftime and did not return. ... Waddle appeared to hurt his left arm after a 49-yard catch-and-run in the fourth quarter.
UP NEXT
Vikings: Have a bye next week, host Arizona on Oct. 30.
Dolphins: Host Pittsburgh on Oct. 23 at 8:20 p.m.
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SANDWICH ACADEMY GRANT TOWNSHIP, Maine (AP) — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is taking Canadian Pacific Kansas City to task over the cleanup following a freight train derailment and fire.
Commissioner Melanie Loyzim sent a letter Thursday telling the railroad that its good faith efforts have failed to meet the agency’s expectations with regards to response and timing “to effectively mitigate impacts to the environment and public health.”
Two concerns are a failure to move a pair of rail cars containing hazardous material farther away from the site in a timely manner, and the failure to remove diesel fuel from the locomotives’ saddle tanks, causing a diesel fuel spill, the agency said. An estimated 500 gallons (1,895 liters) of fuel spilled.
Three locomotive engines and six train cars carrying lumber and electrical wiring went off the tracks Saturday in Somerset County, sending three people to the hospital.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City, created by a merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern that was completed the day before the derailment, is leading cleanup, salvage and repair.
Derailments and railroad safety have been a growing concern nationwide since the fiery Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment outside East Palestine, Ohio released chemicals, that forced evacuations and creating lingering health concerns.
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Broncos' Russell Wilson suffers big knot on his head as tackle left him with concussion
Russell Wilson nearly led the team to a comeback win
Russell Wilson nearly led the Denver Broncos to an incredible comeback victory against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday but left the game early with a concussion.
On 3rd-and-11 from the Chiefs’ 16-yard line, Wilson scrambled for a first down and was about 2 yards short of the end zone when he was tackled by safety Juan Thornhill. Wilson went down hard and appeared to be in a daze. He needed to be helped up by medical personnel.
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He wouldn’t return to the game and the broadcast camera showed the veteran quarterback with a big knot in his head as he roamed the sideline.
Brett Rypien came into the game and threw a touchdown pass to Jerry Jeudy to cut their deficit to just six points. But Rypien failed to complete the comeback and the Chiefs won the game 34-28.
BRONCOS' JERRY JEUDY SCREAMS AT OFFICIAL, BUMPS INTO HIM DURING OUTBURST
Wilson was 24-of-36 passing with 247 yards and three touchdowns and an interception. It was the first time all season the Broncos had scored more than 25 points in a game.
"He was fighting the whole game," Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett said. "I give him so much credit and you see it, day-in and day-out. No matter what the situation is, just watching him there in that third-down situation to be able to break the pocket, and he was using his legs a lot. He obviously ended up getting a concussion. I think our medical team did a great job of getting him in here. He's in the concussion protocol now. So we'll go through that step-by-step process and do it the right way. But he played really well."
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SAO PAULO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Minerva Foods (Minerva S.A. – B3: BEEF3 | OTC – Nasdaq International: MRVSY), a leader in the export of fresh beef and derivatives in South America, which also operates in the processed segment, presents its financial results for the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22).
In 2Q22, EBITDA totaled R$ 778 million, up by 43% year on year, setting a record for the company. For LTM2T22, EBITDA was R$ 2.8 billion, a growth of 28% year on year, with an EBITDA margin of 9.2%.
The company's consolidated gross revenue totaled R$ 9 billion in 2Q22, up by 34% on 2Q21. In the last 12 months, closed in June 2022 (LTM2T22), the indicator was R$ 32.4 billion.
In 2Q22, exports accounted for 71% of Minerva Foods' gross revenue, once again positioning the company in the lead in beef exports in South America, with a market share in the region of approximately 20%.
The company posted net income in 2Q22 of R$ 424.7 million and R$ 761.9 million for the last twelve months ended in June. Free cash generation in the period was R$ 415.7 million, and in LTM2Q22 the indicator was R$ 523.2 million.
Net leverage in 2Q22, measured by the Net Debt/EBITDA multiple for the last 12 months, has been reduced to 2.3x. The indicator reinforces the company's financial discipline and healthy capital structure.
Minerva Foods continues to generate value for its shareholders and announces the payment of dividends approved today (August 10) of R$ 128 million, or R$ 0.22 per share.
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Best nonflammable candle alternatives for renters
Recently, we were reminded that candles are not as safe for the home as they seem. Over 30,000 Good Matters Three-Wick Candles were recalled because they burned too hot and shattered the glass jar they were in. Renters, however, are well aware of the dangers of candles because most landlords do not allow tenants to have open flames in their home or apartment. Luckily, there is an abundance of flameless options that offer a similar ambiance and scent.
In this article: Eywamage Glass Flameless Candles, Vinkor Flameless Flickering Birch Bark Candles and Across Color-Changing Flameless Candles
Types of flameless candles
Just like there is a wide variety of regular candles — tea light candles, taper candles, votive candles and more — there are also several types of flameless candles that you can buy. Besides the size and shape, you have options such as flickering, color changing, scented, wax dipped and more.
Best flameless candles
Eywamage Glass Flameless Candles
There is a 3-inch, a 4-inch and a 5-inch pillar candle in this set. Each has a real wax wick that can produce a flickering effect. The gray glass gives these candles an impressive elegance, and the remote lets you turn them on or off and set the timer.
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Vinkor Flameless Flickering Birch Bark Candles
The burned-down look combined with the flickering flame of these three pillar candles gives them a natural aesthetic. The birch bark design makes them appropriate for nearly any decor, and the batteries last up to 150 hours.
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Across Color-Changing Flameless Candles
The flickering flame action on this flameless candle is impressive. It moves up and down as it sways side to side, giving it an incredibly realistic appearance. When you choose a different color, the entire candle changes. The 12 color options make this candle suitable for everyday or holiday use.
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Grand Gold Mirrored LED Flameless Oversized Pillar Candle
This oversized candle is 10 inches tall and 6 inches in diameter. It has three flameless wicks, which helps it to stand out from other options. The chic translucent golden glass holder makes it a perfect centerpiece for any occasion.
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If you are looking for a complete set, this offering comes with nine candles. You get two 4-inch, two 5-inch, two 6-inch, one 7-inch, one 8-inch and one 9-inch candle. You can set the timer for 2, 4, 6 or 8 hours and the batteries last up to 200 hours.
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Symple Stuff Six-piece Unscented Taper Candle
It can be difficult to find flickering flameless taper candles. These ivory options come with six in a pack and are coated in real wax to give them a natural look. The purchase includes two remotes so you can have two groups of independently controlled candles.
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Acmee Flameless Floating Rose Candles
The sophisticated elegance of floating rose candles is hard to beat. You can put them in a vase for a beautiful centerpiece or float them in a bowl. This set comes with four candles that automatically turn on when put in water. The replaceable batteries can last up to seven days.
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Other flameless options worth checking out
- This pack of six flameless pillar candles features flame simulation technology to make the flickering more realistic.
- These three color-changing candles come with a remote and have a gentle rose scent.
- The 24 flameless tea lights in this pack are waterproof so they can be placed in water if you desire.
- This set of three color-changing, flameless candles is vanilla-scented and made with real wax.
- The three pillar candles in this set feature an attractive birch bark design and have a vanilla scent.
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BURBANK, Calif., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon and Mattel today revealed a sneak peek clip and official key art for the original animated series Monster High, which will premiere in the U.S. on Friday, Oct. 28 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. The comedy-adventure series following the teenage children of famous monsters will also debut in Canada, the UK and Australia later this year on Nickelodeon and Paramount+, and in additional international territories in 2023.
Also announced today is an all-star lineup of additional voice talent:
- Ken Marino (Reno 911!) as Dracula – Dracula is about 4,000 years old and Draculaura's dad. He wants to be a good father but does not always have the necessary tools for the job.
- Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000) as Ghoulia Yelps – Curious, clever, and with ultra-fast fingers, Ghoulia is a zombie and the top gamer at Monster High.
- Valeria Rodriquez (The Valley of Tears) as Spectra Vondergeist – This ghostly girl makes up for her translucent appearance by being super chatty. She just wants to be seen!
- Scott Menville (Teen Titans Go!) as Romulus – Romulus is the current head of the were pack at Monster High, though he's still got a bit of learning and growing to do.
- Cole Massie (Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers) as Finnegan Wake – Charming and chill, Finnegan is a merman who uses a wheelchair to get around on land. He has a beautiful singing voice, just like his aunties, the sirens.
- Victoria T Washington (Dropouts) as Howleen – Howleen is a natural leader who values integrity over the pack mindset and always speaks her mind.
- Jordan R. Coleman (A Million Little Things) as Manny Taur – Big, bull-headed Manny looks like a brute, but he's the gentlest kid at school. With his penchant for solving puzzles, he's one of the only students that can compete with Draculaura for honors as a top student.
- Krystina Alabado (Sesame Street Mecha Builders) as Nefera De Nile – Nefera is the mummy who has it all – beauty, popularity, royalty, and a heart of gold (literally, she dipped her heart in gold and keeps it in a jar).
The new voice actors join previously announced cast members Gabrielle Nevaeh Green (Clawdeen Wolf), Courtney Lin (Draculaura), Iris Menas (Frankie Stein), Tony Revolori (Deuce Gorgon), Kausar Mohammed (Cleo De Nile), Valeria Rodriguez (Lagoona Blue), Alexa Kahn (Torelei Stripe), Alexander Polinsky (Heath Burns), and Debra Wilson (Headmistress Bloodgood).
The all-new series (26 episodes) follows Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura, Frankie Stein, and Deuce Gorgon, as they discover who they are, embrace their differences, and learn to be fierce and fearless at the one place they all belong: Monster High.
In addition to the animated series, a live-action television movie musical based on the iconic franchise is slated to premiere Thursday, Oct. 6 on Nickelodeon and Paramount+. Both projects join other Mattel Television content in production, including series and specials based on Barbie, Masters of the Universe, Thomas & Friends, Polly Pocket, Pictionary and Fireman Sam, to name a few.
Mattel first introduced Monster High in 2010, and it quickly became one of the most successful and beloved kids' properties of all time. The franchise seeks to foster a more accepting world where everyone is proud to be their authentic self, which is more relevant now than ever before. Today, Monster High is back with a reimagined set of fangtastic characters reflected in a new set of dolls, accessories, apparel, costumes and more inspired by the original ghouls for a new generation that embraces what makes them unique and rallies people everywhere to express themselves.
Shea Fontana (Polly Pocket) serves as showrunner and co-executive producer of Monster High, with Nick Filippi (Big Hero 6: The Series) as supervising producer. Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, Big Kids Animation and Nikki Price, Director of Franchise Animation. Fred Soulie, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mattel Television, and Christopher Keenan, Senior Vice President of Creative, serve as executive producers for Mattel.
About Mattel
Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children's and family entertainment franchises in the world. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie®, Hot Wheels®, Fisher-Price®, American Girl®, Thomas & Friends®, UNO® and MEGA®, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming, music and live events. We operate in 35 locations and our products are available in more than 150 countries in collaboration with the world's leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering children to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 43rd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location-based experiences, publishing and feature films. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon is a part of Paramount's (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA) global portfolio of multimedia entertainment brands.
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Updated July 7, 2023 at 6:25 PM ET
The United States is supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine to help defend its territory against Russia, despite concerns from human rights groups that the deployment of such weapons endangers civilians.
Speaking at the Pentagon on Friday, Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, announced a new drawdown of $800 million in military assistance, including DPICMS or cluster bombs.
U.S. officials maintained that Ukraine has provided written assurances to minimize civilian casualties with the use of the controversial munitions as human rights groups stress that the weapons drop dozens of bomblets that endanger civilians. Cluster bombs release a larger number of bomblets over a wide area, and they can continue to pose a deadly risk long after the fighting has ended.
More than 100 countries ban such weapons because unexploded bomblets can be picked up by civilians, causing injury or death.
NPR first learned of the plan to send cluster bombs to Ukraine earlier this week.
President Biden told CNN in an exclusive interview that the decision to send Ukraine cluster munitions was "very difficult."
"And by the way, I discussed this with our allies, I discussed this with our friends up on the Hill," Biden said, according to CNN. "The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition."
Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House that Ukraine needs cluster munitions as a "bridge of supplies" as the U.S. works to ramp up production of other types of artillery to supply to Ukraine.
"We will not leave Ukraine defenseless at any point in this conflict, period," Sullivan said.
Sullivan said the United States held off on supplying the munitions as it weighed the risk to civilians, and consulted with allies about the decision.
He said Russia has been using cluster munitions to attack Ukraine, meaning that the United States will need to help Ukraine with post-conflict demining in any scenario. Sullivan said Ukraine is motivated to use the weapons in a way that minimizes risk to its citizens, and has also formally agreed to use them carefully.
As many as 40% of bomblets fail to detonate on impact, per one estimate. The cluster munitions the U.S. are providing to Ukraine will have less than a 3% failure rate, according to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
Kirby told All Things Considered that Ukraine needs these kinds of "innovative" additional tools to achieve a successful counteroffensive against Russian defenses, which, he said, "are proving very formidable."
Humanitarian groups warn against their danger to civilians
More than 120 countries have agreed to a 2008 United Nations treaty banning their use. The U.S., Russia and Ukraine are not among them.
Ahead of the announcement, Sera Koulabdara of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition described cluster munitions as "horrific."
"Once they're scattered, they're scattered through a vast amount of areas, and they have very, very high failure rates," Koulabdara told Morning Edition. "Once they're dropped, they'll continue to impact civilian lives for decades to come, as well as, killing civilians today."
Koulabdara urged Ukrainian and U.S. leaders "to look at history and for the United States of America, our own history in countries like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Afghanistan [and] Iraq."
"You learn from the impacts and the legacies of wars that this will have on human lives," Koulabdara said, "lives of civilians who have a name, who have mothers, who have fathers who cares about them."
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(KTLA) – A private school founded by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West is shutting its doors Thursday amid the ongoing backlash over the rapper’s recent antisemitic comments.
An email confirming the immediate closure of Donda Academy, located in Simi Valley, California, was sent to parents by the school’s principal, Hollywood Unlocked first reported.
“Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately … THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW,” a portion of a screenshot showing the email sent Wednesday read.
The school does, however, intend to reopen in September 2023, according to the message.
The same email was also obtained by British newspaper The Times.
Donda Academy, founded by Ye in 2022, is an unaccredited private Christian school intended to “be a reflection of God’s glory in the world,” according to its website. The school offers a core curriculum of language, math and science as well as “full school worship” and enrichment courses, the site says.
Wednesday’s email did not go into detail about why the school is closing, but Ye has recently been under scrutiny over antisemitic comments. Earlier this month, the artist tweeted he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” making an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
A Jewish educator at the Donda Academy also subsequently resigned from her position after the tweet, confirming she could “no longer support the organization,” according to a statement shared on her behalf to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ye’s antisemitic rhetoric also prompted him to be locked out of his Instagram and Twitter accounts. The repercussions continued, with Ye’s talent agency cutting ties with Ye, and companies including Gap and Adidas ending their partnerships with the rapper earlier this week.
“Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,” Adidas wrote in a statement announcing their decision. “Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
In addition to his recent antisemitic comments, Ye had previously suggested slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast,” among other controversial remarks. He also was criticized for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his Yeezy collection show in Paris. | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/yes-donda-academy-abruptly-closes-in-california/ | 2022-10-27 16:58:54 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/yes-donda-academy-abruptly-closes-in-california/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-9-1-5
(five, nine, one, five)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-9-1-5
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University of Georgia student Niara Thompson was quoted in an AP piece in the Daily Star about students wanting college debt relief. Thompson stated, "It felt like people who could never understand why we want something like this." I'd like to explain why millions are opposed. FIfty years ago I was fortunate that my parents could afford to pay my college tuition. My son went into the trades and is a successful plumbing contractor. I paid my daughter's tuition for five years before she dropped out and joined the work force. My granddaughter and her husband both graduated from ASU with student debt. He became a police officer and she is an RN. Upon graduation they both moved home with their parents in order to more quickly reduce their student debt until they married. I respect their decision and don't feel they, or I, am responsible for my tax dollars benfiting those with their decision to go into debt.
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By SUSIE BLANN
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Top European Union officials were due to meet Friday in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of support for the country as it battles to counter Russia’s invasion and strives to join the EU as well as NATO.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, as well as 15 European commissioners, traveled to the Ukrainian capital for what they described as a summit meeting.
The last such summit was held in Kyiv in October 2021 — a few months before the war started. The highly symbolic visit is also the first EU political mission of its kind to a country at war.
“There will be no let-up in our resolve,” Michel said in a tweet on his apparent arrival in Kyiv. “We will also support (Ukraine) every step of the way on your journey to the EU.”
The high-level visit came as Ukrainian authorities reported that at least six civilians were killed and 20 others were injured over the previous 24 hours.
Among the dead were two brothers, ages 49 and 42, killed when Russian shelling destroyed an apartment block in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s presidential office said. Their 70-year-old father was hospitalized with unspecified injuries.
Also, 18 apartment buildings, two hospitals and a school were damaged in a Russian attack in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, injuring six, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian TV. Three people died when a Russian missile hit an apartment building in that city on Wednesday.
EU assistance for Ukraine has reached almost 50 billion euros ($55 billion) since the fighting started, according to EU officials.
The EU is providing Ukraine with financial and humanitarian aid, among other things. It also plans to adopt a 10th package of sanctions again Russia in the coming weeks.
The EU has also announced it’s ramping up its military training mission for Ukraine, from an initial target of pushing 15,000 troops through the schooling to up to 30,000 troops. One focus is to train the crews of tanks that Western countries have offered Ukraine.
Ukraine wants to join the 27-nation bloc, and formally submitted its application last June, though that could take years and require the adoption of far-reaching reforms. In the meantime, von der Leyen said Thursday that the European Commission is willing to let Kyiv join what she called some “key European programs” that will bring benefits similar to membership.
Those programs were due to be discussed in Friday’s meeting, which will also address one of the main obstacles to Ukraine’s EU membership: endemic corruption.
Von der Leyen, on her fourth visit to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion, said Thursday she was “comforted” by Ukraine’s anti-corruption drive.
The previous day, Zelenskyy had taken aim at corrupt officials for the second time in the space of a week. Several high-ranking officials were dismissed.
Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform in a country long gripped by graft.
The latest corruption allegations came as Western allies channel billions of dollars to help Kyiv fight Moscow’s forces.
Ukraine’s government is keen to get more Western military aid, on top of the tanks pledged last week, as the warring sides are expected to launch new offensives once winter ends. Kyiv is now asking for fighter jets.
The U.S is expected to announce Friday it will send longer-range bombs to Ukraine as part of a new $2.17 billion aid package.
Ukraine’s forces are bracing for an expected new onslaught by the Kremlin’s forces in coming weeks.
Officials in the eastern Luhansk region said Russian forces have disabled mobile internet connections, stepped up shelling and deployed more troops in preparation for a full-scale offensive there.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — A barbecue restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, is getting a lot of love on “Ted Lasso” — thanks to one of the show’s stars.
Jason Sudeikis, who plays the titular Ted Lasso in the hit Apple TV+ series, grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, eating Kansas City-style barbecue.
Now, he’s subtlety letting the rest of the world know about one of his favorite Kansas City spots.
Sudeikis is dropping pictures of Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue into certain episodes of the show. The last two episodes show pictures of the restaurant as the background on Lasso’s laptop.
“Beyond honored to be Ted Lasso’s laptop background, as seen in the newest episode. Believe in BBQ,” Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue tweeted last week.
The tweet was followed up with a request from the restaurant when the building showed up again.
“Second week in a row we make an appearance on @TedLasso. Please never change your laptop background, Ted. Believe in BBQ. @jasonsudeikis,” Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue tweeted.
The barbecue spot says it loves the special shoutout, so much that it created a slogan based on the popular show (“Believe in BBQ”), complete with a replica “Believe” sign hanging above the door, just like in the show’s locker room.
Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue is known as one of the fathers of Kansas City-style barbecue. It is credited with creating burnt ends, and has fed Kansas City for more than 100 years. Presidents, Hollywood stars, and athletes have also dropped by for a barbecue bite. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/a-missouri-barbecue-spot-shows-up-in-ted-lasso-episodes-this-is-why/ | 2023-04-07 23:36:50 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/a-missouri-barbecue-spot-shows-up-in-ted-lasso-episodes-this-is-why/ |
Florida flies “illegal immigrants” to Martha’s Vineyard
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration’s failed border policies.
Flights to the upscale island enclave in Massachusetts were part of an effort to “transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations,” said Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ communications director.
While DeSantis’ office didn’t elaborate on their legal status, many migrants who cross the border illegally from Mexico are temporarily shielded from deportation after being freed by U.S. authorities to pursue asylum in immigration court — as allowed under U.S law and international treaty — or released on humanitarian parole.
Massachusetts’ Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said he was in touch with local officials and that short-term shelter was being provided.
State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha’s Vineyard, tweeted: “Our island jumped into action putting together 50 beds, giving everyone a good meal, providing a play area for the children, making sure people have the healthcare and support they need. We are a community that comes together to support immigrants.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of migrants to Washington in April and recently added New York and Chicago as destinations. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has been busing migrants to Washington since May. Passengers must sign waivers that the free trips are voluntary.
DeSantis, who is mentioned as potential presidential candidate, appears to be taking the strategy to a new level by using planes and choosing Martha’s Vineyard, whose harbor towns that are home to about 15,000 people are far less prepared than New York or Washington for large influxes of migrants.
The move is likely to delight DeSantis’ supporters who deride Democrat-led, immigrant-friendly “sanctuary” cities and anger critics who say he is weaponizing migrants as pawns for political gain.
The Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to transport “illegal immigrants” from the state consistent with federal law, Fenske said.
“States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies,” Fenske said.
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After weeks of anticipation, McDonald's officially confirms the return of its Halloween Happy Meal and shares unique ways fans can reuse their collectible pail this fall and beyond
CHICAGO, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- We heard you loud and clear… if spooky SZN doesn't include McDonald's Halloween Pails, then you don't want it. That's why we're bringing back the most iconic Halloween trio – McBoo, McPunk'n and McGoblin – that first came on the scene back in 1986. The nostalgic Happy Meal is returning to participating McDonald's restaurants nationwide from Oct. 18 – 31, while supplies last.
They may have vanished for a while... but that didn't stop you from finding clever ways to keep their spooky spirit alive – from potting plants in them to using them as OOTD accessories. So, in honor of the return of one of your fave Happy Meals, we're serving up five fan-inspired ways to reuse your Halloween Pail after you've enjoyed the delicious eats inside. Check out the ideas from @sidclusive, @beatsbyjblack, @saracampz, @themartinezcasita and @laurdiy!
Don't feel ghosted by the limited-time appearance of our Halloween Pails. Head to your local McDonald's starting Oct. 18 to snag your own. We can't wait to see the creative ways you reuse yours!
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Report provides recognition and proof point of Schneider Electric as a leader of expert capabilities, highlighting flexible, on-site, smart energy generation and storage in microgrid offers.
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been recognized by Verdantix as a leader in microgrid technology to enable advancement in the grid-interactive ecosystem for decarbonization and sustainability in the "Schneider Electric Leads The Charge On The Democratization Of Energy" report.
Increasing the grid interactivity of facilities is becoming a key enabler for decarbonization as more renewables are onboarded, stemming from the grid, on-site generation, and as uptake of electric vehicles becomes more widespread. Verdantix recommends that customers required to adapt to a rapidly changing energy landscape and looking to implement on-site renewable generation and storage as part of wider corporate decarbonization goals should consider Schneider Electric's microgrid offerings.
"Schneider Electric offers a comprehensive suite of hardware, software and services for energy management and automation in infrastructure to enable sustainable, reliable and efficient operations," said Verdantix Analyst Ben Hext. "We think that they are well positioned to provide microgrid offerings that meet a variety of needs, including resilience, on-site renewable energy and energy savings."
"Microgrids are a key enabler in the pursuit of a decarbonized environment and a more sustainable energy future, which is why Schneider Electric has built one of the best microgrid portfolios in the market," said Bala Vinayagam, SVP, Microgrid Line of Business at Schneider Electric. "Rising energy prices, the increasing frequency of grid outages, and the requirement to decarbonize have made energy challenges relevant and universal to all. As one of the most reputable global sustainability companies, Schneider has made it so that the benefits of microgrids can transform the energy profiles of a diverse set of infrastructure."
Schneider Electric helps its customers succeed with its microgrids offerings:
- Flexible energy consumption to reduce power costs: Firms must mitigate exposure to fluctuating energy prices by exploring on-site generation and storage. For example, Citycon, a real estate owner and developer, is developing a microgrid-enabled city center in Espoo, Finland in partnership with Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric and Citycon project the program will save $352,000 in energy costs per year with an ROI of 5 years in conjunction with investment aid for new technologies.
- Increased resilience against grid failures: EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor uses predictive analytics to carefully balance electricity consumption and generation for resilience. The platform can ingest historical data, weather forecasts, energy market pricing and scheduled operations to optimize energy flows in case of grid outages. For example, the US Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego installed a microgrid from Schneider Electric to ensure continued power access during sustained grid outages of up to 14 days.
- On-site renewable generation and storage for corporate decarbonization goals: Many businesses are pursuing net zero goals to align with governmental targets, such as the Paris Agreement. Lidl Finland installed a microgrid from Schneider Electric at a 60,000m2 distribution center. Projections estimate that the facility will reduce energy consumption by 50% and enable 100% renewable energy consumption through on-site generation and clean energy purchase agreements.
- Smarter use of renewable energy and EV charging to decarbonize operations: Governments worldwide are introducing a shift from fossil fuel vehicles toward EVs. Montgomery County is deploying a microgrid for EV charging at the Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot through an EaaS agreement with Schneider Electric's AlphaStruxure. The microgrid integration will deliver reliable charging to a fleet of 44 electric buses, cutting carbon emissions by 62% and enabling the county to maintain bus services during power outages.
Having installed over 300 microgrids to date, Schneider Electric provides monitoring and predictive controls, comprehensive building automation, and de-risks the investment into microgrids with Energy as a Service joint ventures GreenStruxure and AlphaStruxure.
Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.
We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, October 24, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
626 PM CDT Mon Oct 24 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Eastland and
northwestern Comanche Counties through 700 PM CDT...
At 626 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles north of Rising Star, or 12 miles south of Cisco, moving east
at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Eastland, Cisco, Ranger, De Leon, Gorman, Rising Star, Lake Cisco,
Lake Leon, Lake Olden, Pleasant Hill, Carbon, Staff, Nimrod, Comyn,
Kokomo, Sabanno, Okra, Duster, Morton Valley and Scranton.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 324 and 362.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
central and north central Texas.
LAT...LON 3251 9911 3251 9848 3230 9848 3226 9855
3215 9847 3206 9847 3207 9885 3208 9893
3208 9912
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 263DEG 39KT 3222 9893
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 630 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
west central Texas.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
San Angelo.
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US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report finds
The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country but still has the lowest life expectancy at birth and the highest rate of people with multiple chronic diseases, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group.
The report, released Tuesday, also says that compared with peer nations, the U.S. has the highest rates of deaths from avoidable or treatable causes and the highest maternal and infant death rates.
"Americans are living shorter, less healthy lives because our health system is not working as well as it could be," the report's lead author, Munira Gunja, senior researcher for The Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovation, said in a news release. "To catch up with other high-income countries, the administration and Congress would have to expand access to health care, act aggressively to control costs, and invest in health equity and social services we know can lead to a healthier population."
People in the U.S. see doctors less often than those in most other countries, which is probably related to the U.S. having a below-average number of practicing physicians, according to the report, and the U.S. is the only country among those studied that doesn't have universal health coverage. In 2021 alone, 8.6% of the U.S. population was uninsured.
"Not only is the U.S. the only country we studied that does not have universal health coverage, but its health system can seem designed to discourage people from using services," researchers at the Commonwealth Fund, headquartered in New York, wrote in the report. "Affordability remains the top reason why some Americans do not sign up for health coverage, while high out-of-pocket costs lead nearly half of working-age adults to skip or delay getting needed care."
An outlier on spending and outcomes
The researchers analyzed health statistics from international sources, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, which tracks and reports on data from health systems across 38 high-income countries. The data was extracted in December.
The researchers examined how the United States measured against Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. They also compared the US with the OECD average for 38 high-income countries.
The data showed that in 2021 alone, the U.S. spent nearly twice as much as the average OECD country on health care -- and health spending in the U.S. was three to four times higher than in South Korea, New Zealand and Japan.
Globally, health care spending has been increasing since the 1980s, according to the report, driven mostly by advancements in medical technologies, the rising costs of medical care and a higher demand for services.
The U.S. has the highest rate of people with multiple chronic health conditions, the data showed, and the highest obesity rate among the countries studied.
Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. in 2020 was 77 years -- three years less than the OECD average -- and early data suggests that U.S. life expectancy dropped even further in 2021. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people died from coronavirus infections in the U.S. than in any other high-income country, according to the report.
Deaths caused by assaults also appeared to be highest in the U.S. compared with all peer countries. The researchers found that deaths from physical assault, which includes gun violence, occurred at a rate of 7.4 deaths per 100,000 people in the U.S. in 2020, significantly higher than the OECD average of 2.7 and at least seven times higher than most other high-income countries in the report.
Where the U.S. appeared to do well was in cancer prevention and treating cancers early. Along with Sweden, it had the highest number of breast cancer screenings among women ages 50 to 69, and the U.S. exceeded the OECD average when it came to screening rates for colorectal cancer.
A separate paper published in mid-January said that the U.S. cancer death rate has fallen 33% since 1991, which corresponds to an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted.
Overall, the new Commonwealth Fund report "continues to demonstrate the importance of international comparisons," Reginald D. Williams II, who leads The Commonwealth Fund's International Program, said in the news release. "It offers an opportunity for the U.S. to learn from other countries and build a better health care system that delivers affordable, high-quality health care for everyone."
'We're not getting the best value for our health care dollar'
Much of the data in the new report shows trends that have been seen before.
"It validates the fact that we continue to spend more than anybody else and get the worst health outcomes. So we're not getting the best value for our health care dollar," said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, who was not involved in the new report.
"The big takeaway for me is that COVID did not become the great equalizer [among nations]. It did not help our case at all," Benjamin said. "If anything, it exposed the existing holes in our health care system."
To help fix the holes in the U.S. health care system, Benjamin referenced three steps the nation can take.
"We're still the only nation that does not have universal health care or access for all of our citizens," Benjamin said.
Second, "we don't do as much primary care prevention as the other nations, and we still have a public health system, which is fractured," he said. "The third thing is, we under-invest compared to other industrialized nations in societal things. They spend their money on providing upfront support for their citizens. We spend our money on sick care." | https://www.wesh.com/article/us-health-care-worst-outcomes-high-income-countries-new-report/42745709 | 2023-02-02 19:50:05 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/us-health-care-worst-outcomes-high-income-countries-new-report/42745709 |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP members can take advantage of several new benefits available this fall from new providers. The latest additions to the wide-ranging list of member benefits include savings and special offers from well-loved brands Auntie Anne's®, Cinnabon®, and Jamba®.
"We are continuously adding new benefits that enhance the value of an AARP membership," said John Larew, AARP Services President and CEO. "The newest additions offer benefits and discounts at favorite American snack and treat establishments for AARP members nationwide."
- Auntie Anne's – AARP members save 10% on Auntie Anne's products at participating Auntie Anne's locations in-store, in app, and online orders when you link your AARP membership to your Auntie Anne's Rewards account. Visit AuntieAnnes.com/AARP to link your membership. Terms and conditions apply see checkout for details.
- Cinnabon – AARP members save 10% on Cinnabon products at participating Cinnabon bakeries in-store, in app and online orders when you link your AARP membership to your Cinnabon Rewards account. Visit Cinnabon.com/AARP to link your membership. Terms and conditions apply see checkout for details.
- Jamba – AARP members save 10% on Jamba products at participating Jamba locations in-store, in app and online orders when you link your AARP membership to your Jamba Rewards account. Visit Jamba.com/AARP to link your membership. Terms and conditions apply see checkout for details.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Davis Mills threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown on Houston’s second offensive play, setting the tone for the terrible Texans’ worst game of the season in a loss to Washington.
The Texans (1-8-1) were behind 20-0 at halftime before falling to the Commanders 23-10 for their fifth straight loss.
“We were never in the game,” coach Lovie Smith said. “There’s total disappointment."
Houston had five yards of offense at halftime, lowest in franchise history. The team’s offensive line was dominated on a day the Commanders sacked Mills five times and limited the Texans to a season-low 21 yards rushing.
The crowd was mostly filled with Washington fans, but the few Texans supporters who showed up expressed their displeasure by pelting the team with boos throughout the game.
Smith was asked how he’s able to keep the team positive as it goes through such a difficult stretch. He noted that Sunday’s loss was the only blowout in that span.
“You can’t group them all together,” he said. “As a coach, you keep talking about one positive play, one positive game. That’s what we have to continue to do. We have not been dominated the way we were dominated (Sunday), so that’s what’s giving us hope.”
The Texans are trying to move past the loss and look for ways to improve. A win Sunday against the Miami Dolphins would be their first since Oct. 9.
“It is kind of hard, we haven’t won a game in a minute,” receiver Nico Collins said. “So, all you can do is keep going, keep faith. You can’t get down on yourself and start pointing fingers at everybody because then nothing happens from there. It just sinks the ship.”
WHAT’S WORKING
After giving up two touchdowns in the first half, Houston’s defense allowed just one field goal after the break. Put in bad situations by the ineptitude of the offense, the Texans made some good plays to keep the Commanders out of the end zone after halftime.
Houston limited Washington to 3 for 13 on third downs and 1 of 4 in the red zone.
WHAT NEEDS WORK
Lots to pick from here, but Mills must take care of the ball and make better decisions for the Texans to have any hope of improving their passing game. The second-year player from Stanford had two interceptions Sunday to give him seven in the last five games.
Despite Mills' struggles, Smith doesn’t appear to have any intention of benching him, so he’ll get seven more games to see if he can progress this year.
STOCK UP
WR Brandin Cooks had three receptions for 70 yards Sunday a week after managing just 37 yards receiving in a loss to the Giants.
STOCK DOWN
Rookie offensive lineman Kenyon Green, the 15th overall pick in the draft, had a tough day Sunday, getting beat again and again by Washington’s Jonathan Allen. Green has appeared in each game this season with nine starts but has failed to make much progress.
“There’s been a lot of learning moments that we’ve gone through with him,” Smith said. “But a part of going through that next step is going through some of those days when the guy that’s playing against you may be better than you right now. But you learn and just hope you get better and better.”
INJURED
CB Derek Stingley, the third overall pick in this year’s draft, missed Sunday’s game with the hamstring injury. Smith he wasn’t sure when he would return Monday.
KEY NUMBERS
246-5. That’s the margin the Texans were outgained in the first half Sunday. The five net yards undercut the eight they managed in the first half of a 40-0 loss to the Bills last season for the worst half in team history.
It was the fewest yards by a team in a half since the Raiders had minus-12 in a win over the Broncos in 2015. Mills had minus-1 yard passing in the first half as he was sacked three times.
NEXT STEPS
The Texans will need to get off to a much better start if they hope to compete with the Dolphins, who have won four in a row.
“We talk about building and growing,” Smith said. “We’re a young team. We have to go through some growing pains. You have to fight through adversity.”
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys and four-time Pro Bowl linebacker Anthony Barr agreed to a one-year deal Wednesday.
The 32-year-old Barr was a first-round pick by Minnesota in 2014 and has played his entire eight-year career with the Vikings. He was a Pro Bowler every year from 2015-18 and had a career-high three interceptions along with 2 1/2 sacks and 72 tackles last season.
Barr will join a linebacker group led by AP Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons and 2018 Pro Bowler Leighton Vander Esch.
Dallas opened a roster spot by waiving rookie linebacker Aaron Hansford.
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HAMPTON, N.J. (AP) — HAMPTON, N.J. (AP) — Celldex Therapeutics Inc. (CLDX) on Tuesday reported a loss of $26.5 million in its fourth quarter.
The Hampton, New Jersey-based company said it had a loss of 56 cents per share.
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The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 59 cents per share.
The biopharmaceutical company posted revenue of $1.6 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $112.3 million, or $2.40 per share. Revenue was reported as $2.4 million.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX), a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines, will report second quarter financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2022, after the U.S. financial markets close.
Dynavax will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. (ET)/1:30 p.m. (PT).
The live audio webcast may be accessed through the "Events & Presentations" page on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at https://investors.dynavax.com/events-presentations. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the live event.
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Dynavax is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines to help protect the world against infectious diseases. The Company has two commercial products, HEPLISAV-B® [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted], which is approved in the U.S. and the European Union for prevention of infection caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults age 18 years and older, and CpG 1018 adjuvant, currently used in multiple adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccines. Dynavax is advancing CpG 1018 adjuvant as a premier vaccine adjuvant through global research collaborations and partnerships. Current collaborations are focused on adjuvanted vaccines for COVID-19, plague, shingles, Tdap, seasonal influenza and universal influenza. For more information about our marketed products and development pipeline, visit www.dynavax.com and follow Dynavax on LinkedIn.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 25, 2022
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Kentucky awarded millions of dollars in federal funding for ‘internet for all’ initiative
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) - Kentucky is getting some serious funding to support the expansion of high-speed internet across the state.
On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced the nearly $6 million federal “Internet for All” grant.
Kentucky applied for and was awarded the funding through the federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, BEAD will provide $42.45 billion to states and U.S. territories to expand high-speed internet access by funding broadband planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs.
The planning grant was awarded to Kentucky through the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The $5.8 million Kentucky gets will fund:
- Identification of unserved and underserved locations
- Increasing capacity of Kentucky’s broadband office
- Asset mapping to identify existing activities that support the project’s goal and identify gaps in access, affordability and adoption
- Collaboration with Kentucky’s state digital equity plan
- Local engagement with unserved, underserved and underrepresented communities to better understand barriers to adoption
This summer, Gov. Beshear announced more than $89.6 million in grants to expand high-speed internet access to more than 34,000 Kentucky families and businesses in 36 counties.
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A plane full of passengers in Charlotte is breathing a sigh of relief today after a harrowing incident that could have ended much worse. Thanks to the training of the flight crew, their Boeing 717 landed safely despite a malfunction that caused the front landing gear to fail to deploy.
ABC News reports how the drama unfolded at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on the morning of Wednesday, June 28. On their approach into Charlotte from Atlanta, a visual from the control tower confirmed what a warning light had already told the pilots of Flight 1092: That the front landing wheels remained inside the plane despite the bay doors being open.
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The crew of the Boeing informed the passengers that they would need to make an emergency landing. They made their approach and did in fact manage to land the plane at 8:58 am EDT. Despite the lack of a wheel or two, passengers described the landing to ABC as “smooth,” and applause broke out in the cabin as the plane came to a stop. Chutes were deployed from the front of the plane to allow those within the cabin to slide off, and all 96 passengers exited without a single injury as did the pilots and crew.
Passenger Gary Gibbs captured his fellow passengers walking away from the plane and shared the moment on Twitter. “Kudos to the skilled pilots and crew for their quick response,” he wrote:
So Thankful for God’s protection today. I was seat 1B. @CLT Airport as @Delta flight 1092 safely lands without landing gear extended. Kudos to the skilled pilots and crew for their quick response and ensuring the safety of 96 passengers on board. #DL1092 #SafeLanding pic.twitter.com/YNnDjlROvE
— Gary Gibbs (@GaryLaneGibbs) June 28, 2023
Pilot Byron Macrae told Charlotte’s WBTV the smooth landing showed the pilot’s skill.
“This is textbook,” he said. “I mean it couldn’t have gone any better. Everyone got off. It shows that these pilots were very well qualified. They were very well trained and reverted back to their training.”
The event did cause some inevitable delays at Charlotte Douglas, but otherwise it’s hard to think of a happier ending. According to a statement from Delta, the FAA and NTSB will conduct an investigation to determine why the landing gear failed.
If you’re unlucky enough to be in a plane that experiences a landing gear mishap, follow the lead of these Flight 1092 passengers and don’t panic. While they don’t often happen to large commercial airliners, this type of glitch is more common than you may think: Aviation Safety magazine reports that when it comes to mechanical incidents in airplanes that have retractable landing gear, this is is a relatively common. The good news is that while they’re a headache for the airport and a scare for passengers, they rarely result in serious injury.
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A bill that would fund specialized, optional firearm safety training for school employees passed out of the House Education Committee Wednesday.
State law already allows local school boards to authorize administrators, teachers and other staff to carry a firearm on school grounds. HB 1177 would reallocate funding from the Indiana Safe Schools and related funds for optional firearms instruction for school employees. The bill also provides funding for counseling services for students, teachers, school staff and employees in the event of a school shooting.
There were 51 school shootings across the U.S. last year that resulted in injuries or deaths, according to Education Week. It was the most shootings in a single year since the publication began collecting the data in 2018.
Safety at schools remains a top concern for Indiana families. Results from a survey of Hoosier parents found roughly a third of who responded to the Gallup poll said they worry often or very often about their child’s safety at school.
Chris Lagoni, executive director of the Indiana Small and Rural Schools Association, said the training could further the level of protection smaller school districts can provide for their children.
“I’m not sure people understand how many – how few – officers are actually on duty in a rural county if something were to happen,” he said.
Lagoni added this increases local control for school districts by allowing them to place the expense for this specialized training into their Safe Schools Grant.
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The voluntary program for interested teachers involves 40 hours of training for firearm safety and use, modeled off of training law enforcement officials currently use.
The bill’s author, Rep. Jim Lucas (R-Seymour), said this training is not forced upon teachers, and is designed to make them feel safer.
“This training class – 40 plus hours – is designed to take the average person on the street and get them to a level of proficiency that in the event of an active shooter situation, they will at least have an opportunity to defend themselves and those around them if they so choose,” he said.
Lucas emphasized this does not require trained teachers to defend themselves and others when an active shooter situation occurs.
Those opposed to the bill, including lawmakers like teacher Rep. Tonya Pfaff (D-Terre Haute), said this legislation does not address certain safety concerns, like gun storage.
“I walk around my classroom up and down through the aisles and I help students,” she said. “What happens if a kid just decides to grab it off my holster?”
Pfaff said theft of weapons in schools and improper placement of weapons could lead to children gaining access to these firearms.
Other members of the Indiana House Democrats echoed these concerns and denounced the legislation, saying teachers need “resources, not revolvers.” In a press release, the group said “‘a good guy with a gun’ rarely saves lives during an active shooter situation.”
Lucas said schools are able to enact their own policies and gun theft/proper storage is not an issue in schools that currently allow staff members to carry guns.
The bill passed out of committee in a 9-4 vote.
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People still sorting through the wreckage of their homes after deadly weather hit over the weekend braced for another wave of strong storms, likely including tornadoes, that were expected in parts of the Midwest and South beginning Tuesday evening. Officials warned residents to have shelter ready before going to sleep.
“This could be a night to just set up down in the basement to be safe,” said Tom Philip, a meteorologist in Davenport, Iowa.
The storms were expected to hammer some areas hit by severe weather and possibly dozens of tornadoes just days ago that killed at least 32 people, meaning more misery for those whose homes were destroyed in Arkansas, Iowa and Illinois. Dangerous conditions Tuesday also could stretch into parts of Missouri, southwestern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas. Farther south and west, fire danger will remain high.
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When a tornado hit Little Rock, Arkansas, last Friday, Kimberly Shaw peeked outside to film the storm, then suffered a painful foot injury that required stiches when a glass door behind her shattered and wind nearly sucked her away. With another storm coming, Shaw said she intends to be far more cautious this time and will rush to an underground shelter at her home.
“The original plan was just, ‘If we see a tornado coming, we’ll get in the shelter,’” Shaw said. “But now it’s like you’re not going to see it coming. You’re not going to hear it coming. You just need to get (inside the shelter) as soon as the warning goes out or if you just feel unsafe.”
Shaw added: “And there will be no videotaping.”
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Tuesday's storm system could initially start as isolated supercells with all hazards possible — tornadoes, wind and hail — and "form into a line (of thunderstorms) and continue moving eastward,” said Ryan Bunker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Hours before the biggest storms were expected to hit, strong thunderstorms swept through the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois with winds up to 90 mph (145 kph) and baseball size hail. No injuries were reported but trees were downed and some businesses were damaged in Moline, Illinois.
The weather service and Illinois Emergency Management said a tornado touched down Tuesday morning in the western Illinois community of Colona. Local news reports showed wind damage to some businesses.
Northern Illinois, from Moline to Chicago, saw 75-80 mph (120-128 kph) winds and hail 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 centimeters) in diameter on Tuesday afternoon, National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Baker said. The agency received reports of semi trucks tipped over by winds in Lee County, about 95 miles (153 km) west of Chicago.
The tornado risk in the Upper Midwest was expected to be highest in the evening and late night Tuesday with storms targeting northern Illinois, eastern Iowa and southwest Wisconsin. Areas of southern Missouri and Arkansas were most at risk overnight.
In Keokuk County, Iowa, where 19 homes were destroyed and more were damaged Friday, emergency management official Marissa Reisen worried how those cleaning up the damage will cope if another storm hits.
“All of the people who have been impacted by the storms Friday night are doing all this work, to clean up, to gather their stuff, to pile up the debris,” Reisen said. “If a storm comes through and hits them again and throws all that hard work all over the place again, it will be so deflating to those people.”
Severe storms could produce strong tornadoes and large hail Wednesday across eastern Illinois and lower Michigan and in the Ohio Valley, including Indiana and Ohio, according to the Storm Prediction Center. The weather threat extends southwestward across parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas.
The fierce weekend storms spawned deadly tornadoes in 11 states as the system plodded through Arkansas and onto the South, Midwest and Northeast.
The same conditions that fueled those storms — an area of low pressure combined with strong southerly winds — will make conditions ideal for another round of severe weather Tuesday into early Wednesday, Bunker said.
Those conditions, which typically include dry air from the West going up over the Rockies and crashing into warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, are what make the U.S. so prone to tornadoes and other severe storms.
Dramatic temperature changes were expected, with Tuesday highs of 74 in Des Moines and 86 in Kansas City plunging overnight to 40 or colder overnight. In Little Rock, Arkansas, the high of 89 on Tuesday tied the record for the date set in 1880.
A blizzard warning was in effect for nearly all of North Dakota and most of South Dakota through at least Wednesday night. The National Weather Service predicted parts of South Dakota could see up to 16 inches (40 centimeters) of snow and wind gusts as high as 55 mph (90 kph).
Dozens of schools in South Dakota were closed on Tuesday due to blizzard conditions. State executive branch offices were also closed in much of the state.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum signed off on $20 million Tuesday for emergency snow removal grants to localities. Officials reminded residents to check on neighbors and keep their homes stocked with food, water and medicine, have battery-powered radios in case of power outages and ensure gas meters and furnace vents are clear of snow.
In Minnesota, a winter storm warning was in effect in the north, while the southern part of the state expected thunderstorms that could include hail and strong winds. The expected weather led the Minnesota Twins to delay their Major League Baseball home opener from Thursday to Friday.
The state’s popular EagleCam captured the moment on Sunday morning in which high winds blew a 20-year-old eagle’s nest out of a tree, killing an eaglet that had hatched just days earlier. Officials believed heavy snow that fell in a weekend blizzard — coupled with the weight of the more than 2,000-pound nest — became too much for the tree to support.
Fire danger persisted across portions of far western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, northeastern New Mexico and far southeastern Colorado, with low humidity, dry vegetation and high wind gusts. Officials issued a fire warning for Custer County in western Oklahoma and urged some residents near the town of Weatherford to evacuate their homes because of a wildfire. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/midwest-and-south-brace-for-second-wave-of-tornadoes-after-deadly-weekend-storm/4212802/ | 2023-04-04 23:57:14 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/midwest-and-south-brace-for-second-wave-of-tornadoes-after-deadly-weekend-storm/4212802/ |
A federal judge on Thursday evening blocked the Biden administration from implementing a policy that allows for the release of migrants without court dates – just hours away from the end of the Title 42 public health order.
Judge T. Kent Wetherell II imposed a two-week restraining order on the Biden administration policy with would see migrants released on "parole with conditions."
The policy was outlined in a Border Patrol memo this week, which says that migrants can be allowed into the country on parole — a process typically reserved for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit" — if Customs and Border Protection (CBP) faces overcrowding. The memo calls the practice "parole with conditions" as migrants are required to make an appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or request a Notice to Appear by mail.
FLORIDA AG SUES BIDEN ADMIN TO STOP PLANNED MASS RELEASE OF MIGRANTS AS TITLE 42 ENDS
Under a parole release, migrants are rapidly released into the country, do not get an alien registration number and do not receive a court date.
The use of parole is being authorized if a sector capacity goes above 125%, if agents apprehend 7,000 a day over 72 hours or if average time in custody goes above 60 hours. Agents have been encountering over 10,000 migrants a day since Monday, and there are no signs of that slowing down with the looming end of Title 42, which is expected to bring an even bigger wave with it.
Title 42 has been used since March 2020 by both the Trump and Biden administrations to return millions of migrants rapidly at the southern border due to COVID-19. With the end of the order coinciding with the end of the COVID-19 national emergency on Thursday evening, migrants have flocked the border in the hope that they will be more likely to be admitted to the country.
"For the past 7 days, USBP has averaged over 8,750 encounters per day. This is over double the average daily encounters of 4,284 in May of 2019, the highest month of the 2019 surge. Even with significant personnel along the SWB, a significant detention capacity, and interagency resources supporting the effort, this situation requires urgent action," the memo stated.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody had sued after media reports emerged of the planned releases, arguing the policy was "materially identical" to a "Parole + ATD" policy blocked by the same judge in March. Judge Wetherell agreed with that assessment in his order.
"…The Court has no trouble concluding that Florida has a substantial likelihood of success on the merits because the challenged policy appears to be materially indistinguishable from the Parole+ATD policy vacated in Florida—both in its purpose (reducing overcrowding at border patrol facilities) and manner of operation (releasing aliens into the country without first issuing a charging document placing them in immigration proceedings and simply directing the aliens to report to ICE within a specified period for further processing)," he said.
BORDER PATROL CHIEF AUTHORIZES RELEASE OF MIGRANTS INTO US WITHOUT COURT DATES AS TITLE 42 ENDS
Moody, in a statement late Thursday, said the lifting of Title 42 "presents an unprecedented crisis at our nation’s Southwest Border."
"The Biden administration did absolutely nothing to prepare for that crisis. Then, just yesterday, it issued the Parole with Conditions mass release policy, which is virtually identical to the policy a federal judge already invalidated. These actions demonstrate a striking combination of incompetence and bad faith. I am pleased that a federal court understood the situation and acted appropriately," she said.
DHS had warned that blocking the use of parole has the potential to cause chaos at the border, and estimated that doing so would result in an overwhelming 45,000 migrants in custody by the end of May. The judge said he did not find those arguments persuasive.
"Putting aside the fact that even President Biden recently acknowledged that the border has been in chaos for ‘a number of years,’ Defendants’ doomsday rhetoric rings hollow because, as explained in detail in Florida, this problem is largely one of Defendants’ own making through the adoption an implementation of policies that have encouraged the so-called ‘irregular migration’ that has become fairly regular over the past 2 years," he said.
The judge has scheduled a hearing for a preliminary injunction for May 19.
While DHS had acknowledged the plan to release migrants without court dates, it had rejected the idea that it was conducting "mass" releases, saying instead that those releases were only taking place on a case-by-case basis. A DHS spokesperson had told Fox News Digital on Thursday that "reports that CBP is allowing or encouraging mass releases of migrants are categorically false."
"We are stepping up enforcement actions and have surged 24,000 Border Patrol agents and officers, thousands of troops and contractors, and over a thousand asylum officers and judges to the border. Just yesterday ICE announced that families who attempt to cross the border unlawfully will be placed in expedited removal proceedings, subject to GPS monitoring, and removed within 30 days if they don’t have a legal basis to remain," the spokesperson said.
BORDER PATROL ENCOUNTERS 10,000 MIGRANTS FOR THIRD DAY IN A ROW AS NUMBERS SWELL BEFORE TITLE 42 DROPS
"As was the case under Republican and Democrat Administrations alike in the past, parole may be considered for certain migrants on a case-by-case basis if they have cleared security vetting, but migrants who do not have a lawful basis to remain will be expeditiously removed — just like the 1.4 million migrants who were expelled last year alone."
The order adds a new twist to the Biden administration's efforts to restore order at the border. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been touting a wide-ranging plan that includes international cooperation, a new asylum rule to make some migrants ineligible if they entered illegally and failed to claim asylum at a third country, a surge of personnel, expanded legal processes and a stiffening of traditional Title 8 penalties. However, both he and President Biden have admitted that chaos is likely to follow the expiration of the order.
"We expected to see large numbers of encounters initially. We are already seeing high numbers of encounters in certain sectors," Mayorkas said Thursday. "This places an incredible strain on our personnel, our facilities and our communities with whom we partner closely. We prepared for this moment for almost two years and our plan will deliver results. It will take time for those results to be fully realized, and it is essential that we all take this into account."
Fox News' Bill Melugin and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/federal-judge-blocks-biden-admin-from-releasing-migrants-without-court-dates-as-title-42-expires/article_e67f7f11-59f2-5112-8256-60c1d90ca140.html | 2023-05-12 04:14:29 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/federal-judge-blocks-biden-admin-from-releasing-migrants-without-court-dates-as-title-42-expires/article_e67f7f11-59f2-5112-8256-60c1d90ca140.html |
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Local Schools, Nonprofits, Community Partners to Empower Students to Succeed
GEORGETOWN, Ky., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota USA Foundation announced grants of up to $5.7 million to prepare students in Scott County, Fayette County and Ignite Institute in Northern Kentucky for future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Driving Possibilities focuses on PreK-12 education to ensure all students have access to rewarding careers, including opportunities in the auto industry.
"Our goal is to increase awareness of future STEM careers while helping build sustainable programs in the communities where our Toyota team members live and work," said Tellis Bethel, group vice president of social innovation, Toyota. "With $1.2 million in its first year and more to come in the years ahead, we are excited to expand Driving Possibilities here in Kentucky, home to our largest manufacturing plant in the world."
The long-term initiative's phased approach, which offers programming in specific schools based on input from district leaders, aims to close educational gaps through innovative, hands-on STEM programming while addressing the essential needs of students and families.
"Toyota understands the future of our economy is in our classrooms," said Jacqueline Coleman, Kentucky Lt. Governor. "This investment will eliminate barriers to success, increase opportunities for students, and help us achieve our goal of a quality education for every Kentuckian."
Driving Possibilities in Kentucky centers on three key areas designed to expand literacy and language resources, build education and industry partnerships, and address transportation barriers.
"The Driving Possibilities framework provides a holistic approach to ensure all children have equal access to opportunities and a pathway to high-growth careers," said Kerry Creech, president of Toyota Kentucky. "In collaboration with community partners and businesses, we are focusing resources inside and outside the classroom to help students overcome barriers."
In 2022, the Toyota USA Foundation announced Driving Possibilities, a $110 million national, career readiness and community engagement initiative, launched to prepare youth for the careers of tomorrow. It is a unique approach that brings together educators, local and national nonprofits, and communities to create limitless possibilities for all. With efforts across the PreK-12 education continuum, the program is the largest and most comprehensive in Toyota's history. The initiative is funded by Toyota USA Foundation, Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), and Toyota Financial Services (TFS).
Kentucky is the second site to launch programming based on more than 60 years of active support in communities across the U.S. and builds off the successful model in West Dallas.
About Toyota USA Foundation
The Toyota USA Foundation is a charitable endowment created to support education programs serving PreK through 12th-grade students and their teachers in the United States, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). For more information about the Toyota USA Foundation, visit www.toyotaeffect.com/impact.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in North America for more than 65 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our more than 1,800 dealerships.
Toyota directly employs more than 63,000 people in North America who have contributed to the design, engineering, and assembly of nearly 45 million cars and trucks at our 13 manufacturing plants. By 2025, Toyota's 14th plant in North Carolina will begin to manufacture automotive batteries for electrified vehicles. With more electrified vehicles on the road than any other automaker, Toyota currently offers 24 electrified options.
About Toyota Financial Services
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is the brand for finance and related products for Toyota in the United States, offering retail auto financing and leasing through Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC) and Toyota Lease Trust. TFS also offers vehicle and payment protection products through Toyota Motor Insurance Services (TMIS). The company services Lexus dealers and customers using the Lexus Financial Services brand.
As of March 31, 2022, TFS employed approximately 3,700 team members nationwide, and had assets totaling over $135 billion. It is part of a worldwide network of comprehensive financial services offered by Toyota Financial Services Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — With stars like Margot Robbie and Lil Nas X sitting in the front row, Virginie Viard’s sporty clothing designs inspired by Hollywood glam shined just as bright during a Chanel fashion show in Los Angeles.
The fashion brand took hold of the Paramount Picture Studios lot to unveil its latest cruise collection on a chilly Tuesday night. It was such a splashy spectacle that even Snoop Dogg was dancing in his comfy bleacher seat while models strutted on a black-and-white Chanel basketball-like court with two large scoreboards.
A massive screen as long as the court showed various black-and-white videos of dancing Chanel models and aerial images of Los Angeles filled with palms trees.
The spacious court gave the models room to work in front of a star-studded crowd that included Kristen Stewart, Elle Fanning, Issa Rae, H.E.R., Nile Rodgers, Paris Hilton, Andra Day, Leslie Mann, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kris Jenner, Kimora Lee Simmons, Christina Milian and Lori Harvey.
Viard brought her vision for Californian sporty vibes to life with swimsuits, sports bras, sparkling dresses, skirts, blazers and platform shoes with glowing heels, in various shades of pink along with lavender and black.
The last time Chanel had a cruise collection event in the Los Angeles area was 2007 in a hangar at the Santa Monica airport. The previous cruise shows were held in Provence, France and Monte Carlo, Monaco.
After the nearly 30-minute show wrapped up, Viard took a bow and made a short strut of her own while attendees applauded her efforts. Audience members were entertained before and after the event by roller skaters who slithered through the crowd and collectively danced together at times.
As a special performer, Snoop Dogg kept the good times rolling as he performed a medley of his hits including “Gin and Juice,” ”Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Beautiful.” The rapper brought out Anderson .Paak who performed “Smokin Out the Window.”
Dogg, who also deejayed during his set, brought his family and said it was the first time he’s ever attended such an event.
“I’m gonna bring the hood to the fashion show,” he told the crowd. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/chanel-lures-stars-with-cruise-fashion-show-in-los-angeles/ | 2023-05-10 13:25:11 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/chanel-lures-stars-with-cruise-fashion-show-in-los-angeles/ |
WASHINGTON — America’s employers shrugged off high inflation and weakening growth to add 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly strong gain that will likely spur the Federal Reserve to keep sharply raising interest rates to cool the economy and slow price increases.
The unemployment rate in June remained at 3.6% for a fourth straight month, the Labor Department said Friday, matching a near-50-year low that was reached before the pandemic struck in early 2020.
The past year’s streak of robust hiring has been good for job seekers and has led to higher pay for many employees. But it has also helped fuel the highest inflation in four decades and heightened pressure on the Fed to further slow borrowing and spending.
Many employers are still struggling to fill jobs, especially in the economy’s vast service sector, with Americans now traveling, eating out and attending public events with much greater frequency. The Fed may regard the June job gain as evidence that the rapid pace of hiring is feeding inflation as companies raise pay to attract workers and then increase prices to cover their higher labor costs.
The Fed has already embarked on its fastest series of rate hikes since the 1980s, and further large increases would making borrowing much costlier for consumers and businesses and increase the risk of a recession.
The persistent desire of many businesses to hire and grow is providing a bulwark against the likelihood that the economy will tip into recession over the next year. Even if a downturn does occur, the healthy job and pay growth of the past year could help keep it relatively brief and mild.
For now, there are roughly two posted job openings for every unemployed worker. And the number of people seeking unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs and an early indicator of a downturn — remains far below historic averages, although it has ticked up recently.
At the same time, economic growth has been negative for two straight quarters, consumers are slowing their spending with inflation at a four-decade high and home sales have fallen as the Fed has jacked up borrowing costs.
And hiring could weaken in the coming months. The Fed wants job growth to slow, at least modestly, as part of its strenuous efforts to cool the economy and curb high inflation. The Biden administration, too, has sought to portray any pullback in hiring as part of a welcome transition to a more sustainable economy that will help keep inflation down.
But the transition to a more sustainable pace of growth and hiring is likely to be a bumpy one. If, for example, the Fed’s rate cuts end up slowing growth too much, as many analysts fear, the economy could slide into a recession by next year. Already, signs of a slowdown are evident. In May, consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, fell for the first time since December. Sales of existing homes have fallen nearly 9% compared with a year ago.
And some companies are announcing layoffs, or have paused hiring. In particular, several large retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, have said they over-hired during the pandemic, with Walmart reducing its headcount by attrition.
Tesla is cutting about 3.5% of its total headcount. Netflix has laid off about 450 employees after it reported losing subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. The online automotive retailer Carvana and real estate companies Redfin and Compass have also announced job cuts.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has held out hope that the economy will continue to expand even as the central bank raises borrowing costs at its fastest pace since the late 1980s. But Powell has also acknowledged that overseas factors, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has elevated gas and food prices, will make it difficult to avoid a recession.
Last month, he conceded that a recession “is not our intended outcome but it’s certainly a possibility.”
The job market has recovered much more rapidly from the pandemic recession than it did after previous downturns. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/us-job-growth/507-3d4b8d0c-a9fd-45bd-9fc1-7ff587b7f415 | 2022-07-08 14:56:12 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/us-job-growth/507-3d4b8d0c-a9fd-45bd-9fc1-7ff587b7f415 |
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had three goals and an assist and the Edmonton Oilers overcame an early 3-0 deficit to beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 on Wednesday night.
Leon Draisaitl added a goal and two assists and Darnell Nurse also scored for the Oilers in the opener for both teams. Jack Campbell made 33 saves.
“It wasn’t according to anyone’s script, for sure,” said Edmonton head coach Jay Woodcroft. “I don’t think we were sharp. I don’t think we were in sync early. We found a way to win the game, that’s a really good sign, but we can be better.”
Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller and Andrei Kuzmenko — in his NHL debut — scored for the Canucks. Thatcher Demko stopped 20 shots.
Pettersson and Miller scored in an early 51-second span and Kuzmenko made it 3-0 39 seconds into the second on a power play. He’s the first player in Canucks history to score a power-play goal in his debut.
“That was pretty disappointing, I thought we came out pretty good in the first and special teams kind of cost us the game,” said Canucks defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson. “The power play wasn’t good enough and we couldn’t keep the puck out of our net on the (penalty kill).”
Edmonton got on the board 4:12 into the second when Draisaitl took a deflected pass at the side of the net and slammed it past Demko on a power play.
The Oilers pulled within a goal with another power-play goal with 5:59 left in the second on a three-way passing play from Zach Hyman to Draisaitl and then to McDavid.
“It was just not a good start for our group. It was the first game and maybe there was a little bit of jitters,” McDavid said. “It is not going to be perfect every night. You are not going to have the game you want every night and sometimes you get a win with your ‘B’ or ‘C’ game. It was certainly not our ‘A’ game to start, but we found a way to get our legs going and get ourselves back in it.”
Edmonton pulled even with 41 seconds left in the period on a 2-on-1 short-handed break as Draisaitl fed it across to Nurse, who beat Demko with a one-timer.
The Oilers took the lead with 4:59 left in the third period with McDavid orchestrating a give-and-go with Hyman before depositing his own rebound past Demko. It was McDavid’s 700th career point, making him the sixth-fastest player to hit the mark in 488 games.
McDavid completed the hat trick with 25 seconds left when Evander Kane dropped it back to him for an empty-net power-play goal.
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It is a clear and mild start to this Monday morning across Central Alabama. Temperatures are in the 60s.
This Memorial Day will be dry and hot – feeling like summer. An area of high pressure will sit to the east of Alabama, and this will bring us southerly winds. That will make it a little more humid with a mostly sunny sky. We could see a stray shower or two pop-up with the heating of the day – mainly over Eastern and Southern Alabama. It will be hot with highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear, mild and a little muggy. Lows will be in the 60s.
The summer weather pattern will continue Tuesday. The Birmingham area will stay mostly sunny, more humid, and hotter as the area of high pressure stays east of Alabama. A few showers or storms could pop-up in the afternoon, but most of you will be dry. High temperatures will be in the lower 90s.
Wednesday will be mostly dry and hot. We could see a stray shower or storm across Central Alabama. High temperatures will remain in the lower 90s.
A weak cold front will move into Alabama on Thursday. This will tap in to the warm and humid air, and that will set off scattered showers and thunderstorms. Some downpours are possible. High temperatures will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s.
The front will push through on Friday with a few more showers and storms. High temperatures will be in the mid 80s.
Weekend Outlook: High pressure will build back over the Eastern U.S. but stay north of Alabama this weekend. We will dry out on Saturday with a little less humid air and a mostly sunny sky. Do not expect a cool-down behind the cold front. We will have high temperatures in the upper 80s. Sunday will be hot and a little more humid with a slight chance for a pop-up shower as southeast winds return to the state. High temperatures will be back in the lower 90s.
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Americans are putting more on their credit cards and taking out fewer mortgages, as they need to increasingly borrow to cover the higher cost of everyday essentials and respond to rising interest rates.
There were a record 537 million credit card accounts in the first quarter, a jump of 31 million over the past year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's quarterly report on household debt and credit. Meantime, mortgage originations totaled $859 billion in the first three months of 2022, the lowest in nearly two years.
While mortgages are still by far the biggest component of household debt at 71%, the data shows how consumers are relying more on credit cards as decades-high inflation boosts the cost of everything from food and gas to shelter. And now that the Fed is tightening policy and mortgage rates are the highest since 2009, Americans are refinancing them much less, as well as auto debt.
The data reflects a stark contrast from 2021, when Americans capitalized on some of the lowest interest rates ever to refinance debt at historic levels. Now that the Fed has raised rates by the most since 2000 and indicated it will keep doing so in the coming months, debt service costs are rising as well.
Economists have warned that higher interest payments could tip certain kinds of debt, especially student loans, into delinquency from historically low levels. Interest payments are starting to tick up across nearly all debt types, including credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and home equity lines of credit, according to the New York Fed. There was also a small increase in the number of foreclosures in the first quarter.
The survey showed consumers hold a record $3.28 trillion in additional credit card debt available.
A separate report last week showed U.S. consumer borrowing soared in March by the most on record as credit-card balances ballooned and non-revolving credit jumped, underscoring the combined impact of solid spending and rising prices. That's a good sign in that spending is the largest contributor to the economy, but could be worrisome if Americans can't keep up on payments.
Those payments, as well as others with variable interest rates, are increasing, and threaten to squeeze already strained households who live paycheck-to-paycheck and whose wages aren't keeping up with inflation.
Mortgage originations boomed in the pandemic when rates were low, but have been declining in recent weeks as rates rise. The 30-year mortgage rate as measured by Freddie Mac now stands at 5.27%, the highest since 2009.
"Unlike the 2003-2006 housing boom, mortgage debt has been rising much more slowly than home values," New York Fed researchers led by Andrew Haughwout said in a separate blog post.
Haughwout also noted that loans nowadays are going to borrowers with higher credit scores, reflecting continuing high lending standards coming out of the 2008 financial crisis. More than two-thirds of newly originated mortgage debt last quarter was for borrowers with credit scores over 760, while just 2% went to subprime borrowers. That compares with an average of 12% in the years leading up to the recession.
Autos were the third-highest category of debt after mortgages and student loans, thanks to an increase in prices that's prompted buyers to borrow more. That may create a longer-term financial burden for households stuck with large loan payments, even as prices of used vehicles start coming down from their peaks.
As used-car prices drop, new borrowers in particular are at risk in that they may owe more on their cars than the vehicles are worth.
Student-loan debt in 2021 posted the smallest annual increase in nearly two decades, according to the New York Fed, as far fewer Americans enrolled in college during the pandemic, and interest payments were cut to 0% due to covid-19 forbearance measures. The Biden administration last month extended the pause on payments to Aug. 31 from May 1.
Americans owe a collective $1.8 trillion in student-loan debt, according to a separate measure by the Fed. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/11/fed-data-reliance-on-credit-cards-up/ | 2022-06-11 08:50:59 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/11/fed-data-reliance-on-credit-cards-up/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to modest losses in a quiet Tuesday on Wall Street, as steadying Treasury yields helped calm the market following its worst tumble in months.
The S&P 500 dipped 9.26 points, or 0.2%, to 4,128.73 after flipping between small gains and losses through the day. The edge lower follows up on Monday's sharp 2.1% drop, which came on the heels of the first losing week for the index in the last five.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 154.02, or 0.5%, to 32,909.59, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.27, or less than 0.1%, to 12381.30. Stocks of smaller companies held up better than the rest of the market, and the Russell 2000 index ticked up by 0.2%.
Volatility has returned to Wall Street following what had been a strong summer as worries rise about how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to knock down high inflation. Recent comments from some Fed officials have cooled hopes the Fed may end up less forceful than feared.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury has climbed back above 3%, for example, after starting the month close to 2.60%.
Yields calmed on Tuesday, though, which helped give stocks something of a reprieve. The two-year yield fell in particular following some weaker-than-forecast readings on the economy, down to 3.28% from 3.33% late Monday.
The 10-year yield inched up to 3.05% from 3.03% after preliminary data suggested both the manufacturing and services sectors are weaker than economists expected.
"Gathering clouds spread across the private sector as services new orders returned to contractionary territory, mirroring the subdued demand conditions seen at their manufacturing counterparts," S&P Global Market Intelligence senior economist Siân Jones said in a statement accompanying the report.
A separate report showed that sales of new homes slowed more than economists expected last month. The housing industry has been one of the hardest hit by this year's turnaround in interest rates. As the Fed has jacked up its key overnight rate, mortgage rates have climbed too and put a chill on the industry.
Such weak data on the U.S. economy raises worries that a recession may indeed be on the way, but it also could encourage the Fed to take it easier on rate hikes. Worries about a slowing economy stretch around the world, and the value of one euro dropped below $1 amid concerns about Europe in particular.
The next big event circled on Wall Street's calendar is a speech on Friday by Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve. He'll be speaking at an annual symposium held by the Fed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which has been the site of major market-moving speeches in the past.
In the stock market, losses for health care companies helped to offset gains for energy producers driven by stronger oil prices.
Several profit reports also drove trading as the earnings season draws to a close. More than 95% of companies in the S&P 500 have reported their earnings for the spring, with overall growth on track for roughly 6%, according to FactSet.
Macy's rose 3.8% after beating Wall Street's second-quarter expectations, and J.M. Smucker gained 3.3% after delivering a sweetened financial forecast despite inflation eating into its results. Zoom Video Communications slumped 16.5% after cutting its financial forecast for the year.
Twitter fell 7.3% after a whistleblower alleged the company misled regulators about its cybersecurity defenses, privacy protections and its ability to detect and root out fake accounts. The social media company is in the middle of trying to force Tesla CEO Elon Musk to consummate his $44 billion takeover offer for it. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/stocks-dip-as-steadying-yields-calm-wall-street-after-fall | 2022-08-23 20:39:10 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/stocks-dip-as-steadying-yields-calm-wall-street-after-fall |
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinse spokesperson on Thursday accused Canada of acting in a “condescending manner” following a testy exchange between President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that underscores the depths to which the bilateral relationship has fallen.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning’s comments came after Xi chastised Trudeau at the G-20 summit on Wednesday over media reports on an earlier meeting during which Trudeau expressed concern about Chinese interference in Canada’s internal affairs. The apparently spontaneous exchange with a translator present was captured on video.
Mao denied China had ever interfered in the internal affairs of other nations and said Canada was responsible for the downturn in ties.
“Canada should take concrete actions to create conditions for the improvement of China-Canada relations,” she said at a daily briefing. The conversation was “quite normal and should not be interpreted as President Xi criticizing or blaming anyone.”
Mao added that there had been a clear lack of respect from the Canadian side.
“China has no problem at all with having a candid dialogue with other countries,” she said. “But we hope such a candid dialogue will be based on equal treatment and mutual respect, rather than criticizing the other in a condescending manner.”
In his comments to Trudeau, Xi said, “Everything we discussed has been leaked to the paper; that’s not appropriate.”
“And that’s not … the way the conversation was conducted, if there is sincerity on your part,” Xi said, at which point Trudeau interrupted and stepped toward Xi.
“In Canada, we believe in free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have,” Trudeau said. “We will continue to look to work constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on.”
“Let’s create the conditions first,” Xi responded. The two shook hands after the brief encounter.
Mao said nothing Xi said should be interpreted as a threat.
“As you can see from the video, I think it is quite normal for the two heads of state to have a brief conversation during the G-20 summit. The two sides were just stating their respective positions,” she said.
Trudeau first spoke with Xi at the G-20 last Tuesday. A senior Canadian government official said the two spoke about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea and climate change, and that Trudeau also raised “our serious concerns around interference activities in Canada.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Asked later at a news conference about the confrontation, Trudeau said, “not every conversation is always going to be easy, but it’s extremely important that we continue to stand up for the things that are important for Canadians.”
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly also said she discussed Chinese interference with her Chinese counterpart at the G-20.
Joly remarked last week that China is an increasingly disruptive global power and warned businesses against deepening their ties, saying there were “geopolitical risks.”
China-Canada ties nosedived after China jailed two Canadians shortly after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and the daughter of the company’s founder, on a U.S. extradition request in December 2018.
They were sent back to Canada last year, the same day Meng returned to China after reaching a deal with U.S. authorities in her case, leading many to label China’s action “hostage politics.”
Canada has banned wireless carriers from installing Huawei equipment in its high-speed 5G networks, joining allies in shunning the company that has close links with the ruling Communist Party and its military wing, the People’s Liberation Army. China has described the charges against Huawei and Meng as a politically motivated attempt to hold back China’s economic and technological development.
More recently, Canadian police charged a Hydro-Québec employee on Monday with espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets to China.
Earlier this month, Canadian public broadcaster CBC closed its China bureau after applications to base a new reporter in Beijing were met with what it called “monthslong silence from Chinese officials.”
The apparently unscripted remarks from Xi marked a rare display of public candor from the usually highly composed veteran politician. Known as an ardent nationalist who has vowed to always put China’s interests first, Xi recently had himself granted a third five-year term as leader of the ruling Communist Party, while packing top bodies with loyalists.
In one earlier such incident during a visit to Mexico in 2009 while serving as vice president, China told Chinese students that, “There are a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country.”
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Provocative Ed Post Series 'Jane Crow: Then and Now'
Examines the Troubling Activities, Histories of
White Women and Our Schools
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- White women are organizing around concerns about what their children are being taught and exercising their political and social power to influence elections and education politics. But this is not new.
A ground-breaking series from brightbeam and its publication Ed Post, whose mission is to inspire Americans to demand safe, affirming, and accountable education options where every child learns and thrives, looks at the troubling activities of these so-called "moms," each of whom a few decades before might have been called Mrs. Jane Crow.
In "Jane Crow: Then and Now," journalists and advocates explore how white women — as mothers and teachers — have historically used their position to preserve systems of oppression, and how that history remains alive and active today.
Ed Post believes that to change our history, people must first see it clearly. Maureen Kelleher, editorial partner at brightbeam, says, "In today's America, white women are humans who have blind spots, exercise power to pursue their self-interest and can get defensive when held accountable. In a country where two-thirds of women voters are white and 61% of public school teachers are white women, those human failings and biases have real consequences for Black and Brown youth. We must move beyond our deeply-rooted cultural portrayal of white women as good, kind, pure and in need of protection. Our 'Jane Crow' project delivers on that need."
At its core, advocates want Americans to recognize that one of the greatest obstacles to educational justice in the United States lies in the unconscious biases and mindsets of a large group of people involved in supporting the nation's children, namely, white women. They say just as the Jim Crow-era created racial discrimination, today's Jane Crow efforts continue to cause damage.
At the same time, the series celebrates the allies in history: the white women accomplices who bucked the system and worked to provide a just education for Black and Brown young people, sometimes at a personal cost.
The multimedia microsite includes:
- Exclusive video interviews with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and historian Elizabeth McRae, author of "Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy;"
- A close-up look at the quickly-growing Moms For Liberty national advocacy group. Despite its insistence that they embrace people of all backgrounds and are simply defending children, some historians observe their ideas and rhetoric echo dated, white-supremacist thinking;
- Insights into the simmering debate in Minneapolis about who loses their teaching job when layoffs are needed and what role the union plays;
- A timeline of white women's role in American education;
- Essays by Courtney Martin, author of "Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America," and other notable white women examining their successes and failures as allies.
In keeping with Ed Post's position of being "where stories lead to action," the site includes a toolkit with discussion questions, thought exercises and resources, including by teachers, for teachers.
In the coming weeks, additional essays and stories will be added. Ed Post encourages visitors to the site to leave with two action goals. First, to step up to break the monolith of "interchangeable white ladies" in the teaching profession and ensure every child has access to a full diversity of educators, including teachers who share their racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Second, to encourage and inspire all people, especially white women mothers and teachers, to deepen their historical knowledge and commitment to cultural humility and deeper listening when working with children, families and communities whose experiences differ from their own.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Republicans and Democrats in the Senate celebrated with the passage of the Honoring our Pact act.
“No one goes through what you went through. And that’s just the epitome of grace,” Veterans activist Jon Stewart said.
Stewart shed tears and shared a hug with Susan Zeier after the Senate passed the bill named after her son-in-law.
“I no longer have to carry heath on my shoulders, while I’m advocating for all the other veterans out there who are sick and dying,” Zeier said.
The bill passed with a large bipartisan majority and will help millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service.
“This is a day of our democracy actually working,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said.
Gillibrand says it’s a long time coming.
“They deserve to be able to come back to the healthcare they need to survive and their families deserve the benefits they’ve earned when they pass,” Gillibrand said.
Democrats and Republicans agree that the cost of care is necessary to give veterans what they deserve.
“When we send someone off to war, there are costs. Some of the costs are immediate and some of the costs are down the road,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.
Schumer and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Ks.) believe Congress is now keeping its promise to veterans.
“It’s one thing to say we respect you, we appreciate your service, we thank you for your service. It’s another thing to make sure that service is cared for,” Moran said.
The house passed the bill in March. The senate made numerous changes in the bill, so the House will have to vote again and should approve it as early as next week. | https://www.fox16.com/washington/washington-dc/senators-celebrate-passage-of-honoring-our-pact-act/ | 2022-06-16 23:07:26 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/washington/washington-dc/senators-celebrate-passage-of-honoring-our-pact-act/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants during an arrest raid Thursday in the occupied West Bank, according to the military and the Islamic Jihad militant group, the latest bloodshed in months of violence between the sides.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the men as Naeem Jamal Zubaidi, 27, and Mohammad Ayman Saadi, 26 and said they were killed in the Jenin refugee camp.
The military said Saadi was a prominent member of the Islamic Jihad group while Zubaidi was involved in shooting attacks against Israeli troops. Islamic Jihad said the two men were members.
The military said troops were carrying out an arrest raid and were met by gunfire. The forces responded, and the two men were killed in the exchange of fire.
In Gaza meanwhile, the United Nations said it had uncovered a “man-made cavity” under one of the schools it operates — an apparent reference to underground tunnels used by militants, including the Hamas Islamic militant group that rules the territory. Hamas’ sophisticated tunnel system has helped it fight wars against Israel.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which operates the school, said it protested the discovery under its facility to authorities in Gaza. It called the tunnel “a serious violation of the agency’s neutrality and a breach of international law.” Israel accuses Hamas and other Gaza militants of operating from within the civilian population in the densely populated territory.
Fighting between Israel and the Islamic Jihad has intensified in recent months, including from the Gaza Strip, where a two-day spasm of violence erupted in the summer, killing dozens of Palestinians and disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis. The group has a significant presence in Jenin where the Palestinian security forces have less of a foothold, making the area, in the northern West Bank, a focus of Israeli military operations in recent months.
The military has been conducting months of arrest raids in the West Bank, prompted by a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the spring that killed 19 people. The military says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks, but the Palestinians say they entrench Israel’s open-ended occupation and undermine their own security forces.
The raids have ratcheted up tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, triggering another wave of Palestinian attacks in recent weeks that have killed an additional nine people.
More than 130 Palestinians have been killed this year, making 2022 the deadliest since 2006. The Israeli military says many of those killed have been militants but local youths protesting the incursions as well as others not involved in the violence have also been killed.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want those territories for their hoped-for future state. Substantive peace talks were last held more than a decade ago, and with Israel headed toward what’s likely to be its most right-wing government ever, there appears to be no prospect for a new negotiations in the near future. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-palestinians-say-2-killed-in-israeli-west-bank-raid/ | 2022-12-01 20:17:55 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-palestinians-say-2-killed-in-israeli-west-bank-raid/ |
Full list of this season's holiday must-haves featured on OprahDaily.com
ATLANTA, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SHINERY announced today that the Radiance Wash is included in 2022 Oprah's Favorite Things holiday gifts list, featured on OprahDaily.com and in the Winter issue of O Quarterly, on newsstands November 1. The Oprah's Favorite Things annual list is a must-have holiday shopping guide with the most decadent desserts, ingenious gadgets, and finest finds in home, fashion, and beauty. This year's list features a variety of wonderful items for you and your loved ones, most of which have been selected from small businesses. To shop the full list of items please visit: https://www.oprahdaily.com/oprah-favorite-things-2022. SHINERY Radiance Wash will be available for purchase at Amazon.com, Nordstrom.com (and select Nordstrom locations nationwide), www.shinery.com, and in the Oprah's Favorite Things gift guide exclusively in Amazon's store at amazon.com/oprah, as well as via the Amazon shopping app for customers to conveniently shop anytime, anywhere.
As Oprah says on OprahDaily.com, "A female-founded and veteran-operated business had a gem of an idea: hand soap that cleans your jewelry at the same time—so you don't have to take off your rings and risk losing them while washing! What a cute, useful present for anyone who loves to really sparkle."
SHINERY disrupted the jewelry care category with the launch of the Radiance Wash, the innovative hand soap specifically designed to clean jewelry while you wash your hands. You no longer need to take off jewelry or have a separate jewelry cleaning routine. Safe on all diamonds, moissanites, morganites, gemstones, precious metals, fashion and antique jewelry, SHINERY is formulated with plant-based surfactants that carefully wash away all the gunk that sits on your hands all day- sanitizer, lotion, sunscreen, dirt, pollution without any harmful ingredients.
How did Shinery come to be? Founder & CEO of SHINERY, Brea Fullerton spent years looking for a clean, convenient, and effective product that didn't exist — a way to safely keep her jewelry clean. She spent over a year working with top chemists and formulators to develop SHINERY's collection of jewelry care products (which includes Radiance Wash, Radiance Towelettes and Illuminating Pom).
Twelve lucky readers will have the chance to win all 104 items on Oprah's Favorite Things List in the 12-Day Give-O-Way Sweepstakes (https://www.oprahdaily.com/12days-2022) which runs from November 11 through November 22.
The Winter issue of O Quarterly, featuring the SHINERY Radiance Wash on this year's list, hits newsstands nationwide on November 1.
ABOUT SHINERY
SHINERY is the innovative jewelry cleaner formulated with plant-based ingredients designed to be used while wearing jewelry to also restore sparkle and shine. Free of harmful ingredients, SHINERY is safe on all diamonds, moissanites, morganites, gemstones, precious metals, fashion and antique jewelry as it carefully washes away all the gunk that sits on your hands all day- sanitizer, lotion, sunscreen, dirt, pollution. Founder & CEO, Brea Fullerton, worked with top chemists and formulators to develop SHINERY's original collection of jewelry care products: Radiance Wash, Illuminating Pom, and Radiance Towelettes. Each product was specifically created to completely transform the way you think about jewelry care. Clear in the conviction that jewelry is a crucial way we express ourselves to others, Fullerton is determined to help each and every one of us shine a little brighter. SHINERY Radiance Wash ($28) is available for purchase via www.amazon.com, www.Nordstrom.com (select Nordstrom locations nationwide), and www.shinery.com,
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mattel163 is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic Phase 10 card game with the biggest-ever globe-trotting event in Phase 10: World Tour, the Phase 10 Mobile game, introducing new phases, special action cards, and monthly events.
Players can join the "Birthday Tour" event from May 31 through June 21. Full of twists and turns for a limited time new update, players will travel around the world by car, playing to collect vehicle upgrades, postcards that unlock rewards, and special Lucky Draw cards to earn prizes, all while meeting other global players and making friends as you travel together.
"Fans can expect the game to keep evolving as we continue to develop new modes of play for Phase 10: World Tour," said Phase 10 creator Ken Johnson. "We've collected feedback from fans over the years, and have used that knowledge to develop new ways of playing the Phase 10 game, and I hope its popularity will continue to grow for both the physical game and the mobile app."
"Phase 10 has remained a beloved source of entertainment and fun across generations, and the 40th anniversary celebration is one of the biggest events of the year for Mattel163," said Amy Huang, CEO of Mattel163. "We're very excited to be part of the journey and Phase 10 Mobile will evolve to provide more personalized and localized in-game experience in countries across the world, allowing global players to enjoy the fun and love of making a phase."
In 1982, 22-year-old Ken Johnson created the classic rummy-style Phase 10 card game, in the basement of his parents' Detroit home.
Phase 10: World Tour is available in over 100 countries on both iOS and Android, and has amassed tens of millions of players around the world. It's always a good time to take 10; download Phase 10: World Tour on the App Store or Google Play now and take 10 for yourself!
About Mattel163
Mattel163 is a joint venture between global toy giant Mattel and Chinese internet giant NetEase. Founded in 2017, Mattel163 employs over 200 talented people with offices in Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. Focusing on connecting the world through play, we develop and publish mobile games based on iconic Mattel IPs and our own original creations.
Mattel163 has more than 250 million players around the world, and is growing! We believe that games are about creativity and connectivity that should evolve with technology and culture. Our current game portfolio includes UNO!™ Mobile, Phase 10: World Tour, Skip-Bo™ Mobile, and more to come very soon.
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Mattel163 PR
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Green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the night sky during the Stone Age.
Discovered on March 2, 2022, by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility's wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the comet made its closest approach to the sun on Jan. 12, according to NASA.
Named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), the comet has an orbit around the sun that passes through the outer reaches of the solar system, which is why it's taken such a long route — and long time — to swing by Earth again, according to The Planetary Society.
The icy celestial object will make its closest pass by Earth between Feb. 1 and Feb. 2, around 26 million miles to 27 million miles away, according to EarthSky.
Even during its closest approach, the comet will still be more than 100 times the moon's distance away from Earth, according to EarthSky.
As the comet nears Earth, observers will be able to spot it as a faint green smudge near the bright star Polaris, also called the North Star. Comets reflect different colors of light due to their current positions in orbit and chemical compositions.
Early morning skies, once the moon has set after midnight for those in the Northern Hemisphere, are optimal for viewing the comet. The space object will be more difficult to see for those in the Southern Hemisphere.
Depending on its brightness, C/2022 E3 (ZTF) may even be visible to the unaided eye in dark skies, but binoculars or a telescope will make the comet easier to see.
The comet can be distinguished from stars by its streaking tails of dust and energized particles, as well as the glowing green coma surrounding it.
The coma is an envelope that forms around a comet as it passes close to the sun, causing its ice to sublimate, or turn directly to gas. This causes the comet to look fuzzy when observed through telescopes.
After passing by Earth, the comet will make its closest approach of Mars on Feb. 10, according to EarthSky.
If clouds or inclement weather get in the way of skywatching, The Virtual Telescope Project will share a livestream of the comet in the skies above Rome. And don't miss the other celestial events to see in 2023. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/green-comet-will-appear-in-the-night-sky-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age/42725209 | 2023-02-01 16:39:59 | 0 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/green-comet-will-appear-in-the-night-sky-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age/42725209 |
Latest podcast from The Miles Group's Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin asserts high inflation remains uncharted territory for most CEOs and business leaders. Almost none have experience running a US company through hyperinflation.
NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Not since the 1970s has the global economy experienced persistent, widespread inflation. Most CEOs and board directors in America have yet to deal with inflation at sustained levels above 5 percent," says Stephen Miles, CEO and Founder of The Miles Group, in the latest "C-Suite Intelligence" podcast. "We are entering a phase of 'hyperinflation' that no one has the muscles or experience to navigate."
Miles and COO Taylor Griffin, who coach CEOs and C-suite executives around the world and host the popular business podcast "C-Suite Intelligence," tell executives if they are reading about hyperinflation, they are already behind in leading – and winning – in this hyperinflationary environment. "The dynamic market that we're experiencing right now is unpredictable. A CEO's crystal ball isn't just blurry, it's opaque."
Says Griffin, "Executives are trying to manage in an increasingly challenging environment with respect to labor shortages and rising costs...Since the last time we experienced hyperinflation, CEOs and C-suite executives are dealing with a broader, more complex, economic environment."
In their latest podcast episode, "Struggling to Lead in Hyperinflation" Miles and Griffin discuss how leaders can best respond in a flexible and dynamic way.
"The kind of inflation we are seeing is not transitory, it's becoming intrinsic. When we start seeing inflation in every facet of every business, we have to recognize it as a systemic change."
In this second episode of "C-Suite Intelligence," Season 2, Miles and Griffin discuss one of the hottest issues on business leaders' agenda. Tune in to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify to hear the discussion.
For more information, please contact Davia Temin or Trang Mar of Temin and Company at 212.588.8788 or news@teminandco.com.
About the C-Suite Intelligence podcast
CEOs running the world's top companies don't start out that way – they pull ahead of their peers with behaviors and practices that make them the "best of the best." Stephen Miles and the team at TMG coach some of the world's most successful executives, helping them continuously up their game even as business conditions grow more complex every day. Through the C-Suite Intelligence, learn the secrets of the highest performers, and use this intelligence to power your career. New episodes are released bi-weekly on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
About The Miles Group/TMG
TMG develops talent strategies for organizations, teams, and individuals – focusing on high-performance, world-class leadership. Through assessments and development, coaching, leadership transition planning, and organizational design, TMG helps clients cultivate exceptional talent from the C-suite to the next generation of leaders throughout the organization. Clients include many of the Fortune 100 as well as VC portfolio companies, firms in transition, and organizations around the globe and across industries. TMG has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, C-Suite, Entrepreneur, and Chief Executive. The firm is headquartered in New York City and operates globally. For more information, visit http://miles-group.com. Follow TMG on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Bill Cosby faces new lawsuit in Nevada after state drops statute of limitations on sexual assault
By Andy Rose, CNN
(CNN) — Several women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual abuse in the past filed a new lawsuit Wednesday asking for a jury trial against the comedian in Nevada, where a new state law recently took effect that eliminates the statutes of limitations for many sexual assault cases.
The lawsuit was filed by nine women in the US District Court of Nevada, and the plaintiffs all say they allegedly were given either pills or tainted drinks by Cosby during encounters in Nevada and were sexually assaulted while drugged. The lawsuit says the encounters happened from approximately 1979 to 1992.
“Defendant Cosby drugged or attempted to drug each of these women before sexually assaulting them,” the complaint says.
The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit are Lise Lotte-Lublin, Lili Bernard, Janice Baker-Kinney, Rebecca Cooper, Janice Dickinson, Linda Kirkpatrick, Angela Leslie, Pam Joy Abeyta and Heidi Thomas.
Dickinson, a TV star and supermodel, was among several plaintiffs named in the suit who testified against Cosby in his 2018 criminal trial in Pennsylvania.
A jury found Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Andrea Constand in 2018, but the conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2021. The state’s high court found that the prosecution of Cosby violated an agreement he had made to ensure his testimony in a separate civil case.
The Nevada complaint also alleges “Cosby used his enormous power, fame, and prestige,” to isolate and sexually assault the women named in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed just weeks after the new state law took effect, eliminating the statute of limitations for most sexual assault cases. Cosby is also facing lawsuits in other states that have recently passed similar lookback laws including New York and California.
Cosby’s publicist, Andrew Wyatt, cited those laws and questioned the accusers’ motives in a statement responding to the new lawsuit Wednesday.
“From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts of an alleged allegation against Mr. Cosby anymore without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom,” said Wyatt.
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Proceeds to be initially used to pay down amounts drawn under the revolving credit facility
MIAMI, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) today announced that Carnival Holdings (Bermuda) Limited (the "Issuer"), a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation (the "Company"), has priced the private offering of $2.03 billion aggregate principal amount of 10.375% Senior Priority Notes due 2028 (the "Senior Priority Notes"). The aggregate principal amount of Senior Priority Notes to be issued was increased to $2.03 billion from $1.25 billion due to strong investor demand.
The Company expects to initially use the net proceeds of the offering to repay amounts drawn under the revolving credit facility, which remains available for future principal payments on debt and for general corporate purposes.
The Senior Priority Notes will pay interest semi-annually on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on May 1, 2023, at a rate of 10.375% per year, are callable beginning May 1, 2025 and priced at 98.465% of their face value. The Senior Priority Notes will mature on May 1, 2028.
The Senior Priority Notes will be unsecured and will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on an unsecured basis, jointly and severally, by the Company, Carnival plc and certain of the Company's and Carnival plc's subsidiaries that guarantee substantially all of the Company's other indebtedness. The offering of the Senior Priority Notes is expected to close on October 25, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
In connection with the offering of the Senior Priority Notes, the Company and its subsidiaries will contribute 12 unencumbered vessels to the Issuer, with each of these vessels continuing to be operated under one of the Company's, Carnival plc's or one of their subsidiaries' brands.
The Senior Priority Notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States, only to non-U.S. investors pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.
The Senior Priority Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state laws.
PJT Partners is serving as independent financial advisor to Carnival Corporation & plc.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Senior Priority Notes or any other securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This announcement contains inside information (for the purposes of applicable UK law).
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is one of the world's largest leisure travel companies with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise lines. With operations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises (Australia), Seabourn, Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
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Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, there are many factors that could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. This note contains important cautionary statements of the known factors that we consider could materially affect the accuracy of our forward-looking statements and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial position. Additionally, many of these risks and uncertainties are currently, and in the future may continue to be, amplified by COVID-19. It is not possible to predict or identify all such risks. There may be additional risks that we consider immaterial or which are unknown. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following:
- COVID-19 has had, and is expected to continue to have, a significant impact on our financial condition and operations. The current, and uncertain future, impact of COVID-19, including its effect on the ability or desire of people to travel (including on cruises), is expected to continue to impact our results, operations, outlooks, plans, goals, reputation, litigation, cash flows, liquidity, and stock price;
- events and conditions around the world, including war and other military actions, such as the current invasion of Ukraine, inflation, higher fuel prices, higher interest rates and other general concerns impacting the ability or desire of people to travel have led and may in the future lead, to a decline in demand for cruises, impacting our operating costs and profitability;
- incidents concerning our ships, guests or the cruise industry have in the past and may, in the future, impact the satisfaction of our guests and crew and lead to reputational damage;
- changes in and non-compliance with laws and regulations under which we operate, such as those relating to health, environment, safety and security, data privacy and protection, anti-corruption, economic sanctions, trade protection and tax have in the past and may, in the future, lead to litigation, enforcement actions, fines, penalties and reputational damage;
- factors associated with climate change, including evolving and increasing regulations, increasing global concern about climate change and the shift in climate conscious consumerism and stakeholder scrutiny, and increasing frequency and/or severity of adverse weather conditions could adversely affect our business;
- inability to meet or achieve our sustainability related goals, aspirations, initiatives, and our public statements and disclosures regarding them, may expose us to risks that may adversely impact our business;
- breaches in data security and lapses in data privacy as well as disruptions and other damages to our principal offices, information technology operations and system networks and failure to keep pace with developments in technology may adversely impact our business operations, the satisfaction of our guests and crew and may lead to reputational damage;
- the loss of key employees, our inability to recruit or retain qualified shoreside and shipboard employees and increased labor costs could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations;
- increases in fuel prices, changes in the types of fuel consumed and availability of fuel supply may adversely impact our scheduled itineraries and costs;
- we rely on supply chain vendors who are integral to the operations of our businesses. These vendors and service providers are also affected by COVID-19 and may be unable to deliver on their commitments which could impact our business;
- fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may adversely impact our financial results;
- overcapacity and competition in the cruise and land-based vacation industry may lead to a decline in our cruise sales, pricing and destination options;
- inability to implement our shipbuilding programs and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments may adversely impact our business operations and the satisfaction of our guests; and
- the risk factors included in Carnival Corporation's and Carnival plc's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on January 27, 2022 and Carnival Corporation's and Carnival plc's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on March 28, 2022, June 29, 2022 and September 30, 2022.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Korea's leading ICT company, Lotte Data Communications (LDCC), will participate in the coming CES 2023 held in Las Vegas, USA. It will be showcasing differentiated metaverse technology at the main exhibition hall, Central Hall.
LDCC is a key affiliate of the Lotte Group in charge of DT (Digital Transformation). With total assets amounting to about 125 trillion won, Lotte Group is a global corporation that engages in various businesses such as distribution, chemicals, food, tourism, construction, and services, etc. in more than 30 countries around the world, including Korea, the United States, Japan, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Having drawn much interest with its first CES participation last year, LDCC will feature booth space three times larger than before this time round and offer richer and more developed experiential contents.
The final version that Lotte Metaverse aims for is a world where online and offline worlds are integrated, just like the movie 'Ready Player One'. Products purchased within the metaverse can be used in the virtual world and also be delivered in the real world. To enable such a business model, LDCC created an immersive and realistic metaverse platform based on hyper-realistic content. This is because when browsing expensive items, consumers will not click on the purchase button if they are looking at unsophisticated product images in the form of game items.
Combining real-life characters with graphic backgrounds created with the world-class graphic engine, 'Unreal Engine 5', Lotte Metaverse uses cutting-edge technologies such as three-dimensional real-time rendering technology, the best live-action VR shooting technology in the world, as well as 'deep-interactive' patents that allow users to realistically interact with objects or real-life characters in VR content, offering a strong feel of realism and immersion to shopping, entertainment and community experiences in the virtual world.
The LDCC exhibition booth at CES is made up of a 'VR Zone' where visitors may experience the virtual world through a head-mounted display (HMD) and a '3D Display Zone' where visitors may enjoy the experience through 3D monitors. The 'VR Zone' is divided into a shopping area where users may purchase products such as fashion, cosmetics, and home appliances, as well as an entertainment area where users may watch movies, idol concerts, and EDM performances. For each area, about 20 visitors are allowed to access one virtual world and enjoy its contents together.
In addition, there is also a 'Community Zone' that offers a glimpse of the entire virtual world and its city planning, a 'LOTTE Zone' that offers an introduction to the Lotte Group, and a 'Mobility Zone' that promotes LDCC's electric vehicle chargers.
Without any space restrictions, Lotte Metaverse is able to present products in a way more luxurious and grander than the real world. Fashion items may be displayed like works in an art gallery, whereas camping items may be showcased in an in-store forest. The virtual theater allows users to feel like they are in a real theater. By reproducing more than 65,000 spectators as digital humans, the concert hall gives users a sense of realism as if they are watching a performance with other people in front of them. This year, Korean idol group NMIXX and world-famous EDM DJ ALOK took part in the event and garnered great interest.
Lotte Metaverse aims to become a user-oriented, UGC (User-Generated Contents) based platform in the future. Rather than building a castle with blocks, users are able to buy a high-quality building in a well-planned city and luxuriously decorate their own space with luxury furniture and appliances just like in the real world. In addition, users may use their building space for various purposes, turning it into lesson and practice rooms, karaoke rooms, wedding halls, and they may even resell their buildings.
LDCC plans to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) series linked to the metaverse in the first half of this year and open an NFT marketplace and virtual asset wallet while drawing a rough sketch of the full-scale metaverse business ahead of the early access opening at the end of the year.
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A celebration of aviation and community is planned for Saturday at Airpark.
The executive airport along Loop 250 in north Midland will host a 5K (the Run for the Runway) at 8 a.m. followed by the Fly into Fall, which officials hope can help better connect the Midland community with its executive airport.
Aviation and aerospace will be front and center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Airpark as officials will welcome Midlanders and those from around the region. At-large Councilwoman Robin Poole said the festivities will include exhibits from spacepark tenant AST & Science, a velocity rocket airframe, a Commemorative Air Force fly-in, classic cars, face-painting, food trucks and jumpers.
Grand marshals are Congressman August Pfluger, who served in the Air Force as decorated fighter pilot and commander and continues to serve as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserves, and State Board of Education member-elect Aaron Kinsey, a former captain in the Air Force.
Another “hero” at the event will be former NASA astronaut Don Thomas. He will take part in a question-and-answer.
“It will be a really fun day where we are able to bring the community of Airpark together with the general community,” Poole said. “We can introduce families to aviation on new level.”
The events will also include the opportunities for residents young and old to take discovery flights – courtesy of Floris Flight Services.
Other interactive displays include flight simulators, pre-flight simulation complete with preflight inspection and mock cockpit experience and a drone obstacle course.
“This event has grown into something bigger than I thought it could be,” Poole said. “We want to introduce kids to aviation as a career path.”
Poole commented that interest in aviation has waned, and that aviation and aerospace companies are experiencing shortages. Even this week, Midland College came up with a plan to bring back an aviation maintenance program to help deal with the shortages there.
“This is a first step to showcase Airpark as the gem that it is to the community,” Poole said.
Event Schedule
8 a.m.: Run for the Runway 1 Mile Fun Run & 5K
(Race participants must sign up by visiting MidlandAthleticCompany.com)
9 a.m.: Fly Into Fall Gates Open
9:15 a.m.: Grand marshals arrival
10 a.m.: Commemorative Air Force Fly-in
10:30 a.m.: Grand Marshal Congressman August Pfluger: Speaker/Q&A on being an Air Force pilot
11:30 a.m.: Former NASA Astronaut, Don Thomas: Speaking/Q&A on being an astronaut
12:30 p.m.: Grand Marshal Aaron Kinsey: Speaker/Q&A on being an Air Force Pilot
1:30 p.m.: CAF Fly-out
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Oscar Mayer searching for next class of Wienermobile drivers
Published: Jan. 9, 2023 at 8:22 AM CST|Updated: 43 minutes ago
(Gray News) – Oscar Mayer is now recruiting the next class of drivers for its iconic Wienermobile.
The company is searching for outgoing, creative, friendly, enthusiastic graduating college seniors who have an appetite for adventure to be the next “hot doggers.”
Not only do hot doggers get to drive the Wienermobile through 20 states, but they also get to serve as an Oscar Mayer spokesperson at more than 200 events during the year.
The drivers also document their journeys on social media.
Aspiring hot doggers can apply online before Jan. 31.
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NFL: Bills rout Titans; Eagles dominant in win over Vikings
Josh Allen threw four touchdown passes, including three to Stefon Diggs, and the Buffalo Bills rolled past Derrick Henry and the Tennessee Titans 41-7 in their home opener Monday night.
The Bills followed a season-opening 31-10 rout of the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams by throttling an opponent that has been their nemesis in each of the past two seasons. Fullback Reggie Gilliam and linebacker Matt Milano, with a 43-yard interception return, also scored touchdowns for Buffalo.
Allen topped 300 yards passing for the 15th time of his career, completing 26 of 38 attempts for 317 yards, and sat out the fourth quarter. Diggs had 12 catches for 148 yards. He has exceeded 100 yards in each of his first two games, a feat accomplished previously for the Bills only by Hall of Famer Andre Reed.
The Bills have topped 30 points twice after doing so nine times last year. And their defense limited Tennessee to 182 yards of offense and 12 first downs, while registering two sacks and forcing four turnovers.
The Titans, coming off a 21-20 season-opening loss to the New York Giants, opened 0-2 for the first time since 2012.
The two-time defending AFC South champions face numerous questions about a defense that gave up 313 yards passing a week after allowing 238 yards rushing. Meantime, Henry and their offense continue to sputter.
The two-time rushing champion was limited to 25 yards on 13 carries while scoring on a two-yard plunge.
Injuries affected both teams, the most serious involving Bills cornerback Dane Jackson, who hurt his neck in a troubling collision with a teammate and was taken to a hospital for evaluation. The Bills said Jackson had full movement in his limbs.
Otherwise, the two-time defending AFC East champion Bills continued making a splash in their second consecutive prime-time appearance, while at the same time easing frustrations of the past, including a 42-16 loss to Tennessee in 2020.
Still stung by memories of Allen being stuffed for no gain on fourth down near the goal line in the final seconds of the last season’s 34-31 loss in which Buffalo squandered a seven-point fourth-quarter lead, the Bills scored on their opening drive and never looked back.
Up 10-7, Allen and Diggs took over by connecting for two touchdowns spanning halftime. Faking left, Allen found Diggs in an opening for a four-yard touchdown with a minute remaining in the second quarter.
Allen and Diggs then blew the game open by connecting on a 46-yard touchdown on Buffalo’s first possession of the second half. Given time in the pocket, Allen threw a perfectly placed pass to Diggs, who reached out to catch the ball before tumbling head-first into the end zone.
The wheels fell off for the Titans, who were outscored 24-0 in the third quarter. Tennessee rookie Kyle Philips muffed a punt for a second consecutive week, and Ryan Tannehill threw interceptions on consecutive possessions.
Tannehill finished 11 of 20 for 117 yards and was benched after Milano’s interception with 3:49 left in the third quarter. Rookie Malik Willis took over, and if Tannehill continues to struggle, Tennessee fans will want to see more of the young backup.
Flag football is among the fastest-growing sports in the United States, and the sport has been surging, particularly among girls and women in Latin America.
Eagles 24, Vikings 7
PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts had 301 total yards in the first half in the breakout game of his young career, finishing with three total touchdowns as he led the Philadelphia Eagles to a 24-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night.
Trying to prove he is the franchise QB for the Eagles in his second year, Hurts looked downright unstoppable from the opening drive.
Hurts hit five receivers on five-for-five passing — highlighted by a 19-yard strike to A.J. Brown — and finished the drive with a three-yard scoring run. In the season-opening win against Detroit, Hurts failed to complete a pass on five attempts and the Eagles turned the ball over on downs on the first drive of the game.
Turn the ball over on downs?
That seemed like just a rumor against the Vikings. The TD was just the liftoff for the 24-year-old Hurts throwing, running, imposing his will with all his available tools against a Vikings defense that could not solve him in his 21st career start. He finished with 333 yards passing and a touchdown, and 57 yards and two scores on the ground.
On the first play of the second quarter, Hurts connected on a wide-open Quez Watkins for a 53-yard touchdown and the 14-0 lead.
Slay, who picked off a hapless pass by Kirk Cousins in the third quarter, had called each of the Eagles’ trio of talented receivers Batman.
There was, Brown, the “swole” Batman who had five catches for 69 yards; DeVonta Smith was the “skinny” Batman who had seven for 80 yards; and Watkins was the “fast” Batman who had the burners on for the easy score (and 69 yards receiving).
Why are they all Batman?
“No Robins. We’ve got no sidekicks,” Slay said.
Hurts had one more play for the highlight reel with just under two minutes left in the first half. Hurts rolled to his right and scampered toward the end zone. He dragged two defenders with him, lowered his head and muscled his way in for a 26-yard touchdown that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
Jake Elliott kicked a 38-yarder and the Eagles took a 24-7 lead into halftime.
In a Week 2 full of improbable comebacks, perhaps it wasn’t wise to totally count out the Vikings.
But Cousins and wide receiver Justin Jefferson — famously passed over by the Eagles in the 2020 draft — never got anything going of substance against the Eagles and maligned defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon. Slay had his second interception of the game in the fourth quarter as the scoreboard soon flashed “Big Play Slay.”
Hurts had 50 yards rushing and 251 yards passing in the first half. Cousins finished the game 27 for 46 for 221 yards and three interceptions. Jefferson had six catches for 48 yards a week after he had 184 yards receiving and two TDs in a win against Green Bay.
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1880s Levi’s found in mine shaft sell for $87,000
(CNN) – Some people pay top dollar for vintage clothes, but a recent purchase in New Mexico is on a whole new level.
A pair of Levi’s from the 1880s just sold at auction for more than $87,000.
The jeans were bought together by two men, 23-year-old Kyle Hautner and Zip Stevenson, the owner of a vintage denim store.
The Levi’s were found in an abandoned mine several years ago. Only a couple of similar pairs of jeans exist, but they’re kept in museums and too delicate to wear.
Stevenson said this pair is surprisingly durable and can be worn. The jeans have a 38-inch waist and 32-inch length.
Stevenson said they would consider selling to a private buyer but would prefer the jeans to be bought and displayed in a museum, such as the Smithsonian or the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For the time being, the Levi’s are being kept in a safety deposit box in Los Angeles.
The jeans are available for viewing by appointment.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants re-signed wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins, who was scheduled to become an exclusive rights free agent next month.
Hodgins was one of the Giants' biggest surprises this season as they ended a five-year postseason drought and made it to the divisional round of the NFC playoffs, losing to conference champion Philadelphia.
The 24-year-old Hodgins was claimed off waivers from Buffalo on Nov. 2 and quickly became a favorite target of Daniel Jones in New York's offense. Hodgins finished with 33 receptions for 351 yards in just eight regular-season games, and tied Richie James for the most touchdown catches with four.
Hodgins also made a big impact in the Giants' first playoff victory since beating New England in the Super Bowl to cap the 2011 season. He caught eight passes for 105 yards and another touchdown in New York's 31-24 wild-card win at Minnesota.
Terms of the deal Thursday for Hodgins weren't immediately available.
If Hodgins had become an exclusive rights free agent when the NFL's new league year begins on March 15, the Giants would have needed to offer him a one-year deal at the league minimum salary to prevent him from negotiating with other teams. Players with fewer than three accrued seasons and an expired contract can become an exclusive rights free agent.
Hodgins was a sixth-round pick by the Bills in 2020 out of Oregon State. He had played just 20 offensive snaps and had four receptions in two games before joining the Giants.
The move comes three days after the Giants also signed tight end Lawrence Cager, who was set to become an exclusive rights free agent. Cager caught 13 passes for 118 yards and a touchdown in six regular-season games.
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Ex-US Marine accused of training Chinese military pilots fights extradition to the US
By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson and Paul Devitt, CNN
Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Former Marine Daniel Duggan once flew Harrier jets for the United States, taking off and landing on Navy carriers during international missions as part of Marine Attack Squadron 214, based in Yuma, Arizona.
That was over 20 years ago, but his activity since leaving the service is now the subject of a US indictment that alleges he used his specialist skills to teach Chinese pilots how to land planes on aircraft carriers, claims he denies.
Since last October, Duggan, 54, has been held in a maximum-security prison in regional Australia as his lawyers fight an extradition order, approved by Australia’s attorney general, to return him to the US to face trial on charges including money laundering and conspiracy to export US defense services.
On Tuesday, Duggan’s lawyers argued for a stay of extradition while Australia’s Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) investigates claims of improper action by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), including that Duggan was “lured” from China, where he was living, to Australia, where the US had legal reach to arrest him.
The case comes as the US and its allies seek to unite against China in the Indo-Pacific, where Beijing has been fortifying islands with military installations that they fear may one day be used in a regional conflict.
From Lithgow Correctional Centre, where he’s being held, Duggan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that he was “living a nightmare.” “I strenuously reject the indictment in its entirety,” he said.
Duggan’s wife Saffrine wants Australian officials to block his extradition, and on Tuesday she and some of their six children stood outside court, holding signs calling for him to be freed.
“We’re horrified that something like this could happen, not only to us, but to anyone,” Saffrine Duggan told her supporters.
“I would never have thought this could ever happen in Australia, let alone to our family. My family is brave and strong and so are our friends, and so is my husband, but we are all terribly torn apart.”
The allegations
After completing his final mission as a Major with the US Marines, Duggan moved to Australia in 2002. He met Saffrine in 2011, and a year later he became an Australian citizen, renounced his US citizenship, and the family moved to China.
Saffrine and the children moved back to Australia in 2018, and Duggan joined them in September 2022, after receiving Australian security clearance for an aviation licence, his supporters say.
But within weeks, that clearance was revoked and he was taken into custody.
The charges relate to a period between November 2009 and November 2012, when Duggan – then a US citizen – was alleged to have trained Chinese military pilots in China, according to a 2017 indictment that was unsealed last December.
The indictment said that “as early as 2008,” Duggan received an email from the US State Department telling him he was required to register with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and apply for permission to train a foreign air force.
Instead, it claims he conspired with others – including the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) – to export defense services in violation of an arms embargo on China.
In a statement to CNN, TFASA said it complies with the laws of every jurisdiction in which it operates.
The statement said Duggan undertook one test pilot contract for the company in South Africa between November and December 2012, and “never worked for TFASA on any of its training mandates in China.”
The indictment alleges Duggan negotiated directly with a Chinese firm to provide other defense services for a fee, including “the evaluation of pilot trainees, testing of naval aviation related equipment, instruction on tactics, techniques, and procedures for launching planes from, and landing on, a naval aircraft carrier.”
Duggan told the ABC that none of the training involved the disclosure of secret or proprietary information. “It’s all public domain, open-source information that anybody, if they’re interested in, could Google it or look it up on Wikipedia,” he said.
The training offered by TFASA allegedly involved the use of a T-2 Buckeye, a twin-engine, straight-wing airplane, purchased in the US and exported to South Africa, without authorization from the US.
In its statement to CNN, TFASA said it only leased the plane from a business associate in South Africa, and never attempted to purchase it. Duggan flew the T-2, among other planes, during his contract, but the company ceased using the aircraft when approached by officials from the US Embassy in South Africa, TFASA added.
Training Chinese pilots
Duggan doesn’t deny training Chinese pilots, but he maintains they were civilians – plane enthusiasts seeking to improve their skills or prospective members of China’s then rapidly expanding aviation industry.
Glenn Kolomeitz, a former member of the Australian Defence Force and lawyer, who is advocating for the family, told CNN that it is “very, very common for people to leave the military and go work overseas.”
“Dan was just an instructor, just a pilot trainer. That’s it,” he told CNN.
“He wasn’t a part of the company (TFASA), he wasn’t in any way involved in any of the administration, the management, and how could he possibly have thought, or have even considered that there would be any illegality in this, when there are so many people, including high levels from the RAF, the British air force, involved in this training.”
On October 18, three days before Duggan was arrested in Australia, the UK Defence Ministry issued a statement warning that it was taking “decisive steps to stop Chinese recruitment schemes attempting to headhunt serving and former UK Armed Forces pilots.”
The next day, Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles said he had asked his department to investigate reports that former Australian military pilots had also been recruited by TFASA to work in China. And a spokesperson for New Zealand’s Defence Force confirmed to Reuters that four of its former military pilots had been recruited by the company.
Two days after that, Duggan was taken into custody near his home in rural New South Wales, and only learned of the allegations against him 62 days later, Saffrine said. He faces up to 65 years in prison if found guilty.
“It has been devastating. The kids and I distraught. It’s just a struggle. It’s a daily struggle. The kids have lots of questions. Constant tears. I mean, it’s horrific,” she told CNN.
Since Duggan’s arrest, the UK and Australia have moved to tighten laws for former service members who train foreign forces.
“The new legislation being developed will remove any doubts about the application of these laws to the full breadth of our defence secrets,” said a spokesperson for Marles.
In a speech in February, Mike Burgess, Australia’s director-general of security and the head of ASIO, said a “small but concerning” number of Australian veterans were willing to put “cash before country.”
“These individuals are lackeys, more ‘top tools’ than ‘top guns.’ Selling our warfighting skills is no different to selling our secrets – especially when the training and tactics are being transferred to countries that will use them to close capability gaps, and could use them against us or our allies at some time in the future,” he said.
The T-2 Buckeye
News of Duggan’s arrest has spread through the ranks of former US Marines, says Ben Hancock, a retired colonel who served a rank above Duggan in the late ’90s when he was forward deployed on missions that took him to the Persian Gulf and around Asia, with a final stop in Townsville, Australia.
“He was what we called a weapons and tactics instructor, which is the highest instructor qualification you can get in the Marine Corps,” he said.
“It’s a very expensive course, you have to be hand-picked to be sent to it. And then once you return, you become the training guru for everybody else in the squadron,” he said. “He was top-notch. I trusted him with my life.”
Hancock said Duggan left the service as an “honorable Marine,” and while he hadn’t spoken to him since his arrest, they had kept in touch by email sporadically over the years.
Hancock said the T-2 Buckeye was used for many generations by US Navy and Marine Corps pilots to learn maneuvers on a ship – how to catapult off and trap aircraft as well as make arrested landings.
He said it was “unusual” to see a T-2 Buckeye at a civilian flight school, because most of them had been “mothballed,” but described it as a great introductory aircraft for military training.
“It’s great aerobatic airplane if you want to teach a guy to fly a twin-engine jet, how to handle jets, the speed of jet over propeller airplanes, and then do aerobatics and stall series … It’s a great airplane to train anybody in extreme flying environments that allow you to recover the airplane safely,” he said.
He said he hasn’t seen the evidence against Duggan, but questions why no one else has been charged and says the vast majority of Duggan’s experience was piloting Harriers that take off and land vertically, which requires a different approach.
“As Harrier pilots, all our time at sea, we did short takeoffs using the Harrier’s capability, not a catapult. We’d pick up under own power and then we did every landing was a vertical landing. And the Chinese don’t have in those kinds of jets,” he said. “So Dan didn’t have the expertise, in my opinion, to be training guys for that. It’s the wrong type of approach and landing.”
In its statement to CNN, TFASA denied teaching aircraft carrier approach and landing techniques to Chinese military pilots.
“TFASA provides training to test pilots, flight test engineers, and basic operational instructor pilots under closely controlled security conditions. All training aspects and material are strictly unclassified, and provided either from open source or the clients themselves. No training involves classified tactics or other information, nor any frontline activities,” the statement said.
Duggan’s supporters believe he’s been caught up in a hardened approach by Western allies towards China under leader Xi Jinping, who in recent years has expanded the military and expressed his intention to “reunify” the democratic island of Taiwan with the mainland, despite never having controlled it.
At the time Duggan was alleged to have been training Chinese military pilots, Xi was stepping out onto the international stage, visiting the US to meet then Vice President Joe Biden and proposing to strengthen their cooperation.
Several years later, under former President Donald Trump, relations deteriorated as both countries engaged in a trade war and ties remain deeply strained to this day.
Duggan’s arrest in 2022 came as the US, UK and Australia formed a stronger security bond under AUKUS, the deal they signed in 2021 to join forces in the Pacific to counter an increasingly assertive China.
Kolomeitz, the family’s supporter, says Duggan is being used to send a message to Beijing to back off from hiring its former military personnel.
“Don’t be recruiting Western former military people – that’s what it’s all about. Right?” he said. “It’s sending a message to China, and it’s helping to push through the legislative agendas of these agencies.”
The court is hearing arguments Tuesday, and will return its ruling at a later date on whether a stay will be granted.
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Former Trump State Department official convicted for attacking police during Capitol riot
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who worked as a politically appointed State Department official in former President Donald Trump’s administration has been convicted of charges that he attacked police officers during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Judge Trevor McFadden heard testimony without a jury before he convicted the former official, Federico Guillermo Klein, and a co-defendant, Steven Cappuccio, of assault charges and other felony offenses stemming from the siege. Prosecutors say Klein and Cappuccio joined the battle in a tunnel where rioters engaged in hand-to-hand combat with police guarding a Capitol building entrance. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/07/20/former-trump-state-department-official-convicted-for-attacking-police-during-capitol-riot/ | 2023-07-20 23:36:33 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/07/20/former-trump-state-department-official-convicted-for-attacking-police-during-capitol-riot/ |
Elementary school crossing guard struck, killed by car
Published: Apr. 13, 2023 at 10:59 AM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT/Gray News) – A crossing guard that was working for an elementary school in Kentucky died after he was hit by a car, officials said.
The coroner said the collision happened Tuesday morning at Garrett Morgan Elementary School in Lexington.
James Arthur Holland, 73, died at the hospital Wednesday night.
The school district confirmed to WKYT that Holland was a crossing guard with the district.
Police said they do not believe criminal charges will be filed against the driver, but the crash remains under investigation.
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Flooding in Mississippi remains, but city officials are 'cautiously optimistic'
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City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, are "cautiously optimistic" Monday as the Pearl River appears to be cresting after record-setting rain without water spilling into residents' homes, according to a spokesperson for the mayor.
The city -- still dealing with the toll of historic flooding in 2020 -- was bracing for damage, with as many as 150 homes expected to be impacted by flooding, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said Saturday, telling residents to "get out now."
But despite the flooding, there were "no reports of water in any homes" Monday, Melissa Payne, the mayor's spokesperson, told CNN.
"The shelter remains open for those who are concerned about the water ... but we expect to see the water falling over the next couple of days," Payne said.
The river was predicted to crest Monday morning at 35.5 feet -- just shy of major flood stage, which is 36 feet at this point along the river, according to the United States Geological Survey. But as of late Monday morning, the river had been sitting around 35.35 feet for several hours.
Some roads around schools and neighborhoods on the northeast side of Jackson were impassable Monday morning, according to a CNN team there. But the water was receding in the area, according to Hinds County Emergency Operations Deputy Director Tracy Funches.
Communities facing the highest risk were the same ones affected by the flood more than two years ago in February 2020 -- hence the dire warnings from authorities -- when the Pearl River reached its third-highest crest on record at 36.7 feet, flooding several neighborhoods in northeast and downtown Jackson, damaging some homes beyond repair and leaving extensive amounts of debris.
Jackson resident Shawn Miller's home suffered $60,000 in damage during the 2020 flood, he told CNN, and it cost thousands more to relocate his family for five for six months on his own dime.
Miller thought his family took the right precautions to prevent water from coming in, he said, but it wasn't enough.
"You can't control it. I had 50 sandbags, and it didn't do nothing," Miller said, adding he "came back and still had about a foot in the water damage inside the home."
Water was once again on the street outside his home Sunday, and he was wary.
"It's a little bit concerning," Miller said. "You cut the power off, you're leaving the house, you pretty much have to pick up and leave. You no longer have a home ... you just got to come back and hope for the best."
While river levels this week aren't expected to reach the same levels as 2020, Lumumba told CNN it is not a reason to underestimate the threat.
The Ross R. Barnett Reservoir inflows crested Sunday morning, but "there is still a lot of water that must flow downstream," according to a Sunday release from the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District. The 33,000-acre reservoir provides water to Jackson and is upstream of the city.
"Water will be in several streets in Jackson and could begin approaching some homes and businesses," water district officials said.
A city more prepared this time
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Saturday due to the rising river waters and urged residents to remain calm. The state began work assessing water levels along the river using drones and deployed more than 100,000 sandbags, according to the declaration.
"The state of Mississippi is as prepared as possible for this flooding," Reeves said.
Authorities prepared for potential search and rescue operations, clearing areas of debris, distributing sandbags to residents, and providing public transportation to help with evacuations, according to Lumumba.
The mayor said officials were better equipped this time around and able to better instruct residents on how to prepare for the flood by taking pictures of their property and locating their critical documents.
"Whether or not we have the same number of homes that are affected this time, for those homes that are affected, that's a handful too many that can be impacted," the mayor said previously. "So, we want to make sure that we have the mitigation after we have recovery, that this no longer has to be commonplace in the city of Jackson."
Miller agreed government officials did a better job informing residents of the flooding threat than in 2020, when he was surprised to come home to find water coming down the street and his neighbor packing up.
More rain is becoming 'commonplace' and it's taking a toll, mayor says
Residents in Jackson and other parts of Mississippi saw heavy rains for several days last week as a slow-moving weather system brought flooding which forced evacuations, washed away roads, derailed a train, soaked homes and prompted numerous rescues.
"Our residents have been inundated with persistent rain over the last few days. So we already have been contending with flash flooding, and so it is quite a toll on our residents," Lumumba said.
Flood warnings remain in effect until further notice along the Pearl River, including in Jackson, Mississippi, according to the National Weather Service office in Jackson.
By Sunday evening, the river levels were at 35.28 feet and were on track to crest at 35.5 feet Monday morning. At that height, water would be flooding some Northeast Jackson streets close to the river as well as dozens of streets in downtown Jackson, and approaching homes in the Hightower area, according to NWS.
"Quite honestly this has become commonplace. We're experiencing more rain in our rainy season, hotter summers and colder winters, and it has taken a toll on our infrastructure," Lumumba said.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms remain in the forecast for the Jackson area and much of the southern states Monday, according to CNN Meteorologist Haley Brink.
The good news is additional widespread flooding is not expected across this area over the next several days despite scattered thunderstorms being in the forecast. However, some storms could bring bouts of isolated heavy rain, Brink said. | https://www.wisn.com/article/flooding-in-mississippi-remains-but-city-officials-cautiously-optimistic/41020346 | 2022-08-29 20:09:01 | 1 | https://www.wisn.com/article/flooding-in-mississippi-remains-but-city-officials-cautiously-optimistic/41020346 |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $15.05 billion.
The internet search leader posted revenue of $69.79 billion in the period. After subtracting Alphabet’s advertising commissions, revenue was $58.07 billion, also topping Street forecasts. Twelve analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $57.19 billion.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin’s city manager fired over fumbled response to storm power outage that left thousands without electricity for days.
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An aurora Borealis is possible this weekend after the Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the upcoming weekend.
The watch is in effect from Thursday through Saturday, but is expected to peak on Friday. At its peak, it is expected to be a G2 solar storm on Friday. At that level, the northern lights could be seen as far south as New York and Idaho.
The solar storm is expected to be at a G1 level on Thursday and Saturday, meaning the aurora could be seen as far south as northern Michigan and Maine.
A G2 solar storm could cause high-latitude power systems to experience voltage alarms, as long-duration storms may cause transformer damage. At the G1 level, weak power grid fluctuations could occur, the Space Weather Prediction Center said.
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The watch was prompted due to a coronal hole high-speed stream. The aurora could also be influenced by a coronal mass ejection event earlier in the week.
The Space Weather Prediction Center said these coronal holes can happen at any time but are most frequent when the sun is at its lowest cycle.
Auroras are caused by the solar wind interacting with Earth’s magnetic field. These auroras tend to navigate around the Earth’s magnetic poles.
“The solar wind particles funnel around to the long tail of the magnetosphere, where they become trapped,” NASA said.“When magnetic reconnection occurs, the particles are accelerated toward Earth’s poles. Along the way, particles can collide with atoms and molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere, an interaction that provides the atoms with extra energy, which is released as a burst of light. These interactions continue at lower and lower altitudes until all the incoming energy is lost. When we see the glowing aurora, we are watching a billion individual collisions, lighting up the magnetic field lines of Earth.”
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History was made in a number of ways as the 118th Congress convened for the first time on Tuesday.
In the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky became the longest serving Senate leader in history. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives failed to elect a speaker in a single ballot, the first time in a century. Thanks to a divide among Republicans, California Rep. Kevin McCarthy — whom the party had nominated for the role in November — failed to secure the 218 votes necessary to win. Meanwhile, Democrats were unified in support for their leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, for speaker — and many noted his historical nomination as the first Black lawmaker to lead a congressional chamber.
As for McCarthy, the future remains unclear, with 20 Republican defectors digging in their heels and voting for Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who has repeatedly said he does not want the position.
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Kathy's family chalked up poor communication to being "slow." In second grade, her hearing loss was discovered. Later, she was sexually molested, survived cancer and attempted suicide multiple times. She rose above it all.
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just when you think it can't get worse. At age 20, Kathy was on the shores of Lake Erie sunbathing when she was run over by a 3,500-pound lifeguard Jeep.
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Dr. Randall Bell and Tanya Brown learn how Kathy navigated childhood as a hearing-impaired student who learned how to "fit in." While never developing a reading comprehension past the fourth grade, Kathy has written a book, traveled for years with Tony Robbins as a motivational speaker and "killed it" as a deaf comedian.
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Unresolved trauma fuels self-medication, depression, and violent crime. Unprocessed, trauma can lead to suicide, the leading cause of death in the United States according to the National Institute of Mental Health. This podcast takes on the issues by:
- Featuring guests who not only survived trauma but are thriving
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Dr. Bell is a sociologist and economist who specializes in disaster recovery projects. "We can tap into trauma and make it the fuel to thrive," says Dr. Randall Bell, and the author of the bestselling book, Post-Traumatic Thriving.
Ms. Tanya Brown, MA is the author of Finding Peace Amid the Chaos. The 1994 death of Tanya's sister Nicole Brown Simpson generated a media frenzy around O.J. Simpson. Today, she is a celebrity author, and a motivational speaker and life coach. When facing trauma Tanya said, "You need to ask for help."
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One look at the latest batch of NYPD crime data statistics paints a glaring picture: The number of shootings so far in 2022 has already surpassed the totals from a few recent years.
What does that actually look like? According to the city, police have recorded 816 shooting incidents since Jan. 1, a figure that accounts for more than some entire years' totals in New York City in just the last decade. There were 789 shooting incidents in all of 2017, just 754 in 2018, and 776 in 2019.
That statistic alone doesn't tell the entire story, however. Year-to-date, shootings in 2022 (862) are actually down from last year, but up slightly from 2020 (723). That's actually normal if you take a look at a chart of the shootings recorded over the past 30 years.
Since 1997, there have only been four consecutive years where the year-to-date stats consistently drop. Most often, every other year, or every three years, there's a slight increase.
In fact, the jump in shootings between 2019 and 2020 was the largest in over 30 years, and the year-to-date figure was still one of the lowest during that period. Only seven other years had fewer shootings in the same time period than 2020.
This year is much more in line with years between 2001 and 2012, when shooting incidents in the first seven months hovered between 700 and 800. There was about a seven-year run through 2019 when that same time period saw much fewer shootings.
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In the three years leading up to the pandemic, shootings were almost half what they show for January through July of this year.
Compared to 2021, from Jan. 1 to July 31, the number of shootings in 2022 are down 8.7% and the victims injured in those incidents is also down, by around 6%.
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Grammy award-winning R&B singer Alicia Keys is currently on a big world tour, her first in 7 years, and it includes a command performance at intimate Walt Disney Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center. Saturday’s show is one of the final stops on Keys’ globe-trotting trek, promoting her newest album Keys.
You’re going to hear the hits — "Fallin’," "You Don’t Know My Name," even "Empire State of Mind" — and you’re going to get some amazing costume changes. But you’re also going to get a look into the inner workings of Keys II, an album that includes two versions of each song within, and you might even get some live compare/contrast.
Acceptable behavior includes crying, swooning and dancing, but for god’s sake don’t try and kiss Keys on the cheek in case she goes into the crows like some goof did in Vancouver a few days ago. “Trust me, I was like what the F–K!!!!!!!! Don’t she know what time it is???" said Keys about the intrusion.
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- Supira's technology features a novel low profile, high continuous flow design that aims to provide full hemodynamic support for high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (HRPCI) and cardiogenic shock (CS) patients with a single device
- Data from the Company's First-in-Human trial to be presented as part of the Late-Breaking Clinical Research Session at SCAI 2023
LOS GATOS, Calif., May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supira Medical, Inc., a Shifamed portfolio company, announced today that its next generation percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) was selected following a highly competitive review process to be highlighted as part of this year's European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions conference (EuroPCR) Innovator's Day in Paris, France. Gagan Singh M.D., M.S., Director of Clinical Cardiovascular Research at University of California, Davis, will present on behalf of the company during the "Innovations in Heart Failure: Pumps, Remodeling and Monitoring" session beginning at 12:05 pm CET on Monday, May 15th in the Theatre Havane of the Palais de Congrès. Additionally, Supira Medical will be at booth M23 where PCR attendees can learn more about the system.
Later in the week, Dr. Singh will present the findings from Supira's first-in-human study as part of the Late-Breaking Clinical Research at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2023 Scientific Sessions. The open-label, single arm, single center prospective study evaluated the feasibility and safety of Supira's novel low profile, high continuous flow pVAD technology to provide temporary cardiovascular hemodynamic support for patients undergoing HRCPI. The data will be presented on Thursday, May 18th at 4:30 pm MST in West 103 on the First Floor of the Phoenix Convention Center.
"We are pleased to have Supira's pVAD technology highlighted at these two prestigious industry conferences," commented Dr. Nitin Salunke, President and CEO of Supira Medical. "Thank you to the PCR Innovator's Day and SCAI committees for selecting Supira's technology, emphasizing the significant potential this novel low profile, high continuous flow system offers for physicians and patients. We look forward to sharing more about the innovative design and results of the initial clinical experience in the coming days."
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Supira Medical, a privately held portfolio company of Shifamed, is focused on development of a next generation percutaneous ventricular assist device for use in high-risk patients undergoing interventional procedures. To learn more about Supira Medical, please visit www.supiramedical.com.
The Supira Medical pVAD System is currently in the research and development phase and is not FDA approved, CE Mark approved or approved for sale worldwide.
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Founded by serial entrepreneur Amr Salahieh, Shifamed is a highly specialized medical innovation hub focused on developing solutions that accelerate time to market, reduce risk, increase impact, and forge a path toward a world where patients are able to lead longer, healthier lives. To learn more about Shifamed, please visit www.shifamed.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday will become the first woman to deliver a commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy, an institution that has made slow progress diversifying its ranks in the four decades since the first class of female cadets graduated.
This year some 950 men and women are expected to take part in the graduation ceremony in West Point, New York.
While Harris visits West Point, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Manhattan, President Joe Biden heads to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday to address graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Vice presidents typically travel to one of the federal service academies to address graduating classes. Harris' visit will be her first to the U.S. Army academy.
Today, about one quarter of the student body are women. Only a few dozen graduates each year are Black women, like Harris, though the number has ticked up in recent years. The academy didn't admit women until 1976 and had its first female graduates in 1980.
West Point dates to 1802. Since then, the college has educated future military leaders including Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. George Patton and Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Upon graduation, the cadets will be commissioned as Army second lieutenants.
Last year, Harris addressed graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. The year before, she spoke at commencement ceremonies for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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TAIPEI, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tang Prize, an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity, is poised to announce its 2022 laureates in Taipei in four consecutive days starting June 18. In the first press conference held on June 18, the Foundation introduced to the public winner of the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. A world-renowned professor in economics who has made great contributions to the establishment and promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Prof. Sachs served as Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, and is currently Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University as well as President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is awarded for "leading transdisciplinary sustainability science and creating the multilateral movement for its applications from village to nation and to the world," according to the selection committee's citation.
At the moment, mankind as a whole is confronted with many tough challenges, including environmental pollution, extreme weather events, energy crisis, the shock to our physical, social and economic wellbeing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and food shortages and raging inflation exacerbated by the regional confrontation. As an eminent economist of international distinction, Prof. Sachs has conducted ground-breaking research in many areas, such as debt crises, hyperinflations, transition from central planning to market economies, and eradication of extreme poverty. Moreover, when addressing complex issues related to global sustainable development, he combined the fields of global economics, public health, equity and sustainability to pioneer a multidisciplinary approach to solving these problems, transforming sustainable development into an integrated field of study and practice. His outstanding scholarship, advice to world leaders, educational innovation, and efforts in the global advocacy and realization of sustainable development have proven him to be a true leader of great vision, of profound influence, and imbued with deep humanistic concern.
With regard to the innovative transdisciplinary approach Prof. Sachs pioneered, an example can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006. He was tasked with developing a concrete action plan to attain the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)[i], and he demonstrated how it can be done by using best practices in science, technology, and public policy. Moreover, Prof. Sachs was also in charge of the UN Millennium Village Project (MVP), which was implemented from 2006-2015 after the UN General Assembly adopted the key recommendations of the Millennium Project at a special session in September 2005. The MVP aimed to help rural Africa and was carried out in ten countries including Senegal, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. During these ten years, a range of notable successes were achieved, from raising agricultural production to reducing child stunting, and cutting child mortality rates. Lives of more than half a million people were changed as a consequence. Its key concepts of integrating rural development to achieve the MDGs are now being adopted by many other countries to help support national anti-poverty programs.
With regard to promoting the UN SDGs[ii], Prof. Sachs began his engagement from their very inception when the idea was first broached at the "Rio+20" conference in June 2012 and offered his help based on this experience of implementing MDGs. The SDGs are the blueprint for creating a more sustainable future for all. They address many global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation. To overcome these problems, 17 goals, such as "no poverty," "good health and well-being," "reduced inequalities," "climate action," and "life below water" have been set. They are subdivided into 169 targets and 232 indicators to measure and track the global progress toward these goals. Prof. Sachs' fruitful pursuit of the MDGs, and his tireless work in front of and behind the scenes at Rio+20 made an important contribution in persuading nations to forge a consensus on adopting the 17 SDGs as the successor to the MDGs.
To promote the SDGs, also in 2012, Prof. Sachs led a global consortium of universities and think tanks under the auspices of then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to establish the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which functions as the largest global knowledge-based think tank to help countries achieve the SDGs. The SDSN has produced many highly influential reports, conducted academic studies, offered online courses, and held hundreds of SDG-related meetings around the world each year. The SDSN now has over 1600 member institutions in 47 networks across 137 countries.
With regard to combating anthropogenic climate change, Prof. Sachs saw the crucial importance of a long-term policy framework for climate control. He headed a global study on "deep decarbonization" which resulted in the highly influential "Pathways to Deep Decarbonization" report. The report lays out concrete and viable plans regarding issues like energy transition, industrial transformation, technological innovation, and governance mechanisms to enable 15 major carbon emitters to achieve deep decarbonization. Presented to Ban Ki-moon in September 2014, the report demonstrates how, during the decades leading to 2050, these 15 countries can find their own pathways to decarbonization that are compatible with their economic growth targets and technically feasible. Subsequently, many countries have taken on board this idea and designed their deep decarbonization pathways.
Prof. Sachs' participation in the promotion of the Paris Agreement has been equally vital. He has long helped to formulate core policy concepts for global climate control as a scholar and an academic leader. During the intensive phase of negotiating the Agreement, he worked behind the scenes with France, the US, and many other governments to support the design and adoption of the Paris Agreement. The SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change have been hailed as the two essential pillars for the world to achieve sustainable development, and Prof. Sachs has played a unique role in both.
With regard to offering suggestions to leaders of different countries, as one of the world's leading experts on economic development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty, Prof. Sachs has advised many heads of states and governments on complex economic challenges, including ending high inflations (Bolivia, Peru, Poland), negotiating debt relief (Bolivia, Brazil, Poland, and others), adopting market economic reforms (Poland, Russia), introducing new national currencies (Estonia, Slovenia), promoting regional development (China), and scaling up health systems (Ethiopia, Ghana, India, and many others). He has been awarded by several countries their highest honors for his board-based support of their economic reforms.
About Jeffrey Sachs
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954, Jeffrey Sachs got his BA, MA and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1980s. In less than four years' time became a Professor of Economics with tenure at Harvard. He served as Director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute of Columbia University and Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (by decree of the president of the French Republic), the Sustainable Development Leadership Award from India's TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), and Japan's Blue Planet Award. He has also received 38 honorary degrees from universities all over the world. The papers and books he has published number in the hundreds, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
About the Tang Prize
Since the advent of globalization, mankind has been able to enjoy the convenience brought forth by the advancement of human civilization and science. Yet a multitude of challenges, such as climate change, the emergence of new infectious diseases, wealth gap, and moral degradation, have surfaced along the way. Against this backdrop, Dr. Samuel Yin established the Tang Prize in December 2012. It consists of four award categories, namely Sustainable Development, Biopharmaceutical Science, Sinology, and Rule of Law. Every other year, four independent and professional selection committees, comprising many internationally renowned experts, scholars, and Nobel winners, choose as Tang Prize laureates people who have influenced and made substantive contributions to the world, regardless of ethnicity, nationality or gender. A cash prize of NT$50 million (approx. US$1.7 million) is allocated to each category, with NT$10 million (approx. US$ 0.35 million) of it being a research grant intended to encourage professionals in every field to examine mankind's most urgent needs in the 21st century, and become leading forces in the development of human society through their outstanding research outcomes and active civic engagement.
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EAGLE, Idaho — How do you catch a man, who had terrorized this country for decades? He was simply known as the Unabomber. I caught up with the man who led the charge for justice. Former F.B.I. agent Terry Turchie, who now calls Eagle home had a front row seat to one of the most challenging and expensive manhunts in American history.
"We were saying to the public, help us with this. He's a bomber, killer, he's killed three people. He wanted to down an airplane."
Ted Kaczynski was a certified genius who grew violently angry at what he saw as an industrial revolution destroying American society. His home made bombs first showed up in the late 1970's and soon the F.B.I. dubbed him the Unabomber which stands for university and airplane bombing. Two places where Kaczynski inflicted his form of domestic terrorism.
"When it comes to what he was thinking and his motivations, we don't have to guess because they are in his own words."
Not until the 1990's the F.B.I. made it a top priority to identify and locate the Unabomber. Terry Turchie was working counter-intelligence at the time when his boss called and made what Terry thought was an offer that he could refuse. He told him he would head the Unabomber task force.
"I'm good, and then there was this silence, my boss very somberly said Terry that wasn't really a choice."
Turchie knew they needed something, some kind of description to put out to the public. He got that when a witness saw a man with a hoody and sunglasses place a box outside a computer store in Salt Lake City. They finally had a sketch of the Unabomber. Then in April of 1995, the New York Times received a 35 thousand word manifesto from someone claiming to be the Unabomber, offering a deal.
"If you don't publish it we're going to keep bombing and killing people."
After a long discussion with the Times and the Washington Post, all parties agreed to print it to possibly stop the bombings. But what the F.B.I. really wanted was his words. And what they got next was the break they were hoping for. Ted Kaczynski's brother David, found an old essay from Ted and handed it over to Turchie and the task force, hoping the F.B.I. would prove him wrong. That didn't happen.
"I took my copy home and I'm literally lying on my couch and I fell off the couch and I said we found the Unabomber."
But they still had a large hurdle to jump.
"We had a name but not everybody thought most of the lawyers at D.O.J. were skeptical of this you've got a name and words and you want to search somebody's place."
That place was Ted Kaczynski's remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana. They got that search warrant, and quickly descended on the small mountain town. But now what?
"How are we going to surprise him so he'll open the door."
The plan was to have two agents disguised as mining officials accompany a Forest Service ranger who knew Kaczynski.
"So Ted opens the door just a tad, he looks at them, he looks at them and says let me get my coat."
In that exact moment, the agents grabbed Kaczynski and threw him down into the snow.
"He's struggling then Max pulls out his service fire arm and says Kaczynski freeze F.B.I. and that was it."
Inside the cabin they found another bomb and bomb making materials.
On Kaczynski's homemade calendar was one last check on April third, 1996. The day the Unabomber case ended. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/the-man-who-hunted-down-the-unabomber | 2023-03-04 01:49:00 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/the-man-who-hunted-down-the-unabomber |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
7-4-0, WB: 9
(seven, four, zero; WB: nine)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
7-4-0, WB: 9
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Iris Energy Limited (NASDAQ: IREN).
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According to a filed complaint, Iris Energy Limited issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) certain of Iris's Bitcoin miners, owned through its wholly-owned special purpose vehicles, were unlikely to produce sufficient cash flow to service their respective debt financing obligations; (ii) accordingly, Iris's use of equipment financing agreements to procure Bitcoin miners was not as sustainable as defendants had represented; (iii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's business, operations, and financial condition; and (iv) as a result, documents issues in connection with the Company's initial public offering and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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TALLAHASSEE — The Republican-controlled Florida Senate took one last swipe at Disney on Thursday, voting to give the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board the power to cancel development agreements approved by the previous board controlled by the entertainment giant.
The bill now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who called for the measure as part of his ongoing feud with the state’s largest single-site employer.
The language contained in SB 1604 land use bill says a newly appointed independent special district doesn’t have to comply with any agreements or contracts approved up to three months before the effective date of “a law modifying the manner of selecting members of the governing body of the independent special district ….”
It doesn’t mention the new board or the old board, called the Reedy Creek Improvement District, but bill sponsor Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, admitted that was its target during a committee hearing last month.
The Senate voted 27-13 to approve the measure without discussion, with Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota joining all 12 Democrats in voting against it. The House had approved it earlier.
Disney, for its part, has filed a federal lawsuit against DeSantis and the state, declaring that it has been politically targeted because of its opposition to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law that bans instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools.
Meanwhile, the Florida House gave final passage to a bill preventing doctors from giving gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans children under 18.
It was one of a flurry of bills going back and forth between the House and Senate as they wrapped up business before Friday’s scheduled last day of the session, which included the unveiling of a $2.7 billion tax relief bill. Lawmakers also took up the $117 billion appropriations bill for questions and debate in advance of Friday’s vote.
“We should all vote for this budget because 99.9 percent of it is necessary and good and valid,” Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-Hollywood.
The House and Senate voted along party lines to approve the transgender care bill, which codifies rules previously adopted by the Agency for Health Care Administration last year but offers certain exceptions to continue treatment already begun before the law was enacted.
Its next stop is the desk of DeSantis, who has spearheaded efforts to end transitional treatment for minors and who has said children should not be “guinea pigs for science experiments, and we cannot allow people to make money off mutilating them.”
Rep. Kelly Skidmore, D-Boca Raton, said lawmakers who are not medically trained have no business restricting what type of treatment a physician prescribes for their patient.
“They are the ultimate arbiters of what that care should be, not the Legislature,” Skidmore said.
Physicians face felony charges for providing gender-affirming care to minors.
The bill was amended to give the Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine 60 days after the bill becomes law to adopt “emergency rules pertaining to standards of practice under which a patient younger than 18 years of age may continue to be treated with a prescription …. If such treatment for sex reassignment was commenced before, and is still active on, the effective date of this act.”
The boards would need to consider side effects and psychiatric counseling.
“This is a decent amendment, and this is a good bill,” said Lecanto Rep. Ralph Massulo, a dermatologist and Republican. “Our words have power, and we cannot speak something into existence that doesn’t exist. We cannot change our sex. And for those children, this bill addresses the need to believe they cannot change their sex.”
Massullo called transgenderism or gender dysphoria a mental condition, not a physical one.
Several other bills this session sparked intense debate among lawmakers and also led to protests, rallies and marches, including changing a 15-week limit on abortions to six weeks.
The session produced stricter immigration laws and allowing people to carry concealed weapons without a permit. The session also produced a law expanding private school vouchers, preempting local rent control ordinances, and prohibiting transgender people from using the bathrooms of their choice.
The many controversial bills sparked emotional outbursts in the House and Senate chambers, which each had to be shut down and cleared after several outbursts from onlookers.
Two protests ended with police arresting protesters for curfew violations and trespassing. One was at Tallahassee City Hall, where Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book and Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried were arrested with several other protesters.
And on Wednesday, 14 people who barricaded the governor’s office at the Capitol were arrested after several warnings they would have to leave after the building closed at 7 p.m. They were charged with misdemeanor trespassing and barred from returning to the Capitol for one year.
“It’s no surprise that Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida’s freedom killer in chief, had folks arrested for exercising their First Amendment right to assemble,” said Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville. “As DeSantis disrespects the rule of law when it benefits everyday people, he easily changes laws that inconvenience him personally on his path of destruction to the presidency.
The protest, led by the civil rights group Dream Defenders, was to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their occupation of former Gov. Rick Scott’s office after the shooting death of Sanford teenager Trayvon Martin.
“It feels like things have progressively gotten worse,” since the last time, said Jonel Edwards Mickles, one of the 100 Dream Defenders who came up for Wednesday’s rally and civil action.
After the occupation 10 years ago, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement enacted new rules that prohibit people from staying inside after hours or 30 minutes after the end of public meetings. No one is allowed to stay overnight.
Despite frequently locking horns, Democrats and Republicans managed to come together on several issues.
They voted to increase the income eligibility threshold for coverage for Medikids and Florida Kidcare programs. They voted to approve protections for Black cemeteries. They voted to require public schools to provide menstrual hygiene products.
And they voted to set standards and annual certification of public schools to ensure they are teaching African American history.
“We had a lot of bills where Republicans joined us because they understood their importance and did not kowtow to political pressure,” Skidmore said. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/05/04/florida-lawmakers-approve-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-care/ | 2023-05-12 04:05:32 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/05/04/florida-lawmakers-approve-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-care/ |
CLARENCE, N.Y. (WKBW) — A military veteran has his sights set on an ambitious journey.
Chad Miller and his team are training to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
The men first got to know each other while serving in different roles in Iraq.
"We're real big advocates when it comes to veterans' mental health. It's kind of been a passion of mine ever since I separated and seen my own transition and my own struggles," Miller said.
They are hoping to set an example for other veterans who are struggling.
The all-Air Force and Security Forces team will be in a 20-foot row boat. They plan to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic— completely unassisted.
Their trip will begin off the coast of the Carolinas and they plan to end in the Canary Islands.
Along with raising funds and awareness, Miller and his team hope to inspire veterans to "live their lives instead of taking them."
"With our team, we've decided to change the dynamic of Fight Oar Die's mission to inspiring veterans to go out and row their own oceans, whether it be getting off the couch, going to do something, finding their purpose," Miller said.
Miller and his team are competing in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge Race, which begins Dec. 12.
This will be the first time an all-Air Force veteran team will be entered to compete.
This story was originally reported by Pheben Kassahun on wkbw.com. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/veterans-training-to-row-across-atlantic-ocean | 2022-09-07 17:37:47 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/veterans-training-to-row-across-atlantic-ocean |
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Fertility doctor used his own sperm to inseminate woman, lawsuit says
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) – When Susan Crowder’s daughter completed an Ancestry.com testing kit, the family discovered something shocking about her parentage: her father was retired University of Louisville Health fertility doctor Marvin Yussman, a new lawsuit says.
Crowder’s lawyer said Thursday that Crowder is now suing both Yussman and the University of Louisville Health under Kentucky’s new fertility fraud lawsuit, which provides criminal and civil penalties for “fraudulent assisted reproduction.” It is a law Crowder herself fought for after she made the discovery three years ago.
The lawsuit alleges that in 1975, Crowder and her then-husband were struggling to conceive, so they sought treatment from Yussman.
After consultation, Yussman told Crowder that an anonymous medical student would donate the sperm sample. The lawsuit alleges that Yussman indicated a donor “who had the same build as her then-husband and who had similar features, such as hair and eye color,” would be providing a sperm sample for Crowder’s insemination. The lawsuit alleges that Yussman provided the sample himself without Crowder’s knowledge or consent.
According to the lawsuit, in April 2019, Crowder’s daughter completed an Ancestry.com genetic test and uploaded her results to the online database. At that point, a woman who was listed on the database as Crowder’s daughter’s half-sibling contacted her and said they had the same biological father as a sperm donor.
“This woman indicated that the donor father was Dr. Yussman,” states the lawsuit, “that she had been in contact with him, and that he had admitted to her that he was her biological father.”
Crowder brought these issues to the attention of the University of Louisville, “where Dr. Yussman was still a member of the faculty, only to be told that he had retired.” Crowder then filed a complaint with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure but said she was told that there was “insufficient evidence that Dr. Yussman violated the Kentucky Medical Practice Act.”
Crowder’s attorney, Amy R. Wheatley of Stein Law Office, stated in a news release, “After being rebuffed by the medical licensing board, Susan Crowder advocated for the passage of Kentucky’s Fraudulent Assisted Reproduction Law. This law allows her and other victims to hold rogue physicians liable for their unlawful conduct.”
The law office is asking others who believe they may be a victim of Yussman to contact the attorney here.
This isn’t the first time a fertility doctor has been accused of using his own sperm to inseminate patients. Disgraced Indianapolis doctor Donald Cline is accused of inseminating dozens of women with his own sperm without their knowledge or consent during the 1970s and 1980s.
It wasn’t until 2015 when some of his biological children began taking at-home DNA tests, that Cline’s covert insemination of the women over his 40-year career was uncovered. He had an estimated 94 children and was recently the center of a popular Netflix documentary, “Our Father.”
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Realizing this potential will require reaching emerging customer groups, including the estimated 250 million Generation Y and Z customers with annual incomes over $100,000 by 2030
BOSTON, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company released today a new study on the wealth management market, predicting customer demand for wealth management services to surge to more than $500 billion by 2030—double the size of the market in 2021. The study shows that wealth management, with capital efficiency and recurring revenue streams, has the potential to help any parent company double market capitalization. However, realizing this potential has become more difficult due to emerging customers with different priorities, requiring new delivery models, new offerings and new economic models.
Targeting Generation Y and Z customers
Demographic shifts and the expansion of wealth globally are creating new customer segments. An estimated 250 million Generation Y and Z customers—those born between 1981 and 2012—will have an annual income of over $100,000 by 2030.
Bain & Company projects a $90 trillion increase in liquid assets from all investors globally, from 2021 to 2030, with $40 trillion coming from individuals who have assets between $100,000 and $1 million. The Americas and Asia-Pacific will lead the charge.
"New younger customers are more self-directed and self-educated," said Markus Habbel, a partner at Bain & Company and leader of the firm's wealth and asset management work. "While overall these emerging customers want digital delivery, for their most difficult decisions they want human interaction, requiring a high-touch hybrid approach."
Catering to differing priorities for products and offerings
As emerging segments grow, so too do their different priorities, including:
- ESG. 75% of wealthy millennials consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) to be an important factor in investment decisions. Bain & Company projects that ESG-related assets will compose about 46% of all assets under management by 2030, up from 33% today.
- Private markets. The rapid growth and outperformance of private markets relative to public markets has whetted investors' appetites, spurring several wealthtech companies to broaden access to private equity and debit.
- Digital assets. The market cap of public companies issuing cryptocurrency reached $2.2 trillion before sliding back to $1.3 trillion as of mid-May. Many advisors expect to invest between 1% and 5% of clients' portfolios in digital assets over the next five years.
- Retirement solutions. With baby boomers retiring amid the ongoing shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans, investors are looking for innovative decumulation solutions to maintain a comfortable standard of living.
Scaling new high-tech, high-touch delivery models
If wealth managers hope to generate outsized growth in the future, they will need to create a more approachable value proposition for younger investors with fewer liquid assets than older generations. This will require creating a delivery model that actively leverages digital tools and channels and reserves human interactions for critical or complicated episodes, allowing companies to increase the ratio of clients per advisor to around 300. A similar trend of broadening brand appeal and reach revived the luxury goods industry.
These currents will continue to drive greater returns at scale. Bain & Company's study estimates that returns to scale are about 35% higher with a digitally intensive model relative to traditional models. To attain the competitive advantage of greater scale, many firms will turn to mergers and acquisitions.
Tapping into emerging business models
Wealth management firms that come out ahead in this new world will consider one of three emerging business models:
- Integrated platform provider. Large firms with distinctive capabilities and expertise, the ability to build standout products and insights, and access to high-quality investment opportunities will have an edge. They should seek to expand to affluent customers by democratizing their offerings through digital tools and channels that offer a better experience.
- Customer acquisition specialist. This model relies on access to customers through highly productive advisor forces or adjacent business lines. One distinctive feature of this model is holistic advice for customers.
- Specialist provider. This business model provides a value proposition tailored to a clearly defined customer segment. While smaller in scale, it stands out by applying the right advice and offerings to customers who will not be well served by larger, broad-based competitors.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police saw Carmon Tussey walking briskly toward a crowded Louisville bar carrying a semi-automatic weapon.
With people running away, officers moved in, service weapons drawn. They put the 26-year-old in handcuffs and confiscated his gun. Tussey was later charged with terroristic threatening, wanton endangerment and disorderly conduct, prosecutors said, and could face up to 20 years in prison.
His lawyer says he “was engaged in perfectly legal behavior” in the incident last year, raising a relatively new legal argument in the United States that now stands before the courts to settle.
That’s because Kentucky made it legal in 2019 to carry a gun in public without a permit, joining what is now a majority of states with similar laws.
Many celebrate the end of the bureaucracy erected around what they consider every American’s constitutional right to carry any firearm they want. But permitless carry laws have created a dilemma for officers working the streets: They now have to decide, sometimes in seconds, if someone with the right to carry a gun is a danger.
“Kentucky is one of the states that allows a citizen to ‘open carry’ – meaning it is perfectly legal to walk down a public street carrying a loaded gun out in the open,” said Tussey’s attorney, Greg Simms.
Louisville prosecutors say it was more than just the gun that led police to detain Tussey. The type of weapon, how he carried it, and where he was headed also mattered. A witness also told officers that Tussey was returning to the bar after a verbal altercation.
After he was detained, Tussey told police he “was returning to shoot” the people he fought with, according to the arrest citation. Those comments came later. Simms argued in court that he had given police no legal reason to take him into custody when they did.
The judge hasn’t been persuaded by that argument so far, saying in a preliminary ruling on evidence that police had other reasons to arrest Tussey at the time. But Simms says he thinks he can convince a jury that Tussey didn’t commit any crimes, in part because of Kentucky’s new law. His next hearing is Nov. 2.
Advocates say permitless carry makes people safer. Opponents say it makes it more dangerous for ordinary people, and for police officers.
“It’s no secret why so many law enforcement leaders are speaking out against permitless carry laws,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “Allowing anyone to carry a gun anywhere makes the job of a police officer harder and more dangerous.”
Gun violence is up nationwide. There have been 35,000 deaths in the U.S. so far this year, following 45,000 deaths in 2020 and the same in 2021. About 79% of the killings in 2020 involved a firearm, the highest percentage since at least 1968.
Earlier this year, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an Indiana law removing the permit requirement for carrying a handgun in public even though Indiana’s state police superintendent had weighed in against it. The new law took effect July 1.
“We’re still expected to enforce our laws and take those guns off the streets and make sure people that aren’t supposed to have them don’t,” Indiana State Police spokesman Capt. Ron Galaviz said recently. “It’s just an extra couple of steps in that process.”
Under the new law, Galaviz said, officers can’t immediately grab a gun or ask to see a permit when they pull someone over.
Complaints about armed people in public settings can have a range of outcomes.
In Boise, Idaho, police got multiple “man with a gun” calls about 27-year-old Jacob Bergquist, who took a firearm to places they weren’t allowed, like a store, a hospital and a mall, according to The Idaho Statesman.
Idaho passed permitless carry in 2016, but the state allows property owners to ban them in specific locations. Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee said his officers never had grounds to arrest Bergquist under Idaho law.
Lee made that comment after Bergquist entered the Boise Towne Square Mall and fatally shot a 26-year-old security guard and a man, and wounded four others.
Bergquist, who died after exchanging gunfire with police, promoted gun rights on a YouTube channel.
In Houston, Guido Herrera walked into a mall in February with a rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other, wearing a leather mask and a shirt with the Punisher logo.
His lawyer, Armen Merganian, argued that Guido Herrera was just “a gun-loving Texan” who meant no harm. Jurors convicted him of a misdemeanor, disorderly conduct. It’s legal to carry loaded guns in public in Texas, but not in a manner calculated to alarm.
“Cops just like to assume that everyone is a bad guy and everyone is there to cause harm and that’s not necessarily the case. Some people just really enjoy their Second Amendment rights,” Merganian said.
In Florida, Michael Taylor films himself with guns and a fishing pole walking to piers and other spots to cast a line. He says he’s trying to educate people about Florida gun laws, which don’t allow a person to carry a gun without a permit but make exceptions if someone is hunting or fishing.
Sometimes Taylor’s actions lead to discussions about state gun laws. Other times they prompt ‘man with a gun’ calls to police.
Officers in Clearwater stopped Taylor last year as he walked down a crowded beach with a fishing pole, a “Don’t Tread On Me” flag and a loaded semi-automatic weapon, according to a video he posted to social media. Police ask what he’s doing and he tells them he’s going fishing and isn’t breaking any laws.
“Sir, you’re scaring everybody walking down the beach,” one officer says.
After cuffing him, the officers move him to a less crowded area, question him further and release him. He heads on down the crowded beach to the pier.
Shannon West, a training supervisor at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, which trains some 300 recruits a year, said that when responding to an armed person in public, officers have “got a very quick decision to make … as to whether or not to intervene, when to intervene, and how.”
In one rare case this year, an Indiana man fatally shot a gunman who killed three people at a mall days after permitless carry took effect in the state. Authorities said the man who shot the gunman was legally armed and praised his actions for saving others’ lives.
That’s the type of scenario that gun rights advocates point to when they argue that the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to have a good guy with a gun on the scene.
But that still can create a dilemma for police when they arrive.
“It used to be if someone was carrying a firearm and they had a concealed carry permit, it would be less suspicious for them to have a firearm,” said UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, an expert on gun policy. “But when you eliminate the permit requirement, then anyone can carry a firearm on the streets and it becomes harder for police and for others to figure out whether that person has bad intent or not.”
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CLEVELAND, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Corvus Janitorial Systems ("Corvus"), a national franchisor of office cleaning and janitorial services, is pleased to announce expansion into the Knoxville, Tennessee market by an existing, multi-territory Master Franchisee, Mr. Chad Weaver and his team. Corvus of Knoxville will support local Franchise Owners in delivering high-quality office cleaning services to businesses and facilities in the Knoxville territory, leveraging Corvus' nationally recognized and time-tested brand and systems. "Chad Weaver and his team have been extraordinary partners to Corvus for over two decades," Corvus founder and co-CEO Justin Douglas remarked. "Chad has built a fantastic business and has cemented the purpose and values of the system at large. We're thrilled to see what his team does in Knoxville."
Chad Weaver, Master Franchise Owner since Corvus' inception in 2004, has partnered with long-time teammates Ryan Patrick, Clint Smith, and Wes Furnish to bring their expertise to Knoxville. "Collectively, this partnership carries over 50 years of experience and we're excited to further expand our partnership with an outstanding brand like Corvus. The process, support, and strategy Corvus delivers as a franchisor works; if it didn't, I wouldn't be investing more. With the office cleaning industry in high demand and interest in franchise ownership rising, there are plenty of opportunities to grow here." Mr. Weaver will add this territory to his portfolio after his recent purchase of the Corvus of Orlando Master Franchise in 2020, and his ownership and operation of the Raleigh-Durham, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Lexington markets for 18 years.
"Over the past two years, organizations have come to expect more out of their janitorial services. Our Franchise Owners have an important role in the economy - one of keeping businesses doors open. We will continue to differentiate ourselves with industry-leading cleaning protocols, top-notch training, and a fair and honest culture. We are beyond excited to venture into the Volunteer State," Weaver adds.
Meet Chad Weaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcZGoShzU8
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UTICA, NY - The Utica Zoo held its annual meeting and member appreciation night at the zoo, Monday evening.
Besides getting the chance to check out all the zoo has to offer, members were treated to refreshments from Kookie's Q, and live music from Spencer Morgan.
They also learned about everything the zoo had accomplished over the past year, like the opening of the new North American River Otter exhibit. The zoo is now offering scooter pals to make it more fun and easier to get around.
Members also got a glimpse at what lies ahead for the zoo.
"Our big announcement is that we've launched a $1 million campaign for a new red panda habitat," says executive director Andria Heath. "The new habitat will be completely four seasoned for the red pandas, the visitors, and our staff".
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 479
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
343 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2022
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 479 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
CT
. CONNECTICUT COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
FAIRFIELD HARTFORD LITCHFIELD
MIDDLESEX NEW HAVEN NEW LONDON
TOLLAND WINDHAM
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN WINDHAM...CENTRAL
TOLLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN HARTFORD COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
northern Connecticut.
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NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-alcoholic beverage market has grown steadily since early 2020 and recent studies show that the market is expected to see significant growth over the next several years. This is no surprise considering that Gen Z is drinking 20% less alcohol than millennials did at the same age. An even greater number of consumers are turning away from drinks that are high in sugar as people across all age groups are becoming more health-conscious.
This shift in the beverage market is creating a new opportunity for innovators, and The 3rd BEVCO is leading the charge with its non-alcoholic and functional beverages for the health-conscious sipper.
Find out how to invest in The 3rd BEVCO for just $1 per share
While there is no shortage of non-alcoholic sugar-free drinks on the market, 3rd BEVCO has created four truly unique, first-to-market brands that have tested off the charts.
ProsecGo: A non-alcoholic drink that offers the taste and feeling of drinking champagne without the nasty headache and hangover the next morning.
LAID: A first-of-its-kind energy drink that not only increases focus and delivers clean energy but also enhances sexual performance.
CHILL'D: The first ever CBD-infused energy shot offering the hype of caffeine with the relaxing effects of CBD.
PSILLI: A revolutionary sparkling water infused with medicinal mushrooms and proprietary formulations that were created by world-class scientists.
3rd BEVCO has the major advantage of being the first to market in this new beverage category, which history has proven can be the start of something monumental.
Red Bull was first introduced in the U.S. in 1997 and has dominated the energy drink market since. Similarly, 5-Hour Energy launched the first shot-sized energy drink in 2004 and still retains nearly 90% of the market share, generating an estimated $300 million in annual profit.
Now, 3rd BEVCO is using this same model to blaze a new trail within the $1 trillion and growing non-alcoholic and functional beverage markets.
The team has over 25 years of industry experience and has already established key relationships, such as its distribution deal with Take Cool River Beverages through its active network of over 35,000 retail locations.
3rd BEVCO has launched a Regulation A+ offering, often referred to as a mini-IPO, to allow anyone to invest in this fast-growing startup with a minimum investment of only $500.
Early investors can also get rewards, credits and discounts through the company's FOUNDERS REWARDS PROGRAM.
For more information about the company and to invest in its offering, visit The 3rd BEVCO website.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Cornelius Johnson’s 29-yard touchdown catch midway through the third quarter Saturday gave No. 4 Michigan the lead and the jolt it needed to pull away from Indiana 31-10 in an emotional game in which a Wolverines’ coach was taken to a hospital.
Michigan improved to 6-0 for the second straight season, the first time they’ve achieved that feat since 1976-77.
Johnson’s big play came after assistant coach Mike Hart was carted off the field in the first quarter for an undisclosed medical issue.
Hart went down unexpectedly after Indiana tied the score at 7. Many Wolverines players dropped to one knee while coach Jim Harbaugh and other assistants watched trainers tend to Michigan’s running game coordinator.
The emotional toll appeared to hurt the defending Big Ten champs, who went into the locker room tied at 10 with the Hoosiers (3-3, 1-2).
But after hearing Hart talk to the team at halftime, the Wolverines (3-0 Big Ten) promised to win the game for their coach — and they didn’t disappoint.
The first of Johnson’s two TD receptions capped Michigan’s 98-yard drive to open the second-half and the defense only allowed 29 total yards over the final two quarters until Indiana’s final drive.
Luke Schoonmaker and Johnson caught fourth-quarter TD passes to seal it.
J.J. McCarthy was 28 of 36 with 304 yards, three TDs and one interception. Schoonmaker caught nine passes for 67 yards and Blake Corum had 124 yards rushing on 25 carries after picking up 50 on his first run of the day. Corum also scored on a 1-yard run just five plays into the game.
THE TAKEAWAY
Michigan: The Wolverines have faced some strong tests in this series recently and they did again Saturday. But Michigan, clearly, did not play its best ball as the nation’s sixth-best scoring offense struggled to score.
Indiana: Coach Tom Allen’s team played its best first half of the season but still hasn’t played a complete game all season. The defense and special teams, as usual, kept Indiana close. What they’re lacking: a consistent offense.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Michigan is still unbeaten but it’s shield of invincibility took a major hit against an Indiana team that wasn’t even at full strength on offense or defense. The powerful ground game was mostly stymied. The constant has been the defense, and it was every bit as good as advertised. It will be interesting to see if the voters punish Michigan for a less-than-stellar showing.
UP NEXT
Michigan: Returns home next Saturday for a showdown with No. 10 Penn State.
Indiana: Welcomes Maryland to Bloomington next Saturday.
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