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Secretary of State Antony Blinken's long-anticipated trip to Beijing shows that the administration is keen to reignite diplomacy and inject some stability to its dealings with China, but whether it was a success remains to be seen.
Blinken held talks with China's top two foreign policy officials and even had an audience with leader Xi Jinping during his two-day stop in Beijing that ended on Monday.
But Analysts say China-U.S. ties are so fraught that re-establishing a semblance of stability and balance will take much more effort and political will — which will be tested by presidential election campaigns in the United States and Taiwan in the coming months. And while both sides say they want to reduce friction, their strategic assessments of the other have not budged.
"Under ordinary circumstances a visit to China by the [U.S.] Secretary of State would be an important visit and should have the effect of advancing bilateral relations," said Shao Yuqun, a senior fellow with the center for American Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, a government think tank.
"But this visit, while still important, is hard to gauge in terms of how much it can advance relations. At a minimum, I think, it may keep things from getting worse, and if it can do that it would be a very good outcome. But I don't know if it can make things better in bilateral ties. That's still a question mark."
Ties between the world's No. 1 and No. 2 economies have sunk to their lowest point in decades, with disagreements festering over topics ranging from trade to Taiwan. Mutual trust is running thin.
Ahead of Blinken's trip, both governments sought to manage expectations, casting it as little more than an opportunity to exchange views and to explore potential areas of cooperation. The trip was originally scheduled to take place four months ago, but was postponed after a Chinese spy balloon was tracked floating across U.S. skies and shot down.
"The trip was intended to lower the temperature, not resolve fundamental disagreements."
Danny Russel, vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former U.S. diplomat, said Blinken "fully met the admittedly modest expectations for his visit: meeting with President Xi; extensive, in-depth, closed-door discussions with top Chinese diplomats; avoiding public acrimony; agreeing to a few small bilateral steps; and unclogging the pipeline of official bilateral contacts."
The "deliverables," however, were modest, and the trip was intended to lower the temperature, not resolve fundamental disagreements, he said.
Bilateral talks continue, but domestic politics also matters
The two sides discussed increasing the number of flights between the countries, which are at a fraction of their pre-pandemic peak, as well as combating fentanyl production and enhancing educational exchanges.
Blinken invited Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang to visit the U.S., and said the he expects more visits by senior officials in both directions in the coming months.
That could help set the stage for smooth meetings between Xi and President Biden this fall on the sidelines of the G20 and APEC summits.
Analysts said the visit also allowed Washington and Beijing to signal to other countries — nervous about their growing acrimony — that they are taking steps to dial down tensions.
Where it all ultimately leads is an open question, though, particularly in light of domestic political pressures that have built up the United States and China.
"Diplomacy is always a series of tests" that are constrained by the political environment at the time, said Susan Thornton, a retired U.S. diplomat now with the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale University.
"And our political environment on China in the U.S. has never been more complicated than it is now — and it's getting more complicated as we move toward the presidential election season."
Several Republican members of Congress criticized Blinken for making the trip to China at all, saying it projected weakness on the part of the Biden administration and suggesting it could hurt America's national security.
The basic strategic positions of the two remain unchanged
Given the pressures, China's leaders will be watching to see if the Biden administration can make policy adjustments and follow through on promises that some in the U.S. may see as concessions to Beijing.
A bigger issue for the future of the relationship, however, may be the fact that the basic strategic positions of the two countries remain unchanged. Both sides acknowledged during Blinken's trip the need for China and the U.S. to get along better, but they also dug into positions that are seemingly at odds.
Blinken cast the relationship as one that is fundamentally competitive, while Chinese read-outs of the meetings indicated that Beijing believes that to be an inappropriate framing of the relationship.
After his meeting with Blinken, the Chinese Communist Party's top diplomat, Wang Yi, was reported as having said "a choice needs to be made between confrontation, cooperation or conflict."
"The root cause of the trough in China-U.S. relations is that the U.S. side holds a wrong perception of China, which leads to a wrong policy towards China," he was quoted as saying.
Thornton said visits like Blinken's are good, but diplomacy cannot be sustained without common interests or a common purpose to work on — and it's unclear at this point where China and the United States can find those.
"[W]e can't just keep getting together in meetings and sort of airing our grievances because that will lead to just a continuing downward spiral in the relationship."
"I think we can't just keep getting together in meetings and sort of airing our grievances because that will lead to just a continuing downward spiral in the relationship," she added.
"A state of cold and competitive peaceful coexistence"
Meanwhile, in some corners of the relationship there's not even a forum to air grievances. No apparent progress was made during Blinken's trip toward re-starting military-to-military communications, which Beijing has severed despite rising tensions and recent "close call" incidents in the air and at sea.
Wen-Ti Sung, a Taiwan expert at the Australian National University's Center on China in the World and a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, said strategic competition is the name of the game at this point and the only thing left to do is to work out the terms on which it unfolds.
"I think we are seeing the U.S. and China settling into a state of cold and competitive peaceful coexistence," Sung said.
"There is sufficient conflict of interest by this point that a return to an engagement-oriented relationship, like we had 15 or 20 years ago, will be very hard to arrive at."
Aowen Cao and Emily Feng contributed to this story from Beijing and Taipei.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
1-6-0-7, WB: 1
(one, six, zero, seven; WB: one)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
1-6-0-7, WB: 1
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MOSCOW (AP) — An explosion during repairs on a section of a Europe-bound natural gas pipeline in western Russia killed three people on Tuesday but didn’t affect export supplies, officials said.
The explosion ripped through a section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline in the Chuvashia region during repair work. Three repair workers were killed and one was injured by the blast, which sent a huge plume of burning gas skyward, regional authorities said.
The pipeline that originates at a gas field in Siberia and crosses Ukraine along its way to Europe is one of the main routes for Russian gas exports to the EU.
Chuvashia’s governor, Oleg Nikolayev, said in televised remarks that it wasn’t immediately clear how long it would take to fix the section of the pipeline cut by the explosion. The regional branch of Russia’s state-controlled natural gas giant, Gazprom, said volumes of gas transit weren’t affected by the blast as supplies were rerouted along parallel lines.
The pipeline crossing Ukraine has become the main conduit for Russian natural gas supplies to Europe since an explosion ripped through the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea in September, causing extensive damage.
Investigators in Sweden have found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two natural gas pipelines were damaged in an act of “gross sabotage,” but they stopped short of apportioning blame.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of blowing up the pipelines and singled out the United States as profiting from attacks on Europe’s energy infrastructure, while some Nordic and other European news outlets have alleged Moscow’s involvement.
Nord Stream 1 carried Russian gas to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies at the end of August, citing equipment problems. German officials dismissed that explanation as cover for a political decision to push up prices and create uncertainty.
Nord Stream 2 never entered service as Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia sent its forces into Ukraine in February. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-explosion-rips-through-gas-pipeline-in-russia/ | 2022-12-20 18:46:41 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-explosion-rips-through-gas-pipeline-in-russia/ |
New drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV gets FDA approval ahead of cold season
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials on Monday approved the first long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against a respiratory virus that sends tens of thousands of American children to the hospital each year.
RSV is a cold-like nuisance for most healthy people, but it can be life-threatening in the very young and the elderly.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the injection for infants and children up to 2 years old who face increased risk of severe RSV.
“Today’s approval addresses the great need for products to help reduce the impact of RSV disease on children, families and the health care system” said FDA’s Dr. John Farley in a statement.
Last year, a surge in RSV cases flooded U.S. hospitals with wheezing children. There are no vaccines for babies yet, though Pfizer and other companies are working on them.
AstraZeneca’s drug, to be sold under the brand name Beyfortus, is a laboratory-made version of an antibody that helps the immune system fight off RSV. Under the FDA approval, babies — including preterm infants — can receive a single injection to protect against their first season of RSV, which typically lasts about five months. Children up to age 2 can receive another dose to protect them during their second season facing the virus.
Beyfortus, which will be marketed in the U.S. by Sanofi, is already approved in Canada, Europe and the U.K. Sanofi did not immediately announce the U.S. price of the treatment.
FDA officials approved the drug based on three studies showing Beyfortus reduced the risk of RSV infection between 70% and 75% among infants and children 2 and younger.
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet early next month to recommend exactly who should get the drug.
A similar antibody drug won FDA approval more than 20 years ago, but it’s only recommended for high-risk babies and requires monthly injections. Pediatricians say the drug is underutilized and they expect the longer-lasting effect of AstraZeneca’s shot to improve uptake.
In the U.S., about 58,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized for RSV each year and several hundred die.
After decades of setbacks for RSV research, drugmakers have made big strides this year, launching the first vaccines against the virus. In May, the FDA approved two RSV vaccines for older adults from GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer. In August, the FDA is expected to make a decision on approving Pfizer’s vaccine for pregnant women, with the aim of passing along protection to their newborns.
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Dallas Wings vs. Indiana Fever: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits
The WNBA schedule on Sunday will include the Indiana Fever (5-13) hosting Natasha Howard and the Dallas Wings (9-9) at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, with the matchup starting at 4:00 PM ET.
Last time out, Dallas picked up an 80-78 win over Las Vegas. The Wings were led by Arike Ogunbowale, who wound up with 21 points and four steals, while Howard added 16 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks. Indiana enters this matchup having lost to Washington in their last game 96-88. They were led by Lexie Hull (20 PTS, 2 STL, 63.6 FG%, 3-6 from 3PT) and NaLyssa Smith (19 PTS, 7 REB, 56.3 FG%).
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Wings vs. Fever Game Time and Info
- Who's the favorite?: Wings (-135 to win)
- Who's the underdog?: Fever (+110 to win)
- What's the spread?: Wings (-1.5)
- What's the over/under?: 170.5
- When: Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 4:00 PM ET
- Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana
- TV: ESPN3, BSSW, and BSIN
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Wings Season Stats
- The Wings rank fifth in the WNBA with 83.9 points per game so far this season. At the other end of the court, they rank eighth with 83.1 points allowed per game.
- Dallas has been shining when it comes to rebounding this season, ranking best in the WNBA in boards per game (39.4) and second-best in rebounds allowed per contest (33.0).
- The Wings rank ninth in the WNBA with 18.4 assists per game.
- With 13.5 turnovers per game, Dallas is seventh in the WNBA. It forces 14.2 turnovers per contest, which ranks fourth in the league.
- The Wings rank eighth in the WNBA by making 6.7 treys per contest, but they own a 28.6% shooting percentage from beyond the arc, which ranks worst in the league.
- With 7.4 treys conceded per game, Dallas ranks sixth in the WNBA. It is giving up a 33.3% shooting percentage from downtown, which ranks seventh in the league.
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Wings Home/Away Splits
- The Wings' offense has been much better at home (85.7 PPG) compared to their play on the road (82.2 PPG). Likewise, their defense has been better at home (81.6 PPG allowed) compared to away games (84.7 PPG allowed).
- In home games, Dallas averages 41.2 rebounds per game and allow its opponents to pull down 30.7, while on the road it averages 37.6 per game and allows 35.3. The Wings average 19.1 assists per home contest, 1.4 more than their road game average in 2023 (17.7).
- The 2023 WNBA season has seen Dallas commit more turnovers at home (14.8 per game) than on the road (12.2). It's also forced more turnovers at home (14.2 per game) than on the road (14.1).
- In 2023 the Wings are averaging 6.4 made three-pointers at home and 7.0 away, while shooting 28.3% from deep at home compared to 28.9% away.
- This year, Dallas averages 7.8 three-pointers conceded per game at home and 7.1 on the road (while conceding 32.9% shooting from deep in home games compared to 33.9% on the road).
Wings Moneyline and ATS Records
- The Wings have put together a 7-4 record in games they were favored on the moneyline (winning 63.6% of those games).
- The Wings have gone 7-3 when playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -135 or shorter (70%).
- Dallas is 9-8-0 against the spread this season.
- Dallas' ATS record as 1.5-point favorites or more is 5-6.
- Based on this matchup's moneyline, the Wings have an implied win probability of 57.4%.
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5 Greek border police officers arrested on suspicion of working with migrant smugglers
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have arrested five police officers from a special border guard force on suspicion of working with smugglers to help migrants cross into the country from neighboring Turkey. A police statement says the five suspects are believed to have facilitated the entry of at least 100 people since late October, using boats to cross the Evros River that runs along the northeastern Greek land border with Turkey. During the arrests in the border town of Didymoteicho Monday, police confiscated some 26,000 euros ($28,000) in cash, and nearly 60 mobile phones. The Evros is a key crossing point into Greece for people seeking a better life in the European Union. | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/05/29/5-greek-border-police-officers-arrested-on-suspicion-of-working-with-migrant-smugglers/ | 2023-05-29 20:37:36 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/05/29/5-greek-border-police-officers-arrested-on-suspicion-of-working-with-migrant-smugglers/ |
Rock star Bono, the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month’s Monterey Park, California, shooting, and the family of Tyre Nichols will be among the featured guests sitting alongside first lady Jill Biden at Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
The guests were invited “because they personify issues or themes” Biden will address in the speech or they embody administration policies that are working for the American people, the White House said. President Joe Biden was expected to refer to several of the invitees by name.
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will sit with the first lady and has invited Ruth Cohen, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor from the Washington area, to be his guest, his office said. Emhoff, who is Jewish, has taken a lead role in administration efforts to combat anti-Semitism.
The guests:
— Maurice and Kandice Barron of New York, the parents of a 3-year-old who has survived a rare pediatric cancer, meant to highlight Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.
— Lynette Bonar of Tuba City, Arizona, a nurse and medical executive involved in bringing the first cancer center to a Native American reservation.
— Bono, the Irish lead singer of U2, for his advocacy and philanthropic support for global health and AIDS relief initiatives.
— Deanna Branch of Milwaukee, whose son was diagnosed with lead poisoning from unsafe drinking water in their home, as Biden aims to replace all lead drinking water pipes in the coming decade.
— Kristin Christensen and Avarie Kollmar of Seattle, a mother-daughter pair who are sharing their story about caring for their injured Navy veteran husband and father.
— Ruth Cohen of Rockville, Maryland, a Holocaust survivor and volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who has warned against rising antisemitism.
— Mitzi Colin Lopez of West Chester, Pennsylvania, an advocate for people brought to the U.S. illegally as children who have received protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
— Maurice “Dion” Dykes of Knoxville, Tennessee, who is training to be a teacher after a 25-year graphic design career as part of a program funded by the 2020 COVID-19 relief law.
— Kate Foley of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, a 10th grade student looking to use the skills from her school engineering classes to pursue a career as a biomedical engineer.
— Darlene Gaffney of North Charleston, South Carolina, a breast cancer survivor who has promoted the importance of early detection and timely cancer screenings.
— Doug Griffin of Newton, New Hampshire, who lost his daughter, Courtney, in 2014 to a fentanyl overdose, as the Biden administration works to strengthen federal efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.
— Saria Gwin-Maye of Cincinnati, an ironworker who will work on the federally supported revitalization of the Brent Spence Bridge.
— Jacki Liszak of Fort Myers, Florida, who met with the president and first lady in the wake of Hurricane Ian and whose business stands to benefit from federal climate resiliency funding.
— Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. was a guest last year when Biden spoke days after the Russian invasion of her country. She will return to the first lady’s box as Biden seeks to sustain U.S. and allied support for Ukraine.
— Harry Miller of Upper-Arlington, Ohio, a mechanical engineering student and a former football player for Ohio State University, who left football to prioritize his mental health.
— Gina and Heidi Nortonsmith of Northampton, Massachusetts, the plaintiffs in Goodridge vs. MA Dept. of Public Health which cleared the way for their state legalizing same-sex marriage.
— Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was severely injured days before the midterm elections by a man with a hammer who allegedly sought to harm the California lawmaker.
— Paul Sarzoza of Phoenix, the owner of a cleaning and facilities services company that is benefitting from servicing companies investing in high-tech manufacturing in his area.
— Brandon Tsay of San Marino, California, who disarmed the shooter responsible for killing 11 people in Monterey Park, California, last month during celebrations of the Lunar New Year, preventing further deaths.
— RowVaughn and Rodney Wells of Memphis, Tennessee, the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols who died last month after being severely beaten by police in Memphis, sparking a renewed call for police reform legislation.
— Amanda and Josh Zurawski of Austin, Texas, who found doctors unable to intervene after her water prematurely broke at 18 weeks pregnant due to the Texas abortion ban. Amanda Zurawski developed sepsis and nearly died because of the delay in receiving treatment, as the Biden administration looks to highlight the consequences of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last year.
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Former Greely High of Cumberland Center star and four-time Bangor Daily News All-Maine Schoolgirl Team selection Anna DeWolfe is transferring to the University of Notre Dame from Fordham University for her final season.
DeWolfe, who was chosen Miss Maine Basketball in 2019 and was a three-time first team All-Maine selection, scored 1,883 points at Fordham, which ranks third in school history and eighth all-time in the Atlantic 10.
She was a three-time first team All-Atlantic 10 pick and the Co-Player of the Year in the conference in 2021 when she led the conference in scoring at 20.8 points per game.
DeWolfe has averaged 17 points per game during her career at Fordham, which is ninth-best in the league’s history. She was the Atlantic-10’s second-leading scorer in 2022 (17.8 ppg) and 2023 (18.4 ppg).
The 5-foot-8 guard was Fordham’s second-leading scorer this past season and led the team in 3-pointers with 79 and minutes played with 36.2 per game. She shot 41.5 percent from the floor, 35.4 percent beyond the 3-point arc and 85.5 percent from the free throw line.
DeWolfe is joining a Notre Dame program that won its second NCAA championship in 2017-18, lost in the national championship game to Baylor 82-81 the following year and has reached the Sweet 16 in each of the past two seasons.
Notre Dame head coach Niele Ivey said that she was excited to have DeWolfe join the program.
“She will bring experience and a dynamic skill set that will translate well into our system. She is a competitive combo guard with an incredible motor,” Ivey said in a press release. “What I love most about Anna is her work ethic, toughness and passion for the game. She matches our team’s identity perfectly.”
DeWolfe will be 177 miles away from former Gorham star and BDN All-Maine first teamer Mackenzie Holmes, who was a first team All-American at Indiana University and will also play a fifth year next season.
Holmes was the Gatorade Player of the Year in Maine the same year DeWolfe was Miss Maine Basketball. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/18/sports/college/anna-dewolfe-notre-dame-transfer/ | 2023-04-19 01:16:21 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/18/sports/college/anna-dewolfe-notre-dame-transfer/ |
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Melissa Lee comforted her son and daughter after a student opened fire in their suburban Kansas City high school, wounding an administrator and a police officer stationed there.
Then weeks later, she wept for the parents in Uvalde, Texas, who were forced to bury their children after the massacre there in May. She said she was “absolutely” reassured when she learned her district had since purchased one of the panic-alert systems gaining traction nationwide amid a surge in school violence that includes shootings and fights. The technology, featuring wearable panic buttons or mobile phone apps, enables teachers to notify each other and police in the event of an emergency.
“Time is of the essence,” said Lee, whose son helped barricade a classroom door and watched police enter his school with guns drawn. “They can hit a button and, OK, we know something’s wrong, you know, really wrong. And then it puts everybody else on high alert.”
Multiple states now mandate or encourage the buttons, and a growing number of districts are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars per school for them — part of a widespread scramble to beef up school security and prevent the next tragedy. The spending spree includes metal detectors, security cameras, vehicle barriers, alarm systems, clear backpacks, bullet-resistant glass and door-locking systems.
Critics say school officials are scrambling to show action — any action — to worried parents ahead of the new school year, but in their haste may be emphasizing the wrong things. It’s “security theater,” said Ken Trump, president of the National School Safety and Security Services. Instead, he said, schools should focus on making sure teachers are implementing basic safety protocols such as ensuring doors aren’t propped open.
The attack in Uvalde illustrated the shortcomings of panic-alert systems. Robb Elementary School had implemented an alert app, and when an attacker approached the school, a school employee did send a lockdown alert. But not all teachers received it because of poor Wi-Fi or phones that were turned off or in a drawer, according to an investigation by the Texas Legislature. And those who did may not have taken it seriously, the Legislature’s report said: The school sent out frequent alerts related to Border Patrol car chases in the area.
“People want visible, tangible things,” Trump said. “It’s a lot harder to point to the value of training your staff. Those are intangibles. Those are things that are less visible and invisible, but they’re most effective.”
In suburban Kansas City, the decision to spend $2.1 million over five years for a system called CrisisAlert “isn’t a knee-jerk reaction,” said Brent Kiger, Olathe Public Schools’ director of safety services. He said he had been eying the system even before gunfire erupted in an Olathe high school in March as staff confronted an 18-year-old over rumors that he had a gun in his backpack.
“It helped us kind of evaluate it and look at it through a lens of: ‘We’ve been through this critical incident, and how would it have helped us?’ And it would have helped us that day,” he said. “There’s just no question about that.”
The system, a different one than what Uvalde relied on, allows staff to trigger a lockdown that will be announced with flashing strobe lights, a takeover of staff computers and a prerecorded intercom announcement. Teachers can set off the alarms by pushing a button on a wearable badge at least eight times. Staff also can summon help to break up a hallway fight or to deal with a medical emergency if they push the button three times.
Demand for CrisisAlert had been growing even before Uvalde, with revenue from new contracts increasing 270% from the first quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2022, the product’s maker, Centegix, said in a statement.
Arkansas was an early adopter of panic buttons, announcing in 2015 that more than 1,000 schools would be equipped with a smartphone app that connects users quickly with 911. At the time, education officials said the plan was the most comprehensive in the nation.
But the idea really gained steam after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was among the 17 killed, founded the group Make Our Schools Safe and began advocating for panic buttons. She had texted her daughter as shots rang out that help was on the way.
“But in reality, there was no panic button. There was no immediate way to contact law enforcement or emergency services to get on site as soon as possible,” said Lori Kitaygorodsky, the group’s spokeswoman. “We always kind of go by the thinking that time equals life.”
Lawmakers in Florida and New Jersey responded by passing Alyssa’s Law, requiring schools to begin using panic alarms. District of Columbia schools also added panic-button technology.
Following Uvalde, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a new bill into law that requires school districts to consider installing silent panic alarms. And Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an executive order, calling on all schools to implement panic buttons if not already in use. The state previously provided money for schools to subscribe to an app.
Over the years, legislation also has been introduced in Nebraska, Texas, Arizona and Virginia, according to Make Our Schools Safe.
Las Vegas schools also decided to add panic buttons this year to deal with a wave of violence. Data show the district recorded 2,377 assaults and batteries from August 2021 through the end of May, including an after-school attack that left a teacher injured and unconscious in her classroom. Other districts adding panic buttons for back-to-school include Madison County Schools in North Carolina, which also are putting AR-15 rifles in every school, and the Houston County School District in Georgia.
Walter Stephens, the executive director of school operations in the 30,000-student Houston County district, said the district piloted the panic button technology last year in three schools before signing a $1.7 million, five-year contract to make it available in all its buildings.
Like most schools, the district reassessed its safety protocols after the tragedy in Uvalde. But the Texas shooting didn’t provide the impetus to add the panic buttons, Stephens insisted. If students don’t feel safe, he said, “that translates to them not performing well in our schools.”
Whether the buttons deliver as promised is something experts are monitoring. In places like Florida, a panic button app has proven unpopular with teachers. And what happens, asked Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, in the case of a false alarm, or a student using a panic-button to cause mayhem?
“In throwing so much technology at the problem … we may have unintentionally created a false sense of security,” Canady said.
Kansas state Sen. Cindy Holscher represents an area that includes part of the Olathe district, and her 15-year-old son knew the Olathe East shooter. While Holscher, a Democrat, supports the addition of panic buttons in the district, she said schools alone can’t fix the country’s mass shooting problem.
“If we make it way too easy for people to get their hands on guns, it’s still a problem,” said Holscher, who has championed a red-flag law and another measure that would have mandated safe firearm storage. She said neither measure even got a hearing in the GOP-dominated Legislature.
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Year Marked with Landmark Customer Wins, Significant Product Innovation, and Veteran Cybersecurity Hires
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ThreatConnect, maker of leading threat intelligence operations (TI Ops) and risk quantification solutions, announced today the company's accelerated growth through 2022 and market leading position heading into 2023.
"With a tumultuous year marked by geopolitical and economic uncertainty that increased pressure on CISOs and their teams to improve security effectiveness and efficiency, ThreatConnect had a tremendous year in both new customer acquisition and product innovation," said Balaji Yelamanchili, CEO of ThreatConnect. "As we enter 2023, we're positioned to continue delivering market leading product innovation that enables our customers and partners to manage efficient TI Ops with quantifiable risk mitigation strategies."
Customer & Revenue Growth
- Substantial double-digit growth in new logo and expansion business, including some of the world's largest technology, financial services, healthcare, governmental, and cyber security organizations choosing ThreatConnect for their TI Ops and risk quantification initiatives.
- Expanded risk quantification and TI Ops deployments with three of the top five software companies in the world, 12 global financial services organizations, and 33 other large enterprise customers.
- Now serving nearly 200 global customers, including five of the top 10 software companies in the world, three of the top five airlines, three of the top five pharmaceutical companies, two of the top five insurance providers, and more than 10 defense and federal agencies.
Threat Intelligence Operations Innovation
The company's product and engineering teams delivered a variety of new features that enable cyber threat intelligence (CTI) teams to more efficiently investigate and create intelligence, and work with security operations (SecOps) teams to consume and operationalize threat intelligence. These new features are designed to deliver better security outcomes in terms of mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) potential threats and incidents, and drive efficiencies across teams and tools.
Specific Innovations:
ThreatConnect made many useful product enhancements, including:
- ThreatConnect's Collective Analytics Layer (CAL™), powered by Big Data and Machine Learning, increased its volume of data by 25% versus prior year to over 176 billion points of data used for scoring potential indicators of compromise (IOCs), providing insights for investigations, and categorizing relationships between indicators, threat actors, malware, and campaigns. By merging anonymized insights from ThreatConnect users with this massive data set creates the ability to have better confidence scoring and enrichment on potential IOCs that very few other players in the market can claim.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to recognize MITRE ATT&CK® techniques by extracting insights from open source blogs, research, and other sources. This enables customers to get faster insights on relevant threats they are investigating.
- Highly intuitive graph investigation capability that incorporates the customer's threat intelligence and internal case & investigation data, with insights from CAL's Automated Threat Library, including threat actors, campaigns, and ATT&CK techniques, and a growing number of third-party intelligence and enrichment sources.
- A new reporting engine that makes it easy to create and disseminate threat intelligence reports with graphs, tables, images, and narrative descriptions.
- New Enrich Anywhere capability automates the addition of context to indicators of compromise, allowing users to easily identify false positives and pinpoint actionable intelligence.
- Streamline the work of the SOC by infusing relevant threat intelligence directly into every step of their case workflow, and allowing for relevant artifacts and findings to be promoted for validation as threat intelligence by the CTI team.
- Measure the work being done by the team with case and analyst efficiency metrics.
- Stronger multi-tenant management of clients for MSSP and multi-tiered organizations with the introduction of Super Admin Users who can answer RFI's or work alongside analysts in other organizations without leaving their ThreatConnect instance.
Risk Quantification Break Out Year
- Significant double digit annual sales growth, including new customers in healthcare, finance and manufacturing.
- Launched technology alliance and go-to-market partnership with SecurityScorecard, resulting in 14 net new customers.
- New go-to-market partnership with 3 of the top global software vendors.
Industry recognition
Winner of multiple industry accolades, including the Global Infosec Awards, Cybersecurity Excellence Award, and the top 100 most Innovative Cybersecurity companies by Expert Insights.
Experienced Leadership and Board Advisors
In 2022, the company added seasoned cybersecurity operators to its executive ranks with cybersecurity veterans. Balaji Yelamanchili, previously EVP and General Manager of Symantec's Enterprise Security business, joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Burney Barker, a veteran of Forescout, Gigamon, and Dell EMC, joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. In the Chief Marketing Officer role, Charles Gold joined the company, bringing more than 25 years of executive experience at category leaders including Sonatype, Virtru, and FireMon.
The company also added an elite group of enterprise cybersecurity leaders as Board Advisors. This esteemed group includes Colin Anderson, current CISO at Ceridian and former CISO at Safeway and Levi Straus, Myrna Soto former CISO at MGM and Comcast and current Board member at Spirit Airlines and Trinet, and Patrick Joyce, CISO at Medtronic. They will advise the company's Board and executive team on strategic product and go-to-market matters.
"Enterprises are transforming their approach to security operations to support their move to the cloud and the digital economy while at the same time addressing a growing threat landscape and emerging threats like ransomware," said Yelamanchili. "Our TI Ops and risk quantification solutions are critical to these initiatives and, given our momentum in 2022 and near term product roadmap, I couldn't be more excited about this coming year."
About ThreatConnect
ThreatConnect enables threat intelligence operations, security operations, and cyber risk management teams to work together for more effective, efficient, and collaborative cyber defense and protection. With ThreatConnect, organizations can infuse ML and AI-powered threat intel and cyber risk quantification into their work, allowing them to orchestrate and automate processes to get the necessary insights, and respond faster and more confidently than ever before. More than 200 enterprises and thousands of security operations professionals rely on ThreatConnect every day to protect their organizations' most critical assets.
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223 PM CDT Sun Aug 14 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 107 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of north central and northwest Louisiana,
southeast Oklahoma, south central and southwest Arkansas and
east and northeast Texas.
* WHEN...From noon to 7 PM CDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
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Injury forces NC State RB Demie Sumo-Karngbaye to locker room against Boston College
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NC State sophomore running back Demie Sumo-Karngbaye left the game with 7:18 left in the first quarter against Boston College after suffering an injury to his left ankle – an issue that forced him to miss games against Syracuse and Virginia Tech this season.
Sumo-Karngbaye had to be helped off the field by two NC State trainers and was slowly taken to the locker room, unable to put any weight on his ankle. He had two rushes for six yards before the injury. His return is questionable.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks in the U.S. and Europe turned lower Friday ahead of a speech by the Federal Reserve chair that could more shed light on the potential for more interest rate hikes.
The DAX in Frankfurt fell 0.3% while the CAC 40 in Paris slipped 0.1%. The FTSE in London held onto a slight gain. Earlier, markets in Tokyo and Hong Kong advanced while Shanghai declined.
In the U.S., futures for all three major indexes declined, with the S&P 500 down 0.3%. The benchmark index gained 1.4% Thursday.
The focus is on Jerome Powell's speech at the Fed's annual Jackson Hole meeting later Friday. Investors and economists will be turning over his remarks for any clues about how fast the Fed may continue to raise its key interest rate — and for how long.
Traders worry the Fed’s rate hikes this year, plus increases by central banks in Europe and Asia, might derail global growth. Some expect the Fed to reverse course and start cutting rates in 2023 due to signs the U.S. economy might be cooling.
“The Fed could start thinking about a pause in rate hikes, potentially for the end of the year,” Thomas Costerg of Pictet said in a report. “However, it is still too early to talk about rate cuts.”
Global markets have swung between optimism about stronger corporate profits and unease about possible recession risks.
On Thursday, the U.S. government reported the economy didn't contract by as much as previously thought during the spring. It shrank 0.6% on an annualized basis, the government said, less than the previous 0.9% estimate.
The Fed’s Jackson Hole meeting in Wyoming, which attracts economists from around the world, has been the setting for market-defining announcements in the past.
Investors are hoping for clarity from Powell after a number of Fed officials said they still supported rate hikes despite hopes inflation might be peaking.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained $1.13 to $93.65 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the price basis for international trading, advanced $1.26 to $99.75 per barrel in London.
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie at 83 just became the oldest person in the world to complete a solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific Ocean — and he says he is still “in the middle of my youth” and not done yet.
Horie returned home as he crossed the Kii Strait off Japan’s western coast early Saturday, completing his trans-Pacific solo voyage in 69 days after leaving a yacht harbor in San Francisco in late March.
On Sunday, after spending the night on his 19-foot (6-meter) -long Suntory Mermaid III just off the coast, Horie was towed into his home port of Shin Nishinomiya, where he was cheered by local residents and supporters and banners that read: “Welcome back, Mr. Kenichi Horie!”
As he approached the harbor, Horie, standing in his boat, took off his white cap and waved. He got off the yacht, took off the cap again and bowed deeply on the pier before he was presented with bouquets of roses.
“Thank you for waiting!” said Horie, who appeared tanned and with his white hair longer than usual.
He carried a stock of medicine from San Francisco, he said, but only used eye drops and Band-Aids during his more than two months alone at sea.
“That shows how healthy I am,” Horie said. “I’m still in the middle of my youth.”
He said he “burned all my body and soul” on the journey but says he’s ready for more. “I will keep up my work to be a late bloomer.”
At a news conference at the yacht harbor later Sunday, he said becoming the oldest person to make the feat was a dream come true. “It was my great joy to have been able to make a challenge as a real goal and safely achieve it, instead of just holding onto it as a dream.”
“I want to be a challenger as long as I live,” he said.
It 1962, he became the first person in the world to successfully complete a solo nonstop voyage across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. Sixty years later, he traveled the opposite route.
This time, his preparation during the coronavirus pandemic was full of uncertainties involving vaccine requirements, testing and other logistics. “It was like walking on thin ice,” he said.
Soon after his departure from San Francisco, he was faced with a storm, but the weather gradually improved and he reached Hawaii in mid-April ahead of schedule.
He had some struggles toward the end with a few days of pushback from a strong tide. He wrote on his blog on Friday that he had succeeded but was exhausted, and he took a nap after feeling assured that his yacht was on the right track to the finish line.
Horie has completed other long-distance solo voyages, including sailing around the world in 1974. His latest expedition was the first since his 2008 solo nonstop voyage on a wave-powered boat from Hawaii to the Kii Strait.
Despite sailing on his own, technology such as ship tracking and communications allowed him to stay in touch with his family and other people throughout the journey. “I imagine my next voyage would be even more fun,” he said.
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Ford is embracing #vanlife with an adventure-ready version of the Transit arriving for the 2023 model year.
The 2023 Ford Transit Trail was teased Wednesday on Twitter by Ted Cannis, CEO of the automaker’s Ford Pro commercial vehicle division, one of three business units created during the automaker’s restructuring earlier this year.
Aside from confirming the vehicle itself, Ford was light on details. A press release promises “interior and exterior enhancements providing do-it-yourselfers and motorhome distributors a turnkey canvas from the factory.”
The camper-van market does seem to have a lot of untapped potential. Camper-van conversions have become a DIY trend, and many third-party upfitters build motorhomes using van chassis cabs as starting points. For previously added Motorhome, RV, and Adventure Prep Packages with this in mind, but the Trail’s turnkey setup might appeal to a wider range of outdoorsy customers.
From job site to campsite. Ford #TransitTrail coming soon! ð²ðï¸ðð² pic.twitter.com/B5UNAqEBvT
— Ted Cannis (@tedcannis) October 12, 2022
Teaser photos appear to show an unmodified Transit high-roof body style, but with Raptor-style amber lights in the grille and on the front fenders. It’s unclear if the Transit Trail will get a dedicated powertrain, but for reference the current Transit is available with naturally-aspirated and twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 gasoline engines, along with an all-electric powertrain in the E-Transit model.
Ford didn’t say when the Transit Trail will be unveiled, but confirmed that the lifestyle van will be built alongside other Transit models at its Kansas City, Missouri, plant. This is the only update confirmed for the 2023 Transit so far; the van was refreshed for the 2021 model year, with the electric E-Transit joining the lineup for 2022.
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‘Long live Ern’: Family holds rally seeking justice for boxer killed
By Kim Dacey
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BALTIMORE (WBAL) — Friends and community members rallied Thursday to remember a boxing coach killed in his prime.
Ernest Hall, 32, was gunned down in a mass shooting on March 23. He was one of six people shot that night on Edmondson Avenue.
The Tendea Family, a nonprofit organization that worked closely with Hall, held a peace rally right across the street from the gas station where he was killed.
Friends and family said they don’t want “Coach Ernie” to die in vain. They hope his murder can serve as a catalyst for change in the city.
Tim Goldsby of the Tendea Family was one of several chanting, “Love live Ern.”
“He was a good man. He was described by many folks as a father, a fighter, a friend of the community and somebody who literally gave (and) extended himself to give back to his community,” Goldsby said.
Now, Hall’s community is coming together to mourn his loss, and make sense of the violence.
“We’re also motivated to make sure that his legacy, and that he doesn’t die in vain,” said Tendea Family chairman Elijah Miles. “We build something positive out of it.”
Remy Carter is fed up with the violence.
“They had two shootings down here this week in broad daylight. It’s not acceptable. The things that are happening in the city are not acceptable,” Carter said.
Dozens of community members came out to show their support and send a message.
“Send the message that there’s hope, there’s love and hope, there’s still hope and love in the community,” said Carter.
Hall’s family held a vigil in his memory outside the gym he ran, Lightning Quick Fit, on Tuesday. They echoed the message of extending his legacy, hoping to keep his gym up and running.
Meanwhile, Hall’s murder is still unsolved. Police are still investigating the mass shooting.
“I hope that justice gets served because he’s a great loss to our community,” Miles said.
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Sunday Funday for a Cure raising funds for cancer research
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The Eagles Cancer Telethon for the 2022 year is now beyond the $1,000,000 mark.
As of Sunday morning, the total funds raised for cancer research sat at $1,006,394.
Even with such a big total, members of the telethon board and other volunteers knew they wanted to do more and create something new for everyone to have fun at while raising money.
“After the last telethon, we came down to the Eagles Club afterwards to help celebrate and we decided we wanted to try a new event to raise money for the telethon,” said Committee Member Erin Henderson. “And “Sunday Funday” was born from that.”
The event featured an Olympic-style competition with wine toss, plinko, mini-javelin (darts), cornhole, Yahtzee and other games for contestants to score points with the top three winning medals.
Refreshments and food were also served with more than 50 items being raffled off.
All proceeds from the event will go toward the 2023 Eagles Cancer Telethon total.
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President Biden said Wednesday the U.S. will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, reflecting the rapidly expanding effort to provide heavy weaponry to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
"The United States, standing shoulder to shoulder with its allies, is going to do all it can to help Ukraine," Biden said in brief remarks at the White House. "We are united."
Biden's announcement came just hours after Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Germany had been resisting such a move, but Scholz changed his mind after coming under sustained pressure from many of the Western nations supporting Ukraine.
"I'm grateful to Chancellor Scholz," Biden said. "Germany has really stepped up."
The U.S. and German tanks headed to Ukraine are considered the two best models in the world. They're part of a blockbuster month of new, heavy weapons pledged to Ukraine, by far the largest such upgrade since Russia launched a full-scale invasion 11 months ago.
The U.S. and German announcements also signal a willingness to send additional weapons they previously considered a red line because they might lead to a further escalation by Russia.
But that reluctance has largely crumbled, particularly this past month, as U.S. and NATO countries have offered up a range of new weapons, including the Patriot missile air defense system, hundreds of armored vehicles, and now, the tanks.
"It is not an offensive threat to Russia. There is no offensive threat to Russia," Biden said of the tanks. "This is about freedom — freedom for Ukraine, freedom everywhere."
Ukraine has been outgunned
Ukraine says it badly needs tanks. It's been relying on aging, Soviet-era models, and more broadly, has been outgunned by Russia throughout the war.
But military analysts stress there's no single weapon that will determine the outcome of the war. Tanks, they say, are just one key component of the "combined arms" that Ukraine needs to wage successful offensives and defeat Russian forces that still occupy large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The other elements include effective ground forces, agile armored vehicles, artillery, air power and air defenses. The pledges this past month are designed to upgrade Ukraine's military strength on multiple fronts. And they come as Ukraine prepares for what's expected to be an escalation in the fighting toward the end of winter or in the early spring.
Both Ukraine and Russia have been dropping not-so-subtle hints they're likely to launch new offensives.
The president did not say when the U.S. tanks would reach Ukraine. But a senior administration official, who was only authorized to speak on condition of anonymity, said it would be "months, not weeks."
The Abrams is considered the world's best tank, and also the most sophisticated. It requires extensive training and maintenance, and it runs on jet fuel, rather than the diesel fuel used by other tanks.
The German tanks, which are also considered first-rate, are expected to reach Ukraine much sooner, though no date was announced.
Months of hesitation
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had been deeply reluctant to substantially increase the German level of support. But he came under increasing pressure given the quality and availability of the German tanks. Speaking to parliament Wednesday, he defended the length of time it took to reach the decision.
"Ladies and gentleman, that is the right principle. We are dealing with very effective weapons systems, and it is the right thing for us to never provide these weapons systems on their own, but always in close cooperation," Scholz said.
In many statements by U.S. officials over the course of months, the U.S. said the Abram tank was not the best fit for Ukraine. In contrast, the Leopard seemed to make more sense. More than a dozen European nations have them. Those countries have trained with the Leopards and know how to maintain them.
But the Germans didn't want to go it alone. The U.S. announcement appeared to provide political cover for the Germans to move ahead.
A senior U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, described the German and U.S. tank pledges this way: "Coupled with near-term commitment by the Germans on the Leopards, we think the Abrams represent a long-term commitment" by the U.S.
Poland and other European nations with Leopard tanks are expected to offer them to Ukraine as well.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has received pledges for heavy weapons over the past month that far exceed anything in the previous 11 months of war.
In late December, the U.S. said it would send a Patriot missile defense system, considered key to helping Ukraine defend against ongoing Russian missile strike directed at the country's electricity grid.
On Jan. 6, the U.S. announced a $3 billion weapons package, the largest single tranche so far.
Last Friday, the U.S. led a coalition of more than 50 countries that met in Ramstein, Germany, to offer additional support for Ukraine. While much of the public discussion focused on the U.S. and German refusal to provide tanks, Ukraine did receive extremely strong support overall. The U.S. promised an additional $2.5 billion, including more than 500 armored vehicles. The Germans offered up an additional $1 billion in military hardware.
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OM Optel is an ISO9000 and ISO14000 certified Optical Fiber Cable Manufacturer as well as Multilayer Polyfilms, Patch Cords, Injection Molding Products and HDPE Pipes.
HOUSTON, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Pulse, Inc. (OTC Markets: DPLS) ("DarkPulse" and the "Company"), a technology company focused on the manufacture, sale, installation, and monitoring of laser sensing systems based on its patented BOTDA dark-pulse sensor technology (the "DarkPulse Technology") for assessing the health and security of infrastructure, today announced it has signed an LOI for the acquisition of Om Optel Industries Pvt. Ltd., a Fiber Optic Cable and HDPE Pipe Manufacturer based in India ("Om Optel").
Established in 2015, Om Optel is a leading ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 company which maintains a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for high quality Optical Fiber Cable (OFC), Optical Patch Cords, Multilayer Polyfilms, HDPE pipes, and Injection Molding products.
Om Optel is a professionally managed organization that has developed its core competence in the manufacturing of valuable products using state-of-the-art technologies and excellence in services. It has achieved its growth and has expanded its capabilities by following best practices, keeping market demands in perspective and achieving highest customer satisfaction.
"Nearly 65% of costs associated with the installation of fiber sensors is a direct result of the optical cables required for these installations. This acquisition will allow the Company to offer highly competitive installation pricing while affording DarkPulse the capability to design and manufacture highly specialized optical sensing cable products," said DarkPulse Chairman and CEO, Dennis O'Leary. "In addition, Om Optel's HDPE pipe manufacturing business allows DarkPulse to offer gas pipeline products both with and without integrated leak detection capabilities," Mr. O'Leary continued. DarkPulse and OM Kothari Group plan on working together across a multitude of industries included Smart Infrastructure.
The acquisition will close after entering into a definitive acquisiton agreement and customary due diligence.
OM Optel is currently part of The Om Kothari Group, , a highly reputed business house with diversified business interests across Infrastructure, Engineering Construction, Automotive dealerships, Real Estate and Packaging which was established in 1971. The group's flagship company, Om Metals Infraprojects Ltd. is a public limited, engineering construction company specializing in executing turnkey contracts for large infrastructure projects covering power, roads, water, irrigation, real estate and oil & gas.
The Om Kothari Group is run by a synergetic team of high achievers who hold the highest ethical standards for all stakeholders. Each one of Om's businesses is focused on creating a strong foundation of growth that has a positive impact on our world.
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DarkPulse, Inc. uses advanced laser-based monitoring systems to provide rapid and accurate monitoring of temperatures, strains and stresses. The Company's technology excels when applied to live, dynamic critical infrastructure and structural monitoring, including pipeline monitoring, perimeter and structural surveillance, aircraft structural components and mining safety. The Company's fiber-based monitoring systems can assist markets that are not currently served, and its unique technology covers extended areas and any event that is translated into the detection of a change in strain or temperature. In addition to the Company's ongoing efforts with respect to the marketing and sales of its technology products and services to its customers, the Company also continues to explore potential strategic alliances through joint venture and licensing opportunities to further expand its global market position.
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BANGKOK (AP) — The official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has burgeoned to at least 145, including 117 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, state television reported Friday.
It said the figure applied to the western state of Rakhine, where Cyclone Mocha did the most damage, but did not say how many storm-related deaths there have been in other parts of the country.
The accounting of casualties from the cyclone has been slow, in part due to communication difficulties in the affected areas and the military government’s tight control over information. The military government has said that unofficial death tolls surpassing 400 are false, but in the absence of independent confirmation, uncertainly remains about the actual extent of casualties and destruction.
Mocha made landfall near Sittwe township in Rakhine state on Sunday afternoon with winds of up to 209 kilometers (130 miles) per hour before weakening inland. The cyclone, the nation’s most destructive in at least a decade, brought widespread flash floods and power outages, while high winds tore roofs off buildings and crumpled cellphone towers.
“Millions of people live in the path of the cyclone and a massive effort is now underway to clear debris and provide shelter to those whose homes have been damaged or destroyed,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Thursday. “Coastal Rakhine took the heaviest hit from the cyclone with severe impacts across the northwest and some damage in Kachin (state) also reported.”
Friday’s report on MRTV state television said four soldiers and 24 local residents in Rakhine, in addition to the 117 Rohingya, had been killed, blaming the deaths on people refusing to evacuate their homes despite warnings from the authorities before the storm hit.
The authorities evacuated 63,302 of the 125,789 Rohingya sheltering in 17 camps in 17 townships including Sittwe, starting last Friday, MRTV said.
Its reports identified the Rohingya as “Bengali,” the official designation used for the minority group to suggest they immigrated to Myanmar illegally.
Rohingya have lived in Myanmar for generations, but they are not recognized as an official minority there and are denied citizenship and other basic rights.
The Rohingyas caught in the storm lived mostly in crowded displacement camps, to which they were moved after losing their homes in a brutal 2017 counterinsurgency campaign led by Myanmar security forces. Their ramshackle housing on low-lying land was battered Sunday by a storm surge.
More than 700,000 other Rohingya fled in 2017 to refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, which also had damage from the cyclone but reported no deaths.
OCHA’s report did not give a death toll for the storm, but said casualties and missing people were still being documented, including internal displaced people.
Theinn Shwe, a teacher from Headway Education Center for the Rohingya community in the camps, said Friday that the bodies of at least 116 people from 15 camps and villages, including 32 children and 46 women, had been given burial rites. He said reports that some had declined to evacuate were correct.
Although the authorities have provided some food and shelter assistance, there is still the need for more, he said, adding that aid from international organizations and private donors have not yet arrived.
“If the authorities give travel authorization to international organizations as soon as possible, the Rohingyas here will get help quickly. If the travel authorization is limited, the people here are likely to suffer more,” Theinn Shwe said.
OCHA said there is an urgent need for fuel to ensure key public services, notably health care and water treatment.
“Clean water supplies are a concern. Other critical needs include shelter, food aid, medical supplies, and healthcare services. In flooded areas, concerns persist about the spread of waterborne disease and the movement of landmines,” a legacy of decades of civil conflict in Myanmar.
“Unimpeded humanitarian access to affected populations in the impacted areas is critical,” it said.
Rakhine state spokesperson and attorney-general Hla Thein said Thursday that there were no restrictions on local or international organizations sending aid, an assertion that could not be independently confirmed.
A previous military government was harshly discredited when it delayed the acceptance of outside aid in 2008, when Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River delta. At least 138,000 people died and tens of thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away.
State media carried extensive coverage this week of domestic efforts to provide disaster relief by the current military government, which seized power in 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. It is engaged over much of the country in warfare against armed resistance forces opposed to military rule.
Several nations, including India, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, have already earmarked monetary or material assistance to help in recovering from Sunday's cyclone.
On Thursday, three Indian navy ships carrying relief material reached Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, and a fourth ship was to arrive Friday, said India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Yangon is southeast of the cyclone-hit area and has a major international port.
“The ships are carrying emergency food items, tents, essential medicines, water pumps, portable generators, clothes, sanitary and hygiene items,” Jaishankar said in a message posted on Twitter. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/myanmar-says-official-death-toll-from-cyclone-18108061.php | 2023-05-19 09:17:18 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/myanmar-says-official-death-toll-from-cyclone-18108061.php |
(The Hill) – Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving away the multibillion-dollar outdoor apparel company, the climber-turned-businessman announced on Wednesday.
Chouinard and his family are transferring ownership of Patagonia to a trust and nonprofit in an effort to maintain the company’s environmentalist values and increase its contributions toward fighting climate change.
“Earth is now our only shareholder,” Chouinard said in a statement.
As part of the shift, Chouinard committed Patagonia to giving away all its excess profits to efforts to fight the environmental crisis.
Those profits will go to the Holdfast Collective, an environmental nonprofit organization that is also receiving the entirety of Patagonia’s nonvoting shares — about 98 percent of the company.
The remaining 2 percent of the company — the voting shares — will go to the Patagonia Purpose Trust. The trust, which was created to protect and maintain Patagonia’s values, will have the final say on key decisions.
Chouinard noted that they chose not to sell Patagonia or take the company public for fear that its values would be compromised.
“Instead of ‘going public,’ you could say we’re ‘going purpose,’” Chouinard said. “Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.”
Despite giving away ownership, Chouinard said he and his family will continue to guide the Patagonia Purpose Trust and Holdfast Collective and sit on the board of directors. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/patagonia-founder-gives-away-company-with-all-profits-going-to-fighting-climate-change/ | 2022-09-15 17:58:21 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/patagonia-founder-gives-away-company-with-all-profits-going-to-fighting-climate-change/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new government data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already said the overall number of such deaths rose in 2020 and 2021. Two reports from the CDC this week provided further details on which groups have the highest death rates and which states are seeing the largest numbers.
“Alcohol is often overlooked” as a public health problem, said Marissa Esser, who leads the CDC’s alcohol program. “But it is a leading preventable cause of death.”
A report released Friday focused on more than a dozen kinds of “alcohol-induced” deaths that were wholly blamed on drinking. Examples include alcohol-caused liver or pancreas failure, alcohol poisoning, withdrawal and certain other diseases. There were more than 52,000 such deaths last year, up from 39,000 in 2019.
The rate of such deaths had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, by 7% or less each year.
In 2020, they rose 26%, to about 13 deaths per 100,000 Americans. That’s the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years, said the study’s lead author, Merianne Spencer.
Such deaths are 2 1/2 times more common in men than in women, but rose for both in 2020, the study found. The rate continued to be highest for people ages 55 to 64, but rose dramatically for certain other groups, including jumping 42% among women ages 35 to 44.
The second report, published earlier this week in JAMA Network Open, looked at a wider range of deaths that could be linked to drinking, such as motor vehicle accidents, suicides, falls and cancers.
More than 140,000 of that broader category of alcohol-related deaths occur annually, based on data from 2015 to 2019, the researchers said. CDC researchers say about 82,000 of those deaths are from drinking too much over a long period of time and 58,000 from causes tied to acute intoxication.
The study found that as many as 1 in 8 deaths among U.S. adults ages 20 to 64 were alcohol-related deaths. New Mexico was the state with the highest percentage of alcohol-related deaths, 22%. Mississippi had the lowest, 9%
Excessive drinking is associated with chronic dangers such as liver cancer, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. Drinking by pregnant women can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects. And health officials say alcohol is a factor in as many as one-third of serious falls among the elderly.
It’s also a risk to others through drunken driving or alcohol-fueled violence. Surveys suggest that more than half the alcohol sold in the U.S. is consumed during binge drinking episodes.
Even before the pandemic, U.S. alcohol consumption was trending up, and Americans were drinking more than when Prohibition was enacted. But deaths may have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began for several reasons, including people with alcohol-related illnesses may have had more trouble getting medical care, Esser said.
She added that the research points to a need to look at steps to reduce alcohol consumption, including increasing alcohol taxes and enacting measures that limit where people can buy beer, wine and liquor.
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Rural communities in western Mississippi are surveying and cleaning up the damage after an unusual and powerful tornado tore through the area Friday night.
The tornado killed at least 25 people in Mississippi and one in Alabama, destroyed buildings and left hundreds without shelter.
The tornado landed in Rolling Fork around 8 p.m. local time before blowing through nearby towns including Silver City, Black Hawk and Winona, staying on the ground for an hour and 10 minutes.
The National Weather Service says it spanned roughly 170 miles and had a path of 59.4 miles, an unusually long distance compared to what it calls a typical tornado path of 1-2 miles.
The NWS has given the tornado a preliminary rating of 4 out of 5 on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale, which estimates wind speeds (in this case, 166-200 mph) based on the damage caused.
"This is one of the more rare tornadoes that we've seen in recorded Mississippi history given its longevity and strength over a period of time," National Weather Service meteorologist Lance Perrilloux told NPR.
People following the devastating news out of the region may be wondering: (How) was the storm related to climate change?
After all, most of the extreme weather events that have dominated headlines recently — from heat waves to atmospheric rivers to historic floods — have had a clear connection to high temperatures, record rainfall and other effects of a warming planet.
Years of research have shown how climate change intensifies rain storms, heat waves and hurricanes, as NPR has reported.
The same can't exactly be said for tornadoes, however.
Scientists know that warm weather is a key ingredient in tornadoes and that climate change is altering the environment in which these kinds of storms form. But they can't directly connect those dots, as the research into the link between climate and tornadoes still lags behind that of other extreme weather events such as hurricanes and wildfire.
That's at least in part due to a lack of data — even though the U.S. leads the world in tornadoes, averaging about 1,200 a year.
Less than 10% of severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes, which makes it tricky to draw firm conclusions about the processes leading up to them and how they might be influenced by climate change, Harold Brooks, a tornado scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, told The Associated Press in 2021.
Other factors that make that climate change attribution difficult include the quality of the observational record and the ability of models to simulate certain weather events. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that's the case with tornadoes.
"The observational record is not consistent and relatively short, the models remain inconclusive as to replicating tornado activity, and our understanding of how global warming and climate change will influence the different atmospheric processes that produce tornadoes (wind shear, for example) is more limited," reads a page on its website.
While scientists may not be able to conclusively connect tornado frequency or intensity to human-caused climate change, they say there are signs pointing in that direction.
Here's what they do know:
What tornadoes are and when they occur
NOAA defines tornadoes as narrow, violently rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground (while the wind part is invisible, tornadoes can form condensation funnels of water droplets, dust and debris). They can be among the most violent of natural disasters, ripping homes apart, tearing through infrastructure and sending debris flying.
Tornadoes can occur in any part of the U.S. at any time of year.
They have historically been associated with the Great Plains, though experts say the idea of a so-called "Tornado Alley" can be misleading since the tornado threat is a bit of a moving target. It shifts from the Southeast in the cooler months of the year, toward the southern and central Plains in May and June, and the northern Plains and Midwest during early summer.
When people talk about "tornado season," they are usually referring to the time of year when the U.S. sees the most tornadoes — which peaks in May and June in the southern Plains and later in the northern Plains and upper Midwest.
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes tend to start ramping up in the month of March (usually doubling from February), with the threat most concentrated in Southern states. That's the result of the clash between winter and spring weather patterns, with a still-strong jet stream and warmer air moving northward.
Recent Marches have been especially active, the Weather Channel notes: There were 236 recorded tornadoes in March 2022, the most in that month since 1950.
What kind of conditions shaped Friday's destructive storm
This particular tornado — one of at least 10 reported in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee from this storm — had its origins in a type of rotating thunderstorm known as a supercell.
The storm system started earlier in the week in California, where it spawned the strongest tornado to hit Los Angeles County since 1983. It then continued its journey east, triggering deadly floods in Arizona and the central swath of the country and gaining strength along the way.
Many states saw record-high temperatures during this period, and the Washington Post explains that the warm and humid air — exacerbated by unusually high sea surface temperatures over the Gulf of Mexico — helped energize the storm.
Warm winds from the south fueled the storm at ground level, it adds, while westerly winds of the jet stream generated extreme amounts of "wind shear" — the change in wind speed and/or direction with height that can lead to the development of tornadoes.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says as few as 20% of all supercell thunderstorms produce tornadoes, but that those are the most common — and often the most dangerous — kind of twister.
NOAA compares supercells to cancer cells in a living organism, because "the rotation of their updraft enables them to overcome the self-limiting mechanisms that bring demise to regular storms," lasting for "an appreciable length of time" and causing damage all the while.
Storm chasers and meteorologists have described Friday's event as a "wedge tornado," a slang term meaning its funnel is at least as wide on the ground as it is tall.
Its maximum path width was 3/4 mile, the NWS says, which might help explain the extent of the damage.
Experts say other factors could include the disproportionate number of mobile homes (which are more vulnerable to tornado damage) in the Southeast U.S., the nighttime arrival of the tornado and a relatively short warning period: The NWS issued its first tornado warning just some 20 minutes before the storm reached Rolling Fork.
About 75% of Rolling Fork — a predominantly Black town of about 2,000 people — is "pretty much flattened," NPR's Debbie Elliott reported on Monday.
The U.S. will likely see more tornadoes beyond their typical time and place
Experts say climate change is impacting the conditions in which tornadoes form and could lead to changes in when and where the U.S. sees them.
John T. Allen, a professor of meteorology at Central Michigan University, wrote in a USA Today opinion column that while ties to climate change are still uncertain, there appears to have been an "eastward shift in tornado frequency" and increasing frequency of tornadoes in outbreaks over the past few decades.
"Climate projections for the late 21st century have suggested that the conditions favorable to the development of the severe storms that produce tornadoes will increase over North America, and the impact could be greatest in the winter and fall," he added.
Brooks, of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, said the U.S. is likely to see more tornadoes in the winter (and fewer in the summer) as national temperatures rise above the long-term average.
And Gensini told Axios that projections show an increase in major outbreaks in the mid-South and Southeast. He also compared tornado-climate change attribution to the steroids era of baseball, as Axios put it: "Pinning an individual home run on steroid use is difficult, he said, but in the aggregate the trends are evident."
A version of this story first appeared in 2021.
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PHILADELPHIA – Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was walking backward into the end zone with the ball in his hands after making a 40-yard catch in the second quarter of Sunday’s game against the Tennessee Titans, his old team, at Lincoln Financial Field.
Nobody was around Brown for 25 yards after he and Titans cornerback Kristian Fulton collided earlier in the route. Brown eschewed him with ease, allowing him to take in the moment and look back at everyone. Was he winded from having to run a long distance once again after the touchdown catch he thought he had hauled in along the sideline was ruled incomplete by the replay booth? Or was it a subtle message to the Titans that they had made a mistake.
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Brown finished the game with eight catches for 119 yards and two touchdowns in the 35-10 Eagles win, putting an emphatic stamp on the argument that the Titans should have given him a lucrative contract instead of trading him during this year’s draft.
Brown’s performance Sunday showed off all of his abilities, with him making strong catches, picking up yards after the catch, and changing how the Titans secondary covered the Eagles receivers. Brown also helped wide receiver DeVonta Smith have a big day, with Smith catching five passes for 102 yards and a touchdown. The Titans rolled their coverage to Brown’s side, allowing Smith to get single coverage and to use his route-running skills to get separation on defensive backs.
Here are some other observations from Sunday’s win:
Derrick Henry was a non-factor
The Eagles said throughout the week that they had to match the intensity of the Titans in the run game, and they did just that. Showing good gap integrity when the Titans ran the ball, the Eagles held Titans running back Derrick Henry to 30 rushing yards. In fact, the Eagles did so well that Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill wound up leading his team in rushing yards (34).
The defensive tackles on run downs, led by Linval Joseph and Fletcher Cox, collapsed the middle of the line of scrimmage and forced Henry to bounce outside. The Eagles were also aided by the defensive backs coming up and helping contain Henry and make tackles.
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The defensive line gets pressure too
The Eagles’ ability to contain Derrick Henry forced the Titans to throw more than they would have liked. The Eagles defensive line took advantage of the situation to pressure Tannehill. The Eagles finished the day with six sacks, led by defensive end Josh Sweat, who had two. The Eagles also made it a point to knock Tannehill to the ground, forcing him to get up slowly several times. Hits like the ones Tannehill took shorten the clock in the head and force him to get the ball out of his hand quickly.
Yellow laundry
The Eagles started the day on offense with a penalty, seeing right tackle Lane Johnson move before the snap. After that point, the barrage of yellow flags began to fly over the course of the game, with the Eagles being called for nine penalties in the first half.
All five of the Eagles starting offensive linemen drew at least one penalty. According to NFL Penalties, the Eagles were called for eight false start penalties, tied for the third-fewest number in the league. However, they had seven called against them in the game Sunday. The team eventually overcame the first-half penalties, but against a good team, that will not be the case.
Special Teams looks better
The Eagles special teams units looked considerably better against the Titans, especially on the kick coverage units. One of the Eagles’ changes was inserting starting safety Marcus Epps on the edge to chase down Titans kick returner Haasan Haskins. The Eagles also used Christain Elliss on the coverage units, and he made a big impact, finishing the game with two special teams tackles, including a big hit on Haskins that riled up the crowd and other players on the kickoff coverage. Britain Covey also had the best game of his career, averaging 17.5 yards on his six punt returns, including a 27-yard return. The special teams has been the weakness of the team, and if they play this way for the rest of the season, the Eagles will be hard to stop.
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Avera Medical Minute: Preparing kids for summer independence
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The school year is coming to an end and it might be time to expand your kid’s responsibilities at home. Twila Perkinson, an Avera Family Life Educator, says a good place to start when considering this conversation is identifying the house rules. “As parents start to plan for the inevitable, it’s not a certain age on a timeline,” Perkinson said. “It’s usually the responsibility level of that kid, someone who knows the house rules, and what the expectations will be.” A way to ease into this new territory could be trying a 2-3 hour trial run to make sure everything is okay and everyone knows what they need to do. It is also important to know that kids will need to eat, so understanding how to safely prepare meals is also a top priority. Planning for emergency scenarios such as weather and unexpected visitors should also be part of the conversation. Avera also offers home-alone classes that will cover all of these basics and responsibilities.
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(NEXSTAR) – A Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $747 million was up for grabs Monday night after no ticket was able to match the numbers drawn on Saturday. If your ticket matches the latest numbers drawn, seen below, you’ll have won the fifth-largest jackpot in Powerball history.
The jackpot hasn’t been won since November 19, giving way for the prize to grow to be the ninth-largest lottery prize in history. Powerball officials say the jackpot has a cash value of $403.1 million.
Here are the winning numbers for Monday, February 6: 5, 11, 22, 23, 69, and Powerball 7. The Power Play was 2X.
Didn’t win the jackpot? You may still have won money
Without a winner Monday, the Powerball jackpot could become the fourth-largest in game history, edging out a prize won in Massachusetts in 2017. Surpassing that prize (it’s roughly $12 million shy of doing so) would also make the current jackpot the eighth-largest in U.S. history.
The most recent record-setting Powerball jackpot – worth $2.04 billion – was hit in early November. It currently holds the record as the largest national lottery jackpot in the world, according to Powerball officials. While we know the winning ticket was sold in California, it’s unclear if the ticketholder has claimed their prize.
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Teaches tried-and-true strategies to kickstart business ideas
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced that cofounder and former executive chair of Reddit and Seven Seven Six founder Alexis Ohanian will teach a class on building your startup. The class is available now exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 180+ instructors with an annual membership.
"As a cofounder of Reddit, Alexis has a unique perspective in creating a product used by hundreds of millions of people," said David Rogier, founder and CEO of MasterClass. "In his class, members will learn actionable lessons on how to devise new ideas."
In his class, Ohanian will demystify the word "entrepreneur," explaining that being an entrepreneur is a mindset as much as a practice. He will teach members how to test their business ideas before launching and pitch their ideas to investors, including selling themselves in addition to their concept. As a bonus for MasterClass members, Ohanian will provide insight on his resignation from the board of Reddit, which he did in protest following the murder of George Floyd, and his request that his seat be filled by a person of color. Through this journey, he will also expand on founding his venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Members will leave the class inspired to take risks, pursue their passions and carve out their own professional path no matter the industry.
"I believe that my purpose is to help another generation do even better than I did," Ohanian said. "I will share everything I've learned to teach members how to take their own ideas and turn them into successful businesses that make the world a better place."
Ohanian is a tech founder and venture capitalist. He's written a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission, and cofounded Reddit, one of the largest websites in the U.S. currently valued at more than $10B. In 2020 he founded Seven Seven Six, a new firm built like a technology company that deploys venture capital with over $769M assets under management. In 2022 he launched the 776 Foundation to support marginalized individuals and announced a $20M commitment to climate action through his new 776 Fellowship Program. Ohanian is also an advocate for paid family leave and the lead founding investor of the NWSL's Angel City Football Club.
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The coveted title comes with a lifetime supply of free bacon
VERNON, Texas, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Every town needs a mayor. And Wright Brand is searching for a mayor with a unique set of qualifications. In honor of 100 years of Bacon the Wright Way®, Vernon, Texas is renaming its hometown Bacon City, USA for the weekend of September 16-17, 2022. Wright Brand is launching a nationwide search to find the country's biggest bacon fan and bestow them with the prestigious title of Mayor of Bacon City, USA. Added perks include a lifetime supply of Wright Brand bacon.
The winning applicant and one guest will receive a two-night trip to the 100th anniversary celebration and mayoral induction in Bacon City, USA.
To apply for the job of Mayor of Bacon City, USA submit a one-minute video about your unique qualifications and why you deserve the coveted title. Consider submitting a bacon ballad, a sizzling dance, a bacon-wrapped rap or a poem or another performance that captures your love for bacon. The more creative the video, the greater the chance of securing the title. See official rules for more details. Applications will be accepted now through July 31, 2022.
The Mayor of Bacon City, USA will receive VIP access to the festival which celebrates the brand's rich history in Vernon and all things bacon. The one-day event on September 16 will feature a food truck competition and other activities across town. To close out the celebration, the beloved Texas-based country group, The Randy Rogers Band, will perform live.
To learn more about Wright Brand's 100th anniversary visit WrightBrand.com or follow along with #Wright100 and visit the brand @WrightBrand on Instagram, and @WrightBacon on Twitter.
About Wright® Brand
Rich in both tradition and flavor, the bold taste of Wright Brand bacon has been savored since Roy Wright and Fay Eggleston handcrafted their first batch in 1922. It's a history of doing things a certain way, and one we don't plan on changing. Wright Brand bacon including Hickory, Applewood, Double Smoked and Maple offerings are all hand-selected, hand-trimmed and 100% wood smoked to impart deliciously and uncompromising rich flavors. It's thick cut Bacon the Wright Way®. For more information on Wright Brand, including product offerings and delicious bacon recipe ideas, visit WrightBrand.com.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaica’s government has turned to the FBI for help as it investigates a massive fraud case involving a private investment firm where $12.7 million belonging to renowned sprinter Usain Bolt has gone missing. The fraud lasted 13 years and also ensnared elderly clients and government agencies. Authorities don’t yet know how much was stolen.
Attorneys for Bolt, who said the star athlete’s account has dwindled to just $12,000, have given the investment firm until Friday to return the money before going to court.
The government also asked other international partners it did not identify for help in investigating one of the island’s largest fraud cases, Finance Minister Nigel Clarke said Monday.
“The anger and unease we all feel have been magnified by the long duration — 13 years — over which the fraud was allegedly perpetrated, and the fact that the (suspects) seemed to have deliberately and heartlessly targeted elderly persons, as well as our much loved and respected national icon … Usain Bolt,” Clarke said.
The investigation into Kingston-based Stocks and Securities Limited is just starting, so it’s not immediately clear exactly how much money was allegedly stolen or how many people were affected. Clarke said clients were given false statements regarding their balances as part of the alleged fraud.
Government agencies including the National Health Fund, Jamaica’s Agricultural Society and the National Housing Trust also invested millions of dollars in Stocks and Securities Limited, Clarke said.
Jamaica’s Financial Services Commission began investigating after the company alerted authorities this month that a manager had apparently committed fraud.
Since then, the commission’s director has resigned, and Clarke has placed the Bank of Jamaica in charge of regulating the island’s financial system.
“There is no need to panic,” he said. “Despite this most unfortunate development, Jamaica’s financial sector remains strong.”
The company has not returned emailed requests from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Clarke said authorities are working to uncover every detail of the alleged fraud.
“They will unearth exactly how funds were allegedly stolen, who benefitted from such theft and who organized and collaborated in this,” he said.
Clarke said the government also will seek forfeiture of any assets that might have been bought with the alleged stolen funds. He added that the government will soon approve stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes.
“If you rob depositors or you defraud investors … and you put our financial system and our way of life at risk, the Jamaican society wants you put away for a long time,” he said. | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/ap-jamaica-fbi-to-help-probe-massive-fraud-case-targeting-bolt/ | 2023-01-25 03:53:47 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/ap-jamaica-fbi-to-help-probe-massive-fraud-case-targeting-bolt/ |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Robbie Ray struck out 12 without a walk over 6 2/3 innings, rookie All-Star center fielder Julio Rodríguez hit a grand slam and the Seattle Mariners extended their longest winning streak in more than two decades to 12 games with an 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers on Friday night.
The only time the Mariners had a longer winning streak was their team-record 15 in row in 2001, their last playoff season. Atlanta has the only longer streak in the big leagues this season with 14 consecutive wins last month.
Rodríguez hit his first career slam on a full-count pitch with two outs to straightaway center for his 16th homer, and finished with a career-best five RBIs. His run-scoring single in the fourth put the Mariners ahead 3-0.
Eugenio Suárez doubled and scored Seattle’s first run in the fourth. His sacrifice fly an inning later made it 4-0 before Corey Seager and Leody Taveras homered for the Rangers.
Ray (8-6) allowed three runs, on those two Texas homers, while matching his season high for strikeouts. It was his 15th game since the start of 2021 with at least 10 Ks, tied with Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes for the most in that span. Ray had 10 such games last season when the lefty won the AL Cy Young Award while pitching for Toronto.
Taylor Hearn (4-6) matched his career high with seven strikeouts over four innings after Matt Bush pitched a scoreless first as an opener. Hearn allowed four runs, two earned, while giving up five hits and walking two.
Seager’s 22nd homer came a day after being added to the American League All-Star team and the Home Run Derby. He will face Rodríguez in the first round of the derby next week at Dodger Stadium, which was Seager’s home his first seven big league seasons before going to Texas in free agency last winter on a $325 million, 10-year contract.
That two-out solo shot in the sixth was Seager’s seventh homer in the past 10 games, and extended his career-best RBI streak to eight games. His career high for homers is 26 in 2016.
Taveras’ two-run homer was his third of the year, and cut the deficit to 4-3 in the seventh. Ray then got another strikeout before giving up a single on his 106th and final pitch.
After Seattle loaded the bases on a single and two walks by reliever A.J Alexy to start the eighth, José Leclerc struck out back-to-back batters, but was unable to get a third strike past Rodríguez.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners: SS J.P. Crawford was out of lineup for the second game in a row since bruising his right index finger during a doubleheader Wednesday at Washington. Manager Scott Servais said the finger only really limits Crawford throwing, and that he could be available to hit. … INF Carlos Santana was placed on the restricted list to deal with a family emergency. INF Kevin Padlo, who turned 26 Friday, was recalled from Triple-A Tacoma.
Rangers: Manager Chris Woodward said reliever Johnathan Hernandez, who had Tommy John surgery 15 months ago, should be close to returning. The right-hander could pitch at some point before next week’s All-Star break.
UP NEXT
Mariners right-hander Logan Gilbert (10-3, 2.80 ERA) allowed one earned run over 12 2/3 innings in his previous two starts against the Rangers this year. Texas right-hander Spencer Howard (1-1, 8.04) is 1-3 with a 9.95 ERA in his seven career games (six starts) at Globe Life Field.
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PARIS (AP) — The right to abortion in France hardly seems under threat — it’s been inscribed in law for 47 years and enjoys broad support across the political spectrum. But more and more French women are asking: Could what happened in the U.S. happen here one day?
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strip women of the right to abortion has reverberated across Europe’s political landscape, forcing the issue back into public debate in France at a time of political upheaval.
With women increasingly taking leadership positions in French politics, lawmakers in both houses of parliament have proposed four bills to enshrine the right to abortion in the French Constitution in order to defend it from future threats.
The most notable initiative comes from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance. His detractors on the left say Macron’s party is being opportunist, while far-right critics accuse it of using the issue to distract from more pressing matters.
Abortion in France was decriminalized under a 1975 law named for Simone Veil, a prominent legislator, former health minister and key feminist who championed it.
“This right was fought for and was inalienable,” said Yaël Braun-Pivet, the first woman elected speaker of the National Assembly, France’s most powerful house of parliament. In her first address to the chamber last week, Braun-Pivet made the inscription of abortion rights into the French Constitution a top priority.
“It is my conviction as a woman today that we need to be the watchdog so that it stays in place forever,” Braun-Pivet said.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne also expressed concerns over the potential effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on recent efforts to recriminalize abortion in Europe. Borne, only the second woman in French history to have been appointed prime minister, called the reversal of abortion rights in the U.S. a “historical turn in the wrong direction.“
“It’s a stark warning that women’s rights should never be taken for granted,” Borne said last week after meeting health care providers and reproductive health specialists in Paris. She called for inscribing these rights into the French Constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
The European Union’s parliament adopted a resolution Thursday condemning the U.S. decision and urging the addition of a sentence reading “Everyone has a right to safe and legal abortion” to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. Abortion is legal and practiced without much political opposition in most EU nations, but is banned in Malta and sharply restricted in Poland.
In France, a poll this week found a solid majority of respondents support the right to abortion, even including most voters who support Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party and the conservative Republicans. The results were consistent with past surveys.
However the effort to inscribe abortion rights in the French Constitution may not succeed if Macron’s political rivals decide they don’t want to give him an easy win.
Macron’s party lost its majority in the National Assembly in last month’s election, while the leftist Nupes coalition became the biggest opposition force and Le Pen’s National Rally won a record number of seats.
“The right to abortion is not questioned by anyone,” Le Pen said on France-Info radio last week. Still, she blasted efforts to cement abortion rights in the constitution, accusing Macron’s allies of “political diversion.”
“They want to shift the focus from the main concerns for French people, which are purchasing power, security and out-of-control immigration,” Le Pen said.
On the far left, lawmakers noted that Macron’s party dismissed earlier efforts to enshrine abortion in the constitution. Mathilde Panot, leader of the hard-left France Unbowed parliamentary group, is now pushing Borne to propose a government bill on the issue instead of a bill that originated in parliament, which would speed up the process.
Last year, French lawmakers passed a law extending the abortion deadline from 12 to 14 weeks and allowing midwives to perform the procedure.
Feminist activists marched last weekend in Paris to show solidarity with American women and support French efforts to seek constitutional guarantees.
“People think that women will always have this right but considering the rise of conservative political and religious movements, we have our doubts,” said Violaine De Filippis, a Parisian lawyer and feminist activist who joined the march.
Some experts say Macron’s lawmakers are being alarmist.
Anne Levade, a public law professor at La Sorbonne University, said in a blog post that “clearly, there is no risk in France that abortion rights would ever be challenged, like they were in the U.S.”
But Mathilde Philip-Gay, a law professor and specialist in French and American constitutional law, said France’s Constitutional Court could also be influenced by politics if groups craft a long-term strategy to end the right to abortion.
“It is not on the agenda right now, but in 10 or 12 years, French judges could do the same thing that judges of the Supreme Court did,” Philip-Gay said.
An inscription into France’s constitution “could make it harder for abortion opponents to challenge these rights, but it couldn’t prevent them from doing it in the long run.”
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Surk reported from Nice, France.
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Fractal EMS provided full EMS controls for a BESS commissioned as a non-wires alternative
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fractal EMS Inc (Fractal EMS) and You.On have completed the integration of Brazil's largest battery energy storage system (BESS). The BESS will discharge during high load periods and defer the cost of building an additional transmission line (non-wires alternative) by delivering power at the end of a congested line. Fractal EMS is equipment agnostic, You.On chose Kehua inverters paired with CATL liquid-cooled batteries. You.On was the system integrator and was selected through a competitive process. The project is located in Registro, Brazil and is owned by ISA CTEEP. The 30 MW / 60 MWh BESS will improve the resilience of the ISA owned transmission line and will reduce the need to import electricity from peaker plants. Fractal provided the controls, HMI, historian, networking and SCADA.
Daniel Crotzer, CEO of Fractal EMS, said: "The energy storage market in Brazil represents a significant growth opportunity. Brazil is the world's leader in renewable energy, battery storage could propel Brazil to 100% clean energy."
About Fractal EMS
Fractal EMS is a fully vertical controls platform that includes software, controllers, integration and analytics (with optional monitoring, maintenance and bid optimization). Fractal EMS provides full command, control, monitoring and management for storage and solar projects. Fractal EMS was designed by experienced operators to maximize safety and profitability of storage and hybrid systems. Fractal EMS has 4 GWh in operation globally and over 10 GWh of awarded projects. Visit the website for more information: www.FractalEMS.com
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ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP)Fourth-ranked Casper Rudd lost to qualifier Taro Daniel 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (5) in a round-of-16 match at the Mexico Open on Wednesday.
For Daniel, the victory was his first against a top-10 player and propelled him into the quarterfinals. The 30-year-old Daniel, ranked 125 in the ATP, had been 0-8 against players ranked in the top 10.
Before beating Ruud, Daniel’s finest victory was over Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells in 2018, when the Serbian was ranked 13th.
Ruud reached No. 2 in the rankings after losing the last U.S. Open final to Carlos Alcaraz. Against Daniel, the Norwegian committed 46 unforced errors and slipped to 3-4 in 2023.
Daniel will try to extend his run of success against Alex De Minaur, who beat Jacopo Berrettini 6-1, 6-0.
In other matches on Wednesday, Frances Tiafoe beat Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 7-6 (6), and will face Taylor Fritz, who defeated Denis Shapovalov 6-4, 6-4.
Also, McKenzie McDonald ousted Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-0, and will face off against Tommy Paul, who reached the quarterfinals when Michael Mmoh retired in the second set, and Matteo Berrettini ousted Elias Ymer 6-3, 6-3.
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — With his government’s fate in limbo, Italian Premier Mario Draghi was visiting Algeria’s capital Monday to finalize deals boosting Algerian gas supplies to Italy as Europeans brace for a possible cutoff of Russian gas.
In a sign of the importance of the visit, the Italian delegation includes the foreign minister, interior minister, justice minister, ecological transition and family ministers. They were set to hold a day of talks, meet with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and sign joint agreements.
Algeria is displacing Russia this year as the main supplier of gas to Italy. A major agreement was reached during a trip by Draghi to Algeria in April between Algerian energy giant Sonatrach and Italian company ENI to increase gas exports. A pipeline running through Tunisia and under the Mediterranean to Sicily is a key conduit in this strategy.
EU countries have scrambled to diversify energy sources after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Algeria contributes in a determining way to the action of the Italian government to diversify its sources of provisions, having become the top supplier of gas to Italy in these months,” Draghi’s office said in a statement stressing the importance of the visit.
Draghi had planned to come for two days, but cut the trip to only Monday with his government’s fate in the balance after the defection last week of a key coalition member on an energy costs relief bill. The populist 5-Star Movement’s defiance could end Draghi’s 17-month-old pandemic unity government this week, if the premier deems there is no way for his coalition to effectively function.
Amid concerns that payments for Russian gas and oil are funding President Vladimir Putin’s war, Europe is trying to cut its reliance on Russian natural gas imports and prepare for a potential Russian cutoff in reprisal for EU sanctions.
Prior to the war, Russia provided Italy about 29 billion cubic meters of gas per year, compared with about 23 billion from Algeria. Already this year Algeria has delivered 13.9 billion cubic meters to Italy via the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline, a 113% rise over forecasts, according to Algerian energy giant Sonatrach. Algeria on Friday announced a 4 billion cubic-meter increase in planned supplies for the months ahead.
Italy is especially dependent on natural gas to generate electricity, heat and cool homes, and power its industry. Italy has also been reaching out to other energy-producing nations to secure alternate sources, including Azerbaijan, Qatar, Congo, Angola and Mozambique.
But Italy is also trying to diversify the kinds of energy, especially counting more on renewable sources, a priority reflected in Monday’s meetings in Algeria.
Draghi’s office said Algerian-Italian energy cooperation will also focus on renewables, including solar, wind and geothermal energy.
While energy worries have eclipsed the long-resolved tensions in Europe over migrants coming across the Mediterranean to southern European shores, the summit in Algeria will also grapple with migration issues.
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If NASA's collection of more than 5,000 exoplanets were a zoo, you'd find Jupiter doppelgangers at every corner and worlds with waterless rain decking the entrance. You'd stumble upon hellish landscapes behind barren paths and maybe a pop-up exhibit of an ocean planet born of Poseidon's reveries. But if this zoo really imitated life, you'd probably see most scientists shuffling into a room with all the "normal-sounding" planets. Spots that seem kind of like Earth, places most plausible to sustain life. (Well, life as we know it, at least).
NASA's exoplanet division, for instance, calls Trappist-1 the most studied planetary system, aside from our own. It's very Earth-y, containing seven rocky worlds with the potential to hold water.
"It is important to detect as many temperate terrestrial worlds as possible to study the diversity of exoplanet climates, and eventually to be in a position to measure how frequently biology has emerged in the cosmos," Amary Triaud, a professor of exoplanetology at the University of Birmingham, said in a statement.
As such, on Wednesday, Triaud, along with a crew of international astronomers, reported the exciting detection of two more
temperate, terrestrial muses to explore. Some 100 light-years from Earth, this planetary pair orbits a star dubbed Speculoos-2 -- yes, like the biscuit -- named for the telescopes that determined their existence: the Search for Habitable Planets Eclipsing Ultra-cool Stars project. Details of the researchers' results will be published in a forthcoming edition of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
"The goal of Speculoos is to search for potentially habitable terrestrial planets transiting some of the smallest and coolest stars in the solar neighborhood, such as the Trappist-1 planetary system, which we discovered in 2016," Michaël Gillon, of the University of Liege and principal investigator of the Speculoos project, said in a statement. "Such planets are particularly well suited to detailed studies of their atmospheres and to the search for possible chemical traces of life with large observatories, such as the James Webb Space Telescope."
Exoplanet profiles
According to the new study's researchers, one of the two worlds had already been identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, but it wasn't until Speculoos stepped in that scientists gained 100% certainty this planet was, indeed, a planet.
Then, after some analysis, the team concluded the world, named LP 890-9b, is about 30% larger than Earth and completes an orbit around its shared star, every 2.7 days.
"A follow-up with ground-based telescopes is often necessary to confirm the planetary nature of the detected candidates and to refine the measurements of their sizes and orbital properties," Laetitia Delrez, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège and lead author of the article, said in a statement.
The other planet, named LP 890-9c, was a little more mysterious. It was previously unknown. But after some testing and data sifting, the team figured the world is about 40% larger than Earth and has an orbital period of about 8.5 days -- a bit longer than its sibling's.
That orbital period is quite exciting, though, because the researchers say it means the exoplanet is physically located in its star's "habitable zone." The habitable zone simply refers to the region around a star that's not too hot nor too cold to sustain liquid water for billions of years. Sometimes, the range is aptly referred to as the Goldilocks zone. "This gives us a license to observe more and find out whether the planet has an atmosphere, and if so, to study its content and assess its habitability," Triaud said.
Hopefully, if NASA's Webb telescope can decode some of that information, it will unveil an answer to the biggest question of all: Are we totally alone in the cosmos?
But, don't get too hyped up. That's likely a long way from now. You can find me at the exoplanet zoo until then, probably checking out the nonspherical planet exhibit. This one's shaped like a rugby ball. Is that not the weirdest thing? | https://www.cnet.com/science/space/two-super-earths-found-100-light-years-away-and-one-could-support-life/ | 2022-09-08 17:20:53 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/science/space/two-super-earths-found-100-light-years-away-and-one-could-support-life/ |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better and more fun way to give and receive a tip," said an inventor from Marietta, CA, "so I invented this. My invention provides a fun and novel way to facilitate the tipping process."
The patent-pending device would consist of a modified tip jar intended for use in any industry that involves the giving and receiving of tips. It would feature a novel and eye-catching design, and would be durable, re-usable and customizable. By implementing this device, restaurant owners and managers could potentially increase the amount of tip revenue generated, as well as reduce the awkwardness of the tipping process.
The original design was submitted to the San Diego sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SDB-1717, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MISSION, Texas (KVEO) — A woman accused of trying to smuggle two undocumented immigrants into the United States tried to flirt her way out of an arrest, and was captured on a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper’s body camera.
The video of her arrest was posted on Twitter by DPS Lt. Christopher Olivarez.
On Wednesday, April 12, troopers stopped a gold Chevrolet Malibu in Jim Hogg County. After speaking with the driver, Lidia Elizabeth Badillo, a Mexican national living in Edinburg, troopers suspected she was smuggling two women.
Badillo is seen on the trooper’s body cam footage saying that she and her two friends, who she claims she met four months ago at “Club Fuego,” were going to go get drinks at a bar.
When asked if the driver’s licenses presented were legitimate, Badillo told the trooper that she did not know.
Moments later, as the trooper states he is going to run the driver’s licenses through the system, Badillo attempts to distract him with flattery.
“I’m looking at your eyes sir,” Badillo said to the trooper. “I’m looking at your eyes because you’re pretty handsome.”
DPS said Badillo later admitted to troopers that she picked up the women at a stash house in Mission and was attempting to drive them through the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint.
DPS said both passengers in the Chevrolet Malibu were migrants from El Salvador and in the country illegally. The migrants gave fake Texas driver’s licenses to the trooper in hopes of making it through the checkpoint, according to DPS.
Badillo is charged with human smuggling. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/watch-woman-tries-flirting-with-trooper-before-arrest-on-suspicion-of-human-smuggling/ | 2023-04-18 19:52:53 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/watch-woman-tries-flirting-with-trooper-before-arrest-on-suspicion-of-human-smuggling/ |
FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California’s drought that boat docks sat on dry, cracked land and cars drove into the center of what should have been Folsom Lake.
Those scenes are no more after a series of powerful storms dumped record amounts of rain and snow across California, replenishing reservoirs and bringing an end — mostly — to the state’s three-year drought.
Now, 12 of California’s 17 major reservoirs are filled above their historical averages for the start of spring. That includes Folsom Lake, which controls water flows along the American River, as well as Lake Oroville, the state’s second largest reservoir and home to the nation’s tallest dam.
It’s a stunning turnaround of water availability in the nation’s most populous state. Late last year nearly all of California was in drought, including at extreme and exceptional levels. Wells ran dry, farmers fallowed fields and cities restricted watering grass.
The water picture changed dramatically starting in December, when the first of a dozen “ atmospheric rivers ” hit, causing widespread flooding and damaging homes and infrastructure, and dumping as many as 700 inches (17.8 meters) of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
“California went from the three driest years on record to the three wettest weeks on record when we were catapulted into our rainy season in January,” said Karla Nemeth, director of California Department of Water Resources. “So, hydrologically, California is no longer in a drought except for very small portions of the state.”
All the rain and snow, while drought-busting, may bring new challenges. Some reservoirs are so full that water is being released to make room for storm runoff and snowmelt that could cause flooding this spring and summer, a new problem for weary water managers and emergency responders.
The storms have created one of the biggest snowpacks on record in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The snowpack’s water content is 239% of its normal average and nearly triple in the southern Sierra, according to state data. Now as the weather warms up, water managers are preparing for all that snow to melt, unleashing a torrent of water that’s expected to cause flooding in the Sierra foothills and Central Valley.
“We know there will be flooding as a result of the snowmelt,” Nemeth said. “There’s just too much snowmelt to be accommodated in our rivers and channels and keeping things between levees.”
Managers are now releasing water from the Oroville Dam spillway, which was rebuilt after it broke apart during heavy rains in February 2017 and forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people downstream along the Feather River.
The reservoir is 16% above its historic average. That’s compared to 2021, when water levels dropped so low that its hydroelectric dams stopped generating power.
That year the Bidwell Canyon and Lime Saddle marinas had to pull most recreational boats out of Lake Oroville and shut down their boat rental business because water levels were too low and it was too hard to get to the marinas, said Jared Rael, who manages the marinas.
In late March, the water at Lake Oroville rose to 859 feet (262 meters) above sea level, about 230 feet (70 meters) higher than its low point in 2021, according to state data.
“The public is going to benefit with the water being higher. Everything is easier to get to. They can just jump on the lake and have fun,” Rael said. “Right now we have tons of water. We have a high lake with a bunch of snowpack. We’re going to have a great year.”
The abundant precipitation has prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to lift some of the state’s water restrictions and stop asking people to voluntarily reduce their water use by 15%.
Newsom has not declared the drought over because there are still water shortages along the California-Oregon border and parts of Southern California that rely on the struggling Colorado River.
Cities and irrigation districts that provide water to farms will receive a big boost in water supplies from the State Water Project and Central Valley Project, networks of reservoirs and canals that supply water across California. Some farmers are using the stormwater to replenish underground aquifers that had become depleted after years of pumping and drought left wells dry.
State officials are warning residents not to let the current abundance let them revert to wasting water. In the era of climate change, one extremely wet year could be followed by several dry years, returning the state to drought.
“Given weather whiplash, we know the return of dry conditions and the intensity of the dry conditions that are likely to return means we have to be using water more efficiently,” Nemeth said. “We have to be adopting conservation as a way of life.”
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Berger reported from Oroville, California. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/dramatic-photos-show-how-storms-filled-california-reservoirs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-04-06 12:34:12 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/dramatic-photos-show-how-storms-filled-california-reservoirs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala (AP) — A man convicted of killing three people, including a 7-year-old boy, in robberies that netted $600 was sentenced to death on Monday by a judge who called him “a reason for the death penalty to exist.”
A judge handed down the death sentence to Jimmy O’Neal Spencer in accordance with the jury’s decision last month, news outlets reported. Spencer, who had been on parole at the time of the killings, was found guilty of capital murder in the 2018 deaths of Martha Dell Reliford, 65; Marie Kitchens Martin, 74; and Martin’s great-grandson, Colton Ryan Lee, 7.
The women were killed in separate robberies that netted about $600, prosecutors said, and the boy was killed because he was a witness.
“It’s ordered and judged by this court that you be sentenced to death and you deserve death. If there ever was a reason for the death penalty to exist in this state, you’re it,” Marshall County Circuit Judge Tim Riley told Spencer, according to WHNT.
The judge was bound to the jury's death sentence decision because lawmakers in 2017 ended the ability of a judge to override a jury's sentence recommendation in capital murder cases. Spencer and the victims' families spoke to the court before the death sentence was pronounced.
“He belongs in hell,” Nellie Wray, Reliford’s sister, said, according to al.com. “He killed a baby and two innocent women.”
Spencer had been paroled eight months before the slayings. He was released after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a variety of convictions including burglary and assault. Evidence over four days of trial showed Spencer did well initially after being released from prison but returned to crime after losing a job.
Politicians cited Spencer’s case in pushing to make the state’s parole process tougher, and the rate of paroles has dropped sharply since then.
Spencer told the court he would would go back and change what happened if he could.
“I am sorry about what happened. There’s no way I can change it. If I could I would.”
During the trial, investigators played an audio recording of Spencer saying he went to the houses in July 2018 to steal money and committed the killings to avoid leaving witnesses.
He first went to the home of Reliford, whom he had met through a relative, and hit her in the head with a hatchet, authorities said. Worried the woman wasn’t dead, Spencer cut her throat with a kitchen knife before fleeing with about $600.
Days later, after the money ran out, he went to the home of Martin, Reliford’s neighbor, and strangled her with a dog leash before cutting her throat, authorities said. Spencer bashed the child’s head with a hammer to prevent the boy from identifying him and left with $13, authorities said.
While the defense challenge Spencer’s mental competency, a judge ruled he was able to stand trial. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alabama-man-sentenced-to-death-for-2018-triple-17584118.php | 2022-11-14 20:42:14 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alabama-man-sentenced-to-death-for-2018-triple-17584118.php |
SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) – An investigation is underway after a body was found floating in a lake in North Carolina.
The Swain County Sheriff’s Office said they were dispatched Saturday to Fontana Lake at the Wilderness Marina in the Greasy Branch of Swain County.
Upon arrival, deputies located the body in the water.
The coroner’s office has not released their identity at this time.
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An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death.
Authorities believe there is no threat to the community and will release further details when more information becomes available. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/body-found-in-nc-lake/ | 2023-05-15 16:18:00 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/body-found-in-nc-lake/ |
BEIJING (AP) — China’s monthly trade surplus soared to a record $97.9 billion in June as export growth picked up after anti-virus controls that shut down Shanghai were lifted and shippers moved a backlog of cargo.
Exports rose 17.9% over a year ago to $331.2 billion, up from May’s 16.9% growth, customs data showed Wednesday. In a sign of Chinese economic weakness, imports rose just 1% to $233.3 billion, pushing up the trade surplus by 90% from a year ago.
Imports from Russia, mostly oil and gas, rose 56% over a year ago as Beijing took advantage of price cuts offered by the Kremlin after Washington and Europe suspended most of their own purchases to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
China’s trade already was depressed by weak global demand before Shanghai, site of the world’s busiest port, and other cities shut down starting in late March. Cargo handling is back to normal, but economists warn the shock will be felt abroad for months.
“Exports rebounded strongly as shipping bottlenecks eased,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics in a report. “But we think this may be the last hurrah for China’s pandemic export boom before shipments drop back on cooling demand.”
Weak import demand reflects a slump in construction, a major customer for foreign iron ore and other raw materials, after the government launched a crackdown on debt that has chilled the vast real estate industry.
Forecasters have cut estimates for China’s economic growth to as low as 2% this year, well below the ruling Communist Party’s target of 5.5%.
China’s economy grew by a weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the quarter ending in March. That was an improvement over the 4% rate in the final three months of 2021.
Some believe it shrank in the quarter ending in June before beginning a gradual recovery. Surveys show that might be under way as manufacturing and service activity accelerates.
If that lasts, “the outlook for the second half of 2022 is for stronger imports,” Rajiv Biswas of S&P Global Market Intelligence said in a report.
Exports to the United States surged 19.3% over a year earlier to $56 billion despite lingering tariff hikes in a trade war over Beijing’s technology ambitions. Imports of American goods edged up 1.7% to $14.6 billion.
China’s politically volatile trade surplus with the United States widened by 26% from a year earlier to $41.4 billion. It was among irritants that prompted then-President Donald Trump to launch the trade fight and hike import taxes.
Envoys from the two governments have talked by phone and video link but have yet to announce a date to resume face-to-face negotiations.
Exports to the 27-nation European Union rose 17.1% from last June to $50.5 billion, while imports of European goods climbed 9.7% to $25 billion. China’s trade surplus with Europe widened by 65% to $25.4 billion.
Imports from Russia rose 56% over a year ago to $9.7 billion.
China’s growing purchases of Russian energy are irritating Washington and its allies but don’t violate sanctions on Moscow.
Beijing declared ahead of the attack that it had a “no limits” friendship with Moscow. It criticizes the sanctions but has avoided helping Putin for fear of losing access to Western markets and the global banking system.
The Biden administration last month accused five Chinese companies of dealing with the Russian military before the Feb. 24 invasion. They added them to a trade blacklist but officials did not say if they were accused of supplying goods after the attack.
Last year, China bought 20% of Russian crude exports, according to the International Energy Agency.
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General Administration of Customs of China (in Chinese): www.customs.gov.cn | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/china-trade-surplus-surges-to-record-as-exports-accelerate/ | 2022-07-13 14:27:09 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/china-trade-surplus-surges-to-record-as-exports-accelerate/ |
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — DJ Uiagalelei played well as he has all season to power No. 5 Clemson’s offense. The Tigers’ defense finally looked like the stellar group it was projected to be.
The result was Clemson’s most complete game of the season: a 30-20 win over 10th-ranked North Carolina State on Saturday night.
“That was a great thing to see on both sides of the ball,” fifth-year defensive end K.J. Henry said.
Uiagalelei ran for two touchdowns and threw for a third as Clemson beat the Wolfpack (4-1, 0-1) for the ninth time in 10 seasons.
The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) won their ACC-record tying 37th straight at home, their 11th in row overall and a clear path back to league championship game they won annually from 2015 through 2020.
Clemson followed up its 51-45 overtime victory at No. 22 Wake Forest last week by shutting down North Carolina State in the second half to hold division tiebreakers over the two teams many figured would be the most likely to knock the Tigers out of title contention for a second straight year.
Instead, Clemson once more looked like the class of the league.
“I thought we did a great job tonight,” Uiagalelei said. “I thought we did a great job in execution, a great job taking what the defense gave us.”
It was Uiagalelei front and center at the game’s most critical stretch. After North Carolina State passer Devin Leary connected with Cedd Seabrough on the game’s first touchdown for a 10-6 less than two minutes before the half, Uiagalelei led a 75-yard drive he ended by stretching the ball over the goalline to send Clemson into the break ahead instead of behind.
When Clemson stuffed Leary with a pair of sacks to start the third quarter, Uiagalelei cashed in again with a 7-yard pass to tight end Jake Briningstool for a 20-10 lead.
“I thought DJ was in total command of what we were doing,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said.
Clemson’s defense did the rest, holding the potent Wolfpack to just a field goal over the first 29 minutes of the second half in building a 17-point lead. The Tigers also picked off Leary and recovered a fumble when N.C. State went for it on 4th-and-13 down 10 with less than nine minutes left.
“Lost the turnover margin, lost the line of scrimmage, you don’t win many games like that,” Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren said.
Clemson, which hasn’t lost at home since November 2016, matched Florida State’s ACC mark of 37 straight at home set from 1992-2001. The Tigers’ 11 in a row since last season in the longest current streak in the FBS.
“We’re definitely not there yet,” Henry said. “But I can say the mindset for four quarters definitely showed up tonight.”
Clemson also holds tiebreakers in the division over the Demon Deacons and Wolfpack.
Uiagalelei completed 21 of 30 passes for 209 yards and ran for a team-high 73 yards. He sealed the victory with 9-yard scoring run with about three minutes to play for a 31-13 lead.
Leary was 28 of 47 passing for 245 yards and an interception. He also rushed for a 4-yard TD with less than a minute left as the Wolfpack finished with their fewest points this season.
THE TAKEAWAY
North Carolina State: The Wolfpack have plenty of talented players, but got rattled right around halftime, when they allowed Clemson’s two touchdowns. N.C. State now has to cross its fingers that the Tigers lose twice in their final five ACC games.
Clemson: The Tigers have had to prove their offense was legit all season and, while they didn’t pile up the points like in their first four games, they made enough plays to show themselves once again as the ACC’s top contender.
BRESEE OUT
Starting defensive tackle Bryan Bresee missed his second game of the past three after dealing with a non-football medical condition that Clemson said involved blood tests and observation. Bresee and his family are still mourning 15-year-old Ella Bresee, who died of brain cancer last month and has been an inspiration to her brother’s team with the phrase, “Ella Strong.” Bryan Bresee got good news about the tests late this week and his condition won’t have a long-term impact, Clemson said.
HURT ‘PACK
North Carolina State thought it had turned a corner in its one-sided series with Clemson after a 27-21 OT win last year, largely knocking the Tigers from title contention. But Wolfpack still have some work to do. Leary said the team was “heartbroken and a little (ticked)-off” by the defeat.
UP NEXT
North Carolina plays No. 23 Florida State at home next Saturday.
Clemson goes to Boston College next Saturday night.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is parting ways with prime-time host and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, network confirms.
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CALAIS, France (AP) — Belgian rider Wout van Aert won the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France and extended his overall lead after attacking strongly on the day’s final climb on Tuesday.
The Belgian rider kept the leader’s yellow jersey for the Jumbo–Visma team after taking it for the first time on Saturday. He also extended his lead in the green jersey contest for best sprinter.
Van Aert shook up the peloton when he surged ahead up the last of the five climbs — a 900-meter ascent up Cote du Cap Blanc-Nez at a gradient of 7.5 % — about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the end.
He said he felt an early attack was the best way to avoid a mass sprint at the line.
“I didn’t want to take the risk of losing anymore. It was quite obvious that we were trying something with the team,” he said. “I went full gas to see what would happen. I went all out.”
The 27-year-old Van Aert is considered one of the best multi-skilled riders in the world and is a former three-time cyclo-cross world champion and a one-day classics specialist.
The Jumbo-Visma rider flapped his hands like a bird’s wings as he sat up on his bike. He crossed the line eight seconds clear of countryman Jasper Philipsen of the Alpecin–Fenix team, with Jumbo-Visma teammate Christophe Laporte taking third place in a sprint finish.
“This jersey gives wings. It was definitely a tough climb but this stage was very likely going to end up in bunch sprint,” Van Aert said. “It was difficult to finish alone, but thanks to the work of my teammates, I did it. It was up to me to finish it off.”
Van Aert picked up a 10-second time bonus and is now 25 seconds ahead of Yves Lampaert in the overall standings and 32 seconds clear of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar.
Pogacar’s rival Primoz Roglic, the 2020 Tour runner-up and Van Aert’s teammate, stayed seventh overall and remained nine seconds behind Pogacar, with both finishing in the main pack.
After a travel day, riders tackled a sunny 171.5-kilometer (106.3-mile) route from the coastal city of Dunkirk to Calais, where riders could see the English coastline when they arrived into the much-used port location. Van Aert completed it in 4 hours, 1 minute, 36 seconds.
Danish rider Magnus Cort, who thrilled crowds with his breakaway rides during three intense days in Denmark, was again in the early breakaway — this time alongside Anthony Perez.
Perez pulled ahead some 45 kilometers (28 miles) out and Cort was caught by the peloton shortly after. Cort picked up more points in the polka-dot jersey bid but much more difficult climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees are still to come.
Wednesday’s fifth stage is a flat stage for sprinters over 157 kilometers (97 miles) starting at Lille Metropole and going over some of the feared cobblestones that feature on the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic.
The race ends on July 24 in Paris.
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Popular Mount Hope principal takes central office job but parents still want her back
BRISTOL — The beloved principal of Mount Hope High School told families that she is taking an administrative position with the district despite a huge campaign by families and students that she be allowed to continue at the high school.
Deb DiBiase, who was named Rhode Island Principal of the Year last year, was told last month that her contract as high school principal would not be renewed, a decision that shocked her and outraged her supporters, who flocked to school committee meetings and launched an online petition that drew nearly 1,000 signatures.
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The Bristol-Warren Regional School Committee has refused to explain why DiBiase’s contract wasn’t renewed, infuriating parents, who say she has infused the high school with a fresh sense of shared values and community spirit.
In her email to the school community last week, DiBiase said she had accepted a new position as the director of multi-tiered systems of support, which include academic and behavioral supports and interventions, attendance, dropout prevention, social-emotional learning, and school climate and culture.
“Although I will no longer be solely at Mt. Hope High School, this position will allow me to continue working in the entire community with administrators, teachers, students, families, and community partners throughout all the schools in the district,” she wrote.
“Words cannot express how grateful I am for the outpouring of support I have received from so many of you over the last several weeks,” she wrote. “Your confidence and belief in me have encouraged me to keep moving forward. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
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The Journal has reached out to DiBiase and Supt. Ana Riley for comment along with Marjorie J. McBride, chairwoman of the school committee.
Parents are expected to turn out in droves at Monday night's school committee meeting, where the school committee is expected to approve a number of contracts, including one for the new high school principal, although a name wasn't posted.
Here's what parents are saying about Principal DiBiase
During interviews last month, parents called Dr. D, as she is known, "the anchor of the school.”
Anne Bartoszuk, a parent, said, “She cares about every single kid. In my son’s freshman year, she was an island for him.”
Last month, DiBiase said Riley told her the committee might not renew her contract.
“What can I say? I love my job,” she said then. When she started at Mt. Hope eight years ago, she said, it felt like coming home.
This is only the latest in a series of controversies that have roiled the regional school district.
Linda Borg covers education for the Journal. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/education/2022/06/27/bristol-principal-deb-dibiase-mount-hope-high-school-moved-central-office/7745497001/ | 2022-06-27 17:12:39 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/education/2022/06/27/bristol-principal-deb-dibiase-mount-hope-high-school-moved-central-office/7745497001/ |
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Inflation in Turkey showed a sharp drop in December thanks mainly to a favorable base effect — a development that could help President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ‘s standing before an election, but is unlikely to bring relief to households suffering from a cost of living crisis.
Consumer prices for the year rose by 64.27% in December, the Turkish Statistical Institute announced on Tuesday, down from 84.39% reported in November.
It’s the second month in a row that inflation has eased after hitting a 24-year high of 85.5% in October. The fall is attributed to a base effect, with a high index from a year ago statistically bringing the inflation rate down.
While the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have stoked inflation around the world, experts say higher prices in Turkey were fueled by Erdogan’s belief that high borrowing costs lead to higher prices. Traditional economic thinking says that raising rates helps bring inflation under control.
Last year, Turkey’s central bank slashed interest rates by 5 percentage points, down to 9% despite high inflation. In contrast, central banks around the world raised rates to fight soaring inflation.
Erdogan, who faces an election in June, had promised a drop in the inflation rate in the new year and is likely to tout the fall in consumer prices during his electoral campaign.
In steps geared toward the election, the Turkish president has raised the minimum wage by 55% to ease economic hardships and also announced a measure that would allow more than 2 million people to retire early despite warnings of the move’s additional budgetary burden.
According to official data, consumer prices rose 1.2% in December on a monthly basis, compared to 2.9% in November. The sharpest increases in annual prices were in the housing sector, at nearly 80%, followed by food and nonalcoholic drinks prices at 78%.
Meanwhile, some economists have questioned the state institutes’ figures. The Inflation Research Group — made up of independent academics and experts — said Tuesday that Turkey’s true inflation rate for December is 135.55%. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-turkey-inflation-slows-to-64-in-boost-to-erdogan/ | 2023-01-03 13:04:53 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-turkey-inflation-slows-to-64-in-boost-to-erdogan/ |
NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ("FHLBNY") today released its unaudited financial highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2023.
"Through the first half of 2023, the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York has performed as designed, delivering liquidity on demand as needed by our members," said José R. González, president and CEO of the FHLBNY. "Notably, towards the end of the first quarter, this need was significant, and we were there to answer the call. The Federal Home Loan Banks are built to expand and contract based on member need; as seamlessly as we were able to scale up our balance sheet in March 2023, so too were we able to manage the reduced advance demand we experienced in the second quarter, with our members having successfully navigated through the challenging period earlier in the year. Of course, the Federal Home Loan Banks do not exist to serve our members only in times of stress. America's financial institutions incorporate access to Federal Home Loan Bank liquidity as part of their core funding strategies in all economic environments, and we were proud to close the second quarter with more than $108 billion in funding flowing through our members to consumers and into communities across our region. For more than 90 years, the Federal Home Loan Bank System has served as a reliable and uninterrupted source of funding for our broad and diverse membership. Through the first half of 2023, we have proven once again that the Federal Home Loan Bank model is one that works."
Highlights from the second quarter of 2023 include:
- Net income for the quarter was $215.8 million, an increase of $139.5 million, or 182.7%, from net income of $76.3 million for the second quarter of 2022. Net interest income for the quarter was $274.7 million, an increase of $128.0 million, or 87.3%, from $146.7 million in the second quarter of last year. This increase was driven primarily by an increase of 377 basis points in yields on average earning assets and an increase of $47.7 billion in average advances balances from the prior year period. Non-interest income increased by $33.2 million compared with the second quarter of 2022, driven by net unrealized gains on trading securities held for liquidity purposes, derivatives and hedges.
- Return on average equity ("ROE") for the quarter was 9.84% (annualized), compared to ROE of 4.71% for the second quarter of 2022.
- As of June 30, 2023, total assets were $171.4 billion, an increase of $14.0 billion, or 8.9%, from total assets of $157.4 billion at December 31, 2022. As of June 30, 2023, advances were $108.6 billion, a decrease of $6.7 billion, or 5.8%, from $115.3 billion at December 31, 2022. During the second quarter, advances balances decreased by $17.7 billion, or 14.0%, from $126.3 billion at March 31, 2023. Liquidity assets increased $18.0 billion to $40.6 billion at June 30, 2023 from $22.6 billion at December 31, 2022 as we increased our liquidity position to meet potential member advances demand.
- As of June 30, 2023, total capital was $8.5 billion, an increase of $0.2 billion from total capital of $8.3 billion at December 31, 2022. The FHLBNY's retained earnings increased by $0.2 billion to $2.3 billion as of June 30, 2023, of which $1.3 billion were unrestricted retained earnings and $1.0 billion were restricted retained earnings. At June 30, 2023, the FHLBNY continued to meet its regulatory capital requirements.
- The FHLBNY allocated $24.0 million from its second quarter 2023 earnings for its Affordable Housing Program.
The FHLBNY expects to file its Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2023 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on or before August 10, 2023.
Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York is a Congressionally chartered, wholesale Bank. It is part of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, a national wholesale banking network of 11 regional, stockholder-owned banks. As of June 30, 2023, the FHLBNY serves 335 financial institutions in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The mission of the FHLBNY is to provide members with reliable liquidity in support of housing and local community development.
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
This report may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon our current expectations and speak only as of the date hereof. These statements may use forward-looking terms, such as "projected," "expects," "may," or their negatives or other variations on these terms. The Bank cautions that, by their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk or uncertainty and that actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements or could affect the extent to which a particular objective, projection, estimate, or prediction is realized. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the Risk Factors set forth in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC, as well as regulatory and accounting rule adjustments or requirements, changes in interest rates, changes in projected business volumes, changes in prepayment speeds on mortgage assets, the cost of our funding, changes in our membership profile, the withdrawal of one or more large members, competitive pressures, shifts in demand for our products, and general economic conditions. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A second arrest has been made in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where three people died and 14 were injured, police said.
Alexis Lewis, 36, was charged Monday with criminal homicide, reckless endangerment, and possession of a firearm during the commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony, Chattanooga Police said in a statement.
Another man, Garrian King, was arrested last week and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to court records. He was seen on security video with a gun, according to an affidavit.
The shooting happened near a nightclub early June 5 and police have said there were likely multiple shooters.
Fourteen of the 17 victims were hit by gunfire and another three were hit by vehicles while trying to flee the scene, Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy has said. Of the three who died, two were killed by gunfire and one was killed by a vehicle. Sixteen of the victims were adults and one was a juvenile.
It was not immediately clear whether Lewis has an attorney.
The shooting came one week after six juveniles were wounded during an exchange of gunfire in a downtown Chattanooga business district. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/police-arrest-second-suspect-in-tennessee-mass-shooting/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-06-14 15:40:11 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/police-arrest-second-suspect-in-tennessee-mass-shooting/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
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Tempe is dawdling over a decision about a ban on flavored tobacco products in the city.
Tempe is on a months-long campaign to become the first Arizona city to criminalize flavored nicotine products. Yet the effort has stalled again after members of the public and news reports highlighted problems with the ordinance in December.
At a Tempe City Council meeting on December 8, council members urged dozens of people who intended to speak out against the ban to defer with the promise of a public hearing on January 12. Yet that hearing didn’t make it on the agenda for the session last week.
Later in December, city officials noted a potential meeting about the issue on February 23. This week, a city spokesperson declined to say if people who waived their speaking time at the December meeting will have the chance to speak before any City Council vote on the proposal.
“Right now, we are holding off on setting any firm date as we collect more public and stakeholder feedback and explore possible changes to the draft ordinance based on that feedback,” city spokesperson Savannah Harrelson said. “We will announce a firmed-up council date as soon as we have one, but staff is focusing on getting more info and feedback as a priority.”
Since raising the idea of a comprehensive ban in the city, the proposal has come under fire for a host of problems: conflating the vape and tobacco industries, factual errors, its impact on Arab business owners and hookah users, unintended consequences such as fueling a black market, and holes large enough to fit even the biggest hookahs through.
Among problems with the proposed ban are factual inaccuracies. The proposal asserts that “the use of electronic cigarettes by minors and young adults has been rising in recent years.” Yet data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that youth nicotine use plummeted by more than 50 percent in the last three years. Youth smoking is at its lowest rate in recorded history, according to the CDC.
Ramsey Abdelhak, who owns Alibaba Hookah Lounge & Cafe near University Drive and Rural Road, said he and other business owners just want to be “put out of our misery” after more than a year of waiting. Abdelhak gave up his speaking time at the December meeting with the promise of a new hearing on January 12 that never happened, he said.
“I don’t think they heard everybody’s thoughts,” he said. “Many of us haven’t had our voices heard yet.”
For Abdelhak, an immigrant from North Africa, hookah has been the family business for generations. He fears losing his livelihood and an important piece of his culture, he said.
“I am so worried,” he said. “Every day, I come to my business thinking, ‘Are they going to ban it today? Are they going to ban it tomorrow?’”
The city wants to keep flavored nicotine out of the hands of children. According to the Tempe Flavors Coalition, a group that supports the ban, half of the 152 tobacco retailers in Tempe have been cited for violating sales regulations since 2015. Most citations dealt with selling to underage people, according to the group.
But the broad proposed ban could also impact adults trying to quit smoking. A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2020 found that adults who use flavored nicotine products were nearly three times more likely to quit smoking cigarettes than those using unflavored vapes.
Abdelhak, before he spoke with New Times, was scanning the ID cards of customers who walked into the cafe. His business hasn’t been cited for violating sales regulations.
“Hell no, I would never sell to someone under 21,” he said. “At this shop, we are very strict.”
Like other opponents of the ban, Abdelhak supports further restrictions and amping up punishments for retailers who sell tobacco products to children. Above all, he wants action from the city — for better or worse.
“It’s been long enough,” he said. “It’s time to make up a decision.” | https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tempe-delays-action-on-proposed-flavored-nicotine-ban-15380653 | 2023-01-19 20:17:46 | 1 | https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tempe-delays-action-on-proposed-flavored-nicotine-ban-15380653 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers struggling with skyrocketing prices for food, gas, autos and rent got a tantalizing hint of relief last month, when prices didn’t budge at all from June after 25 straight months of increases. With gas prices continuing to fall, inflation is probably slowing further this month.
So has the worst bout of inflation in four decades possibly peaked? Economists say it’s too soon to know for sure. Even if inflation has peaked, it will likely remain high well into next year.
Since inflation ignited early last year, it has temporarily slowed before, only to re-accelerate in later months. When that happened last fall, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was forced to jettison his description of higher prices as being merely “transitory” and to acknowledge that high inflation was proving to be chronic.
Even if some prices should keep declining, others — housing costs, for example — are almost sure to remain painfully high. And that means there’s likely still a long way to go before inflation will get anywhere close to the 2% annual pace that the Fed has targeted and that Americans were long accustomed to.
On Wednesday, the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 8.5% in July from 12 months earlier. That was an unexpectedly sharp slowdown from the 9.1% year-over-year inflation rate in June, which was the largest in four decades. But it was still quite high.
So-called core prices, which exclude the volatile food and energy categories to produce a better picture of underlying inflation, also rose more slowly: They increased 0.3% from June to July, less than the 0.7% rise from May to June. Over the past 12 months, core prices rose 5.9%, the same as in June.
Here are some questions and answers about inflation:
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WHERE IS INFLATION HEADED?
That’s hard to say, because there are multiple signs pointing in both directions.
In addition to the ongoing decline in gas prices, the cost of groceries — a huge driver of inflation for the past year — could soon rise much more slowly. Futures prices for dairy, chicken and eggs have been falling in recent weeks, according to Capital Economics, a forecasting firm. And costs for such farm commodities as wheat, corn and soybeans are also well off their springtime peaks.
Many supply chain snarls are loosening, with fewer ships moored off Southern California ports and shipping costs declining. That should help reduce the cost of furniture, cars and other goods. Prices for appliances are already falling.
In addition, Americans’ expectations for future inflation fell last month, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, likely reflecting the drop in gas prices that is highly visible to most consumers.
Inflation expectations can be self-fulfilling: If people believe inflation will stay high or worsen, they’re likely to take steps — such as demanding higher pay — that can send prices higher in a self-perpetuating cycle. But the New York Fed survey found that Americans’ foresee lower inflation in future years than they did a month ago.
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ARE THERE SIGNS INFLATION COULD STAY HIGH?
Plenty. Inflation is a byproduct of broad economic trends — too much money chasing too few goods, in the classic economic view — not merely whether individual industries are struck by supply shortages or other problems.
One trend that may be keeping Fed officials up at night is that companies are still hiring workers at a voracious pace — and are willing to pay more to find the people they need. In the April-June quarter, employees’ wages and salaries, excluding government workers, jumped 1.6%, matching a two-decade high that was reached last fall.
Businesses typically pass on at least some of their higher labor costs to their customers in the form of higher prices. But if workers become more productive — if they use more technology, say, or a company streamlines operations — a business can pay more and make up for the higher costs through greater efficiency rather than through higher prices for customers.
Unfortunately, for the first half of this year, the opposite has happened: Productivity has tumbled and wages, adjusted for declining efficiency, have been growing at double-digit levels. Economists say that means further pay increases would have to be passed on to consumers through higher prices. And those price increases would fuel continued high inflation.
“This is way above anything we’ve seen since the high inflation of the early 1980s,” said Peter Hooper, head of economic research at Deutsche Bank Securities, referring to labor costs. “The danger here is that you’re entering into a wage-price spiral, that increasing wage costs are pushing up prices further and making it that much more difficult to actually bring down inflation to a more desirable level.”
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WHAT’S CAUSED THE SPIKE IN INFLATION?
Good news — mostly. When the pandemic paralyzed the economy in the spring of 2020 and lockdowns kicked in, businesses closed or cut hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution, employers slashed a breathtaking 22 million jobs.
Everyone braced for more misery. Companies cut investment and postponed restocking. A severe recession ensued.
But instead of sinking into a prolonged downturn, the economy staged an unexpectedly rousing recovery, fueled by vast infusions of government aid and emergency intervention by the Fed, which slashed short-term interest rates.
Suddenly, businesses had to scramble to meet demand. They couldn’t hire fast enough to fill job openings or buy enough supplies to meet customer orders. As business roared back, ports and freight yards couldn’t handle the traffic. Global supply chains seized up.
With demand up and supplies down, costs jumped. And companies found that they could pass along those higher costs in the form of higher prices to consumers, many of whom had managed to pile up savings during the pandemic.
Critics blamed, in part, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with its $1,400 checks to most households, for overheating an economy that was already sizzling on its own. Many others assigned a greater blame to supply shortages. And some argued that the Fed kept rates near zero far too long, lending fuel to runaway spending and inflated prices in stocks, homes and other assets.
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HOW ARE HIGHER PRICES AFFECTING CONSUMERS?
It’s hitting most people pretty hard, even if they have received pay raises. On average, weekly paychecks, adjusted for inflation, fell 3.6% in July compared with a year ago.
For lower-income families, economic research shows that the hit is typically harder. Poorer Americans are more likely to spend a greater proportion of their incomes on items that have increased the most in price in the past 18 months: Food, gas and rent.
There are also subtler differences that can make inflation harder for those earning less. Many people can’t afford the kind of bulk purchases of groceries that can help higher-income households economize.
Paola Becerra, 40, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, has started to miss doctor’s appointments to use the money instead for groceries or gas.
“My groceries for just one week are now never below $100,” she said. “And I can’t buy in bulk because I don’t have a big fridge.”
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Associated Press Writer Adriana Morga contributed to this report from New York. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/explainer-mixed-us-inflation-signs-where-are-prices-going/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-10 21:05:07 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/explainer-mixed-us-inflation-signs-where-are-prices-going/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
- Record annualized recurring revenue of $1.60 billion, up 16 percent on an organic basis
- Full year total revenue of $3.68 billion, flat on a year-over-year basis, and up 7 percent year-over-year on an organic basis
- Record full year GAAP gross margin of 57.3 percent and record non-GAAP gross margin of 60.0 percent
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble Inc. (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 financial results.
Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Revenue of $856.5 million was down 8 percent year-over-year, and was flat year-over-year on an organic basis
- Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) was $1.60 billion, up 14 percent year-over-year, up 16 percent on an organic basis
- GAAP operating income was $96.7 million and non-GAAP operating income was $187.8 million
- GAAP net income was $85.6 million and non-GAAP net income was $149.9 million
- Diluted earnings per share was $0.34 on a GAAP basis, and $0.60 on a non-GAAP basis
- Adjusted EBITDA was $208.4 million, 24.3 percent of revenue
Executive Quote
"Trimble is a purpose-driven company, transforming and digitizing industries that support how we live, what we eat, and how we move," said Rob Painter, Trimble's president and chief executive officer. "Record revenue, annualized recurring revenue, and gross margins in 2022 demonstrate progression of our Connect and Scale strategy. We enter 2023 with resolve to continue executing our strategy while navigating macroeconomic uncertainties."
Fiscal 2022 Financial Highlights
- Revenue of $3,676.3 million was flat year-over-year, and was up 7 percent year-over-year on an organic basis
- GAAP operating income was $510.9 million and non-GAAP operating income was $841.5 million
- GAAP net income was $449.7 million and non-GAAP net income was $660.3 million
- Diluted earnings per share was $1.80 on a GAAP basis, and $2.64 on a non-GAAP basis
- Adjusted EBITDA was $917.3 million, 25.0 percent of revenue
- During fiscal 2022, Trimble repurchased approximately 6.0 million shares for $394.7 million.
Forward Looking Guidance
For the full year 2023, Trimble expects to report revenue between $3,700 million and $3,800 million and GAAP earnings per share of $1.59 to $1.79, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $2.66 to $2.86. GAAP guidance assumes a tax rate of 19.5 percent and non-GAAP guidance assumes a tax rate of 18.0 percent. Both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share assume approximately 249 million shares outstanding. This guidance does not incorporate the expected financial impacts of the pending acquisition of Transporeon. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and other information relating to these non-GAAP measures are included in the supplemental reconciliation schedule attached.
Investor Conference Call / Webcast Details
Trimble will hold a conference call on February 8, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. ET to review its fourth quarter and full year 2022 results. An accompanying slide presentation will be made available on the "Investors" section of the Trimble website, www.trimble.com, under the subheading "Events & Presentations." The call will be broadcast live on the web at http://investor.trimble.com. Investors without internet access may dial into the call at (888) 660-6347 (U.S.) or (929) 201-6594 (international). The passcode is 1043223. The replay will also be available on the web at the address above.
About Trimble
Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble is transforming industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements made in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include expectations about our future financial and operational results. These forward-looking statements are subject to change, and actual results may materially differ due to certain risks and uncertainties. The Company's results may be adversely affected if the Company is unable to market, manufacture and ship new products, obtain new customers, effectively integrate new acquisitions or consummate divestitures in a timely manner. The Company's results would also be negatively impacted due to weakness and deterioration in the US and global macroeconomic outlook, including slowing growth, inflationary pressures and increases in interest rates, which may affect demand for our products and services and increase our costs, adversely affecting our revenues and profitability, adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain shortages and disruptions, the pace at which our dealers work through their inventory, adverse geopolitical developments and the potential impact of volatility and conflict in the political and economic environment, including the Russian conflict with Ukraine and its direct and indirect impact on our business, foreign exchange fluctuations, the pace we transition our business model towards a subscription model, and the imposition of barriers to international trade. Any failure to achieve predicted results could negatively impact the Company's revenue, cash flow from operations, and other financial results. The Company's financial results will also depend on a number of other factors and risks detailed from time to time in reports filed with the SEC, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its annual report on Form 10-K. Undue reliance should not be placed on any forward-looking statement contained herein. These statements reflect the Company's position as of the date of this release. The Company expressly disclaims any undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any statements to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change of events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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FOOTNOTES TO GAAP TO NON-GAAP RECONCILIATION
(Unaudited)
This press release includes GAAP financial measures as well as Non-GAAP financial measures, which are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors and others in understanding our "core operating performance", which excludes (i) the effect of non-cash items and certain variable charges not expected to recur; and (ii) transactions that are not meaningful in comparison to our past operating performance or not reflective of ongoing financial results. Lastly, we believe that our core operating performance offers a supplemental measure for period-to-period comparisons and can be used to evaluate our historical and prospective financial performance, as well as our performance relative to competitors.
The non-GAAP definitions, and explanations to the adjustments to comparable GAAP measures are included below:
Non-GAAP Definitions
Non-GAAP revenue
We define Non-GAAP revenue as GAAP revenue, excluding the effects of purchase accounting adjustments for acquisitions occurring prior to 2021. We believe this measure helps investors understand the performance of our business including acquisitions, as non-GAAP revenue excludes the effects of certain acquired deferred revenue that was written down to fair value in purchase accounting. Management believes that excluding fair value purchase accounting adjustments more closely correlates with the ordinary and ongoing course of the acquired company's operations and facilitates analysis of revenue growth and trends.
Non-GAAP gross margin
We define Non-GAAP gross margin as GAAP gross margin, excluding the effects of purchase accounting adjustments, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs. We believe our investors benefit by understanding our non-GAAP gross margin as a way of understanding how product mix, pricing decisions, and manufacturing costs influence our business.
Non-GAAP operating expenses
We define Non-GAAP operating expenses as GAAP operating expenses, excluding the effects of purchase accounting adjustments, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs. We believe this measure is important to investors evaluating our non-GAAP spending in relation to revenue.
Non-GAAP operating income
We define Non-GAAP operating income as GAAP operating income, excluding the effects of purchase accounting adjustments, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, deferred compensation, and restructuring, and other costs. We believe our investors benefit by understanding our non-GAAP operating income trends, which are driven by revenue, gross margin, and spending.
Non-GAAP non-operating expense, net
We define Non-GAAP non-operating expenses, net as GAAP non-operating expenses, net, excluding acquisition/divestiture items, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs. We believe this measure helps investors evaluate our non-operating expense trends.
Non-GAAP income tax provision
We define Non-GAAP income tax provision as GAAP income tax provision, excluding charges and benefits such as net deferred tax impacts resulting from the non-U.S. intercompany transfer of intellectual property, tax law changes, and significant one-time reserve releases upon the statute of limitations expirations. We believe this measure helps investors because it provides for consistent treatment of excluded items in our non-GAAP presentation and a difference in the GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates.
Non-GAAP net income
We define Non-GAAP net income as GAAP net income, excluding the effects of purchase accounting adjustments, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, restructuring and other costs, and non-GAAP tax adjustments. This measure provides a supplemental view of net income trends, which are driven by non-GAAP income before taxes and our non-GAAP tax rate.
Non-GAAP diluted net income per share
We define Non-GAAP diluted net income per share as GAAP diluted net income per share, excluding the effects of purchase accounting adjustments, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, restructuring and other costs, and non-GAAP tax adjustments. We believe our investors benefit by understanding our non-GAAP operating performance as reflected in a per share calculation as a way of measuring non-GAAP operating performance by ownership in the company.
Adjusted EBITDA
We define Adjusted EBITDA as non-GAAP operating income plus depreciation expense, cloud computing amortization, and income from equity method investments, net. Other companies may define Adjusted EBITDA differently. Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to purport to be an alternative to net income or operating income as a measure of operating performance or cash flow from operating activities as a measure of liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA is a performance measure that we believe offers a useful view of the overall operations of our business because it facilitates operating performance comparisons by removing potential differences caused by variations unrelated to operating performance, such as capital structures (interest expense), income taxes, depreciation, and amortization of purchased intangibles and cloud computing costs.
Explanations of Non-GAAP adjustments
(A) Purchase accounting adjustments. Purchase accounting adjustments consist of the following:
(i) Acquired deferred revenue adjustment. We adopted ASU 2021-08 in the fourth quarter of 2021 for all acquisitions occurring in 2021 and going forward, which requires the application of ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, to recognize and measure contract assets and contract liabilities on the acquisition date. For acquisitions occurring prior to 2021, non-GAAP revenue excludes the adjustment to our revenue as a result of measuring the contract liability at fair value on the acquisition date.
(ii) Amortization of acquired capitalized commissions. Purchase accounting generally requires entities to eliminate capitalized sales commissions balances as of the acquisition date. Non-GAAP operating expenses exclude the adjustments that eliminate the capitalized sales commissions. For acquisitions occurring prior to 2021, non-GAAP operating expenses exclude the adjustment of acquired capitalized commissions amortization.
(iii) Amortization of purchased intangible assets. Non-GAAP gross margin and operating expenses exclude the amortization of purchased intangible assets, which primarily represents technology and/or customer relationships already developed.
(B) Acquisition / divestiture items. Non-GAAP gross margin and operating expenses exclude acquisition costs consisting of external and incremental costs resulting directly from merger and acquisition and strategic investment activities such as legal, due diligence, integration, and other closing costs, including the acceleration of acquisition stock options and adjustments to the fair value of earn-out liabilities. Non-GAAP non-operating expense, net, excludes unusual one-time acquisition/divestiture charges, including foreign currency exchange rate gains/losses related to an acquisition, divestiture gains/losses, and strategic investment impairments. These are one-time costs that vary significantly in amount and timing and are not indicative of our core operating performance.
(C) Stock-based compensation / deferred compensation. Non-GAAP gross margin and operating expenses exclude stock-based compensation and income or expense associated with movement in our non-qualified deferred compensation plan liabilities. Changes in non-qualified deferred compensation plan assets, included in non-operating expense, net, offset the income or expense in the plan liabilities.
(D) Restructuring and other costs. Non- GAAP gross margin and operating expenses exclude restructuring and other costs comprised of termination benefits related to reductions in employee headcount and closure or exit of facilities, executive severance agreements, costs incurred in exiting business activities in Russia and Belarus, other business exit costs, Bridge Facility fees, as well as a $20 million commitment to donate to the Trimble Foundation to be paid over four quarters.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A gift that a Polish police commander received during a recent visit to Ukraine exploded at police headquarters in Warsaw, causing the commander and a civilian employee to suffer minor injuries, the Polish Interior Ministry said Thursday.
The explosion occurred on Wednesday morning at 7:50 a.m., the ministry said. It did not specify what object the Polish commander received as a present during the working visit to Ukraine.
The commander met with leaders of the Ukrainian Police and Emergency Situations Service on Sunday and Monday, the ministry said.
Following the explosion, "the Polish side has asked the Ukrainian side to provide relevant explanations,” it said.
It added that the police commander has been in a hospital since Wednesday for observation, while the civilian employee did not require hospitalization.
Poland is an ally of Ukraine and has been offering it different forms of support since Russia's full-scale invasion on Feb. 24. Poland has sent military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine and accepted large numbers of refugees. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Gift-from-Ukraine-explodes-at-Polish-police-17655906.php | 2022-12-15 15:31:52 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Gift-from-Ukraine-explodes-at-Polish-police-17655906.php |
Huge second half comeback lifts Booker High past Lemon Bay High
Tornadoes rally from 22-6 halftime deficit to win 33-22 and remain in the playoff hunt in Class 2 Suburban-District 15
SARASOTA — In a game with playoff implications, the Booker High football team scored 27 points in the second half to erase a halftime deficit and defeat visiting Lemon Bay High, 33-22, Thursday night at Tornado Alley.
In celebrating Senior Night, the Tornadoes (5-3, 2-1 in 2 Suburban-District 15) can be part of a three-way tie for the district title if Lemon Bay (2-5; 1-1 in 2S-15) defeats DeSoto County (5-2; 2-0 in 2S-15) on Monday at home.
A three-way tie that cannot be broken based on the regular-season results would be settled by the FHSAA Power Rankings, including results from Week 11. Booker closes the regular season Nov. 4 at Lakewood Ranch High.
“I didn’t yell and scream,” Booker coach Scottie Littles said, crediting the 18 seniors for keeping the team together at halftime. “I told them this is why we came for: for the opportunity to play in these games to get into the playoffs. At the end of the day, you’ve got to want it more than they do. In the second half we just wanted it more.
Trailing 22-6 at halftime, the Tornadoes inched closer on an 11-yard touchdown pass from Will Carter Jr. to Josiah Booker. Carter Jr. ran in the 2-point conversion from 13 yards out after two penalties back up the Tornadoes.
The turning point came early in the fourth quarter. Booker went 80 yards in nine plays, capped by a touchdown pass from Carter Jr. to Omarion Patterson from 35 yards out. The 2-point conversion pass failed, keeping the Tornadoes behind 22-20.
Booker was not behind for long. Josh Burrows recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff and the Tornadoes needed three plays to take the lead. A 39-yard pass from Carter Jr. to Booker set up the first of two fourth-quarter touchdown runs by Ahmad “Tooda” Hunter from 12 yards out.
After Lemon Bay turned the ball over on downs, the Tornadoes milked the clock for 5 minutes, 30 seconds, going 57 yards in 12 plays with Hunter’s 1-yard run sealing the victory with 1:27 left.
“The defensive staff did a good job coming up with some adjustments, getting the kids realigned,” Booker coach Scottie Littles said. “Just like every other team in the district, they try to manipulate you with the Wing-T offense with the jet sweeps and stuff. Shout out to them for having a good game plan.”
Using its ball control offense, Lemon Bay scored on its first three possessions: a 5-yard run by quarterback Trey Rutan and runs of 6 and 3 by Joe Scott.
“It was a pretty good first half, I thought,” Lemon Bay coach Don Southwell said. “To come out here and throw punches from the beginning. We were behind the sticks a bunch, which is trouble for us, but we executed those things. We had some takeaways. It was a great first half.”
Booker answered the Manta Rays’ first touchdown with a scoring pass from Carter Jr. to Patterson spanning 5 yards late in the first quarter. The PAT kick failed, leaving the Tornadoes down 7-6.
Lemon Bay takeaways
• Shorthanded entering the game without its starting right guard, the Manta Rays lost Scott (11 carries, 96 yards) and backup Nate Dunagan to injuries in the second half. Taron Sanders picked up some of the slack with 57 yards on six carries. “It forced a lot of guys to play both ways,” Southwell said. “It was tough.”
• After picking up nine first downs in the first half, Lemon Bay had five in the second half, one in the fourth quarter and that came via penalty. “I’m proud of my football team,” Southwell said. “They fought under some tough conditions. We had a chance to win the football game, but they’ve got some good players over there.”
• Booker won the toss and elected to receive, but the Manta Rays turned the tides when Carson Moore recovered a short kick on the opening kickoff leading to Lemon Bay’s first touchdown. Noah Lee picked off a pass on the second play in the third quarter, after the Manta Rays gave the ball to the Tornadoes on the first play on an interception.
Booker takeaways
• The Tornadoes got the ball into the hands of their playmakers in the second half. Hunter had 79 of his 132 rushing yards and both touchdowns after halftime. Carter Jr. was 10-for-15 for 157 yards with eight completions going to Booker for 140 yards. Patterson caught the other two passes for 17 yards. Booker also ran twice for 31 yards. Carter Jr. had four carries for 22 yards. Zekilynn Singleton helped on the final drive with three carries for 15 yards. “If it was time to make a play in the air, we know who we’ve got to go to,” Littles said. “With Omarion Patterson coming along, it’s hard to key on JoJo (Booker).”
• Credit to the offensive line of Jaden Williams, Noe Phommathep, Brandon Bass, Zendearean Fletcher and John Muldrow for providing the blocking for the backs who rushed for 200 yards and did not permit Carter Jr. to get sacked. “Inserting Bass and Muldrow has been a help,” Littles said. “And we were able to run the ball.”
• Littles received his second Gatorade bath (the first was the initial win against Hardee County) but it cost 15-yard for unsportsmanlike conduct since it occurred outside the players’ box. The Tornadoes were penalized 15 times for 140 yards.
Sunshine State Athletic Association playoffs
Saint Stephen’s 42, Santa Fe Catholic 27
BRADENTON – The second-seeded Falcons will play the winner of Friday’s game between top-seed Out-of-Door Academy and fourth-seed St. Edwards of Vero Beach in the 5A semifinals on Nov. 4.
Gateway Charter 33, Bradenton Christian 14
BRADENTON – The Panthers’ season came to an end at 2-7 after losing in the first round of the 4A semifinals.
Dennis Maffezzoli is the deputy sports editor for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and chief reporter for Sarasota Herald-Tribune and HTpreps covering Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties. Support local journalism by subscribing.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — To renew car registration in North Carolina, there needs to be an annual safety check and emissions test.
But a new bill in the General Assembly looks to change those requirements.
“We go once a year,” said Steve Silino.
CBS 17 crews met up with Silino as he made his annual visit to Frantz Automotive Center in Cary Tuesday.
Silino was making sure his car got a green light, and the go-ahead, so he could renew his vehicle registration.
“We check the lighting wipers, turn signals, brakes, all that kind of stuff…tires, suspension,” explained the shop owner, Don Frantz.
Silino’s car also went through another test: the emissions test, to make sure there wasn’t too much pollution from his car, emitting into the air.
Senate Bill 341 would drop emissions tests, except for people living in Mecklenburg County, which is the county that contains Charlotte.
Officials said the air quality in Mecklenburg is just too close to the EPA’s safety standard for the Ozone, to remove that requirement.
The proposed law would also change the frequency of annual safety inspections.
For cars less than three years old, no safety check would be needed.
For other cars, the inspection would occur every other year.
“I want to know that the cars on the road are safe. I want to know that when I’m driving, when my family’s driving, my wife and kids are driving, that all the other cars on the road around them are safe,” Frantz said.
Frantz told CBS 17, there are many people who only make car repairs they need to, because they’re forced to, for new registration.
He believes the bill is a safety hazard.
“I want to know that the brakes work. I want to know that the brake lights work. I want to know that the headlights work, the windshield wipers come on when it’s raining,” said Frantz.” “Is it okay to wait two years before they have to replace it or if the windshield wipers quit working? Is it okay to wait two years before they fix that? If the brakes are bad and grinding?”
“There are a lot of people that are not educated about the maintenance of a vehicle,” added Silino.
As for getting rid of the emissions testing, CBS 17 crews found a lot less push back.
“I would be okay if they modified the emissions requirement somehow, some way, especially with newer cars, you know, a car that’s, you know, one, two, three, four years old, probably not going to have any kind of emissions problem,” Frantz explained. “Today’s cars are much cleaner than the cars we had 10 years ago.”
Even if the bill passes in the state house, lawmakers and officials would need to get EPA approval to drop the emissions testing.
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PROVIDENCE — The Providence City Council has voted to hire a law firm to try and reverse property tax breaks given to a wealthy developer for luxury apartment buildings in downtown Providence.
The tax breaks were part of a court settlement between Arnold “Buff” Chace and the former administration of Mayor Jorge Elorza, giving Chace’s real estate firm, Cornish Associates, millions of dollars in tax breaks on 10 downtown properties including the Peerless Lofts, Alice Building and others.
The reduced taxes are in place as long as a quarter of the apartments in the 10 buildings are limited to tenants who make 100 percent of the area median income or less. (For Providence, that salary is currently $74,200 for a single-person household.)
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City Council members have expressed alarm about the deal, including the fact that the tax breaks apply to the entire building, including commercial tenants like restaurants and luxury apartments being rented at market rate.
The council also recently raised taxes on homeowners in order to balance the city budget.
“I believe millionaire developers such as Mr. Chace have for far too long exploited taxpayers,” Councilor Justin Roias said before voting on the legal action. He said he hoped the action sent a message to other developers that “the council is going to stand in their way.”
After a nearly four-hour closed-door meeting Tuesday night, the council voted 13 to 1 to hire the law firm Wistow, Sheehan and Loveley to take the legal action. (Councilwoman Jo-Ann Ryan was the no vote.)
Calling the deal “completely unjustified,” Wistow told reporters he will now file a motion to intervene in the original court case. He will seek to vacate the consent order that gave Chace the tax breaks, and he ultimately aims to get the entire case thrown out.
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He argues City Solicitor Jeff Dana never had authority to settle the lawsuit in the first place, binding the city to 30 years of lower taxes from the 10 buildings.
“Lawyers just don’t have authority to settle any case they please,” Wistow said. He said the council would seek to to get back taxes for the years the deal has been in place. (It’s “in the millions,” he said, but an exact figure was not available.)
Wistow added that the deal with Chace has “serious consequences” for the city. “If this thing stands, other developers will say, ‘I want the same thing,’” Wistow said.
Council President Rachel Miller has said the council should take a deep look at the deal, which she said she was not aware of at the time it was agreed upon back in 2021.
“There is one body that has the authority to bind the city in a financial agreement,” Miller said last week. “That is the City Council. This never came before us in any way.”
Councilman John Goncalves, who represents downtown, said he was “offended” on behalf of his constituents.
“It’s outrageous that a $42 million tax break was doled out when working families have been made to pay more,” Goncalves said.
But Mayor Brett Smiley has urged the council not to take legal action. He wrote in a letter last week that while he also disagrees with the deal struck by the Elorza administration, he is in the process of renegotiating the deal with Chace. (The city solicitor who negotiated the original settlement, Jeff Dana, is still Smiley’s city solicitor.)
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Mayor Brett Smiley would prefer the council not take legal action. He sent this letter last week saying he also disagrees with the tax breaks — which were negotiated as part of a court settlement under the previous administration — and is seeking to renegotiate the deal pic.twitter.com/UjUYrxQ4xZ
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“There is an enormous risk of undermining the work of the City to attempt to modify the settlement by any other method,” Smiley wrote in the letter. “Two years have passed since the agreement was entered by the courts, and new leadership is not grounds to bring legal action.”
Those negotiations are now off, according to a new spokesperson for Chace.
In a statement on behalf of Chace and Cornish Associates Tuesday night, spokesperson Patti Doyle said the parties had been negotiating “in good faith” on a new agreement with the Smiley administration since January.
“We regret that the actions of the City Council this evening preclude us from continuing those discussions as it now appears that there exists the possibility of litigation,” Doyle said. “We further regret that it also now appears as though the Council is seeking to reverse a legal judgement designed to bolster additional, much-needed housing which clearly will have a chilling effect on all such initiatives contemplated throughout Providence — slowing the development of housing across the city.”
It was not immediately clear how many affordable apartments total are in the properties owned by Chace.
Under a state law meant for “low-income housing,” Chace is required to pay 8 percent of the buildings’ annual rental income as his tax bill, rather than the usual commercial tax rate for the city of Providence. The deal lasts 30 years.
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He sued the city seeking to get the “8-Law” treatment, as it’s sometimes called, and the agreement was filed with the court in 2021. His properties already had 20 years of tax stabilization agreements, a different type of tax break meant to encourage development, but some of those deals were expiring.
So how much is he saving in taxes on the 10 buildings? It’s not entirely clear. A report by internal auditor Gina Costa last year pegged the number as at least $18 million, but a subsequent letter engaging attorney Wistow to review the deal said it could actually be $42.5 million over the 30 years.
City officials have not released the tax assessor’s own projections on Chace’s tax savings despite repeated requests.
Dana and other lawyers from the city solicitor’s office also briefed the council members on Tuesday night in executive session, but they only convinced one member — Ryan — to vote against the deal.
Smiley said the council should considering passing legislation addressing the underlying 8-Law issue, limiting the criteria for properties to get the tax breaks under state law. He said his administration provided the council with a proposal that “claws back 30 percent of the tax subsidy provided” to Chace.
“The City Council has still not shared external counsel’s proposal with the Administration, which does not allow us to assess its likelihood of success,” Smiley said.
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ELLSWORTH — Downeast Project HOPE has been selected as a beneficiary of Shaw’s Supermarkets GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS Reusable Bag Program for the month of June. Shaw’s GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS Reusable Bag Program, which launched in March 2019, is a reusable bag program that facilitates community support with the goal of making a meaningful difference in the communities where shoppers live and work.
Downeast Project HOPE was selected as the June beneficiary of the program by store leadership at the Shaw’s located at 175 High Street, Ellsworth. Downeast Project HOPE will receive a $1 donation every time the $3 GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS Reusable Bag is purchased at this location throughout the month of June, unless otherwise directed by the customer through the Giving Tag attached to the bag.
Launched in September 2016 by Ellsworth Police Department in partnership with Healthy Acadia, Downeast Project HOPE (Heroin-Opiate Prevention Effort) is a police-led initiative and community-wide effort that works to connect area residents seeking treatment for heroin and opioid addiction with recovery resources and treatment locally and/or out-of-state.
For individuals seeking resources and support to aid their recovery, local treatment options are limited and resources are scarce. Ellsworth-based Downeast Project HOPE works to help connect those seeking recovery with the resources and the treatment they need.
“Project HOPE is an essential service and in some circumstances, it is the only way people can access treatment,” said Tracy Crossman, Healthy Acadia’s Housing and Community Resource navigator. “The search for treatment is incredibly difficult, and for someone who is struggling with substance use disorder, it can seem unmanageable. Project HOPE Angels take on that challenge, and can be the difference between [an individual’s] continued substance use or accessing treatment. We are so grateful to be chosen as a beneficiary of Shaw’s Give Back Where It Counts!”
For more information about Downeast Project HOPE visit https://healthyacadia.org/spr-deph. To make an online donation in support of Downeast Project HOPE visit https://healthyacadia.org/donate?program=project-hope. For more ways to give, contact Healthy Acadia’s Development Director Shoshona Smith at development@healthyacadia.org or 207-667-7171 Ext. 210.
For more information about Shaw’s GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS Reusable Bag Program, visit shaws.2givelocal.com.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meijer pharmacists say our new lifestyles – hybrid work routines, classrooms, and after-school activities – combined with lower immunity thresholds means keeping up to date with vaccinations is important as families begin to plan for the holiday season.
Pharmacists at the Midwestern retailer suggest scheduling the updated COVID-19 booster, which targets the most commonly circulating BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains and is now available at Meijer pharmacies. Other vaccines, including flu shots, can be scheduled at the same time and are an important way for families to protect themselves and those around them throughout the fall and winter months.
"The pace of our household routines began to increase with the return to school and will extend through the holidays into the new year," said Jackie Morse, Meijer Vice President of Pharmacy. "Combining your flu and other vaccinations when receiving your updated COVID-19 booster not only saves time but can have real benefit as we look forward to spending time with friends or attending concerts, sporting events, and family gatherings."
All Meijer pharmacies across the Midwest are now offering the updated booster vaccine, as well as vaccines for shingles, pneumonia, whooping cough, meningitis, tetanus and others.
To schedule a vaccine appointment, text "COVID" or "flu" to 75049, visit Clinic.Meijer.com, or call your local Meijer pharmacy.
According to CDC guidance, all Meijer vaccinators wear masks and follow specific protocols to disinfect all surfaces and areas where shots are administered between each patient. Customers are required to wear masks during the vaccination's administration. Most Meijer pharmacies have private consultation rooms where patients can receive their immunizations.
Depending on age, health status and state regulations, Meijer offers a variety of vaccine options. For more information on the different kinds of vaccines and the importance of the flu shot, please refer to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccinations at Meijer may also count as prescription credits in the mPerks Pharmacy Rewards Program, which allows customers to earn savings on future purchases in the store.
About Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 262 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the "one-stop shopping" concept and has evolved through the years to include expanded fresh produce and meat departments, as well as pharmacies, comprehensive apparel departments, pet departments, garden centers, toys and electronics. For additional information on Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 696th home run, tying Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the career list, and the St. Louis Cardinals rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-5 Saturday night.
Pujols trails only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the all-time homer chart. The 42-year-old Pujols has 22 games left in his 22nd and final season in the big leagues.
“I don’t care who I tied,” Pujols said. “At the end of the day, it’s about tying (the game) for the team and giving them an opportunity to pick up a win. … It’s pretty special. I think I’m aware of where I am in the history of the game. But at the end of the day, 21 years ago when I make the ballclub, that wasn’t something that I was chasing.
“Twenty-two years later, I don’t think I’m going to change my approach,” he continued. “I think I’m going to let things happen and try to enjoy it. If it happens, it happens. If not, at the end of the day, I think everybody, including myself, are pretty blessed with the career that I have.”
With St. Louis down 3-1 in the sixth, Pujols connected on a first-pitch slider from JT Brubaker. He sent a two-run shot 418 feet into the left-field bleachers at PNC Park, launched with an exit velocity of 111.2 mph.
“I know it’s a historic home run, but it still sucks,” Brubaker said. “I should have walked off that mound giving our team the lead and I didn’t do it. That bothers me.”
Pujols also doubled and singled for the NL Central leaders. His RBI single in the eighth made it 4-all.
“Albert, three knocks. Big homer there,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “ … Fouled two pitches off in the top of the zone. He knew he had to make an adjustment to get on top of it. Was able to let it get a little deep, got on top of it for a single. Drove in that run. That’s a pro at bat.”
Nolan Arenado broke the tie with a three-run double with two outs in the ninth off Wil Crowe (5-9).
“You have a guy that is grinding right now,” Marmol said. “He’s played a lot of games in a row. Head stays in it, gives us a good at bat there and drives in three runs. That was nice to see.”
Giovanny Gallegos (3-5) pitched a perfect eighth inning for the Cardinals. Ryan Helsley allowed a two-out RBI single from Bryan Reynolds in the ninth before getting Rodolfo Castro to ground out for his 15th save.
Paul Goldschmidt was 0 for 4, dropping his average to .325 to fall behind Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman (.330) in the NL batting race. His two-out walk loaded the bases in the ninth.
Oneil Cruz put the Pirates ahead 4-3 in the seventh with his 14th homer, driven over the Clemente Wall in right. The 23-year-old rookie singled in the first, extending his hit streak to a career-best seven games. He is 14 for 30 (.467) during the streak.
“He’s a good player,” Pujols said of Cruz. “Obviously, he has a great future ahead of him.”
Pittsburgh took a 3-0 lead on a pair of homers off Jack Flaherty in the first two innings, a solo shot from Castro in the first and a two-run drive from Jack Suwinski in the second. Flaherty went five innings, giving up three runs on six hits.
Brendan Donovan cut the deficit to two with a home run in the Cardinals fifth.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: LHP Packy Naughton was recalled from Triple-A Memphis. … RHP James Naile was optioned to Memphis.
Pirates: RHP David Bednar threw a live batting practice on Saturday. The All-Star closer has been on the injured list with lower back tightness since Aug. 3.
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Cardinals LHP José Quintana (5-6, 3.41 ERA) will return to the mound in Pittsburgh on Sunday, going opposite RHP Mitch Keller (5-10, 4.22). Quintana and RHP Chris Stratton were sent to St. Louis on Aug. 1 in a trade that moved RHP Johan Oviedo and INF Malcolm Nuñez to the Pirates. Keller allowed five hits in six shutout innings against the Mets his last time out on Tuesday.
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TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — After Typhoon Haiyan’s towering waves flattened scores of Philippines villages, Jeremy Garing spent days helping with recovery from the historic storm that left more than 7,300 people dead or missing and inflicted billions of dollars in damage.
“I keep helping other people, but then at the end, you find out that all of your family is gone,” Garing said, recalling those terrible times in 2013. “It’s so painful.”
He and his wife Hyancinth Charm Garing lost seven relatives to the typhoon, including parents, siblings and their 1-year-old daughter. Holding up a cell phone photo of her smiling daughter Hywin, the 28-year-old mother still finds it hard to believe she is gone.
Part of the wave of 5 million people displaced by the typhoon, the couple now lives in an inland community about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the coast in a community that was created by the government in response to the death and devastation of Haiyan.
Days after the powerful typhoon, officials knew rebuilding wasn’t an option because the historic storm wouldn’t be the last. They announced a $3.79 billion reconstruction plan that included housing for tens of thousands of storm survivors. They also announced plans to construct a protective dike to shield 33,000 residents from future storms and a 40-meter (130-foot) buffer zone from the shoreline where development is banned.
“It’s safe from flooding. It’s safe from active fault line and it’s far from the coastal area,” said Tedence Jopson, the city housing and community development officer for Tacloban, referring to the new community named Tacloban North.
“Remember because we are talking about climate change, our priority is really moving people away from the danger zone,” he said, adding that the island nation is seeing more frequent typhoons.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series exploring the lives of people around the world who have been forced to move because of rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other things caused or exacerbated by climate change.
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Rebuilding after the typhoon was a colossal undertaking for an impoverished country that’s seen more than its share of disasters. When the typhoon hit, the country was still recovering from a recent earthquake that struck a nearby island and from a Muslim rebel attack that razed houses.
For months, families lived in tents or homemade shacks as the government struggled to build housing. But over time, authorities built dwellings for up to 16,000 families in several locations, including the Tacloban North community. Nestled in what was once a forested valley, the tidy homes with brick-colored roofs are proving popular with storm survivors.
But many people still pine for their old lives and mourn the loss of loved ones.
Some keep photos of deceased relatives on their phones and are forced to pass a mass grave with rows upon rows of white crosses. A sign at the entrance reads in memory of “the men, women and children who perished and those still missing and … the countless people whose lives were changed forever.”
“Every Friday, I visit the cemetery to light a candle for my wife and don’t forget to pray to the Lord to help us with our daily chores,” said Reinfredo Celis, whose wife and brother died in the typhoon that hit on his birthday. “What is painful is I’m now alone.”
Being forced by climate change to move, within borders or beyond, is a growing reality expected to accelerate in the decades ahead. Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other climate catastrophes, according to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published earlier this year by the United Nations.
Though an individual storm cannot be blamed on climate change, studies have found that typhoons are becoming stronger and wetter. In its State of the Climate in Asia 2021 report on Monday, the World Meteorological Organization concluded economic losses from drought, floods and landslides have risen sharply in Asia. Weather- and water-related disasters, the U.N. agency found, affected 50 million people and caused $35.6 billion in damages.
“Weather, climate and water extremes are becoming more frequent and intense in many parts of the world as a result of climate change,” Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO, said in a statement. “We have more water vapor in the atmosphere, which leads to extreme rainfall and deadly flooding. The warming of the ocean fuels more powerful tropical storms, and rising sea levels increase the impacts.”
In coastal villages hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Super Typhoon Yolanda, the damage is still on full display — damaged homes with roofs and walls caved in, foundations of others with only toilets remaining. The government has moved to demolish many of the remaining homes, though a few residents are refusing to relocate.
A cargo ship that washed ashore has become a popular tourist attraction. But Emelita Abillille, a fish vendor in the village of Anibong with her husband and five children, said she cries whenever she sees the ship.
While she would love to move from the disaster zone, she fears she couldn’t make a living in North Tacloban, which has few shops and jobs.
“We are willing to move there,” said Abillille, whose family has been offered a home in the new community. “Our problem is where will we get money for our food? We have to buy water there, food and our transportation. Where will I get the money?”
Jeremy Garing, too, has frustrations with the new community. The 35-year-old hair dresser must make the expensive daily commute to his job in Tacloban, although he bought a motorcycle to make it easier.
The consolation is that he knows his family — including a newborn daughter — will be there when he gets home.
“I really like it here. We will not move anymore. It’s better here,” said Garing, looking over at his sleeping daughter Chiara Mae. “It’s safe.”
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NEW YORK, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On behalf of Burton-Katzman and DRA Advisors, Newmark has arranged approximately $150 million of financing proceeds to facilitate the acquisition of 24 strategically located industrial properties across the Midwest (the "Portfolio"). The Newmark team was led by Co-Heads of Debt & Structured Finance, Jordan Roeschlaub and Dustin Stolly, along with Senior Managing Director Chris Kramer. Protective Life, Old National Bank and One America originated the loans.
The Portfolio spans 2.2 million square feet, is currently 99% leased with a five-year weighted average lease term (WALT) and features a diversified national tenant roster. The combination of single and multi-tenant commercial properties has a proven track record of long-term stability; the Portfolio has retained occupancy levels above 99% for the past decade, with current in-place tenants averaging over ten years in their space. With over 40 tenants on the rent roll, no user occupies more than 15% of the Portfolio's square footage, effectively mitigating rollover risk.
"Investment in industrial real estate by institutional owners remains a top-choice asset class for investors, especially those in secondary and tertiary markets that still offer growth potential," said Stolly.
The Detroit industrial market continues to experience strong market fundamentals; vacancy rates continue to sit near all-time lows, generating double-digit rent growth year-over-year post-pandemic. The Portfolio features assets across dense industrial hubs with the highest barriers to entry, including Auburn Hills, Sterling Heights, Dearborn and Livonia.
The Burton-Katzman team has successfully operated the Portfolio historically and developed extensive relationships with the existing tenancy, allowing them to create strategic leasing transactions as the preeminent operator of light industrial across the Detroit Metro. DRA Advisors has an extensive track record, including over 84 million square feet of industrial acquisitions since its inception.
"The Portfolio represents a highly compelling opportunity to acquire a dynamic, well-occupied, and cash-flowing light industrial portfolio at an attractive basis with a best-in-class joint venture partner," explained Brett Gottlieb, Managing Director for DRA Advisors.
Burton-Katzman is a fully integrated real estate company with extensive experience and expertise across property acquisition, planning and development, project and construction management, strategic planning and asset management. With over 110 years of history in the real estate industry, with an emphasis on the industrial market, Burton-Katzman has become well versed in effectively building and managing properties across various asset classes.
DRA Advisors LLC is a New York-based registered investment advisor with approximately 95 employees specializing in real estate investment management services for institutional and private investors, including pension funds, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, foundations, and insurance companies. Since DRA was founded in 1986, the firm has opened additional offices in Miami and San Francisco while acquiring over $37.8 billion of real estate. The acquisitions include 84 million square feet of industrial, 65 million square feet of office, 87 million square feet of retail and 84,000 multifamily units. As of September 30, 2022, DRA has $12.3 billion in gross assets under management. http://draadvisors.com
Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries ("Newmark"), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark's comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform's global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. Newmark generated revenues of approximately $2.7 billion for the year ending December 31, 2022. Newmark's company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operate from approximately 180 offices with nearly 6,700 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
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VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through the debris Friday in a central Ukrainian city looking for people still missing after a Russian missile strike a day earlier killed at least 23 people and wounded over 100 others.
Russian forces, meanwhile, pounded other sites in a relentless push to wrest territory from Ukraine and try to soften the unbending morale of its leaders, civilians and troops as the war nears the five-month mark.
Thursday’s cruise missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia launched by a Russian submarine were the latest incidents to take civilian lives and fan international outrage since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on Feb. 24.
Even as the fighting raged, Russia noted signs of progress in talks on a possible deal to allow Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain via the Black Sea that could help feed a world facing higher food prices.
Alluding to talks in Istanbul this week among Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Nations, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said a final document had been prepared and Russian proposals to help ease grain shipments through Ukrainian ports have been “largely supported” by other participants.
He said work on a document called “Black Sea initiative” was set to be completed “in the nearest time.” The Russian proposal would allow shipments of food “while excluding the use of those logistical chains for the deliveries of weapons and military equipment” to Ukraine. He also said the plan seeks to "prevent any provocations.”
About 22 million tons of grain have been stuck in Ukraine because of the war.
That was most extensive Russian comment yet on the grain talks, which mostly involved military officials. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Russia and Ukraine had taken “a critical step” to ensuring exports of the desperately needed grain to help ease a global food crisis — but said more technical work toward finalizing a deal was needed.
Russia's military campaign now has been focusing on Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, but Russian forces regularly fire upon targets in many other parts of the country too.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry said Friday that Russian forces had conducted more than 17,000 strikes on civilian targets during the war, killing thousands of fighters and civilians and driving millions from their homes. The invasion has also rippled through the world economy by hiking prices and crimping exports of key Ukrainian and Russian products like grain, fuel and fertilizer.
More than 73 people — including four children — remained hospitalized and 18 people were missing after Thursday's strike, said Oleksandr Kutovyi, spokesman for the emergency service in the Vinnytsia region. Search teams were poring over two sites on Friday — an office building with a medical center, and a concert hall near an outdoor recreation area where mothers with children often stroll.
Vinnytsia Gov. Serhiy Borzov said only 10 people among the dead had been identified so far.
“Russia deliberately hit civilians and all those responsible for the crime must be brought to account,” he said, denouncing the “barbaric behavior by Russia that tramples on international humanitarian law.”
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said three missiles were used.
“There is no answer to the question why yesterday, and why in Vinnytsia,” Tymoshenko said. “We expect every second and minute that this could happen in any corner of Ukraine.”
After initial silence after the strikes on Vinnytsia, Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday that its forces had struck an officers’ club — which the concert hall was known for back in Soviet times.
Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, said the Kalibr cruise missiles landed as “that military facility hosted a meeting between Ukrainian air force command and representatives of foreign weapons suppliers.” He said attendees were discussing prospective supplies of warplanes and weapons as well as work to repair Ukrainian aircraft.
“Participants of the meeting were eliminated in the strike,” Konashenkov said.
His claim couldn’t be independently verified. Ukrainian authorities have insisted the site had nothing to do with the military.
Overall, Ukraine’s presidential office said Friday morning that 26 civilians were killed and another 190 were wounded by Russian shelling over the past 24 hours. That included three other victims in the Donetsk region, which along with neighboring Luhansk — nearly totally controlled by Russian forces — makes up the broader Donbas region.
“The situation in the Donetsk region is exacerbating every day, and civilians must leave because the Russian army is using scorched-earth tactics,” Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said. It appeared that the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk were next in line for Russian forces, but it wasn't at all clear how soon such a push could begin.
Elsewhere, authorities in Mykolayiv said there were at least 10 explosions in the southern city overnight, accusing Russia of hitting universities. Vitaliy Kim, the head of Mykolaiv’s military administration, posted a video of smoke rising over the strikes.
Separately, the Russian news agency Tass, citing Russian-backed separatists, reported Friday that two civilians were killed and six others were injured after Ukrainian forces allegedly shelled a bus terminal in the city of Donetsk a day earlier.
Also Friday, Daria Morozova, the human rights ombudsperson for the Moscow-backed separatist leadership in Donetsk, said a British “mercenary” died in captivity on Sunday. She said the man, whom she identified as Paul Urey, had died of chronic illnesses and stress.
“From our side, he was given the necessary medical assistance despite the grave crimes he committed,” she said.
Britain’s Foreign Office said it was “urgently seeking clarification from the Russian government on media reports that a British aid worker has died in Ukraine.”
But the Presidium Network, an aid charity that works in Ukraine and has been assisting Urey's family, said the British government had confirmed Urey's death to the family.
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This capital increase, most of which will go to the financial institution Braza Bank, has been already approved by Brazilian central bank.
SÃO PAULO, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Braza – a group of companies operating since 2007 with financial solutions for international payments and transfers, including Braza Bank (a foreign exchange Bank in Brazil), Braza UK (an E-Money institution based in England), Braza PT (Branch in Portugal), Braza Tech (technology) and CloudBreak (multicurrency account), advances in the organization of its capital structure to offer more and more services to citizens and global companies.
The Company has just reinforced its solidity and financial capillarity, announcing a capital increase of around R$50 million, days after taking the lead in the ranking of the Central Bank of Brazil, consolidating as the largest exclusive foreign exchange bank in the country, in American dollar volume. The contribution, made by the majority shareholders of the Company, aims to expand the portfolio of products and services worldwide, reinforcing its market coverage.
Braza serves people and companies, through various exchange demands, such as exports, imports, financial remittances carried out in batches (mass payments), and multicurrency accounts, in addition to transfers and international purchases. Only in the last four years, it carried out around 10 million transactions, with a volume that exceeds R$ 300 billion. In addition, more than 6 million people and 7 thousand companies have transacted with the Institution.
According to Heber Cardoso, CEO of the group, one of the differentials for reaching this level is the team's formation, organizational culture, and purpose. "We bring together professionals who have accumulated, on average, more than 20 years in the market and have extensive expertise to deliver customized solutions with quality and benefits above what the market offers", he comments. Another highlight is the value of the fees applied, which are the most competitive – and affordable – precisely because it has an institution in England, which eliminates intermediaries and makes BRL markets in Brazil.
Since 2022, the group has quadrupled the number of employees and made investments in technology, cyber security, data infrastructure, governance, risk management, brand change, and expansion of financial products.
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LAS VEGAS — The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game will stay out West when Phoenix hosts the annual event next summer, commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced Saturday.
It will be the third time the Phoenix Mercury host the game, joining the second-ever All-Star Game in 2000 as well as the 2014 event. The news came during Engelbert’s address ahead of the 2023 game being held at Michelob Ultra Arena, which was announced in January. It is the earliest the league has announced an All-Star venue in her tenure, which began in the middle of 2019.
“We did kind of a three-year look at kind of hosting All-Star because we kind of want to get ahead of it a lot more than at least [while] I’ve been here we did,” Engelbert told Yahoo Sports via phone on Thursday. “Three-time WNBA champion, they had hosted the Commissioner’s Cup when we did it at a neutral site that first year. Great people to work with. They know how to do it, they have great attendance. They’re one of the original teams from way back, so yeah, we’re really excited to be working with them.”
Engelbert said the league has been working with Phoenix since last fall and began finalizing it at the beginning of the calendar year. Mat Ishbia, the new team owner of the Mercury and NBA’s Suns, announced in late May the franchise had placed a formal bid on the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game.
“Phoenix is one of the great basketball cities in the world and the perfect place to bring together the players and fans to celebrate the sport,” Ishbia said in a statement in May. “The Phoenix Suns and Mercury want to continue finding new and important ways to partner with the city to bring real impact to our community.”
The Phoenix City Council later unanimously approved the resolution to host the game and an NBA All-Star Game in either 2025 or 2026. The franchise, city, mayor’s office, governor’s office, Phoenix Convention Center and other local groups wanted to present a united front on their bids.
"We have become known as 'Championship Valley' because we have the know-how and ability to execute the best major marquee sporting and mega events," Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego told KJZZ.
An announcement a year in advance gives fans more time to plan trips and vacations, particularly during a time of increased travel around the country. It also gives more of a heads up to sponsors and businesses, which have been investing more in women's sports.
The site of this year's event, Michelob Ultra Arena, which has a 12,000-seat capacity, sold out months ago and players have had problems finding tickets last minute. Footprint Center seats more than 17,000.
The 2022 All-Star Game in Chicago featured the first WNBA Live event, a multi-day fan festival with player meet-and-greets, interactive booths, live panels, fan skills challenges and viewing parties. The festival expanded from its 15,000-square-foot area outside of Wintrust Arena in Chicago to the 75,000-square-foot experience at Mandalay Bay in Vegas that was similar to the event held at the women’s Final Four every year.
“Our corporate partners kind of want to know where we are [and] know how they’ll start thinking about activating at All-Star,” Engelbert said. “And then we’ll get into this kind of habit of doing next year’s [announcement] at the All-Star Game.”
Sponsors in Vegas included American Express, Mielle, STARRY and Kia. Fans could get their nails done at the nail bar, hit up the Playa Society pop-up for merch, take photos with the Nike flower wall and hang out at the Sports Bra pop-up, an all-woman sports bar based in Portland, Oregon. There was also a center court again for activations and kids had plenty of games to compete. Engelbert said the league plans to “continue to blow that out” for the event in Phoenix and is happy to see the brands and agencies hosting functions.
“It’s feeling a little more like NBA All-Star weekend, although it’s a lot warmer,” Engelbert said.
Though the league has set Phoenix as host, it is still unsure about timing. The 2024 season is during an Olympic year, which historically meant the league didn’t hold the annual midseason event as top players were competing for Team USA. When the Tokyo Olympics were held in the summer of 2021, the league held an All-Star Game as Team USA, which were all automatic All-Stars, against the WNBA All-Stars who were not on the national team. It was also the league’s 25th anniversary year.
“I always reflected on Sue Bird and how long she played in the league,” Engelbert said. “She could have been a 20-time All-Star, but there were times we didn’t have it, so we definitely wanted that next year and not skip it like we have in the past. But we also put [in] 40 games now. We have a challenging footprint and all that.”
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs announced plans to run for U.S. Senate next year and challenge first-term Republican Mitt Romney in what could emerge as a competitive primary battle in the deeply conservative state.
Romney, 76, has not yet announced whether he plans to seek reelection, but his transformation from 2012 presidential candidate to a recurring critic of President Donald Trump has led many to believe Trump could be vulnerable in next year’s Republican primary.
“The only thing I’ve seen him fight for are the Establishment, ‘wokeness,’ open borders, impeaching President Trump and putting us even deeper into debt,” Staggs says in an announcement video that highlights Romney’s votes to impeach Trump.
Staggs, 49, is one of several candidates expected to run to the right of Romney and, in the announcement, brands the incumbent as a “Massachusetts millionaire” who moved to Utah.
After a career in securities trading, Staggs was elected mayor of Riverton in 2017. He has focused throughout his tenure on typical municipal issues including policing, budgets, managing growth and spurring development.
“That’s what I want to take to D.C.,” he said in an interview. “As a mayor, I’m on the front lines of pushing back on government overreach.”
In the months leading up to his announcement, he’s grown increasingly vocal on other issues, spearheading resolutions against “ ESG ” investing principles and speaking out against library books he called “pornographic” on Jordan School District shelves last month.
Staggs’ announcement makes him the first Republican to officially enter the race, though Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson set up an exploratory committee in April, allowing him to raise funds toward a candidacy. Former U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz told The Associated Press in February that he was thinking about running. A representative for state Attorney General Sean Reyes has also said many were pressuring him to run as well.
Though Romney has vocal critics in Utah Republican Party activist circles, his challengers will likely face an uphill battle owing to his widespread popularity as one of the most prominent members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as a person who helped save the 2002 Winter Olympics after a bribery scandal.
Romney defeated a rightwing challenger by more than 40 percentage points in Utah’s June 2018 Republican Senate primary before winning the general election by a margin nearly as large. He raised and spent more than $4 million in campaign contributions that year.
Staggs said he was confident he could overcome Romney’s national name recognition, given his early conversations with Utah voters, particularly Republican primary voters.
“The question is whether or not Utah has a Senator in Romney who’s supporting them. So many have told me they don’t feel he represents them. They feel abandoned,” he said.
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BETHESDA, Md., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Family Office Research is pleased to announce the hiring of Sean McElhaney as Family Wealth Advisor, focused on working with current FOR wealth management clients and introducing new families to the Family Office model.
McElhaney, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), brings 15 years of industry experience with him in building comprehensive, individualized wealth, legacy, and estate plans while at Fidelity Investments and Merrill Lynch. He was known for his collaborative and client-centric approach in matching investor needs with organizational expertise to create tailored plans and wealth management strategies to meet the unique goals and objectives of each client.
We are excited to have Sean join our team and look forward to the energy and impact he will bring to our clients' investment plans. Fidelity's Institutional Wealth Services Group has been a great partner for Family Office Research, and we are excited to have Sean join our team. Clients will appreciate his experience and market knowledge, and will be a huge asset to our clients and the firm as we continue to develop innovative strategies to help clients strengthen and secure their financial wellbeing.
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Greece expanding border wall, calls for EU help on migration
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
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FERES, Greece (AP) — An official in Greece says the country has prevented around 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers. A Greek minister was speaking Saturday to ambassadors from other European Union countries plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom Saturday as he guided them to a still expanding border wall in the country’s northeast. Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos told the envoys that “countries of first reception” such as Greece can’t bear by themselves the numbers of migrants. Greece is expanding the existing 27-kilometer (17-mile) steel border wall to eventually cover most of the 192-kilometer (12-mile) land border with Turkey. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/01/21/greece-expanding-border-wall-calls-for-eu-help-on-migration/ | 2023-01-21 18:15:47 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/01/21/greece-expanding-border-wall-calls-for-eu-help-on-migration/ |
- GCT Bayonne and GCT New York terminals: leading assets with an ambitious development plan to support U.S. supply chains for all operators.
- New York port area: a strategic gateway on the U.S. East Coast strengthening the CMA CGM global footprint in the U.S.
- Acquisition completes CMA CGM's portfolio of 7 terminals in the U.S. and strengthens the Group's position as global port terminal operator.
MARSEILLE, France, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, has signed a binding agreement to acquire GCT Bayonne and New York terminals, currently held by Global Container Terminals Inc (GCT).
Two major East Coast terminals in one of the world's largest economic regions
The Port of New York and New Jersey is a key entry point serving the Northeastern U.S. supply chain areas and represents CMA CGM's largest gateway on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts. The Bayonne and New York terminals, with an existing combined capacity of 2 million TEUs per year, have a potential for further expansion, up to almost double capacity.
While Bayonne terminal has the highest level of automation, the fastest truck turn time in the harbor, the closest ocean access, and an ability to service vessels of up to 18,000 TEUs, New York Terminal benefits from a highly productive labor force in the Port of New York and New Jersey and connects the dense New York hinterland with direct trucking and intermodal access.
A strategic investment supporting CMA CGM's ambitions for the U.S. market
After closing, the CMA CGM Group will operate the two strategic facilities as multi-user terminals under the leadership of the current management team and will continue focusing on improving its service quality to satisfy U.S. customers' expectations. Investment in the infrastructure will be undertaken to meet both CMA CGM and local communities' environment protection targets.
CMA CGM intends to further develop its shipping line calls in the New York area for which the terminals will provide future capacity. The Group will significantly accelerate investments in the development of the Bayonne and New York terminals, with an objective to increase the combined capacity by up to 80 % in the coming years. This major acquisition will make it possible for CMA CGM Group to support U.S. East Coast supply chain growth and improve efficiency to and from the world.
Strengthening the Group's position as a global port terminal operator
This major investment is consistent with CMA CGM Group's strategy of developing its terminal business while supporting the growth and efficiency of its shipping lines and guaranteeing service quality for its clients.
With this acquisition, CMA CGM is bolstering its position as a leading global port terminal operator. Currently, the Group has investments in 52 port terminals in 28 countries, through CMA Terminals and its Terminal Link joint venture.
CMA CGM Group, a leading supply chain operator in the U.S. providing end-to-end services further expands its commitment to the U.S. economy
The CMA CGM Group has a long commitment to the U.S. economy and a strong presence through its port terminals portfolio and operational relationships with U.S. customers, including the U.S. government.
Over the past 12 months, the CMA CGM Group has significantly increased its presence in the U.S.:
- acquisition of Fenix Marine Services terminal in the Port of Los Angeles in January 2022,
- acquisition of Ingram Micro's Commerce & Lifecycle Services business specializing in eCommerce contract logistics and omni-channel fulfillment, in April 2022.
GCT Terminals will complement CMA CGM's capabilities, including:
- 24 shipping lines,
- A fleet of 9 U.S. flagged vessels operated under the American President Lines (APL) Lines brand, a trusted partner to the US government for ocean transportation and in country logistics for over a century,
- A portfolio of 5 terminal assets consisting of FMS (100%) and PMS (10%) in the Los Angeles area, Dutch Harbor (100%) in Alaska, Bayport (26%) in Houston and SFCT (26%) in Miami,
- CEVA Logistics, a world leader in third party logistics.
CMA CGM began its operations in the country in the late 80's and opened its U.S. headquarters in Norfolk in 2005. The Group currently employs more than 15,000 people in the U.S.
The closing of this transaction remains subject to the approval of the competent regulatory authorities.
Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, said: "The acquisition of GCT Bayonne and GCT New York terminals is a strategic investment for the CMA CGM Group. It reinforces the services we provide to U.S. customers and their supply chain efficiency. It further consolidates our positions in the United States, a major market among the fastest-growing worldwide, and will help us continue our development."
Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, serves more than 420 ports around the world across 5 continents, with a fleet of 584 vessels. The Group transported 22 million TEU containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2021. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a global logistics player which transported 474,000 tons of air cargo and more than 21 million tons of inland freight, and its air cargo division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is constantly innovating to provide customers a comprehensive and increasingly efficient offering, thanks to new shipping, inland, air freight and logistics solutions.
Firmly committed to the energy transition in shipping and a pioneer in its use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a Net Zero-Carbon target for 2050.
Each year, via the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group supports thousands of children as part of its efforts to promote education for all and equal opportunities. The CMA CGM Foundation also intervenes in humanitarian crises requiring an emergency response by calling on the Group's shipping and logistics expertise to deliver humanitarian supplies around the world.
Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs 150,000 people worldwide, around 4,000 in Marseille where its head office is located.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education.
Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, saying they care about climate change deeply. Some teachers and parents say teaching climate change could help the next generation better confront it, but others want schools to focus on reading, writing and math after test scores plummeted post-pandemic.
Schools across the U.S. have found themselves at the center of a politically charged battle over curriculum and how matters such as gender, sex education and race should be taught — or whether they should be taught at all.
One of the bill’s chief sponsors, Democratic Sen. James Manning, said even elementary students have told him climate change is important to them.
“We’re talking about third and fourth graders having a vision to understand how this world is changing rapidly,” he said at a Thursday state Capitol hearing in Salem.
Connecticut has the only U.S. state law requiring climate change instruction, and it’s possibly the first time such a bill has been introduced in Oregon, according to legislative researchers. Lawmakers in California and New York are considering similar bills.
Manning’s bill requires every Oregon school district to develop climate change curriculum within three years, addressing ecological, societal, cultural, political and mental health aspects of climate change.
It’s unclear how Oregon would enforce the law. Manning told The Associated Press that he is going to scrap an unpopular proposal for financial penalties against districts that don’t comply, but didn’t say whether another plan was coming.
For now, the bill doesn’t say how many hours of instruction are needed for the state’s education department to approve a district’s curriculum.
Most states have learning standards — largely set by state education boards — that include climate change, although their extent varies by state. Twenty states and Washington, D.C., have specifically adopted what are known as the Next Generation Science Standards, which call for middle schoolers to learn about climate science and high schoolers to receive lessons on how human activity affects the climate.
New Jersey’s education standards are believed to be the most wide-ranging. For the first time this school year, climate change is not just part of science instruction, but all subjects, like art, English and even PE.
Several teens testified at the state Capitol in favor of the bill. No students have submitted opposition testimony.
“In 100 years are we going to have to teach our children what trees are because there aren’t any left? It’s a thought that horrifies me,” said high school sophomore Gabriel Burke. “My generation needs to learn about climate change from a young age for our survival.”
Some teachers testified in support of the bill. But others say they’re already struggling to address pandemic learning losses. Adding climate change on top of reading, writing, math, science and social studies is “a heavy lift that will end up coming down on the backs of teachers,” said Kyler Pace, a grade school teacher in Sherwood, Oregon.
Recent surveys conducted by Columbia University’s Teachers College and the Yale Program on Climate Communication suggest that a majority of Americans think that climate change and global warming should be taught in school. But climate change is still seen by some as a politically divisive issue, and Pace said that mandating its instruction could inject more tension into schools.
Nicole De Graff, a self-described parents’ rights advocate and former GOP legislative candidate, testified that her children, ages 9, 15, and 16, are “done being overwhelmed with things that are fear-based, like COVID.”
In Pennington, New Jersey, wellness teacher Suzanne Horsley aims for age-appropriate lessons on what can be a daunting topic. In her K-2 physical education classes at Toll Gate Grammar School, she plays a game with pretend trees, using bean bags representing carbon to show students that fewer trees leads to higher levels of atmospheric carbon.
In Horsley’s lesson plan for teens, students learn how climate change disproportionately impacts low-income communities. They look at air quality maps in areas with higher industrial activity or car traffic.
There is a push for students to feel as though they have some ability to influence their world, Horsley said. “Whether it’s conserving water or finding ways to plant more trees or take care of the trees that already exist … they want to feel empowered.”
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As Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to serve as Israel's prime minister again, he is calling a meeting between former U.S. President Donald Trump and rapper "Ye," formerly known as Kanye West, "wrong and misplaced."
"Ye" allegedly brought far-right activist Nick Fuentes along with him on the meeting, with the circumstances around how the three came to meet still unclear.
Netanyahu called the meeting with Kanye a "mistake," and said, "I condemned Kanye West's antisemitic statements. President Trump's decision to dine with this person I think is wrong and misplaced. He shouldn't do that. I think he made a mistake. I hope it's not repeated."
Netanyahu added that Trump "has been a tremendous supporter of Israel … and the Jewish people."
He said he is "unabashedly appreciative" of Trump's policy actions regarding Israel while he was in the White House.
Donald Trump approved a move to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem while he was president.
As Axios reported, Trump also recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, while withdrawing the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won election in Israel to return as prime minister this year. He was the country's longest serving prime minister since Israel achieved independence. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/israels-netanyahu-calls-trumps-meeting-with-kanye-a-mistake | 2022-12-01 03:05:58 | 0 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/israels-netanyahu-calls-trumps-meeting-with-kanye-a-mistake |
NEW YORK (AP) — The fate of U.S. trucking company Yellow Corp. isn’t looking good.
After years of financial struggles, Yellow is reportedly preparing for bankruptcy and seeing customers leave in large numbers — heightening risk for future liquidation. While no official decision has been announced by the company, the prospect of bankruptcy has renewed attention around Yellow’s ongoing negotiations with unionized workers, a $700 million pandemic-era loan from the government and other bills the trucker has racked up over time.
Yellow, formerly known as YRC Worldwide Inc., is one of the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers. The Nashville, Tennessee-based company has some 30,000 employees across the country.
Here’s what you need to know.
Not yet. But industry experts suspect that a bankruptcy filing could come any day now.
People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the company could seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week — with some noting that a significant amount of customers have already started to leave the carrier.
Meanwhile, according to FreightWaves, employees were told to expect the filing Monday. Yellow laid off an unknown number of employees Friday, the outlet later reported, citing a memo that stated the company was “shutting down its regular operations.”
According to Satish Jindel, president of transportation and logistics firm SJ Consulting, Yellow handled an average of 49,000 shipments per day in 2022. As of this week, he estimates that number is down to between 10,000 and 15,000 daily shipments.
With customers leaving — as well reports of Yellow stopping freight pickups earlier this week — bankruptcy would “be the end of Yellow,” Jindel told The Associated Press, noting increased risk for liquidation.
“The likelihood of them surviving and remaining solvent diminishes really by the day,” added Bruce Chan, a research director at investment banking firm Stifel.
Yellow media contacts did not immediately respond to the Associated Press’ requests for comment on Friday. In a Wednesday statement to The Journal, the company said it was continuing “to prepare for a range of contingencies.” On Thursday, Yellow said it was in talks with multiple parties about selling its third-party logistics organization.
Even if Yellow was able to sell its logistics firm, it would “not generate a sufficient amount of cash to keep them operational on any sort of permanent basis,” Chan said. “Without a major equity injection, it would be very difficult for them to survive.”
As of late March, Yellow had an outstanding debt of about $1.5 billion. Of that, $729.2 million was owed to the federal government.
In 2020, under the Trump administration, the Treasury Department granted the company a $700 million pandemic-era loan on national security grounds. Last month, a congressional probe concluded that the Treasury and Defense Departments “made missteps” in this decision — and noted that Yellow’s “precarious financial position at the time of the loan, and continued struggles, expose taxpayers to a significant risk of loss.”
The government loan is due in September 2024. As of March, Yellow had made $54.8 million in interest payments and repaid just $230 million of the principal owed, according to government documents.
Yellow’s current finances and prospect of bankruptcy “is probably two decades in the making,” Chan said, pointing to poor management and strategic decisions dating back to the early 2000s. “At this point, after each party has bailed them out so many times, there is a limited appetite to do that anymore.”
In May, Yellow reported a loss of $54.6 million, a decline of $1.06 per share, for its first quarter of 2023. Operating revenue was about $1.16 billion in the period.
A Wednesday investors note from financial service firm Stephens estimated that Yellow could be burning between $9 million and $10 million each day. Using a liquidity disclosure from earlier this month, Yellow had roughly $100 million in cash at the end of June, the note added — estimating that the company has been burning through increasing amounts of money through July.
“It is reasonable to believe that the Company could breach its $35 mil. liquidity requirement at any moment,” Stephens analyst Jack Atkins and associate Grant Smith wrote.
The reports of bankruptcy preparations arrive just days after a strike from the Teamsters, which represents Yellow’s 22,000 unionized workers, was averted.
A series of heated exchanges have built up between the Teamsters and Yellow, who sued the union in June after alleging it was “unjustifiably blocking” restructuring plans needed for the company’s survival. The Teamsters called the litigation “baseless” — with general president Sean O’Brien pointing to Yellow’s “decades of gross mismanagement,” which included exhausting the $700 million federal loan.
On Sunday, a pension fund agreed to extend health benefits for workers at two Yellow Corp. operating companies, averting a strike — and giving Yellow “30 days to pay its bills,” notably $50 million that Yellow failed to pay the Central States Health and Welfare Fund on July 15, the union said. While the strike didn’t occur, talks of a walkout may have caused some Yellow customers to pull back, Chan said.
Talks between Yellow and the Teamsters, which also represents UPS’s unionized workers, are ongoing. The current contract expires in March 2024.
“The financial struggles of Yellow are not related to the union and the contracts,” Jindel said, pointing to management’s responsibility around its services and prices. He added the union wages from Yellow are “lower than any competitor.”
If Yellow files for bankruptcy and customers continue to take their shipments to other carriers, like FedEx or ABF Freight, prices will go up.
Yellow’s prices have historically been the cheapest compared to other carriers, Jindel said. “That’s why they obviously were not making money,” he added. “And while there is capacity with the other LTL carriers to handle the diversions from Yellow, it will come at a high price for (current shippers and customers) of Yellow.”
Chan adds that we’re in an interesting time for the LTL marketplace — noting that, if Yellow declares bankruptcy and liquidates, “the freight would find a home” with other carriers, which may not have been true in recent years.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by the Competition Bureau to overturn a key approval of Rogers Communications Inc.’s takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.
Court of Appeal Justice David Stratas said the arguments presented by the bureau don’t meet the threshold of a palpable and overring error going to the core of the case that would be required to overturn the decision by the Competition Tribunal to approve the CDN$26 billion (US$19.44 billion) deal.
Stratas delivered his decision from the bench before the companies involved had given their response.
“This is a high threshold,” he said. “It is not enough to pull at leaves and branches and leave the tree standing, rather the entire tree must fall.”
The Competition Tribunal made it clear the transaction would not likely prevent or substantially lessen competition, supported by ample evidence, said Stratas.
The Competition Bureau’s arguments had focused on what they said were four key legal errors that focused especially on how the proposed sale of Shaw’s Freedom Mobile to Videotron factored into the tribunal’s decision.
Stratas said some of the points raised by the bureau were disputed as a combination of issues of fact and law, while the Court of Appeal can only look into matters of law.
“The Commissioner appears to be inviting us to reweigh the evidence, which we cannot do,” he said.
The deal, which Rogers hopes to close by Jan. 31, still requires approval from Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.
Champagne said in a statement that he was reviewing the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision and will be making a decision on the deal in due course.
The Competition Tribunal approved the deal on Dec. 30 at the end of more than four weeks of hearings. Rogers and Shaw first announced the deal in March of 2021. | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-canada-court-rejects-appeal-of-rogers-takeover-of-shaw/ | 2023-01-25 07:18:40 | 1 | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-canada-court-rejects-appeal-of-rogers-takeover-of-shaw/ |
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Launch of First RoboTire System at Detroit Garage Deepens Hometown Startup's Ties to Motor City
DETROIT, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RoboTire, a Detroit-based robotics and automation company, today announced it has installed its cutting-edge tire-changing system at a Detroit Garage, a forward-thinking and customer-focused tire shop in Plymouth, located at 33939 Plymouth Road in Livonia, MI. This marks the first retail operation of a RoboTire system in the company's hometown, and RoboTire's dedication to supporting the next generation of innovation, manufacturing, and automotive excellence that defines the Motor City.
For nearly 10 years, Detroit Garage has been the first to adopt new technologies to help them better serve their clients, and partnering with RoboTire is no different. RoboTire's tire-changing system is designed to provide a faster, safer, and more efficient alternative to the traditional tire-changing shop. The automated system is equipped with advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and high-definition cameras that can change four tires in as little as 25 minutes. RoboTire's system is designed to be a platform for automotive maintenance, and the company has an extensive roadmap to roll out other services as part of that platform.
"We take pride in having our headquarters, manufacturing, and assembly facilities located in Michigan," said Victor Darolfi, founder and CEO at RoboTire. "Bringing our revolutionary technology to drivers in our home city is a payoff of our mission and further evidence of our investment in the future of mobility innovation coming out of Detroit."
In addition to debuting a RoboTire system at Detroit Garage, the upstart company recently paired up with Newlab Detroit, a technology collaborative and business hub located in Michigan Central's Book Depository. RoboTire leadership and engineers will offer guidance and mentorship to startups seeking to develop, test, and launch new mobility-focused concepts. By early 2024, Michigan Central will host various companies that share a common focus on advancing automotive technology; joining RoboTire at the inaugural launch for the incubator was Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company Bill Ford, in addition to Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist, and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
"Our cutting-edge technology has earned recognition within the automotive and robotics industries," said Darolfi. "In the same way, we're excited to bring Detroit drivers a new way to get their tires changed, we are excited to deepen our ties to Detroit's startup scene by partnering with Newlab Detroit and emerging companies."
RoboTire's system launch at Detroit Garage in Michigan comes after recent expansion in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Texas, with additional launches in the U.S. and Canada slated for the coming weeks. To learn more about RoboTire's revolutionary tire-changing system, visit robotire.com.
About RoboTire
RoboTire is a robotics and automation solution that revolutionizes how tires are changed. Founded by CEO Victor Darolfi in October 2018, RoboTire has designed a system that enables robots to change tires in a fraction of the time human operators can — reducing an hour-long experience to under 25 minutes. RoboTire is transforming how fleet operators, dealers, and independent service providers look at tire and wheel services by bringing innovation to the front lines of automotive repair. For more information, visit robotire.com.
About Detroit Garage
The Detroit Garage Auto Family is a group of industry-leading automotive repair shops, world-class technicians and a sales and support staff second to none. We have built our business to change how people think of auto repair. Concentrating on customer service, convenience, and an all-around exceptional experience is something we strive for on a daily basis. At The Detroit Garage, we always innovate, improve processes, and set the bar higher for ourselves, the automotive service industry, and our customers. We love what we do, and it shows.
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NEW YORK, March 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) between February 22, 2021 and February 27, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 22, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased DISH 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.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company overstated its operational efficiency and maintained a deficient cybersecurity and information technology infrastructure; (2) as a result of the foregoing, the Company was unable to properly secure customer data, leaving it vulnerable to access by malicious third parties; (3) the foregoing cybersecurity deficiencies also both rendered Dish's operations susceptible to widespread service outages and hindered the Company's ability to respond to such outages; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Twin sisters become valedictorian, salutatorian
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (WABC) - A set of twins will be graduating high school at the top of their class, with one as the valedictorian and the other as salutatorian.
The Guerrier twins, Gloria and Victoria, are pretty unstoppable. The all-state track stars learned this week that Gloria Guerrier will be this year’s valedictorian at West Hempstead Secondary School and Victoria Guerrier will be the salutatorian.
They credit each other for help getting each other to the top.
“Being competitive, as twins, we push each other,” Victoria Guerrier said.
They also credit their hardworking mom Marie, who says they’ve been competitive since they were in her womb together.
She said the twins have also been each other’s coach, cheerleader, role model and occasional tutor.
“Subjects like AP physics, I’m always over there, over her shoulder helping her,” Gloria Guerrier said. “And maybe in English, she gives me a hand.”
The girls’ track coach Jackie Zorskas is one of the many faculty members impressed by the girls’ actions.
“It’s rare that you come across not only one student like them, but two students like them,” Zorskas said. “And they just impress me on a daily basis.”
The twins don’t just work hard in school and on the field; both have part-time jobs outside of school. They say they realized they wanted to help their family financially when their dad became disabled by an illness in 2016 when they were only 11 years old.
“Growing up with immigrant parents from Haiti, I had a strong incentive to work really hard to not waste the opportunity that they gave me,” Victoria Guerrier said.
Principal Joe Pumo said Victoria and Gloria Guerrier exemplify the American dream and have been role models since day 1.
“Student-athletes who are genuinely kind-hearted people,” Pumo said. “They’re musicians, they work, they have jobs, they’re able to manage their time.”
So how do they manage their time?
“I just keep myself in a positive space, and I just keep grinding and wanting to do,” Gloria Guerrier said.
Victoria Guerrier said she agrees with her sister, saying that mindset helped her a lot last year.
" I know that it got overwhelming. At some point last year where I was studying for SATs and APs, it just got so overwhelming. But I told myself, I just take it one minute at a time. I almost planned out every minute last year,” Victoria Guerrier said.
All that incredible planning and hard work have paid off. The girls will be going to Yale in the fall on scholarships.
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Reconstruction of piers along East Coast still ongoing nearly 6 years after Hurricane Matthew
SURFSIDE BEACH, SC - The luxury of living along the coast of the Southeast has its benefits, but after a hurricane passes through, sometimes damage can linger longer than anyone would ever want.
Hurricane Matthew brought dangerous winds, and a storm surge of more than six feet to beaches from Florida into North Carolina in 2016.
Piers and other structures along the coast experienced the brunt of the storm.
The Category 2 hurricane caused significant damage to the mostly wooden structures in both Surfside Beach, S.C. and Jacksonville Beach, Florida, which is still apparent today.
Officials in South Carolina said the storm destroyed around 50 percent of their beach pier, scattering debris for miles.
And in Florida, news stations covered the storm’s battering waves as it ripped away planks of the 1,300-foot fishing and recreational structure.
Surfside Beach considered the loss to be "a devastating blow" to the coastal community, but despite the destruction, there is light at the end of the tunnel for both of the beach structures.
Massive cranes and crews have been busy over the last several years, removing the unusable structures and planting new supports.
The construction efforts could mean that new piers are in place and open to the public before another storm threatens.
The massive reconstruction projects don’t come cheap.
Surfside Beach is expected to spend more than $18 million, and Jacksonville’s total could reach more than $11 million.
In both cities, Federal Emergency Management Agency is expected to pick up the bulk of the bills.
With the hefty price tags come added assurances that the attractions will be able to survive significant storms.
"The new pier has been engineered and modeled to withstand most tropical events, as well as seismic occurrences. The pier is about 10 feet higher, and has drop in deck sections which are designed to blow out while leaving the superstructure intact," said Robert Blomquist, a spokesperson for Surfside Beach. "The ocean piles will be round steel encased in concrete. The superstructure will be concrete, and the decking will be wood pre-fabricated panels which will be placed in the concrete tracks."
Similar construction efforts were used in Jacksonville Beach, and officials said they even raised parts of the pier eight feet to avoid destruction during future hurricanes.
There still remains some fluidity as to when the grand reopening of piers will happen.
Like many projects, supply chain issues and normal delays have caused both cities to adjust when the structures once again reopen for fishing, relaxing and other beachside activities.
According to Surfside Beach’s public works director, the town is aiming to open its pier during the first quarter of 2023.
Beachgoers at Jacksonville Beach may be luckier; officials are working to reopen its new pier by the end of the summer.
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Both coastal communities have been fortunate over the last several years and have escaped Matthew-like damage during the piers’ reconstruction efforts.
But with the expected busy hurricane season underway, coastal communities from Texas to Maine could face potential tropical trouble over the next several months, which could put the new structures to the test, especially if a significant cyclone comes close to the Southeast.
Colorado State University experts expect an additional 19 named storms to form during the season, with as many as ten becoming hurricanes.
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Germany’s air traffic control agency said Wednesday that it is diverting all flights away from the country’s busiest airport, Frankfurt, after a problem with Lufthansa’s computer systems caused major disruption at the German airline.
Agency spokesman Robert Ertler said all plane parking spots in Frankfurt were full because passengers and crews are unable to board the airline’s flights.
“All incoming planes are being diverted to alternative airports” such as as Munich, Nuremberg and Duesseldorf, Ertler told The Associated Press.
Lufthansa Group, which also includes subsidiaries such as Swiss International Air Lines and Eurowings, said the IT outage was caused by construction works in the Frankfurt region.
“This is causing flight delays and cancellations,” the company said. “We regret the inconvenience this is causing our passengers.”
Telephone company Deutsche Telekom later confirmed that an excavator had cut through fiber optic lines at a depth of five meters (16 feet) while working on a railroad line.
The company said parts of the destroyed line had already been repaired and the situation will improve significantly in the course of Wednesday afternoon, German news agency dpa reported.
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The Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed amendments to the ordinance governing ATV and UTV use.
Under the new code riders will be able to operate ATVs on any road in the unincorporated areas of the county and on conservation roads, except in violation of the restrictions still in the ordinance.
"The state recently adjusted some of the regulations and restrictions on ATV use on roadways," said Josh Brandt, Cerro Gordo Conservation director. "We had some requests from the public to reconsider rules that were related to use of ATVs in our campgrounds in particular and then the Shell Rock River Greenbelt."
The age requirement for drivers also rose from 16 to 18 to reflect state law, and the speed limited is now limited to 35 mph or the posted speed limit, whichever is lower.
The recommendations were made to the supervisors by the Cerro Gordo County Conservation Board.
The board unanimously approved a resolution to canvass the Nov. 8 election again due to the results of the recount last week between District One Board of Supervisors candidates Chris Watts and Amanda Ragan. Watts' victory was upheld. He went from an 11-vote to 15-vote lead after the recount.
Another of three recounts will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Board Room at the courthouse. Don O'Connor has asked for a recount in his race against Lori Meacham Ginapp. Ginapp holds a three-vote lead for the District Three seat as of Tuesday.
Cerro Gordo Auditor Adam Wedmore said a third and final recount for Iowa House District 59 will be conducted sometime after Thanksgiving. Incumbent Sharon Steckman currently leads that race 6,328-5,589.
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Democrat Craig Cooper is just six votes ahead of Republican Luana Stoltenberg for the House District 81 seat, which covers the northwest quadrant of Davenport, after an administrative recount concluded on Friday. The results are contrary to what was announced after election night.
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Partnership combines industry's top technology and workforce management solutions to drive value to customers and the enterprise
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WorkLLama, technology provider of a total talent acquisition and engagement suite, and EverHive, a workforce management solution organization, announced today that it will partner to deliver a superior experience and lower cost talent options for customers and their contingent workforce programs. The partnership between WorkLLama's direct sourcing platform and EverHive's contingent workforce solutions service offerings will provide new innovation for companies in the gaming, pharmaceutical, life sciences, entertainment, and consumer goods industries.
Direct sourcing continues to improve contingent workforce services programs, especially hybrid or internally managed programs, by immediately sourcing, attracting, and retaining new, highly sought-after talent. Not only will this serve as an important, strategic pillar to an organization's hiring strategies, it will deliver a lower-cost, higher value model to finding and engaging talent.
"As companies look to increase their direct sourcing, it is critical to have the right technology to support ever changing external workforce programs. We are excited to be leveraging WorkLLama's powerful technology on a global scale, increasing value to clients, reducing costs, and shrinking time-to-hire, all while improving candidate experience," said Brandon Moreno, president of EverHive. "The platform's automated crowdsourced referrals, dynamic talent pool capabilities, and automated AI-driven chatbot, Sofi, will automate and streamline the hiring process and leverage our clients' brands to deliver the highest quality talent."
"EverHive is a global leader in workforce management solutions, and we're excited to help their customers scale, automate, and enhance the journey for all talent," Sudhakar Maruvada, CEO and Founder of WorkLLama, shared. "Their people-first mission is one WorkLLama aligns with very deeply, and we look forward to continuing to improve the candidate experience together."
Leveraging the power of WorkLLama's crowdsourced referrals and dynamic talent pools along with EverHive's strategic, efficient, and effective contingent workforce management capabilities, companies can make an immediate impact to finding global talent and optimizing their contingent labor programs.
WorkLLama is a total talent acquisition and engagement suite. Our platform harnesses the power of AI with a complete suite of applicant tracking system (ATS), customer relationship management (CRM) and direct sourcing tools to help companies build communities of highly engaged talent for all hiring needs. Visit us at www.workllama.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
EverHive is one of the few companies in the world to provide a holistic and truly vendor-neutral approach to providing contingent workforce management solutions. Named as Inc Magazine Best Workplaces and in HRO Baker's Dozen Customer Satisfaction, EverHive is currently the only company offering a Hybrid MSP model. EverHive is a proud supporter of diversity and inclusion and is a certified MBE company and winner of the western region MBE Supplier of the Year.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. – A change of perception and hope are the goals of a walking event scheduled for Pine Bluff later this month.
The Pine Bluff Arsenal Employee Assistance Program with the Army Substance Abuse Office has scheduled a Suicide Prevention and Awareness walk for 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. this Saturday, Sept 17. The event will take place at the Jefferson Regional Medical Center Wellness Center, 1301 W. 40th Avenue, Pine Bluff.
Participants will get a suicide awareness shirt, water bottle and towel. Other goodies, the organizers state, will be given out to participants.
The announcement of the walk stated it is being used to help shift public perception while spreading hope and sharing vital information to those affected by suicide. The employee program and Army office intend to ensure individuals, friends and families have access to the resources they need to discuss suicide prevention and seek help. | https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/september-suicide-prevention-walk-scheduled-for-pine-bluff/ | 2022-09-14 18:25:12 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/september-suicide-prevention-walk-scheduled-for-pine-bluff/ |
Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is set to testify Tuesday before a grand jury in Fulton County regarding efforts to try to overturn the state's 2020 election.
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UVALDE, Texas — The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas had warned in online messages minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, the governor said Wednesday.
Salvador Ramos, 18, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in the bloodbath Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. He had legally bought two such rifles just days before, soon after his birthday, authorities said.
Investigators shed no immediate light on the motive. Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos, a resident of the community about 85 miles west of San Antonio, had no known criminal or mental health history.
But about 30 minutes before the bloodbath, Ramos made three social media posts, Abbott said. According to the governor, Ramos posted that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman, and finally that he was going to shoot up an elementary school.
Seventeen people were also injured in the attack.
“Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday. Anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart,” Abbott said at a news conference. “But it is far more evil for someone to gun down little kids. It is intolerable and it is unacceptable for us to have in the state anybody who would kill little kids in our schools.”
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor this year, interrupted the news conference, calling the Republican’s response to the tragedy “predictable.” O’Rourke was escorted out while members of the crowd yelled at him, with one man calling him a “sick son of a bitch.”
As details of the latest mass killing to rock the U.S. emerged, grief engulfed the small town of Uvalde, population 16,000.
The dead included an outgoing 10-year-old, Eliahna Garcia, who loved to sing, dance and play basketball; a fellow fourth grader, Xavier Javier Lopez, who had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming; and a teacher, Eva Mireles, with 17 years’ experience whose husband is an officer with the school district’s police department.
“I just don’t know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old,” Eliahna’s aunt, Siria Arizmendi, said angrily through tears. “What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?”
Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN that all of those killed were in the same fourth-grade classroom.
The killer “barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom,” Olivarez said. “It just shows you the complete evil of the shooter.”
Law enforcement officers eventually broke into the classroom and killed the gunman. Police and others responding to the attack also went around breaking windows at the school to enable students and teachers to escape.
The attack in the predominantly Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
The bloodshed was the latest in a seemingly unending string of mass killings at churches, schools, stores and other sites in the United States. Just 10 days earlier, 10 Black people were shot to death in a racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
In a somber address to the nation hours after the attack in Texas, President Joe Biden pleaded for Americans to “stand up to the gun lobby” and enact tougher restrictions, saying: “When in God’s name are we going to do what has to be done?”
But the prospects for any reform of the nation’s gun regulations appeared dim. Repeated attempts over the years to expand background checks and enact other curbs have run into Republican opposition in Congress.
On social media in the days and hours before the massacre, Ramos appeared to drop hints that something was going to happen.
On the day Ramos bought his second weapon last week, an Instagram account that investigators say apparently belong to Ramos carried a photo of two AR-style rifles. Ramos apparently tagged another Instagram user, one with more than 10,000 followers, asking her to share the picture with her followers.
“I barely know you and u tag me in a picture with some guns,” replied the Instagram user, who has since removed her profile. “It’s just scary.”
On the morning of the attack, the account linked to the gunman replied: “I’m about to.”
Instagram confirmed to The Associated Press that it is working with law enforcement to review the account but declined to answer questions about the postings. Investigators are also looking at an account on TikTok, possibly belonging to the shooter, with a profile that reads: “Kids be scared IRL,” an acronym meaning “in real life.” The profile is not dated.
Investigators do not yet know why Ramos targeted the school, said Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
“We don’t see a motive or catalyst right now,” he said.
Officers found one of the rifles in Ramos’ truck, the other in the school, according to the briefing given to lawmakers. Ramos was wearing a tactical vest, but it had no hardened body-armor plates inside, lawmakers were told. He also dropped a backpack containing several magazines full of ammunition near the school entrance.
One of the guns was purchased at a federally licensed dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17, according to state Sen. John Whitmire, who was briefed by investigators. Ramos bought 375 rounds of ammunition the next day, then purchased the second rifle last Friday.
On Tuesday morning, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at her home, then left. Neighbors called police when she staggered outside and they saw she had been shot in the face, Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine said.
Ramos then crashed his truck through a railing on the school grounds, and an Uvalde school district officer exchanged fire with him and was wounded, Considine said. Ramos went inside and exchanged more gunfire with two arriving Uvalde police officers, who were still outside, Considine said. Those officers were also wounded.
Dillon Silva, whose nephew was in a nearby classroom, said students were watching the Disney movie “Moana” when they heard several loud pops and a bullet shattered a window. Moments later, their teacher saw the attacker stride past the door.
“Oh, my God, he has a gun!” the teacher shouted twice, according to Silva. “The teacher didn’t even have time to lock the door,” he said.
A tactical team forced its way into the classroom where the attacker was holed up and was met with gunfire from Ramos but shot and killed him, according to Olivarez.
In the aftermath, families in Uvalde waited hours for word on their children. At the town civic center where some gathered Tuesday night, the silence was broken repeatedly by screams and wails. “No! Please, no!” one man yelled as he embraced another man. On Wednesday morning, volunteers were seen arriving with Bibles and therapy dogs.
Three children and an adult were being treated at a San Antonio hospital, where two of them — a 66-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl — were listed in serious condition.
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Uvalde, home to about 16,000 people, is about 75 miles from the Mexican border. Robb Elementary, which has nearly 600 students in second, third and fourth grades, is a single-story brick structure in a mostly residential neighborhood of modest homes.
The close-knit community, built around a shaded central square, includes many Hispanic families who have lived there for generations. It sits amid fields of cabbage, onions, carrots and other vegetables. But many of the steadiest jobs are supplied by companies that produce construction materials.
The attack came as the school was counting down to the last days of the school year with a series of themed days. Tuesday was to be “Footloose and Fancy,” with students wearing nice outfits.
Texas, which has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation, has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years.
In 2018, a gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year before that, a gunman shot more than two dozen people to death during a Sunday service in the small town of Sutherland Springs. In 2019, a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanics.
The shooting came days before the National Rifle Association annual convention was set to begin in Houston. The governor and both of Texas’ U.S. senators, all of them Republicans, were among the scheduled speakers at a forum Friday.
Eugene Garcia, Dario Lopez-Mills and Elliot Spagat in Uvalde, Jake Bleiberg in Dallas, Ben Fox, Michael Balsamo, Amanda Seitz and Eric Tucker in Washington, Paul J. Weber in Austin, Juan Lozano in Houston, Gene Johnson in Seattle and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-texas-school-shooting-20220525-nsfay5fkijfjfjzpitce6xtct4-story.html | 2022-05-25 18:54:30 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-texas-school-shooting-20220525-nsfay5fkijfjfjzpitce6xtct4-story.html |
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DES MOINES, Iowa — After nearly three months of lottery losing, will someone break the trend Tuesday night and win a $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot?
Regardless of how long it takes, the odds of winning the top lottery prize don’t change, and they’re formidable at 1 in 302.6 million. But someone will eventually match all six numbers and win the jackpot, which now ranks as the fifth-largest in U.S. history.
The drawing is set for 11 p.m. EST but it usually takes a couple hours before it’s clear if there is a winner.
The $1.1 billion prize is for a winner who chooses to be paid through an annuity with 30 payments over 29 years. Winners usually prefer cash, which for Tuesday night’s drawing would be an estimated $568.7 million.
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The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic.
Travelers across the United States experienced hundreds of canceled flights and a few thousand delays on Friday, much as they did earlier this week.
Patricia Carreno arrived with friends at Los Angeles International Airport only to learn that their Alaska Airlines flight to Mazatlan, Mexico, had been canceled.
“We’re probably going to drive down to Mexico — to Tijuana, the border — and just fly from there,” she said.
The Transportation Security Administration screened more than 2.4 million travelers at airport checkpoints on Thursday, 17% more than on the same Friday before July Fourth in 2019. U.S. air travel is likely to set a pandemic-era record at least once over the weekend.
Traffic on the highway could be heavy too.
AAA predicts that nearly 48 million people will travel at least 50 miles or more from home over the weekend, slightly fewer than in 2019. AAA says car travel will set a record even with the national average price for gasoline hovering near $5.
Leisure travel has bounced back this year, and that means particularly big crowds over three-day holiday weekends.
With many flights sold out over the July Fourth weekend, airlines will struggle to find seats for passengers like Carreno whose flights are canceled. Airlines told customers to check their flight’s status before going to the airport.
If you’re already at the airport when your flight is canceled, “it’s time to flex your multitasking skills,” said Sebastian Modak, editor-at-large of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet.
Modak advised heading straight to the airline’s help desk, checking its app on your phone, and calling the airline’s customer-service line — an international number might be answered sooner than a U.S. one for airlines that have both. He said driving or taking the bus or train will be a better option for shorter trips.
“There’s no getting around the fact that this is going to be a summer of travel delays, cancelations, and frustrations,” he said.
By early evening Friday on the East Coast, airlines had canceled about 500 U.S. flights and another 5,100 were delayed, according to FlightAware. Scattered thunderstorms in the New York City area made it likely the numbers would climb. From June 22 through Wednesday at least 600 flights were canceled, and between 4,000 and 7,000 were delayed per day, the tracking service said.
Airline executives blame the recent surge of canceled flights on the Federal Aviation Administration, which runs the nation’s air traffic control system, but Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg disputes that claim.
Passengers are caught in the middle.
Mari Ismail, who flew to Atlanta on Friday, said it took a long time to check in and get through security before her flight from Baltimore.
“I got to my gate right as they started boarding, so it was a very lengthy process,” she said.
Jordane Jeffrey said she booked a return trip from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for Monday, the holiday.
“I’m hoping there are no delays because I work that night,” she said.
Airlines sometimes overbook flights with the expectation that some passengers won’t show up. When there are more passengers than seats, airlines will offer cash or travel vouchers to people willing to take the next flight.
Earlier this week, a columnist for Inc. magazine wrote that Delta flight attendants offered $10,000 cash to people who would leave a plane waiting to take off from Grand Rapids, Mich.
Delta spokesman Anthony Black would neither confirm nor deny the journalist’s account, but he noted that the airline raised the compensation agents can offer in such cases to $9,950 in 2017. That move followed a public-relations nightmare at United Airlines, when airport officers bloodied and dragged a 69-year-old doctor off a sold-out plane — a case that resulted in a lawsuit, confidential settlement, and jokes on late-night TV about United customer service.
Even with vacationers crowding into airports and on planes, the total number of people flying has not fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels because of a decline in business and international travel. TSA screened 11% fewer people in June than it did in the same month of 2019.
Thursday marked only the 11th time since the pandemic started that TSA checked more people than it did on the same day in 2019, and just the second time since February.
Airlines could almost surely be carrying more passengers if they had enough staffing. Many U.S. airlines have trimmed their summer schedules after bad weather, air-traffic delays and a lack of enough employees caused widespread cancellations over the Memorial Day weekend.
Airlines paid thousands of workers to quit during the early days of the pandemic, when air travel plummeted and airline revenue dried up. They have been hiring recently, but it takes time to train pilots, who are in particularly short supply.
Now airlines competing for key employees are offering double-digit raises to pilots, who find themselves with leverage in negotiations over new contracts. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/holiday-travel-chaos-airlines-brace-for-huge-weekend-crowds/ | 2022-07-02 03:26:19 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/holiday-travel-chaos-airlines-brace-for-huge-weekend-crowds/ |
The domestic manufacturer of fluid power solutions now allows customers to preview products through an online CAD configurator.
CINCINNATI and FRANKLIN, Wis., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Galland Henning Nopak, a manufacturer of hydraulic and pneumatic solutions, custom-designed cylinders, accumulators, and valves, has added an online catalog and CAD model configurator to their site. Built by CADENAS PARTsolutions, the new features include Nopak's most popular fluid power solutions. The e-catalog and configurator will simplify the design and specification process for engineers by allowing them to access complex CAD models in a variety of formats.
Nopak's catalog will host four different classes of cylinders with thousands of configurations in each class. Customers can register to use the configurator and customize parts with ease. "As engineers configure our products, they can see the model change with each customization," Hilary Scofield, Vice President of Sales at Galland Henning Nopak, said. "The pull-down fields help customers know what configurations are available as well as specific part numbers. When we reference that specific part number, it can make customer questions much easier to answer."
Before adding the configurator to their website, Nopak would receive inquiries from buyers wanting CAD models and then meet with them to draw and approve the model. The new catalog allows buyers to quickly search through Nopak's products online and to independently configure the cylinders for their specific needs. Engineers can download PDF datasheets and CAD models in over 100 different formats right from the Nopak website. "Some customers aren't ready to buy until they see that CAD model. So having that info readily available on our site is a must," Scofield added.
Nopak will continue to improve the customer journey as they add products to their online catalog. "Customers will see our accumulators added to the catalog in the near future. We've already gotten interest, and we will be showcasing the new configurator at the International Fluid Power Exposition in March of 2023," Lauren Kaplan, Sales and Marketing Specialist at Galland Henning Nopak, added.
Galland Henning Nopak powers equipment around the world with our hydraulic cylinders, pneumatic cylinders, hydraulic accumulators, and fluid power valves. As a family-owned business with more than a century of manufacturing expertise, GHN proudly continues our tradition of engineering excellence and the product caliber that you expect from an American company. By offering robust custom engineering capabilities and easy access to fluid power experts, we deliver exceptional product and service quality beyond our customer's highest expectations.
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Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal candidate, is projected to advance to the April 4 general election in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race after she became the top vote-getter on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
Protasiewicz was one of two liberal candidates vying for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which was left open after conservative Justice Patience Roggensack announced she would not be seeking another term. Protasiewicz will be going head to head against a conservative candidate — wither Jennifer Dorow or Daniel Kelly — for the open seat in April.
The state Supreme Court race has drawn national attention given that Roggensack’s retirement leaves an even 3-3 partisan split on the court, meaning that whoever wins the open seat will tilt its ideological makeup. Among some of the issues that the new state Supreme Court could weigh in on could include abortion rights, redistricting and even possible future election result disputes. | https://who13.com/hill-politics/liberal-candidate-janet-protasiewicz-advances-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/ | 2023-02-22 04:48:30 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/liberal-candidate-janet-protasiewicz-advances-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — Tyler Reddick had the lead and the fastest car on the track when calamity nearly struck.
Caution. Restart. Caution. Restart. Caution. Restart.
Enough slowdowns to make a driver lose his mind.
Or at least his cool.
Reddick handled it nearly to perfection Sunday, earning his first victory with new team 23XI Racing by holding on over multiple late restarts to win in triple overtime Sunday at Circuit of the Americas, the first road course race on this year’s NASCAR schedule.
“Didn’t quite get the restarts perfectly, but we got the one that mattered,” Reddick said. “The last one.”
Reddick’s victory was the first of the year for Toyota and his first since joining the team co-owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan. It was Reddick’s fourth career Cup Series win, third on a road course. Reddick won a year ago at Road America and on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in his final season with Richard Childress Racing.
This one might have been the most nerve wracking.
Reddick had to hold the front through the elevated, switchback left hand turn that saw the field bunch up and smash each other time after time on the restarts. The race had eight cautions for 17 laps and went to three overtimes and seven laps past the scheduled distance.
Hamlin said Reddick showed poise to match talent that could lead to a whole lot of victories. He got Reddick to agree to sign with 23XI with a full year remaining on his RCR contract, and then was able to secure Reddick early for 2023 when Kurt Busch was forced to retire because of a concussion.
“I knew he was going to be the most coveted free agent in a very, very, very long time. That’s why I got the jump on it and it cost me a lot of money to do it,” Hamlin said. “You have to have that driver you feel can carry you to championships ... I feel like we have that guy.”
Kyle Busch, who pushed Reddick through the final three restarts, finished second in the Chevrolet for RCR that became available to the two-time Cup champion when Reddick jumped to 23XI.
“When we tested here, they were lights out,” Busch said of 23XI. “Tyler obviously is a really good road racer. He proved it driving this car here last year. I’ve been trying to emulate the things he did in order to make this car fast last year, but not quite all the way there.”
Alex Bowman, who had a chance to win on the final lap at COTA last season, was third in a Chevrolet from Hendrick Motorsports.
Ross Chastain, the defending race winner, finished fourth and was confronted post-race inside his car by Trackhouse Racing teammate Daniel Suarez over the aggressive nature of the race. Suarez also exchanged words with Bowman. NASCAR may take action against Suarez for using his car to bump both Bowman and Chastain on pit road.
“He just thought I drove in and tried to drive through him,” Bowman said. “Daniel and I, we’ve been teammates in the past, raced together a long time. I respect the hell out of him. I’m sure he’s still not super happy. Just tried to explain that I wouldn’t race him like that, that I was shoved in there.”
William Byron finished fifth for Hendrick and Austin Cindric was the highest-finishing Ford driver in sixth for Team Penske.
There were no stage breaks for the first time this season under a rule change introduced for the six road course races in 2023. That left teams to manage different pit stop strategies.
Reddick appeared to have managed the perfect strategy before the rash of late collisions, caution flags and restarts left him with a harder path to win.
The race included former Formula One champions Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button.
Raikkonen drove Trackhouse Racing’s Project91 entry that is designed to give a seat in NASCAR to drivers from others disciplines. He finished 27th. Button drove the No. 15 Mobil 1 Ford Mustang for Rick Ware Racing as part of a three-race deal for road courses this season. He was 18th.
Raikkonen was running as high as fourth on a late late restart but was quickly shuffled into the pack.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Denny Crum took everything he learned from legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, added his own touch and built his own sparkling legacy at Louisville.
Crum, who won two NCAA basketball championships and built the Cardinals into one of the 1980s’ dominant programs during a Hall of Fame coaching career, died Tuesday. He was 86.
The school announced Crum’s death in a release after being informed by his wife, Susan. No cause was given, but Crum had battled an extended illness. He had a mild stroke in August 2017 while fishing in Alaska and another two years ago.
Nicknamed “Cool Hand Luke” because of his cool, unflinching sideline demeanor — legend has it he never uttered a curse word — Crum retired in March 2001 after 30 seasons at Louisville with 675 victories, which ranked 15th all-time then, and championships in 1980 and ’86. A disciple of the legendary Wooden, Crum often wore a red sport coat and waved a rolled-up program and stat sheet like a bandleader’s baton as he directed Louisville to 23 NCAA Tournaments and six Final Fours.
The second half of his tenure was not nearly as successful as the first, however, as Louisville endured two separate NCAA investigations and never returned to the Final Four after Crum’s second championship season. He accepted a $7 million buyout in March 2, 2001 — his 64th birthday — and was replaced by Rick Pitino, an eventual Hall of Famer who guided Louisville to a third NCAA title in 2013 that the governing body later vacated following a sex scandal.
Nonetheless, Crum was inducted into the Hall of Fame in May 1994, with Wooden, his college coach and longtime mentor at his side. Crum had 11 more overall wins and 55 more than his most influential adviser amassed at UCLA.
UCLA mourned Crum in a release that noted his 1990 induction into its athletics Hall of Fame and achievements as a Bruins player and coach.
Crum remained a beloved, revered and respected presence around Louisville whose legacy has been recognized in many ways. He frequently attended Cardinals games played on the KFC Yum! Center home court bearing his name and signature. And Crum was present for the September 2022 dedication of Denny Crum Hall, a new campus dormitory for athletes and students.
“You try to remember all of the things that you did, things that happened,” Crum said at a February 2020 ceremony honoring the 1980 title team. “Some was bad, but most of it good. It just makes you really proud that you were a part of it.”
Crum had a front-row seat in March 2022 for the introduction of one of his former players, Kenny Payne, as Cardinals coach. There were plenty of the Hall of Famer’s other pupils present to not only support Payne, but enjoy another meeting with their mentor and friend on and off the court.
Payne expressed prayers for Crum’s family and called his former coach a true treasure who gave so much to the school and community.
“Today is a sad day for me personally, as well as the basketball world,” Payne said in a statement. “My thoughts go through all the lessons that he taught, not just to me, but every player he ever came in contact with. … Rest in peace, Coach. You touched so many. Well done.”
Former Cardinals great Junior Bridgeman echoed Payne on Crum’s impact on generations of players.
“He said if you are good at what you’re going to do, we’re not going to worry about what the other team is going to do,” said Bridgeman, who played for Crum from 1972-75. “That’s a life lesson that’ll carry you farther and in whatever area you go into.”
A native of San Fernando, California, Crum played guard for two seasons at Los Angeles’ Pierce Junior College before transferring to UCLA in 1956. The Bruins went 38-14 in Crum’s two seasons as a player.
He briefly served as a graduate assistant to Wooden before coaching Pierce in the mid-1960s.
Wooden hired Crum as his assistant and chief recruiter in 1968, when the Bruins were in the midst of their dynastic run to 10 NCAA championships. Crum is credited with luring Bill Walton to UCLA, and the Bruins went 86-4 and won three NCAA titles during Crum’s three seasons there.
Crum succeeded John Dromo as Louisville’s coach on April 17, 1971, but Wooden figured his former assistant would soon return to succeed him.
“Denny was so good that I knew I wasn’t going to keep him very long,” Wooden told the Courier Journal of Louisville back then. “I was pleased when he got the job at Louisville. I had always hoped when I retired that he’d be the one to succeed me, but he left and proved to be just what I thought he was.”
Louisville had enjoyed little postseason success before Crum’s arrival, reaching the 1956 NIT championship and the 1959 NCAA Final Four. The Cardinals lost Crum’s first game, 70-69 to Florida, before reeling off 15 consecutive victories.
They won the Missouri Valley Conference — the first of 15 regular-season league titles for Crum — then reached the Final Four, where they met Wooden and UCLA. The Bruins won 96-77 on their way to a sixth-straight championship.
The schools met again in the semifinals three seasons later with a similar result as UCLA won 75-74 in overtime. By then Crum employed much of Wooden’s fundamentally focused style, but with pressure defense and a fast-breaking flair. Instead of an offense built around a dominant center, Crum used athletic guards and forwards who could finish plays with the high-flying dunks Wooden eschewed.
His philosophy made the Cardinals perennial NCAA Tournament participants with 20 or more wins each season from 1975-1979. Their breakthrough came in the 1979-80 season, when homegrown star guard Darrell Griffith and the so-called “Doctors of Dunk” marched through the regular season 26-3 and won their second Metro Conference championship in three years.
Crum’s second-seeded Cardinals reached their third Final Four in nine seasons and encountered UCLA again, this time coached by Larry Brown. Louisville finally prevailed with a 59-54 championship-game win in Indianapolis led by Griffith, an All-American and Wooden Award winner known by his popular nickname of “Dr. Dunkenstein.”
“It means more to me probably than the other guys because I’m from Louisville and I’ve seen how we came so close so many times and were never able to get over the hump,” Griffith said in 2020. “And to be able to get over the hump, that means a lot to everybody, but to me in particular, an extra special reason.”
Crum’s second title followed in 1986 with freshman Pervis Ellison, Billy Thompson and Milt Wagner leading the way as Louisville beat Duke 72-69.
Tributes and condolences began pouring in, with U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky saying, “The Cardinal community loved their coach and will miss his calm leadership both on and off the court.”
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Chris Duncan, a long-time and now deceased sports writer of The Associated Press, was the principal writer of this obituary.
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High school student wearing noise-canceling headphones struck, killed by train
FENTON, N.Y. (WBNG/Gray News) – A high school student wearing noise-canceling headphones was struck and killed by a train in New York state on Tuesday morning, officials said.
According to the Broome County Sheriff’s Office, the Chenango Valley High School student has been identified as 17-year-old Jakob McCloe.
He was pronounced dead on the scene, and his death has been ruled an accident.
The sheriff’s office said McCloe was walking on the Norfolk Southern Railroad Tracks in Fenton and appeared to be wearing noise-canceling headphones, so he was not able to hear the train approaching.
Investigators said the train’s engineer tried to signal multiple times to get McCloe’s attention but was unable to stop the train in time. McCloe was struck and killed.
Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar said after thorough investigation, detectives determined that “this tragic loss of life was nothing other than a terrible accident.”
In a letter sent to parents, Chenango Valley School District Superintendent Jennifer Ostrander said counselors and support services are available to students and staff.
“This is an incredibly difficult time for our community, and our thoughts and condolences go out to the family and loved ones of the student,” Ostrander wrote in the letter. “We ask that you respect the privacy of the family during this difficult time and that we come together as a community to offer our condolences and support.”
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Splash into family fun at the five-acre water park, savor Michelin-starred dining and enjoy Disney connectivity
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring break is just around the corner, and the warm spring sunshine and heated five-acre waterpark beckons families to enjoy an unforgettable getaway at Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort. Recognized as the No. 1 Best Hotel and No. 1 Best Resort in Walt Disney World according to U.S. News & World Report, marking the ninth consecutive year of being awarded a top ranking, the Resort offers incredible activities for kids of all ages and rejuvenating relaxation for parents. Nestled within 26 sprawling acres of lush Florida woodlands and tranquil lakeside scenery, in addition to the waterpark with lazy river, splash zone, and water slides, Four Seasons Orlando features an all-day complimentary kids club, the only adult pool within Walt Disney World Resort, Michelin-starred rooftop Capa Steakhouse and much more.
Fun In The Sun
Guests of all ages will enjoy discovering "Explorer Island," the Resort's expansive water park featuring a winding lazy river with cascading waterfalls, a gradually sloping zero entry family pool, an interactive splash zone, two exhilarating water slides and more. Teens will stay entertained at "The Hideout" featuring the latest gaming systems such as virtual reality, multi-player PAC-MAN, interactive video table games and more. A multi-purpose turf court and basketball court provide even more options for active recreation, as well as table tennis, billiards, and foosball found at the "Ruinous Mansion" - serving as homebase for Kids For All Seasons, the Resort's complimentary kids camp available daily for children ages 4 to 12.
Children will have a blast at Kids For All Seasons, with a packed day of twice daily supervised swimming and indoor and outdoor activities designed by Sarah Peltier, Director of Recreation. Peltier brings an always-sunny and imaginative disposition to craft fun and creative activities. "It's always a rewarding experience to create special memories for our little guests," says Peltier. In addition to traditional poolside entertainment such as air brush tattoos, hair wraps, and balloon artistry, Kids For All Seasons offers daily activations including family game nights, dive-in movies at the family pool and much more. Teens will enjoy special evening activities such as nighttime scavenger hunts throughout Explorer Island, karaoke at The Hideout, and pickleball tournaments.
Peltier, being the oldest of 13 siblings from a blended household, stresses the importance of balancing family time when on vacation. She says, "Quality time spent together is precious, and giving each family member the freedom to recharge with their own resort experiences makes the rest of the vacation journey that much more enjoyable."
Other fee-based activities are also offered, such as Explorer Island Takeover from 5-8pm and Teen Island Takeover from 8-11pm on Saturday nights, where parents can drop off kids for a few hours, to enjoy a romantic dinner.
Relax and Restore
While kids are entertained at Kids For All Seasons, parents can retreat to the 18-treatment room spa, offering a wide array of innovative treatments including Ayurvedic Healing, Vibrational Sound Therapy, IV and IM Vitamin Vitality treatments, and private meditation sessions in the Somadome, a cocoon of healing lights and sounds utilizing binaural beats, color therapy and energy medicine with magnets and crystal therapy. The Spa offers expansive indoor and outdoor relaxation lounges including a co-ed tranquility terrace, solarium with zero-gravity wave loungers, steam rooms and al fresco whirlpools where guests can unwind pre or post treatment, or at any time during their resort stay. "The purpose of vacation is to leave feeling rested and rejuvenated, and we give guests the opportunity to do just that within the sanctuary of our Spa," says Derek Hofmann, Senior Director of Spa.
More relaxation awaits at the aptly named Oasis pool, exclusive for guests ages 21 and up. The chic, infinity-edge pool is lined with swaying palms, private cabanas and chaise lounges, complete with poolside cocktail service.
For those who wish to stay active during their spring getaway, the resort offers three Har-Tru tennis courts and a variety of clinics, as well as a 24-hour fitness center featuring Peloton® bikes, on-demand digital classes, and daily complimentary live fitness classes ranging from yoga to boot camp. Private instruction is also available, including personal Pilates reformer sessions guided by the Resort's talented fitness instructors.
Golfers will love the 18-hole championship golf course at Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club Orlando. Whether seeking challenging play fit for professionals or family fun on the Par 3 six-hole short course and 18-hole putting course, guests are sure to enjoy an incomparable golf experience within the picturesque setting of the Tom Fazio-designed course, a certified Audubon Sanctuary featuring varying elevations, abundant wildlife and protected wetlands.
In addition to enjoying the immaculate spring weather outdoors, guests can retreat to the resort and enjoy shopping signature trunk shows with designer appearances at Wardrobe, the resort's luxury boutique featuring designer apparel and fine jewelry.
Culinary Experiences
After a day spent poolside or exploring the nearby Walt Disney World Theme Parks, there's no better way to refuel than with a Michelin-starred dinner at the rooftop Capa Steakhouse. Helmed by Capa Chef Malyna Si, the only female chef overseeing a Michelin-starred restaurant in Central Florida, the 17th floor restaurant features Spanish-influenced cuisine with a delectable array of tapas, locally-sourced seafood and wood-fired prime cuts including the pluma Iberico pork loin Si sourced from Extremadura, a prime 12-ounce bone-in filet, and a 16-ounce bone-in New York strip, both from Creekstone Farms in Kansas. There's also a 12-ounce delmonico and a 16-ounce short rib, both PlatinumX wagyu level certified, a level above prime, from Jackman Ranch in Texas. Si takes pride in offering an elevated menu with unique and rare dishes, saying, "The practicality of my role is that everybody has to eat; the beauty of being a chef lies in the boundless possibilities to create."
In addition to these mouthwatering options, there are several signature dishes that are not to be missed, including the pan con tomate small plate, the bacon-wrapped and Marcona-almond stuffed datiles, and the cinammon sugar-dusted Churros de Madrid. The incredible cuisine is matched only by Capa's stunning ambiance, featuring two outdoor terraces with views of the Walt Disney World Resort fireworks spectaculars.
At Ravello, the resort's modern Italian-restaurant which was also included in the Michelin Guide Miami, Orlando and Tampa, guests will delight in authentic Italian cuisine crafted by Executive Chef Fabrizio Schenardi, a native of Torino, Italy. Delicious pastas and pizza doughs are prepared with flour imported straight from Italy, and Fabrizio's homemade limoncello is the perfect way to end any Italian feast. Plus, Ravello welcomes special guests every Thursday and Saturday morning, as well as select Tuesdays, for Good Morning Breakfast with Goofy & His Pals.
With six different on-site dining establishments featuring global flavors from a diverse culinary team, guests are sure to find something to satisfy every palate.
The Most Magical Place on Earth
There is no better time for guests to experience the magic of the 50th Anniversary of Walt Disney World® Resort, coming to an end March 31, 2023. However, guests can enjoy the excitement of the Disney Theme Parks all spring long with many on-site conveniences, including access to the Resort's lobby level Disney Planning Center. Staffed by a Disney Cast Member, the Disney Planning Center team offers complimentary assistance with all Disney needs, including assisting guests with purchasing Park tickets conveniently on site, making Disney Park Pass and Disney dining reservations, and much more. Guests can venture to the nearby Disney Theme Parks with complimentary transportation in a luxury motor coach, and enjoy even more time to experience the Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary celebration with 30 minutes Early Park Entry to any Theme Park of choice daily.
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Study says New Jersey is a bad state to retire in
There are many reasons to love living in New Jersey but affordability isn’t one of them, and that’s what pushes New Jersey toward the bottom of the list of the best states to retire.
The survey was conducted by Wallet Hub to determine what the best states are to retire in, and New Jersey ranks second to last. The good news is that we moved up a spot this year; we were dead last in last year’s rankings.
As you might expect, affordability is what really does New Jersey in; we rank 49th in that category, with only New York being more expensive.
To arrive at their numbers, they looked at 47 metrics across three broad categories. The first category is Affordability, which includes things like cost of living, tax friendliness in income and estate settings, and cost of in-home health care and adult day care.
The second category is Quality of Life, considering things like risk of social isolation, labor friendliness for seniors, public transportation, museums, weather, violent crime, and miles of shoreline.
Finally, they measured Health Care; metrics that were studied include the number of family physicians, dentists per capita, nurses per capita, number of geriatricians, life expectancy, and others.
So, how did New Jersey do in those three categories? I already mentioned that we were second to last in Affordability; for Quality of Life, New Jersey ranks 34th. That seems to be way too low considering all there is to do here, plus we are really low for property crime. For Health Care, we are 22nd. Although there seems to be plenty of hospitals in the state.
All that results in a ranking of 49th; only Kentucky is worse.
The best state to retire is Virginia, followed by Florida, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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Ukraine expects to get a coveted U.S. Patriot missile system. How much can it help?
Patriot missile systems have long been a hot-ticket item for the U.S. and its allies in contested areas of the world as a shield against incoming missiles. In Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, they guard against potential strikes from Iran, Somalia and North Korea.
So it was a critical turning point when news broke this week that the U.S. has agreed to send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine — something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sought for months to augment his country’s air defenses. U.S. officials have confirmed the agreement, and an official announcement is expected soon. But experts caution that the system’s effectiveness is limited, and it may not be a game-changer in the war.
A look at what the system is and what it does:
What is the Patriot?
The Patriot is a surface-to-air guided missile system that was first deployed in the 1980s and can target aircraft, cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles.
Each Patriot battery consists of a truck-mounted launching system with eight launchers that can hold up to four missile interceptors each, a ground radar, a control station and a generator. The U.S. Army said it currently has 16 Patriot battalions. A 2018 International Institute for Strategic Studies report found that those battalions operate 50 batteries, which have more than 1,200 missile interceptors.
Ukraine says it intercepted more than a dozen Russian drones over Kyiv as the U.S. is poised to approve sending Kyiv a Patriot air-defense system.
The U.S. batteries are regularly deployed around the world. In addition, Patriots also are operated or being purchased by the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Taiwan, Greece, Spain, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Romania, Sweden, Poland and Bahrain.
The Patriot system “is one of the most widely operated and reliable and proven air missile defense systems out there,” and the theater ballistic missile defense capability could help defend Ukraine against Iranian-supplied ballistic missiles, said Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Patriot cost
Over the years, the Patriot system and missiles have been continually modified. The current interceptor missile for the Patriot system costs about $4 million per round and the launchers cost about $10 million each, CSIS reported in its July missile defense report. At that price, it’s not cost-effective or optimal to use the Patriot to shoot down the far smaller and dramatically cheaper Iranian drones that Russia has been buying and using in Ukraine.
“Firing a million-dollar missile at a $50,000 drone is a losing proposition,” said Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Corps reserves colonel and senior advisor at CSIS.
Deployment concerns
A Patriot battery can need as many as 90 troops to operate and maintain it, and for months the U.S. was reluctant to provide the complex system because sending forces into Ukraine to operate it is a nonstarter for the Biden administration.
A Ukrainian mayor surrendered his city without a fight, but Russian forces still left Kupiansk tortured and destroyed.
But there were also concerns that deployment of the system would provoke Russia, or risk that a missile fired could end up hitting inside Russia, which could further escalate the conflict. According to officials, the urgent pleadings of Ukrainian leaders and the devastating destruction of the country’s civilian infrastructure, including loss of electricity and heat as winter drags on, ultimately overcame U.S. reservations about supplying the Patriots.
A key hurdle will be training. U.S. troops will have to train Ukrainian forces on how to use and maintain the system. Army solders assigned to Patriot battalions get extensive training in effectively locating a target, locking on it with radar and firing.
The U.S. has trained Ukrainian troops on other complex weapons systems, including the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS. In many cases they’ve been able to shorten the training, getting Ukrainian troops out to the battlefront in weeks. Officials have declined to provide details on how long the Patriot training would take and where exactly it will be done.
Patriot capabilities
Ukraine faces a range of Russian threats, and the Patriot is good against some and not that useful against others.
One former senior military official with knowledge of the Patriot system said that it would be effective against short-range ballistic missiles and represented a strong message of U.S. support, but one battery wouldn’t change the course of the war.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Ukraine deal has not yet been made public, noted that one Patriot battery has a long firing range but can cover only a limited broad area. As an example, Patriots can effectively protect a small military base, but can’t fully protect a large city such as Kyiv. They could only provide coverage for a segment of a city.
President Vladimir Putin claims that Russia’s nuclear arsenal is ‘more advanced’ than that of any other nation.
Patriots are often deployed as a battalion, which includes four batteries. This won’t be the case with Ukraine, which officials said would be receiving one battery.
The Patriot has a more powerful radar that is better at discriminating targets than the Soviet-era S-300 system the Ukrainians have been using, but it has limitations, both Karako and Cancian said.
Still the Patriot’s ability to target some ballistic missiles and aircraft could potentially protect Kyiv if Russian President Vladimir Putin carried through on his threat to deploy a tactical nuclear device. But that would depend on how the weapon was delivered, Karako said. If it was a gravity bomb delivered by a warplane, the system could target the aircraft; if it was a cruise or short-to-medium-range ballistic missile, it could also possibly intercept the missile, Karako said.
Raytheon, which manufactures the Patriot, says it has been involved in 150 intercepts of ballistic missiles since 2015. The success rate of the Patriot, however, has been repeatedly questioned. A 1992 Government Accountability Office report said it could not find evidence to support reports that the system had achieved a 70% success rate against Scud missiles in the Gulf War. In 2018, Saudi Arabia’s success in using Patriots against missiles fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen was questioned when videos surfaced of systems failing.
But beyond the Patriot’s capabilities, its deployment is a big statement of support for Ukraine.
“There’s a lot of symbolism here,” Cancian said.
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Hurricanes vs. Devils: Betting Trends, Odds, Advanced Stats - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 2
The Carolina Hurricanes are on their home ice at PNC Arena against the New Jersey Devils in Game 2 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Friday, May 5, beginning at 8:00 PM ET on TNT, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Hurricanes have a 1-0 lead in the series. Oddsmakers give the Hurricanes -115 moneyline odds in this matchup with the Devils (-105).
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Hurricanes vs. Devils Game Info
- When: Friday, May 5, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Hurricanes Betting Insights
- The Hurricanes have gone 50-25 when favored on the moneyline this season.
- Carolina has a 50-25 record (winning 66.7% of its games) when playing as a moneyline favorite of -115 or shorter.
- Based on this game's moneyline, the Hurricanes have an implied win probability of 53.5%.
Devils Betting Insights
- This season the Devils have been an underdog 25 times, and won 15, or 60.0%, of those games.
- This season New Jersey has won 15 of its 25 games, or 60.0%, when it's the underdog by at least -105 on the moneyline.
- The sportsbooks' moneyline implies a 51.2% chance of victory for the Devils.
Hurricanes vs Devils Additional Info
Hurricanes vs. Devils Rankings
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Hurricanes Advanced Stats
- In Carolina's past 10 contests, it went over once.
- In their past 10 games, the Hurricanes are putting up 0.3 fewer goals per game than their season-long average.
- The Hurricanes' 3.2 average goals per game add up to 262 total, which makes them the 15th-ranked scoring team in the NHL.
- On defense, the Hurricanes are one of the best squads in league action, allowing 210 goals to rank second.
- With a +52 goal differential, they're ranked seventh-best in the NHL.
Devils Advanced Stats
- The Devils are currently on a 10-game stretch of failing to go over the total.
- Over their past 10 games, the Devils and their opponents are averaging 7.8 goals, 1.6 goals lower than their season-long per-game average.
- The Devils have the NHL's fourth-best scoring offense (289 total goals, 3.5 per game).
- The Devils' 222 total goals given up (2.7 per game) are the eighth-fewest in the NHL.
- They have a +67 goal differential, which is third-best in the league.
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Alaska kids served sealant instead of milk at school program
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A dozen children and two adults were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer program at an Alaska elementary school after containers were apparently mixed up, the school district superintendent said Wednesday.
Several students complained of burning sensations in their mouth and throats, and at least one child was treated at a hospital after the Tuesday morning incident in Juneau, Superintendent Bridget Weiss said.
Juneau police are leading the investigation of how the mix-up occurred, “not really because we believe there’s anything criminal or mal-intent at this point, but we do want a thorough investigation of what happened, how it happened, and they’re trained investigators,” Weiss said.
The incident happened while students in the day care program at Sitʼ Eeti Shaanáx̱-Glacier Valley Elementary in Alaska’s capital city were served breakfast. The program is for kids ages 5 to 12.
All food items including milk from a dispenser were provided by a contractor and served by staff. The breakfast items were put on trays, which students took to tables to eat.
Shortly after, children began complaining that the milk tasted bad and caused burning sensations in their mouths and throats.
After school district and contract personnel looked at the container label, it was discovered the clear plastic bag of milk that had been placed in the dispenser was actually a floor sealant that resembles the milk.
Poison control officials were contacted as well as parents. Two of the children who were picked up by their parents may have sought medical advice, the district said.
Weiss said the milk and the floor sealant, which is also a milky, white substance, both come in large plastic bags that are stored inside cardboard boxes. For the milk, the pouch is removed from the box and placed inside the dispenser to serve with meals instead of in cartons.
Both the milk and sealant were stored at a district commodity storage site off campus.
Weiss said that somehow, boxes with sealant in large pouches were “stored or moved on the same pallet as large pouches of milk that were also in cardboard boxes.”
“We don’t know how that happened, but they were all put on the same pallet,” she said. “That pallet was delivered, and the assumption was that it was milk because that’s what we thought was being delivered.”
Part of the investigation will be to determine why food items were stored in the same building as chemicals.
There was no odor or chemical smell to the sealant, but school standards dictate that any chemical used must have a low ingestion risk.
“That was true of the sealant, so our students are doing fine,” she said. A couple of children still had upset stomachs Tuesday evening, but many others were feeling well, she said.
The sealant was removed and placed in chemical storage, and the school district had a state food inspector on site Wednesday morning to verify all proper protocols were in place.
“We are up and running today,” she said.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, MyChargeBack, the international provider of complex transaction dispute resolution services that include forensic cryptocurrency investigations, has issued a warning to the public to be on the alert for fake cryptocurrency recovery firms.
Since the so-called "crypto winter" began in November 2021, bitcoin and ether have dropped close to 75% from their peak, and they were the lucky ones. All told, the cryptocurrency industry lost over $2 trillion in value over the past year. But then it got even worse. In June, Celsius, a pioneering cryptocurrency lender, filed for bankruptcy, revealing that its balance sheet was $1.2 billion in the red. And then, this month, came the collapse of FTX, which is estimated to have wiped as much as $32 billion off the ledgers.
"The bottom line is that untold numbers of crypto investors have been left holding the bag," states Michael B. Cohen, Vice President of Global Operations at MyChargeBack. "And regrettably, we now see a dramatic surge in scams posing as 'crypto recovery firms' that seek to capitalize on that, especially in connection with Black Friday and Crypto Monday, which have come to mark the start of the holiday season."
Cohen notes that any website that claims to provide a 100% guarantee that it will recover cryptocurrency is deceiving the public. "With few exceptions, no one can recover crypto alone, because recovery almost always requires the involvement of the police and often the courts as well," he explains. "A claim of 100% success is a red flag for a fund recovery scam."
In searching online for professional assistance with cryptocurrency cases, Cohen also stresses the need to verify the company's provenance before contacting it. "Obviously, a firm whose website URL was registered only a week ago cannot seriously claim to have recovered millions of dollars for thousands of clients over the past year," he emphasizes. "But that's exactly what these scam websites that pop up overnight say."
Most importantly, however, are the deliverables. "Without knowing who the beneficiary is there is no way crypto can be recovered," Cohen adds. "Open-source software that anyone can use can trace the linear path cryptocurrency takes between a sender and a receiver, but the maximum it can provide is the address of the last wallet the crypto landed in, not the exchange that hosts it, which is the vital information that has to be provided to the police to assist them in opening a criminal investigation," he says. "So consumers have to be sure that the professional they contract with instead employs advanced, coin-tracking software that does just that," he concludes. "Otherwise, they'll be scammed a second time."
About MyChargeBack
MyChargeBack is a global leader in resolving complex, card-not-present disputes, having pioneered innovative strategies for pursuing chargebacks and other forms of restitution. Its mission is to level the playing field in the payments industry by improving the way consumers and issuing banks work to assess and validate disputes, and to facilitate the recovery of cryptocurrency by using state-of-the-art technology to conduct forensic blockchain investigations. Led by former financial services executives with expertise in payments, regulation and law, MyChargeBack's success is enhanced by its working relationship with more than 800 banks and 450 law enforcement agencies in over 100 countries, which has enabled it to assist thousands of clients recoup millions in assets that otherwise could have been lost. Founded in 2016, MyChargeBack maintains offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Pretoria.
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