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LITTLE RIVER-ACADEMY, Texas — The Academy Bumblebees are hungry for more after a historic playoff run in 2021 and enter the season with high expectations. Academy enters the year ranked No. 13 in Conference 3A-I.
The Bumblebees will rely on one of the top quarterback-wide receiver duos in the state as junior Kasey Mraz looks to connect with Scout Brazeal yet again. The pair combined for 17 touchdown passes in 2021.
Academy will likely feel some growing pains after the key departures of long-time starters Darion Franklin, John Tomasek and Blake Bundy. However, the Bees do bring back quite a few playmakers in the middle of their defense.
Academy is projected to finish third in the difficult District 11-3A I, behind reigning state champions Lorena and Franklin.
2022 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE:
8/26 vs Rogers 7:30
9/2 vs Lago Vista 7:30
9/9 at Hillsboro 7:30
9/16 at Salado 7:30
9/23 at Troy* 7:30
9/30 vs Lorena* 7:30
10/7 at Cameron Yoe* 7:30
10/14 Open
10/21 vs McGregor* 7:30
10/28 at Rockdale* 7:30
11/4 vs Franklin* 7:30
*District Game
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600+ members from the global food, feed, and soy industry across 50+ countries in San Diego
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global soy consumption at 1.087 MMT has exceeded global soy production at 1.061 MMT for the past three years (2019-22) following a doubling in consumption and production over the past 20 years. Soybeans continue to be the United States' number one food and agricultural export, and U.S. Soy's customers are as diverse as the countless uses of a soybean itself.
The U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) will host 600+ industry representatives at SOY CONNEXT - the global U.S. Soy Summit, including 400+ international customers of U.S. Soy from 50+ countries with 200+ U.S. Soy farmers and members of industry, from August 22-24 in San Diego.
"Soy Connext, the industry's premier global summit, will catalyze connections between international customers of U.S. Soy from the animal protein, aquaculture, animal nutrition, edible oil, soy foods, and commodity trading sectors, with U.S. Soy farmers and industry," said Jim Sutter, CEO, USSEC. "With the level of volatility in the world today, it takes vision, resilience, and partnerships to succeed in food and agriculture today. At Soy Connext, we will explore insights, trends, and strengthen our collaborations to advance global nutrition, climate-forward solutions, and progress for people and communities."
USSEC will launch the new 'Soybean Value Calculator' - an innovative tool for soybean crushers to calculate and compare the economic value of soybeans from various countries. Customers can enter company specific data along with soybean composition and physical factor data to analyze the potential economic benefit of choosing U.S. Soy relative to soy of other origins. It's that simple.
Sustainability and transparency are differentiators and a competitive advantage for U.S. Soy customers. As part of Soy Connext, customers from 38 countries will visit U.S. Soy farms across 14 soy-producing states to transparently engage with farmers, inspect the crop, and discuss challenges, needs and opportunities. Further, USSEC, on behalf of U.S. Soy, is the international sponsor of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour providing its customers with credible, third-party, and real-time analysis of U.S. Soy crop quality directly from soy production sites across the United States. Customers and exporter companies will also participate in USSEC's Trade Team Invitational.
"Climatic, economic, and geopolitical events are testing the resilience of the global food system. Uncertainty is the word of the day. We are honored that international companies are rewarding sustainable U.S. Soy's lowest carbon footprint, optimal nutritional bundle, high refining rate, low refining cost, and reliable production and exports by importing record volumes to advance food and nutrition security in the 82 countries we serve," said Doug Winter, USSEC Chairperson, Board Member of the United Soybean Board, and U.S. Soy farmer, Illinois.
Six facts related to U.S. Soy
- Global poultry, pork, and aquaculture consumption are forecast to grow 17.8%, 13.1%, and 23% respectively by 20301
- Global soy foods per capita consumption grew 24% to 2.67 kg in 2020 from 2.16 kg in 20102
- U.S. Soy's top 15 export markets: China, Mexico, EU, Egypt, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Colombia, Taiwan, Canada, Bangladesh, Thailand, S. Korea, Pakistan, Ecuador3
- U.S. Soy's top growth markets (21/22 v. 16/17): Egypt, Turkey, Ecuador, Venezuela, Canada, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, EU. Bangladesh growing. India potential evolving4
- Sustainable U.S. Soy has the lowest carbon footprint when compared with soy of other origins5
- U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance Protocol (SSAP) verified exports are up 33% vs. year ago, and 58% (approx. 38 MMT) of U.S. Soy's total exports (approx. 64 MMT) in MY 21/22 (as of 7/28/22)
Soy Connext will cover the following topics among others:
- Macro dynamics - inflation, or commodity super-cycle
- Shifting vegetable oil market
- Sustainability in the global feed industry
- Plant-Based Proteins: Consumer Trends & Opportunities
- Sourcing specialty food grade & IP beans
- Live reports on 2022 #USSoy crop ahead of #Harvest22
Noteworthy global speakers at Soy Connext include:
- Matt Ammerman, Commodity Risk Manager and VP, E. Europe & Black Sea region, StoneX
- Erik Noland, Executive Director and Senior Economist, CME Group
- Emily French, Chief Executive Officer, Global Ag Protein
- Anja Manuel, co-founder, Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel, LLC
- Marty Ruikka, President, The Pro Exporter Network
- Tom Vierhile, Vice President - Strategic Insights (North America), Innova Market Insights
Other event participants include U.S. Soy farmers representing the American Soybean Association, United Soybean Board, State soy boards, related food and agriculture industry, commodity exporters, among others.
This press release was funded by U.S. Soy farmers, their checkoff and the soy value chain.
About U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC)
The U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) focuses on differentiating, elevating preference, and attaining market access for the use of U.S. Soy for human consumption, aquaculture, and livestock feed in 80+ countries internationally. USSEC members represent the soy supply chain including U.S. Soy farmers, processors, commodity shippers, merchandisers, allied agribusinesses, and agricultural organizations. USSEC is funded by the U.S. soybean checkoff, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) matching funds, and industry. Visit www.ussec.org for the latest information on U.S. Soy solutions and news about USSEC and U.S. Soy internationally.
1 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Food and Agriculture Organization 2021 Agriculture Outlook Report
2 USSEC-Agromeris Global Soy Foods Market Report 2021
3 SDA Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS) data MY 2021/22 through June-2022
4 SDA Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS) data MY 2021/22 through June-2022
5 Blonk Consultants, Agri-footprint database 5.0 analysis, 2019
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If you prefer to gift your friends and loved ones (or yourself!) experiences instead of products for the holidays, Groupon is having a week-long savings event connecting shoppers to local experiences and services, plus travel deals and more.
The savings begin with early deals on Friday, Oct. 7 and culminate with limited and exclusive deals on Groupon Day, Friday, Oct. 14. Groupon Day will feature savings and one-of-a-kind promotions that you won’t be able to find anywhere else, like deals on spa treatments, workout classes and cosmetic procedures, along with oil changes to give someone going on a holiday trip and a chance to own your own vineyard vines.
“According to our research, experiences such as concerts, sporting events, museum passes, beauty and wellness services and treatments and travel packages continue to dominate shopping lists this holiday season,” Melanie Hellenga, Groupon’s vice president of brand and performance marketing, said in a press release. “This is also a big time of year for our merchants offering those experiences, and we’re excited to also help connect shoppers to local businesses they can support in their communities.”
Deals depend on your location and local businesses, so we can’t tell you exactly what you’ll find during the week and on Groupon Day. But you can expect savings of up to 75% on local beauty and wellness services and treatments, savings on activities like bowling and golf, and discounts on food and drink such as brewery tours and sushi-making classes.
You’ll also find an extra 10% off some travel deals on Oct. 7-8 only and savings on top national brands like Universal Studios Hollywood, Great Wolf Lodge, Cirque du Soleil, Talmi Entertainment’s “Nutcracker! Magic of Christmas Ballet” and more.
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Next up, the Groupon Adventure Passes are also priced at $250, but include $5,000 in Groupon Bucks to use on things like concerts, sporting events, escape rooms or trampoline parks. Use these on any Things To Do deals near you.
The third passes, called Groupon Rom-Com Getaways, are based on Groupon’s research of America’s favorite romantic comedy film. According to the company, “Pretty Woman,” is the winner, followed by “Coming to America,” “The Wedding Planner,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle.”
The three rom-com getaway packages are valued at $3,500 and available for New York City, Los Angeles or Napa Valley (depending on your film preference) for just $350 each. There will be a limited number of packages available per city and those who purchase a pass will work with a Grouponcierge event planner to book the trip. The Grouponcierge will handle all of the travel arrangements, so all you have to do is focus on re-creating the memories and moments that make up your favorite rom-com!
If you do want to buy gifts that fit under the tree this holiday, Amazon is having a special savings event for Prime members Oct. 11-12.
The Prime Early Access Sale gives Prime members early access to holiday deals and some of Amazon’s lowest prices of the year. The deals include up to 80% off select Fire TV smart TVs, savings on Alexa-enabled devices and deals on products from Lego, Adidas, Hasbro, KitchenAid and more.
While you do need a Prime Membership to get the deals, you can become a Prime member and shop the deals the same day. A membership costs $14.99 a month (or $139 a year), but you can also start a 30-day free trial.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 1,100 points and the S&P 500 had its biggest drop in nearly two years Wednesday, as big earnings misses by Target and other major retailers stoked investors’ fears that surging inflation could cut deeply into corporate profits.
The broad sell-off erased gains from a solid rally a day earlier, the latest volatile day-to-day swing for stocks in recent weeks amid a deepening market slump.
The S&P 500 tumbled 4%, its sharpest decline since June 2020. The benchmark index is now down more than 18% from the record high it reached at the beginning of the year. That’s shy of the 20% decline that’s considered a bear market.
The Dow dropped 3.6%, while the Nasdaq fell 4.7%. The three indexes are on pace to extend a string of at least six weekly losses.
“A lot of people are trying to guess the bottom,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. “Bottoms occur when there’s nobody left to sell.”
The S&P 500 fell 165.17 points to 3,923.68, while the Dow slid 1,164.52 points to 31,490.07. The Nasdaq slid 566.37 points to 11,418.15.
Smaller company stocks also fell sharply. The Russell 2000 fell 65.45 points, or 3.6%, to 1,774.85.
Retailers were among the biggest decliners Wednesday after Target plunged following a grim quarterly earnings report.
Target lost a quarter of its value after reporting earnings that fell far short of analysts’ forecasts. In a sign of the impact of inflation, particularly on shipping costs, Target said its operating margin for the first quarter was 5.3%. It had been expecting 8% or higher. The company also said consumers returned to more normal spending habits, switching away from TVs and appliances and buying more toys and travel-related items.
The report comes a day after Walmart said its profit took a hit from higher costs. The nation’s largest retailer fell 6.8%, adding to its losses from Tuesday.
The weak reports stoked concerns that persistently rising inflation is putting a tighter squeeze on a wide range of businesses and could cut deeper into their profits.
“These retailers are having to balance how much of the higher inflation to pass on to consumers versus eating it, so that goes into questions about profitability on the part of companies and that gets to some of these lingering valuation questions for the market,” said Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at All Star Charts.
Other big retailers also racked up hefty losses. Dollar Tree fell 14.4% and Dollar General slid 11.1%. Best Buy fell 10.5% and Amazon fell 7.2%.
Technology stocks, which led the market rally a day earlier, were the biggest drag on the S&P 500. Apple lost 5.6%, its biggest decline since September 2020.
All told, more than 95% of stocks in the S&P 500 closed lower. Utilities fell, though not nearly as much as the other 10 sectors, as investors shifted money to investments that are considered less risky.
Bond yields fell as investors shifted money into lower-risk investments. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.88% from 2.97% late Tuesday.
The disappointing report from Target comes a day after the market cheered an encouraging report from the Commerce Department that showed retail sales rose in April, driven by higher sales of cars, electronics, and more spending at restaurants.
Stocks have been struggling to pull out of a slump over the last six weeks as concerns pile up for investors. Trading has been choppy on a daily basis and any data on retailers and consumers is being closely monitored by investors as they try to determine the impact from inflation and whether it will prompt a slowdown in spending. A bigger-than-expected hit to spending could signal more sluggish economic growth ahead.
“To be sure, consumers continue to spend, but many of the top retailers are unable to pass along the higher labor costs and higher prices wrought by a still constrained supply chain,” said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial.
Target warned that its costs for freight this year would be $1 billion higher than it estimated just three months ago. And Target and Walmart each provided anecdotal evidence that inflation is weighing on consumers, saying they held back on purchasing big-ticket items and changed from national brands to less expensive store brands.
The Federal Reserve is trying to temper the impact from the highest inflation in four decades by raising interest rates. On Tuesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell told a Wall Street Journal conference that the U.S. central bank will “have to consider moving more aggressively” if inflation fails to ease after earlier rate hikes.
Investors are concerned that the central bank could cause a recession if it raises rates too high or too quickly. Worries persist about global growth as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts even more pressure on prices for oil and food while lockdowns in China to stem COVID-19 cases worsens supply chain problems.
The United Nations is significantly lowering its forecast for global economic growth this year from 4% to 3.1%. The downgrade is broad-based, which includes the world’s largest economies such as the U.S., China and the European Union.
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Veiga reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/asia-stocks-mixed-after-wall-st-gain-powell-warns-on-rates/ | 2022-05-19 01:44:32 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/asia-stocks-mixed-after-wall-st-gain-powell-warns-on-rates/ |
Ten minutes separated the Chicago Cubs from the cusp of ending a season-high losing streak to their worst loss of the season.
A five-run lead entering the bottom of the eighth should have provided enough cushion for the Cubs to put away the Houston Astros. Instead they departed Minute Maid Park ahead of Thursday’s day off with a crushing 7-6 walk-off loss that raised more questions about how the Cubs bullpen can get on track.
The Cubs (19-24) head to Philadelphia, where they kick off the last leg of their three-city, nine-game trip Friday carrying a five-game losing streak.
“We’ve got to cash that win in,” manager David Ross said. “You’re trying to set guys up for success and match up things that go well, and it didn’t go well tonight. So you’ve got to look at it. Go back to the drawing board and continue to have those guys work.”
Mark Leiter Jr., pitching for the second time in 10 days, allowed two runs in the eighth and struck out three. Keegan Thompson was called on for the ninth against the Astros’ 7-8-9 hitters with a 6-3 lead.
Within three pitches, the Cubs advantage was whittled to a run courtesy of Jake Meyers’ two-run homer. A full-count walk to pinch hitter Mauricio Dubón ended Thompson’s night.
Thompson says he doesn’t feel any different from a season ago, when he posted a 1.47 ERA in 36 relief innings. As the Cubs try to maximize Thompson’s usage and how his body recovers after pitching, they have not yet been able to deploy him in the same manner.
All 12 of his 2022 relief appearances were at least two innings with the majority lasting three. Only six of his 15 outings this year have gone multiple innings.
For the Cubs bullpen to function within how it was built entering the season, they need the 2022 version of Thompson. Traffic on the bases has been a constant problem for the right-hander, even when he tosses zeroes.
Through 15 appearances, he has allowed at least one baserunner in all but one game. The lone exception came in his previous appearance Sunday in Minnesota.
Thompson doesn’t believe the quality of his stuff has been an issue.
“Things aren’t going my way right now,” he said. “Just had some hard contact today. It’s a punch in my gut. It just sucks to let the team down.
“I‘ve done the exact same stuff the whole time, and some of them haven’t been working out. It’s just tough to go through some of those hard times right now.”
Ross did not waste time getting Brandon Hughes up in the bullpen. The lefty began warming up after Astros catcher Yainer Díaz’s first-pitch leadoff single in the ninth. The prompt decision highlights the urgency of the moment and Ross knowing he needed to have a lefty ready for the top of the order, in preparation for Thompson facing the minimum three-batter requirement.
Hughes surrendered a double to Jeremy Pena and intentionally walked Alex Bregman to load the bases with nobody out. After getting a forceout at home, Hughes gave up Kyle Tucker’s walk-off, two-run single to center.
“The boys played well enough for a win and we didn’t do our job,” Hughes said, “so it hurts.”
The blown lead squandered Drew Smyly’s stellar outing in which he limited the Astros to one run in six innings. Seiya Suzuki (two home runs) and Christopher Morel (home run) led the offense.
“We’re just excited to get out of this city,” Smyly said. “I mean, we’ve seen enough of it. Ready to get home.”
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The New York Yankees, led by right fielder Aaron Judge, who is closing in on Roger Maris’ AL home run record, face the Texas Rangers in a regular season game on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022 (10/3/22) at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
Local fans can watch the game via DirectTV Stream –– YES Network for fans in New York, Bally Sports Southwest for fans in Baltimore. Out of market fans can watch via MLB Network on fuboTV.
Fans in New York can watch Rangers vs. Yankees here: DirectTV Stream (YES Network)
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What: MLB regular season
Who: Yankees vs. Rangers
When: Monday, Oct. 3, 2022
Where: Globe Life Field
Time: 7:05 p.m. ET
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A decades-old, mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card could break a record at auction.
The collector’s item from 1952 features one of baseball’s most celebrated and charismatic legends, and is widely regarded as one of just a handful in near-perfect condition.
It’s estimated the final cost of the card could exceed $10 million when the auction ends Aug. 27. The record is $6.6 million for a 1909 Honus Wagner card that was sold at auction a year ago, months after another 70-year-old Mantle card fetched $5.2 million.
Interest was already heavy Monday when the auction debuted online, with bidding already up to at least $4.2 million.
No matter the final price for the rare Mantle rookie card, it will be a hefty profit for the current owner, a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur who bought it for $50,000 at a New York City show in 1991.
“Every time he got up to the plate, the crowd would go crazy, the roars would be there. And he never disappointed you. ... He had that aura about him,” card owner Anthony Giordano said of Mantle, who spent his entire career with the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968. “Whether you’re from the New York area or not, or a Yankees fan, it was always Mickey Mantle that was highlighted.”
The switch-hitting Mantle — “the Mick” — was a Triple Crown winner in 1956, a three-time American League MVP and a seven-time World Series champion. The Hall of Famer, who died in 1995, was considered a humble player on the field. When he hit a home run, he would often run the bases with his head bowed.
“I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases,” Mantle once said.
As for the baseball card, its rarity is on par with its subject’s mythical reputation.
“The quality of the card is the key,” said Derek Grady, the executive vice president of sports auctions for Heritage Auctions, which is running the bidding. “Four sharp corners, the gloss and the color jumps off the card.”
Grady said that the collectibles market is having a renaissance, noting that cards that are “the creme de la creme, the best of the best, are still selling despite the economy right now” and that Mantle, “the king” of baseball cards, “has always done well.”
Giordano, 75, said it was time to give the Mantle card a new home.
“It’s the right thing to do,” he said. “My boys and I have had the cards for over 30 years, and we’ve enjoyed it. We’ve enjoyed showing anybody that’s close to me — friends and relatives — and I think it’s time for someone else.”
The card will be on display in Atlantic City from Wednesday through Sunday at the National Sports Collectors Convention, and at the New York office of Heritage Auctions the following week.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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ST. CLOUD, Fla. (AP) — Traffic on Florida’s Turnpike stopped moooooving for several hours Monday after a cattle hauler caught fire, and dozens of cows blocked the roadway, authorities said.
The hauler’s semi-cab began to catch fire shortly before noon near St. Cloud, south of Orlando, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.
The driver, a 47-year-old Alabama man, pulled the truck over to the turnpike’s outside shoulder, officials said. He then opened the cattle trailer door, allowing about 70 cows to escape the smoke and flames.
The local fire department responded and extinguished the fire. No injuries were reported. The cattle hauler was towed from the scene.
Florida’s Turnpike was closed in both directions and traffic was diverted for nearly four hours as officials dealt with the fire and rounded up the cows.
Officials did not immediately say what caused the truck fire. | https://www.ksn.com/news/weird-news/ap-strange-news/officials-cows-block-floridas-turnpike-after-truck-fire/ | 2022-07-19 06:43:57 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/weird-news/ap-strange-news/officials-cows-block-floridas-turnpike-after-truck-fire/ |
MIAMI (AP) — Several civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging Florida’s new immigration law.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Americans for Immigrant Justice and the American Immigration Council filed the lawsuit in Miami federal court against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody and Statewide Prosecutor Nicholas B. Cox on behalf of the Farmworker Association of Florida and others, according to court records.
The legislation that DeSantis, a Republican, signed into law in May bolsters his migrant relocation program and limits social services for immigrants lacking permanent legal status. It also expands requirements for businesses with more than 25 staffers to use E-Verify, a federal system that determines if employees can legally work in the U.S. Another provision requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to include a citizenship question on intake forms.
The lawsuit specifically focuses on provisions that criminalize the transportation of individuals into Florida who may have entered the country unlawfully and have not been “inspected” by the federal government since. The complaint states it is unconstitutional for a state to unilaterally regulate federal immigration and subject people to criminal punishment without fair notice. It also asserts Florida’s use of the term “inspection” is incoherent and unconstitutionally vague.
DeSantis launched a campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in May, playing up his tough stance against illegal immigration. DeSantis has sent Florida National Guard soldiers to Texas for border security and directed Florida to pay for charter flights carrying migrants from Texas to other parts of the country.
The governor’s office didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment about the lawsuit on Monday. A spokesman for the governor’s office previously has said the new law targets illegal immigration, not those who are in the U.S. legally. | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-civil-rights-groups-sue-florida-officials-over-new-immigration-law/ | 2023-07-18 19:22:43 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-civil-rights-groups-sue-florida-officials-over-new-immigration-law/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Two people were injured in an Orange County house fire Thursday afternoon.
Firefighters said when they arrived at the home on Aguila Place in east Orange County, they saw smoke and flames coming from the garage.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Taking a break in the paddock after watching Max Verstappen during a practice session Saturday at the Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne teenager Kaitlyn Bourne was loving her day at the track.
The 17-year-old Bourne, who was wearing a clear plastic poncho over a Red Bull sweater on a wintry day at Albert Park, is a massive fan of Australian Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo, who is sitting out this season.
But Bourne, who comes from a motorsport-loving family and watches every Grand Prix race, hopes that one day she will have the chance to support a female F1 driver.
“It is still a very male dominated sport, so it would be good to bring in more females. I think it could happen,” she said.
There has not been a woman driver in a Formula 1 race for more than 40 years. But with estimates suggesting that 40% of current Formula 1 fans are female, the motorsport industry is making a concerted effort to ensure that changes.
The highest-profile female driver in recent years has been Danica Patrick. The now-retired American is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel car racing — her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman in an IndyCar Series race.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said this week in Melbourne he believes gender equality in the sport is inevitable.
“I think it is fantastic to see the amount of girls, females, that are showing interest in Formula One now and we’re seeing it at all levels,” he said. “I think the interest is growing. It is appealing to more women to get involved in the sport, whether that is from an engineering basis, or across all aspects of the organization.
“As the sport does become more accessible, and we are pushing to make it more accessible, I think that is something that will naturally happen anyway.”
Horner was responding to reports that a team evenly divided between men and women from the cockpit to the executive offices was looking to enter F1 within two to three years.
Former British American Racing founder Craig Pollock told CNN last week he hoped to debut “Formula Equal” from the 2025 or 2026 season.
FIA chief executive Mohammed ben Sulayem posted on social media that he had instructed his staff to consider launching an “expressions of interest” process for prospective teams.
Pollock said he had interest from financial backers for his proposal to field an 11th team.
“Our ambition is to deliver and build opportunities and pathways for women to get to the very top level inside motorsports,” Pollock told CNN. “The concept and the idea is to try and build a Formula One team (that is) 50% male, 50% female, which is extremely hard to do if you have an existing Formula One team. It’s a lot easier with a clean sheet of paper.”
Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer said the importance of equality in Formula One was clear to all participants.
“So anything we can do to increase diversity in F1, I think everyone here would welcome it,” he said.
Bourne, whose interest in Formula One increased via the Netflix hit series Drive to Survive, said the introduction of the W Series in 2019 was a step in the right direction. That series was criticized for not including any female drivers, even from the W series.
“I think it is getting better. I know there is a women’s series now. So that is good,” she said.
Aaliya Ally, who is also from Melbourne, was attending the race with a friend.
“In terms of gender equality, I think it is good that there are more opportunities for women,” she said. “But I hope that it continues to get better and better and that they keep expanding it.”
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Back-to-back home runs by Semien, Seager propel Rangers past Angels 6-3
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien and Corey Seager hit back-to-back homers with two outs in the seventh inning to lift the Texas Rangers to a 6-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Semien’s two-run homer struck high up the left-field foul pole to break a 1-1 tie. Seager followed with a shot to right field on the next pitch.
The homer capped a 2 for 5 game for Semien, who came in hitless in 15 at-bats and 3 for 28 following a career-best 25-game hitting streak.
"I’m still doing the same things I was doing during the streak," Semien said. "You’re going to have ups and downs, but you just fight through it."
Shohei Ohtani hit a two-run homer in the ninth, his AL-leading 21st, and went 2 for 4 to extend his hitting streak to a season-high 11 games. The homer was an opposite-field blast into the second deck traveling 453 feet.
"When he’s in a groove like this, it’s fun to watch," Angels manager Phil Nevin said.
Leody Taveras hit a solo homer in the third and added one of two RBI singles in the eighth inning.
The Rangers snapped a three-game losing streak and lead the A.L. West by 3½ games. Their 42-25 record ties the franchise best through 67 games.
The Angels saw a three-game winning streak end as they left 10 runners on, nine in the first four innings.
Josh Sborz (3-2) got the win working scoreless seventh and eighth innings.
Jimmy Herget (1-3) allowed Texas’ three seventh-inning runs in his one inning of relief of Reid Detmers.
The Angels scored their run when Mike Trout drew a two-out walk and came around on Anthony Rendon’s flare that struck the inside of the right-field line about 200 feet from home plate. Texas right-fielder Adolis Garcia, who leads major league outfielders with nine assists, rifled a throw to the plate just as Trout rounded third. The throw landed in front of the plate and bounced high over catcher Mitch Garver as Trout slid in.
Los Angeles left the bases loaded in the third and fourth inning, knocking out former Angel Andrew Heaney.
"It’s not too often you chase the starter in the fourth with close to a hundred pitches, only get one (run) off of him," Nevin said.
Detmers threw 65 pitches through five innings but needed 30 to get through the sixth. He left the bases loaded, striking out Josh Jung and Jonah Heim.
COMING AND GOING
Texas recalled C Sam Huff from Triple-A Round Rock, activated RHP Joe Barlow from the injured list, designated C Sandy Leon for assignment and optioned RHP Owen White back to Double-A Frisco a day after White was recalled and pitched two innings in his major league debut.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: SS Zach Neto left the game after the first inning because of cramping in his left side. … INF Gio Urshela (back soreness) was out of the starting lineup for third consecutive game. … LHP Matt Moore (right oblique strain) could be throwing off a mound late this weekend, Nevin said.
Rangers: RHP Jon Gray (blister), scratched from a Monday start, should return to the rotation in four or five days, manager Bruce Bochy said.
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Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (9-2, 2.49 ERA) has a chance to become MLB’s second 10-game winner when he starts the series finale on Thursday night. He is 8-0 with a 1.65 ERA and two complete games in his last 10 starts. Two-way Angels star RHP Ohtani (5-2, 3.22) is winless in his last four starts on the mound. Ohtani is 2-1 with a 5.66 ERA in four starts at Globe Life Field. | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/back-to-back-home-runs-by-semien-seager-propel-rangers-past-angels-6-3 | 2023-06-15 15:18:21 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/back-to-back-home-runs-by-semien-seager-propel-rangers-past-angels-6-3 |
Family: Boy, 11, dies of infection after sprained ankle
WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) - An 11-year-old Florida boy died just days after a sprained ankle led to a flesh-eating bacterial infection, family members said.
Jesse Brown, a fifth grader at Lakemont Elementary School in Winter Park, was injured while using a treadmill last month, his cousin, Megan Brown, told local news outlets. Winter Park is located just north of Orlando.
Megan Brown said the family noticed the boy’s leg was covered in reddish-purple bruises a few days after the accident and that the bruises were the first sign of strep-A. She said the bacteria entered his bloodstream and eventually shut down his organs. Jesse was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and died a few days after that, his cousin said.
“In my mind, I was in complete disbelief,” she told WOFL. “I was like, ‘He’ll be fine. This could never happen to our family.’”
The Foundation for Orange County Public Schools has started a memorial fund for Jesse to help his family with hospital and funeral expenses. The foundation said Jesse had attended Lakemont Elementary since kindergarten and was member of the school’s safety patrol.
“Jesse was kind and compassionate, looked out for others, adventurous, and truly an amazing friend and classmate,” the foundation said in a statement. “He also knew how to make the most of fun times with friends outside and lived life to the fullest with his BMX and dirt bike racing.”
Megan Brown also set up a GoFundMe for Jesse’s memorial services and hospital bills. She remembered him as a “completely happy boy... destined for great things.”
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LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SESAC Performing Rights hosted its annual Film & Television Composer Awards at the Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, California, on Thursday, June 2. The invitation-only event was attended by some of the industry's top executives, publishers, and composers. The awards dinner honored SESAC's top composers in the categories of film, network television, local television, cable television, and streaming media.
"This year seems particularly special, as we join together to celebrate the achievements of our writers," said Erin Collins, SESAC's Vice President of Film, Television, and Developing Media. "We're thrilled to have some new faces and honored to represent our legacy composers. We are always humbled by the incredible talent and accomplishments of our composers and grateful we can come together as a community to celebrate their successes."
Christophe Beck was honored for his film composition of Free Guy, while Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart – The Newton Brothers – were honored for The Forever Purge. In other categories, several television composers including Danny Lux, Gabriel Mann, and Jon Ehrlich, took home awards, recognizing the compositions to some of the industry's most popular shows to include A Million Little Things, Grey's Anatomy, Manifest, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and many more.
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SESAC Performing Rights is the second oldest PRO in the U.S. It drives efficiency in licensing for music users and enhances value for its affiliated writers, publishers, and composers by providing timely, efficient royalty collection and distribution. SESAC represents thousands of top-tier songwriters and film composers from a broad range of genres including artists such as Adele, Christophe Beck, Rosanne Cash, David Crosby, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Lalah Hathaway, Kesha, Gabriel Mann and many more. SESAC Music Group is a leader and innovator in music licensing that administers public performance, mechanical, and other rights through SESAC Performing Rights and its affiliates including The Harry Fox Agency, Rumblefish, and Mint Digital Services. SESAC Music Group has offices in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London and Munich.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Comedian Trevor Noah, the former host of “The Daily Show,” has won the prestigious Dutch Erasmus Prize, becoming the first humorist awarded the honor since Charlie Chaplin in 1965, the foundation that selects the winner announced Thursday.
The award is named for Dutch philosopher and humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus, who lived from 1466 to 1536.
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation said in a statement that Noah, 39, was receiving the prize “for his inspired contribution to the theme ‘In Praise of Folly,’ named after Erasmus’s most famous book, which is filled with humor, social criticism and political satire.”
The foundation added: “With his sharp-minded, mocking yet inclusive political comedy, Noah, in the eyes of the jury, upholds the ‘Erasmian Spirit.’”
Noah, who rose to prominence as a stand-up comic in his native South Africa, announced last year he was leaving Comedy Central's “The Daily Show” after a seven-year run.
The Dutch foundation noted that Noah's time anchoring the satirical late night talk show coincided with the presidency of Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
“With his astute reflections on such issues, he garnered a young, diverse and global audience and, in the process, infused a highly polarized media landscape with a breath of fresh air,” the foundation said.
The award, which carries a cash prize of €150,000, is given annually to “a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts, in Europe and beyond,” according to the foundation.
Previous winners include dissident playwright and former president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, the British artist Grayson Perry and online dictionary Wikipedia.
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SALMON, ID - Little change is being reported at the Moose Fire near Salmon, Idaho.
The blaze remains at 130,093 acres and remains 51% contained, according to the Tuesday update.
Fire managers say fire activity may increase due to continued warm weather and gusty winds.
Additionally, smoke may be seen as pockets of previously unburned fuels within the fire perimeter and near the fire’s edge are consumed.
Pumps have been removed — with hose lays left in place — in the Diamond Creek, Stormy Creek, Bob Moore, Morning Glory, Savage Ranch, and Wallace Creek structure protection areas.
Meanwhile, fire managers report little fire activity was seen at the 747-acre Owl Fire on Monday.
The latest evacuation information from the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office can be found at https://bit.ly/LemhiCountyEvacs.
There are 693 people assigned to the human-caused fire which was sparked on July 17 near the confluence of Moose Creek and the Salmon River. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/fire-watch/moose-fire-near-salmon-idaho-holding-at-130-000-acres | 2022-09-20 19:08:53 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/fire-watch/moose-fire-near-salmon-idaho-holding-at-130-000-acres |
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, hereinafter referred to as "SKT") today held a press conference in Barcelona, Spain, to unveil its ambitious plans to achieve 'AI to Everywhere' by driving innovations in five different areas, namely Customer & Technology, Time & Space, AI Transformation(AIX) for Industries, Core Business Model, and ESG.
Customer & Technology
CEO Ryu said that SKT's AI service 'A.' has successfully settled in the Korean market by securing 1 million subscribers within just 9 months of its launch, and unveiled plans to further upgrade the service to not only shape it into the leading AI service in Korea, but also to develop opportunities in the global market.
Through acquisition of sufficient knowledge data and machine learning, SKT is currently developing A. features that will enable users to engage in highly intellectual dialogues as well as emotional conversations that make users feel as if they are talking to their friends. It also plans to keep linking more and more features to A. for a more intuitive user experience – i.e. by removing the need to move between apps or conduct cumbersome searches.
The company plans to expand the variety and scope of A. features/services from 30 to 100, and is currently promoting partnerships with popular character companies.
CEO Ryu stated that the new features, including advanced conversations, multiple characters, and customized content, will be included in the updated version of A. to be released within this quarter.
He also shared his ambitions to advance into the global market with A. by customizing the service to each different market and advancing related technologies in cooperation with global telcos and AI tech companies.
Time & Space
CEO Ryu said that SKT will expand time and space for customers by increasing the realm of its business from ground to air and from reality to virtual space, and expand its role from a mobile operator to mobility operator via services like urban air mobility (UAM), autonomous driving and robots.
He explained that the company is moving fast to achieve commercialization of UAM service by developing use cases and conducting test flights, and has gained strong competitiveness in key UAM technologies such as aircrafts, 5G UAM communication network, navigation/ control, and location analysis.
Ryu also unveiled plans to introduce diverse use cases – e.g. UAM flight between airport and city centers, tourism products, etc. - in collaboration with local governments including Jeju and Daegu.
In the area of autonomous driving, which is being promoted as a long-term project, the company plans to enter into the AI solutions market.
CEO Ryu stated that SKT will develop a world-class self-driving solution package by combining SAPEON's semiconductor chip for autonomous driving, software technology of Phantom AI, a company SKT decided to invest in, and SKT's experience acquired through the operation of 'Nugu Auto,' an AI platform for automobiles.
In the area of robots, the company has launched diverse types of robots, including logistics robot and barista robot, and plans to boost the AI ecosystem by cooperating with Qualcomm and Integrit to develop an open robotics data platform.
CEO Ryu also talked about ifland, a metaverse service that takes customers beyond limitations of time and space.
With over 2,500 partners and 4 million monthly active users (MAU), ifland has grown into Korea's representative metaverse service optimized for virtual gatherings.
Ryu said that SKT will shape ifland into a global leading social metaverse platform by evolving it into a 3D space-based social networking service in April, expanding ifland's economic system through the adoption of a content marketplace and Web3 system, and increasing partnerships both home and abroad.
He unveiled that ifland has gained a bridgehead into the European, North American and Asian markets by signing MOUs with global telcos including Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, Axiata and CelcomDigi.
AI Transformation (AIX) for Industries
CEO Ryu explained that SKT is facilitating AI transformation of industries with its AI technologies. The company is working closely with brilliant startups in areas such as infrastructure & hardware, base technology, and application/service, and plans to continuously expand into new business areas, including security, health care, advertising, smart factory and enterprise solutions.
He said that SKT is witnessing rapid growth in the infrastructure & hardware area by achieving outstanding performance in the AI semiconductor market in partnership with SAPEON Inc.
AI semiconductor chip X330 to be released by SAPEON Inc. in the second half of this year is expected to provide four times stronger performance than its predecessor, X220. SAPEON is increasing its market presence by supplying chips to NHN Cloud, SKT NPU (Neural Processing Unit) Farm, SK Hynix's Smart Factory, and expanding the ecosystem through close collaboration with Phantom AI (autonomous driving), and Konan Technology (deep learning model).
By attracting investment, SAPEON saw its corporate value increase by more than six times in less than a year, from KRW 80 billion at the time of establishment in 2022 to KRW 500 billion in 2023.
In the cloud business, SKT is creating synergies with Bespin Global, Asia's No.1 managed service provider by cooperating with OpsNow to jointly develop an AI-based cloud management platform.
In the area of base technology & application/service, the company launched an integrated advertising platform 'ASUM' by combining its massive customer data with Moloco's AI/machine learning technology.
In addition, in cooperation with AI software company Konan Technology, SKT is working to expand into diverse industries, including robot, media, data analysis, commerce, airport and manufacturing, with AI video, machine learning and digital twinning, etc.
The company is also collaborating with Swit, a global work OS solution provider, to integrate internal and external services including MeetUs and Toktok, conduct joint marketing leveraging sales capabilities of SKT and SKB, and advance AI technologies.
Armed with world-class vision AI technologies, SKT plans to advance into the global market through cooperation with global top cloud service providers. The company is generating tangible results by offering 'X Caliber,' a vision AI-based veterinary image diagnostic solution adopted by over 120 veterinary clinics, and other services such as security dispatch and industrial safety management using AI cameras.
Core Business Model
CEO Ryu explained how AI can enhance the competitiveness of SKT's core businesses like mobile telecommunications, media and subscription.
In line with the trend where boundaries between businesses are blurring, SKT will promote a whole new digital transformation in its mobile telecommunications business to innovate customer experience through hyper-personalized services.
In the media business, the company is preparing AI TV, AI commerce and AI content to enhance customer experience and accelerate AI transformation across the media value chain.
SKT's subscription business 'T Universe' saw its subscribers, partners and GMV double last year. This year, efforts will be made to increase both the size and profitability of the business by creating synergies between T-Deal and Btv, introducing new products (e.g. financial, insurance, rental, etc.), and partnering with major global brands.
This year, the company plans to launch an AI-based open subscription commerce platform to recommend what customers want through hyper-personalized marketing based on lifecycle data, and allow partners to manage and supply products on the platform.
ESG
CEO Ryu stressed that SKT aims to create a better world with AI by tackling social problems by utilizing AI technologies.
SKT's language AI and vision AI technologies are spreading a positive influence throughout society. 'AI Care' and 'Nugu Care Call' have been provided to a combined total of 50,000 one-person households, and AI Care has rescued 400 seniors in emergency situations. Also, SKT's Spam Filtering System blocked more than 4 million cases of smishing last year alone. Moreover, the company is working together with many social startups including Tuat, a social startup providing visual assistance apps for people with visual impairments.
Accelerating AI Transformation through Partnerships
CEO Ryu said that SKT will accelerate AI innovations through partnerships and collaborations with AI tech companies. In this regard, CEOs of SKT's AI partners, including Phantom AI, SAPEON, Bespin Global, Moloco, Konan Technology, Swit, and Tuat, attended the press conference to introduce their AI technologies and future vision.
Ryu stressed that together with its partners, SKT will make efforts to build a new ecosystem and play a leading role in realizing AI transformation that delivers unprecedented value to all customers, companies and industries.
"SKT's AI innovation in the five areas is aimed at realizing 'AI to Everywhere,' which refers to applying AI to every part of our lives," said Ryu Young-sang, CEO of SKT, "Our ultimate goal is to create a world where everyone can benefit from AI."
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SK Telecom has been leading the growth of the mobile industry since 1984. Now, it is taking customer experience to new heights by extending beyond connectivity. By placing AI at the core of its business, SK Telecom is rapidly transforming into an AI company. It is focusing on driving innovations in areas of telecommunications, media, AI, metaverse, cloud and connected intelligence to deliver greater value for both individuals and enterprises.
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Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky is pushing for more security assistance from the U.S. and western allies as his troops face an immense assault from Russian forces in the embattled town of Bakhmut.
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that aired Wednesday night, Zelensky renewed a plea for the Biden administration to supply F-16 fighter jets as Ukraine struggles to fend off repeated Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure.
The Ukrainian president said President Biden previously told him that Ukraine does not need advanced fighter jets in the current state of the war, a position Zelensky said he disagrees with.
“What fighter jets could do is they could help us to defend ourselves,” Zelensky argued. “It’s a part of the air defense … and we don’t have the fighter jets to deal with it and to counteract the Russian hits. We really need this.”
Zelensky also told Blitzer that Ukraine will need additional “new weaponry” from western allies in order to carry out a counteroffensive against Russian forces in occupied regions of eastern Ukraine.
That includes long-range artillery, which the U.S. has yet to provide over fears Ukraine might strike into Russian territory. Zelensky told CNN that Ukraine is not interested in Russian land.
“We need only to protect our peaceful civilian population,” he said. “I believe we can push Russia even further with these long-range missiles.”
Zelensky said Ukraine can win the war given time and enough assistance from allies. He said Kyiv does not want to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin while Russian troops are in Ukraine, saying Putin doesn’t “hold his word” and Ukraine lacks “any confidence in him.”
The latest phase of the war has centered around the town of Bakhmut. Russian troops, led by the mercenary company Wagner Group, have likely captured the eastern part of the city after throwing waves of soldiers at Ukrainian lines for months.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Wednesday that Russia could seize the city within a matter of days.
“What we see is that Russia is storming in more troops, more forces and what Russia lacks in quality, they try to make up in quantity,” Stoltenberg said ahead of a meeting with the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union.
Several war analysts have said it could end up costing Kyiv to continue to hold Bakhmut, but Zelensky has vowed to hold onto the town and decided to reinforce defenses after a meeting with his top commanders on Monday.
“This is tactical for us,” Zelensky told CNN. “We understand that after Bakhmut they could go further” into the Donetsk region.
Zelensky also said Ukrainian leadership is united behind Bakhmut and he wants to deny Russia a symbolic victory after Moscow has suffered a year of setbacks in the war effort.
“Russia needs at least some victory, a small victory, even by ruining everything in Bakhmut,” he said. “They need to put that little flag on top of there … to mobilize their society and create this idea they are such a powerful army.”
Ukraine will need more assistance to ward off future Russian advances and liberate more territory.
Congress approved roughly $113 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine last year, but remaining funds are expected to run out at some point this year.
House Republicans who took control of the lower chamber this year are being closely watched to see whether they will approve another large aid package for Ukraine.
In his interview with Blitzer, Zelensky expressed his appreciation for the bipartisan support for his country so far. He also invited Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to come to Ukraine.
“I’m not trying to influence his position, he’s a free person, he can have any position he chooses,” Zelensky said. But “it’s very important when someone comes here and sees in his own eyes the consequences of war.”
McCarthy told CNN he does not need to visit Ukraine when he considers passing the next aid package.
“I will continue to get my briefings and others, but I don’t have to go to Ukraine or Kyiv to see it,” McCarthy said. “And my point has always been, I won’t provide a blank check for anything.”
In the CNN interview, Zelensky also touched on President Biden’s visit to Ukraine last month, when the U.S. leader made a surprise appearance in Kyiv just days before the Feb. 24 one-year anniversary of the war.
“We showed … we’re not afraid of Russia,” Zelensky said, adding the “visit as a whole was very symbolic and a very motivating one.” | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/zelensky-pushes-for-more-us-aid-as-russia-pressures-bakhmut/ | 2023-03-09 04:59:51 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/zelensky-pushes-for-more-us-aid-as-russia-pressures-bakhmut/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Twist Bioscience Corporation ("Twist" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TWST). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Twist and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On November 15, 2022, Scorpion Capital published a short report on Twist (the "Scorpion Report"). The Scorpion Report described Twist as "[t]he latest miniaturized 'lab-on-a-chip' scam, just like Theranos, Berkeley Lights, and other failures" and "[a] ticking time bomb that we believe is resorting to a Worldcom-esque accounting fraud". The Scorpion Report alleged that "Twist's reported gross margins of 45% are simply implausible" and claimed that "[m]ultiple competitors internally refer to Twist's price dumping and customer subsidy scheme as a 'Ponzi'".
Following publication of the Scorpion Report, Twist's stock price fell $7.57 per share, or 19.92%, to close at $30.43 per share on November 15, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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A shooting that took place near Orlando is under investigation, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday evening.
Deputies responded to a call just after 7:30 p.m. regarding a shooting on the 1800 block of Baywood Avenue where a man in his 20s was found shot, OCSO said. The victim was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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CHS's Brooklyn Calder to participate in Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade
Carlsbad High School student Brooklyn Calder, who is a member of the Carlsbad High School cheerleading squad, will represent this community in the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade in Honolulu at an event Dec. 4 through Dec. 9. According to a press release, cheerleaders and dancers invited to perform are part of a select group of All-Americans identified at various Varsity Spirit summer camps across the country. Only 12 percent of participants are selected. Carlsbad High School attended camp in Albuquerque this past July.
According to the press release, All-Americans are selected based on superior cheerleading or dance skills as well as leadership skills at the camps.
Brooklyn and other participants will perform prior to the opening ceremony of the parade and then participate in the parade itself. The parade theme is “remembering the past and celebrating the future,” and everyone invited will participate in a visit to the Pearl Harbor Memorial and the USS Missouri Battleship. The trip marks the 81st Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Congratulations to Brooklyn Calder on being selected for this incredible honor.
For more information about the Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade, please visit www.pearlharborparade.org.
We’ve received word about another Carlsbad team who competed in the 3V3 Live National Championships soccer tournament last week in Florida. Congratulations to the SuperSonics Soccer Club members: Bria Franco, Jax Aguilera, Carter Bussell, Kieran Fuentez, Rylan Franco, and Vivian Zhao for representing Carlsbad and the surrounding area, as well as to Coach Jaime Aguilera. This is a very exclusive, highly competitive tournament.
There’s a new substance abuse program again available in Southeast New Mexico. According to a press release, the New Mexico Rehabilitation Center in Roswell has resumed its Intensive Outpatient Program for substance treatment. We have excellent programs in Carlsbad, such as those offered by LifeHouse, but the more programs made available in our region the better.
This program consists of three hour treatment groups per day, three days a week. For more information, please call 575-347-3440.
On Tuesday, we attended a memorial service for Tony Guevara Jr., who was the owner of Pest and Weed Control in Carlsbad and who was very well known and loved across the entire community. He especially enjoyed spending time at his grandkid’s sporting events. We offer our condolences to Tony’s many family and friends, and thank Pastor Gabe Rubio for conducting a very moving memorial service. | https://www.currentargus.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/12/01/chss-brooklyn-calder-to-participate-in-pearl-harbor-memorial-parade/69689262007/ | 2022-12-01 14:09:26 | 1 | https://www.currentargus.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/12/01/chss-brooklyn-calder-to-participate-in-pearl-harbor-memorial-parade/69689262007/ |
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — In a copycat league known for following the Stanley Cup champions, Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog paused when asked what other teams could do to emulate their success.
With a grin, Landeskog replied: “Find a Cale Makar somewhere.”
Playoff MVP Cale Makar was a big part of Colorado’s title run from the blue line, but more than anything else the Avalanche showed the value of speed and skill in the NHL as hockey moves dramatically to prioritize those elements in the name of scoring. The Avalanche and the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning, who fell two wins short of a threepeat, also provided evidence that it’s worth taking risks at the trade deadline for the right fits.
Colorado traded its top two prospects and a couple of second-round picks to acquire forward Artturi Lehkonen and defenseman Josh Manson, along with trades for Andrew Cogliano and Nico Sturm that helped the Avalanche win their first championship since 2001. Captain Gabriel Landeskog had plenty of praise for general manager Joe Sakic and assistant Chris MacFarland in the moments after winning the Cup.
“Joe and C-Mac did a great job of picking up some pieces along the way that really, really made us hard to play against,” Landeskog said. “Look at Cogs, look at Homer (Darren Helm), look at Sturm -- look at all these guys, all these pieces that they just want to win so bad they want to do whatever it takes. It just adds up to just a hard team to play against.”
Perhaps the best lesson from this postseason is what a team that’s hard to play against looks like.
The fast-moving Avalanche roared through the Western Conference playoffs that for years was known for big, heavy teams that pushed each other around. They needed the bulk and grit provided by Manson, center Nazem Kadri and others to endure the Lightning.
Thanks to sixth-year coach Jared Bednar, who instilled a focus in his team after several playoff disappointments, Colorado was also mentally ready for Tampa Bay’s push -- and much like the Lightning proved patience can pay off for organizations willing to stand behind their most important people even amid trying times.
This Stanley Cup Final finished that point, after the Lightning staved off elimination to send the series back to Tampa. Even after falling behind in Game 6, the Avalanche bounced back to be champions.
“They came at us, we collected ourselves and we were poised,” owner Stan Kroenke said. “This team will beat you if you’re not poised.”
And the Lightning may do this to more teams next year. While the Avalanche are facing a cap crunch with Manson, Kadri and goaltender Darcy Kuemper up for free agency, Tampa Bay for the first time in a few years has some room to maneuver without breaking up its core.
Goal-scoring winger Ondrej Palat and defenseman Jan Rutta are free agents, along with trade deadline acquisition Nick Paul, but Lightning GM Julien BriseBois has worked magic before to get under the cap, and with it going up $1 million next season, there’s some breathing room.
Don’t bet against the Lightning reaching a fourth consecutive final and going for a third championship in four years. They are 10-1 favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, right behind Colorado (5-1) and Toronto (9-1).
“Who says we’re done, right?” captain Steven Stamkos said. “This core is here and we’ve battled and been through everything you can think of and for the most part we’ve found a way to come out on top.”
Except this year, when the Avalanche’s depth and talent was simply too much to overcome. That was a product of Sakic adding three players at the deadline, which came in handy when injuries threatened to derail the organization’s latest attempt to get over the hump with the core led by Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and, of course, Makar.
“We found a way,” Rantanen said.
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By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers is proposing a $600 million annual tax cut, an election year proposal that Republican legislative leaders are rejecting as a “vote-buying ploy. Evers announced the proposed cut Tuesday at the same time as his Republican rival, Tim Michels, was touring Kenosha on the second anniversary of sometimes violent protests over a police shooting. Michels has made Evers’ reaction to the unrest in Kenosha a key plank of his campaign against the Democratic incumbent. Michels and legislative leaders accused Evers of trying to divert attention from the anniversary of the Kenosha unrest. Evers says he is trying to help families struggling with high inflation.
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Combining Token Events' blockchain-based technology with Fortress's suite of ticketing, digital memorialization, and payments APIs will deliver connective, closed-loop experience to fans, entertainers, and venues
AUSTIN, Texas , Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Token Events announced their partnership with Fortress Blockchain Technologies to expedite and expand their work to deliver a complete digital transformation of the live and virtual event space. Token Events combines best in class blockchain technology and behavioral science to engage fans, empower entertainers, and integrate venues. They'll leverage Fortress' Web3 infrastructure to mint NFTs for tickets, hold them in their native application, and process USD & crypto payments for merchandise and ticket sales. As for the experience, the combined technology serves:
- Fans by safeguarding and authenticating their tickets, rewarding their participation, and unlocking additive touch-points throughout and beyond the event
- Entertainers by giving them an unprecedented line-of-sight into their fans' key behaviors and a path to further engage them outside of the performance
- Venues by empowering them to build direct relationships with patrons through engagement and rewards
The two companies share a vision for blockchain technology driving measurable benefits for companies, venues, and creators, and seamless experiences for end users — without the technological burden.
"We're taking the live events space and making it a living organism in which people on all sides symbiotically participate. Token becomes the connective tissue among all users and fans, allowing them to grow the ecosystem together and fuel the experiences they love," says Adam Jones, CEO of Token Events.
The company's new approach to live events turns the Web3 conversation on its head — instead of expecting users, venues, and entertainers to learn net-new technologies, they're starting at the vision of a closed-loop, rewarding live event experience and building from there.
"What Token Events is doing will transform the way consumers, venues, and entertainers connect, and we're delighted to be supporting their mission," says Ryan Miller, CRO of Fortress. "They'll be using multiple core Fortress products to create a seamless, integrated experience that meets the entire events industry right where they are."
Both companies are seeing significant momentum in the space. Token has successfully launched its MVP, centered on a friendly user experience that makes innovative tech approachable. The Non-Fungible Experience, or NFE, evolves NFT ticketing by going beyond entry and encapsulating the entirety of the event experience. Token looks forward to onboarding users through exciting beta partners, such as the Chicago Lions rugby teams, the University Blockchain Alliance, and De Lis Group in Barcelona.
At the same time, Fortress has been eliminating barriers to Web3 with simple, streamlined APIs that power businesses at any stage of Web3 adoption to quickly launch and scale. They've launched their embeddable wallets for NFTs and fungible rewards tokens; mint NFTs; and ability to integrate key financial services are backed by a secure, regulated financial institution, Fortress Trust.
About Token Events
Token Events is a blockchain-based behavioral science and loyalty reward company building the future of fandom. The Token platform focuses on a seamless experience: one that accommodates existing user needs and behaviors with intuitive design, IRL usability, and robust $FAN incentives. The result is a bridge that integrates the digital and physical realms and fosters a dynamic, reciprocal relationship between fans and the brands who serve them. For the first time, FANs will be directly rewarded for their loyalty, participation, and data.
About Fortress
Fortress Blockchain Technologies is purpose-built to create financial, regulatory and technology infrastructure for the rapidly emerging Web3 space. This includes embeddable NFT & crypto wallets, frictionless minting engines, encrypted vaults for non-public content, and financial services for payments, compliance, custody and crypto liquidity. Fortress recently raised a $22.5M Seed Round led by Ayon Capital.
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About 70 shots fired at barbershop
By Josslyn Howard
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LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — About 70 shots were fired overnight at a barbershop in the city of Lancaster.
WGAL video from the scene (posted above) shows the front window of DC Dior Cuts riddled with bullet holes.
The business is located at the corner of North Franklin and East Walnut Streets.
According to police, no one was injured.
There were multiple officers at the scene Wednesday morning. One of them was marking shell casings and gathering evidence.
Nicholas Burgos lives next door and is also a barber at the shop.
“I knew it was gunshots, being prior military. So, I knew what it was. It was a lot. Loud. It sounded like it was right outside my door. I was about to walk my dog when it happened. We both dropped,” he said.
“I’ve seen a lot of different stuff, but I’ve never seen so many yellow markers being placed out on the street. That one seemed really personal,” neighbor Michael Christian said.
Police said the incident doesn’t appear to be random.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 717-735-3301.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A bus carrying 28 migrants from Texas arrived in Philadelphia on Wednesday, including a 10-year-old girl suffering from dehydration and a high fever who was whisked to a hospital for treatment.
Advocates who welcomed them with coats and blankets as they arrived before dawn on a cold, drizzly morning said the families and individuals came from Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The city and several nonprofit groups were ready to provide food, temporary housing and other services.
“In general, people feel relieved. We want them to know that they have a home here,” said Philadelphia City Council member Helen Gym, who accompanied several of the migrants onto a second bus taking them to an intake center.
“There’s a 10-year-old who’s completely dehydrated. It’s one of the more inhumane aspects that they would put a child who was dehydrated with a fever now, a very high fever (on the bus),” Gym said.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that Philadelphia would be the next destination for migrants the state has been transporting by the thousands from the U.S.-Mexico border to Democrat-led cities, news that came a week after the Republican easily won reelection.
Texas has put more than 300 busloads of migrants on the road since April, sometimes five in a day, on unannounced journeys to cities including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The trips have cost Texas about $26 million, according to Nim Kidd, chief of Texas Department of Emergency Management.
New York Mayor Eric Adams has accused Abbott’s office of being unwilling to coordinate to help them plan for the arrivals. Kidd, whose agency is overseeing the departures, said nongovernmental organizations on the ground are in touch with colleagues elsewhere.
“We have full confidence that the NGOs that we are working with are communicating with the NGOs in the places these buses are being delivered to,” Kidd told lawmakers Tuesday.
U.S. officials stopped more than 2 million illegal border crossings in the last fiscal year, a record high that reflects the deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, migrants at the U.S. border were stopped 2.38 million times, up 37% from 1.73 million times the year before.
Advocates in Philadelphia who greeted the latest group of 23 adults and five children said it was not clear how long they had been traveling. One said the trip would typically take about 40 hours.
“The kids are frightened, they’re exhausted, they’re tired,” said Emilio Buitrago of the nonprofit Casa de Venezuela. “They’re going to go to a place … where they’re going to have comfy, warm beds with a blanket, and warm food. From there, we’re going to work on relocation.”
A few people were met by relatives almost immediately, while others planned to reunite with family or friends in nearby states. Only one adult and an infant were expected to stay in the city, officials said. Three others exited the bus before it reached Philadelphia.
Abbott has sent the buses to Democratic-led cities to point out what he calls the inaction of the Biden administration to address the migrant surge. In all, he’s sent more than 13,000 migrants out of state since April.
Critics condemn the practice as a political stunt, but voters rewarded Abbott last week with a record-tying third term as Texas governor in his race against Democrat Beto O’Rourke. Abbott made a series of hardline immigration measures the centerpiece of his campaign.
Nearly 6 in 10 Texas voters favored Abbott’s decision to send migrants to northern cities, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of almost 3,400 voters in the state.
In a statement Tuesday, Abbott’s office said Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney “has long-celebrated and fought for sanctuary city status, making the city an ideal addition to Texas’ list of drop-off locations.”
Kenney, a Democrat, was typically blunt in response.
“It is sad and outrageous that Gov. Abbott and his administration continue to implement their cruel and racist policies, using immigrant families, including children, as pawns to shamelessly push their warped political agenda,” he said at a Wednesday morning news conference.
Since the spring, Arizona has sent 70 buses carrying more than 2,500 migrants to the nation’s capital, the office of Republican Gov. Doug Ducey said, citing statistics through mid-November. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another Republican, has flown migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, a resort island in Massachusetts.
Philadelphia had been planning for such a day for several months, working with more than a dozen local organizations to provide migrants with shelter space, emergency health screening, food, water, language interpretation and more. The city has also welcomed waves of Ukrainians, Afghans and others in recent years.
The people arriving from Texas are all in the country legally while they seek asylum, Kenney said.
“It is our duty to welcome and support these folks as they face some of the most trying times of their lives,” Kenney said. “At its core, this is a humanitarian crisis, that started with instability and violence in South and Central America and is being accelerated by political dynamics in our own country.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big box office.
But after the tumult of the pandemic, can the fall movie season just go back to way it was? Many are hoping it can. After two springtime editions, the Academy Awards have returned to a more traditional early March date. The Golden Globes, after near-cancellation, are plotting a comeback. Some movies, too, are trying to recapture a before-times spirit. At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” has booked the same theater “Knives Out” premiered to a packed house almost exactly three years ago.
“Seems like yesterday,” Johnson says, laughing. “OK, a few things have happened.”
After an all-but-wiped-out 2020 autumn and a 2021 season hobbled by the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants, this fall could, maybe, just maybe be something more like the normal annual cultural revival that happens every fall, when most of the year’s best movies arrive.
“We’re all, I think, just trying to will it into existence as at least some version of what we knew before,” says Johnson. “As with everything, you kind of just have to dive into the pool and see what the water’s like. I’m really hoping that at least the illusion of normalcy holds. I guess that’s all normalcy is.”
But “Glass Onion,” with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in a new mystery, is also a reminder of how much has changed. After “Knives Out” was a box-office hit for Lionsgate, grossing $311 million worldwide for Lionsgate, Netflix shelled out $450 million to snap up the rights to two sequels. And while exhibitors and the streaming company discussed a larger theatrical release for “Glass Onion” — a surefire hit if it did — a more modest rollout in theaters is expected before the films lands Dec. 23 on Netflix.
The balance between theatrical and streaming remains unsettled. But after a summer box-office revival and an evolving outlook for streaming by Wall Street, theatrical moviegoing — with its billions in annual ticket sales and cultural footprint — is looking pretty good. For the first time in years, moviegoing has a strong wind at its back. Or at least it did until an especially slow August sapped momentum due largely to a dearth of new wide releases.
“If you look at how many movies we had compared to what business we did, we were operating at 2019 levels,” says John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. “We had 70% of the supply of wide-release movies in the first seven months and we did 71% of the business we did in the same period in 2019. Moviegoers are back in pre-pandemic numbers, it’s just we still need more movies.”
That will be less of an issue as the fall season ramps up. “Wakanda Forever” (Nov. 11) and “The Way of the Water” (Dec. 16) may each vie with the summer smash “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.36 billion worldwide and still counting) for the year’s top film. Less clear, though, is if the fall’s robust slate of adult-driven films and Oscar contenders can once again drive moviegoing. Last year’s best-picture winner, “CODA,” from Apple TV+, ran the awards gauntlet without a cent of box office.
Among the most anticipated films hitting the fall festival circuit and theaters are Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” (Nov. 23); “Blonde” (Sept. 16), starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe; Todd Fields’ “TÁR” (Oct. 7), with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” (Dec. 9); “The Son” (Nov. 11), Florian Zeller’s follow-up to “The Father”; Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till saga “Till” (Oct. 14); Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Oct. 21); James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” (Oct. 28); and the Cannes Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness” (Oct. 7).
Superhero films (“Black Adam,” Oct. 21, starring Dwayne Johnson), kids movies (“Lyle Lyle Crocodile,” Oct. 7), horror flicks (“Halloween Ends,” Oct. 14) rom-coms (“Ticket to Paradise,” Oct. 21, with Julia Roberts and George Clooney) and more high-flying adventures (“Devotion,” Nov. 23) will also mix in, as will prominent titles from streamers. Those include Amazon’s “My Policeman” (Oct. 21), with Harry Styles; and Netflix releases “Bardo” (in theaters Nov. 4), by Alejandro González Iñárritu; “White Noise” (in theaters Nov. 25) by Noah Baumbach; and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (streaming Dec. 9).
But if much of the fall movie season is about restoring what was lost the last few years, for some upcoming movies, change is the point. “Woman King” (Sept. 16), directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood and starring Viola Davis, is muscular fact-based epic about a West African army of female warriors. To Prince-Blythewood, the filmmaker of “Love & Basketball” and “The Old Guard,” “Woman King” represents “the chance to reframe what it means to be female and feminine.”
“I don’t think we have ever seen a movie like this before. So much of our history has been hidden or ignored or erased,” says Blythewood. “‘Braveheart,’ ‘Gladiator,’ ‘Last of the Mohicans.’ I love those movies. Now, here was our chance to tell our story in this genre.”
“Bros” (Sept. 30), too, is something different. The film, starring and co-written by “Billy on the Street” comedian Billy Eichner, is the first gay rom-com by a major studio (Universal). All of its principal cast members are LGBTQ. Comedies have struggled in theaters in recent years but “Bros,” produced by Judd Apatow, hopes a new perspective will enliven a familiar genre.
“It’s a historic movie in many ways,” says Eichner. “That’s not something we thought about when we were first developing it. Nobody sits down and says, ‘Let’s write a historic movie.’ We said, ‘Let’s make a hilarious movie.’ It will make people laugh but it’s unlike anything the vast majority of people have seen.”
“Bros” and “Woman King” are productions meant to challenge the status quo of Hollywood. That’s also part of the nature of “She Said” (Nov. 18), a dramatization of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” (Dec. 2) likewise chronicles a real-life female uprising. It’s based on events from 2009, when Bolivian Mennonite women gathered together after having been drugged and raped by the men in their colony.
Olivia Wilde’s buzzed-about “Don’t Worry Darling,” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a married couple living in a 1950s-style suburban nightmare-slash-male fantasy, approaches some similar themes through a science-fiction lens.
“I want to make something that is just really entertaining and fun and interesting, but actually is my way of provoking conversations about real issues like body autonomy,” says Wilde. “I didn’t know it would be as timely as it is right now. Never in my wildest nightmares did I believe Roe would have been overturned right before the release of this film.”
Other movie production timelines seem to exist almost apart from our earthly reality. James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of the Water” will debut 13 years after 2009’s “Avatar” (still the highest grossing film ever), a follow-up originally scheduled for release in 2014. Since then, so many dates have come and gone that the sequels — four films are now slated to launch in the next five years — have sometimes seemed like blockbuster Godots that might forever wait in the wings.
Speaking from the New Zealand where “The Way of the Water” was being mixed and scored, producer Jon Landau promised the wait is, in fact, nearly over.
“This is finally happening,” said Landau. “Those delays, as you would call them, were really about us creating a foundation for a saga of movies. It wasn’t about going: ‘Let’s get one script right.’ It was about: ‘Let’s get four scripts right.’”
Measuring the change in the movie industry is even harder when it comes to the span in between “Avatar” installments. When the first “Avatar” was in theaters, 3-D was being billed (again) as the future. Barack Obama was in the first year of his first term. Netflix was renting DVDs by mail.
“A lot has changed but a lot hasn’t,” says Landau. “One of the things that has not changed is: Why do people turn to entertainment today? Just like they did when the first ‘Avatar’ was released, they do it to escape, to escape the world in which we live.”
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Each year Bucks Happening Magazine asks residents of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to nominate and vote for the best companies in the area.
YARDLEY, Pa., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bucks Happening Magazine named Biondo Creative of Yardley, Pennsylvania, the Best Bucks County, Pennsylvania Web Design Company for 2022.
Each year, Happenings Media publishes the Bucks Happening List and asks local residents and businesses to vote in a dozen categories for their favorite companies. The Bucks Happening List is Bucks County's People's Choice competition, and it features all the best Bucks County people, places, businesses, and events. From the most loved restaurants to Bucks County's favorite web designer to the most happening family event in the area.
"We are honored to win this award, especially since Bucks County, PA, residents nominate and vote for each company. We are being recognized among so many talented Pennsylvania web design companies; it's really amazing.", said Anthony Biondo, CEO of Biondo Creative.
This year's top web design nominees included: 2B-Unique, Sagefrog Marketing Group, Gabadelphia LLC, SIDES Creative, Zohf Design, Moxie Labs. Finalists included: Planet 8 Digital Agency (Langhorne) and FZP Digital (Richboro).
Previously while headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, Happenings Media awarded Biondo Creative Best Philadelphia Web Design Company three years in a row.
Happenings Media calls for nominations each year, asking residents to vote for their favorite companies in the following areas.
- Hunterdon County, New Jersey
- Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Player of the year candidate Drew Timme scored 22 points, Julian Strawther added 16, and No. 2 Gonzaga used a big first half run to beat North Florida 104-63 in the season opener Monday.
Anton Watson had 10 points, four rebounds, four assists and five steals for Gonzaga (1-0), which won its 68th consecutive home game, the nation's longest streak. The Bulldogs, who have led the nation in scoring for four consecutive seasons, had six players in double figures.
Carter Hendricksen scored 16 points, Jadyn Parker 13 and Jose Placer 12 for North Florida (0-1), a veteran-laden team from the Atlantic Sun Conference that returned its top four scorers from last season.
The Ospreys took a quick 10-8 lead. Gonzaga replied with a 26-0 run, helped by eight North Florida turnovers, to build a 34-10 lead. North Florida went 0-12 from the field during a drought that lasted more than eight minutes.
Malachi Smith had seven points during the Gonzaga run and finished with 15.
The Bulldogs closed the first half with an 11-2 run, holding North Florida without a field goal for the final 4:30, to take a 53-23 halftime lead.
Gonzaga shot 65% in the first half, led by Timme's 16 points, while the Osprey shot just 28%. North Florida committed 13 turnovers in the first, which Gonzaga converted into 20 points.
Rasir Bolton hit a pair of 3-pointers as Gonzaga pushed its lead to 71-34 with 15 minutes left in the game. The Osprey did not threaten again.
Gonzaga shot 63% in the game, compared to 36% for North Florida.
BIG PICTURE
North Florida: The Ospreys were picked to finish fifth in the A-SUN coaches’ poll. They finished 11-20 last season, 7-9 in the league. The Ospreys also face No. 3 Houston and No. 4 Kentucky this year.
Gonzaga: The Zags largely succeeded in avoiding the rough second half performances that showed up in exhibition games against Tennessee and NAIA Warner Pacific. They have won 18 consecutive regular-season openers.
UP NEXT
North Florida plays at Washington on Friday.
Gonzaga plays Michigan State on an aircraft carrier in San Diego on Friday.
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By ERIC OLSON
AP Sports Writer
Twenty-five years have passed since Southern California won its 12th, and most recent, national title in baseball.
Once the gold standard, the Trojans are two decades into a down cycle that has seen the program go through four coaches since Mike Gillespie, the last tie to the glorious Rod Dedeaux era, was forced out.
Since 2006, USC has made the NCAA Tournament once and has had a winning record in Pac-12 play just twice. The Trojans finished last in 2022 and are picked 10th in coach Andy Stankiewicz’s first year.
“It’s been disappointing, to say the least, to see what’s happened,” said former major league star Fred Lynn, one of the program’s beloved figures who won national titles all three years he was with the Trojans in the 1970s.
“I’m a glass-half-full guy and hopeful things can turn around. I don’t want to look at the standings of wherever we’re playing — the Pac-12, Big Ten — and see us at the bottom. That’s so foreign to me and hard to watch.”
Stankiewicz — who appeared in 429 games in seven seasons in the majors with the New York Yankees, Houston, Montreal and Arizona — expects to have the program on an upward trajectory by the time the Trojans and crosstown rival UCLA begin playing in the Big Ten in two seasons. With their inherent recruiting and weather advantages, both should challenge for titles every year in their new conference.
The 58-year-old Stankiewicz has a deep understanding of USC’s traditional place in college baseball — the Trojans have twice as many national titles as any other school — and he appears to be an ideal fit.
He grew up in suburban Los Angeles and watched as Dedeaux stacked up the last of his 11 national titles in the 1970s. He had hoped to play for the Trojans, but it was Pepperdine that offered a scholarship.
“I was on the outside looking in and you’re always asking, ’What’s it like to play for Coach Dedeaux?”’ he said. “Then you’re playing against Mark McGwire and Randy Johnson at Dedeaux Field, this iconic ballpark. You wanted to beat them because you’re competitive, but you also knew this place was pretty special.”
His only other college head coaching job was at Grand Canyon, which he led to five Western Athletic Conference titles since 2015 and two NCAA Tournaments.
“I loved Grand Canyon — they gave me an opportunity to be a head coach — but if ever there was a place intriguing to me as one day possibly coaching, it was SC,” Stankiewicz said.
The Trojans brought back 19 players, including the top two starting pitchers and three everyday players. Stankiewicz’s top priorities were to earn the trust of players through the summer and fall practices and ramp up recruiting.
He hired an impressive staff, including a connection to better times in pitching coach Seth Etherton. He pitched on the 1998 national championship team and was that season’s national player of the year.
“One thing that has gotten lost over the years was the young men understanding the legacy of the players who put USC on the map, from Rod Dedeaux to the Fred Lynns,” Etherton said. “It’s necessary for me to give these guys a history of USC baseball, have them understand what it means to put this logo on your hat and on your jersey. It’s the greatest program in the history of college baseball, and it’s really not even close compared to anyone else.”
The Trojans opened the season with a three-game sweep of Marist before losing a mid-week game to UC Irvine.
They head to Auburn this weekend to play a Tigers team that has appeared in two of the last three College World Series. It will be a measuring-stick series for the Trojans.
Why did the Trojans fall so hard?
Andy Lopez, a College Baseball Hall of Fame coach and Pac-12 Network analyst, points to two factors.
First, the start of the decline coincided with UCLA’s hiring of John Savage in 2005. The Bruins capitalized on the controversial firing of Gillespie in 2006 and established themselves at the top of the Los Angeles area’s college baseball power structure, winning the 2013 national title.
Second, the Trojans swung and missed on their attempts to make splash hires and stayed in-house for the first three coaches after Gillespie. Chad Kreuter, Gillespie’s son-in-law, had losing seasons all four of his years. Frank Cruz was elevated from interim coach and fired after two seasons for violating NCAA rules.
Dan Hubbs, Cruz’s associate head coach, was promoted and lasted seven years. USC then went outside to hire Jason Gill from Loyola Marymount. Gill’s three seasons were marred by the school’s investigations into his treatment of players and possible NCAA violations.
“Good baseball guys,” Lopez said, “but probaby not the right hire at the time when John Savage was at UCLA.”
Lopez said he thinks Stankiewicz is the right guy and that the Trojans’ timetable for improvement could be accelerated with the move out of the Pac-12.
“It’s going to be the Big Ten and you’re going to be fine there,” Lopez said he told him in a phone call after his hiring. “You’re still going to have John at UCLA, but when you look at that conference, you’re going to be OK.”
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sycamore Entertainment Group, Inc. (SEGI) is pleased to restate that it was the premier sponsor of the Floyd Mayweather, TMT Racing's #50 car, for the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday, May 29, 2022. Considered one of NASCAR's "Crown Jewel" races, the event had more than 50,000 fans in attendance at Charlotte Motor Speedway while being broadcast live on Fox Sports.
As a boxer, Mayweather competed between 1996 and 2017, retiring with an undefeated record and winning fifteen major world championships from super featherweight to light-middleweight with a record of 50 and 0. He entered the #50 Chevrolet for driver Kaz Grala and qualified for the season-opening Daytona 500.
"I love fast cars, and I love to compete. I know NASCAR will not be easy, but anything easy isn't worth doing to me," says Mayweather.
The partnership with TMT Racing support SEGI.TVs' and Mayweather's goal of achieving diversity in motorsports.
"I am excited to have SEGI.TV sponsor TMT Racing's #50 car for the Coca-Cola 600. The Money Team brand stands for excellence and always striving to improve, regardless of the challenges ahead - which is directly aligned with what we believe as we grow the channel," says Edward Sylvan, CEO of Sycamore Entertainment Group Inc. He goes on to say, "This opportunity is scarce in that the majority team owner and premier sponsor of a NASCAR team are both people of color, which speaks to diversity and inclusion in motorsports and is one of our core brand statements at SEGI.TV. We look forward to continuing racing and working with TMT brands going forward."
"We are pleased to welcome Segi TV to the TMT Racing family, and further, we think that the sky is the limit with regard to long term content partnerships with SEGI and their robust platform that boasts the same kind of capability as Showtime, Netflix and other OTT and streaming options. The future is exceptionally bright for this collaboration," says Brent Johnson, Co-Owner of TMT Racing and CEO and Managing Partner of ONE Entertainment Group.
Fans watched the 2022 NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 race on FOX Sports as the green flag dropped and the #50 SEGI.TV car finished 23rd place.
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Sycamore Entertainment is a diversified entertainment company specializing in the acquisition, marketing and worldwide distribution of quality finished feature-length motion pictures. Sycamores' management team utilizes its long-standing relationships to provide market specific publicity, promotion, media buying, theatrical placement and Print and & Advertising financing for domestic theatrical release. Visit: www.sycamoreentertainment.com
About TMT Racing: TMT Racing was bred from the legacy of a winner that came from adversity, the undefeated legend Floyd Mayweather. We are a team that always remembers that we are undefeated if we advance our greater cause and inspire young winners to follow their dreams. Follow the team on Facebook and Instagram @themoneyteamracing Twitter @tmtracing50.
About Floyd "Money" Mayweather: Mayweather has won 15 world titles in five different weight classes. He has a perfect professional boxing record of 50 wins and no losses. He won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics. In addition, he won three U.S. Golden Gloves titles in three different weight classes. He also won the U.S national title at featherweight. In 2021, Mayweather was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — Twist Bioscience Corp. (TWST) on Friday reported a loss of $59.2 million in its fiscal second quarter.
The South San Francisco, California-based company said it had a loss of $1.04 per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1.06 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $1.09 per share.
The maker of synthetic DNA for the biotechnology industry posted revenue of $60.2 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $56.6 million.
For the current quarter ending in June, Twist Bioscience said it expects revenue in the range of $60 million to $61 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $235 million to $238 million.
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Major Milestone for New York's Legal Cannabis Market Prioritizes Social Equity, Furthers Nonprofit's Advocacy for People Impacted by the War on Drugs
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Housing Works Cannabis Co, one of the first recreational cannabis dispensaries to be awarded a CAURD license in the state of New York, is coming to Manhattan with a soft opening scheduled on Thursday, Dec. 29. The storefront located at 750 Broadway in the Astor Place neighborhood is operated by Housing Works, an iconic nonprofit dedicated to relentless advocacy and lifesaving services for tens of thousands of New Yorkers in need.
"This is a once in a lifetime moment," said Sasha Nutgent, Store Manager of Housing Works Cannabis Co. "That said, our nonprofit's mission remains as urgent as ever. We are eager to take the lead as a social equity model for America's cannabis industry, specifically with our hiring practices and continued support of individuals and communities disproportionately impacted by the unjust War on Drugs."
All proceeds from dispensary sales will be directed to parent organization Housing Works, Inc., founded in 1990 to address the dual crises of HIV/AIDS and homelessness. The self-sustaining nonprofit provides job opportunities, legal advocacy and comprehensive housing and health services funded, in part, by revenues from its thrift stores, SoHo bookstore and now its cannabis dispensary.
With a focus on compassion and dispelling stigmas, Housing Works endeavors to move the cannabis industry forward by supporting the practical needs of their community through an equity-driven and harm reduction approach.
"At our core, we're a healing community dedicated to providing housing, healthcare and vocational programs for New Yorkers," said Charles King, CEO of Housing Works. "This opportunity will not only give our team the resources to further our overall mission, but to feature and elevate products coming from LGBTQ+, BIPOC and women-led cannabis brands across the state."
Spanning 4,400 square feet, the renowned building where the dispensary will be, known as 1 Astor Place, was completed in 1883. Housing Works Cannabis Co will welcome patrons with an introductory shopping experience upon opening, with plans to carefully build out an expanded and thoughtfully curated space as cannabis products become more available.
"With its history of supporting New Yorkers, particularly formerly incarcerated individuals, we're proud that Housing Works is seizing this opportunity to grow its resources and deliver more for New Yorkers," said Chris Alexander, Executive Director for the Office of Cannabis Management. "When this store opens, consumers will have the opportunity to purchase tested, safer products grown by family farmers across New York State, reducing risk while supporting their communities."
As part of its soft opening on Thursday, Dec. 29, Housing Works Cannabis Co will host a news conference at 10 a.m. with scheduled appearances by elected officials, ahead of opening to the public at 4:20 p.m.
Housing Works Cannabis Co, located at 750 Broadway in Manhattan, will be open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Hours will adjust in the coming weeks. Learn more at hwcannabis.co.
Housing Works Cannabis Co is a recipient of New York State's social equity license initiative and the first legal cannabis dispensary to open in the state. Founded in 2022 as a bold new extension of Housing Works' established retail outlets—which include thrift store locations across the city and a bookstore in SoHo—proceeds from Housing Works Cannabis Co go directly to the nonprofit organization's mission to end social injustices through the provisioning of lifesaving services and relentless advocacy. For thirty years, Housing Works has provided housing, healthcare and other critical services to New Yorkers affected by AIDS, homelessness, substance use and criminal justice system involvement. The Housing Works Cannabis Co not only generates additional funding for these services, it does so while modeling the positive role cannabis can play in our communities. Learn more at hwcannabis.co
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7. Texas A&M (25-9, 15-3/ SEC)- Since the calendar flipped to 2023, there have been almost no teams in the country hotter than the Texas A&M Aggies. A&M has lost only four times since the start of the new year, and has racked up wins over tournament teams like Missouri (twice), Auburn (also twice), Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Buzz Williams’ group started off the season with losses in the non-conference to the likes of Murray State, Colorado, and Wofford, but they more than made up for it in league play.
Texas A&M has a top-50 offense and hold their opponents to a paltry 65.7 ppg defensively, showing the balance of a team that’s poised to make a deep tournament run. On top of that, they’re also one of the best rebounding units in the country.
If A&M has a weakness, it’s their inconsistency from long-distance, as they shoot only 32.4% from 3, ranking 239thth in the country.
Texas A&M is an experienced group (of their top five scorers, none are freshman) and is capable of beating you in multiple ways. If they can shoot enough from deep, they could a serious sleeper in this years’ Big Dance.
10. Penn State (22-12, 10-10/Big Ten)- The Nittany Lions hadn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2011 and were picked 11th in the 14-team Big Ten preseason poll. Even the most passionate Penn State basketball fan would’ve had to admit that reaching the Big Dance, in that gauntlet of a conference, wasn’t going to be likely. But then Micah Shrewsbury’s squad won 8 of 9 down the stretch, knocked off Maryland, Illinois (twice) and Indiana and reached the Big Ten championship game.
Penn State is led by four seniors in the starting lineup, including 6-4 guard Jalen Pickett, who averages 17.8 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game and poured in 41 in one of the wins over the Illini. Guards Seth Lundy (14.2 ppg) and Andrew Funk (12.3 ppg) are also major contributors. The Nittany Lions are stingy on defense, allowing just 68.3 points per game.
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FBI searched Biden's home, found more classified documents: lawyer
WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday and located six documents containing classification markings and also took possession of some of his notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.
Bob Bauer, the president's personal lawyer, said the search of the entire premises lasted nearly 13 hours. The documents with classification markings spanned Biden's time in the Senate and the vice presidency, while the notes dated to his time as vice president. The search followed more than a week after Biden's attorneys found six other classified documents in the president's home library from his time as vice president, and nearly three months after lawyers found a small number of classified records at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
The president and first lady Jill Biden were not at the home when it was searched. They are spending the weekend at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Bauer said the FBI requested that the White House not comment on the search before it was conducted. He said the FBI "had full access to the President’s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades."
US President Joe Biden speaks to reporters upon arrival at Fort McNair in Washington, DC on April 4, 2022. - Biden returned to Washington after spending the weekend at his Wilmington, Delaware residence. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL
The Justice Department, he added, "took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the President’s service in the Senate and some of which were from his tenure as Vice President."
READ MORE; White House defends its delayed disclosure of classified docs found in Biden's home
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed former Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing surrounding the Biden documents.
"Since the beginning, the President has been committed to handling this responsibly because he takes this seriously," White House lawyer Richard Sauber said Saturday. "The President’s lawyers and White House Counsel’s Office will continue to cooperate with DOJ and the Special Counsel to help ensure this process is conducted swiftly and efficiently." | https://www.fox4news.com/news/doj-searched-bidens-home-found-classified-documents-lawyer | 2023-01-22 03:04:34 | 1 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/doj-searched-bidens-home-found-classified-documents-lawyer |
If you're thinking of wiping down your kitchen with that bottle of Pine-Sol all-purpose cleaner under your sink — stop. It may contain bacteria that could cause serious illness in people with compromised immune systems.
The Clorox Company said Tuesday it has recalled its scented multi-surface cleaners and all-purpose cleaners. The recall doesn't include its iconic original pine-scented Pine-Sol, which is its only product registered as a disinfectant.
The products recalled by the Oakland, California-based company also include scented CloroxPro Pine-Sol All Purpose Cleaners and Clorox Professional Pine-Sol Lemon Fresh Cleaners, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement.
The products “may contain bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an environmental organism found widely in soil and water,” the commission said.
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“The bacteria can enter the body if inhaled, through the eyes, or through a break in the skin. People with healthy immune systems are usually not affected by the bacteria,” the commission said.
Testing identified bacteria in the recalled products produced between January 2021 and September 2022, the commission said. It said consumers should take pictures of the 12 digit UPC code and the date code, throw the product in its container in the trash, and contact the company for a refund. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/recall-alert/clorox-recalls-some-pine-sol-cleaning-products-that-may-contain-bacteria/3402597/ | 2022-10-26 05:13:30 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/recall-alert/clorox-recalls-some-pine-sol-cleaning-products-that-may-contain-bacteria/3402597/ |
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A crash closed the southbound lanes of I-75 near I-275 in northern Hillsborough County Monday afternoon, according to FL511.com.
A large number of emergency vehicles as well as a helicopter are on scene.
Lanes reopened around 3:50 p.m.
The details of the accident have not been released.
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The compact, easy-to-install PS-2™ is the second GPS product to be made in the USA
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GPS® announced today the launch of the PS-2™, a single power transformation solution for the company's latest air-cleaning needlepoint bipolar ionization (NPBI™) technology systems that make optimizing ionization to clean indoor air easier and cost-effective. The PS-2 is the second GPS-designed product to be manufactured in the United States with domestic and global parts, after the successful launch of the CI-2 earlier this year.
The PS-2 is a dedicated power supply transformer for GPS' recently launched compact CI-2 and duct-mounted DM-2 that optimize the delivery of ionization technology to a wide variety of indoor spaces. Designed to support input voltages from 110 to 277 VAC, the PS-2 also facilitates the pass-through of Building Automation System (BAS) alarm contacts. Its output voltage is 24 VDC.
The easy-to-install unit's small size (7.4″ X 1.6″ X 2.4″) and light weight (0.45 lbs) is designed to fit near the compact CI-2 and DM-2 in plenum and non-plenum spaces where traditional air ionizers cannot. The PS-2 is a Class 2 power source certified to UL1310, UL 62368 and UL 2043.
"GPS is proud to continue to manufacture industry-leading devices in the United States, providing our customers and end-users with high quality products that help improve indoor air quality," said Charlie Waddell, GPS founder and Chief Technology Officer. "The PS-2 was designed to power our latest and most innovative compact auto-cleaning ionizers, offering benefits and features that make installation and operation hassle-free and cost-effective while supporting just about any HVAC application."
The PS-2 product supports systems that utilize GPS' patented NPBI technology to help clean the air by reducing airborne particles including certain viruses and bacteria. Particles like dust, dander, smoke and even viruses and bacteria all can be suspended in the air. NPBI technology creates and releases ions into the airstream using an existing HVAC system as the delivery method. When these ions disperse throughout a space, they seek out and form bonds with particles in the air. During the process, particles begin to cluster together, or agglomerate, and are thus easier to filter out of the air. Agglomeration can create an environment that enables the reduction of certain harmful viruses and bacteria, all without introducing harmful levels of ozone or other byproducts.
For technical specifications of the PS-2 and more information on GPS' NPBI technology, please visit https://gpsair.com/products.
Founded in 2008, GPS Air (GPS) is a leader in indoor air quality, with over 30 patents and 250,000 installations worldwide since its founding, including in offices, research labs, schools, universities, health care facilities and airports. GPS devices work in conjunction with HVAC systems as part of a multi-layered solution to help improve indoor air quality using a unique and patented low energy, soft ionization technology application called Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization (NPBI™). GPS branded products are certified to UL 2998, UL's stringent zero ozone standard. This independent certification is also compliant with the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) guidance and follows recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Department of Education guidance. GPS is ISO 9001:15 certified. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, more information about GPS can be found at www.gpsair.com.
GPS' NPBI technology helps to reduce certain viruses and bacteria like SARS-CoV-2, E-Coli, and RSV. Please see https://gpsair.com/third-party-testing for more information. GPS uses multiple data points to formulate performance validation statements. GPS' technology is used in a wide range of applications across diverse environmental conditions. Since locations will vary, clients should evaluate their individual application and environmental conditions when making an assessment regarding the technology's potential benefits. The GPS products have not been evaluated by the FDA as medical devices and, therefore, are not intended to treat, cure, or prevent infections or diseases caused by certain viruses or bacteria. The use of this technology is not intended to take the place of reasonable precautions to prevent the transmission of disease. It is important to comply with all applicable public health laws and guidelines issued by federal, state, and local governments and health authorities as well as official guidance published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including but not limited to social distancing, hand hygiene, cough etiquette, and the use of face masks.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Monday summoned the Greek ambassador to protest the alleged deployment of dozens of U.S.-made armored vehicles to Greek islands which Ankara says should remain demilitarized in line with international treaties.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned, meanwhile, that Turkey wouldn’t hold back on defending its rights and interests against Greece.
Turkish media on Sunday published aerial images that they said showed the deployment of armored vehicles by Greece to the Aegean islands of Samos and Lesbos, heightening tensions between the two NATO countries that have a history of rivalry. Turkish officials say the deployment is in violation of the islands’ nonmilitary status according to international law.
Turkish officials summoned Greek Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. It said Turkey also filed a protest with Washington, but didn’t provide details.
Erdogan accused Greece of engaging in acts of provocation against Turkey.
“We will not fail to defend our country’s rights and interests against Greece by using all the means at our disposal, when necessary,” Erdogan said following a Cabinet meeting.
Turkey and Greece have decades-old disputes over an array of issues, including territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and disputes over the airspace there. The disputes have brought them to the brink of war three times in the last half-century.
Tensions flared in 2020 over exploratory drilling rights in areas of the Mediterranean Sea — where Greece and Cyprus claim exclusive economic zones — leading to a naval standoff.
More recently, Turkey has accused Greece of violating international agreements by militarizing islands in the Aegean Sea. It has also accused Greek surface-to-air missiles of locking on to Turkish F-16 fighter jets carrying out a reconnaissance mission in international airspace — an accusation Greece has rejected.
Athens says it needs to defend the islands — many of which lie close to Turkey’s coast — against a potential attack from Turkey.
A Greek government official told The Associated Press that Greece “fully respects” its international obligations, adding that the Greek ambassador told his interlocuters that “Greece is not the country that is threatening its neighbor with war or assembling a large landing force on its coastline as Turkey has done.”
The official added that Turkey “continues to violate Greece’s sovereignty with its continuous violations of its airspace and overflights of Greek territory.” The official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly to the news media, made the remarks on condition of anonymity.
Turkish media reports quoted security officials as saying 23 of the armored vehicles were sent to Lesbos and 18 others were sent to Samos.
Meanwhile, Greek authorities said a six-year-old migration agreement between Turkey and the European Union remains in effect despite an escalating dispute between the two neighbors over the treatment of refugees.
Notis Mitarachi, the migration affairs minister, said Greece will continue to observe the 2016 deal that allows it to send back most migrants travelling illegally from nearby Turkey.
“It is clear that for those coming from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, that Turkey is a safe country,” Mitarachi said. “Unfortunately, smugglers are still ‘selling tickets’ to people from those countries.”
Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Erdogan last week accused Greece of committing “crimes against humanity” by carrying out potentially deadly expulsions of migrants travelling from the Turkish mainland to nearby Greek islands.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the claims as “absurd,” charging Turkey with “weaponizing” migration to apply political pressure on Greece and other European countries.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two leading young adult authors have a seven-figure deal to write a pair of novels centered on Black, queer characters.
FSG Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, announced Wednesday that George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (no relation) will write two romantic comedies, starting in 2025 with “There’s Always Next Year.” The story is set around New Year’s Day and tells of two cousins looking to get their lives, romantic and otherwise, back in order.
“There is an African proverb that states ‘If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.’ That is what the collaboration experience has been with Leah Johnson. As Black queer people, we are much more powerful when we combine our writing, creativity, and world build as authors together,” George M. Johnson said in a statement.
“If the book is even half as fun to read as it was to write, then brace yourself,” Leah Johnson said. “As books about queer folks continue to face bannings and challenges across the country, writing a book that’s rooted in joy about the way we love one another feels like a liberatory act.”
George M. Johnson is the author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a bestselling “memoir-manifesto” from 2020 that has also appeared on the American Library Association’s annual list of books most frequently challenged by community members or banned. Leah Johnson’s “You Should See Me In a Crown” also was released in 2020 and the following year was Reese Witherspoon’s first choice for her Young Adult Book Club. Time magazine has listed it as among the 100 best young adult books of all time.
“My hope is that by continuing to put this type of work out in the world, and being loud and visible queer authors, we can affirm to young people everywhere that their stories do now, and will always, matter,” Leah Johnson said in a statement. | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-george-m-johnson-and-leah-johnson-have-7-figure-book-deal/ | 2023-02-16 14:00:48 | 0 | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-george-m-johnson-and-leah-johnson-have-7-figure-book-deal/ |
- Lucid and Aston Martin enter long-term strategic technology partnership for the integration and supply of Lucid's state-of-the-art electric vehicle powertrain and battery systems in contracts worth in excess of $450M.
- This landmark agreement marks the first such relationship for Lucid Group's technology arm, a realization of a vision that expands the reach of the company's products and paves the way for future, more mainstream applications.
- Aston Martin will receive direct access to Lucid's proprietary electric powertrain technology, including its ultra-high performance twin motor drive unit, renowned battery technology, and revolutionary Wunderbox.
- Aston Martin will pay Lucid technology access fees for Lucid's technologies in a combination of Aston Martin shares and phased cash payments, with Lucid becoming a shareholder in Aston Martin.
- Additionally, Lucid and Aston Martin will enter into supply arrangements for Lucid's powertrain components and systems.
NEWARK, Calif. and GAYDON, UK, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards for luxury electric experience with the Lucid Air, winner of the 2023 World Luxury Car Award, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to establish a long-term strategic technology partnership with Aston Martin to accelerate the iconic British brand's high-performance electrification strategy and long-term growth.
The relationship, the first of its kind for Lucid, will give Aston Martin access to world-leading electric powertrain technology, which is engineered and manufactured exclusively in-house by Lucid, to power future Aston Martin battery electric vehicles. The agreement will also provide Aston Martin with technical support from Lucid in integrating its proprietary technology into a bespoke all-new electric vehicle platform developed by Aston Martin, as well as the supply of Lucid components.
"This partnership will represent a landmark collaboration between Aston Martin, a storied marque with a rich history, including winning at Le Mans and its current successes in F1, and the very best of Silicon Valley innovation and technology from Lucid," said Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO, Lucid. "In line with its strategy, Aston Martin selected Lucid, recognizing the profound benefits of adopting its world-leading electric drivetrain technology, exemplified by the breakthrough 516-mile EPA-estimated range achieved by the Lucid Air Grand Touring."
"The supply agreement with Lucid is a game changer for the future EV-led growth of Aston Martin," said Lawrence Stroll, Executive Chairman, Aston Martin. "Based on our strategy and requirements, we selected Lucid, gaining access to the industry's highest performance and most innovative technologies for our future BEV products."
Lucid was selected by Aston Martin through a competitive process and will provide advanced electric powertrain technologies, including its ultra-high performance twin motor drive unit, renowned battery technology, and revolutionary Wunderbox. The twin motor rear drive unit's prodigious power combines with torque vectoring to extend the capabilities of the car beyond that achievable with a passive all-wheel-drive system. These technically innovative electric motors incorporate Lucid's microjet stator cooling and wave winding, new heat exchanger technology and heightened coolant flow rate, as well as an accompanying battery system that is likewise upgraded for higher power and more precise thermal logic.
Taken as a whole, the agreement highlights Lucid's commitment to giving Aston Martin access to the very best technology available to propel the company towards its target of launching the first pure electric Aston Martin model in 2025 and to support the brand's wider Racing. Green. sustainability strategy. The agreement also marks the first such car manufacturer relationship for Lucid's technology wing, expanding the reach of the company's products and paving the way for more mainstream applications of the company's revolutionary electric powertrain technology in the future. Earlier this year, Lucid unveiled a derivative of its power-dense electric drive unit specially designed for use in motorsports.
The commencement of the relationship is conditioned on the approval of Aston Martin's shareholders, as well as the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.
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Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating advanced technologies and the most captivating luxury electric vehicles centered around the human experience. The company's first car, the Air, is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design. The Lucid Air Grand Touring features an official EPA estimated 516 miles of range or 1,050 horsepower. Produced at Lucid's factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, deliveries of Lucid Air are currently underway to customers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Acquisition Significantly Expands Aurora's Medical Waste Platform
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Capital Partners ("Aurora"), a leading middle-market private equity firm, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sharps Compliance Corp. ("Sharps" or the "Company"), a full-service national provider of comprehensive waste management solutions including medical, pharmaceutical and hazardous waste.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, and founded in 1992, Sharps is a leading provider of medical waste solutions, including both mail-back and route-based collection services. The Company's strong management team has overseen consistent growth over multiple decades, driven by repeat business and a long-term focus on exceptional customer service. Additionally, Sharps developed and manages a proprietary nationwide solution for proper handling of unused medication, which has significantly expanded its customer base and reach in the past several years.
"We are excited to add Sharps' industry-leading solutions to our medical waste platform," said Andrew Wilson, Partner at Aurora. "In addition to creating the industry's leading mail-back solution and a growing route-based service, the Company's management team was early to identify the need for reliable, controlled disposal of unused medication, establishing Sharps as a pioneer in the sector. We look forward to partnering with the team to capitalize on our platform and selectively pursue add-on acquisitions."
"Aurora has a proven history of partnering with industry leaders to accelerate growth across business lines, and we are honored to work with them moving forward," said Pat Mulloy, Chief Executive Officer of Sharps. "I am confident that their understanding of the medical waste services market, combined with their alignment with our customer-first approach, will allow us to build on our recent growth, expand our customer base and further enhance our innovative solutions offerings."
"Following our partnerships with Restaurant Technologies, VLS Environmental Solutions and PSC Group, Sharps represents the addition of another high-quality Business Services platform to the Aurora program," said Matthew Laycock, Partner at Aurora.
As previously announced on August 22, 2022, a total of 16,830,657 Shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn from Aurora's tender offer, representing approximately 82% of the number of Shares that were issued and outstanding as of the Expiration Date on a fully diluted basis. As a result of the completion of the merger, Sharps has ceased trading on the NASDAQ, effective August 23, 2022, and has become a privately-held company.
The transaction marks the fifth Aurora investment specifically within the medical waste management space and follows a number of recent Aurora investments within the broader Business Services sector.
Stifel served as exclusive financial advisor and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP served as legal advisor to Aurora. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. acted as financial advisor and Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP acted as legal advisor to Sharps. Antares arranged the debt financing for the transaction.
Aurora Capital Partners is a leading Los Angeles-based private equity firm with over $4.5 billion in assets under management. Founded in 1991, the firm focuses principally on control investments in middle-market companies with leading market positions, stable industry dynamics, attractive business model characteristics and actionable opportunities for growth in partnership with management. Aurora provides unique resources to its portfolio companies through its Strategy & Operations Program and its team of experienced operating advisors. Aurora's investors include leading public and corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations active in private equity investing. For more information about Aurora Capital Partners, visit: www.auroracap.com.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Sharps Compliance is a leading business-to-business services provider to the healthcare, long-term care and retail pharmacy markets. Sharps Compliance offers comprehensive solutions for the management of regulated medical waste, hazardous waste and unused medications. For more information, visit: www.sharpsinc.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden keeps US cap on refugee admissions at 125,000 for the 2023 budget year.
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Law enforcement reviewing Lasara ISD campuses
With the new school year approaching for students at the Lasara Independent School District, law enforcement in Willacy County walked through several campuses Tuesday.
Willacy County Sheriff Joe Salazar said he wants each campus reviewed before students return to class.
The annual visit has law enforcement and school administrators working together to make sure everyone is on the same page in terms of building layout and communication issues.
“Any kind of feedback that we get from the sheriff is going to be taken to our safety and security committee, and get as many voices on what we need to approach that,” Principal William Bardwell said.
Lasara ISD also got inspected by a team out of the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office.
“These are recommendations that they make to us and, all those recommendations, we take them to heart,” Lasara ISD Superintendent Alejos Salazar said. “Nothing falls on deaf ears." | https://www.krgv.com/news/law-enforcement-reviewing-lasara-isd-campuses | 2022-07-20 21:16:48 | 1 | https://www.krgv.com/news/law-enforcement-reviewing-lasara-isd-campuses |
Indiana judge issues gag order in case of 2 slain teen girls
DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge imposed a gag order on Friday in the case of a man charged in the notorious slayings of two teenage girls.
Richard Matthew Allen, 50, of Delphi, is charged with murder in the killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, whose bodies were found after they went on a hike just outside the same small town nearly six years ago.
Allen County Judge Fran Gull’s order applies to attorneys, law enforcement officials, court personnel, the coroner and the girls’ family members. It bars them “from commenting on this case to the public and to the media, directly or indirectly, by themselves or through any intermediary, in any form, including any social media platforms.”
Anyone violating the order could be charged with contempt of court and face a fine or incarceration, Gull wrote.
Prosecutors had sought the order, citing intense public scrutiny and media attention. Gull, who was brought in as a special judge to oversee the case after a Carroll County judge recused himself, said she’d review her order at a Jan. 13 hearing where she’ll also consider a change of venue request. The defense wants the trial held at least 150 miles from Delphi, arguing it will be difficult to find impartial jurors in Carroll County.
Abby and Libby went missing on Feb. 13, 2017, while hiking on a trail near their hometown, Delphi, which is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis. Their bodies were found the next day in a rugged, heavily wooded area.
On Tuesday, Gull ordered the public release of a redacted probable cause affidavit and charging documents, which had been sealed at the prosecutor’s request.
The affidavit states that an unspent bullet found between the bodies of Libby and Abby “had been cycled through” a pistol owned by Allen. Investigators determined Allen had purchased that gun in 2001. Allen told police two days before his Oct. 28 arrest that he had never allowed anyone to borrow the gun, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit also states that Allen told an officer in 2017 that on the day the teens vanished, he had visited the Monon High Bridge, an abandoned railroad bridge the youths had also visited that day.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — New York Congressman George Santos is facing federal charges, including money laundering and fraud, after turning himself in and entering a not guilty plea in court.
Santos is charged with theft of public funds for collecting pandemic unemployment insurance even though authorities say he had a job.
“This is about innocent until proven guilty,” Santos said.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy says he won’t immediately ask for Santos’ resignation unless he’s convicted.
“If a person is indicted, they’re not on committees, they have the right to vote, but they have to go to trial,” McCarthy said.
Democrats say Santos should step down.
“Hopefully he shows some humility, some dignity,” Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) said.
Additionally, Republican Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez wants the House to vote to expel Santos.
However, Santos said he will not resign and plans to run for re-election.
The U.S. House makes its own rules for how the chamber operates and there are no set rules that indicate what should happen if a member of Congress faces criminal charges.
Democrat Jimmy Gomez says even if a member is convicted of a crime, that person could technically still vote on legislation, perhaps by proxy.
“There’s no rule against it, like he could still be a member in good standing, as long as the majority, kind of, decides,” Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said.
But the California representative says if Santos is convicted and doesn’t resign, he expects there would be enough support to force Santos out.
“I think if he was convicted a lot of people would step up and submit a vote to expel him,” Gomez said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/washington-dc/rep-santos-faces-money-laundering-fraud-charges-after-turning-himself-in/ | 2023-05-10 23:44:20 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/washington-dc/rep-santos-faces-money-laundering-fraud-charges-after-turning-himself-in/ |
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A three-car pileup caused by a pack of wild boars in northern Greece killed two people and left four more hospitalized, police said Tuesday.
The accident happened shortly before midnight Monday on a two-lane road about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Thessaloniki.
A patrol car carrying three police officers slammed into the pack of boars and veered off course; a few seconds later, a second vehicle hit the pack, tipped over and landed in a nearby field.
A third vehicle then slammed into the patrol car, killing the 53-year-old driver of that car and a 48-year-old passenger.
A 50-year-old woman from North Macedonia who was in the second car was injured and was taken to a hospital, along with the three police officers. Authorities said their injuries are not life-threatening. The woman’s husband, who was driving the second vehicle, was not injured.
Five wild boars also died, police said.
Vehicle crashes with packs of boars have increased over the past few years, especially in northern and central Greece. The population of wild boars significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted the hunting season, and packs roaming near busy roads and through villages are a frequent sight. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Cars-hit-pack-of-wild-boars-in-Greece-2-killed-17298826.php | 2022-07-12 08:55:11 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Cars-hit-pack-of-wild-boars-in-Greece-2-killed-17298826.php |
ARLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KangoGift, the world's premier employee engagement organization, announced today that it has upgraded its rewards catalog in advance of the upcoming holiday season. Currently, the KangoGift rewards platform gift catalog supports unique rewards programs which allow for employee recognition gifts to individuals in more than 25 countries.
The most popular rewards as chosen by employees are:
- Gift Cards (both cash and brand exclusive)
- Company Merchandise (something KangoGift is uniquely equipped to help you with)
- Charitable contributions (something our research has shown is very popular among employees)
"HR leaders are pulled in many directions especially during the end of year," said Todd Horton, CEO, KangoGift. "It is our ongoing goal to broaden the rewards catalog so our diverse multinational clients have a single, intuitive tool to centralize their reward spending, tracking, and reporting to improve efficiency and solution investment."
The KangoGift rewards platform supports the rewards listed above and many others. The platform is custom built to suit HR leaders' needs and can be integrated into local currencies and regulations. It can also enhance your employee recognition practice by providing you with any number of reporting options to measure your employee engagement and rewards choices.
To learn more about what KangoGift can do for your rewards catalog please visit
https://www.kangogift.com/reward-catalog
KangoGift is the leading human resources technology company exclusively focused on employee engagement and recognition for its global customer base. Since its founding in 2009, its mission has been to help organizations foster cultures that ensure employees feel valued, appreciated, and inspired to do their best every day. More information about KangoGift can be found at www.kangogift.com.
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Soars past multi-cloud support, enabling customers to seamlessly combine cost data from any cloud or software provider
BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudZero, the leading cloud cost intelligence company, today announced CloudZero AnyCost™ — new functionality that provides organizations with comprehensive visibility into spend, regardless of their cloud and software providers. CloudZero customers can now dynamically attribute virtually any spend to key business metrics, such as cost of goods sold (COGS), cost per product feature, and cost per customer. With this visibility, teams can manage their unit economics to maximize profit, make data-driven decisions, and control spend.
"Increasingly, engineering organizations are choosing best-of-breed solutions — adopting a more cloud-native, multi-service approach that goes beyond multi-cloud, to deliver more profitable and efficient cloud applications," said Erik Peterson, founder and CTO of CloudZero. "AnyCost enables companies to maximize the return on their cloud investment and embrace this new strategy without sacrificing visibility or risking out-of-control costs."
Today, CloudZero customers can now utilize the platform to analyze all three major cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform — as well as software such as New Relic, MongoDB, Databricks, Snowflake, and more. CloudZero will release easy-setup functionality for the most popular providers, while giving customers the ability to bring in any cost by building their own adapter.
"As a leader in the observability space, our team values the power of unified data — and how it supports building and running great software," said Mike Surma, director of cloud cost optimization at New Relic. "We recognized that CloudZero was a valuable partner to provide us with accurate visibility into our spend, including AWS, Azure, and beyond. CloudZero's flexible approach to ingest any cost provides peace of mind that we can continue to work together, regardless of which platforms and applications we choose to adopt in the future."
For more information and to request a demo, visit cloudzero.com.
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CloudZero is the cloud cost intelligence platform that puts spend into the context of your business. By aligning engineering, infrastructure, and finance teams around metrics like cost per product feature, customer, and development team, CloudZero enables better strategic decisions, improved unit economics, and efficient spending. Trusted by top cloud-driven companies like Rapid7, Ping Identity, and Malwarebytes, CloudZero works with organizations of all sizes to take the next steps toward cloud cost maturity. Visit cloudzero.com to get started today.
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Greenshades poised for accelerated growth as the leading provider of Payroll, HR and Tax solutions to mid-market companies centered around the 'deskless worker'
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GearBox Capital, LLC ("GearBox") today announced that it and WayPoint Capital Partners ("WayPoint") led a growth recapitalization of Greenshades Software, Inc. ("Greenshades"). Existing investors, including SFW Capital Partners ("SFW"), the Greenshades Founders David Rosas and Matt Kane, as well as management, will continue to retain a substantial ownership position in the company. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, Greenshades is a rapidly growing Payroll and HR platform serving mid-market companies with complex, compliance-heavy HR and payroll processes. Greenshades' all-in-one software platform enables businesses to run payroll in-house via accurate payroll, proactive compliance, automated tax calculations, and robust employee engagement. Greenshades' solutions are underpinned by deep integrations into mid-market ERP platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics, Bullhorn, and Sage Intacct among others. Greenshades' customers include more than 3,700 mid-sized businesses that employ approximately 4 million people across the United States.
"Given the prior knowledge and understanding of our business, our growth strategy, and a strong alignment on the approach to value creation, GearBox led the right investor group to support us on the next phase of our evolution and growth," said Rosas. "With the significant capital and resources from GearBox and WayPoint, Greenshades is uniquely positioned to serve the growing needs of organizations with complex, compliance centric HR and Payroll processes oriented around the deskless workforce."
"I am very excited to partner with Greenshades' co-founder and CEO David Rosas, WayPoint, and the entire Greenshades team to continue supporting the execution of the value creation plan for Greenshades," said Omair Sarwar, Managing Partner at GearBox. "Based on recent investments made at the company, Greenshades is strongly positioned to capture significant market share in the mid-market for Payroll and HR solutions through its unique focus on complex, compliance-centric workflows for businesses that rely on a deskless workforce. Differentiated technology and a unique go-to-market underpin strong growth fundamentals that Greenshades will look to supplement, with our support, through its 'build-partner-buy' strategy."
"We are excited about our partnership with GearBox, David and the entire Greenshades team," said Kevin Collins, Principal at WayPoint Capital. "Greenshades is an exceptional company with a world-class group of employees and an industry-leading solution that helps address the most challenging payroll, tax and compliance challenges for its customers. Rapid innovation coupled with a differentiation go-to-market strategy offers a compelling opportunity for future growth."
GearBox Capital is a private equity firm applying an operational approach to supporting the growth and transformation of bootstrapped and founder led technology companies. With an approach to product, commercial, talent and operational strategy refined over 15 years, GearBox is oriented towards implementing the handful of key levers that have an outsized impact on the growth and development of bootstrapped businesses. www.gearboxcap.com
WayPoint Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity investment platform anchored by a New York-based single family office. WayPoint partners with entrepreneurs and family-led enterprises across the North American software/technology, industrial/logistics, and healthcare industries. We enable our partner companies to reach or enhance their market leadership positions by delivering the resources and expertise of a large global investment platform without inflexible and burdensome requirements.
Greenshades is a leading provider of mid-market Payroll and HR solutions serving over 3,700 customers and over 4 million employees across the US. Our Mission is to provide a Payroll and HR Platform that empowers workers and brings peace of mind to their employers. We are tailored to US mid-market companies, especially those that service a large number of deskless employees. We navigate their complex compliance challenges while making it easier than ever to keep their employees happy. We provide more freedom and flexibility, lower costs, and far superior customer service than our competitors. www.greenshades.com
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Gladewater shooting suspect arrested after chase, gunfire exchange
Posted/updated on: July 3, 2023 at 3:52 pmTYLER – The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office said that Robert Daniel Smith was arrested after a chase and exchange of gunfire around 11:41 p.m. on Sunday.
Our news partners at KETK report that the sheriff’s office said that Smith’s vehicle was spotted in the parking lot of The First Community Baptist Church in Harleton by a patrol deputy. According to the sheriff’s office, Smith then attempted to strike the deputy’s patrol unit.
Smith then fled northbound on FM 2208 and allegedly started to fire multiple gunshots that hit the pursuing deputy’s vehicle, officials said. According to the sheriff’s office, the chase continued into Marion County before Smith turned around and was confronted by the pursuing deputy who returned fire.
Smith surrendered after a brief standoff and was transported to a Tyler hospital to be treated for his injuries, a press release said.
High speed chase through several East Texas counties ends in wreck, arrest
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ST ANTHONY, Idaho — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell faces up to life in prison without parole Monday as she is sentenced in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was a goddess sent to usher in the Biblical apocalypse.
Vallow Daybell was found guilty in May of killing her two youngest children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband’s previous wife.
The husband, Chad Daybell, is awaiting trial on the same murder charges. Vallow Daybell also faces two other cases in Arizona — one on a charge of conspiring with her brother to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and one of conspiring to kill her niece's ex-husband. Charles Vallow was shot and killed in 2019, but her niece's ex survived an attempt later that year.
Monday's sentencing will take place at the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho. Judge Steven W. Boyce is expected to hear testimony from several representatives of the victims, including Vallow Daybell's only surviving son, Colby Ryan.
The case began in July 2019, when Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in a suburban Phoenix home. Cox told police he acted in self-defense. He was never charged in the case and died later that year of what authorities determined were natural causes.
Vallow Daybell was already in a relationship with Chad Daybell, a self-published author who wrote doomsday-focused fiction loosely based on Mormon teachings. She moved to Idaho with her kids and brother to be closer to him.
The children were last seen alive in September 2019. Police discovered they were missing a month later after an extended family member became worried. Their bodies were found buried in Chad Daybell's yard the following summer.
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow married in November 2019, about two weeks after Daybell's previous wife, Tammy, was killed. Tammy Daybell initially was described as having died of natural causes, but an autopsy later showed she had been asphyxiated, authorities said.
Defense attorney Jim Archibald argued during the trial that there was no evidence tying Vallow Daybell to the killings, but plenty showing she was a loving, protective mother whose life took a sharp turn when she met Chad Daybell and fell for his “weird” apocalyptic religious claims. He suggested that Daybell and Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, were responsible for the deaths.
Daybell told her they had been married in several previous lives and she was a “sexual goddess” who was supposed to help him save the world by gathering 144,000 followers so Jesus could return, Archibald said.
Vallow Daybell’s former friend Melanie Gibb testified during the trial that Vallow Daybell believed people in her life had been taken over by evil spirits and turned into “zombies,” including JJ and Tylee. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/idaho-mom-faces-sentencing-for-killing-2-children-romantic-rival/507-85d31015-17a1-4484-b80a-f56c1fc8b407 | 2023-07-31 17:42:44 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/idaho-mom-faces-sentencing-for-killing-2-children-romantic-rival/507-85d31015-17a1-4484-b80a-f56c1fc8b407 |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 7 AM PST
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures expected.
* WHERE...Cadiz Basin.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 7 AM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...This will be the first freeze of the season
for the Cadiz Basin of southeast San Bernardino County, ending
the growing season.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent
freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should
be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have
in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above-
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The Fabulous 50s Car Show at the Back To The 50s event in Grants Pass was held on July 23rd.
The show had a wide variety of iconic cars on display from many decades throughout history.
Organizers say there were over 300-cars for people to admire with many models featuring an iconic 50s look.
Organizers say the car show had over 20-vendors selling car-related products and other unique items. Participants were happy to share a look at their cars.
“It is still getting bigger and bigger the Rogue Valley Car Club really puts on a great show, everybody should come down and see it every year because it is a fantastic event,” said Car Show Participant, Craig Spotts.
Organizers say proceeds from the car show go to local charities around Grants Pass including the Josephine County Foundation and the Rogue Valley Humane Society.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
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Orlando FreeFall owners hope to reopen Slingshot ride at ICON Park once it receives 'necessary approvals'
ORLANDO, Fla. - Clarification: Slingshot Group, which owns two rides at ICON Park – Orlando FreeFall and Orlando Slingshot – said it intends to reopen its slingshot-style ride once it receives state approvals. Orlando FreeFall remains closed indefinitely.
The company that owns Orlando FreeFall – a 430-foot drop tower ride that a 14-year-old boy fell from and died in March 2022 – intends to reopen one of its rides once it receives the "necessary approvals" from the Florida Department of Agriculture.
In a written statement on Monday, an attorney for Slingshot Group said, "we do hope to reopen the Slingshot ride, once we have all the necessary approvals from the Department of Agriculture."
"The safety of our patrons always comes first," the statement said.
Both Orlando FreeFall – the drop tower ride – and Orlando Slingshot – a slingshot-style attraction – have been closed since March 2022 pending various investigations after Tyre Sampson, a high school football player and "A" student visiting from St. Louis, Missouri, fell out of the Orlando FreeFall ride's restraints, and later died at the hospital.
CONTINUING COVERAGE: Orlando FreeFall death investigation
It was determined by investigators that the ride's operators made manual adjustments to two of the ride's seats, including the one that Sampson was in, to accommodate larger passengers, which allowed the spacing between the passenger and the restraint to be several inches wider.
An autopsy revealed Sampson also weighed nearly 100 pounds more than the maximum recommended passenger weight for the ride. It was determined that Sampson died from blunt force trauma, and his death was ruled an "accident."
Tyre Sampson, 14, is pictured in a provided family photo.
Sampson's parents – Yarnell Sampson and Nekia Dodd – have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against multiple companies, including Slingshot Group, ICON Park, and the ride's manufacturer, in wake of the teen's death. They've also demanded that the ride be permanently closed, a permanent memorial for Sampson be built, and that additional safety measures and regulations for attractions be regulated.
Yarnell Sampson held a news conference Monday alongside his attorney Benjamin Crump, where he wrote the words "death trap" and Tyre's name on the temporary fencing placed around the ride.
State Rep. Geraldine Thompson's also discussed the so-called "Tyre Sampson Bill" she is proposing that would increase inspections and regulations around amusement rides.
In Florida, most amusement parks and rides are inspected by the Department of Agriculture, including ICON Park. However, the larger parks, such as Disney, have previously been allowed to govern themselves.
Nekia Dodd, left, and Yarnell Sampson, right, parents of Tyre Sampson, the teen who fell off an amusement ride in Orlando and died, spoke Tuesday, April 26, at separate press conferences about their son and their civil lawsuit against the ride's manu (FOX 35 Orlando)
According to the Department of Agriculture, FreeFall opened in Dec. 2021 and passed its inspection. It was expected to have a second inspection six months after opening.
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Q. This may sound weird, but I love my job. I actually don’t want to take any time off this summer. Home life is very chaotic and work is my home away from home — it’s safe, it’s my happy place and makes me feel good. Is it bad if I put in extra hours and don’t take time off? I mean, will my bosses look down on me or will it actually hurt my career?
A. Thanks for your honesty and I’m sorry to hear home life is chaotic, but that’s wonderful that your job brings you so much joy and it sounds like you may also get support from your work family, too.
As for your questions, I have a few thoughts. It’s up to you whether or not you take any or all of your PTO, but technically it’s paid time off. You deserve to unplug whatever that looks like — if it’s a staycation or if you travel somewhere or a combination of both.
Regarding whether or not it can be a hindrance, this may sound counterintuitive, but it might. Your bosses may begin to wonder why you’re unable to do the job within the hours of the day and it may send the message that you’re unable to set respectful boundaries for your time and work. I’m not saying it’s a hindrance, just saying that it’s in the optics.
Plus the bigger picture that I’m concerned about is that you may be burning yourself out by working so much and so hard. You may want to consider a counselor to address your home issues and also add a hobby or something wellness related so you have some balance.
Q. My boss wants me to hire her neighbor. The neighbor is not qualified. We have a strong internal candidate and two external candidates — all are more qualified than the neighbor. I’m worried about retaliation if I don’t speak up. What should I do?
A. I hear you. If I were in your shoes, I would think about what would help you and your team achieve their goals which sounds absolutely like one of the three candidates (sans neighbor) and then back into your actions such as speaking to your boss both thoughtfully and deliberately, and I should add — delicately.
Hiring the neighbor who will likely have a longer ramp-up time and require more hands-on training than one of the other three candidates, especially the one who is in-house and won’t have to assimilate to the culture. And if the neighbor doesn’t end up working out, then you’ll have to let them go. That could get messier politically than having what can be a somewhat uncomfortable conversation now.
Alternatively, if you speak up to your boss and push back, how will she retaliate? If it’s a toxic environment, she may hold it against you. Only you will know if the fear of retaliation and actual retaliation can be worse than the conversation, but if you’re working in an environment of fear, well you may want to consider pursuing a new job (and I know that wasn’t your question, but it is a red flag you may want to explore. Eyes back to the neighbor!)
If it were me, I would speak up so I know I said my peace, otherwise you may regret not at least saying something, and mention something such as, “I’d like us to consider one of the other three candidates who are more qualified and will help us reach our team goals.”
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I invented the OOGIE ARMOR to help both myself and my wife with our new baby," said an inventor from Reno, Nev., "and to provide individuals with more support with the challenges that come with becoming a new parent."
The patent-pending invention protects a caregiver's clothes as they are holding, feeding, or burping an infant and can be used as a privacy cover by breastfeeding moms. It would not fall off when bending over or shift out of position as the baby is repositioned (from shoulder to shoulder or from breast to breast, for example) and the caregiver would be free to use both hands to fully support the child. This could save time spent laundering soiled clothing, as well as on money spent on expensive dry-cleaning bills. The cover is convenient, easy to use, comfortable and secure and the inventor has created a prototype.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-MHO-213, 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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Beloved artist remembered by Bay City community
BAY CITY, Mich. (WNEM) - Bay City is paying their respects to a longtime fixture in the local arts community.
They are mourning the loss of Leeds Bird, whose impact on the Bay City arts scene spans decades.
“It’s going to be hard to imagine life without him. He’s been such a big part of most of our lives. The theater here, the arts community,” said friend Kurt Miller.
Family, friends, and colleagues remember Leeds Bird as a giant in the Bay City arts community.
“Leeds was the most gentle man I think I ever knew. And I always joked about him, his ability to tell a five-minute story in 20 minutes. And all the details were fun, that was the fun part about it,” Miller said.
Miller is one those colleagues. They worked together at Bay City Players.
“I used to joke that he had forgotten more about theater than the rest of us knew. Not sure if all that was true, but it sure seemed like it,” Miller said.
Miller and Leeds acted together. Miller directed him, and they grew close as family friends.
“It’s already happened to me several times over the past couple of days where I’ll say, ‘oh, that thing, I should tell -- oh wait a minute.’ it’s one of those kind of things, I think he’d enjoy it,” Miller said.
Leeds’ name is everywhere in the historical books at the theater.
“You really can’t touch the arts in this area without finding Leeds’ effect on it someplace,” Miller said.
Leeds legacy lives on with his wife Margaret and his many nieces and nephews.
“But I think he would like to be remembered for having done his best to provide a really well balanced and comprehensive experience for people as they came to the theater and experience the arts throughout the community,” Miller said.
If there is one way to do that, it is playing his music.
Leeds wrote the lyrics for a song in the “Carol of the Birds.”
He and Kevin Cole directed in the musical in 2018, performed by Rebecca Smith, one of the three original shows produced in Leeds’ lifetime.
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Fiji will join the U.S. in a wide-ranging economic initiative, making it the first Pacific Island country to do so as competition heats up between Beijing and Washington for influence in the Asia-Pacific.
News of Fiji becoming the 14th country to join President Joe Biden's Indo-Pacific Economic Framework came as China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a rare eight-day tour to Pacific Island countries this week.
"A close partner to the United States and a leader in the region, Fiji will add vital value and perspective to IPEF, including on our efforts to tackle the climate crisis and build a clean economy that creates good paying jobs," U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
Biden launched the framework earlier this week during his first trip to Asia, in a bid to assert U.S. leadership.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a briefing that any initiative should be conducive to peace and stability instead of artificially setting up barriers and creating confrontation. The Asia-Pacific "should not become a chess board for larger political contest," he added.
Tensions between China and U.S. allies in the Pacific have ratcheted up in the past month, after the Chinese government said in April it had signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands.
While the final wording of the deal hasn't been released, an earlier draft version which was leaked on social media would allow Beijing to deploy security personnel to the Solomons in the wake of domestic unrest. It would also allow Chinese warships safe harbor in the Solomon Islands.
On Monday, Australia's new Foreign Minister Penny Wong flew to Fiji to meet with the country's prime minister ahead of the Chinese delegations' visit to the island. In a speech delivered Thursday, she made a veiled jab at China's diplomacy in the region, saying Australia's partnership "won't come with strings attached."
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a media briefing in Honiara on the same day that China would engage with Pacific Island countries on the grounds of mutual respect, openness and inclusiveness.
In a reference to Wong's speech, Wang added China didn't interfere in Pacific nations' internal affairs and said its support also came with no strings attached. He was set to visit Kiribati on Friday on his first official visit since both countries resumed diplomatic ties in 2019.
Information for this article was contributed by Victoria Batchelor, Ocean Hou and Colum Murphy of Bloomberg News. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/may/28/fiji-to-take-part-in-us-led-initiative-amid/ | 2022-05-28 10:11:16 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/may/28/fiji-to-take-part-in-us-led-initiative-amid/ |
Preliminary glimpse at California test scores shows steep declines in reading, math
Recently released test scores from some of California’s largest school districts — representing more than 1 million students — offer a preview of what’s likely to be steep drops in reading and math scores statewide in the wake of COVID-19.
The scores, which districts released individually at the request of EdSource, show sharp declines in all grade levels from 2019, before COVID-19 forced the closure of most campuses to in-person learning, and 2022.
The California Department of Education has delayed releasing the full statewide results from the 2022 Smarter Balanced assessments, which are given annually to third-through-eighth graders and 11th graders to measure progress in English language arts and math. Under pressure from EdSource and other media outlets, the department recently agreed to release the scores by the end of October.
Meanwhile, EdSource has collected individual results from 10 large districts, including Los Angeles Unified, San Diego Unified, Fresno Unified, Lodi Unified, Long Beach Unified, Sacramento City Unified, Sweetwater Union High School District, San Ramon Valley Unified, Bakersfield City School District and Mt. Diablo Unified.
The results show consistent declines in all categories from 2019, but some variations among districts and subgroups:
- Only 13% of students in Bakersfield met the state standard for math.
- Reading scores in Los Angeles Unified only dipped slightly from 2019 to 2022. Still, only 41% of students in 2022 were proficient in reading.
- Math scores in Fresno dropped by a third. In 2022, only 21% of students met the math standard.
- Reading scores in Long Beach dropped 11 points, but declines were less steep in math. Math scores fell only 4 points.
In Mt. Diablo Unified, one of the few districts to break down the results by subgroup, Black, Latino, English learner, foster and homeless students had far lower scores compared with 2019 than their white and Asian peers. For example, among English learners, 96% did not meet the math or reading standards.
By and large, scores show little change from 2021, the first results after the state suspended the 2020 tests due to COVID-19. The 2021 test was optional for schools to administer, so results were limited and likely not an accurate reflection of students’ progress overall. Just under 25% of students took the test in 2021.
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Lodi Unified saw scores in both math and reading improve from 2021, but they still lag significantly from 2019. That’s not a surprise, considering the difficulties teachers and students faced as they returned from distance learning, said Robert Sahli, assistant superintendent.
“Last year, even though we were back in person, it was very challenging,” he said. “Teachers and support staff were working very hard to address learning loss while also responding to the social-emotional impacts on learning and socializing at school.”
Like other districts, Lodi has hired more tutors and teachers to help students catch up, beefed up summer school and after-school academic offerings, adopted new curricula and taken other steps to bring students to proficiency.
Heather Hough, director of Policy Analysis for California Education, said the preliminary results are actually better than she expected. Because 2022 is the first year all schools were required to give the test, she anticipated a significant drop from 2021.
“We thought 2022 would be a recovery year, but there was so much chaos — teacher shortages, students missing school — that it turned out to be another pandemic year,” she said. “If the scores are the same (as 2021), that’s actually encouraging.”
When the state releases the full data, Hough and her colleagues will pay close attention to differences among subgroups and statistical anomalies. If one district, for example, shows good results for students in special education, it would be worth researching what special steps that district has taken.
She also noted that some students thrived during remote learning, so she expects some good news, as well. In any case, schools and districts, as well as statewide policymakers, should use the scores to shape their allocation of resources in the coming years.
“When we get this data, we’ll finally be able to see how California is doing, what challenges we’re facing, and how we can best help students as we move forward,” she said.
In anticipation of the statewide release of test scores, the state last week launched a push for schools to help students regain skills they lost during COVID-19. The state is emphasizing accelerated learning, rather than remedial lessons, to speed up the process.
Steps like that could be the most useful result of the Smarter Balanced scores, said Lucrecia Santibañez, associate professor of education at UCLA. Closely analyzing the data and using it to forge a path forward — specifically for certain groups of students — is more useful than assigning blame, she said.
“COVID was tough for everyone, and it’s not worth putting blame on anyone. Everyone was trying the best they could. But these scores signal that we need to make a personalized, intensive effort to help kids catch up and recoup what they’ve lost,” she said.
Although the scores are disappointing, they can be an important tool to help schools pinpoint resources in the future, she said. The scores can provide a window into what exact content students have missed, where they’re lagging and which students need the most help, she said.
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At Mt. Diablo Unified, Raymond Tjen-A-Looi, director of assessment, research and evaluation, told the school board that comparisons with 2021 aren’t helpful because education was still so disrupted due to COVID-19.
“We’re concentrating on using 2022 as a baseline, with the expectation that everything will stay the same going forward — testing will be in person, instruction will be in person,” he said. “So moving forward, hopefully, we’ll be able to do more comparisons and see how well we are making up for what we’ve lost.”
Carolyn Jones covers student wellness for EdSource.
Daniel J. Willis is an EdSource data journalist. | https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2022/10/18/preliminary-glimpse-test-scores-shows-steep-declines-reading-math/10531386002/ | 2022-10-19 06:23:45 | 0 | https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2022/10/18/preliminary-glimpse-test-scores-shows-steep-declines-reading-math/10531386002/ |
(The Hill) — Long awaited COVID-19 shots for the youngest children are one step closer to being available after a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday recommended the agency grant emergency authorization to vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.
An outside Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended the vaccines should be authorized; Moderna’s for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years, and Pfizer’s for kids 6 months to 4 years old.
The FDA’s vaccine advisors voted 21 to zero to recommend authorizing Moderna’s vaccine, and then again 21 to zero in favor of Pfizer.
An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet this weekend to issue its own recommendation. If the panel votes in the affirmative and the CDC director signs off, children could start to get vaccinated as early as next week.
More than a year and a half since vaccines began rolling out for adults, kids under 5 are the last group eligible to be vaccinated. There are about 18 million of them who would become eligible.
Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, led off the meeting with a reminder that contrary to popular belief, young kids are at risk from COVID-19 even if they don’t get sick as often as adults.
According to Marks, 442 children younger than 5 had died of COVID through the end of May, a toll higher than for many other vaccine-preventable illnesses.
“We have to be careful not to become numb to the number of pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths. Every life is important and vaccine preventable deaths is something we’d like to do something about,” Marks said.
“Each child that’s lost essentially fractures a family,” Marks said.
But while the vaccines are largely interchangeable for adults, the pediatric versions are very different. The shots haven’t been tested against each other, so there’s no way to tell parents if one is superior.
Moderna’s two-dose mRNA vaccine is intended to be administered four weeks apart, and is one quarter the strength of an adult dose. Pfizer’s vaccine is three doses, spread much further apart.
The first two doses of Pfizer’s shot are given three weeks apart, but the company recommends giving the third dose eight weeks after the second. The doses are also just one-tenth the strength of an adult vaccine, and the company found essentially no protection after two doses.
FDA previously said the vaccines are safe and effective, though neither performed very well in preventing symptomatic disease, mainly against the omicron variant.
Moderna found its vaccine was 51 percent effective in preventing symptomatic infection in children 6 months to 2 years old, and 37 percent effective in children 2 through 5. Pfizer’s vaccine was only found to be about 28 percent effective against infection, though both prevented serious illness. | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/fda-advisers-recommend-authorization-for-modernas-covid-shot-in-kids-5-and-under/ | 2022-06-15 22:19:14 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/fda-advisers-recommend-authorization-for-modernas-covid-shot-in-kids-5-and-under/ |
NEEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Needham Bank, the leading financial institution in Massachusetts for marijuana banking, is pleased to announce it has closed a cannabis business loan to Glorious Cannabis Company, one of the largest and most profitable cannabis operations in Michigan. Though headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Glorious Cannabis has recently joined the Massachusetts cannabis market to manufacture their specialty products. Glorious Cannabis will use the financing to complete the construction of their cannabis establishment in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
"With this business loan, Needham Bank is helping Glorious Cannabis Company expand their brand into the Massachusetts market," said Michelle Haughton, VP Structured Finance. "It's been a pleasure working with Sam Lteif, CEO and David Prill, CFO to provide the financing, and I look forward to seeing Glorious thrive here."
Glorious Cannabis Company's establishment will include a cultivation facility and a processing facility. The 30,000-square-foot cultivation facility includes 12,000-square-feet of Canopy and the 9,000-square-foot processing facility will be for product manufacturing of their award-winning infused pre-rolls, cartridges, rosin and edibles.
"Working with Michelle and the Needham Bank team has been seamless and our growth wouldn't be possible without their help," stated Sam Lteif, Chief Executive Officer of Glorious. "Massachusetts is an exciting, up-and-coming market, and we can't wait to bring Michigan's best to a new state."
Haughton was hired at Needham Bank to assist with the growth of the Commercial & Industrial Structured Finance segment. This includes handling cannabis-related business loans greater than $10 million in commitment size and advising borrowers on financing and cash management services. She has over 20 years of commercial lending experience, and most recently, was Vice President, Relationship Manager at Eastern Bank, where she developed lending relationships with creditworthy commercial clients and prospects.
Through the new specialized banking division, Needham Bank offers full-service banking for cannabis businesses, including loans, deposit accounts and cash management services. Needham Bank is the only bank in Massachusetts to receive formal approval from the Federal Reserve Board to provide banking services to marijuana-related businesses.
Glorious focuses on the art and science of cultivating premium, old-school cannabis. Its line of pre-roll joints is hand-rolled and infused with premium ICEWATER bubble hash. Glorious' motto is "Cut Buds. Not Corners" and its cultivators listen to the plants, and use care and patience as opposed to rushing bud out the door. For additional information, please visit www.gloriouscanna.com.
Needham Bank offers an array of tech-forward products and services that businesses and consumers use to manage their financial needs. We have the financial expertise typically found at much larger institutions and the local knowledge and commitment you can only find at a community bank. Known as the "Builder's Bank," Needham Bank has been helping individuals, businesses and non-profits build for their futures since 1892. For more information, please visit https://NeedhamBank.com. Needham Bank is a member of FDIC and DIF.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Taylor Swift opened her U.S. concert series with a three-hour tour of her career.
Swift kicked off the first concert of the 27-date Eras Tour with a six-song set from her album “Lover” on Friday night at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where the Super Bowl was played a month ago.
“I don’t know how to address the way this is making me feel right now,” Swift, who hasn't toured since 2018, said early in the show.
She ended the concert with a seven-song set from her latest album “Midnights," closing with the song “Karma.”
In between she played clusters of songs from most of her albums — and just one, “Tim McGraw,” from her 2006 self-titled debut. In the end it took 44 songs and just over three hours for her to span her 17-year career.
Having not toured for her previous three albums, this concert series is intended to play catchup by providing the live debut of many of those songs. When Swift announced the tour in November she called it “a journey through the musical eras of my career (past and present!).”
Swift seemed to acknowledgethe Ticketmaster furor that sullied the run-up to the tour when she told the crowd of more than 70,000 that she understands it took “considerable effort” for them to be there.
After another show at the same venue Saturday night, the tour moves on to Allegiant Stadium outside Las Vegas and then AT&T Stadium near Dallas.
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What’s the difference between translation tools and language learning systems
Some people may seem to have an aversion to learning other languages. For Americans, this could be because English is by far the most popular second language worldwide. When traveling, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to find someone who also speaks English. Even if you can’t find someone, many translation devices can offer you assistance.
However, there is a big difference between using a translation tool, such as Meta’s No Language Left Behind, and learning another language’s nuances via a language learning system. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. It is important to know the difference so you can choose which is best for you.
What is No Language Left Behind
No Language Left Behind is an open-source project that seeks to tear down language barriers without changing the way an individual expresses themselves. It is an artificial intelligence-powered translating tool that seeks to attain global inclusion in online communities. Currently, No Language Left Behind can deliver high-quality translations between 200 languages.
How does AI work when applied to translate languages?
From a very high-level perspective, AI recognizes patterns in data sets and analyzes how these patterns are used in different contexts to solve a specific problem. Since language is built on a series of patterns that individuals use to communicate, AI can be harnessed to recognize similar patterns in different languages to provide a better translation. In other words, instead of translating “la pelota del chico” to “the ball of the boy,” it translates to “the boy’s ball,” which sounds much more natural.
Why is AI language translation better?
Meta’s belief is that using open-source AI-powered translation tools will provide the context needed to understand complex sentence structure and phrases and interpret tone, slang and humor successfully. The goal is to create an online community of inclusion, where no one is left out because they cannot adequately express themselves in another language.
What is a language learning system?
A language learning system is a systematic way of learning a language. It is a comprehensive approach that includes a broad scope of skills. For instance, there is much more to a language learning system than simply memorizing endless vocabulary lists. You study reading, writing, speaking and listening, so you have an in-depth, practical and balanced understanding of all aspects of the language. In short, using a language learning system ensures you develop a well-rounded set of skills.
AI translation tools vs. language learning systems
While some people speculate that AI translators may eventually take the place of language learning systems, there are many reasons why that isn’t a likely scenario.
AI Translation tools and a language learning system are two different things
AI translating tools are just that: tools. A language learning system, on the other hand, teaches you how to utilize those tools best. It is the difference between going to an art museum and admiring a finished painting versus knowing what to do with a blank canvas, a set of oils and brushes. Each has its purpose, and one will never fully replace the other.
Language is alive and ever-evolving
Language constantly evolves. Even if an AI translator perfected translation between two languages, over time, those languages would change, making the algorithms that were once so effective, not as accurate.
The best way to understand your native language is to learn a foreign language
If you really want to understand the various parts of speech and their function in communicating, study the structure of a foreign language. This shakes things up and forces you to relearn what you picked up over the years through context so you have a deeper understanding of how and why.
Learning a second language has benefits beyond communicating
Even if you never plan on leaving your hometown, there are a few important reasons to learn a second language. Learning a language engages areas of your brain that might be otherwise under-developed. People who know a second language tend to do better in school and lower the risk of degenerative brain diseases. Besides helping you gain a better perspective of other cultures, learning a second language can improve your concentration, memory and listening skills.
Best language learning systems
Rosetta Stone (Lifetime Access)
Rosetta Stone is one of the top language learning systems available. This lifetime subscription gives you access to 24 languages, allowing you to switch freely between them without additional fees.
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Babbel Language Learning Software (Lifetime Access)
This lifetime subscription to Babble lets you choose from 14 languages with courses designed with over 100 linguistic experts. The concise 10 to 15-minute lessons let you move at your own pace whenever convenient.
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The beauty of Pimsleur is all you need to unlock the lessons is a subscription to Audible Premium Plus. These 30-minute lessons can be done in your car, on vacation, in your home with Alexa or anywhere you want because you can stream or download each lesson. When you purchase a lesson, you also get an accompanying PDF.
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With Udemy, you scroll through the list of available courses and click on whatever catches your interest. This takes you to a page that gives you an overview of the course and lets you know if you will receive any certificates so you can decide if it is right for you. This method allows you only to purchase the courses you want to take so that the cost may be significantly lower than other options.
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Pocketalk Classic Language Translator Device
If you aren’t interested in learning another language but want to be able to hold your own during a conversation in a foreign country, this portable translator is for you. The device translates as you speak to help break down language barriers so you can focus on enjoying your travel adventures.
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EdX gives you access to online learning from over 160 member universities, such as Harvard, Berkeley, MIT and more. After signing up, you will receive access to courses in English, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and more. The courses range from improving your grammar to helping you conduct business in foreign countries.
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Rosetta Stone offers online learning courses in 25 languages. For almost 30 years it has helped people gain fluency in a second language. It offers plans for individuals, schools and enterprises.
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Boy missing for 2 days is found safe in remote Michigan park
SILVER CITY, Mich. (AP) — An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy missing for two days in a remote, rugged northern Michigan park was discovered near a log Monday and appeared to be in good shape, authorities said.
The park posted a photo of one of the searchers carrying Nante Niemi on his back. Another photo on Facebook shows the boy wearing a dirty sweatshirt and munching on a Clif bar.
Nante had been gathering wood while camping with his family when he was last seen Saturday afternoon in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the western Upper Peninsula. He was found around 1:30 p.m. on Monday, approximately two miles from the campsite.
Overnight temperatures had been in the 40s.
“He had braved the elements by taking shelter under a log where he was ultimately found. He is in good health and reunited with his family,” state police said in a statement.
More than 150 people from various law enforcement groups joined the search on foot, in the air and on water. The park has rivers and lakes and is situated along Lake Superior.
The Hurley School District in Wisconsin, where Nante is a student, was elated by the discovery.
“Words can not describe the emotions and joy the students and staff are experiencing at this moment!” the district said on Facebook.
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CT Albany NY Zone Forecast for Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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Previously aired video above details the murders before the victims were identified
SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) — The Summit County Medical Examiner has identified the three victims who were found bound, gagged and shot in the head in Summit County on March 10.
An affidavit from Barberton Municipal Court reveals there was a fourth victim who also was bound, gagged and shot in the head, but he survived.
The bodies of two men were found dumped on the side of the road in Akron on Cordova near Redbush Road at 8:35 a.m. The victims are identified as Inmer Reyes, 25, and Victor Varela-Rodriguez, 31, both from Youngstown.
About two miles away, two more victims were found at 8:55 a.m. on Wright Road in Copley –Domingo Castillo-Reyes, 35 from Youngstown, is dead and another man has survived the shooting.
The suspect Elias Gudino, 58 of Copley, who was arrested on Saturday, is facing murder charges and attempted murder charges. He was arraigned on Monday and is being held without bond.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As Richmond continues to grapple with shootings, city officials are planning to launch a gun buyback program this summer.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports the City Council on Monday unanimously adopted a grant contract with a California-based nonprofit group to administer the program.
Mayor Levar Stoney and other city officials are hoping the program will reduce the number of firearms on the street by allowing gun owners to surrender weapons they own in exchange for gift cards.
Under the terms of a grant agreement, the city will allocate $83,050 to The Robby Poblete Foundation.
While the Richmond Police Department will be responsible for taking the firearms, the foundation will use $67,500 to buy the gift cards. WWBT-TV reported the city will offer $250 for assault-style weapons, $200 for handguns and $150 for rifles.
During Monday's meeting, several council members said they were still unsure whether the program can reduce violent crime. Critics say studies have shown buyback programs do little to reduce gun violence.
Ninth District Councilman Michael Jones said he fears city leaders could “be on the hook” if the program is ineffective and that it would open them to public accusations of inaction.
Reva Trammell, who represents the city’s 8th District, questioned whether the gift cards could be used to buy new guns. Chief Administrative Officer Lincoln Saunders said participants will not be able to do so with the cards that are purchased.
But others said the buyback program can be one part of an effort to curb gun violence.
“We know that there is no silver bullet solution to the gun violence epidemic ... including this gun buyback program,” said Councilwoman Ann-Frances Lambert. “But if executed properly, we can save lives.”
The Robby Poblete Foundation, founded by the mother of a man slain in Vallejo, California, in 2014, has worked with a handful of communities on gun buyback programs. The organization’s website says it has collected nearly 1,400 guns at buyback events in Augusta, Georgia; San Francisco; and other California localities. The foundation says it uses materials from guns and turns them into art to raise awareness about the effects of gun violence.
The buyback program is expected to begin in late July or August.
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ISIS 'Beatle' El Shafee Elsheikh sentenced to life for hostage killings
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A British national was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme.
Roughly two dozen Westerners were taken captive a decade ago by a notorious group of masked captors nicknamed "The Beatles" for their British accents. El Shafee Elsheikh received his sentence Friday in an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom.
The deaths of four American hostages -- journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller -- figured heavily in his April convictions on the eight counts.
Three of the Americans were beheaded in videos broadcast online while Mueller was raped and then killed. Surviving witnesses testified about beatings, torture and other acts of cruelty.
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Elsheikh was extradited along with another British national, Alexanda Kotey, on the condition that the U.S. not pursue the death penalty. Kotey received his life sentence in April.
Another Islamic State figure who spent five years as a propagandist for the terror group was sentenced in July to life in prison. Prosecutors said Saudi-born Canadian Mohammed Khalifa's propaganda videos played a key role in recruiting tens of thousands of foreign fighters.
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TOKYO, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLOCKSMITH&Co., a subsidiary of fellow game development studio KLab and game developer Thirdverse Group announce that professional football player Andrés Iniesta has been appointed as an ambassador for the new blockchain game "Captain Tsubasa - RIVALS-". In this occasion, a special campaign with Andrés Iniesta will be conducted on Twitter.
Comment from Andrés Iniesta
Captain Tsubasa has been my inspiration since childhood and there is no doubt that it was Tsubasa who brought me to Japan, where I currently play soccer at.
I respect the team's challenge towards turning this into a blockchain game and am excited to become an ambassador and be a part of spreading the word.
Looking forward to enjoy this game together with all Captain Tsubasa, soccer, and blockchain game fans from all around the world.
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Born in May 1984, he is a Spanish professional footballer.
He started his professional soccer career with FC Barcelona, winning 4 Champions League titles, 9 Liga titles, and was a key player in leading the Spanish national team to its first 2 consecutive EURO titles and its first World Cup title.
In May 2018, he transferred to Vissel Kobe and made his J.LEAGUE debut in July of the same year.
On New Year's Day 2020, the 25th anniversary of Vissel Kobe, he brought home their first title.
With 39 titles in a career spanning more than 20 years, he is second on the world's all-time list for soccer players.
His world-class technique, which has not diminished yet, fascinates people all over the world.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with poet and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts and artist Titus Kaphar about their new book, Redaction. The book is based on poems and portraits from redacted lawsuits.
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‘Wizard of Oz’ theme park announces limited reopening dates
BEECH MOUNTAIN, N.C. (Gray News) – Take a trip over the rainbow this fall to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Autumn at Oz Festival.
Follow the yellow brick road to Beech Mountain in North Carolina and take part in one of the largest “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” events at the Land of Oz.
The Land of Oz was a fully functioning theme park created in 1970. The park was rebuilt under new management in 1975 after a fire was set to the Emerald City and closed in the fall of 1980.
The park features a scale replica of Auntie Em’s house, a witch’s castle and other whimsical Oz oddities found along the yellow brick road, paved with 44,000 bricks.
According to the park’s website, original employees reunited in 1988, which sparked yearly re-openings and has since become known as the Autumn at Oz Festival.
The festival includes an immersive theatrical experience where guests are engulfed in the classic story of the “Wizard of Oz.”
In addition to several live performances, the event features standard festival attractions such as arts and crafts, memorabilia and food vendors.
The 2023 Autumn at Oz Festival will take place three weekends in September. Tickets for the event will go on sale in late June. The park said the exact date will be announced soon.
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Suns update: Kevin Durant (right MCL sprain) remains out, will be evaluated on game-by-game basis
Kevin Durant (right MCL sprain) is ruled out Friday’s game against Oklahoma City at Footprint Center and he will be evaluated on a game-to-game basis, Suns officials said after Thursday’s practice.
Durant wouldn’t reveal during his introductory press conference Feb. 16 when he’d return from the injury other than it’d be “hopefully soon” after the All-Star break.
“I’m going to follow the training staff and go on the schedule they got me on,” said Durant, who hasn’t played since suffering the injury Jan. 8 at Miami. “So hopefully soon after the break.”
Durant went to Salt Lake City and participated in Saturday’s All-Star media availability, but he didn’t play in Sunday’s game. The 13-time All-Star was ruled out of the game due to injury before the break.
Phoenix’s first game after the All-Star break is Friday. Before the break, ESPN switched from showing the Nets-Bulls game to televise the Thunder-Suns game at 8 p.m.
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It will be the second of a back-to-back for Oklahoma City, which plays Thursday at Utah.
The Suns (32-28) then begin a four-game road trip Sunday at Milwaukee that continues with games March 1 at Charlotte and March 3 at Chicago. The road trip concludes March 5 at Dallas.
Phoenix is coming off a 116-107 loss last week to the Los Angeles Clippers at Footprint Center.
The Charlotte game may be an ideal date for Durant’s debut with the Suns. Phoenix has two days between the Milwaukee game, which begins at 11 a.m. Phoenix time Sunday, and the matchup against the Hornets later in the week.
Averaging 29.7 points this season, Durant joined the Suns in a blockbuster trade right before the Feb. 9 trade deadline. The Suns sent Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Jae Crowder, four future first-round picks and a pick swap to Brooklyn for Durant and T.J. Warren, who spent his first five seasons in Phoenix.
The two-time finals MVP and 2013-14 league MVP was named to the NBA’s 75th anniversary team last season. With 26,684 points in 978 career games, Durant is second among active NBA players in scoring behind LeBron James, who has passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar to become the league’s all-time leading scorer.
James has 38,411 career points in 1,411 games. He suffered a right hand contusion in the first half of Sunday’s All-Star game and sat out the second half.
Cameron Payne said before the break he looked to return Friday from a right foot sprain he suffered Jan. 4 at Cleveland. The backup point guard has missed Phoenix's last 21 games with the injury.
The Suns ruled him questionable for Friday's game.
Landry Shamet remains out with right foot soreness as he hasn't played since Jan. 16 at Memphis. The backup shooting guard has been sidelined for Phoenix's last 15 games due to the injury.
Shamet will be re-evaluated again in a week.
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HOUSTON, Texas -- Monday night's gruesome discovery on a remote road on the southwest side of San Antonio is just the latest human smuggling tragedy.
Few people can understand the risk, and Juan Esteban Montoya is one of them.
The 23-year-old met with ABC13 at his attorney's office near NRG Park Tuesday afternoon. He said the images from San Antonio of the tractor-trailer where dozens of bodies were found were hard for him to look at.
Juan Esteban Montoya's journey from Colombia to the United States was not in the back of an 18-wheeler, but rather by boat in January. He is the only survivor from when the boat capsized off the Florida coast. A photo showed him clinging to the vessel all alone after four days at sea. About 40 people died including his younger sister, Maria Camila Montoya.
"It was very painful to watch my sister die," he said through his attorney, Naimeh Salem, who translated.
The siblings were supposed to reunite with their mother in Houston. It took them a year to save up $13,000 to pay the smugglers. They took a boat from the Bahamas because they were told it was safer, he said.
"That happens more than people know," Salem translated for Montoya. "These big events that people know, but every day someone is dying in the desert or the water because the smugglers have no heart (smuggles) just take advantage of them."
At least 650 people died in 2021 while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the United Nations.
And 19 years ago, it was on the side of the road in Victoria where 19 people died locked in a sweltering trailer, 51 more survived. Mary Rose Garcia, who worked in a Victoria emergency room, witnessed the injured who survived.
"You don't forget something like that. You just don't," Garcia told ABC13. "They just want to get here and have a better life. Some of them make it and some of them don't. It's sad but true."
Juan Esteban Montoya, who hopes for legal status, he and his sister knew the risk, but a better life was worth it. Despite the heartache, he says the future still looks good.
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LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles after hurricanes tore through Lake Charles.
Larce, like many in Southwest Louisiana, has what she calls “storm PTSD.” Tornado warnings trigger anxiety. She struggles to sleep.
"The fear and the unknown — it has me on an edge,” Larce said.
A string of devastating hurricanes tore through this region in recent years. Nationally, too, there have been more Category 4 and 5 hurricane landfalls in the past five years than in the previous 50 combined. Larce and her neighbors know they are on the front lines of climate change.
Her region is now the epicenter of a trend that she fears will make those disasters worse. Developers plan to build a series of liquefied natural gas export facilities nearby.
“They’re an absolute powerhouse for greenhouse gas emissions,” said Naomi Yoder, a staff scientist at Healthy Gulf, a nonprofit that advocates for clean energy.
Greenhouse gases are raising global temperatures and fueling extreme weather, including storms like those that pummeled Larce’s hometown.
For awhile, it seemed as though an era of expanding fossil fuel facilities might be ending. Last year, President Joseph Biden announced his intention to fight climate change by sharply reducing emissions.
Yet since Biden became president, the U.S. has become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as demand for the fuel escalated. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified the push, heightening demand for natural gas, especially for European countries reliant on Russian energy.
The natural gas industry promoted U.S.-produced LNG as a way to fill the gaps. American terminals are exporting gas at full capacity, so expansion of the terminals accelerated.
The new and proposed export terminals are clustered along the Gulf Coast, where some locals are supportive.
“It’s a significant boon to our economy, because it provides good, high-paying jobs,” said Eric Tarver, a member of the Calcasieu Parish School Board. “More than that, it’s a tremendous amount of tax revenue that just dwarfs what we’ve had from any other industry.”
But other locals say few of those coveted jobs go to long-time residents.
REGION IN DISTRESS
Scattered across Lake Charles, blue tarps cover dozens of dilapidated roofs, evidence of the damage inflicted by hurricanes.
“I feel Southwest Louisiana has been made a sacrificial lamb,” said Roishetta Ozane, an organizer for Healthy Gulf.
A critic of the expansion of LNG facilities, Ozane warns neighbors that the emissions worsen global warming and violent storms.
“Now is the time to get people’s attention, to open their eyes that climate change is real,” Ozane said.
Nearby, Cindy Robertson refills a pantry box in her front yard to help feed homeless neighbors.
Her region has endured seven federally declared disasters in two years. With a succession of LNG terminals opening around her, she fears her region hasn't yet seen the worst.
“Instead of focusing on LNG... we need to take all that brainpower and all that money and put it into expanding our renewable resources,” Robertson said.
EXPORTS SURGING
The use of wind and solar energy has grown as prices for such renewables have plunged. But so has the world’s thirst for natural gas. In February, the U.S. exported six times times the LNG it did five years earlier.
Investors poured $63 billion into building American LNG terminals over the past decade, and could spend $100 billion more over the next two decades, according to Rystad Energy.
That's despite warnings from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure would cause global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) — a level scientists say would bring dangerous consequences.
Of the eight terminals now exporting LNG, five are in Louisiana and Texas. At least 16 more are proposed, nearly all in those states.
The projects are backed by Exxon Mobil, Qatar Energy, Total Energies and other global energy giants.
“We’re delivering a cleaner, more environmentally friendly fuel,” said Charlie Riedl, executive director of the Center for LNG, the industry's lobbying group. “The U.S. can use that to help defuse some of the geopolitical issues around the world by delivering a reliable fuel source.”
Initially, Biden's administration didn't approve requests to expand the LNG industry. But after the war in Ukraine began, it allowed some facilities to upgrade, increasing how much they could produce, and encouraged the oil and gas industry to boost production.
Asked whether encouraging fossil fuel exports contradicts Biden's climate goals, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told The Associated Press, “We have got to do both," adding the U.S. can help allies, reduce fuel cost and transition to cleaner energy.
CLEANER THAN COAL?
At sunrise on the Gulf Coast, the dark sky cracks into shades of orange and gray. A bright orb on the horizon looks like the rising sun. It’s not. It’s a flare from Calcasieu Pass LNG, a new terminal which opened about a mile from John Allaire’s beachfront property.
A retired environmental engineer for an oil company, Allaire doesn't oppose oil and gas use. But he fears a proposed terminal which would cover about half the ponds here packed with mud minnows and spawning shrimp.
“I’m glad there’s still places like this left — I really don’t want to see it paved over,” Allaire said.
Together, the four LNG export terminals on the Gulf Coast emitted nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2020 — comparable to all of Costa Rica, according to the Global Carbon Project.
The LNG exports are also tied to climate change because methane, the main ingredient of LNG, is a powerful greenhouse gas. And methane escapes in large quantities from leaky wells and pipelines.
Natural gas proponents say it's better for the climate than burning coal, because it releases fewer emissions when burned. But in most places globally, gas isn’t substituting for coal; it's adding to coal and other energy sources, said Rob Jackson, a professor at Stanford University.
According to the Energy Information Administration, natural gas use will drive an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. from 2037 to 2050.
“In building more LNG export terminals," Jackson said, “we’re locking in emissions for decades to come.”
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Associated Press journalists Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- King & Spalding announced today that Randy Mastro, a leading New York-based business litigator and trial lawyer, will join the firm as a partner in its Trial and Global Disputes practice group.
Mastro previously served as the Chair of the Litigation Practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for more than 20 years and was a long-time member of both its Management and Executive Committees.
"Building our trial practice even more in New York is a cornerstone of our firm strategy. Bringing on Randy – an exceptional trial lawyer and proven leader – helps propel us further," said Robert D. Hays, the firm's Chairman. "Excellence, energy, entrepreneurship and collaborative growth are all hallmarks of our firm's culture. Randy ticks every one of those boxes and then some."
Mastro has tried dozens of cases in private practice and as a federal prosecutor and has also argued more than 100 appeals in federal and state appellate courts throughout the country. He routinely ranks among the nation's leading litigators and trial lawyers in prominent ranking directories and other prominent surveys of corporate counsel and other practitioners. Chambers USA recently named him "Trial Lawyer of the Year," and Law360 has recognized him as an "MVP" for trials.
"I have had the pleasure of partnering with so many great lawyers from King & Spalding over the years on cases we've handled together and won together. Now, I'm thrilled to become a partner there and help the firm expand its litigation and trial practices in New York and throughout the world," Mastro said. "I am a builder by nature and always have been, including at my departing firm, where we achieved exponential growth in New York and a legacy for all to be proud of. Now, I'm looking forward to this exciting opportunity to help King & Spalding grow in New York and elsewhere, continue to work among friends and colleagues dedicated to excellence and striving to be the best, and, from this shining platform, build an even brighter future."
Mastro has a diverse practice representing clients across many industries and categories of dispute. Among many high-profile matters, Mastro won a two-month RICO trial barring the enforcement of a $9 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron that The American Lawyer called "The Case of the Century." He also won a month-long trial against the SEC, obtaining the dismissal of all charges against high-profile entrepreneur, Lynn Tilton, and thereby defeating the largest individual enforcement action the SEC ever brought before its in-house tribunal. He also led the successful effort to defeat New York City's controversial West Side Stadium project, and he represented the State of New Jersey's Governor's Office in conducting a high-profile investigation into allegations concerning the "Bridgegate" controversy. Over the past two years, he won breakthrough Supreme Court victories in COVID-related cases, overturning New York's fixed-capacity restrictions on "houses of worship" and the State's eviction moratorium – both "firsts" in convincing the Supreme Court to void such COVID regulations.
Mastro served as an Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Civil Division in the Southern District of New York, where he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award, among other accolades. Mastro earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his J.D. from University of Pennsylvania.
Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 1,200 lawyers in 23 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality, and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at www.kslaw.com.
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By SAM METZ
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. officials announced plans Tuesday that they characterized as extraordinary to keep hundreds of billions of gallons of water stored in a reservoir on the Utah-Arizona line to prevent it from shrinking more amid prolonged drought and climate change.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to hold back about 480,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Powell to maintain Glen Canyon Dam’s ability to produce hydropower for millions of homes and businesses in the region. That’s roughly enough water to serve 1 million to 1.5 million average households annually.
Tanya Trujillo, the bureau’s assistant secretary of water and science, said keeping the water stored in the reservoir would stave off hydropower concerns for at least 12 months, giving officials time to strategize for how to operate the dam at a lower water elevation. The lake currently holds less than one-fourth of its full capacity and the dam produces electricity for about 5 million customers in seven U.S. states.
“We have never taken this step before in the Colorado River basin, but conditions we see today and the potential risks we see on the horizon demand that we take prompt action,” Trujillo said.
The decision will not have any immediate impacts on the amount of water allocated for the region’s cities. And it won’t affect farms that rely on the Colorado River, which already face mandatory cuts in central Arizona.
But it illustrates the compounding challenges facing Mexico and the seven U.S. states that rely on the Colorado River, which supplies water to about 40 million people and a $5 billion-a-year agricultural sector.
There is less water flowing through the river than is consumed by cities and farms throughout the region. And the water levels in the river’s two primary storage reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — have plummeted substantially over the past two decades — to such an extent that boaters found a decades-old dead body in a barrel exposed on Sunday.
The action announced Tuesday is one of several that have been taken to shore up Lake Powell. The Bureau of Reclamation has also ordered releases from other reservoirs upstream frpm Lake Powell, including 500,000 acre-feet of water from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Utah-Wyoming border announced last month. Releases from Flaming Gorge as well as Blue Mesa reservoir in Colorado and the Navajo reservoir in New Mexico were ordered last year.
Shoring up Lake Powell may allow water to continue flowing through the turbines at Glen Canyon Dam and keep its hydropower-generating capacity intact, but that’s only one of several interests that officials are juggling in managing reservoir levels.
The decision injects uncertainty into the boating and recreation industries that rely on consistent reservoir levels to operate infrastructure like docks. And it forces officials to confront that without drastic conservation measures, demand for water in growing regions will likely come up against supply constraints in a hotter, drier future.
The Bureau of Reclamation announcement followed months of talks between upper basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — and their lower basin counterparts in Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico, which are already taking mandatory and voluntary cuts.
Federal officials first floated the proposal last month in a letter to the seven states, which responded with a joint letter in support of the move in which they asked the bureau to adjust water accounting and how it reports lake levels when deciding on future cuts.
The request centered on the fact that keeping water stored in Lake Powell will decrease the amount of water flowing downstream to Lake Mead, the Colorado River’s other main storage reservoir.
In response to concerns that less for Lake Mead would require lower basin states to take additional cuts, the bureau agreed to act as if the water had flowed downstream in calculating Lake Mead’s elevation. That compromise alters agreements reached over the past 15 years triggering cuts to water users in the lower basin once Lake Mead falls to certain thresholds.
It means moving forward, U.S. officials will “credit” Lake Mead and act as if the water kept to preserve Lake Powell had been delivered downstream when deciding how to enforce agreements — effectively splintering the lake’s actual levels from the levels used to determine cuts.
“We are going to account for the water as if it had been released. And we will do it in a way so that it will not trigger additional releases from the upper basin or additional layers of shortage in the lower basin,” Trujillo said.
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‘Barbenheimer’ box office debut sparks hopes that cinema is back
By Anna Cooban, CNN
London (CNN) — Summer blockbusters “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have given the troubled film industry a big shot in the arm, kindling hopes that consumers may have fallen back in love with the big screen three years after the pandemic forced movie theaters to close.
The films raked in a combined $511 million in box office sales over their opening weekend, according to Boxoffice.com, which cited data from Warner Bros., the producers of “Barbie,” and Universal Studios, which is behind “Oppenheimer.”
It was “Barbie” that came out on top, earning $337 million globally, compared with “Oppenheimer’s” $174 million. That gave the pink-drenched film the largest opening weekend of 2023 so far and the biggest-ever debut for a female director. (Warner Bros., is owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.)
Timothy Richards, chief executive of Vue International, Europe’s largest privately owned movie theater operator, said in a statement Sunday that it had seen its biggest weekend in four years for ticket sales.
“Vue saw its highest weekend admissions since ‘Avengers: Endgame in 2019,’” Richards said, adding that it was “an incredibly exciting moment for the industry.”
The box office haul caps weeks of intense marketing for both films, though particularly for “Barbie,” director Greta Gerwig’s comedy-cum-existential drama about the iconic doll’s search for meaning, relevance and her reckoning with sexism in the real world. Burger King in Brazil made burgers with pink sauce, Crocs released a line of hot pink clogs, and Airbnb created a life-sized version of Barbie’s Malibu DreamHouse to rent in California.
The contrast with Universal Studios’ “Oppenheimer” could not have been starker. The film, directed by Christopher Nolan, tracks the journey of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from kid genius to director of the United States’ Manhattan Project, where he spearheaded the creation of the atomic bomb.
Yet the unlikely pairing seems only to have fueled interest in both. AMC (AMC), the world’s largest movie theater chain, said last week that 60,000 people had bought tickets see both films on the same day.
For movie theaters, bludgeoned by poor ticket sales and a wave of permanent closures since the start of the pandemic, the pop culture sensation generated by “Barbenheimer” — aided and abetted by a cottage industry of memes — might be exactly what the doctor ordered.
“The Barbenheimer phenomenon was the catalyst to something we hadn’t seen for years in this industry: rather than driving the cultural conversation around seeing a movie, it became a global viral campaign around going to the movies,” Daniel Loria, editorial director at Boxoffice.com, told CNN.
Michael O’Leary, president and CEO of the National Associations of Theater Owners in the United States, also said: “People recognized that something special was happening, and they wanted to be a part of it.”
But whether the success of both films will translate into a sustained revival of the movie industry remains to be seen. Big budget films like DC’s “The Flash” and Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” have underperformed this summer, and an ongoing strike by Hollywood actors and writers over pay and working conditions has temporarily stopped production on most films.
The financial toll of the pandemic has been immense. Cineworld, the world’s second-biggest movie theater chain and owner of Regal Cinemas, filed for bankruptcy in September after posting a total $3.3 billion loss over 2020 and 2021. So far, Cineworld has shuttered 51 of its Regal movie theaters in the US.
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GRAPHIC: Video shows crash that killed 2, hurt 5 at busy New York intersection
GRAPHIC WARNING: Video in this story contains content that some may find disturbing.
NEW YORK (WCBS) - At the scene, one can see how fast this car could have been going.
It collided with another vehicle at an intersection. When the dust settled, it ended up down the street.
Two people died in the collision, including the driver of an SUV and one pedestrian.
Five others were taken to the hospital. One is in critical condition.
Some surveillance footage shows the impact. It also shows the white car careening through the intersection of 64th Street and 18th Avenue.
Police said the driver was speeding and ran a red light, crashing into a dark SUV and spinning out of control onto the sidewalk, hitting multiple pedestrians.
“I see this white car coming fast, flooring,” said Vito Conigliaro, who runs J&V Pizzeria on the corner “Seconds later, it was like an explosion. I turn around, and I see all this mess. ... He was flying.”
Some witnesses said it looked like the car was going double the speed limit.
The driver of the white car, a 49-year-old man, was taken into police custody.
Longtime Bensonhurst residents said they are stunned by the recklessness and angry that people drive so fast in this busy neighborhood.
“Disgusted and frightened,” Carmine Lomonaco said. “We need to put people in jail and keep them off the streets.”
“It’s disgusting. They have no regard for human life anymore,” Florence Kehoe said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will open the second day of the new Congress much like the first — with leader Kevin McCarthy trying to become House speaker despite losing in multiple rounds of voting that threw the new GOP majority into chaos.
It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote, but McCarthy appeared undeterred by the gravity of the moment. Instead, he vowed to fight to the finish, encouraged, he said, by former President Donald Trump to end the disarray and pull the Republican Party together.
The House is scheduled to convene Wednesday after the stalemate essentially forced all other business to a standstill, waiting on Republicans to elect a speaker.
“Today, is that the day I wanted to have? No,” McCarthy told reporters late Tuesday at the Capitol after a series of closed-door meetings.
McCarthy said Trump wants him to stay in the race and told him to bring an end to the House Republican chaos and pull the party together.
The former president “wants to see the Republicans united to be able to accomplish the exact things we said we’d do,” McCarthy said.
Asked if he would drop out, McCarthy said, “It’s not going to happen.”
It was a tumultuous start to the new Congress and pointed to difficulties ahead with Republicans now in control of the House.
Tensions flared among the new House majority as their campaign promises stalled out. Without a speaker, the House cannot fully form — swearing in its members, naming its committee chairmen, engaging in floor proceedings and launching investigations of the Biden administration. Lawmakers’ families had waited around, as what’s normally a festive day descended into chaos, with kids playing in the aisles or squirming in parents’ arms.
But it was not at all clear how the embattled GOP leader could rebound to win over right-flank conservatives who reject his leadership. It typically takes a majority of the House to become speaker, 218 votes — though the threshold can drop if members are absent or merely vote present, an strategy McCarthy appeared to be considering.
McCarthy won no more than 203 votes in three rounds of voting, losing as many as 20 Republicans from his slim 222-seat majority,
Not since 1923 has a speaker’s election gone to multiple ballots, and the longest and most grueling fight for the gavel started in late 1855 and dragged out for two months, with 133 ballots, during debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War.
“Kevin McCarthy is not going to be a speaker,” declared Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., one of the holdouts.
A new generation of conservative Republicans, many aligned with Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda, want to upend business as usual in Washington, and were committed to stopping McCarthy’s rise without concessions to their priorities.
In many ways, the challenge from the far-right was reminiscent of the last time Republicans seized power in the House, when tea party Republicans brought hardball politics and shutdown government after winning control in the 2010 midterm elections.
As the spectacle of voting dragged on, McCarthy’s backers implored the holdouts to fall in line for the California Republican.
“We all came here to get things done,” the second-ranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise, said in a speech nominating McCarthy for the vote and urging his colleagues to drop their protest.
Railing against Democratic President Joe Biden’s agenda, Scalise, himself a possible GOP compromise choice, said, “We can’t start fixing those problems until we elect Kevin McCarthy our next speaker.”
But the holdouts forced a third and final round of voting before Republican leaders quickly adjourned Tuesday evening.
“The American people are watching, and it’s a good thing,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who nominated fellow conservative Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as an alternative for speaker.
Jordan, the McCarthy rival-turned-ally, was twice pushed forward by conservatives, but he does not seem to want the job. The Ohio Republican is line to become Judiciary Committee chairman, and he rose during the floor debate to urge his colleagues to instead vote for McCarthy.
“We have to rally around him, come together,” Jordan said.
In all, a core group of 19 Republicans — and then 20 — voted for someone other than McCarthy. The first ballot sent votes to Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Jordan and others, while Jordan alone won the votes on the next two ballots.
The standoff over McCarthy has been building since Republicans appeared on track to win the House majority in the midterm elections in November. While the Senate remains in Democratic hands, barely, House Republicans are eager to confront Biden after two years of the Democrats controlling both houses of Congress. The conservative Freedom Caucus led the opposition to McCarthy, believing he’s neither conservative enough nor tough enough to battle Democrats.
To win support, McCarthy has already agreed to many of the demands of the Freedom Caucus, who have been agitating for rules changes and other concessions that give rank-and=file more influence in the legislative process. He has been here before, having bowed out of the speakers race in 2015 when he failed to win over conservatives.
Late Tuesday, pizza, Chick-fil-A and tacos were carried into various meeting rooms at the Capitol after the failed votes as McCarthy supporters and detractors hunkered down to figure out how to elect a speaker.
“Everything’s on the table,” said McCarthy ally Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. — expect, he said, having the leader step aside. “Not at all. That is not on the table.”
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the chairman of the Freedom Caucus and a leader of Trump’s effort to challenge the 2020 presidential election had said earlier it was up to McCarthy to meet their demands and change the dynamic.
Democrats enthusiastically nominated Jeffries, who is taking over as party leader, as their choice for speaker — a typically symbolic gesture for the minority but one that took on new importance with Republicans at odds with each other.
While Jeffries won the most votes overall, 212, it was not the majority to become speaker.
McCarthy focused on those numbers late Tuesday. If McCarthy could win 213 votes, and then persuade the remaining naysayers to simply vote present, he would be able to lower the threshold required under the rules to have the majority.
It’s a strategy former House speakers, including outgoing Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican Speaker John Boehner had used when they confronted opposition, winning the gavel with fewer than 218 votes.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
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A day after Serena Williams won her opening match at the U.S. Open, sister Venus will begin her tournament on the same Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek was among the players on court when the second day of the event began Tuesday morning. Garbiñe Muguruza and Jelena Ostapenko were other Grand Slam champions with early starts.
Play in Ashe was set to begin at noon with No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz facing Sebastian Baez of Argentina. Then it was the 42-year-old Venus Williams, returning to the tournament she first won 25 years ago. She facing Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium after a one-year absence at Flushing Meadows.
Rafael Nadal was in night action, along with defending women's champion Emma Raducanu and two-time winner Naomi Osaka.
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Mother accused of stabbing children inside burning home, deputies say
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46/Gray News) – A 40-year-old woman is accused of stabbing her children inside a burning home in Atlanta Friday, according to the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office.
A neighbor called 911 around 9:30 Friday night to report the house fire and said that a woman inside the home was trying to stab the children, authorities said.
Investigators said seven children were inside the home when the fire started.
Firefighters found two children unresponsive when they arrived at the home. Police said an infant and another child were found with burns at the top of the stairs inside the house.
A 3-month-old with apparent stab wounds and a 9-month-old were pronounced dead at the scene, WGCL reported.
A 5-year-old died from his injuries after being taken to a nearby hospital.
Authorities said three other children between the ages of 5 and 11 were also taken to the hospital for treatment.
WGCL reports a 14-year-old and 16-year-old jumped from a second-floor window and weren’t hurt.
Darlene Brister was arrested and charged with malice murder after deputies found her in the backyard of the home uninjured.
Authorities say more charges are likely as the investigation continues.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer predicted Thursday that Democrats will hold the U.S. Senate, propelled by strong voter turnout to buck a wave of Republican enthusiasm for gaining control of Congress in the midterm elections.
The Democratic leader told The Associated Press he’s confident Democrats will be able to win the battleground states being contested — and potentially pick up Senate seats from Republicans.
“It’s tight,” Schumer said in an interview. “I believe Democrats will hold the Senate and maybe even pick up seats.”
Campaigning in his home state of New York, Schumer’s upbeat predictions come as Democrats face stiff headwinds heading into Election Day on Tuesday.
Republicans have gained momentum as they work to flip control of the evenly split Senate and narrowly divided House. GOP candidates are capitalizing on President Joe Biden’s lagging approval ratings, inflationary pressures on households and history — the party in the White House typically loses congressional seats in the president’s midterm.
Schumer is counting on strong voter turnout and a final get-out-the-vote push to keep the majority in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris can break a tie, as she’s done at key junctures over the past two years to pass legislation and confirm Biden nominees.
Democratic incumbents are battling in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and New Hampshire, and trying to win open seats in battleground Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
“I don’t want to give the illusion that these are all slam dunks,” Schumer acknowledged. But Schumer said Democrats have advantages in each of the battleground states and have reversed the springtime narrative that the party would easily lose control.
“The fact that we’re in the ballpark and our Democratic candidates are defying the political environment is a testament to a few things,” he said. Voters “are seeing how extreme these Republican candidates are and they don’t like it. And second, they’re seeing the Democrats are talking to them on issues they care about, and that we’ve accomplished a great deal on things.”
Republicans have acknowledged GOP “candidate quality” has been an issue, but say they have pushed past a brutal primary season when voters picked candidates backed by Donald Trump in Georgia and elsewhere who were not the first choice among party leaders.
Republican operatives now believe their candidates have improved and and say voters who did not support Trump are beginning to return to the GOP in the midterm elections.
Tuesday’s election will determine control of Congress setting the course for legislation and Biden’s priorities for the remaining two years of his presidential term.
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More than 200 sailors moved off Navy aircraft carrier after multiple suicides
(CNN) – The U.S. Navy is relocating hundreds of sailors who had been living on an aircraft carrier as it investigates a jump in crew suicides.
The Navy is now looking into the deaths of seven crew members on the U.S.S. George Washington, including four by apparent suicide in the past year.
More than 200 sailors were allowed to move to a Navy facility Monday while the ship goes through a major refueling and overhaul in Newport News.
The idea is to give crew members more access to support programs.
The Navy also plans to provide additional morale and well-being measures for the 2,000 to 3,000 sailors still living on the carrier during the overhaul, which is expected to take a number of years.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. If you or someone you know needs help, you are asked to call 1-800-950-6264.
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SPARKS, Md., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts in the motorsport industry have spoken and have deemed GEARWRENCH PITBULL™ Pliers the best-performing line of professional automotive/industrial pliers in the market—and their favorite brand. GEARWRENCH designed the hand tool with features and functionality in mind, quickly turning the pliers into a mechanic's best friend.
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DALLAS — Tickets prices on the secondary market are substantially higher for the women's Final Four than for the men.
The women play in a much smaller venue, but they also have more recognizable names in the their Final Four. Only UConn on the men's side is anything close to a traditional power.
One of the women's stars is Iowa's Caitlin Clark, who was honored as the AP Player of the Year on Thursday.
“I think it’s pretty incredible,” Clark said of the difference in ticket prices. “I think it’s starting to get the viewership, the attention, things like that that it deserves. When people really turn on the TV or sit in the seat, they understand how good the product is and how much fun it is to watch.”
An all-session ticket for the women's Final Four was at least $475 on StubHub and $335 on Vivid Seats, before fees, as of 3 p.m. EDT Thursday. Men's all-sessions tickets were going for at least $65 and $66, respectively.
The women's semifinals on Friday, which is headlined by the matchup of Clark's Hawkeyes against undefeated, top-ranked and defending champion South Carolina, start at $222 on StubHub and $184 on Vivid Seats. That compares to $45 and $44 for Saturday's semifinals on the men's side.
“It’s been building towards this for a long time," South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “Fortunately for us — not just South Carolina, but us as women’s basketball — we’ve got a lot of star power behind our sport.”
Tickets for Sunday's women's championship game begin at $167 on StubHub and $131 on Vivid Seats, and Monday's men's title game is at $45 and $37.
The men are playing in Houston's NRG Stadium, home of the NFL's Texans, which seats close to 75,000. The women are at Dallas' American Airlines Center, home of the NBA's Mavericks and NHL's Stars, which has nearly 20,000 seats.
“It’s pretty neat that it’s sold out,” LSU coach Kim Mulkey said. “The cheapest ticket is more expensive than the cheapest ticket in Houston for the men’s Final Four. I thought that was eye-catching.” | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/ncaa-final-four-secondary-tickets-women-outpacing-men/507-9df9f6e4-1ac2-491b-94f3-46ad6824db3e | 2023-03-31 02:17:03 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/ncaa-final-four-secondary-tickets-women-outpacing-men/507-9df9f6e4-1ac2-491b-94f3-46ad6824db3e |
Space Campsites on Throwing Dude Planets – Join TDSC Waitlist
TORONTO, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- an innovative new PFP NFT called Throwing Dude Space Camp (TDSC) is launching in the Fall or Winter 2023. 10,000 NFTs will be available. TDSC features next level art, astonishing rarity, and a ground-breaking road map. Click here to join the waitlist.
Gyro Plasmic (pseudonym), Founder of TDSC says; "last year I was experimenting with digital art and ended up creating a dude throwing environment in a significant number of different locations. I pondered the vastness of all this and believed we could create 10,000 Throwing Dudes as profile avatar NFTs to contribute to this vastness. We later named these planets. This helped ignite the spark to create Throwing Dude Space Camp. As TDSC unfolds, we will share the digital planet campsite and horizon art from the TDSC planets" https://throwingdudespacecamp.com/
Here are the current Throwing Dude Space Camp planet names: Aieryon 001 (airie-on-zero-zero-one); Bluerik Nine (Blue-rick-Nine); Brara T76 (Brara-T-7-6); Burn CZ8 (Burn-C-Z-8); Chayntu (chian-two); Cryboltia (cry-bolt-ya); Drystagua (dry-stag-you-a); Darmonica (dar-monica); Diamax 5 (Dia-max-five); Egroth (Ea-groth); Frozzuvious (Froze-zoo-vious); Gnanoworp (g-nano-worp); Gochasand (gotcha-sand); Granvatune (grava-tune); Grenipee (gren-i-pea); Hailongitha (Hail-ongitha); Harshdonus (harsh-don-us); Iapeace (i-a-peace); Icarro (i-car-ro); Ignitania (ig-nee-tan-ya); Jafire VW5 (Ja-fire V-W-5); Kapkhar (Kap-cár); Kutteir (Kut-yeah); Larth 7N6 (Larth 7-N-6); Limetro (Lime-tro); Loyatrix (Loya-trix); Lulmagia (Lul-majia); Metahive 2 (meta-hive-2); Moondratis (moon-dratis); Nagwove (Nag-wove); Ogritter (O-gritter); Onguttia (On-gut-te-a); Oozuma (oo-zooma); Petustar (pet-u-star); Quayzarc (quay-zark); Sailitte V7Z (sail-itte-V-7-Z); Seatania (Sea-tanya); Seron 33 (Sir-on-thirty-three); Shocluk QX9 (shock-luck-Q-X-9); Snotanya (snow-tan-ya); Spark Q35 (spark-Q-3-5); Spikerila (spike-rilla); Thronerya (Throne-ree-ya); Tronaboo (Tron-a-boo); Tworia (twar-ee-a); Undemia (un-dem-ee-a); Vinroma (vin-roma); Vozorth (vo-zarth); Vaxle (vaxelle); Wandiloud (wandee-loud); Xenumia (X-enoom-ee-a); Xevaclite (X-eva-clite); Xowhale (Xoo-whale); Yopraux (Yo-pro); Zalarruta (zal-are-ruta); Zeromp WX (zer-omp W-X); and Zapwa (zap-wa)
We are in it for the long haul and as TDCS gets resourced through revenue, we plan to introduce many benefits to the Throwing Dude Space Camp membership, which may potentially include: our full planet art reveal, exclusive member merchandise, space camping festival under our aurora borealis, release of space camp song anthem and more.
Click here to join the Throwing Dude's waitlist.
Throwing Dude Space Camp (TDSC) is owned and operated by QaQaQ Inc.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - A Flint-based nonprofit organization introduced a creative way to educate and promote healthy lifestyles.
D.R.E.A.M.S. takes a unique view of agriculture with a focus on teaching students how to grow their own produce using water and fish waste.
The organization started as a youth basketball league back in 2015, but founder Royce Stephens found purpose in teaching youth where healthy lifestyles begin -- the food they consume.
"Communities such as Flint are socioeconomically distressed. We have health issues because of that, and one of them is access to healthy foods," said Stephens.
His mission is to help the overall health and well-being of young people in Genesee County. Pushing the narrative, Stephens introduced aquaponics as a new concept to Hamady Middle School seventh graders.
"Aquaponics is agriculture of course. A lot of people are familiar with hydroponics, but aquaponics is the same as hydroponics, which is you grow plants without soil," he said. "The only difference is we're going to add fish."
Growing up in Flint, Stephens realized there was a lack of access to healthy foods.
"Flint is one of those cities where we don't have any major grocery store chains here so people don't have the same access to healthy foods as someone in a community as close as Grand Blanc or Davison," said Stephens. "So, with aquaponics we teach young people how to grow their own healthy food so even though there aren't stores where it's available, we're going to help them have access to it and they may be able to help other people to have access to it."
It's a skill that Stephens hopes could create opportunities for young people in the future.
"The average household income in Flint I think is right around $30,000 that's very close to the poverty line, you have agriculture jobs that can double that," he said. "So, if I can expose these young people to it and they get to college with the experience, I have created a pipeline and that's my goal - to create pipelines for young people to find these different career pathways."
Stephens continues the mission of D.R.E.A.M.S. through his enrichment programs across Genesee County. | https://www.abc12.com/news/education/d-r-e-a-m-s-nonprofit-introduces-aquaponics-to-hamady-middle-school/article_e257c714-ae51-11ed-b471-8bdd0e5f167d.html | 2023-02-17 00:14:55 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/education/d-r-e-a-m-s-nonprofit-introduces-aquaponics-to-hamady-middle-school/article_e257c714-ae51-11ed-b471-8bdd0e5f167d.html |
Mostly cloudy skies early will become partly cloudy later in the day. Areas of patchy fog possible early. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 78F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph..
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Some clouds early will give way to generally clear conditions overnight. Low near 60F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
It has been two months since Ohio has enacted its abortion law, but the fight is far from over. Governor Mike DeWine signed into the law The Heartbeat Bill in 2019, but it took effect the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade back in June. The Heartbeat Bill will criminally charge doctors who perform abortions after a heartbeat is detected which usually occurs around six weeks unless there is a concern over the health of the mother. State lawmakers have introduced more legislation concerning abortion in the state. Some involve an outright ban of abortion and others to regulate the procedure. Abortion rights have been a major topic around the state and the country, DeWine says the topic will be discussed after the election.
“But there is a lot of issues that have been raised and that is what we have a legislature for. That’s what we have a debate that is really occurring. Maybe not a formal debate, but it is going on across the state,” adds DeWine. “So, the legislature will be back in November, and we will look at those issues then.”
There is a lawsuit before the Ohio Supreme Court filed by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU that challenge the Heartbeat Bill. The state has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but major cities around Ohio have filed their own motion asking justices to reject the state's request.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices in an election year.
The Democratic president will also call on states to suspend their own gas taxes or provide similar relief, the White House said.
At issue is the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal tax on gas and the 24.4 cents-a-gallon federal tax on diesel fuel. If the gas savings were fully passed along to consumers, people would save roughly 3.6% at the pump when prices are averaging about $5 a gallon nationwide.
But many economists and lawmakers from both parties view the idea of a gas tax holiday with skepticism.
Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, called the idea a “gimmick” that allowed politicians to “say that they did something.” He also warned that oil companies could offset the tax relief by increasing their prices.
High gas prices pose a fundamental threat to Biden’s electoral and policy ambitions. They’ve caused confidence in the economy to slump to lows that bode poorly for defending Democratic control of the House and the Senate in November.
Biden’s past efforts to cut gas prices — including the release of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve and greater ethanol blending this summer — have done little to produce savings at the pump, a risk that carries over to the idea of a gas tax holiday.
Biden has acknowledged how gas prices have been a drain on public enthusiasm when he is trying to convince people that the U.S. can still pivot to a clean-energy future. In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Biden described a country already nursing some psychological scars from the coronavirus pandemic that is now worried about how to afford gas, food and other essentials.
“If you notice, until gas prices started going up,” Biden said, “things were much more, they were much more optimistic.”
The president can do remarkably little to fix prices that are set by global markets, profit-driven companies, consumer demand and aftershocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the embargoes that followed. The underlying problem is a shortage of oil and refineries that produce gas, a challenge a tax holiday cannot necessarily fix.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that the majority of the 8.6% inflation seen over the past 12 months in the U.S. comes from higher commodity prices due to Russia’s invasion and continued disruptions from the coronavirus.
“In the immediate near term, it is critical to stem the increase in oil prices,” Zandi said last week, suggesting that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and a nuclear deal with Iran could help to boost supplies and lower prices.
Republican lawmakers have tried to shift more blame to Biden, saying he created a hostile environment for domestic oil producers, causing their output to stay below pre-pandemic levels.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell mocked the idea of a gas tax holiday in a February floor speech. “They’ve spent an entire year waging a holy war on affordable American energy, and now they want to use a pile of taxpayers’ money to hide the consequences,” he said.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has previously expressed doubts about the value of suspending the federal gas tax.
Administration officials said the $10 billion cost of the gas tax holiday would be paid for and the Highway Trust Fund kept whole, even though the gas taxes make up a substantial source of revenue for the fund. The officials did not specify any new revenue sources.
The president has also called on energy companies to accept lower profit margins to increase oil production and refining capacity for gasoline.
This has increased tensions with oil producers: Biden has judged the companies to be making “more money than God.” That kicked off a chain of events in which the head of Chevron, Michael Wirth, sent a letter to the White House saying that the administration “has largely sought to criticize, and at times vilify, our industry.”
Asked about the letter, Biden said of Wirth: “He’s mildly sensitive. I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that quickly.”
Energy companies are scheduled to meet Thursday with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to discuss ways to increase supply. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-call-for-3-month-suspension-of-gas-and-diesel-taxes/ | 2022-06-22 11:48:29 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-call-for-3-month-suspension-of-gas-and-diesel-taxes/ |
Highlights Aurora's Continued Investment within the Growing Environmental Services Space
LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Capital Partners ("Aurora"), a leading middle-market private equity firm, today announced that it has partnered with Impact Environmental Group ("IEG" or the "Company"), a best-in-class provider of products and services to the global waste and recycling industry.
Founded in 1999, IEG is a premier global environmental products and services business with operating locations strategically positioned across the US and Europe. IEG's combination of product breadth, service levels, and geographic reach are unique across the environmental services sector, and its focus on repair and replacement parts helps reduce overall customer spend. IEG management, led by Brian Beth, and Aurora are excited to continue expanding the product and services portfolio through both organic initiatives and strategic add-on acquisitions.
"Aurora's successful track record working with management teams within the environmental services industry makes them the ideal partner for IEG as we enter the next stage of growth," said Brian Beth, CEO of IEG. "Their capital support will allow us to unlock further opportunities and capitalize on the tailwinds in the industry. We pride ourselves on playing an important role across the environmental services landscape and are excited to partner with Aurora to better deliver products, services, and sustainability solutions to the industry."
"We continue to see attractive opportunities within the environmental services sector, driven by stable demand drivers as well as an increasing focus towards sustainability. IEG has established itself as a leading service platform in the space," said Andrew Wilson, Partner at Aurora. "Brian and the IEG team share our commitment to quality products and exceptional customer service, delivering parts and solutions quickly and seamlessly across its large customer base. We look forward to supporting their continued growth."
The transaction marks the ninth investment from Aurora Equity Partners VI, which was activated in September 2020, and another investment by Aurora within the environmental services space. Other representative environmental services investments include VLS Environmental Solutions, Sharps Compliance and Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services.
About Impact Environmental Group
Founded in 1999, Impact Environmental Group has grown into a global environmental products and services business, providing a comprehensive suite of new and replacement products for waste containers, collection and compaction equipment, and waste transportation equipment. IEG companies include Impact, Roll-Tech, Midland Chutes, Northern Extrusion, United Compaction Services, Deroche Canvas, Container Components (US), UK-based Egbert Taylor and Container Components (Europe). IEG is headquartered in Elgin, Illinois with facilities located across the US and Europe. For more information, visit www.iegna.com or on LinkedIn.
About Aurora Capital Partners
Aurora Capital Partners is a leading Los Angeles-based private equity firm with $5 billion in assets under management. Founded in 1991, the firm invests in middle-market companies with leading market positions, stable industry dynamics, attractive business model characteristics and actionable opportunities for growth in partnership with management. For more information about Aurora Capital Partners, visit: www.auroracap.com.
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REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A California judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric in connection to a 2020 fatal wildfire sparked by its equipment that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people, including an 8-year-old.
The utility also reached a $50 million settlement agreement with the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office, officials from both announced in separate statements.
The wind-whipped blaze began on Sept. 27, 2020, and raged through rugged terrain and small communities west of Redding, killing four people, burning about 200 homes and blackening about 87 square miles (225 square kilometers) of land in Shasta and Tehama counties.
In 2021, state fire investigators concluded the fire was sparked by a gray pine tree that fell onto a PG&E distribution line. Shasta and Tehama counties sued the utility, alleging negligence. They said PG&E failed to remove the tree even though it had been marked for removal two years earlier. The utility says the tree was subsequently cleared to stay.
Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett determined that the company was criminally liable for the fire and charged the utility later that year.
Shasta Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Flynn disagreed, and in a tentative ruling ahead of a hearing Wednesday said prosecutors did not present enough evidence to show PG&E engaged in criminal conduct, according to the Sacramento Bee, which obtained a copy of the ruling.
The “tree was not a known risk prior to the Zogg fire, and there is no evidence to support the People’s claim in their opposition that it was,” the judge wrote.
The utility said in a statement that under the agreement with Shasta County, which is subject to court approval, it will fund $45 million in contributions to organizations dedicated to rebuilding and assisting local communities. The company will also pay a $5 million civil penalty to the county.
“We stand behind our thousands of trained and experienced coworkers and contractors working every day to keep Californians safe. We feel strongly that those good-faith judgments are not criminal,” said Patti Poppe, Chief Executive Officer of PG&E Corporation.
Bridgett said her goal was always to take PG&E to trial and hold them criminally responsible but that Flynn’s tentative ruling changed her position and she agreed to a settlement that includes dropping all charges.
“I am unwilling to gamble with the safety of Shasta County,” she said. “I have a responsibility to the community and needed to secure what I can for all the citizens to prevent future wildfires, prevent future deaths and devastation, and to be as prepared as our county can be if another one occurs.”
Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a $150 million settlement between Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and the CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division over PG&E’s role in the Zogg Fire. As part of the agreement, the utility will pay $10 million as a penalty to California’s General Fund, and invest $140 million in shareholder funds in new wildfire mitigation efforts, officials said. | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/california-judge-dismisses-criminal-charges-against-pge-in-2020-fatal-fire/ | 2023-06-01 20:21:43 | 0 | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/california-judge-dismisses-criminal-charges-against-pge-in-2020-fatal-fire/ |
(The Hill) — An internal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report examining what went wrong with the federal government’s response to the infant formula shortage earlier this year found 15 different areas where the FDA could have better managed the crisis.
The report from Steven Solomon, director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, recommended the agency update emergency response systems, increase staff training and modernize information technology, among other changes.
Solomon has been at the FDA for 32 years, 23 of which he spent in the agency’s Office of Regulatory Affairs, which houses the FDA’s inspectional programs.
The infant formula shortage drew national headlines earlier this year as families scrambled to get the product for their young before the shortage eased in the summer.
The FDA report says agents who inspect infant formula plants need more training and investigators who are part of the foods division of the federal agency are understaffed.
Solomon also found fault on the FDA’s communication and coordination efforts on managing the crisis, citing “inadequate processes and lack of clarity” on handling whistleblower complaints; and outdated information systems where reports and product complaints are submitted.
Solomon said many of the findings he has outlined, along with the recommendations to fix them, are already being addressed.
“This is one of our most important obligations,” Solomon wrote. “As public health servants, our commitment to protecting the nation’s food supply should be never-ending.”
The formula shortage was sparked primarily by the shutdown of a major production plant earlier this year run by Abbott Nutrition in Michigan.
The plant was shut down after the Cronobacter pathogen was detected in the pathogen supply and led to at least four infant illnesses.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson is headed for the injured list after he left Sunday’s game against the Cubs with a right groin strain.
Anderson went down in the outfield after fielding P.J. Higgins’ fifth-inning grounder and throwing to first for the out. He appeared to be favoring his right side as he was helped off the field.
The team said he will be evaluated further on Monday.
“It’s definitely a groin issue. The severity is going to depend on the further check, but he’s going on the IL for sure,” manager Tony La Russa said. “He made that spin, not sure exactly if he got his spike stuck or something. That’s typical, he goes on the IL making a great play at the time we needed it.”
It’s another tough break for the struggling White Sox, who have been hit hard by injuries this year. Anderson went 1 for 2 with a first-inning single and ranks among the league leaders with a .356 batting average.
Danny Mendick replaced Anderson at shortstop.
“It’s devastating,” said teammate Jake Burger, who singled in the winning run in the 12th inning of the team’s 5-4 victory. “We were all around him. You saw all nine guys out there around him. It’s tough. He’s such a leader and such an impactful person in this clubhouse that it will be tough. But he’ll always be with us no matter what it is.”
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Premier partner to the food & beverage industry launches strategic risk management and systematic modeling services
LAFAYETTE, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to growing demand from customers in the food and beverage industry for enhanced risk management assistance, McKeany-Flavell announced the launch of its expanded commodity risk management program.
Michael Caughlan, President and CEO, and Shawn Bingham, Director of Risk Management, announced the launch. McKeany-Flavell, offers commodity market expertise in sugar, corn sweeteners, edible oils, cocoa and chocolate, fruit and fruit concentrates, nutmeats, CBD, and other ingredients.
Shawn Bingham, who heads the new program, joined McKeany-Flavell in January 2021 to develop the new offering and integrate his strategic systematic modeling platform. Shawn is a veteran of the futures and options industry and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He is a past member of both the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Board Options Exchange and has worked for several industry recognized firms.
"Successful procurement price risk management means striking a balance between supply assurance, cost avoidance and volatility.", said Shawn. "We recommend a portfolio strategy approach, using multiple tools and disciplines to achieve your procurement goals."
Mike Caughlan commented, "After months of preparation to establish a robust risk management service for our established clientele, we are proudly moving forward with this new program with great confidence. The addition of a highly experienced risk management professional like Shawn allows us to do so. Clients who are interested in benefiting from expanded risk management solutions during these volatile times should contact us directly."
Visit mckeany-flavell.com to learn more about McKeany-Flavell's expanded commodity risk management program.
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Paul M. Collins, Jr., UMass Amherst and Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University
(THE CONVERSATION) Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices.
Indeed, on July 25, 2022, Democrats introduced a bill that would allow a new justice to take the bench every two years and spend 18 years in active service.
The majority that overturned Roe was possible only because of the current system in which justices serve for life and are therefore able to choose when and whether to step down.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett owes her seat to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to retire under a Democratic president and her subsequent death under a Republican.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the court because of Reagan appointee Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to step down under a GOP administration. Justice Neil Gorsuch was appointed after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia happened to die after President Donald Trump took office.
The author of the opinion in Dobbs, Justice Samuel Alito, took his seat when Republican Justice Sandra Day O’Connor chose to leave under President George W. Bush.
Justice Clarence Thomas – the leader of the court’s conservative majority – has served on the high court for over three decades and is there only because liberal icon Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to retire under a Democratic president and subsequently died with a Republican in office.
All federal judges in the U.S., including Supreme Court justices, enjoy life tenure.
Under Article 3 of the Constitution, justices cannot be forced out of office against their will, barring impeachment. This provision, which followed the precedent of Great Britain, is meant to ensure judicial independence that allows judges to render decisions based on their understandings of the law – free from political, social and electoral influences.
Our extensive research on the Supreme Court shows life tenure, while well intended, has had unforeseen consequences.
It skews how the confirmation process and judicialdecision-making work and causes justices who want to retire to behave like political operatives.
Problems with lifetime tenure
Life tenure has motivated presidents to pick younger and younger justices.
In the post-World War II era, presidents generally forgo appointing jurists in their 60s, who would bring a great deal of experience, and instead nominate judges in their 40s or 50s, who could serve on the court for many decades.
And they do.
When Thomas was appointed at age 43 by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, he famously said he would serve for 43 years. There are another dozen years until his promise is met, should he choose to keep it at all.
Partisanship problems
Justices change during their decades on the bench, research shows.
Justices who at the time of their confirmation espoused views that reflected the general public, the Senate and the president who appointed them tend to move away from those preferences over time. They become more ideological, focused on putting their own policy preferences into law.
Other Americans’ political preferences tend to be stable throughout their lives.
The consequence is that Supreme Court justices may no longer reflect the America they preside over.
This can be problematic.
If the court were to routinely stray too far from the public’s values, the public could reject its dictates by refusing to follow the court’s decisions. The Supreme Court relies on public confidence to maintain its legitimacy. In addition to public resistance to its decisions, if the court lost its legitimacy, lower court judges and legislative and executive branch actors might resist implementing the court’s rulings.
Life tenure has also turned staffing the Supreme Court into an increasingly partisan process, politicizing one of the nation’s most powerful institutions.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Supreme Court nominees could generally expect broad, bipartisan support in the Senate. Today, judicial confirmation votes are almost strictly down party lines.
Public support for judicial nominees is likewise shaped by partisanship. Simply put, Democrats are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Democratic presidents, and Republicans are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Republican presidents.
Life tenure can turn supposedly independent judges into political players who attempt to time their departures to secure their preferred successors – and this may have factored in to Justice Stephen Breyer’s decision this year under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of Breyer’s former clerks, to replace him.
The proposed solution
Many Supreme Courtexperts have coalesced around a solution to these problems: staggered 18-year terms with a vacancy automatically occurring every two years in nonelection years.
This system would promote judicial legitimacy, they argue, by taking departure decisions out of the justices’ hands.
It would help insulate the court from becoming a campaign issue because vacancies would no longer arise during election years. Indeed, even if a justice died during an election year, a lower court judge could be temporarily elevated as a replacement. Term limits would also preserve judicial independence by shielding the court from political calls to fundamentally alter the institution.
Partisanship would still tinge the selection and confirmation of judges by the president and Senate and ideological extremists could still reach the Supreme Court. But they would be limited to 18-year terms.
Instituting life tenure
The U.S. Supreme Court is one of the world’s few high courts whose members have life tenure.
Almost all democratic nations have either fixed terms or mandatory retirement ages for their top judges, including the United Kingdom.
Except for Rhode Island, all U.S. states either have mandatory retirement ages or let voters choose when judges leave the bench through judicial elections.
Even before Dobbs, polling consistently showed a large bipartisanmajority of Americans supported ending life tenure for Supreme Court justices.
This view comes amid reports of eroding public confidence as the court routinely issues decisions down partisan lines on the day’s most controversial issues.
Although judges’ ideology has long influenced Supreme Court decisions, today’s court is unusual because all the conservative justices are Republicans and all the liberal justices are Democrats. In the past, it was not uncommon to have liberal-leaning justices who were appointed by Republican presidents, and conservative-leaning justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents.
In April 2021, President Biden formed a committee to examine reforming the Supreme Court, including term-limiting justices.
Some argue that to end the justices’ life tenure would require a constitutional amendment necessitating approval from two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of U.S. states. But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
The Constitution does not speak of “life tenure” per se. It states only that justices serve “during good behavior” and does not specify the type of work that justices will do.
As a result, ordinary legislation – such as that introduced this week – could be passed by a majority of both houses of Congress that would require justices to take “senior status” at the end of their 18-year terms.
Senior status is already an option for justices who qualify for it and wish to step down from their Supreme Court duties. Senior status allows them either to retire or to sit on a lower court with undiminished salary for the remainder of their careers.
All that is needed, these proponents argue, is a change in the existing retirement statute that requires senior status after 18 years on the court.
And while there are questions over whether term limits via statute are constitutional, or whether the Supreme Court justices who would be affected by them are the appropriate body to make such a determination, the larger question is whether there is or will be the political will in Congress to enact them.
This story has been updated from the original version published on July 6, 2021.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/after-roes-overturning-americans-are-demanding-supreme-court-term-limits-187040. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/After-Roe-s-overturning-Americans-are-demanding-17334738.php | 2022-07-28 14:02:06 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/After-Roe-s-overturning-Americans-are-demanding-17334738.php |
Troopers Helping Hundreds of Stranded Motorists During Storm
DECEMBER 23, 2022 (LINCOLN, NEB.) — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have responded to more than 500 weather-related incidents during this week’s winter storm and blistering cold temperatures.
Troopers performed 306 motorist assists statewide on Thursday, in addition to 211 statewide on Wednesday. In many cases, troopers have used their patrol vehicles to transport stranded motorists to safety and out of the cold. Most of those situations have been along Interstate 80 or other highly traveled roadways.
“This week’s snow, ice, and cold have played a major factor in the ability to travel,” said Colonel John Bolduc, Superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol. “Our troopers and dispatchers have worked together with NDOT teams and several other agencies to help and even rescue stranded motorists over the last two days.”
One rescue occurred Thursday evening in rural Dawes County, when NSP dispatchers received a report of two motorists stranded on a county road near the South Dakota border. After multiple unsuccessful attempts to reach the motorists using track vehicles and plows, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Search and Rescue were able to reach the stranded motorists and transport them to safety using snowmobiles.
NSP continues to urge any motorist who becomes stranded to stay in their vehicle and call for help. The Nebraska State Patrol Highway Helpline is available 24 hours per day by calling *55. NSP dispatchers can send troopers to help or communicate with partner agencies across Nebraska and in neighboring states if necessary.
As travel increases today and through the weekend, NSP advises all motorists to check Nebraska 511 and have a full tank of gas and winter survival kit in your vehicle | https://www.kfornow.com/troopers-helping-hundreds-of-stranded-motorists-during-storm/ | 2022-12-24 01:33:16 | 0 | https://www.kfornow.com/troopers-helping-hundreds-of-stranded-motorists-during-storm/ |
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