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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey is virtually certain to get a green light to continue from the U.N. Security Council on Monday — but the big question is for how long.
The council’s current authorization for aid deliveries through the Bab al-Hawa crossing is set to expire Monday, but the council has two rival extension resolutions before it to vote on.
A Russian resolution would continue aid deliveries for six months and a Brazil-Switzerland resolution backed by most council members and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would authorize a 12-month extension.
The delivery of aid to the area has increased significantly following the devastation caused by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ravaged southern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Feb. 8.
Syrian President Bashar Assad opened two additional crossing points from Turkey to increase the flow of assistance to quake victims, and he extended their operation for three months in May until mid-August. But those crossings are not mentioned in either resolution.
Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib is home to some 4 million people, many of whom have been forced from their homes during the 12-year civil war, which has killed nearly a half million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million. Hundreds of thousands of people in Idlib live in tent settlements and rely on aid that comes through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing.
The earthquake caused more than 4,500 deaths in northwest Syria and about 855,000 people had their homes damaged or destroyed, according to the U.N.
U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on June 29 that the conflict in Syria has pushed 90% of its people into poverty and that millions face cuts in food aid in July because of a funding shortfall.
He said the $5.4 billion U.N. humanitarian appeal for Syria — the world’s largest — is only 12% funded, meaning that emergency food aid for millions of Syrians could be cut by 40% this month. On Friday, he said the U.N. World Food Program needs $200 million to avoid the food cuts.
The Security Council initially authorized aid deliveries in 2014 from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan through four crossing points into opposition-held areas in Syria. But over the years, Syria’s close ally Russia, backed by China, has reduced the authorized crossings to just Bab al-Hawa from Turkey — and the mandate from a year to six months.
Russia has pushed for more aid to be delivered across front lines within Syria, which would give the Syrian government control over the shipments. It has also pushed for early recovery projects to provide jobs and help the country’s economy.
The Russian draft resolution “underscores the imperative of maintaining unimpeded and sustainable cross-line access from Damascus to all parts of Syria.” It urges stepped up efforts to broaden humanitarian activities to include providing water, sanitation, health, education, electricity, demining and shelter. It also calls for “non-interference of unilateral sanctions in the humanitarian operations in Syria.”
The Brazil-Switzerland draft makes no mention of sanctions. It calls for expanding humanitarian activities but would limit electricity provision to places “essential to restore access to basic services.” On the issue of aid shipments within Syria, it calls on parties to enable deliveries to all parts of the country, “including by providing timely security guarantees to ensure the safe passage of cross-line convoys and humanitarian personnel.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-aid-to-syrias-rebel-held-northwest-from-turkey-certain-to-continue-but-for-6-or-12-months/ | 2023-07-10 13:42:31 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-aid-to-syrias-rebel-held-northwest-from-turkey-certain-to-continue-but-for-6-or-12-months/ |
Gas in Los Angeles County hits record high of $6.467 a gallon
Gas prices in Los Angeles County reached a record high Monday as the cost for a gallon of regular increased eight-tenths of a cent overnight to $6.467, according to data from the American Automobile Assn. The previous high was $6.462, set on June 14.
California has seen the steepest gas price increases in the United States, with a rise of 59 cents in the past week to an average of $6.38 a gallon. Only Alaska comes close, with a 54-cent increase during the same period.
Gas prices started to creep upward in the late September, after nearly 100 days of declines. Since then, prices have climbed consistently, with drivers paying more than $1.20 more for a gallon of regular than they had a month earlier.
Gas prices have been increasing across the nation, but the West Coast has been hit particularly hard, with California, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Nevada seeing the biggest jumps in the past week.
Newsom calls on lawmakers to slap a windfall tax on oil companies.
The stark difference has been attributed to problems at refineries affecting supply, with at least six refineries in California undergoing maintenance, and limited supply to states east of the Rockies, said Andrew Gross, a AAA spokesperson.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has placed the blame for rising costs in California at the feet of oil companies. He said in a video on Twitter on Friday that oil companies continue to ratchet up prices and “provide no explanation” as to why.
Newsom pointed out the stark difference in gas prices between California and the rest of the country. The national average for a gallon of regular stood at about $3.79, or$2.58 lower than California’s average.
In Texas, the average hovered around $3.09 a gallon, a drop of 3 cents from last week.
Attention, potential car buyers: New electric vehicle charging stations are on their way to highway locations near you.
“The degree of diversion from national prices have never happened before,” Newsom said in the video. “The fact is [oil companies] are ripping you off.”
To offset the increases, Newsom said he was asking refineries to switch early to their winter blend gas, which is typically cheaper and could reduce prices by up to 25 cents in two weeks.
It’s unclear how much of an actual impact that could have at the pump.
Gas demand has been increasing in the country, from 8.32 million barrels a day last week to 8.83 million barrels a day this week, according to AAA. If demand continues to rise and supplies stay tight, AAA said, drivers could pay even more by this weekend.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
3-3-8, SB: 2
(three, three, eight; SB: two)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
3-3-8, SB: 2
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HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas group (Logisnext), a leading North American provider and manufacturer of material handling and innovative automation and fleet solutions, today announced its sponsorship of Professional Golfer – Ayaka Furue – who will compete in the upcoming 2023 Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour.
Through the sponsorship, Furue will serve as a brand ambassador for Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas in addition to its parent-company Mitsubishi Logisnext and dealer Equipment Depot. Furue will make global appearances on behalf of the company and wear the Logisnext logo while competing on the tour throughout 2023.
"We are honored to have the opportunity to sponsor Ayaka Furue, who is an accomplished athlete on the LPGA Tour," said Ken Barina, president of Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas. "Her character, drive and commitment are shared values of Logisnext, and we look forward to supporting her on this year's tour. We are proud to take part in such an exciting world-class event and look forward to the upcoming season."
In 2022, Furue shifted her career focus to the United States. She is the winner of the 2022 Trust Golf Women's Scottish Open and a seven-time winner in the Japanese Ladies Professional Golf Association (JLPGA), taking place from 2019 – 2021. She currently ranks 23rd in the World.
"I grew up with the drive for progress and admire Logisnext's commitment to Move The World Forward," Furue said. "I'm very excited to partner together to build and advance the LPGA and empower future athletes. I appreciate the company's support in helping me to progress in my profession."
This is Mitsubishi Logisnext America's first pro-sports sponsorship involvement associated with supporting LPGA's mission to empower, inspire and transform the lives of girls and women through the game of golf.
Logisnext's long-standing community relations program focuses on driving positive change in the world and the local communities it serves. In addition to this sponsorship, Logisnext has been a proud supporter of other educational and community activities over the years, including serving as the Official Lift Truck Provider for the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo™ – a charitable organization benefiting youth and education – as well as other non-profits such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Houston Food Bank, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. This year also marks Logisnext's 19th annual Cat® Lift Trucks Scholarship Program, supporting high-school seniors in pursuing higher education.
Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas and its group companies have helped customers Move The World Forward for more than 100 years. A technology-driven manufacturer, Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas offers scalable solutions from material handling to automation and extensive fleet support. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, its complete portfolio of advanced solutions spans across five leading brands – Mitsubishi forklift trucks, Cat® lift trucks, Rocla AGV Solutions, UniCarriers® Forklifts and Jungheinrich® warehouse and automation products. All products are backed by an extensive dealer network offering industry-leading customer service and product support. For more information, visit www.logisnextamericas.com.
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The Table Mountain Women’s Golf Club held a medal play tournament last week and Sandy Goble won low gross with flying colors, shooting a great round of 75. Terry Chambers also had a fine round, easily taking low net honors with a score of 64.
First flight: No. 1, Deb Miller, 70; 2, Tracie Cvitkovich, 74; 3, Sherry Sue, 78. Second flight: 1, Liz Hofeling, 68; 2, Deb Learner, 71; 3, Candy Parkison, 73. Third flight: 1, Elaine Thomas, 70; Liz Coleman, 72, card-off; 3, Pete Powell, 72. Closest to the pin: Joan Royer (back to get a little cash from her former partners).
Bidwell Park Golf Course
Kelly MacKinnon was again low gross in the first flight of the Bidwell Women’s Golf Club monthly Pro-Points Tournament with a score of 82.
First flight low net: No. 1, Becky Callas, 71; 2, Jill Circo, 72. Second flight low gross: Eleanor Calvert, 98. Low net: Barbara Albers, 72. Third flight low gross: Cheryl Vermillion, 97. Low net: 1, Susan Pease, 78; 2, Molly Barnum, 78. Closest to pin in two on No.12; 1, tie, Karla Dreiss and Jolene Nixon (both birdied the hole); 3, MacKinnon.
Canyon Oaks Country Club
The Canyon Oaks Women’s Golf Club selected the best score on 13 holes for its weekly game, called “Bakers Dozen,” and subtracted one-half a player’s handicap for the game score.
First flight low gross and low net was Karen Olson, 79/66. First flight game: No. 1, Olson, 44.6; 2, Susan McVicker Wever, 48.5; 3, tie, Sally Pearson, Shelley Carney and Evie Spring, 49. Second flight low gross: Gina Davis, 92. Low net: Bonnie Seely, 68. Game: 1, Davis. 46.5; 2, Seely, 47; 3, Linda Alworth, 47.5. Closest to pin on No. 6: 1, Pat Radisich; 2, Davis; 3, McVicker Wever.
Butte Creek Country Club
The Butte Creek Women’s Golf Club hosted the Butte Creek Senior Men players to a “Guys & Dolls” Tournament for its weekly outing. The format for the threesomes, comprised of one man and two women, was one best-ball.
No. 1, Janet Alves, Joan Bequette and Jim Gaumer, 56; 2, four-way tie at 58: Karen Beckman, Kay Kurdziel and Erv Alves; Tami Blofsky, Debbie Maderos and Rovane Younger; Pam Miller, Darlene Thomasson and Mike Rutledge; JoAnn Rutledge, Joye Smith and Paul Ellcessor. Closest to pin on No. 17: Guys: 1, Mark Blofsky; 2, Rutledge. Dolls: 1, Bequette; 2, Jeanie Stone.
The three-day Butte Creek Women’s Club Championship gets underway today.
Susan Martellaro will defending her title, which she won last year, defeating the then reigning champion, Debbie Maderos, and spoiling Maderos’ chance to claim her 23rd title. Others vying for the right to have their own private parking space and their name on the perpetual trophy in the clubhouse trophy case are Sherri Kimmelshue and Sally Hayes. Kimmelshue was the low net winner in the championship flight last year. Two other flights are also on the slate: the senior division and the super-senior division. We’ll omit those names for the time being, if you get my drift.
Junior golf
The Ma brothers, Andrew and Tommy, competed in another three-day American Junior Golf Association tournament at the Vista Valley CC in San Diego last week.
Thirteen-year old Tommy again had to qualify on a Monday for the AJGA tournament, which he did by winning a playoff with a birdie on the first playoff hole. Tommy finished 17th with a score of 223, over the three days of competition, which included a 70 on the second round, helped along with 7 birdies.
Andrew finished at 226 for 24th place. There is a lot of competitive golf on the slate for these two talented young players.
Six-year old Livy Woodward traveled back east to Pinehurst, North Carolina to participate in the U.S. Kids World Championship last week.
As usual, she was competing against girls slightly older than she. Aside from the United States, eleven different countries were represented in Woodward’s flight alone. There were over 2,300 participants from 50 different countries this year that converged at Pinehurst for the World Championship. The opportunity to compete, over a three-day span, against girls from all over the world, many with fantastic golf skills, had to have been a great experience. The mission statement of U.S. Kids Golf, is; “To help kids have fun learning the lifelong game of golf and encourage family interaction that builds lasting memories”.
Significant achievement
Canyon Oaks golf course is definitely suited to John Regh’s game. Last week, Regh shot even par 36 on the front nine and then proceeded to light it up on the back nine with a three-under par round of 33. His 69 on the score card matched his age, which is the first time he has accomplished the milestone. Witnessing Regh’s stellar round were his playing companions, David Payne and Yuki Morisawa. (514 more John, and we’ll be neck-and-neck … just saying). | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/08/09/goble-chambers-shoot-great-rounds-tee-to-green/ | 2022-08-09 11:28:45 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/08/09/goble-chambers-shoot-great-rounds-tee-to-green/ |
INSTITUTE, WV (WOWK) — West Virginia State University (WVSU) fans can soon show their school spirit “wherever the road may take them,” the college announced on Friday.
The West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles (DMW) approved a special WVSU license plate design. The item was recently launched as part of WVSU Alumni’s statewide collegiate license plate campaign.
WVSU said 250 license plates must be pre-ordered and paid for by April 21, 2023, for production to start.
Consumers must pay $95, which includes a tag fee and a processing fee. The processing fee is non-refundable.
To fill out the DMV’s pre-order form, click here. Forms may be emailed to WVSU or sent to the Office of Alumni Relations at P.O. Box 1000, East Hall 100, Institute, West Virginia.
More information about how to pre-order can be found here.
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If the first half of the year is any indication, 2022 is going to be a banner year for cookbooks.
NPR staff and critics rounded up their favorite reads for the first-ever summer edition of Books We Love. Alongside the best beach reads and books to transport you to other places, we've rounded up the best cookbooks from 2022 so far. So, whether you're looking for exciting dishes to serve at a summer cookout, or something to help you get out of a cooking rut, we've got recommendations for you.
The Art of Pantry Cooking: Meals for Family and Friends by Ronda Carman
If your kitchen pantry has ballooned beyond recognition during the pandemic, you're not alone. It's time to face down those guilt-inducing unused heaps of artichoke hearts and quinoa, and Ronda Carman is here to help. Organized alphabetically from almonds to za'atar, this cookbook is an international romp through 35 tinned and bottled essentials.
— T. Susan Chang, food writer
Colu Cooks: Easy Fancy Food by Colu Henry
If you're like me, you've been yearning to have friends gather once again for dinner. But as we bring loved ones back to our tables, it can be hard to know what to make. Luckily, Colu Henry's cookbook is warm and inviting and will inspire the well-seasoned cook (try the "Crispy Fish with Quick Tomatillo and Jalapeño Confit") and also the neophyte in the kitchen (check out her viral hit "My Cec").
— Jessica Goldstein, Senior Director & Executive Producer, NPR Events & Experiential Programming
Fix Me a Plate: Traditional and New School Soul Food Recipes from Scotty Scott of Cook Drank Eat by Scotty Scott
Fort Worth personal chef and food blogger Scotty Scott's first cookbook is a blend of traditional family recipes alongside soul food staples, remixed ... Scott lets us in on the stories behind the food and pays homage to his ancestors with what he puts on the plate. This is feel-good food.
— Debbie Elliott, correspondent, National Desk
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island by Emily Meggett
If you've never heard of Edisto Island, Emily Meggett's cookbook is a great place to start learning. Meggett is the matriarch of the island, which is home to many Gullah Geechee people and the food they've made for generations.
— Wynne Davis, editorial assistant, All Things Considered
I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes From a Southern Chef by Vishwesh Bhatt
Western India and the Southern U.S. share more culinary parallels than you'd think, from rice varietals and sesame to okra, shrimp and fresh tomatoes. Here, these ingredients explode in gleeful fusion, the torrid affair of a spice cabinet and a well-stocked pantry.
— T. Susan Chang
Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim
Whether it's his mother Jean's napa cabbage kimchi or his homemade milk bread, every recipe is peppered with stories of Kim's childhood in Atlanta and the loved ones who have shaped his life and food. Topped with scrumptious photos shot by Jenny Huang, it's a lovely, warm read — not just as a cookbook but as a memoir accompanied by food.
— Janet W. Lee, assistant producer, It's Been a Minute
Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture From My Kitchen in Mexico by Rick Martínez
With seven sections focused on different regions across the country, Martínez guides you through some of the essential recipes for each. The recipes are vibrant, but what I love most are the stories alongside each of them. Food is deeply personal and with Mi Cocina, Martínez is sharing his life in food and inviting you to come along.
— Wynne Davis
Milk Street: The World in a Skillet by Christopher Kimball
If you, like me, routinely ax recipes that use one pan too many for a weeknight, this book is a godsend. Cook the pasta right in there with the pancetta, chard and beans. Forget about layering phyllo, just crumple it on top for "skillet spanakopita." In other words, Christopher Kimball gleefully breaks rules in the name of simplification.
— T. Susan Chang
Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans by Mason Hereford with JJ Goode
Chef Mason Hereford has put to paper some of the magic that draws locals and tourists alike to his popular New Orleans sandwich shop, Turkey and the Wolf. The cookbook is full of amped-up nostalgic recipes accessible to the home cook. There's Hereford's quirky take on a fried bologna sandwich, topped with house made chips, spicy mustard and "shrettuce" (yes, that's just shredded lettuce). He gives us permission to serve caviar on a McDonald's hash brown. The collard melt might be my favorite – a Southern twist on the Reuben.
— Debbie Elliott, correspondent, National Desk
The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
The Wok's appeal is not innovation; you can find dishes like kung pao shrimp and cumin lamb on many Chinese restaurant menus. But now you don't have to leave your home. As far as I'm concerned, it's worth the sticker price to learn a velveting technique – a way to keep meat tender while searing it — that actually works. It's just one of the gems within these pages.
— T. Susan Chang
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W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- William A. Ells, vice president of sales at Vibram USA (North Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA), has started his term as the 2023 chair of the ASTM International board of directors.
ASTM International's board is made of 25 leaders from a variety of companies, associations, universities, government bodies, and other organizations around the world.
"I am honored and elated to serve as ASTM International's board chair during this exciting 125th anniversary year," notes Ells "Quite honestly, it's humbling, and I'm proud to be part of an organization with such a rich and storied history." He adds, "as one of ASTM's past chairs said, it's all about servant leadership. Like anybody else within ASTM, all 30,000 members are here to serve a greater good. We all do it as volunteers." Hear more from him in this video and this Standardization News magazine article.
Involved in the design, development, and production of footwear and sole materials for military, industrial, and outdoor use, Ells has been with Vibram since 2010. He previously worked in sales at American Biltrite Inc. and Quabaug Corp.
An ASTM International member since 1998, Ells is a member of the pedestrian/walkway safety and footwear committee (F13). He is currently a member of the F13 executive committee and has also served as its vice chair and as a subcommittee officer. In 2013, the committee honored Ells with the Award of Merit for his service and commitment to safety standards for footwear. He has also received a Service Award and Outstanding Leadership Award for his term on the Committee on Standards.
In addition to ASTM International, Ells is a member of the board of the American Apparel and Footwear Association. He is also a member of the Canadian Standards Association and serves as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense footwear technical committee.
About ASTM International
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The 25-year-old defender is yet to play a single minute in Qatar, where England sealed its place in the last 16 after Wednesday's (AEDT) 3-0 win over Wales ensured they topped Group B.
White – who has been in impressive form for Premier League leader Arsenal this season – is unlikely to return to Qatar before the tournament ends.
https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1598026105126064146?s=20&t=11tOoj8aTY9lAPpski2_jQ
A statement released by the Football Association on Wednesday read: "Ben White has left England's training base in Al Wakrah and returned home for personal reasons.
"The Arsenal defender is not expected to return to the squad for the remainder of the tournament.
"We ask that the player's privacy is respected at this moment in time."
Gareth Southgate's Three Lions faces Senegal in its last-16 tie at Al Bayt Stadium on Monday. | https://www.beinsports.com/au/2022-fifa-world-cup/news/white-leaves-england-camp-for-personal-reason/1996930 | 2022-11-30 22:42:13 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/2022-fifa-world-cup/news/white-leaves-england-camp-for-personal-reason/1996930 |
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced that Jim Hippel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. EST. A live webcast of the presentation can be accessed via the IR Calendar page of Bio-Techne's Investor Relations website at https://investors.bio-techne.com/ir-calendar.
Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality purified proteins and reagent solutions - notably cytokines and growth factors, antibodies, immunoassays, biologically active small molecule compounds, tissue culture reagents, T-Cell activation and gene editing technologies. Bio-Techne's product portfolio also includes protein analysis solutions, sold under the ProteinSimple brand name, offering researchers efficient and streamlined options for automated Western blot and multiplexed ELISA workflow. These reagent and protein analysis solutions are sold to biomedical researchers as well as clinical research laboratories and constitute the Protein Sciences Segment. Bio-Techne also develops and manufactures diagnostic products including FDA-regulated controls, calibrators, blood gas and clinical chemistry controls and custom assay development on dedicated clinical instruments. Bio-Techne's genomic tools include advanced tissue-based in situ hybridization assays (ISH) for research and clinical use, sold under the ACD brand as well as a portfolio of clinical molecular diagnostic oncology assays, including the ExoDx® Prostate test for prostate cancer diagnosis. These diagnostic and genomic products comprise Bio-Techne's Diagnostics and Genomics Segment. Bio-Techne products are integral components of scientific investigations into biological processes and molecular diagnostics, revealing the nature, diagnosis, etiology and progression of specific diseases. They aid in drug discovery efforts and provide the means for accurate clinical tests and diagnoses. With thousands of products in its portfolio, Bio-Techne generated approximately $1.1 billion in net sales in fiscal 2022 and has approximately 3,000 employees worldwide.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the influential internet personality who is detained in Romania on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, appeared at prosecutors' offices on Thursday for a second day as forensic examinations continue of digital devices that have been confiscated in the case, an official said.
Tate, 36, a dual British-U.S. citizen who has nearly 5 million followers on Twitter, was initially detained in late December in Romania’s capital, Bucharest. His brother, Tristan, and two Romanian women are also detained in the same case.
The Tates arrived Thursday morning handcuffed together as they were escorted by law enforcement officials into the Bucharest offices of DIICOT, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, where devices such as mobile phones and laptops are being searched by specialists for further evidence.
Ramona Bolla, a DIICOT spokesperson, confirmed to The Associated Press that the forensic searches of the digital devices were continuing Thursday because there are “multiple devices” seized in the case and it will take time to go through them all.
As the brothers arrived at the DIICOT offices, Tristan Tate told reporters: “What evidence is there? ... There is none, that should be the story, please cover that story. The police have fabricated the evidence. There is no evidence. There is no victim."
Andrew Tate had told reporters as he left Wednesday, that “there is no evidence in my file, because I’ve done nothing wrong."
Both brothers will remain in detention until late February after a judge on Friday granted prosecutors' request to extend for a second time their detention by 30 days.
An online petition launched on Jan. 22 to “free Andrew and Tristan Tate from unjust imprisonment” alleges that “the Judiciary, Prosecutor and DIICOT have acted unfairly in their detention of the Tate brothers.” It has so far garnered 52,000 signatures. Andrew Tate's Twitter following has increased by at least several hundred thousand since he was arrested in December.
Andrew Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has reportedly lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
After the Tates and the two women were arrested, DIICOT said in a statement that it had identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and were sexually exploited by the members of the alleged crime group.
The agency said victims were lured with pretenses of love, and later intimidated, kept under surveillance and subjected to other control tactics while being coerced into engaging in pornographic acts for substantial financial gains.
Earlier in January, Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest where they towed away a fleet of luxury cars that included a blue Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Porsche. They reported seizing assets worth an estimated $3.9 million.
Prosecutors have said that if they can prove the owners gained money through illicit activities such as human trafficking, the assets would be used to cover the expenses of the investigation and to compensate victims. Tate also unsuccessfully appealed the asset seizure.
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The expansion of McCormick® and Tabitha Brown's successful launch of Sunshine Seasoning will consist of two seasoning blends and three recipe mixes, marking the first time in history McCormick® launches salt free recipe mixes
HUNT VALLEY, Md., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The McCormick® brand and Tabitha Brown are expanding their partnership to add five new salt free, vegan seasoning products to grocery stores nationwide. Joining the wildly popular McCormick Sunshine Seasoning by Tabitha Brown, these new flavors will provide a more complete offering. The new products will consist of two seasoning blends coming to shelves and Amazon this spring and three recipe mixes rolling out later this summer.
"I brought a little bit of sunshine to food lovers with McCormick and Sunshine Seasoning, and it's definitely time we teamed back up to bring more joy and love to your kitchen to inspire healthy cooking every day of the week," said Actress, Vegan Foodie, and America's Mom, Tabitha Brown. "I can't wait to see how everyone decides to spice up their meals with my new salt free seasoning blends and recipe mixes, whether you're a vegan or non-vegan, because that's your business."
The launch marks the first time in history that McCormick® is releasing salt free recipe mixes. The new products, created in partnership with Tabitha Brown, include:
- McCormick® Like Sweet Like Smoky All Purpose Seasoning brings that irresistible blend of sweet and smoky flavor to your meals. Tabitha trusts this seasoning to make almost anything taste like bacon and adds a special kick to some of her favorite things like collards, mushrooms, and carrots, of course!
- McCormick® Very Good Garlic All Purpose Seasoning is loaded with garlic to add savory, salt free flavor to veggies, pasta, marinara sauce and so much more. This is the garlic seasoning Tabitha reaches for in her kitchen.
- McCormick® Taco Business Seasoning Mix is salt free and made with robust spices like paprika, cumin and chili peppers. Turn any day of the week into taco night – because that's your business.
- McCormick® Burger Business Seasoning Mix is a savory salt free blend made with herbs and spices, veggies, and natural hickory smoke flavor for all types of burgers, whether plant-based or not – because that's your business.
- McCormick® Sauté Business Seasoning Mix is a salt free blend of fragrant spices like garlic, ginger and cinnamon along with sesame oil for added flavor excitement. Add savory flavor to any vegetables – because that's your business.
"Expanding our partnership with Tabitha was an easy decision for us," said Giovanna DiLegge, Vice President Marketing, NA Consumer at McCormick. "We continue to be blown away by Tabitha's loyal community and are thrilled to be bringing these five new products to consumers nationwide. With these additions to the collection, consumers will be able to make a variety of easy, and healthy meals. We hope these products inspire clean, healthy, and most importantly, delicious, eating that can be sustained for all."
Tabitha recently announced the news of the launch in a video posted on Instagram. In addition to this launch, Tabitha has co-developed new recipes with the brand featuring the new products and will be showcasing these on her always-popular social media recipe tutorials and McCormick®'s landing page. To celebrate the new products, Tabitha and McCormick® will host a special farmer's market pop-up in New York City this June to give consumers a taste of the new products and the opportunity to interact with Tabitha first-hand. For those who can't make the pop-up this summer, be sure to stay tuned and follow McCormick's social media channels for a giveaway launching this summer.
For more information on the new products, retail availability and recipe ideas visit McCormick.com/Tabitha-Brown and follow the brand on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and TikTok.
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About McCormick
McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 170 countries and territories, we manufacture, market and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce channels, grocery, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick.
Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland USA, McCormick is guided by our principles and committed to our Purpose – To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor. McCormick envisions A World United by Flavor where healthy, sustainable, and delicious go hand in hand. To learn more, visit www.mccormickcorporation.com or follow McCormick & Company on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday will hold a news conference at the Florida Department of Transportation District 6 Headquarters in Miami-Dade County.
DeSantis will be joined by Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez and FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue.
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The governor is scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m.
No other details were shared.
ClickOrlando.com will stream the news conference live at the top of this story.
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Follow the links in this story to recent AP coverage about abortion over the last three months.
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And so the interminable wait after the leak of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade has come to an end — nearly two months in which abortion and all of its complexities have been have been hashed and rehashed, while the U.S. Supreme Court was silent.
Throughout, much of the focus was on who would suffer the most if abortion was widely illegal. One answer was minority women in states where the procedure was imperiled; they were more likely to have abortions than were white women.
Another was those in need of other care — women who miscarry, couples seeking fertility treatments and access to some forms of contraception, and might be collateral damage of abortion bans.
Women were already traveling long distances in Texas to undergo abortions, a foretaste of what might be expected in a post-Roe world; the result could be that women will wait longer to have abortions than they would otherwise.
And what of the children that will be born and not aborted? Many of the states with the toughest abortion laws are also some of the hardest places to have and raise a healthy child, especially for the poor, offering the least support to parents.
But in the course of this interlude, the focus was not just on the women or the children. There were fears expressed by some that other rights — birth control and same-sex marriage, among them — might be imperiled by Roe's demise (and in the end, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested just that ). Advocates pressed to secure those rights.
In a time of polarization, few issues were more polarizing. Even among religious groups that held strong stands on abortion, there was fragmentation; anti-abortion Catholics were not monolithic in their support for overturning Roe, and there were devout Christians working in abortion clinics, even as others demonstrated against them outside.
As the weeks ticked by without a Supreme Court ruling, operators of abortion clinics planned for a future they had long feared — a time when the service they provided would be illegal.
Meanwhile, the pro-rights resistance prepared to take on a larger role, unsure of whether it could handle the increased demand of pregnant women who needed to cross state lines to get a legal abortion. Women began to reconsider leaving digital trails about their reproductive and other health care. On the other side, activists who had fought against abortion for decades could only hope that their prayers were finally being answered.
And when they were, there were tears.
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SAN ANTONIO — A Texas police officer who shot and wounded a teenager who had been sitting in his car eating a hamburger has been fired, police said.
San Antonio Officer James Brennand was fired after shooting Erik Cantu, 17, on Oct. 2 in a fast food restaurant parking lot, police training commander Alyssa Campos said in a video statement released Wednesday.
Brennand had responded to an unrelated disturbance at the fast-food restaurant when he saw the Cantu inside the car, which had evaded him a day earlier, Campos said.
A Texas prosecutor said in a statement Friday that he has not seen enough evidence to file charges against the teenager.
“While Sunday’s shooting of an unarmed teenager by a then-San Antonio Police officer remains under investigation, the facts and evidence we have received so far led us to reject the charges against Erik Cantu for further investigation," Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said.
Brennand, who had been on the force for less than one year, violated his training and police procedures after approaching the car, Campos said.
“The officer abruptly opened the driver’s door and ordered the driver out of the car” before the arrival of backup officers that Brennand had requested, Campos said.
Cantu, in the officer’s body camera video, looks toward Brennand while holding a hamburger, then backs the car away, striking the officer with the open door.
Brennand then opened fire several times as the door closed and Cantu drove away.
Cantu, who was struck by gunfire, stopped nearby where he and a passenger, who was not injured, were found by police.
“There is nothing I can say in defense of that officer’s actions that night,” Police Chief William McManus told WOAI-TV. “I think what happened, initially, there was some contact made, but that did not justify the shooting.”
Cantu was hospitalized in stable condition and initially charged with evading police and aggravated assault.
Gonzales, the district attorney, said no decision had been made on whether to pursue charges against Brennand, pending the outcome of a police investigation into the shooting.
“As we do with all officer-involved shootings that result in death or serious injury, we will submit the case to a Grand Jury for their consideration. Until that happens, we can make no further comment on this matter,” Gonzales said.
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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Sea turtle nesting season is underway, and nesting sites have been popping up along Florida’s beaches.
Disturbing a nest is a crime, a third-degree felony under Florida’s Marine Turtle Protection Act, so residents at a condo along Redington Beach are taking unusual measures to get around the sea turtle nest that’s blocking their access to the beach.
The nest, located at the bottom of some stairs, is roped off, preventing residents from opening the gate. They are instead using a sand pile to access the beach.
“It’s all part of nature, and we just have to work around it,” said Barry Peters who lives at the condo.
“I love the sea life and I tease everybody, well yeah but we can’t use our steps and I say it’s only for two months less. They hatch in two months,” said another resident, Louie Ann Stottler.
Stottler said last week, a turtle laid her eggs right in front of her condo’s only beach access point.
“They were here long before us, and it’s their territory so we try to cooperate and keep the lights all down,” she said.
Lindsey Fynn is the sea turtle conservation program manager at Clearwater Marine Aquarium. She says Turtle Patrol monitors 21 miles of beach in Pinellas County during turtle nest season, and so far the team has discovered 50 nests.
“Our team monitors our nest each and every day to make sure that they’re still safe and protected,” said Flynn. “We ask people to give them space. Sea turtle nests incubate for about two months and our hatchlings will emerge from the nest from there.”
Flynn says she primarily sees the loggerhead sea turtle, which are protected under the Endangered Species Act and state laws. Harassing them can lead to imprisonment and fines.
“Unfortunately, we do have issues each year with instances of human vandalism so we always encourage our residents and visitors to call,” said Flynn.
Records show a man was arrested and charged with a felony on Monday on Indian Rocks Beach when he crawled underneath the enclosure of a nest.
“When there’s that rope around there and that pink rope, you stay out that’s their home,” said Stottler.
Clearwater Marine Aquarium is reminding beachgoers to pick up your trash and toys, fill in any holes in the sand and knock down sandcastles.
If you see someone approaching or harassing a turtle or a nest, call authorities immediately.
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COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Supreme Court of Georgia has reversed the conviction in a high-profile hot car death from 2014.
Justin Ross Harris' conviction for murder and other crimes related to the death of his toddler son, Cooper, was reversed because the jury “heard and saw an extensive amount of improperly admitted evidence.”
The parts of his conviction related to sex crimes against a 16-year-old girl - which were used at trial as evidence against him in support of the murder charge - were upheld and he will remain in prison.
The Georgia Supreme Court, however, ruled that the evidence to support the sex crimes convictions were not relevant to the murder charge and should not have been presented in the same trial.
Cooper, who was 22 months old at the time of his death, died of hyperthermia on June 18, 2014, after Harris left him strapped into a rear-facing car seat in the back of his SUV. It was parked outside his office building.
A Cobb County grand jury later indicted Harris for five crimes related to Cooper’s death.
His trial was relocated to Glynn County where a jury found him guilty of all charges in November 2016. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Harris was also charged with three sex crimes against a 16-year-old girl, that were alleged to have occurred between March and June 2014. He was sentenced to 12 years for those - the Supreme Court did not overturn the convictions on that matter.
The Supreme Court said the basic facts of the murder case in Cooper's death were "undisputed" - it was Harris' fault - but the issue at trial was "what was going through Harris' mind when he left the vehicle and walked into work that morning."
“The State’s theory was that Appellant [Harris] intentionally and maliciously abandoned his child to die a slow and painful death trapped in the summer heat, so that Appellant could achieve his dream of being free to further his sexual relationships with women he met online. The defense theory was that Appellant was a loving father who had never mistreated Cooper and simply but tragically forgot that he had not dropped off the child on that particular morning. During Appellant’s trial, substantial evidence was presented to support both theories,” Chief Justice Nahmias writes. “But the State also presented a substantial amount of evidence to lead the jury to answer a different and more legally problematic question: what kind of man is Appellant?”
The Supreme Court's majority opinion said there was no relevant connection between the evidence that Harris was a bad person and the question of whether he intentionally murdered his son.
The Court found that a "large amount of the evidence of... sexual activities had minimal probative value in showing his alleged motive (to kill Cooper) and was needlessly cumulative or highly prejudicial."
Outside of some communications presented in court from the day Cooper died, which "offered insight into Harris' activities and state of mind shortly before leaving Cooper in the SUV and while the child was dying," most of the other evidence shown in court "did not speak directly to Harris' possible motivation to kill his son as much as it demonstrated his 'repugnant character.'"
“[T]he State convincingly demonstrated that Appellant was a philanderer, a pervert, and even a sexual predator,” Chief Justice Nahmias wrote in the opinion. “This evidence did little if anything to answer the key question of Appellant’s intent when he walked away from Cooper, but it was likely to lead the jurors to conclude that Appellant was the kind of man who would engage in other morally repulsive conduct (like leaving his child to die painfully in a hot car) and who deserved punishment, even if the jurors were not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he purposefully killed Cooper."
The evidence, the Court explained, that Harris may have had a "sex-crazed double life" was not "relevant to show his motive for murdering Cooper."
The evidence for that claim - that Harris intentionally left Cooper to die - was "far from overwhelming."
The Court found the trial court "abused its discretion" by not severing the murder case from the case related to sexual communications with a minor.
"We cannot say that it is highly probable that the erroneously admitted sexual evidence did not contribute to the jury’s guilty verdicts," the opinion concludes.
In a statement to 11Alive, the Cobb County District Attorney's office said they plan to file a motion for reconsideration in the case.
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California governor signs landmark law for fast food workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs.
The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
Newsom said he was proud to sign the measure into law on Labor Day.
“California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity,” he said in a statement. “Today’s action gives hardworking fast food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”
The law caps minimum wage increases for fast food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost of living increases thereafter.
The state legislature approved the measure on Aug. 29. Debate split along party lines, with Republicans opposed.
Sen. Brian Dahle, the Republican nominee for governor in November, had called it “a steppingstone to unionize all these workers.”
Supporters had said they hoped the measure would inspire similar efforts elsewhere.
Restaurant owners and franchisers cited an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecast and Development saying that the legislation would increase consumers’ costs.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Golden Knights games have always been as flashy as any show on the Las Vegas Strip, the sword-fighting mascot taking the ice before what seems like a legion of players marching out through the mirrored entrance into the roar of the crowd.
If this team was ever going to win the Stanley Cup, it was going to do it with Vegas flash.
The Knights delivered just that from dazzling passes to Mark Stone’s hat trick to all-out goal celebrations, capturing the young organization’s first title with a 9-3 romp over the beaten up and exhausted Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.
Coach Bruce Cassidy, in a nod to the Knights’ brief history, started five of the original Vegas players known as the Misfits and put the sixth on the second shift. Cassidy sounded confident the day before the game that his team would play well, and it certainly did, blowing open a one-goal game in the second period to lead 6-1. The nine goals tied the record for the most in a Cup Final.
“Vegas, you certainly know how to throw a party,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman told the crowd. “What’s going on inside this arena and outside is incredible and a testament to what a great hockey market this is.”
Vegas closed out the series in five games to win the cup before a delirious franchise-record crowd of 19,058 at T-Mobile Arena that drowned out the pregame introductions of forward Jonathan Marchessault and goalie Adin Hill and cheered all the way through the final buzzer.
Marchessault, who ended the postseason with a 10-game points streak, received the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
“I couldn’t be more proud of our team, our organization,” Marchessault said. “Everybody stepped up at different times and that’s why we’re winners.”
Stone’s hat trick — with the third into an empty net with 5:54 left — was the first in a Stanley Cup Final since Colorado’s Peter Forsberg in 1996, also against the Panthers.
The Knights got the rest of their scoring from Nic Hague, Alec Martinez, Reilly Smith, Michael Amadio, Ivan Barbashev and Nicolas Roy. Martinez’s goal in the second period came nine years to the day after he delivered the double-overtime goal in Game 5 to give the Los Angeles Kings’ the cup.
Hill came through with another strong performance with 31 saves that has quickly made him a Knights fan favorite, even earning “MVP! MVP!” chants in the third period. Jack Eichel, the eight-year pro playing in his first postseason, had three assists.
“This is what everyone dreams of,” Eichel said. “You come to an organization like this and the expectation is to win this thing. It’s a special place to play.”
As captain, Stone was the first to lift the cup before handing it over to the six Misfits to each get their turn skating with the trophy before handing it down the line to the rest of the team.
“Unbelievable,” Stone said. “The look in my teammates’ eyes when I got it, one of the craziest feelings I’ve ever had. I can’t even describe the feelings in my stomach right now. It’s everything you can imagine.”
Aaron Ekblad, Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett scored for Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky was overwhelmed in another tough performance against Vegas — allowing eight goals on 30 shots on goal — after carrying Florida to the final. Missing from the lineup was star forward Matthew Tkachuk after playing injured in Game 4.
“It was a privilege for me to play with them and fight with them,” Bobrovsky said. “It’s definitely tough to lose that way and end the season that way. But we have done a fantastic job and I want to stick to that.”
The Knights have set the standard of what an expansion franchise should look like, making the Cup Final in their first season and the playoffs in every year but one. Six players remain from the initial 2017-18 team that lost in five games to the Washington Capitals in the final.
Those players watched the Capitals skate with the Stanley Cup that night, and then they got the chance to do the same Tuesday to fulfill owner Bill Foley’s quest to win the championship in the sixth year.
“We waited a long time for that moment to come back.” Marchessault said. “We wanted to make sure we cash in this time.”
By creating such a lofty standard at the outset, the Knights played with high expectations, but repeatedly fell short despite four runs to at least the NHL semifinals – until Game 5 against the Panthers.
This is Las Vegas’ second pro title in nine months – the Aces claimed the WNBA championship in September – and continues the stunning growth of a sports market that was limited largely to prize fights, UNLV athletics, NASCAR and lots of golf before the Golden Knights took the city by storm. The Raiders began playing here in 2020, the Oakland Athletics appear headed to the desert, Las Vegas will host a Formula One race this year and the Super Bowl will be at Allegiant Stadium in February.
As for the Knights, their connection to Las Vegas was sealed ever since the shooting Oct. 1, 2017, that took 60 lives. They played an integral role in helping the city heal, reaching out to the community off the ice and winning big on it.
Beating Florida justified the many moves Knights management made to remake the roster over the years. Stone, Eichel and Alex Pietrangelo are the most notable players Vegas has acquired to get to this moment.
And Cassidy, hired a week after getting fired by the Boston Bruins last year, proved to be the coach to get them there.
“He came in, brought an intensity to our locker room that maybe we needed,” Stone said. “He wanted to win as badly as anybody else in that locker room.”
Cassidy seemingly pushing all the right buttons in helping Vegas become the Western Conference’s top seed and then the NHL’s champion.
“It’s a great story — very, very grateful to get another opportunity,” Cassidy said. “I’m just here to do my job and it worked out well.”
The Knights also won with an unlikely goalie in Hill, who was injured when the playoffs began. Laurent Brossoit was the starter until going out with an injury in Game 3 of the second-round series against the Edmonton Oilers, and then Hill got his chance.
“You dream about it every day growing up as a child.” Hill said. “To be here with this group of guys, in this city, in this building, is a dream come true.”
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Beyoncé to remove offensive word from new song
(AP) - Beyoncé is removing an offensive term for disabled people from a new song on her record “Renaissance,” just weeks after rapper Lizzo also changed lyrics to remove the same word.
“The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” a spokeswoman for Beyoncé wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday.
The song “Heated,” which was co-written with Canadian rapper Drake among several others, uses the word “spaz,” which is considered a derogatory reference to the medical term spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy.
Lizzo also removed the word from one of her songs, “Grrrls,” in June after disability advocates complained about the lyrics. Lizzo said in a statement she never wanted to promote derogatory language.
Disability advocate Hannah Diviney, who pointed out Lizzo’s lyrics that lead to the change, wrote on Twitter that hearing the word again used by Beyoncé “felt like a slap in the face to me, the disabled community & the progress we tried to make with Lizzo.”
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — As Phil Mickelson walked to the first tee — his LIV loyalties prominent on his cap, shirt and bag — he fist-bumped with a young girl hanging along the ropes before acknowledging the familiar cheers that have followed him throughout his career.
“Go Phil!”
“Go get ’em, Lefty!”
“Attaboy!”
But after Mickelson launched his first shot of the Masters around lunchtime Thursday, a noticeably smaller group of patrons than previous years headed off with him.
Maybe it was because of his lowly place in the world rankings — No. 425, sandwiched between India’s Yuvraj Singh Sandhu and Argentina’s Tano Goya.
Not much to see here.
Just another aging golfer whose best days are behind him.
But this is Phil Mickelson, the People’s Champion, long one of the game’s most popular players and perhaps its biggest draw outside of Tiger Woods.
Given the typically enormous crowd that Woods attracted to his group for the opening round — not bad for a part-time player with a battered body — it’s probably fair to assume some of Lefty’s longtime fans have moved on since he aligned with LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed rebellion against the established PGA Tour.
Mickelson’s decision — even after acknowledging the human rights abuses of the Saudi regime — led to such negative fallout that he skipped the Masters a year ago.
But Mickelson has been followed to LIV by a number of well-known golfers, including major champions Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson.
With LIV now in its second season, Mickelson felt comfortable enough to return to Augusta, where the three-time winner has a lifetime exemption.
“It’s nice to be back out here,” he said.
Koepka fired the biggest salvo for the new tour with a 7-under 65, which left him tied for the lead with Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Spain’s Jon Rahm.
Imagine the fallout if Koepka takes a green jacket back to his new tour.
“There’s a lot going on,” said Koepka, who is regaining his form after recovering from surgery to repair a shattered kneecap. “I’m just trying to play the best I can play every time I tee it up.”
There were no signs of hostility toward 18 LIV players who qualified for the Masters, either from their competitors or the patrons, who know any unsavory displays would likely lead to a permanent loss of those treasured badges.
Sergio Garcia, the 2017 Masters champion and another LIV defector, blamed the media for trying to stir things up between the rival tours.
After opening with a 74, Garcia shot back at reporters who asked if this felt like a normal Masters with all the bad blood away from the course.
“Totally normal,” Garcia said. “You guys need to stop it. You guys are making a big deal out of this, and it’s you guys.”
When a reporter took issue with the Spaniard, he didn’t back off.
“I’ve had nothing but great things from every single player I talk to,” Garcia said. “So please stop it and talk about the Masters.”
The LIV contingent dropped to 17 when Kevin Na withdrew after playing only nine holes. But everyone else from the upstart tour made it through the round, with four-time major champion Koepka leading the way.
“I missed quite a few putts,” he said. “I could have been really low, but I’ll take it.”
Koepka is not concerned about what might happen if the Masters makes it tougher for LIV players to qualify.
“If you win here,” he noted, ‘”you’re fine.”
Mickelson shot a solid 71 despite a double-bogey at No. 11. He really took advantage of the par 5s, posting birdies at all four of the supersized holes.
Four other LIV players broke par on a balmy spring day: Smith opened with a 70, while Johnson, Patrick Reed and Joaquin Niemann matched Mickelson at 71.
Then there was Bubba Watson. The two-time Masters winner struggled to a 77, the worst score among LIV players who finished.
The founding of a rival tour has led to court battles and harsh words from both sides.
In an interesting twist, the European tour — an ally of the PGA Tour — scored an important victory Thursday when an independent tribunal ruled it could sanction members who competed in LIV Golf without permission.
The PGA Tour also has suspended players for competing on the rival tour without getting a waiver, though that doesn’t apply to the four major championships.
Garcia said he was unaware of the ruling, which could bar him from any European events he was hoping to play.
“I’m not going to talk about something without all the information that I need,” he said.
Mickelson, whose game and image plummeted after he became the oldest player to win a major at the 2021 PGA Championship, was noticeably thinner than the last time he played Augusta National. The crowd certainly noticed the 25 pounds he’s lost.
“Slim and trim!” a fan shouted after a chip at No. 3.
The 52-year-old Mickelson quipped that he “stopped eating food, that was a big help.” But it’s clear he wants to give the fans more to remember him by than the last two years, and he hopes they’ll accept where he’s going with the new tour.
Mickelson’s cap, shirt and bag carried the funky logo of his LIV team, the “Hyflyers.”
“I needed something different,” he said. “I’m having a lot of fun having three teammates and having a different energy and a fun environment, and I want to play and compete at that level. And I’m going to figure it out.”
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Joan Cavanaugh, Kathleen Smith and Tony Brooks look over the area where Henry Brown is buried in the Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery in September. Flowers mark Brown’s grave for now, but several historical groups worked to raise money for a grave marker that will be dedicated Aug. 12.
The grave marker for Henry Brown reads: 'Local conductor of the Underground Railroad who smuggled runaway slaves in and out of Wilkes-Barre in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s.'
Joan Cavanaugh, Kathleen Smith and Tony Brooks look over the area where Henry Brown is buried in the Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery in September. Flowers mark Brown’s grave for now, but several historical groups worked to raise money for a grave marker that will be dedicated Aug. 12.
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The grave marker for Henry Brown reads: 'Local conductor of the Underground Railroad who smuggled runaway slaves in and out of Wilkes-Barre in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s.'
Local history buffs and anyone who appreciates how the Underground Railroad helped escaped slaves find freedom should mark Aug. 12 on their calendar.
There will be a grave marking ceremony at 11 a.m. that day in Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery to honor Henry Brown, a prominent free Black man from Wilkes-Barre who risked his life acting as a conductor on the Underground Railroad in the early 1800s.
Legend has it Brown traveled to the southern part of Pennsylvania to pick up runaway slaves in his hay wagon and transported them back to his home on Northampton Street in Wilkes-Barre. He snuck them in his house and hid them in his basement until it was time to move to the next spot.
When Brown died in 1884, he was buried in Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery without a grave marker, and none has ever been laid there.
Kathleen Smith, a local leader of the Shawnee Fort Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, wanted to change that and organized a fundraiser that took place this past October.
Smith and the Daughters of the American Revolution worked on the project with the Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society, the Sons of the Union Veterans, the Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery Committee, and Rediscovering Ancestry Through Culture and Education (RACE Team).
“We met the goal. We even have a little bit left over for flowers,” Smith said on Monday. “The community was amazing. A lot of people who couldn’t make the fundraiser said here’s a check.”
The marker features a depiction of a man on a wagon, Brown’s name, the years of his birth and death and an inscription describing his work on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. The marker cost about $1,600 and was delivered in December.
Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown and Councilman Tony Brooks, director of the Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society, are expected to be among the speakers at the event, which is still in the final planning stages, Smith said.
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Avalanche vs. Kraken Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NHL Playoffs First Round Game 3
The Colorado Avalanche visit the Seattle Kraken for Game 3 of the NHL Playoffs First Round on Saturday, April 22, beginning at 10:00 PM ET on TBS, SN360, TVAS, ROOT Sports NW, and ALT. The series is tied at 1-1. The Avalanche are favored, with -150 moneyline odds, in this matchup with the Kraken, who have +130 moneyline odds.
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Avalanche vs. Kraken Predictions for Saturday
Our projection model for this game predicts a final score of Kraken 4, Avalanche 3.
- Moneyline Pick: Kraken (+130)
- Total Pick: Over (6)
- Computer Predicted Spread: Kraken (-0.7)
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Avalanche Splits and Trends
- The Avalanche have finished 15-7-22 in overtime matchups on their way to an overall record of 51-24-7.
- Colorado is 17-8-4 (38 points) in its 29 games decided by one goal.
- Looking at the seven times this season the Avalanche ended a game with only one goal, they have a 2-2-3 record, good for seven points.
- Colorado has finished 3-10-1 in the 14 games this season when it scored two goals (registering seven points).
- The Avalanche have scored three or more goals 58 times, and are 46-9-3 in those games (to record 95 points).
- In the 35 games when Colorado has capitalized on a lone power-play goal, it registered 48 points after finishing 23-10-2.
- In games when it has outshot its opponent, Colorado is 32-12-4 (68 points).
- The Avalanche have been outshot by opponents 32 times, and went 17-13-2 (36 points).
Kraken Splits and Trends
- The Kraken have a 46-28-8 record this season and are 9-8-17 in games that have needed overtime.
- In the 28 games Seattle has played that were decided by one goal, it racked up 36 points.
- This season the Kraken scored just one goal in 12 games and they've earned two points (0-10-2) in those contests.
- Seattle has four points (1-10-2) when scoring two goals this season.
- The Kraken have earned 96 points in their 56 games with more than two goals scored.
- This season, Seattle has capitalized on a lone power-play goal in 30 games has a record of 20-7-3 in those matchups.
- When it outshoots its opponent this season, Seattle has posted a record of 33-18-4 (70 points).
- The Kraken's opponents have had more shots in 26 games. The Kraken finished 12-11-3 in those contests (27 points).
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- Where: Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington
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Texas sued over plan to deploy floating barrier on Rio Grande to curb border crossings
By Rebekah Riess, Melissa Alonso and Rosa Flores, CNN
(CNN) — The owner of a Texas canoe and kayaking company filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to stop the installation of a marine floating barrier on the Rio Grande, claiming Gov. Greg Abbott has no right to regulate the border.
The lawsuit was filed on the same day that Texas started deploying buoys for the barrier in an attempt to deter migrant crossings on the river along the US-Mexico border.
The suit lists the state of Texas and Abbott, as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard. CNN has reached out to Abbott’s office for comment.
“Our lawsuit seeks to protect communities on the Texas-Mexico border from Governor Abbott’s misleading politics,” said attorney Carlos Flores, who represents plaintiff Jessie Fuentes, the owner of Epi’s Canoe & Kayak Team Llc.
Abbott, a longtime critic of the Biden administration’s border policies, announced the plan to install the 1,000-foot floating barrier last month.
The lawsuit alleges the buoys will prevent Epi’s and Fuentes, the company’s owner-operator, from conducting tours and canoe and kayak sessions in the border town Eagle Pass, causing “imminent and irreparable harm to EPI.”
The suit accuses the Republican governor of misapplying the Texas Disaster Act of 1975 to justify the buoy system – which “has no logical connection to the purpose of the Disaster Act, which is to respond to ‘the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause.’ “
Abbott, the suit said, cannot “create his own border patrol agency to regulate the border and prevent immigrants from entering Texas.”
Additionally, the US Constitution and federal statues do not empower Texas with authority to enforce immigration laws, according to the suit.
The suit said the buoys “represent a hateful policy that intends to create the impression that Mexicans, immigrants, and Mexican Americans … are dangerous.” The floating devices also will prevent Epi’s from conducting tours and canoe and kayak sessions in Eagle Pass, according to the suit.
Flores said the lawsuit, which seeks a temporary and permanent injunction, was filed on Friday before the buoys were installed in the Rio Grande.
Abbott posted a 15-second video to Twitter showing buoys being loaded from trailers that would be deployed near Eagle Pass. The Texas Department of Public Safety is overseeing the deployment, the governor said in the tweet Friday.
During last month’s announcement, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw touted the buoy barrier could be “quickly deployed” and said it’s mobile. He explained the buoy would be anchored to the bottom of the waterway, adding the buoys are roughly 4 to 6 feet in height depending on the water level.
The new barrier comes after a series of migrant drownings in the Rio Grande River in recent days left four people dead, including an infant, officials said.
Last weekend, a woman and a baby girl were found unresponsive in the river, said Texas DPS Lt. Christopher Olivarez. A dead man and woman were found on Sunday and Monday, respectively, he added.
In recent years, migrants have resorted to increasingly risky – and often fatal – paths to evade detection and enter the US. In March, a migrant was found dead among a dozen people stowed away in a train car near Eagle Pass.
In 2022, a Texas National Guardsman drowned in the Rio Grande attempting to rescue a woman crossing the river. That year was the deadliest for migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, with at least 748 people dying at the border.
Immigrant rights advocates have attributed the rise in deaths at the border to policies that have made it more difficult for migrants to seek refuge in the US.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS) (TSX: PAAS) ("Pan American", or the "Company") today reported its estimated mineral reserves and mineral resources as at June 30, 2022. Proven and probable mineral reserves are estimated to contain approximately 514.9 million ounces of silver and 3.6 million ounces of gold. Measured and indicated mineral resources (excluding proven and probable reserves) are estimated to total approximately 838.6 million ounces of silver and 8.1 million ounces of gold. In addition, inferred mineral resources total 507.7 million ounces of silver and 5.7 million ounces of gold.
"We successfully replaced 11 million ounces of silver mineral reserves and 96.1 thousand ounces of gold mineral reserves at our producing mines over the past 12 months. Most of our exploration drilling was focused on near-mine exploration at La Colorada, Huaron and Timmins and produced positive results. Most notably, 7.3 million ounces of silver mineral reserves were added at La Colorada, more than replacing the 6.7 million ounces mined," said Christopher Emerson, Pan American's Vice President of Business Development and Geology. "Gold and silver mineral reserves were impacted by the reclassification of mineral reserves to mineral resources at the Dolores underground mine and considering the localized overestimation of the contained ounces within Phase 9B, which offset reserve gains at La Arena, Shahuindo and Timmins."
Mr. Emerson added: "We continue to add mineral resources at our silver operations, with an increase of 20.7 million silver ounces in measured and indicated mineral resources and an increase of 47.3 million silver ounces in inferred mineral resources over the past year, largely attributed to gains at Huaron and La Colorada."
This news release does not provide an update to the mineral resource estimate for the La Colorada Skarn. Pan American plans to provide that update in the third quarter of 2022.
- At La Colorada, we added 7.3 million ounces of silver mineral reserves, replacing 108% of mined production. In addition, 42.8 million ounces of silver were added to inferred mineral resources, with infill drilling recovering to pre-COVID-19 levels.
- At Huaron, we added 7.0 million ounces of silver mineral reserves, replacing 165% of mined production. Net mineral reserves have increased for a second consecutive year, and exploration drilling has successfully expanded the southeastern portion of the deposit.
- At La Arena, we added 55.8 thousand ounces of gold mineral reserves, replacing 46% of mined production and extending mine life by an additional six months. Exploration drilling has increased mineral reserves for the past three years, and drilling on the northwest portion of the open pit has identified mineralization extending at shallow depths from the current pit. This zone remains open and will be targeted for further exploration in 2022.
- At Shahuindo, we added 161 thousand ounces of gold mineral reserves, replacing 81% of mined production. Infill drilling has increased model confidence with a focus on defining high grade structures in the northwest portion of the pit.
- At Timmins, we added 36.9 thousand ounces of gold mineral reserves, replacing 26% of mined production. In addition, exploration drilling has successfully defined 53 thousand ounces of new gold inferred mineral resources at the SW144 zone in the Timmins west mine.
A detailed summary of the silver and gold mineral reserves and mineral resources as of June 30, 2022 is provided in the following tables.
Mineral reserves and mineral resources are as defined by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
Pan American reports mineral resources and mineral reserves separately. Reported mineral resources do not include amounts identified as mineral reserves. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves have no demonstrated economic viability.
Pan American does not expect these mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates to be materially affected by metallurgical, environmental, permitting, legal, taxation, socio-economic, political, and marketing or other relevant issues.
The Company has undertaken a verification process with respect to the data disclosed in this news release. The mineral resource and mineral reserves databases compiling drilling and, in some cases, sampling, have been accumulated at each of Pan American mine sites by the qualified staff. Samples are analyzed at a variety of laboratories, including by in-house staff at the mine (San Vicente, Manantial Espejo, La Colorada), mine laboratories operated by third party independent commercial labs (Huaron, Morococha), and commercial laboratories off-site (Shahuindo, La Arena, Timmins, Dolores). All the assay data used in the resource evaluation provided by each of the mines has been subjected to the industry standard quality assurance and quality control ("QA/QC") program including the submission of certified standards, blanks, and duplicate samples. The results are reviewed on a monthly basis by management. In general, the assay analytical technique for silver, lead, zinc and copper is acid digestion with either ICP or atomic absorption finish. The analytical technique for gold uses fire assay and a atomic absorption (AA) finish. A gravimetric finish would be used if the gold assay exceeds >10 g/t. The results of the QA/QC samples submitted for the resource databases demonstrate acceptable accuracy and precision. The Qualified Person is of the opinion that the sample preparation, analytical, and security procedures followed for the samples are sufficient and reliable for the purpose of this mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates. Pan American is not aware of any drilling, sampling, recovery or other factors that could materially affect the accuracy or reliability of the data reported herein.
See the Company's Annual Information Form dated February 23, 2022, available at www.sedar.com for further information on the Company's material mineral properties, including detailed information concerning associated QA/QC and data verification matters, the key assumptions, parameters and methods used by the Company to estimate mineral reserves and mineral resources, and for a detailed description of known legal, political, environmental, and other risks that could materially affect the Company's business and the potential development of the Company's mineral reserves and mineral resources.
Quantities and grades of contained metal are shown before metallurgical recoveries.
Technical information contained in this news release with respect to Pan American has been reviewed and approved by Christopher Emerson, FAusIMM., Vice President Business Development and Geology, and Martin Wafforn, P.Eng., Senior Vice President Technical Services and Process Optimization, who are each Qualified Persons for the purposes of NI 43-101.
Pan American Silver Corp is authorized by The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of British Columbia to engage in Reserved Practice under Permit to Practice number 1001470.
Pan American owns and operates silver and gold mines located in Mexico, Peru, Canada, Argentina and Bolivia. We also own the Escobal mine in Guatemala that is currently not operating. Pan American provides enhanced exposure to silver through a large base of silver reserves and resources, as well as major catalysts to grow silver production. We have a 28-year history of operating in Latin America, earning an industry-leading reputation for sustainability performance, operational excellence and prudent financial management. We are headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and our shares trade on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "PAAS".
Learn more at panamericansilver.com.
For more information contact:
Siren Fisekci
VP, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Ph: 604-806-3191
Email: ir@panamericansilver.com
Certain of the statements and information in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian provincial securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements or information. Forward-looking statements or information in this news release relate to, among other things: the disclosure of estimated mineral reserve and mineral resource information; the expectation of the Company to provide an update relating to the La Colorada skarn mineral resources, and the timing and results of any such update; estimated mine life and any anticipated changes related thereto; the extent of, and success related to any future exploration or development programs, including with respect to the La Colorada skarn; estimated mineral reserves and mineral resources;; expectations that metallurgical, environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, socio-economic, political, marketing or other issues will not materially affect estimates of mineral reserves and mineral resources.
These forward-looking statements and information reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant operational, business, economic and regulatory uncertainties and contingencies. These assumptions include: the accuracy of our mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates and the assumptions upon which they are based; ore grades and recoveries are as anticipated; prices for silver, gold, and base metals remaining as estimated; currency exchange rates remaining as estimated; capital, decommissioning and reclamation estimates; prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services (including transportation); all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals for our operations are received in a timely manner; our ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws; and that the COVID-19 pandemic, or other pandemics, do not materially impact underlying assumptions used in estimating mineral reserves and mineral resources, such as prices, the costs and availability of necessary labour, energy, supplies, materials and services, and exchange rates, among other things. The foregoing list of assumptions is not exhaustive.
The Company cautions the reader that forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release and the Company has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: fluctuations in silver, gold and base metal prices; fluctuations in prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services (including transportation); fluctuations in currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar, Peruvian sol, Mexican peso, Argentine peso and Bolivian boliviano versus the U.S. dollar); operational risks and hazards inherent with the business of mining (including environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); employee relations; relationships with, and claims by, local communities and indigenous populations; our ability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner; changes in laws, regulations and government practices in the jurisdictions where we operate, including environmental, export and import laws and regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining, including in Chubut, Argentina, and in Guatemala; risks relating to expropriation; diminishing quantities or grades of mineral reserves as properties are mined; increased competition in the mining industry for equipment and qualified personnel; and those factors identified under the caption "Risks Related to Pan American's Business" in the Company's most recent form 40-F and Annual Information Form filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian provincial securities regulatory authorities, respectively. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described or intended. Investors are cautioned against undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's current views of our near and longer term prospects and may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company does not intend, nor does it assume any obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, changes in assumptions, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Unless otherwise indicated, all mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates included in this news release have been prepared in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum classification system. NI 43-101 is a rule developed by the Canadian Securities Administrators that establishes standards for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information concerning mineral projects. Canadian standards, including NI 43-101, differ significantly from the requirements of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and reserve and resource information included herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by U.S. companies. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this news release uses the terms "measured resources," "indicated resources" and "inferred resources." U.S. investors are advised that, while such terms are recognized and required by Canadian securities laws, the SEC does not recognize them. The requirements of NI 43-101 for the identification of "reserves" are also not the same as those of the SEC, and reserves reported by Pan American in compliance with NI 43-101 may not qualify as "reserves" under SEC standards. Under U.S. standards, mineralization may not be classified as a "reserve" unless the determination has been made that the mineralization could be economically and legally produced or extracted at the time the reserve determination is made. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part of a "measured resource" or "indicated resource" will ever be converted into a "reserve." U.S. investors should also understand that "inferred resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of "inferred resources" exist, are economically or legally mineable or will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimated "inferred resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies except in rare cases. In addition, disclosure of "contained ounces" in a mineral resource is permitted disclosure under Canadian regulations. However, the SEC normally only permits issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute "reserves" by SEC standards as in place tonnage and grade, without reference to unit measures. Accordingly, information concerning mineral deposits set forth in this news release may not be comparable with information made public by companies that report in accordance with U.S. standards.
The SEC has adopted amendments to its disclosure rules to modernize the mineral property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). These amendments became effective February 25, 2019 (the "SEC Modernization Rules") with compliance required for the first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021. Under the SEC Modernization Rules, the historical property disclosure requirements for mining registrants included in Industry Guide 7 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, will be rescinded and replaced with disclosure requirements in subpart 1300 of SEC Regulation S-K. Following the transition period, as a foreign private issuer that is eligible to file reports with the SEC pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system (the "MJDS"), Pan American is not required to provide disclosure on its mineral properties under the SEC Modernization Rules and will continue to provide disclosure under NI 43-101. If Pan American ceases to be a foreign private issuer or loses its eligibility to file its annual report on Form 40-F pursuant to the MJDS, then Pan American will be subject to the SEC Modernization Rules, which differ from the requirements of NI 43-101.
As a result of the adoption of the SEC Modernization Rules, the SEC now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources." In addition, the SEC has amended its definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" to be "substantially similar" to the corresponding standards under NI 43-101. While the SEC will now recognize "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources", U.S. investors should not assume that any part or all of the mineralization in these categories will ever be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves. Mineralization described using these terms has a greater amount of uncertainty as to its existence and feasibility than mineralization that has been characterized as reserves. Accordingly, U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any measured mineral resources, indicated mineral resources, or inferred mineral resources that Pan American reports are or will be economically or legally mineable. Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a greater amount of uncertainty as to their existence and as to whether they can be mined legally or economically. Therefore, U.S. investors are also cautioned not to assume that all or any part of the "inferred mineral resources" exist. Under Canadian securities laws, estimates of "inferred mineral resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. While the above terms are "substantially similar" to the standards under NI 43-101, there are differences in the definitions under the SEC Modernization Rules. Accordingly, there is no assurance any mineral reserves or mineral resources that Pan American may report as "proven mineral reserves", "probable mineral reserves", "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under NI 43-101 would be the same had Pan American prepared the reserve or resource estimates under the standards adopted under the SEC Modernization Rules.
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Abortion rights wins in Kentucky, elsewhere stoke supporters
By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Lexie Overstreet logged plenty of miles on foot, knocking on doors to try to persuade Kentuckians not to take away one of the last legal paths to restoring abortion rights in the state.
Now she’s hoping her side’s win at the ballot box Tuesday will convince the state’s highest court to throw out a sweeping abortion ban passed by the Republican-led legislature.
“It was great to wake up this morning and know that Kentuckians are on the same side as me,” the 21-year-old University of Louisville student and volunteer said after the election. “And know that the thousands of doors that I knocked aren’t going to be forgotten and that all those people I talked to, they cast their vote and their vote was heard.”
Whether those voices will resonate with the Kentucky Supreme Court, which is set to hear arguments for and against the ban Tuesday, hinges on legal arguments about whether state constitutional protections extend to a right to an abortion. With a hearing set for Tuesday, the case looms as the first legal test for abortion rights after midterm elections in which voters across the country came down firmly on the side of keeping abortion legal. No timeline has been given for a ruling.
In Kentucky, abortion rights supporters think the amendment’s rejection should be a consideration as the justices hear the case.
“My hope is that the Supreme Court will listen to the will of the people and know that the people have rejected extremism and rule accordingly,” Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said in the days leading up to the pivotal court hearing.
Beshear, who is running for reelection next year, can take comfort in knowing that his position on abortion rights puts him squarely on the side of a majority of Kentuckians. But one of the GOP candidates hoping to take his job next year said the vote shouldn’t be a factor.
Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron said the result, though disappointing, didn’t change his belief that there is “no right to abortion hidden in the Kentucky Constitution.” Abortion policy, Cameron said, “belongs to our elected representatives in the General Assembly” to decide.
Right now it belongs to the courts, with attention shifting to the courtroom at the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, where the Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in the case.
Those arguments will center on a Louisville judge’s ruling from July, when he wrote that the state’s new, post-Roe abortion bans likely violate “the rights to privacy and self-determination” protected by Kentucky’s constitution. Judge Mitch Perry said it was not the court’s role to determine whether the state constitution contains the right to abortion, but whether the state’s restrictive laws violate freedoms guaranteed by its constitution.
It’s unclear how much impact, if any, the anti-abortion measure’s defeat will have on the court’s views on the case.
“It may well differ from justice to justice,” said University of Louisville law professor Samuel Marcosson. “Some of them may view the defeat of the initiative as a strong signal that Kentuckians believe there is and should be a right in the constitution, and this could empower those justices to rule that way. Others may say that it is at best an uncertain signal, and that it remains a task for them to determine the meaning of the constitution.”
Abortion opponents had hoped to shut off such a path through the courts. The amendment would have added “clarity and an extra level of protection against judicial activism,” said David Walls, executive director of The Family Foundation, a faith-based organization opposed to abortion.
Currently, abortions are mostly on hold in Kentucky, based on a trigger law at the center of the case before the state Supreme Court. Approved by lawmakers in 2019, the ban took effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June by the U.S. Supreme Court. That law ended all abortions with narrow exceptions to save a pregnant woman’s life or to prevent disabling injury. There are no exceptions for rape or incest victims. The state’s high court in August kept the ban in place while it reviews the case. A separate six-week ban that Kentucky lawmakers approved also is being challenged.
Now abortion rights supporters hope the amendment’s defeat is a springboard to victory in court.
“It is an important step in continuing the legal fight for abortion access in this state,” said Rachel Sweet of Protect Kentucky Access, an abortion-rights coalition. “Moreover, it is a repudiation of the extreme anti-choice agenda that is out of step with most voters’ values and beliefs.”
Attorneys for the two abortion clinics left in Kentucky — both of them in Louisville, the state’s largest city — will ask the state’s high court for an injunction to allow abortions to resume while the case is litigated.
Meanwhile, abortion rights supporters secured wins elsewhere across the country. Michigan, California and Vermont voted to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions. Voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced medical workers to attempt lifesaving measures in the rare event of a baby born after an attempted abortion.
In Michigan, Democrats who took control of the Legislature for the first time in decades have signaled that affirming reproductive rights will be one of their top priorities in 2023.
Abortion rights supporters in Vermont are planning to ask the legislature to enact shield laws to protect Vermont providers that perform abortion services for out-of-state travelers.
In Kentucky, Cameron downplayed the anti-abortion amendment’s defeat in a post-election filing with the Supreme Court, saying the outcome “has no bearing on whether the court should create a Kentucky Roe v. Wade.”
“In short, because Kentucky voters chose to leave their Constitution as is, the constitutional text that the court must interpret to resolve this appeal is the same today as it was before” the vote, the Republican attorney general wrote.
But Overstreet, the University of Louisville student and abortion rights volunteer, said the voters’ rejection of the Kentucky amendment spoke volumes about where the people stand.
“I have family from Appalachia, and I grew up in the city,” she said. “People really underestimate Kentucky. People think that Kentucky is regressive. They think that Kentuckians don’t believe in one another. But that’s just absolutely not true. Kentuckians want abortion access. And that’s what this amendment has shown us.”
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Associated Press writers Wilson Ring in Stowe, Vermont; and Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan, contributed to this report. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/13/abortion-rights-wins-in-kentucky-elsewhere-stoke-supporters-2/ | 2022-11-13 17:08:20 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/13/abortion-rights-wins-in-kentucky-elsewhere-stoke-supporters-2/ |
Man allegedly opened fire inside AZ health care facility
The 33-year-old suspect walked into the Arizona lobby and fired a single shot
A man accused of firing a gun inside a Tucson health care facility is facing several charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to authorities.
Tucson police said 33-year-old Arthur John Bodnar had a video court appearance Saturday and a judge ordered him held on a $50,000 bound.
Bodnar also is accused of discharging a firearm within city limits and having a gun although he’s a prohibited possessor.
Police were called to the healthcare facility Tuesday in response to reports that a man had walked into the lobby and fired a single shot from a shotgun.
An employee at the facility called 911 and gave police a description of the suspect.
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Bodnar was arrested Friday.
It was unclear Sunday if Bodnar has a lawyer yet who can speak on his behalf.
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BEIJING (AP) — Canadian public broadcaster CBC says it is closing its China bureau after the Chinese government ignored requests to base a reporter in Beijing.
CBC said its applications had been met “by monthslong silence from Chinese officials.” The broadcaster’s last correspondent left Beijing as China closed down amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The bureau, located in one of Beijing’s high-security diplomatic compounds, had remained open in anticipation of restaffing.
On Thursday, a plaque identifying the bureau remained posted on the outside wall but no one responded to knocks or the doorbell. Calls to the bureau’s number published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry also went unanswered.
China has taken an increasingly hard line in foreign relations, and ties with Canada nosedived after China, the U.S. and Canada completed what was effectively a high-stakes prisoner swap last year involving a top executive from Chinese tech giant Huawei who had been charged with fraud by the U.S.
China jailed two Canadians shortly after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer and the daughter of the company’s founder, on a U.S. extradition request. They were sent back to Canada in September, the same day Meng returned to China after reaching a deal with U.S. authorities in her case.
Many countries labeled China’s action “hostage politics,” while China has described the charges against Huawei and Meng as a politically motivated attempt to hold back China’s economic and technological development.
Canada has banned wireless carriers from installing Huawei equipment in its high-speed 5G networks, joining allies in shunning the company that has close links with the ruling Communist Party and its military wing, the People’s Liberation Army.
Canada has also ordered three Chinese companies to sell lithium mining assets in Canada after it imposed limits on foreign involvement in supplying “critical minerals” used in batteries and high-tech products.
The order Wednesday came amid rising tension between the West and China over control of sources of lithium, rare earths, cadmium and other minerals used in cellphones, wind turbines, solar cells, electric cars and other emerging technologies.
China has increasingly restricted the presence of foreign media in the country while boosting its own propaganda presence abroad. The stance is in keeping with its increasingly confrontational relationship with the U.S. and Western democracies over trade, human rights and territorial claims.
China blames the U.S. for fueling tensions after Washington cut 20 visas issued to Chinese state media journalists and required those remaining to register as foreign agents, among other changes.
China responded by expelling journalists working for U.S. outlets and severely restricting conditions for those continuing to work in the country.
After being denied visas, many foreign media outlets have based correspondents in Taiwan and other Asian centers that protect free speech.
“There is no point keeping an empty bureau when we could easily set up elsewhere in a different country that welcomes journalists and respects journalistic scrutiny,” CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon said Wednesday in a blog post.
“Closing the Beijing bureau is the last thing we want to do, but our hand has been forced,” Fenlon said.
CBC said Philippe Leblanc, a journalist with Radio-Canada, the broadcaster’s French-language counterpart, would work from Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, after Chinese diplomats ignored his applications.
Canada now joins Australia in no longer having a permanent media presence in China following diplomatic disputes. CBC said it would be the first time in more than 40 years that the broadcaster has not been present in China.
The Asia correspondent for Canada’s main newspaper, Globe and Mail, is based in Hong Kong because he has been unable to get a China visa.
China’s media is tightly controlled by the Communist Party and Beijing regards the foreign press as an extension of the policies of their home countries, regardless of ownership and levels of state control.
China’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment on the visa situation, but spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that, due to pandemic travel restrictions, China had waved a requirement to automatically close foreign news bureaus that went understaffed for more than 10 months.
Zhao also said China had facilitated CBC’s coverage of this year’s Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee requires that host nations provide such services as part of its contract with them.
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BOSTON — Golden State Warriors fans collectively held their breath as Stephen Curry hobbled off the court in the final minutes of Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night at TD Garden.
Warriors and Celtics players were scrambling for a loose ball with 4:12 left in the fourth quarter when Boston’s Al Horford landed on Curry’s left leg, leaving the Warriors star in noticeable pain.
When the Warriors played the Celtics at Chase Center on March 16, Curry suffered a sprained ligament and bone bruise in his left foot on a similar play. In that meeting, Marcus Smart dove on Curry’s leg while battling for a loose ball, which resulted in an injury that led to Curry missing the final 12 games of the regular season. Golden State went 6-6 over that stretch.
“We'll see how it responds,” Curry said, asked about the foot injury. “Not much other to say. I don't feel like I'll miss a game. Take advantage of these next 48 hours to get ready.”
After the scuffle with Horford in Game 3, Curry initially stayed on the court until Warriors head coach Steve Kerr pulled him out with 2:19 left. Following Golden State’s 116-100 loss, Kerr said he took Curry out because the team was down 14, not because of his apparent injury. When asked about the severity of the situation, Kerr didn’t deny that it may be a concern.
“We will know more tomorrow,” he said.
Draymond Green said he picked up his sixth foul for pushing a Celtics player off Curry because he was “screaming at the bottom of the pile.”
Curry’s health will be the Warriors’ top priority in the coming days, because the team’s championship odds will decrease dramatically without him. Curry scored a team-best 31 points in the Game 3 loss.
“We need him if we want to win this thing,” Klay Thompson said. “I know Steph is going to do everything he can in his power to play. I am really hoping he's okay because he's our identity, and without him, it will be very difficult.”
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In the 1930s, there were at least 1,500 Jewish delis in New York City alone. Now, only 300 remain countrywide and only a few dozen in the Big Apple, according to the New York Historical Society.
The history and future of the Jewish deli are featured in an exhibit that is touring the country named “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a reference to the famous scene in “When Harry Met Sally” that was set in Katz’s Delicatessen in New York.
The popularity of the classic Jewish deli, which featured kosher eats like whitefish salad, pickles, and corned beef, has declined. But a new generation of chefs is bringing their ideas to a classic they remember from their upbringings.
In Washington, D.C., bagel lovers opened a tongue-in-cheek “Jew-ish Deli,” Call Your Mother. It’s the first place President Joe Biden dined as president. Mort & Betty’s in Los Angeles serves classics of Jewish cuisine that are veganized, including “corned beets.”
We take a tour of the exhibit guided by Jessie Kornberg, president & CEO of the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, then turn to our guests to learn more about the unique place the kosher deli holds in American Jewish culture and beyond.
An exhibit on display in New York City explores the history of Jewish delis.
Shapiro's Delicatessen in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Holocaust survivor Rena Drexler opened Drexler's Deli in Los Angeles, California.
Abe Lebewohl was the owner of Second Avenue Deli in New York City.
“I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli” is on display at the New York Historical Society through April 2, 2023. It heads then to the Holocaust Museum Houston from May 4, 2023 to Aug. 13, 2023, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, Ill., from Oct. 22, 2023 to April 14, 2024.
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A jury awarded $4 million in damages related to a bicycle crash that occurred on a speed bump outside of Husky Stadium in 2017 to the family of the cyclist, Roger Stocker. UW was ordered to pay 35% of this amount.
Stocker sustained traumatic brain injury as a result of the accident. The injury left him in need of constant medical care, and took away his ability to communicate. Stocker died from his injuries in 2019.
Lawyers representing Stocker’s family argued that UW was negligent in allowing the speed bump to remain in place despite the fact that it was the location of several other crashes. UW’s lawyers claimed that Stocker’s crash was a result of his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
After a lengthy legal fight, the jury found UW to be 35% responsible and Stocker to be 65% responsible. Lawyers representing the Stocker family expressed confusion over the verdict, stating the Stocker had been high functioning at the time.
UW is also questioning the verdict, according to spokesperson Victor Balta.
“The UW is reviewing the verdict and considering next steps, including the possibility of an appeal,” Balta said in an email. “The defense was not allowed to state its case. We believe the verdict would have been different if the UW had been permitted to call its defense witnesses and present its evidence.”
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(CNN) — As several state legislative sessions have concluded or are drawing to a close, some of the high-profile legislation enacted by state lawmakers is just taking effect.
Many states saw particularly polarizing sessions, with Democrats and Republican state lawmakers moving in opposite directions on abortion- and LGBTQ-related legislation.
Several GOP-led states moved to advance restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care, while also tackling controversial issues such as child labor, guns and immigration.
Here are some of the laws that took effect Saturday.
LGBTQ-related legislation
South Dakota
The prescription and administration of puberty-blocking hormones to transgender minors are now blocked in South Dakota, along with sex hormones and gender transition surgery.
Health care providers who violate the new law risk civil suits and losing their professional or occupational licenses.
Georgia
Medical professionals in Georgia are prohibited from providing patients under the age of 18 with hormone therapy or surgery related to gender transition, and a violation of the law may result in the health practitioner’s license being revoked.
Several families, backed by advocacy groups, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the ban.
Tennessee
A federal judge allowed Tennessee’s ban on gender transition surgical procedures to take effect Saturday, but has temporarily blocked the enforcement of its ban on other gender-affirming treatments such as hormone therapies and puberty blockers.
The new law specifies that minors who receive care cannot be held liable, but lawsuits could be brought against a minor’s parents “if the parent of the minor consented to the conduct that constituted the violation on behalf of the minor.”
Florida
Teachers, faculty and students in Florida are now restricted from using pronouns of their choice in public schools under a new law. The legislation requires K-12 public schools to define sex as “an immutable biological trait,” and says it is “false” to use a pronoun other than the sex on a person’s birth certification.
Another provision in the law affirms that sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be taught in schools through eighth grade, codifying a state Board of Education decision to block such topics in all K-12 schools in April.
Florida’s ban on transgender people from using a government building’s bathroom or changing room that matches their gender identity has also taken effect. The bathroom ban applies in places such as public schools, prisons and state universities.
Abortion restrictions
North Carolina
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for North Carolina’s 12-week ban on most abortions to take effect Saturday. The law provides exceptions in the case of rape or incest through 20 weeks of pregnancy or in the event of a “life-limiting anomaly” through 24 weeks.
The law also prohibits health care providers who object to abortion “on moral, ethical, or religious grounds” from being required to participate in abortion procedures.
The judge, however, temporarily halted a provision of the bill, which required doctors to document the location of early pregnancies with ultrasound evidence before prescribing a medication abortion.
Wyoming
The nation’s first ban on medication abortion was set to take effect in Wyoming Saturday, but a district judge blocked the measure last week while legal challenges play out.
Other laws
Iowa
Teenagers in Iowa can now work longer hours with those 16 and older permitted to work the same hours as an adult – provisions that were part of a child labor bill passed in May. The state also no longer requires work permits for minors.
Florida
Two other highly criticized bills took effect in Florida.
One requires private employers with 25 or more employees to check their immigration status in a federal database or risk their employer licenses being suspended.
The other will allow Florida residents to carry a concealed weapon in public without a government-issued permit.
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For nearly three years, China used extremely strict testing and lockdown policies to keep COVID out. Then it abruptly lifted nearly all those controls as a COVID surge spread across the country.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.
The proposal falls far short of tougher steps long sought by President Joe Biden and many Democrats. Even so, the accord was embraced by Biden and enactment would signal a significant turnabout after years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress.
Biden said in a statement that the framework “does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction, and would be the most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades.”
Given the bipartisan support, “there are no excuses for delay, and no reason why it should not quickly move through the Senate and the House,” he said.
Leaders hope to push any agreement into law rapidly — they hope this month — before the political momentum fades that has been stirred by the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Participants cautioned that final details and legislative language remain to be completed, meaning fresh disputes and delays might emerge.
In a consequential development, 20 senators, including 10 Republicans, released a statement calling for passage. That is potentially crucial because the biggest obstacle to enacting the measure is probably in the 50-50 Senate, where at least 10 GOP votes will be needed to attain the usual 60-vote threshold for approval.
“Families are scared, and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore their sense of safety and security in their communities,” the lawmakers said. The group, led by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., John Cornyn, R-Texas, Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., produced the agreement after two weeks of closed-door talks.
The compromise would make the juvenile records of gun buyers under age 21 available when they undergo background checks. The suspects who killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo and 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde were both 18, and many perpetrators of recent years’ mass shootings have been young.
The agreement would offer money to states to enact and put in place “red flag” laws that make it easier to temporarily take guns from people considered potentially violent, plus funds to bolster school safety and mental health programs.
Some people who informally sell guns for profit would be required to obtain federal dealers’ licenses, which means they would have to conduct background checks of buyers. Convicted domestic abusers who do not live with a former partner, such as estranged ex-boyfriends, would be barred from buying firearms, and it would be a crime for a person to legally purchase a weapon for someone who would not qualify for ownership.
Congressional aides said billions of dollars would be spent expanding the number of community mental health centers and suicide prevention programs. But they said some spending decisions are unresolved, as are final wording on juvenile records and other gun provisions that might prove contentious.
Yet underscoring election-year pressures from Buffalo and Uvalde, the parties’ shared desire to demonstrate a response to those shootings suggested momentum toward enactment was strong.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the accord “a good first step to ending the persistent inaction to the gun violence epidemic” and said he would bring the completed measure to a vote as soon as possible.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has supported the talks, was more restrained. He praised the bargainers’ work and said he is hoping for a deal that makes “significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country.”
The agreement was quickly endorsed by groups that support gun restrictions including Brady, Everytown for Gun Safety and March for Our Lives, which organized rallies held around the country on Saturday.
The National Rifle Association said in a statement that it opposes gun control and infringing on people’s “fundamental right to protect themselves and their loved ones,” but supports strengthening school security, mental health and law enforcement. The group has long exerted its sway with millions of firearms-owning voters to derail gun control drives in Congress.
The agreement represents a lowest common denominator compromise on gun violence, not a complete sea change in Congress. Lawmakers have demonstrated a newfound desire to move ahead after saying their constituents have shown a heightened desire for congressional action since Buffalo and Uvalde, but Republicans still oppose more sweeping steps that Democrats want and Sunday’s agreement omits.
These include banning assault-style firearms such as the AR-15 style rifles used in Buffalo and Uvalde, or raising the legal age for buying them. AR-15s are popular and powerful semi-automatic weapons that can fire high-capacity magazines and have been used in many of the nation’s highest-profile slaughters in recent years. One of them, the killing of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, occurred six years ago Sunday.
Democrats have also wanted to ban high capacity magazines and to expand required background checks to far more gun purchases. None of those proposals has a chance in Congress.
Highlighting that, the Democratic-controlled House approved sweeping bills this past week barring sales of semiautomatic weapons to people under age 21 and large-capacity magazines, and giving federal courts the power to rule when local authorities want to remove guns from people considered dangerous. Currently, only 19 states and the District of Columbia have red-flag laws. Those measures will go nowhere in the Senate, where Republicans can block them.
The last major firearms restrictions enacted by lawmakers was the 1994 assault weapons ban, which Congress let expire 10 years later.
For years, congressional Republicans representing rural, pro-gun voters have blocked robust restrictions on firearms purchases, citing the Constitution’s Second Amendment.
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Ten years ago, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab celebrated the successful landing of its fourth robot on Mars, The Curiosity rover.
Now old enough to enter the fifth grade, the Curiosity rover was set on its mission in 2012 to determine whether the red planet could have ever supported life.
The robot is about the size of a car, and is decked out with scientific instruments used to study the planet's climate and geology. So, how did the mission go? And what can the Curiosity rover teach us about the past, and potential future of space exploration?
Clear signs of life
Dr. Ashwin Vasavada is the head scientist of the Curiosity team, and says that the mission was a huge success.
"[We learned] it was not only habitable at one moment in time in Mars' history, but probably habitable for millions, or tens of millions, of years," he said.
While the rover had the capacity to detect signs of life, that didn't necessarily mean that Mars itself harbored life. Vasavada said that their initial goal was to find out if life was simply even possible there.
"We've explored Mars enough to know that there are no dinosaur footprints, no big life forms around today," he said. "So if life ever did take hold, it probably never got beyond kind of a microbial stage."
A sharp change
So, what kind of life was there on Mars? And was there any specific event that made it uninhabitable for life?
Vasavada thinks it's likely a combination of events.
"You can see evidence that rivers once coursed along the surface, that maybe even an ocean existed at one point. So early Mars, we're talking three or four billion years ago, was a much more Earth-like place than Mars is today," he said.
And it seems that the size of the planet may have been the main factor in ending the development of life.
"Ultimately, it's a smaller planet than Earth, [so] that allowed it to cool faster. Once it cooled faster, it lost its ability to generate a magnetic field," he said. "Once the magnetic field stopped, the atmosphere was stripped away by radiation in space. And that led to its inability to, at that point, stay warm and have liquid water."
From that point on, the planet became the cold and inhospitable desert that it is known as today.
A unique landing point
Even the spot that the Curiosity rover initially descended on 10 years ago was able to provide new insights for the team working to understand Mars.
The rover landed in an area called the Gale Crater. Known as an impact crater, the cavity was formed when a large space rock hit the surface of the planet. Later on, it was filled with sediment deposited in lakes, and formed layers of mud that built up over time into the sides of a mountain.
"What this meant is that we could land there, and see if that sediment really was deposited within liquid water environments, like lakes and streams," Vasavada said. "We could read the early history of Mars by driving up these rock layers, and determining whether any of those periods of Mars' time had these habitable conditions."
After 10 years, the success of the mission still surprises the scientist.
"We've now driven up over 2,000 vertical feet on the mountain, and for the most part, every layer we've looked at formed in a wet environment and had conditions that would have been favorable to life."
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AMSTERDAM, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Freedom of Mobility Forum, initiated by Stellantis and facilitated by Wavestone as a neutral third-party, will host a free digital debate featuring an international panel of global experts on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, to discuss the critical question:
"In a decarbonized world, will freedom of mobility be affordable to only a happy few?"
The live webcast will begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT. To foster an open fact-based discussion, the audience is invited to participate in a 30-minute Q&A session.
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Border Patrol does not have protocols for assessing medical needs of children with preexisting conditions, according to an independent report made public Tuesday on the death of an 8-year-old girl from Panama who was in federal custody.
The girl’s death was “a preventable tragedy that resulted from” failures in “medical and custodial systems for children” within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that includes the Border Patrol, the report found.
It’s the latest damning finding in the May 17 death of Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was on her ninth day in custody with family in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for migrant crossings. She had a chronic heart condition and sickle cell anemia.
An internal investigation found Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the girl’s file.
The report made public Tuesday was conducted by an independent monitor working to enforce compliance with the latest terms of the Flores settlement agreement, a measure created to bring child welfare protections to children in immigration custody.
“The failure to consult a physician or a local health facility for more extensive testing raises fundamental concerns regarding the ability of the CBP medical system to care appropriately for children at elevated medical risk,” the report says.
CBP did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Mabel Alvarez Benedicks, the girl’s mother, told The Associated Press she reported her daughter’s condition to officials when she and her family were being processed at the border, but officials failed to notify other staff at the time the family was taken to a second facility designated for families, a problem the monitor highlighted in a previous report to the court.
Six days later, the girl tested positive for influenza and had a temperature of 101.8 F (38.78 C), according to the report. She was given medication, put into isolation with her family but three days later, the girl and her mother made numerous visits to the medical unit, the report said.
Anadith reported vomiting and then a stomachache to the health provider, who failed to contact an on-call physician, the report showed. There is no protocol that highlights when an on-call physician should be contacted.
Alvarez begged officials to call an ambulance in order to hospitalize Anadith as her daughter felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk, but the health provider did not consider transferring the girl to a hospital, according to the report.
After Alvarez carried her daughter to the medical unit as she seized and became unresponsive, the girl was then taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, the report said.
The “poor clinical decision-making by the health providers” is responsible in Anadith’s death, the report said.
“These inexcusable systemic failures were exacerbated by just a sheer disregard for her life,” said Melissa Adamson, an attorney at the National Center for Youth Law.
Three other children have died in Border Patrol custody this year.
An unaccompanied 15-year-old girl from Guatemala died July 10 from an underlying disease while in federal custody. The girl had been hospitalized at El Paso Children’s Hospital for a significant, preexisting illness when she was referred from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Office of Refugee Resettlement in May, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement July 11.
In May, a 17-year-old boy from Honduras died in U.S. custody. Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza died at a holding center in Safety Harbor, Florida. His mother said her son had epilepsy but showed no signs of being seriously ill before he left for the United States.
In March, a 4-year-old “medically fragile unaccompanied child from Honduras” died at a hospital in Michigan, according to a Health and Human Services statement at the time. | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-border-patrol-fails-to-assess-medical-needs-for-children-with-preexisting-conditions-report-says/ | 2023-07-19 16:23:09 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-border-patrol-fails-to-assess-medical-needs-for-children-with-preexisting-conditions-report-says/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-4-2-3, WB: 7
(eight, four, two, three; WB: seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-4-2-3, WB: 7
(eight, four, two, three; WB: seven) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17261268.php | 2022-06-23 19:40:00 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17261268.php |
Lonzo Ball will undergo a third surgical procedure in an attempt to resolve the pain and discomfort in his left knee that has kept him off the court for the majority of his first two seasons with the Chicago Bulls.
Ball will undergo a cartilage transplant this month and then begin a lengthy recovery process. Ball ultimately could spend two full years — or more — away from the basketball court with a recovery timeline that will likely sideline him for most of the 2023-24 season.
Ball has not been able to play basketball since Jan. 14, 2022, when he suffered a meniscus injury that required surgery. Despite early predictions from the Bulls that he would be available by the playoffs that year, Ball continued to experience pain and discomfort that ultimately required an arthroscopic debridement procedure on Sept. 28.
“My main focus has been on returning to the court and getting to a place where I can rejoin my teammates,” Ball said in a statement on Thursday. “This has been a frustrating process, but I’m confident these next steps are the best path forward. The support of my family, friends, fans and medical staff throughout my recovery is what keeps me moving forward. I can’t wait to get back to what I love doing most — playing basketball.”
As Ball’s recovery continued to stretch out — steeped in uncertainty as his pain and discomfort did not cease — talk from Bulls players and coaches shifted from eagerness to see his return to full-fledged worry.
In rare availabilities with reporters over the last year, Ball has emphasized he is working to remain optimistic and levelheaded as he pursues a full recovery. His father, LaVar Ball, reiterated that hopefulness in a February interview with Bulls announcer Stacey King. But the mystery surrounding the source of the pain throws a heavier shroud over Ball’s injury, especially for an athlete who was only 24 when the injury occured.
“I continue to admire Lonzo’s perseverance throughout this journey,” Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas said in a statement. “This has been a long and challenging road for him, and this decision has been a difficult one to make. The organization is behind him, and he has our full support. Our training and medical staff continue their commitment to Lonzo’s rehabilitation and to working with him throughout this next phase to ensure his healthy return to basketball.”
As Ball prepares to miss potentially a third straight season, the Bulls face a difficult conundrum as they attempt to balance their roster. Ball signed a four-year, $80 million deal in August 2021. If he misses next season, he will have played only 35 games of the first three years of that deal.
Last summer, the Bulls stood pat in the offseason with the hopes of Ball returning to the starting point guard position, relying on backup players such as Alex Caruso and Ayo Dosunmu to fill the role in the interim.
The addition of Patrick Beverley has helped the Bulls improve their ball distribution in the final stretch this season. But with another lengthy recovery timeline for Ball, they’ll need to prepare for next season without him — which means locking down a more permanent solution at point guard. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/national-sports/ct-chicago-bulls-lonzo-ball-surgery-20230316-rg7erj4e3jgztaxmrpz43b5lii-story.html | 2023-03-17 05:25:52 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/national-sports/ct-chicago-bulls-lonzo-ball-surgery-20230316-rg7erj4e3jgztaxmrpz43b5lii-story.html |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s baby rhinoceros doing ‘zoomies’ might be best video you’ll see today
Published: Aug. 27, 2022 at 1:44 PM EDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A video shared by the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on Saturday morning was already viewed more than 10,000 times in the hours since it was posted.
The video shows the zoo’s baby rhinoceros Dalia doing the “zoomies,” or energetically running around, it’s pen.
Dalia, meaning “gentle,” was born on July 9 to rhinoceros mother Kibibbi.
The public can regularly view her at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s outdoor rhinoceros habitat.
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SPRINGDALE, Pa. — A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania last week felled power poles and caused damage to nearby homes. But the demolition company is vowing full repairs.
The implosion at the Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, a borough just northeast of Pittsburgh, occurred shortly after 8 a.m. Friday, bringing the stacks down with a loud crash and a huge cloud of dust. One tower stood about 550 feet (170 meters) tall and the other 750 feet (230 meters).
Controlled Demolition said in a statement that the chimneys fell “exactly where they were supposed to” and noise and vibration levels were “well below" allowable state environmental protection limits, KDKA-TV reported. But, the company said, the larger chimney's steel liner “focused air pressure as it collapsed upon impact.”
Bruno Moretti, Allegheny County's emergency management coordinator, said the air blast broke windows and blew dust from the fallen stacks into homes. The surge also felled trees and several power poles and their wires, leading to a power surge that damaged electrical appliances such as stoves, furnaces, air conditioners, refrigerators and TVs, he said.
The company's statement said repairs of “minor damages caused by the focused air pressure” had already begun and promised that they "will be fully completed to the satisfaction of each property owner affected," KDKA-TV reported.
Moretti said he didn't yet have a final report about how many people had reported damage, and more reports may be coming in. He said, however, that people he has talked to have had positive things to say about the company's response.
“They were out cleaning up 15 minutes after the blast, getting streets open, they went around pressure-washing cars off, so in my eyes they’re trying to do right," Moretti said. “As long as they take care of the people, I don’t have a complaint. As far as I can tell right now, everybody’s pleased with their response.”
Video of the implosion recorded by Joe Kern shows the two smokestacks fall one after the other as a thunderous blast is heard. Dirt and debris cover the air as the smokestacks hit the ground, shaking the trees and powerlines in the area. Voices can be heard yelling as debris consumes the area following the collapse.
“They ruined everything,” Kern said in the video as he shows the debris on the roof of his home, yard and vehicle.
The Cheswick plant stopped making power in the spring of 2022 and has since been taken over by an environmental remediation firm.
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Associated Press video journalist Patrick Orsagos in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/regional/demolition-company-blast-during-implosion-damaged-nearby-homes-cheswick-generating-station-springdale/521-7fb88c40-2e6f-4408-bf31-f4b2e3a90db2 | 2023-06-06 10:23:53 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/regional/demolition-company-blast-during-implosion-damaged-nearby-homes-cheswick-generating-station-springdale/521-7fb88c40-2e6f-4408-bf31-f4b2e3a90db2 |
The bitter battle to confirm Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House Speaker is finally over and the groundwork has been laid for the 118th Congress.
But the multiday, historically long process laid bare the divisions and potential issues McCarthy and House Republicans face as they seek to pass legislation, launch investigations and get reelected in two years.
So what lies ahead for McCarthy, the GOP and Democrats?
Here are six things to watch as Speaker McCarthy takes his seat:
How much did the Speaker battle weaken McCarthy?
The House Freedom Caucus has power for the first time since Democrats won the House in 2018, and the far-right group wasted no time in asserting itself, providing a glimpse at the issues McCarthy will confront as he takes over as the weakest Speaker in recent memory.
The caucus of hard-line conservatives has put McCarthy between a rock and a hard place as he attempts to manage the unruly group and deal with bipartisan legislation that is likely to come over from the Senate — which will have to be cobbled together with 60 votes and will be, by its nature, more moderate.
What happens if the Senate sends over a spending deal later this summer that isn’t palatable to the deal McCarthy struck with House conservatives? Will he be willing to shut down the government, which Freedom Caucus members will likely be clamoring for him to do?
How much will he be willing to fight, with a one-vote threshold for a motion to oust him hanging over his head?
McCarthy’s goal for years was to win the gavel. No one questions that, including his allies.
Now, the essential question to watch is: How far will McCarthy go to keep hold of the Speakership?
Whether he cost himself a long and extended tenure in the position remains to be seen.
Debt limit, debt limit, debt limit
The looming effort to increase the debt ceiling will likely be the ultimate test of the coming year for the California Republican and will prove consequential in answering how long his tenure will last.
This week’s drawn-out adventure to name a Speaker is already causing some in the GOP agita over what’s to come when it’s time later this year to raise the nation’s borrowing limit — an issue that caused the party intense consternation in 2011, when the U.S.’s credit rating was dinged for the first time in history.
“You’re looking at a preview of coming attractions,” Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) told The Hill amid the series of failed votes before a deal was reached.
The Treasury Department has not yet said when exactly the U.S. will reach the debt limit, but it is expected to be sometime after July, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Conservatives on Friday declined to reveal specifics about the deal struck with leaders in recent days, but a number of them indicated that cuts to mandatory spending programs — like Social Security and Medicare — will have to be part of any package, or else.
“There will be no clean debt ceiling increase, that’s for sure,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), chairman of the Freedom Caucus, told reporters on Friday.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a fellow holdout until Friday, indicated that they would hold McCarthy’s feet to the fire over the cuts.
“It’s safe to say that we believe there ought to be specific, concrete limits on spending attached to a debt ceiling increase,” Roy said, adding that the framework “serves as the template by which we’re going to be holding him accountable.”
Relationship with McConnell
While McCarthy deals with hard-liners day-to-day, he will also have another key relationship to manage in the coming months: one with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
The two men and their leadership styles are like oil and water. McConnell, the record-breaking GOP leader, has led his conference with a much firmer hand in recent years, a stark contrast to McCarthy, whose path to success has centered on backslaps and fundraising prowess in lieu of a bedrock political philosophy.
In addition, the two have clashed on a number of items in recent months, ranging from the handling of the 2022 year-end effort to fund the government to how to deal with former President Trump to Ukraine funding.
The newly minted Speaker also opposed a number of items McConnell helped marshal through the upper chamber in the 117th Congress. Headlining those were the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill — which McConnell helped herald on Wednesday alongside President Biden in Kentucky — gun violence legislation in response to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act to boost domestic semiconductor production.
Nevertheless, aides for both members have said the two have a good, cordial relationship. One GOP leadership aide told The Hill in October that the two try to meet at least once every congressional work period. The Senate GOP leader also threw his support behind McCarthy to win the top job before 2022 ended.
Ukraine funding
Funding to help Ukraine in its ongoing battle with Russia is also poised to be an area of contention within the fractured House GOP conference — and among Republicans in both chambers.
The government spending bill passed by both chambers in December included $45 billion in funding to support Kyiv, buying Congress some time before it has to weigh whether to appropriate more funds for the embattled ally. But when the hour does come for that debate, the negotiations could get messy.
While the majority of the House GOP conference has expressed support for Ukraine throughout its nearly one-year conflict, a handful of conservative Republicans have expressed opposition to assisting Kyiv as the war drags on.
In October, McCarthy warned that House Republicans would not write a “blank check” to Ukraine should they take control of the chamber, and months before that, in May, 57 Republicans voted against a multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine in May.
The divisions were also on full display last month when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address to a joint meeting of Congress, which was well-received by some Republicans and disregarded by others.
Those differences could stymie sending aid to Ukraine in the future. Some Republicans have said the U.S.-Mexico border should be prioritized more than supporting Kyiv.
The small — but outspoken — opposition to Ukraine aid in the House may also set the scene for a chamber vs. chamber battle, pitting McCarthy against McConnell, a vocal supporter of Ukraine who has thrown his weight behind the aid sent to Kyiv.
Will Democrats rescue McCarthy on must-pass bills?
McCarthy’s concession to make it easier to oust a sitting Speaker has led to concerns on both sides of the aisle that conservatives will hold that threat like a cudgel over McCarthy, deterring him from bringing must-pass legislation — things like a debt ceiling hike and government funding bills — to the floor even if it has the bipartisan support to pass.
Some moderate Republicans have countered that they can still move such bills by teaming up with Democrats on a procedural gambit, known as a discharge petition, that allows a simple majority to force legislation to the floor even over the objections of the Speaker — an idea that Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a co-chair of the moderate Problem Solvers Caucus, has promoted this week.
That scenario poses a dilemma for Democratic leaders, who would be forced to decide whether to bail out McCarthy to prevent episodes like government shutdowns or to allow them and benefit from the opportunity to highlight the dysfunction and divisions in the Republican ranks.
A similar question could accompany efforts to vacate the chair, which might provide Democrats the chance to topple McCarthy by teaming up with a small group of conservative firebrands. The fallout would again provide Democrats an occasion to focus attention on the discord within the GOP. But it would disrupt a functioning House, while lawmakers fought to fill the void, and raise the prospect that someone much more conservative — and more adverse to bipartisan compromise — could replace him.
This week’s Speakership battle may be instructive. While Republicans struggled, Democrats just steered clear.
“All we are asking is House Republicans to get along with each other,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), the Democratic leader, said amid the GOP fight.
Where does McCarthy take his relationship with Trump?
McCarthy’s relationship with Trump is both deep and delicate — a knotty political kinship that was only complicated by the attack on the Capitol two years ago.
In the immediate aftermath of that rampage, McCarthy went to the House floor and declared Trump responsible for the riot. Yet just weeks later — after it was clear that Trump remained enormously popular within both the Republican base and the House GOP conference — he made the trek to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida resort, to make amends.
Now, exactly two years after the Capitol riot and McCarthy’s initial denunciation of the president, he is once again entangled with Trump.
The former president endorsed McCarthy’s Speakership leading into the midterms, despite reservations from the far right. And when McCarthy struggled this week to win over his conservative detractors, Trump intervened once more, imploring the holdouts to drop their opposition. That lobbying reportedly extended right up to the 14th ballot Friday night, which finally got McCarthy over the finish line.
The relationship could get trickier still in the months to come.
Trump has already announced his 2024 presidential bid, and one member of McCarthy’s leadership team, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), has already endorsed him. But Trump’s popularity is also waning, even among Republicans, and a series of legal and financial entanglements could drop those numbers further still.
That complex network of political factors could put the newly seated Speaker in a difficult spot as he navigates through an election cycle when Trump, a figure famous for demanding loyalty, is on the ballot. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/speaker-mccarthy-has-arrived-now-what/ | 2023-01-07 06:31:07 | 1 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/speaker-mccarthy-has-arrived-now-what/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU), which offers the world's #1 e-signature product as part of its industry leading lineup, today announced results for its fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2023.
"DocuSign's first quarter results, coupled with traction on our strategic objectives reflect a solid start to the year," said Allan Thygesen, CEO of DocuSign. "While we have work ahead of us, I am encouraged by our progress to enable smarter, easier, trusted agreements. As we continue to execute on our strategy and leverage our competitive advantages, notably in AI, DocuSign is well positioned for the future."
First Quarter Financial Highlights
- Total revenue was $661.4 million, an increase of 12% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $639.3 million, an increase of 12% year-over-year. Professional services and other revenue was $22.1 million, an increase of 14% year-over-year.
- Billings were $674.8 million, an increase of 10% year-over-year.
- GAAP gross margin was 79% compared to 78% in the same period last year. Non-GAAP gross margin was 83% compared to 81% in the same period last year.
- GAAP net income per basic share was $0.00 on 203 million shares outstanding compared to a loss of $0.14 on 200 million shares outstanding in the same period last year.
- GAAP net income per diluted share was $0.00 on 208 million shares outstanding compared to a loss of $0.14 on 200 million shares outstanding in the same period last year.
- Non-GAAP net income per diluted share was $0.72 on 208 million shares outstanding compared to $0.38 on 206 million shares outstanding in the same period last year.
- Net cash provided by operating activities was $233.6 million compared to $196.3 million in the same period last year.
- Free cash flow was $214.6 million compared to $174.6 million in the same period last year.
- Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments were $1.4 billion at the end of the quarter.
A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures has been provided in the tables included in this press release. An explanation of these measures is also included below under the heading "Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Metrics."
Operational and Other Financial Highlights:
- Executive Appointments. DocuSign appointed the following key new leaders:
- DocuSign Release 1. DocuSign announced new product capabilities with highlights in the following areas:
Outlook
The company currently expects the following guidance:
- Quarter ending July 31, 2023 (in millions, except percentages):
- Year ending January 31, 2024 (in millions, except percentages):
The company has not reconciled its guidance of non-GAAP financial measures to the corresponding GAAP measures because stock-based compensation expense cannot be reasonably calculated or predicted at this time. Accordingly, a reconciliation has not been provided.
Webcast Conference Call Information
The company will host a conference call on June 8, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results. A live webcast of the event will be available on the DocuSign Investor Relations website at investor.docusign.com. A live dial-in will be available domestically at 877-407-0784 or internationally at 201-689-8560. A replay will be available domestically at 844-512-2921 or internationally at 412-317-6671 until midnight (ET) June 22, 2023 using the passcode 13738634.
About DocuSign
DocuSign redefines how the world comes together and agrees, making agreements smarter, easier and more trusted. As part of its industry leading product lineup, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over 1.4 million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use DocuSign products and solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. For more information visit http://www.docusign.com.
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3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: NASA is watching you! Especially if you are a carbon dioxide polluter!
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - “Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2″ - that’s the name NASA gave a program used to take stock of carbon dioxide polluters by countries.
Interestingly, the data shows that countries with little population and lots of forests contribute far less CO 2 into the atmosphere than others - one of the reasons for that is: Trees absorb a lot of the carbon dioxide. While the United States is the number two polluter globally behind number one China, Canada, our neighbor, is the cleanest country among the top 100 industrial nations. Why? Canada has much fewer people than the United States or China and huge forest areas.
What is it all good for? Well, the first Global Stocktake - a process to assess the world’s collective progress against Global Warming as specified in the 2015 Paris Agreement - takes place in 2023. New political outlines will be discussed then, and data will be necessary to determine which direction new measurements should take.
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MARYLAND — It's National Hurricane Preparedness week! It is wise to prepare each and every year. The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins on June 1st - November 30th. Now is the time to determine the threats of wind and water where you live. It is beneficial to identify if you are located in a flood-prone area or in an evacuation zone. Know if your home has any structural risks that could be vulnerable to flooding, strong winds, storm surge, etc. Consider installing storm shutters, trimming trees, etc. Understanding the difference between watches and warnings is helpful as different alerts require different responses.
Today's topic is "Stay Protected During Storms" & "Tornadoes". It is important to understand the threats you could face during a storm. No matter if it's a tropical depression or a major hurricane, life-threatening storm surge, flooding, and damaging winds are all possible. Sheltering in a place away from flooded/damaged areas is crucial. Set up a way to receive weather alerts/information to your phone. Have extra batteries and a backup charger ready to go in case you lose power. Inland flooding is possible hundreds of miles from the coastline. Avoid traveling unless ordered to evacuate. Local officials will provide you with up-to-date information as the storm progresses and conditions change in your area. Be on the look out for downed power lines and flooded roads.
Also- any tropical system is capable of producing spin ups. While these tornadoes are fairly short-lived, they can still produce great damage. Seek shelter immediately if a warning is issued for your area.
Even if skies are blue and the storm has passed, DO NOT let your guard down. About half of hurricane fatalities occur after the storm. Here is a list of things to keep in mind after a tropical system impacts your community:
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Updated November 10, 2022 at 2:23 PM ET
Control of the House and Senate is still not yet known. Either party needs to win two of three of the remaining competitive seats to win control of the Senate. And it could all come down to a Georgia runoff next month.
Republicans are still on a path to win control of the House, but by smaller margins than they were hoping. Democrats have a longshot chance of retaining control, but they would need some races where Republicans are leading to shift in their favor for that to happen.
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Follow live updates and results from the 2022 midterm election here.
Here's where things stand, by the numbers (as of Thursday, 1:30 p.m. ET)
The Senate: Republicans 48, Democrats 46, Independents 2, Uncalled 4
Democrats are +1 with their flip of the Pennsylvania Senate race. That means Republicans need to hold on in Nevada, where they are leading, and flip either Arizona, which has not yet been called, or Georgia next month.
To hold the Senate, Democrats would need to hold on in Arizona, where they are leading, and either make up ground in Nevada, which is possible, or win next month's Georgia runoff.
What's left
Georgia: Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker (R) are headed to a Dec. 6 runoff because neither surpassed 50% on the ballot. There is now 99% in in that race, and Warnock missed the threshold by just under 23,000 votes. There were more than 3.9 million total votes cast.
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Arizona: Incumbent Mark Kelly (D) leads Republican challenger Blake Masters (R) 51% to 46% with 70% of the vote in. Democrats feel optimistic that Kelly will hold on and that there isn't enough outstanding vote for Masters to close the entire 95,000-vote gap, though they believe it will tighten significantly. Arizona's largest county, Maricopa isn't expected to finish counting until Friday. An automatic recount would get triggered if the margin is within 0.5 percentage points.
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Nevada: Adam Laxalt (R) leads incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto (D) by now less than 2 percentage points, or less than 16,000 votes, with 83% of the voting in. That is tighter than last night, when Laxalt was ahead by 3 points. There could be even further tightening with a potential path to a lead for Cortez Masto, depending on how Democrats do in the unspecified number of drop box votes that are still uncounted. Pro-Democratic union organizers were encouraging their members to use drop boxes. But it's not clear how the remaining votes that are out will break. Nevada is also accepting mail-in votes postmarked by Election Day and received up to Saturday at 5 p.m. local time.
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Alaska: This is not a seat that would be a flip, because both candidates are Republicans. Incumbent Lisa Murkowski trails Kelly Tshibaka by less than 2 percentage points, or just over 3,000 votes, with 80% in. A lot will change. If neither candidate gets above 50%, this goes to a ranked-choice re-tabulation Nov. 23, and Murkowski would likely be favored to win that, as the Democrat in the race got 9.5% of the vote, or more than 20,000 votes. Another Republican got about 3%, or about 6,000 votes.
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The House: Republicans 209, Democrats 186, Uncalled 40
For control of the House, either party needs to reach 218 seats. Republicans need to win 9 more for control, or 23% of the remaining uncalled seats. Since last night, five races called and Democrats have won three of them. When all is said and done, Republicans will need a net gain of 5 seats to take control, but likely, at this point, are on track for an estimated range of 7 to 11 Republican pickups.
That would give Republicans just a 2- to 6-seat majority.
But there are still nine close races we are watching, where the party that holds the seat continues to lead. If that changes, the estimate would change as well. Democrats are defending seven of those.
The math
Republicans have officially flipped 13 competitive seats, according to the Associate Press, and are leading in four others for a total of 17.
Democrats have flipped six and are leading in four others for a total of 10.
NOTE: Please keep in mind that these numbers are fluid ad will change as votes continue to roll in. See the latest results here.
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LOUISVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) - The Wendy's Giant of the Week is Louisville Wildcat athlete Keyarrion Jackson.
When the season started, Jackson was a wide receiver, but the team needed him to step up and take snaps at quarterback.
All he's done is lead the Wildcats to a state championship appearance with both his legs and his arm.
The dual-threat quarterback didn't have the most gaudy stats on offense in the north-half championship game against a great defense in Houston; but he made the plays his team needed to win.
The Wildcats will play for an eleventh state championship game on Saturday against Mendenhall.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
15-26-28-34-36
(fifteen, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty-four, thirty-six)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
15-26-28-34-36
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A jury on Thursday found Susan A. Behny, 75, not guilty of murdering her husband.
It took the 12-person panel about six hours to reach the verdict. Behny broke down in tears when they delivered the decision. She held her hand over her mouth as her body convulsed with sobs.
Someone shot her 74-year-old husband, Kenneth Ralph Behny, in the back of the head with a shotgun in the early morning hours of Nov. 8. Susan Behny didn’t call police until about 1 p.m., however.
The prosecution’s case centered on the conflict between the evidence and the story Behny told police, as well as the difficult relationship between the husband and wife. The defense focused on the prosecution’s evidence being primarily circumstantial and raised doubts about whether someone with Behny’s health problems could have carried out a murder.
Tesa Helge, deputy prosecutor, said in her closing argument that there were flaws in the alternative theory that someone else entered the house and shot Kenneth Behny.
If there was an intruder, the person stole nothing, meaning it would’ve been a personal vendetta against the husband, Helge said.
She reminded jurors that police testified they believed Susan Behny wasn’t telling them the truth, that she contradicted herself when explaining things to them and that they felt her behavior didn’t match someone’s who discovered her husband had been shot.
Officers also found a bruise on Behny’s shoulder that witnesses testified is consistent with the recoil from someone using a shotgun incorrectly, Helge said. Behny had previously told police the bruise was caused by her son lifting her.
Although her husband usually woke up at 4:30 a.m., Behny didn’t call police until 1 p.m. when, she had told police, she went to wake him for an appointment, Helge reminded jurors in her closing.
Tom Chaille, deputy prosecutor, said although the house was small, Behny said she never heard the shotgun go off or smelled gunpowder. He also said no evidence – DNA or fingerprints – from anyone else was found in the house.
In the defense’s closing, attorney Tony Churchward questioned whether Behny had the physical strength to carry out the shooting, including lifting a 12-gauge shotgun. Police never found the shotgun, and witnesses said they never saw one in the house.
During the trial, Behny sat in a wheelchair and had tubing in her nose attached to a device to help her breathe.
Chaille in rebuttal reminded jurors that Behny was not in a wheelchair or attached to a tank when the shooting happened. Although she needed help walking, she had upper body strength and a few hours after the shooting to clean things up, Chaille said.
Churchward said it didn’t make sense for Behny to kill her husband because she couldn’t get around without at least a cane and was dependent on her husband to drive, shop and cook.
The defense attorney said there was no motive or DNA and fingerprint evidence showing Behny killed her husband. His $3,000 life insurance policy didn’t even cover funeral expenses.
“What you have is speculation,” Churchward said.
Behny’s family declined to comment on the verdict. Outside the courthouse, they hugged each other and said, “she’s coming home.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/woman-acquitted-in-husbands-shooting-death/article_b51f4506-0910-11ed-9e0e-a72b897a7e07.html | 2022-07-22 06:56:06 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/woman-acquitted-in-husbands-shooting-death/article_b51f4506-0910-11ed-9e0e-a72b897a7e07.html |
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins longest Daytona 500 in history
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Daytona 500 in double overtime and under caution Sunday night in the longest running of “The Great American Race.”
The two overtimes pushed the 65th running of the race to a record 212 laps — a dozen laps beyond the scheduled distance and a whopping 530 miles.
Stenhouse’s win in a Chevrolet for JTG Daugherty Racing — a single-car team partly owned by former NBA player Brad Daugherty — was the third of his career. JTG is the first single-car team to win the Daytona 500 since The Wood Brothers Racing did it with Trevor Bayne in 2011.
Stenhouse’s only other victories came in 2017, at Talladega and the summer race at Daytona.
Now the 35-year-old from Olive Branch, Mississippi, has a repeat win at Daytona in NASCAR’s biggest race of the season. And it came in his first race reunited with crew chief Mike Kelly, who guided Stenhouse to a pair of Xfinity Series championships earlier in his career.
“I think this whole offseason Mike just preached how much we all believed in each other. They left me a note in the car that said they believe in me and to go get the job done,” Stenhouse said. “Man, this is unbelievable. This was the site of my last win back in 2017. We’ve worked really hard. We had a couple shots last year to get a win and fell short.
“It was a tough season, but man, we got it done, Daytona 500.”
Kyle Larson was collected in the race-ending crash after he jumped out of line too early in an attempt to win the race. His disappointment was alleviated by Stenhouse’s victory.
“Happy that Ricky won. I’m super happy. That’s all I could think about after I crashed, waiting to hear that he won,” Larson said. “He’s one of my best friends, so I was like yelling into my helmet when I helped push him to the lead there. I was hoping it was going to stay green so it would have been me or him win.
“I can’t wait to go get changed and go give him a big hug because he is one of my great buddies.”
Reigning Cup champion Joey Logano finished second in a Ford for Team Penske, which won the race last year with Austin Cindric.
“Second is the worst, man,” Logano said. “Congratulations to Ricky. There’s nothing like winning the Daytona 500. That’s why it stings so much finishing second.”
Christopher Bell was third in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and followed by Chris Buescher in a Ford for RFK Racing and pole-sitter Alex Bowman of Hendrick Motorsports in a Chevrolet. It marked the first time the pole-sitter has finished in the top five since Bill Elliott in 2001.
AJ Allmendinger was sixth for Kaulig Racing, Daniel Suarez seventh for Trackhouse Racing, and Ryan Blaney eighth for Team Penske. Ross Chastain of Trackhouse and Riley Herbst of Rick Ware Racing rounded out the top 10.
Action sports star Travis Pastrana finished 11th in his Daytona 500 debut, and Kevin Harvick was 12th in his final Daytona 500. Harvick is retiring at the end of the year.
Kyle Busch dropped to 0 for 18 in the Daytona 500, but contended for his new Richard Childress Racing team. He was the leader ahead of teammate Austin Dillon with three laps remaining in regulation when a spin by Daniel Suarez brought out the caution and sent the race to overtime.
“Back in 1998, that would be the win, boys,” Busch radioed his team in deliberate reference to how the late Dale Earnhardt won his only Daytona 500. There was no overtime then and Earnhardt won under caution.
Busch wound up 19th after the race-ending crash in second overtime.
“I think this is the first time I led lap 200, so I wish it was 1998 rules. But, no, it’s just par for the course, just used to it and come down here every year to just find out when and where I’m going to crash and what lap I come out of the care center,” Busch said. “Who won? I don’t even know who lucked into it.”
Busch was told Stenhouse was the victor.
“There you have it,” he replied.
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson made his return to the series and ran inside the top 15 for most of the race. He was collected in one of the crashes in overtime and finished 31st. Johnson has returned from two years racing in the IndyCar Series as part owner of Legacy Motor Club and he plans to enter a handful of races.
Brad Keselowski led a race-high 42 laps, but finished 22nd. He declined to speak to reporters after dropping to 0 for 14 in a race he desperately wants to win.
RACE OF CHAMPIONS
The 65th running of the Daytona 500 marked the first time the reigning Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series champions were all part of the field.
Cup champion Logano finished second, while Xfinity Series champion Ty Gibbs was 25th and Truck Series champion Zane Smith 13th.
Smith had to race his way into the 40-driver field and won the Truck Series opener Friday night. It was the Daytona 500 debut for both Gibbs and Smith.
NEXT UP
The Cup Series races at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, next Sunday in the final race in the track’s current configuration. It will be renovated into a short track after the race — a project that will prevent the track from hosting any racing in 2024. Kyle Larson won last year’s race.
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There’s an old timey potato chip commercial that had a dare in it. It challenged the TV viewing audience with this taunt: betcha can’t eat just one. There was an open bag of potato chips in the frame. Celebrities would eat just one potato chip but then they couldn’t resist. And yeah, they couldn’t eat “just one.”
Well, I’ve found the potato chip of all potato chips, and I promise, I don’t just bet you can’t eat just one — I know you can’t. It’s a double-dog-dare.
Trader Joe’s Ode to the Classic Potato Chip is addicting. Too many times to count, I’ve opened a bag with a friend or two and well, we went way past the allotted “serving size” of about 24 chips (160 calories).
The bag’s blurb says they’re “those great chips you used to eat when you were growing up.” I don’t know about that — but I do know one thing. Just like those potato chips in that commercial: these tasty, greasy, golden fried orbs will not stand for a one-and-done treatment.
They’re the perfect take-along to the beach or swim party (that is, if the weather ever gives us one of those summer opportunities this year), or to your next party. Oops, didn’t make those cute appetizers and all out of time? No worry — trot on over to TJ’s and everyone will be glad you did.
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
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3:45 p.m.
Welcome back to American golf, Phil Mickelson.
The fans have been supportive to Mickelson at the U.S. Open. The golf course? Not so much. Mickelson missed the first green from the fairway and started his 31st U.S. Open with a bogey. It really got bad on the par-3 sixth hole when he four-putted from about 18 feet.
Mickelson was 5-over par through six holes at the U.S. Open, the only major keeping him from career Grand Slam. It probably wasn’t the birthday present he had in mind. Mickelson turned 52 on Thursday.
Mickelson is the chief leader of PGA Tour players taking Saudi riches to play in the LIV Golf series. He played last week for the first time in four months, and there appears to be plenty of rust still in his game.
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2:25 p.m.
Joel Dahmen has made it a foursome atop the U.S. Open leaderboard among the early starters at The Country Club. Dahmen joins Rory McIlroy, David Lingmerth and Callum Tarren at 67.
Conditions are about as gentle as can be expected. There was cloud cover in the morning that kept the greens protected from crisp and moderate wind.
And to think Dahmen wasn’t sure he would be at Brookline.
Ten days ago, he was looking at the forecast and debating whether he wanted to spend 36 holes in the rain during a Monday qualifier in Ohio. In the end, he decided to go. And there was rain late in the day. He made it with one shot to spare.
Phil Mickelson leads the wave in the afternoon. Mickelson had a bogey from the fairway on the first hole and is 1 over through two holes.
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1:15 p.m.
Rory McIlroy slammed his club twice in a bunker. Later, he chucked an iron across the fairway.
Imagine what he might’ve done had he been playing bad.
Despite his problems down the stretch, McIlroy finished his opening round at The Country Club on Thursday tied for the U.S. Open lead. He shot 3-under 67 to finish even with Callum Tarren and David Lingmerth with most of the morning rounds complete.
McIlroy closed with a bogey on No. 9 — his only bogey of the day — after flying his approach right of the flag, then flinging the club to the ground.
He was 2 under when he reached the drivable par-4 fifth, but he blocked his drive right and ended up with a terrible lie – the ball in deep grass just above a bunker. Perched atop mounds of sand in the bunker, McIlroy barely made contact and knocked it into the next trap, then slammed his club twice into the bunker in frustration.
But he got up and down from the sand, sinking a putt of 13 feet to save par.
McIlroy is going for his fifth major title but his first since the 2014 PGA Championship. He came to Brookline on the heels of a victory at the Canadian Open last week.
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12:45 p.m.
It’s usually a good thing when a player gets invited to the TV booth at the U.S. Open after his round. But during the round?
Defending champion Jon Rahm found himself encroaching on NBC after he pulled his tee shot on No. 18 hard left and just under the fence that surrounds the tower from which the American telecast originates.
He got a drop from the tower, hit the approach to 21 feet and made the putt for a birdie to close his day at 1-under 69. He had just saved par after an equally wild drive on No. 17.
A heck of a finish for Rahm, who struggled with his swing across the back nine. He pushed a handful of approaches to the right and missed three drives in the left rough. At one point after a miss on No. 15, he commented, “I don’t know what’s going on there.”
He saved his wildest swing for the last tee box, sailing the shot so far left that, after finding the ball near Mike Tirico and Co., he actually had a good look at the green from 130 yards.
“If that doesn’t scream to you it’s the Open,” then nothing will, he said. “Sometimes you play good golf and can’t get things going and sometimes you get a break.”
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11:55 a.m.
Callum Tarren is the first one in the clubhouse and in the lead after a spectacular finish in the first round of the U.S. Open at The Country Club.
The 31-year-old Englishman shot a 3-under-par 67 on Thursday, picking up four strokes in four holes to move to the top of the leaderboard. David Lingmerth was also at 3 under, with a few holes to play.
Tarren was nowhere to be found on the leaderboard, still 1 over through 13 holes when he birdied the fifth and seventh holes and then made eagle on the 557-yard, par-5 eighth hole.
Amateur Stewart Hagestad and majors winners Collin Morikawa and Rory McIlroy were among those a stroke back at 2 under.
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11:50 a.m.
Rory McIlroy took out his frustration on a sand trip on the approach to the fifth green in the first round of this year’s tournament at The Country Club.
The 2011 U.S. Open champion drove into the lip of a bunker on the right side of the 310-yard, par-4 hole. The ball was in deep grass, and McIlroy had to stand in the bunker below the ball to put a baseball swing on it.
After adjusting his feet several times — he kept slipping into the sand while he took aim — McIlroy knocked the ball straight into another bunker beside the green. That’s when he took two angry swings, sending sand flying.
McIlroy managed to hit his next shot onto the green and made a 12-footer to save par.
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10:45 a.m.
Amateur Stewart Hagestad had back-to-back birdies on the seventh and eighth holes at The Country Club to move into a tie for the lead early in Thursday’s first round.
The 31-year-old Californian is playing in the U.S. Open for the fourth time. He has never made the cut. He also played in the Masters twice and was the low amateur at Augusta in 2017.
Hagestad was tied with reigning British Open champion Collin Morikawa. Matthew NeSmith was also at 3-under par.
2011 U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy was among those a stroke back at 2 under. Defending champion John Rahm dropped to 1 under after a bogey on the ninth hole.
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9:45 a.m.
Jon Rahm’s defense of his U.S. Open title is off to a good start. The Spaniard is tied for the lead at 2-under par through his first eight holes at The Country Club.
Also at 2 under are 2020 PGA champ Collin Morikawa, South Carolina’s Matt NeSmith and Sebastian Munoz of Colombia.
All 78 players from the morning rounds are on the course. Earlier in the day, Abraham Ancer pulled out due to illness. He was replaced in the field by Patton Kizzire, who tees off in the afternoon.
Also playing late are Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed. They are among the most high-profile players who recently announced they would play in the new LIV Tour.
The new series and how it might impact professional golf has been a hot topic this week at The Country Club, which is hosting the U.S. Open for the first time since 1988.
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6:50 a.m.
Finally, golf is the focus again in the U.S. Open.
Michael Thorbjornsen opened the 122nd edition of the toughest test in golf with a tee shot just right of the first fairway at The Country Club. The amateur who plays at Stanford grew up about 10 minutes away from Brookline.
The U.S. Open dipped into the alternate list for the first time. Abraham Ancer of Mexico withdrew because of an illness. He was replaced by Patton Kizzire.
Next in line if anyone else withdraws is Rickie Fowler.
The days leading into the U.S. Open were filled mostly with chatter and consternation about the Saudi-funded rebel series called LIV Golf that is offering big riches to Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and a dozen others who are in the U.S. Open.
The PGA Tour has suspended them, although the U.S. Open is run separately and is honoring the open nature of its championship.
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Comparing insect repellents
Bugs are annoying, their bites can be painful and itchy, and the diseases they sometimes carry can be life-changing. To prevent all those issues, make sure to use an effective insect repellent. Several powerful chemicals are registered as effective bug repellents, and they’re all safe. In addition to topical repellents, there are also some effective products that can deter pests from invading your campsite or outdoor dinner party.
What to consider before choosing an insect repellent
Is DEET safe?
Despite its controversial reputation, no adverse health effects have ever been observed from topical application of DEET, according to the EPA and other research institutions. Poor reputation likely stems from a combination of the chemical’s greasy feel, intrusive smell and name, which is similar to DDT.
Either way, DEET remains the most effective, safe topical mosquito repellent. If you’re headed to a region with a malaria risk, don’t hesitate to pack 100% DEET bug spray. It could save your life and prevent permanent illness.
Natural mosquito repellents
Aside from the scientifically recognized options, there are quite a few “natural” sprays, ointments and other remedies that smell fantastic. Unfortunately, somewhere between few and none of the “natural” insect repellents are worth the plastic they’re packaged in.
Rest assured that there’s no conspiracy from “Big Chemical” to suppress natural mosquito repellents. In fact, essentially, no sprays that claim to be natural are actually natural. The reality is that researchers go to great lengths to test all sorts of novel compounds for bug-repelling properties. The ones that pass the test, such as DEET, picaridin and oil of lemon eucalyptus, are clinically proven effective.
Do bug repellent wristbands work?
Topical repellents such as DEET and PMD only work when they cover all exposed skin. Wristbands come nowhere close to that. The best a wristband could do is prevent bites on a small area of the body, and even then it would only work if there’s basically no air movement.
Topical insect repellents
Repellent creams and sprays are often considered the most powerful line of defense against biting insects. There are multiple active ingredients with significant scientific evidence backing their effectiveness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Environmental Protection Agency are in the business of registering and recommending the most effective ones.
The best bug repellents
Made up almost entirely of DEET, it’s the longest-lasting, the most effective and the best choice for preventing itchy bites and dangerous infections. It comes in a 3.4-ounce spray bottle perfect for carrying onto domestic and international flights.
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Nearly as well-respected as DEET, picaridin is highly effective against the most hazardous mosquito breeds and, notably, won’t damage plastic or some synthetic fibers the way DEET does. Sawyer Products offers several types of topicals, including creams and convenient, single-use lotion packs.
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Its active ingredient is called PMD and comes from an industrial extract of the lemon eucalyptus plant, which makes this the closest you’ll get to a truly natural mosquito repellent. It’s also one of the most pleasant-smelling choices and won’t damage leather or synthetic fabrics.
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This one’s formulated around IR3535 as an active ingredient, which is somewhat effective against mosquitos and highly effective against ticks. As such, it’s a good choice for North American backcountry trips where your biggest concern is avoiding Lyme and other diseases.
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Its 25% DEET formulation is bolstered by a sweat- and splash-resistant solution that helps it to adhere and work for as long as pure DEET, but with less of the offensive smell and greasiness.
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Sawyer Products Permethrin Spray
To be clear, this isn’t a repellent but actually an insecticide. Unlike other bug killers, though, it’s meant for treating clothing before you head out into any wilderness areas where there’s a risk of Zika virus, malaria or other insect-borne diseases.
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Insect repellents for large areas
Contrary to popular belief, citronella candles won’t do much to keep bugs away from your patio. Citronella smoke only makes a noticeable difference in closed quarters. There are, however, some modern and novel options for keeping decently sized outdoor areas mostly free from flying insects.
The top large area bug repellents
This novel battery-powered solution heats a small reservoir of potent mosquito repellent and creates a nearly mosquito-free zone about 20 feet in diameter. Each insert lasts about 40 hours, so pick up some refills.
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This area-of-effect repellent system uses a sealed butane canister (and no open flames) to disperse the powerful and nontoxic repellent in a circle about 15 feet wide. Again, you’ll need to stock up on refills to use it for more than one night.
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After setting up camp in the wilderness, the last thing you want is for bugs to eat you alive. This portable option uses the same isobutane canisters recommended for high-efficiency backpacking stoves to keep a small camp free from pests.
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Off! Clip-on Mosquito Repellent
This is one of the few wearable bug repellents that actually works. It uses a battery-powered fan to disperse a formula designed around metofluthrin, a nontoxic and effective deterrent to biting insects.
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Tips to avoid bug bites
Aside from using an effective bug repellent, there are some simple lifestyle tips that can keep you from falling victim to biting insects.
- Avoid the most active times for mosquitos: The most common breeds are more active during dusk and dawn than other times of the day. Limiting your time outside at those times can help minimize bites.
- Get rid of their mating grounds: Mosquito larvae flourish in standing water, so don’t let any sit out during the warm months.
- Wear loose-fitting clothing: Tight-fitting pants and shirts are relatively easy for bugs to bite through.
- Avoid wearing dark colors: They tend to attract more bugs than light colors.
- Minimize alcohol intake: Drinking increases your body’s heat and carbon dioxide footprints while and after you drink, which are the two most common ways that mosquitos and other bugs find their meals.
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ATLANTA — The special grand jury in Atlanta that has been investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies committed any crimes while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia has finished its work, bringing the case closer to possible criminal charges against Trump and others.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who was overseeing the panel, issued a two-page order Monday dissolving the special grand jury, saying it had completed its work and submitted a final report. The lengthy investigation has been one of several around the country that threaten legal peril for Trump as he mounts a third bid for the White House.
The decision whether to seek an indictment from a regular grand jury will be up to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis spokesperson Jeff DiSantis said the office had no comment on the completion of the panel's work.
McBurney wrote in his order that the special grand jury recommended that its report be made public. He scheduled a hearing for Jan. 24 to determine whether all or part of the report should be released and said the district attorney's office and news outlets would be given an opportunity to make arguments at that hearing.
Since June, the special grand jury has heard testimony from dozens of witnesses, including numerous close Trump associates such as the former New York mayor and Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Assorted high-ranking Georgia officials have also testified, among them Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Last month, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection asserted in its final report that Trump criminally engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. The report concluded an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent attack.
Special grand juries in Georgia cannot issue indictments but instead can issue a final report recommending actions to be taken.
Willis opened the investigation in early 2021, shortly after a recording surfaced of a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. During that call, the president suggested the state's top elections official could "find" the votes needed to overturn his loss in the state.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Trump had said. "Because we won the state."
Since then it has become clear that Willis has been focusing on several different areas: phone calls made to Georgia officials by Trump and his allies; false statements made by Trump associates before Georgia legislative committees; a panel of 16 Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and that they were the state's "duly elected and qualified" electors; the abrupt resignation of the U.S. attorney in Atlanta in January 2021; alleged attempts to pressure a Fulton County election worker; and a breach of election equipment in a rural south Georgia county.
Lawyers for Giuliani confirmed in August that prosecutors told them he could possibly face criminal charges in the case. The 16 Republican fake electors have also been told they are targets of the investigation, according to public court filings. It is possible that others have also been notified they are targets of the investigation.
Trump and his allies have consistently denied any wrongdoing, with the former president repeatedly describing his call with Raffensperger as "perfect" and dismissing Willis' investigation as a "strictly political Witch Hunt!"
Willis took the unusual step in January 2022 of requesting that a special grand jury be seated to aid the investigation. She noted that a special grand jury would have subpoena power which would help compel testimony from witnesses who were otherwise unwilling to participate in the investigation.
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Matthew Stafford downplayed the significance of his elbow injury after demonstrating just how little it’s holding him back in practice with the Los Angeles Rams.
Stafford participated extensively in the Rams’ latest workout at UC Irvine on Saturday, making deep throws and building chemistry with his teammates in what was likely his most extensive work of training camp.
Afterward, Stafford said his right elbow condition is merely “irritating,” and not a threat to his ability to lead the Super Bowl champions’ title defense.
“I just have a little soreness,” Stafford said. “We’re working through it. I felt pretty good today. I thought it looked pretty good. Just trying to be smart with it, and make me feel as good as I can feel going into Week 1 while still getting as many reps as I can, too.”
Stafford had elbow pain last season while leading the Rams to a championship in his first season with the team, and he had an unspecified injection in his elbow during the offseason. He didn’t throw to receivers in practice during the offseason program, but he has been participating regularly in drills during camp despite a limited overall schedule.
Still, coach Sean McVay raised eyebrows Thursday when he said Stafford’s injury was “abnormal” for a quarterback, likening it to injuries more often seen in baseball pitchers. Stafford again declined to go into specifics about his injury Saturday, but he says it’s nothing he can’t handle.
“I’m just going through something that is irritating at the moment, but I’m working through it,” Stafford said. “We’ve got a great plan. I’m feeling stronger every time I come out here and throw. I felt like I could make any throw I wanted to today. I’m just trying to be smart when I get those opportunities to make sure I can come out here, cut it loose, turn it loose like I did today and go from there.”
McVay pointed out that Stafford was making every throw during the Rams’ workout Saturday. The coach doesn’t use any of his key players in the preseason, so Stafford’s first chance to demonstrate his arm in a game won’t occur until Los Angeles’ season opener on Sept. 8 against Buffalo at SoFi Stadium.
“The way that he looked today, I don’t think you would know that anything was going on,” McVay said. “He felt good, so I know that I’m going to sleep better tonight.”
The 34-year-old Stafford has 49,995 yards passing as he heads into his 14th season this fall, ranking him 12th in NFL history and fourth among active quarterbacks. He agreed to a contract extension through 2026 during the offseason, and he has no public doubt he’ll be able to sling it for the duration of his commitment to the Rams and perhaps beyond.
“Anytime you put an arm through as much stress as I have over the years, it’s not going to look like (a regular person’s) elbow, I’m sure,” Stafford said. “It’s not one of those things that … the more I throw, the worse it’s going to get. It’s kind of just a balancing act at this point.”
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It seemed like pure Hollywood fantasy when Robert Redford’s character beat the favored Austrian to win Olympic gold in the classic Alpine skiing film “Downhill Racer,” a movie released more than half a century ago.
These days, the U.S. ski team doesn’t need any special effects. It has the talent to win in a sport traditionally dominated by a handful of European nations.
When Mikaela Shiffrin broke Lindsey Vonn’s record for most women’s World Cup wins with her 83rd victory on Tuesday in a giant slalom, it was only the latest exploit by an American team that has been producing success after success on the circuit since Daron Rahlves and Bode Miller started it all off more than 20 years ago.
Then Vonn and Julia Mancuso burst onto the scene on the women’s circuit, Ted Ligety won a surprise Olympic gold medal long before he became the World Cup’s leading giant slalom skier, and Miller, Ligety, Vonn and Mancuso were all still racing when Shiffrin emerged as the team’s next — and eventually the world’s — top skier.
AMERICAN PIONEERS
Gretchen Fraser and Andrea Mead Lawrence won the first two Olympic slaloms for women in 1948 and 1952, respectively. Mead Lawrence also won giant slalom in 1952.
The first American man to win Olympic gold in Alpine skiing was Bill Johnson in downhill at the 1984 Sarajevo Games. Three days later, brothers Phil and Steve Mahre took gold and silver, respectively, in the slalom.
Phil Mahre also became the first American to win the overall World Cup title — considered by many within ski racing as the sport’s greatest prize — in 1981, ’82 and ’83.
Tamara McKinney was the first American woman to win the overall title in 1983.
It took more than two decades before another American won the overall, with Miller securing the first of his two titles in 2005.
DARON AND BODE
Before Miller started winning, it was Rahlves who emerged as a contender in downhill. The pair pushed each other to new heights, as Miller and Rahlves finished 1-2 in the downhill at the 2005 world championships in Bormio, Italy, where Miller also won the super-G.
A year later, a 21-year-old Ligety was the surprise winner of the combined — an event that adds the times from downhill and slalom runs — to become the first American man to win an Olympic Alpine skiing medal in a dozen years, since Tommy Moe won the downhill in 1994.
BODE THE REBEL
When Miller rebelled over the U.S. team’s refusal to let him sleep in his personal motor home rather than the team hotel, he left the team and formed his own personal squad, paying coaches out of his own pocket.
The move paid off as Miller won his second overall title with his personal team in 2008, the year that Vonn won the first of her four titles, and he crowned his career with gold in the 2010 Olympic combined.
In a sign of how Miller’s moves paved the way for future success, Shiffrin now has her own personal team and coaches, but her squad functions under the umbrella of the U.S. team and is funded by the American federation.
VONN-MANCUSO RIVALRY
Both born in 1984, Vonn and Mancuso started racing against each other as kids and kept their rivalry going until they both emerged on the World Cup circuit at about the same time.
It was Mancuso who won the bigger titles, first, though.
When Mancuso took two bronze medals at the 2005 worlds and Vonn finished fourth twice, Vonn — then known by her maiden name, Lindsey Kildow — was reduced to tears.
Mancuso also won the giant slalom at the 2006 Turin Olympics and then nearly won the overall title in 2007, before Vonn became the much more successful racer the next season and won three straight overall trophies.
Still, Vonn had to wait until 2010 for her first, and only, Olympic gold, when she won the downhill at the Vancouver Games.
Mancuso struggled with hip and back issues for the rest of her career but still ended with four Olympic medals, the most by an American woman.
LIGETY’S STYLE
While it was mainly his slalom skills that helped him to combined gold in 2006, it was giant slalom that became Ligety’s specialty.
Ligety won the season-long World Cup giant slalom title five times, took three straight golds at worlds in the discipline between 2011 and 2015 and claimed Olympic gold in GS in 2014. At one point during that stretch he was winning races by such huge margins that he became known as “Mr. GS.”
It was during that period that Ligety responded to new equipment rules by developing an eye-catching style whereby he arched rounder but smoother turns, inclining and leaning down so low that he swept the snow with his gloves.
KNOCK-ON EFFECT
With so many stars on the team, success trickled down to other racers like Andrew Weibrecht, Breezy Johnson and Ryan Cochran-Siegle.
Weibrecht won two Olympic medals in super G — bronze in 2010 and silver in 2014 — and Cochran-Siegle took silver in the same event at last year’s Beijing Games to match his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, as an Olympic medalist.
Johnson, meanwhile, has followed Vonn as the team’s top downhiller with seven World Cup podium results.
Nina O’Brien was poised to break through before an ugly injury at last year’s Beijing Olympics and is now regaining her form, and Paula Moltzan finished second behind Shiffrin for her first slalom podium last month.
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Elon Musk backtracks on Tesla layoffs
(CNN) - Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backtracking on comments he made last week about possible staffing reductions.
The Musk-centered site Tesmanian reported details from an email to staff regarding employee head count.
According to the site, Musk said the company would increase the hourly head count but reduce the salaried head-count by 10%.
After Tesla shares dropped 9% on Friday, Musk changed his tone a bit.
On Saturday, Musk tweeted the company’s “total head count will increase, but salaried should be fairly flat.”
That appeared somewhat at odds with a tweet just hours later where Musk said that the Tesmanian story was “accurate.”
Musk also threatened Monday to walk away from his proposed purchase of Twitter.
Tesla shares have been hurt by Musk’s interest in Twitter. Some investors worry it would distract him from running the company or force him to sell more Tesla shares to raise cash.
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DETROIT , Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Little Caesars Love Kitchen, a big rig pizza kitchen on wheels, is partnering with the Special Olympics Unified Cup Detroit 2022 to provide fresh pizza meals to approximately 800 of its athletes, volunteers, and staff. The serving will take place during the Men's & Women's Division One Championship Match at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, Michigan.
"Little Caesars is proud to help support the Special Olympics," said Greg Hamilton, senior vice president of marketing at Little Caesars. "The Unified Cup is such an exciting event, and we're excited to serve Little Caesars pizza to athletes from all over the world competing in the championship finals."
The Little Caesars Love Kitchen has served nearly 4 million people in the 48 contiguous states and four Canadian provinces. It has responded to natural disasters including the northern Michigan tornado in May 2022, as well as during national times of need, such as providing meals to first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Established by Little Caesars in 1985, the Love Kitchen exemplifies Little Caesars strong tradition of giving back to the community.
"Little Caesars is always looking for a way to make a difference," said David Scrivano, president and CEO of Little Caesars. "Whether the Love Kitchen is serving the less fortunate, responding to a disaster, or celebrating the global community of athletes competing in the Unified Cup, we are committed to continuously building on our legacy of serving others and supporting our communities.
Local Little Caesars franchise owners and company regional offices donate all food and labor costs for the Love Kitchen servings. An estimated 50,000 Little Caesars franchise owners and employees have volunteered their time over the years to support the program in their local communities.
Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 as a single, family-owned restaurant. Today, Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the world, with stores in each of the 50 U.S. states and 27 countries and territories.
Known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza and famed Crazy Bread®, Little Caesars products are made with quality ingredients, like fresh, never frozen, mozzarella and Muenster cheese and sauce made from fresh-packed, vine-ripened California crushed tomatoes. Little Caesars is known for unique product offerings and promotions such as the Pretzel Crust pizza, Detroit-Style Deep Dish pizza, and the Crazy Calzony®. Additionally, the chain now offers 33 percent more pepperoni on its Classic pizza.
An exceptionally high growth company with more than 60 years of experience in the $145 billion worldwide pizza industry, Little Caesars is continually looking for franchisee candidates to join our team in markets around the world. In addition to providing the opportunity for entrepreneurial independence in a franchise system, Little Caesars offers strong brand awareness with one of the most recognized and appealing characters in the country, Little Caesar.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A man who was a first responder in New York City on 9/11 is now fighting for his life after a hit and run accident in Nevada on the anniversary of the attacks.
Mark Vobis, 53, was hit by a car and left on the side of the road fighting for his life. It happened just before 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11.
Jennifer Vobis says her husband left for a bike ride just a half hour earlier after recently picking up a cycling hobby.
Around 8:30 p.m., she received a call from the University Medical Center that her husband was found unresponsive on the side of the road and was in their trauma unit.
“I didn’t know what to do,” said Jennifer through tears, standing near the scene of the crash Wednesday morning. “I just wanted to go to UMC. I couldn’t think straight.”
Henderson police said a driver hit Mark from behind, which knocked him off his bike, threw him to the ground, and destroyed the bicycle.
They confirm he was within the bike lane on the proper side of the road with a bike outfitted with a double flashing tail and headlights.
The date of the crime hits too close to home for the Vobis family. Mark was a first responder in New York City decades ago.
“Mark was a New York State court officer,” says Jennifer. “He was on the streets of Manhattan and also because he was around the courthouse, the criminal court, he was protecting the streets and helping people, providing first aid.”
On Wednesday, he remained “minimally conscious,” according to his wife, in a hospital bed with life-threatening injuries. Jennifer Vobis declined to comment on the specifics of his injuries but shares the family-wide concern that he may not recover from them.
“I see a perfectly healthy, functioning man who is laying there incapacitated, unable to communicate, unable to move,” Jennifer said through tears, recounting how her husband looks in the hospital. “It feels unjust. It feels hopeless. It feels really unfair.”
What would bring the Vobis family some closure, she says, is the arrest of the driver who hit the husband and father.
Henderson Police Officer and Traffic Investigator Marc Rasmussen said that’s easier said than done.
While he says people have come forward who responded to the crash after the fact, no one who saw it happen has come forward.
As of Wednesday, there are no leads, witnesses, video evidence, or vehicle descriptions of the suspect and the vehicle they were driving.
A video that has been collected from around the area is too dark or not quality enough to identify a suspect, says Rasmussen.
“(This case) is much more difficult,” said Rasmussen. “This is one of the few that we haven’t had any solid leads on, just solely based on the location. There’s no evidence on the road that would give us any indication of a suspect vehicle either. Those combinations make it a very difficult case to solve.”
Because of these missing pieces, the department is asking the public to help fill these gaps.
They urge anybody with relevant information, such as eyewitness accounts or dashcam footage of the crash, to contact them, anonymously or not, by calling the Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555, police dispatchers at 311, or the Henderson Police Department itself at (702) 267-5058. | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/9-11-first-responder-fights-for-life-after-hit-and-run-on-same-day-decades-later/ | 2022-09-23 01:45:10 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/9-11-first-responder-fights-for-life-after-hit-and-run-on-same-day-decades-later/ |
WASHINGTON — A festival celebrating and showcasing the beauty of Thai arts and culture is coming to D.C. for the first time.
On Sunday, July 2, the royal Thai Embassy in D.C. is hosting the Sawasdee Thai Festival on the National Mall. Sawasdee means "Hello" in Thai. The festival will celebrate 190 years of Thailand-U.S. diplomatic relations with the royal Thai Embassy. The Embassy has announced that the mix of Thai American cultural performances held at the event will celebrate the special trust and collaboration created by the 1833 Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
The festival will include a fusion of Thai American cultural performances. The Embassy will host professional and world-renowned Muay Thai boxer Buakaw. Who will perform and demonstrate his skill in the art of Muay Thai. The Embassy also invites martial arts performances — Muay Boran and sword play — from The Little Giant Muay Thai.
In addition, the festival will host an assortment of musical acts. 4MIX, a Thai LGBTQ+ boy group is scheduled to perform, along with rising popstar Ally Nitibhon, Wendell Brunious, and the New Orleans Quintet. The New Orleans Quintet has played with former King Bhumibol Adulyadej and will perform jazz compositions at the festival created by the late monarch.
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Mall will be full of Thai cuisine, theater groups, and activities. Chef Tong, the Thai Ambassador’s head chef, will demonstrate tips and tricks to cooking traditional Thai cuisine. There will also be a lighthearted cooking competition held on stage. The Mall will also organize activities and events with Tongdee, Kai Whitcomb and the Thai American Association of South Florida.
The festival will include performances by the Thai Cultural Council of Minnesota, Somapa Thai Dance and Wat Nawamintararachutis Buddhist Thai Sunday School from Boston. Finally, the Nuad Thai and Spa Association of America will be giving authentic Thai massages.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
04-05-18-20-22-28, Doubler: N
(four, five, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-eight; Doubler: N)
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
04-05-18-20-22-28, Doubler: N
(four, five, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-eight; Doubler: N)
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Expanded Role for Proven Darigold Leader Underscores Co-op's Commitment to Modernization, Expansion Plans
SEATTLE, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darigold, Inc. the Seattle-based farmer-owned co-op and one of the nation's largest dairy producers, announced that it has named Richard Scheitler to the newly created position of chief transformation officer. The promotion comes at the midway point of a major transformation strategy that has the 104-year-old co-op pursuing a number of initiatives aimed at global expansion and modernization.
"No business survives for more than 100 years without demonstrating the ability to adapt to changing environments and dynamics," said Joe Coote, chief executive officer at Darigold. "We are fortunate to be in a growth industry, to have a beloved heritage brand, and supportive farmer-owners who are willing to make the necessary investments to ensure our success well into the future. But realizing that success also means doing the work that's necessary for our own evolution as a business. Richard is the right person to lead those efforts at Darigold."
Darigold is well into a transformation journey that has the co-op pursuing initiatives to expand production capacity, modernize its technology infrastructure, and enhance logistics, among other strategic improvements. Most notably, Darigold is building a new production facility in Eastern Washington to expand its capacity in a location that is proximate to a significant number of its affiliated farms as well as rail and maritime shipping infrastructure, and rebuilding a fire-damaged facility in Idaho.
Scheitler originally joined Darigold in 2019 as chief information officer. Prior to Darigold, he held the CIO role at The Wonderful Company, a $4 billion business that owns and operates such well-known consumer brands as FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Teleflora, Wonderful Pistachios and Almonds, and other businesses in the wine, shipping, and consumer-packaged goods industries, and at POM Wonderful. His background is long on information technology and systems design, and also includes a decade at KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint, where he helped a variety of businesses across categories to make significant strategic improvements and transformations.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master's degree in Information Systems Technology, both from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.
"Richard is a proven leader with a track record of driving successful business transformation efforts," said Coote. "Since joining our co-op three years ago, he has made considerable progress transforming our technology infrastructure and earned the respect of our board of directors, our senior leadership team, and employees across the organization. I'm confident that he is the right person to lead these key aspects of our transformation."
Headquartered in Seattle, Darigold, Inc. is the marketing and processing subsidiary of Northwest Dairy Association (NDA), which is owned by more than 300 family-owned dairy farms in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Darigold handles approximately 10 billion pounds of milk annually. Darigold produces a full line of dairy-based products for retail, foodservice, commodity, and specialty markets, and is one of the largest U.S. dairy processors. Darigold, Inc. operates 11 plants throughout the Northwest, processing high-quality milk produced by NDA farm families, and satellite offices in Mexico City, Mexico and Shanghai, China. For more information, visit darigold.com.
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Updated April 5, 2023 at 7:49 AM ET
Those who've wondered what lurks in the dark depths of the ocean have a new answer.
Scientists working off the coast of Japan say they've managed to capture images of the deepest-swimming fish ever caught on camera.
The unknown snailfish species, of the genus Pseudoliparis, was recorded swimming in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at a depth of 8,336 meters — or more than 27,000 feet down.
"We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish; there is so much more to them than simply the depth, but the maximum depth they can survive is truly astonishing," University of Western Australia professor Alan Jamieson said in a press release.
The fish was recorded during an August 2022 mission to several trenches around Japan, which included teams from the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. The trip was part of a decade-long study of the world's deepest fish populations.
🌊 Scientists from #UWA and Japan have set a new record for the deepest fish ever filmed and caught! 🐟 They discovered a snailfish at a depth of 8,336m in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench and caught two more from 8,022m during a two-month expedition. @minderoo https://t.co/RjJ7CxD97d pic.twitter.com/kRdYJsI3yU
— UWA (@uwanews) April 3, 2023
Researchers released video footage from baited cameras that show several of the whitish-blue deep-sea fish swimming by. The particular fish that holds the record for the deepest ever found was a small juvenile.
On the same trip, researchers collected two snailfish from traps in the Japan Trench at a depth of 8,022 meters, which they believe to be the only fish caught deeper than eight kilometers.
"The Japanese trenches were incredible places to explore; they are so rich in life, even all the way at the bottom," Jamieson added.
According to Guinness World Records, the previous record for the deepest fish was a Mariana snailfish (P. swirei) observed at 26,831 feet in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific on May 18, 2017.
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At its heart, fishing is a simple activity. You bait a hook, toss it into a fish-loaded body of water and wait. That doesn’t mean there aren’t countless ways to make fishing a more complicated and, hopefully, more successful endeavor. From fish-specific baits and lures to technologically advanced rods and reels to even special watercraft designed to get you to where the fish swim with minimal disturbance. Among the options in the latter category are fishing float tubes. These inflatable devices let you drift in the water with all your gear at hand.
In this article: Classic Accessories Bighorn Fishing Float Tube, Classic Accessories Cumberland Fishing Float Tube and Classic Accessories Togiak Fishing Float Tube.
Portability
Among the main benefits of using a fishing float tube is high portability. When deflated, you can store one inside a large backpack or duffle bag, making it a breeze to get to even the most secluded fishing spots. Or, if your fishing spot is easily accessible by car, you can inflate it before you leave home and it’s still small enough to fit inside a truck bed or the trunk of a roomy car. The weight of a fishing float tube also lends itself to easy portability as most weigh somewhere between 20 to 30 pounds, though some can be as light as 10 pounds.
Storage
Most fishing float tubes are packed with storage options so you can keep anything you might need on the water close to you without needing extra packing gear. This typically means six-plus zippered pockets and the occasional fishing rod or drink holder. However, you can’t usually haul your fishing gear inside those pockets. You need to fill them once you get there and inflate the tube. The best way to tackle that problem is to fill up a fishing tackle bag.
Where to use them
Fishing float tubes aren’t as easy to control or as stable as other small watercraft used for fishing such as canoes or kayaks. Because of this, you should only use them in calm waters. This usually means lakes and ponds, but streams shallow enough to firmly stand in with limited currents are also a possibility.
You should never use a fishing float tube in rivers, even shallow ones, as the currents can all too easily and suddenly become too much for you to handle. At that point, you surrender to the mercy of the river, and that can lead to severe injury or even death.
Appearance and safety
A fishing float tube’s appearance may seem a trifling concern, but it’s actually a safety issue. The best fishing often occurs during the two hours following sunrise and preceding sunset because that’s when many types of fish are at their most active and their hungriest. These times are also popular with people who own recreational watercraft because of the beautiful sights and cooler temperatures.
If you’re fishing during these times and you’re not wearing easily seen clothing or using an easily seen fishing float tube then you’re at high risk for someone to come tearing through you accidentally. You can somewhat mitigate this possibility by using a reflective or brightly colored flag attached to the tube, but it’s far safer for the tube and your clothing to both be bright and easy to spot.
Cost
Small, basic fishing float tubes typically cost $100 at most with some costing as little as $70. More advanced tubes can cost up to $150, while the best and biggest can cost $250 or more.
Best fishing float tubes
Classic Accessories Bighorn Fishing Float Tube
This tube weighs just 11 pounds but can hold up to 300 pounds when inflated. It has an extra-large backrest and plenty of pockets. It measures 54 by 50 by 27 inches when inflated.
Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot
Classic Accessories Cumberland Fishing Float Tube
This tube has an extra-high and adjustable seat back for better support and a thickly padded seat for more comfort. It measures 56 by 44 by 19 inches when inflated.
Sold by Amazon
Classic Accessories Teton Fishing Float Tube
This small and simple tube is a perfect budget purchase for those looking to try one out before committing to a better, more expensive tube. It measures 42.5 by 40 by 18.5 inches when inflated.
Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot
Classic Accessories Togiak Fishing Float Tube
The shape of this tube is more hydrodynamic, improving its stability, buoyancy and tracking. The seat back is stadium-style and adjustable. It measures 54.25 by 47 by 19 inches when inflated.
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Best fishing kayaks
Intex Excursion Pro Fishing Kayak
This kayak comes in one- or two-person sizes and you can buy it with or without a range of accessories such as life vests, paddles or even extra kayaks.
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Sevylor Coleman Colorado Fishing Kayak
This kayak uses multiple air chambers so it can continue to float if one or two get punctured by an errant hook. It has little knobs on the sides you can attach your paddle to keep it out of the way.
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Best fishing tackle bags
Custom Leathercraft Wild River Fishing Tackle Bag
This bag is perfect for getting to fishing spots that require an extensive hike to reach thanks to its comfortable and highly adjustable straps. It doesn’t hurt that it has seven compartments either.
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This roomy bag is large enough to carry most of what you need outside of your pole or poles. It has a shoulder strap or a convenient handle. It comes in seven designs.
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Unlike other tackle bags, this one has two loops for holding the handle and the upper end of a fishing pole. It can be worn across the shoulder or as a fanny pack.
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Spiderwire Wolf Fishing Tackle Bag
This bag can hold up to four large tackle boxes and has several auxiliary pockets to hold items such as extra fishing lines and pliers. It has a waterproof base that’s perfect for use in a fishing float tube.
Sold by Amazon
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MONTVERDE, Fla., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 38th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Issam Asinga of Montverde Academy in Montverde, Fla. is the 2022-23 Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Player of the Year. Asinga won the prestigious award for his accomplishments on and off the field, joining an impressive group of former Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Players of the Year who have combined for more than 19 gold medals and 14 National Championships.
Asinga was surprised with the trophy by his family, coaches and teammates at school. Check out a video of the announcement here.
The Gatorade Player of the Year award recognizes athletes not just for their excellence on the playing surface, but for their commitment in the classroom and impact in their community. Asinga was selected from more than half a million other student-athletes who compete in boys track and field nationwide, topping the list of state winners in track and field who collectively boast an incredible list of accomplishments, including 36 with signed National Letters of Intent to compete in boys track and field at Division I colleges/universities and 19 with a GPA of 4.0 and above.
"No prep track athlete across America grabbed more attention this spring than Issam Asinga," said Rich Gonzalez, editor of PrepCalTrack.com. "As if eclipsing the national 200-meter record wasn't enough, he dropped four, sub-10-second performances in the 100, which were wind-aided. Among his season highlights was defeating reigning 200-meter world champion and pro Noah Lyles head-on at 100 meters."
The 6-foot, 178-pound senior broke one national record and set an all-conditions national record in a second event this past season. Asinga crossed the finish line third in the 200-meter dash at the Corky/Crofoot Shootout with a time of 19.87 seconds to break the national record. He also clocked a 9.83 in the 100 dash in two separate wind-aided races, the fastest prep clockings under all conditions. Asinga also won the national title in the 100 at New Balance Nationals Outdoor, while his top wind-legal 100 time of 10.02 seconds at the Star Athletic Sprint Series ranked No. 3 in U.S. prep history. He also took second in the 200, clocking a 20.25, against a field of pros at the NYC Grand Prix.
Asinga has volunteered locally on behalf of Habitat For Humanity and the Youth Impact Project. A member of the DiscoveryBound National Leadership Council, he has also donated his time with DreamPlex as a youth coach for children with intellectual and physical challenges. A photographer and videographer for his school as well, he has spent many hours performing cleanup and clearing duties at an equine center.
Asinga has maintained a 3.15 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on scholarship at Texas A&M University this fall.
In addition to excellence on and off the field of play, Gatorade Players of the Year also pay it forward for the next generation. As part of Gatorade's Play it Forward initiative, Asinga will receive a grant to give to one of Gatorade's social impact partners – Athlete Ally, Laureus USA, Move United, Women's Sports Foundation and Up2Us Sports – supporting Gatorade's ambition to fuel the future of sport.
"Issam is a leader not only on the field, but also a driving force in his community," said Gatorade Portfolio president and general manager Michael Del Pozzo. "As an incredible leader whose impact spans beyond the stat sheet, Asinga embodies all the qualities rooted in Gatorade Player of the Year."
Each year, a selection committee evaluates the nation's top talent to choose one state winner from each of the 50 states as well as Washington D.C., in 12 different sports: football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls track & field. In all, 608 athletes are honored each year. From the pool of state winners, one national winner is selected in each of the 12 sports.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media on Facebook at facebook.com/GatoradePOY, Instagram at instagram.com/Gatorade and Twitter at twitter.com/Gatorade.
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The Gatorade Portfolio, a division of PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP), is a connected performance and wellness ecosystem built to fuel all athletes and exercisers. Bringing together Gatorade, Fast Twitch, Propel, Evolve and Muscle Milk, the Gatorade Portfolio is the most complete offering in the category today, with a broad range of personalized solutions at every stage of the athlete journey. This integrated system of brands is built on Gatorade's 57-year history of studying athletes and is fueling the future of athletic performance and wellness by delivering solutions across hydration, protein, energy and all-day nutrition to fuel consumers, no matter how or why they sweat. For more information and a full list of product offerings, please visit www.gatorade.com.
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PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.
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Showcasing France at the heart of NYC's biggest culinary festival.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From October 13-16, 2022, France will be showcased at the heart of NYC's largest culinary festival: The New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF).
Taking place at the newly renovated Pier 76, along the Hudson River, NYCWFF is the city's premier event celebrating food - with more than 45,000 visitors and 80 events over the course of four days.
This star-studded festival will gather top culinary players, including some of the world's most renowned chefs, wine and spirit producers, culinary personalities, lifestyle experts and, of course, many of Food Network's beloved television hosts. Together with this robust and exclusive food community, Taste France will bring a delicious touch through French products and savoir-faire in a truly French environment!
At the heart of the 15th edition of the New York Food and Wine Festival, you will find the French Market, an inevitable hotspot for foodies and lovers of the French art-de-vivre. The space will foster a convergence of all things delicieux and is designed to be reminiscent of the traditional French market, complete with large wooden stalls, deck chairs to enjoy the French spirits, beautiful lavenders, and of course delectable sweets, food, and wines.
Throughout the days of the event, several demonstrations and tastings will take place. Consumers will be invited to sit down and samples wines, spirits, nonalcoholic beverages, cheeses, specialty foods, and enjoy collaborations with chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists who will be putting forward French specialty products and ingredients.
Stop by for a glass of wine, or to hear from a Baker locally based in New York! Our co-sponsors include Gerard Bertrand, Cuisinery Food, OCabanon, Michel & Augustin and L'Appartment 4F.
À bientôt at the French Market!
The French Ministry of Agriculture/Taste France's campaign goal is to promote French Food and Beverages. Through engaging content, Taste France Magazine aims to make French gastronomy more accessible to US consumers. Both experienced and casual food lovers will find helpful information on the products they love developed by food professionals, including specialized journalists, chefs, influencers, and sommeliers.
Visit Taste France Magazine at TasteFrance.com and on Facebook.
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The new version of the web services API debuts a new mapping guide, Guide 20, featuring enhanced routing capabilities, while also supporting the widely used Guide 19.
CHICAGO, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MileMaker, a leading provider of commercial transportation routing and mileage software, today announced an addition to their Web Services product line—API Version 2, a new, improved web services API, available for integration with any third-party application.
The new MileMaker API features the addition of Guide 20, a new mapping guide that seamlessly combines MileMaker's industry-leading mileage and rating services with enhanced commercial truck routing and search capabilities. Providing users with versatility and efficiency, the updated software allows customers to drive transformative outcomes.
MileMaker API Version 2 users can access a multitude of features for planning efficient and precise shipping routes, including traffic-influenced routing to provide more accurate pick-up and delivery times. In addition, users can access truck-specific mileage calculations to negotiate and streamline freight rates, payments, and audits, as well as better forecast freight costs and fuel surcharges.
This update follows the launch of the company's new Web App, a cloud-based application featuring an intuitive user interface and enhanced routing capabilities. The Web App supports the same Guide 20 that exists in the updated Web Services product.
"This exciting development marks a significant milestone in our commitment to delivering state-of-the-art technology to our valued customers," said John Barrett, Director of Product at MileMaker. "The inclusion of Guide 20 in MileMaker Web Services opens up routing possibilities for freight shippers and carriers. With its advanced set of features, the new version includes enhanced route optimization, traffic-influenced routing, hazmat routing, accurate address geocoding and search, and comprehensive mapping functionalities. This integration empowers organizations to streamline their logistics operations, improve fleet efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure timely and reliable deliveries."
MileMaker API Version 2 is available for integration with any third-party application, including Transportation Management Systems (TMS). The software is scalable and future-proof, ready to support new features and updates, as well as any additional map versions the company may produce.
The new version adheres to Open API specification, the industry standard for describing RESTful APIs, thus improving developer experience across all programming languages and tools.
Also compliant with OAuth 2.0 authentical and authorization protocol – the industry standard for securing access to APIs – the new web services version ensures consistent and secure access, regardless of third-party application type, including mobile application, single-age web application, or server-side application. MileMaker API Version 2 also features improved scalability and throughput by utilizing the latest cloud technology.
MileMaker's routing and search algorithms are powered by map data curated by in-house GIS experts, ensuring routes adhere to transportation industry requirements of legal and safe transit for a variety of truck and load configurations. Covering all road networks within the United States, Mexico, and Canada, MileMaker software is capable of reporting accurate tolls in all currencies within the covered region.
The product update is part of a series of updates made by the company after officially separating from Rand McNally, becoming its own entity. The move allows MileMaker to focus its investments and resources on enhancing their product portfolio and improving customer satisfaction.
To learn more about MileMaker's routing, rating, and mileage solutions, visit milemaker.com.
About MileMaker – Chicago-based MileMaker optimizes shipping routes and mileage through innovative solutions that drive efficiency and reduce costs. With a dedicated team of GIS experts, MileMaker's software provides over 30% more truck-specific attributes than any other routing software.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were wed Saturday in a late-night Las Vegas drive-through chapel, culminating a relationship that stretched over two decades in two separate romances and headlined countless tabloid covers.
Lopez announced their marriage Sunday in her newsletter for fans with the heading “We did it.” Lopez initially made their engagement public in April on the same newsletter, “On the J Lo.”
“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” wrote Lopez in a message signed Jennifer Lynn Affleck.
Lopez wrote that the couple flew to Las Vegas on Saturday, stood in line for their license with four other couples and were wed just after midnight at A Little White Wedding Chapel, a chapel boasting a drive-through “tunnel of love.” Lopez said a Bluetooth speaker played their brief march down the aisle. She called it the best night of their lives.
“Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive-through in Las Vegas at 12:30 in the morning in the tunnel of love drive-through with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with,” said Lopez.
News of their nuptials first spread Sunday after the Clark County clerk’s office in Nevada showed that the pair obtained a marriage license that was processed Saturday. The marriage license filing showed that Lopez plans to take the name Jennifer Affleck.
Representatives for Lopez and Affleck declined to comment.
Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, famously dated in the early 2000s, spawning the nickname “Bennifer,” before rekindling their romance last year. They earlier starred together in 2003’s “Gigli” and 2004’s “Jersey Girl.” Around that time, they became engaged but never wed.
Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, with whom he shares three children. They divorced in 2018.
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2 more die in San Antonio migrant trailer tragedy, raising toll to 53
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.
More than a day after the discovery of a stifling trailer in San Antonio where dozens of migrants died after being abandoned in the sweltering heat, few identities of the victims have been made public, illustrating the challenges authorities face in tracing people who cross borders clandestinely.
The number of dead rose to 53 on Wednesday after two more migrants died, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office. Forty of the victims were male and 13 were female, it said.
Officials had potential identifications on 37 of the victims as of Wednesday morning, pending verification with authorities in other countries.
"It’s a tedious, tedious, sad, difficult process," said Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, who represents the district where the truck was abandoned.
The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation's deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border. More than a dozen people were taken to hospitals, including four children. Three people have been arrested.
The truck, which was registered in Alamo, Texas, but had fake plates and logos, was carrying 67 migrants, Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, said Wednesday.
The driver was apprehended after trying to pretend he was one of the migrants, Garduño said. Two other Mexican men also have been detained, he said.
Among the dead were 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, he said. One of the victims had no identification, Garduño said.
Flowers and candles are placed the area where an abounded truck was found with 46 dead migrants and several more died after hospitalized in San Antonio, Texas, United States on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The tragedy occurred at a time when huge numbers of migrants have been coming to the U.S., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago.
With little information about the victims, desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones.
Several survivors were in critical condition with injuries such as brain damage and internal bleeding, according to Rubén Minutti, the Mexico consul general in San Antonio.
RELATED: A global look at suffocation deaths of trafficked migrants
Guatemala’s foreign ministry said late Tuesday that it had confirmed two hospitalized Guatemalans and was working to identify three possible Guatemalans among the dead. Honduras’ foreign relations ministry said it was trying to confirm the identities of four of the dead who were carrying Honduran papers.
Eva Ferrufino, a spokesperson for Honduras’ foreign ministry, said her agency was working with the Honduras Consulate in south Texas to match names and fingerprints and complete identifications.
The process is painstaking because among the pitfalls are fake or stolen documents.
Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary identified two people Tuesday who were hospitalized in San Antonio. But it turned out that one of the identification cards he shared on Twitter had been stolen last year in the southern state of Chiapas.
Haneydi Antonio Guzman, 23, was safe in a mountain community more than 1,300 miles (2,092 kilometers) away from San Antonio when she began receiving messages from family and friends. There is no phone signal there, but she has internet access.
Journalists started showing up at her parents’ home in Escuintla -- the address on her ID that was stolen and found in the truck — expecting to find her worried relatives.
"That’s me on the ID, but I am not the person that was in the trailer and they say is hospitalized," Antonio Guzman said.
"My relatives were contacting me worried, asking where I was," she said. "I told them I was fine, that I was in my house and I clarified it on my" Facebook page.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard deleted his tweet identifying her without comment. The other victim Ebrard identified turned out to be accurate.
In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, municipal officials in San Miguel Huautla were traveling to the community of 32-year-old José Luis Vásquez Guzmán late Tuesday to find out if his mother wanted to travel to San Antonio to be with him in the hospital.
Manuel Velasco López, San Miguel Huautla’s municipal secretary, said that a cousin had been traveling with Vásquez Guzmán and was now considered missing.
Another cousin, Alejandro López, told Mexico's Milenio television that their family worked in farming and construction and that they migrated because "we don’t have anything but weaving hats, palms and handicrafts."
"Growing corn, wheat and beans is what we do in this region and that leads to a lot of our people emigrating and going to the United States," he said.
Miguel Barbosa, the governor of neighboring Puebla state, set off a scramble for information in the town of Izucar de Matamoros on Tuesday when he said two of the dead were from there although that was not confirmed.
In the heavily migrant town, everyone was asking if their friends or neighbors were among the dead found in Texas. Attempting to cross into the United States is such a tradition that most youths in the town at least consider it.
"All of the young people start to think about going (to the U.S.) as soon as they turn 18," said migrant activist Carmelo Castañeda, who works with the nonprofit Casa del Migrante. "If there aren’t more visas, our people are going to keep dying."
Migrants typically pay $8,000 to $10,000 to be taken across the border and loaded into a tractor-trailer and driven to San Antonio, where they transfer to smaller vehicles for their final destinations across the United States, said Craig Larrabee, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told The Associated Press Wednesday that Homeland Security investigators believe the migrants boarded the truck in or around Laredo, on U.S. soil, but have not confirmed that. He said the truck went through a Border Patrol checkpoint northeast of Laredo on Interstate 35 on Monday.
Before leaving on the more than two-hour trip to San Antonio, the truck had been parked Monday in South Texas just north of the border, Garduño said.
Authorities think the truck had mechanical problems when it was left next to a railroad track in an area of San Antonio surrounded by auto scrapyards that brush up against a busy freeway, said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.
San Antonio has been a recurring scene of tragedy and desperation in recent years involving migrants in semitrailers.
Ten migrants died in 2017 after being trapped inside a truck parked at a San Antonio Walmart. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of the city.
Other tragedies have occurred before migrants reached the U.S. In December, more than 50 died when a semitrailer rolled over on a highway in southern Mexico.
During a vigil Tuesday at a San Antonio park, many of the more than 50 people who attended expressed sadness and anger at the deaths and what they described as a broken immigration system.
Back in Puebla, farmer Juan Sánchez Carrillo, 45, was sickened when he heard of the deaths in Texas.
He narrowly escaped death when he and his friends ran away from dozing migrant rustlers in the mountains near Otay Mesa near San Diego.
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BERLIN (AP) — Thirty-five migrants were found in the trailer of a truck in southern Austria after the vehicle was damaged and an employee at a repair workshop heard noises from inside, police said Thursday. The driver was arrested.
The Polish-registered vehicle drove the wrong way out of a highway rest area near Klagenfurt on Wednesday afternoon, triggering traffic spikes that damaged its tires and caused some of them to catch fire, police in Carinthia province said in a statement. The driver extinguished the flames.
Witnesses reported the incident to highway police, and the vehicle was towed to nearby Villach, where the truck was taken into a garage for repairs. Police say the driver, a 68-year-old Turkish citizen, contacted his “boss,” who became agitated when told the work wouldn’t be finished until the following morning and pushed for the repairs to be completed as quickly as possible.
At around 9 p.m. — seven hours after the highway incident — a garage employee noticed noises and voices coming from the sealed trailer, which had been parked while the truck itself was repaired, police said. Another employee, using an infrared camera, saw evidence of movement inside the vehicle.
Police were called and opened the trailer, finding 35 people inside who were suffering from the cold and had spent more than 70 hours in the vehicle without supplies. They said the people were from Bangladesh, Nepal and Egypt, but they were still investigating their route and planned destination.
The driver, who had accompanied the truck to the garage, was arrested on the spot.
In August 2015, 71 migrants were found dead in the back of a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway near the Hungarian border. They were among more than a million migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Afghanistan who crossed into the EU that year via Turkey and the Balkans. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/austria-35-migrants-found-in-trailer-driver-arrested/ | 2023-04-07 05:48:12 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/austria-35-migrants-found-in-trailer-driver-arrested/ |
Delta flight diverted to Atlanta due to unruly passenger, airline says
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN
(CNN) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Michigan to Florida was diverted to Atlanta on Wednesday due to an incident with an unruly passenger, the airline said in a statement.
Delta did not provide details but said its representatives are “in contact with our flight attendant to provide support and are cooperating with authorities in their investigation.”
“Delta does not tolerate threats and abuse of any kind towards our people. At Delta, the safety and wellbeing of our customers and crew is, and will always be, our number one priority,” the airline said in a statement to CNN.
The aircraft was diverted after taking off from Detroit and landed safely at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport around 11:30 a.m. ET, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Atlanta Police Department officers met the plane at the gate in Atlanta before the flight continued to its destination in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with a new crew, Delta said.
The FBI in Atlanta said it was aware of the incident.
“There have not been any charges filed nor arrests made. We don’t have any further information to share at this time,” the FBI said in a statement.
The FAA has received reports of more than 850 unruly airline passengers in 2023 as of June 18, the transportation agency’s statistics showed.
Delta in its statement said it has “long been a leading advocate on behalf of our people and our customers to ensure the aggressive and timely prosecution of unruly passengers.”
Earlier Wednesday morning, another Delta plane landed with its nose gear still up on a runway at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, the FAA said. No injuries were reported and the FAA is investigating why the nose gear did not extend during landing.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Aaron Gray recorded 30 points, including four in overtime, as Niagara beat Fairfield 77-69 in overtime on Friday night.
Gray added five rebounds for the Purple Eagles (9-5). Noah Thomasson scored 21 points while shooting 10 for 25 (0 for 5 from 3-point range) and 1 of 3 from the free throw line, and added six rebounds. Joe Kasperzyk shot 3 for 8 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 6 of 6 from the free throw line to finish with 13 points, while adding three steals.
Supreme Cook led the Stags (6-9) in scoring, finishing with 17 points and 17 rebounds. Caleb Fields added 17 points for Fairfield. Allan Jeanne-Rose also had nine points and two blocks.
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The federal Food and Drug Administration’s top food safety official resigned Wednesday, citing concerns about the agency’s oversight structure and the infant formula crisis that led to a nationwide shortage.
Frank Yiannas, the deputy commissioner for food policy and response since 2018, told FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf in an email that he would leave Feb. 24.
He said he told Califf early last year that the structure of the foods program “significantly impaired FDA’s ability to operate as an integrated food team and protect the public.”
But Yiannas said he postponed leaving last year after learning of problems at the Abbott Laboratories infant formula plant in Michigan, which was shuttered for months because of contamination. The plant has since reopened, and Abbott is facing a Justice Department criminal investigation.
Yiannas said infant formula supplies have increased and necessary monitoring is in place, making it the right time to leave FDA.
“My fervent hope is that American consumers, especially mothers and fathers of infants, never again have to face this type of preventable situation,” Yiannas wrote. He called for a independent and thorough review of the crisis.
FDA spokeswoman Tara Rabin confirmed Yiannas’ resignation.
Yiannas’ notice comes less than a week before Califf is expected to release a response to a scathing report calling for an overhaul of the way the agency regulates human and animal foods. Currently, no single official has full oversight of FDA’s sprawling food operations.
Yiannas called for the appointment of a “fully empowered and experienced” deputy commissioner for foods, with direct oversight of those issues. Advocacy groups and several former FDA officials have also called for such a position.
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Last spring, as Valerie Weisler was preparing to move to New York City to live with her partner, she realized she wanted her own bedroom. She’d been living alone while in graduate school in Ireland, and the idea of sharing a bedroom, even with a partner, filled her with dread. But the alternative filled her with self-doubt.
“Is there something wrong with me for wanting this?” Weisler, recalled thinking. “You meet someone, you fall in love and you move in together. And moving in together means sharing a room. And that’s just what life looks like.”
Her partner, Ky Dates, who was at the time finishing college in Pennsylvania, had assumed they’d sleep in the same bedroom — isn’t that what couples do? — and felt blindsided by the suggestion that they change course. “I was totally freaked out,” said Dates, who worried that this could be a sign of a relationship in trouble. “It was a lot of fear responses, for sure.”
After Weisler explained how she had come to value personal space during her time living abroad, Dates warmed to the idea. And in September, the couple moved into a four-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, sharing it with two roommates. Everyone has their own room.
Sleeping apart is more common than one might think: 1 in 5 couples sleep in separate bedrooms, and almost two-thirds of those who do, do so every night, according to a January survey of 2,200 Americans conducted by the International Housewares Association for The New York Times. And interior designers have reconfigured homes to transform separate bedrooms into adjoining ones — an arrangement that more couples are demanding, according to designers who have seen an uptick in requests from couples that sleep apart and want to make a secondary room feel as thoughtfully decorated as the primary one.
Perhaps these couples have found the secret to domestic bliss: a room of one’s own. Everyone gets a better night’s sleep, undisturbed by a partner’s incessant snoring, penchant for blanket-stealing or devotion to late-night TikTok scrolling.
Plus, add a little space and you make room for more spice.
‘A mild pink flag’
Sex therapists and marriage counselors have their doubts. Katherine Hertlein, a professor in the couple and family therapy program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, worries about the motivation behind the decision to slumber in separate quarters. Is it really because a partner tosses and turns too much? Or is that an excuse to avoid talking about bigger problems at home? Or a nonconfrontational way to escape an unhappy pairing? “What are you pretending not to know?” she said. “I have people say things like, ‘I moved to that other bedroom because of my back,’ and I’m like, ‘Did you? Did you?’” Few metaphors better convey a relationship on the rocks than a couple sleeping apart. “Anna Karenina,” the ultimate ode to marital discord, opens with a philandering spouse cast out on a couch, the defining symbol of an unhappy family. While the aristocracy has long kept separate boudoirs, often portrayed alone in their grand private bedchambers on shows like “The Crown” and “Downton Abbey,” they are also a class that tends to marry for money or title, not love. Couples who marry for love double up. Even Lucy and Ricky Ricardo shared a room on “I Love Lucy,” despite their famous twin beds.
Take away the guaranteed together time, not to mention the easy opportunity for sex, found at the end of each day curled up in bed together, and lovers could morph into glorified roommates.
“I get a little bit of a mild pink flag,” said Cheryl Fraser, a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and the author of “Buddha’s Bedroom.” “It’s not a big leap from healthy solitude to a little bit of distance.”
In her surveys of 3,000 couples in long-term relationships, Fraser has found that roughly 33% to 40% report that they are in a sexless relationship, clinically defined as having sex together no more than six times a year. Take away the snuggle time that happens in a shared bed and the sex might soon go, too. “When you sleep in the same bed, sex naturally happens,” she said. “We marry for love and therefore we want to be in the same bed and have sex with each other.”
But according to the International Housewares Association, a trade organization, 31% of surveyed couples who said they sleep apart reported that the arrangement had no impact on their relationship, and 21% said that their relationship improved because of it. (Granted, the remaining half of the respondents did not see the setup in such a positive light.)
Personal space
Rich Newhart said he feels closer to his wife — and more eager to be intimate with her — precisely because they have their own bedrooms in their house in Burlington County in southern New Jersey.
“You’re no longer trying to figure out ways to break away from your family and get your alone time,” said Newhart, who works for a health insurance company.
The couple started sleeping apart at the beginning of the pandemic, when they were home together 24/7 in a house in Houston with an open-concept floor plan. All the family time was more than his wife, Cara Newhart, could take.
Cara Newhart, moved into a guest room.
“I’m an introvert and I need alone time to recharge,” said the interior designer and host of a podcast called “Make Space.”
Once she made the move, she loved it. She realized what she had missed, having only lived alone briefly in college and becoming a mother.
With her own room, she could express herself. “We had to be thrown into being parents; we both lost ourselves. As our daughter gets older we are reemerging and asking, ‘What are my hobbies? Who am I?’” Cara Newhart said. “Having physical space for that process has helped a lot. We don’t feel like we’re just stuck with somebody.”
Last June, the couple decided to make the sleeping arrangement they had in Texas permanent when they moved to a three-bedroom house in New Jersey. Cara Newhart designed her room with burnt orange and navy hues, light natural wood tones, and a bold, patterned statement wall behind the bed. She designed Rich Newhart’s room with cool blues, grays and darker wood tones. Their daughter sleeps down the hall. “I want my space to look like my personality, and that’s really important to me,” she said. “I wanted a room where we don’t take our design styles and mash them up.” You don’t have to do that much to make two rooms feel equally special. Rodney Lawrence, an interior designer in Manhattan recently worked with a young couple on New York’s Upper East Side who wanted to make a secondary bedroom feel more like a primary one so the wife could sleep alone because her husband kept her up late. Lawrence selected furnishings and colors for each room that complemented the couple’s overall aesthetic, and resulted in two spaces that felt equally significant, so one partner did not feel relegated to the guest room. “I think it’s way more common than people think,” he said.
Costs for a major overhaul of a living space can add up, said Artem Kropovinsky, a Manhattan interior designer, who reconfigured the top floor of a five-bedroom home in Scarsdale, New York, to create two primary bedrooms connected by a shared sitting room for a young couple with conflicting sleep schedules. The project took six months, and Kropovinsky said such designs can cost around $400 per square foot. “It’s a big investment,” he said.
For some, uninterrupted rest and privacy are worth every penny.
About 46% of the people surveyed who said they had called the shared bed quits blamed a partner’s snoring or tossing and turning for the change, according to the International Housewares Association. The survey found other common culprits, too, like different sleep schedules or conflicting wind-down routines. Almost one-fifth of respondents said they sleep in separate quarters because they simply want private space. And 22% of respondents said they made the change in the past year, raising the possibility that the arrangement is becoming more common, not less so.
‘He prefers his room and I prefer mine’
In the 13 years that Laura Perna and Geoffrey Glass have been together, the couple has never shared a bedroom. They live in a four-bedroom house that they share with a roommate in Austin, Texas. Perna, the communications director for a disability rights organization, likes that she has a neat, tidy space all her own. And Glass, a veterinary technician for the city of Austin’s animal shelter, prefers his space full of knickknacks and cozy. “He prefers his room and I prefer mine, but the important thing is that we’re with each other,” Perna said.
Occasionally, they’ll spend a full night together, like when they watch a scary movie, or during times when they need comfort, like after one of their cats died a year ago. “There are definitely times when we do sleep together for emotional support,” said Glass. “It’s often something we just don’t even discuss. If we’re going through a tough time, oftentimes that is what will happen.”
Like many couples interviewed for this article, Glass did not see sex and sleep as two activities that were necessarily connected. “As far as flirting, cuddling and making out, we do that quite a bit, and that is very spontaneous,” Glass said. “But usually, if we’re going to the bedroom together, that’s its own thing and there is a more deliberate aspect of that level of intimacy.” Weisler and Dates in Brooklyn sleep apart during the week, with sleepovers in each other’s rooms on the weekends, which they find romantic and playful. “It adds spark to our relationship,” Dates said.
Weisler loves walking down the apartment’s hallway and seeing the door to her room at the end. She decorated the door with confetti stickers and a sign from an Ireland thrift shop that says, “Joy.” The space feels like her sanctuary, one she enjoys sharing with Dates.
“When Ky comes into my room, it’s like, ‘Do you want lavender or green tea-room spray on your pillow?’” said Weisler, who offers her partner snacks from the minifridge in her room. “It’s kind of like hosting each other within our home.”
Before they found their apartment, Dates worried that finding one with separate bedrooms would translate to higher rent in a city where housing costs are already impossibly steep, particularly for young people. But they each pay around $1,000 a month for their modest-size rooms. They estimated they would have incurred similar costs for a different apartment with a bedroom large enough for two.
“Sometimes people just need a little bit of space. No matter how big your apartment is, it’s never big enough,” said Jacqueline Newman, a Manhattan divorce attorney, adding that the pandemic has changed how couples interact, particularly as they settle into years of hybrid work arrangements, spending far more time together than they ever did in the past. “It’s all about what works for you.”
Ermelinda and Jay Wood have been married 40 years. For the past 20, they have slept in separate bedrooms because Jay Wood snores loudly and crowds his wife out with all his pillows. Ermelinda Wood can’t tolerate it.
“You have to be practical with marriage if you want to stay married,” said Ermelinda Wood, who lives with her husband, in a two-bedroom apartment in Pacifica, California, a coastal town south of San Francisco. “You have to understand that you’re not always going to be on the same page and you’re not always going to be lovey-dovey.”
But Ermelinda Wood worries about the social stigma associated with a couple sleeping apart. (When her mother was still alive, she used to give her grief about it until she once heard Jay Wood snoring. Then she relented. )
“It’s almost like a dirty secret,” Ermelinda Wood said. She worries that if she told friends about their living arrangement she and her husband would be judged for breaking a cardinal rule of marriage: Married people sleep together.
But, Ermelinda Wood has come to cherish having her own room, starting to wonder if it’s a space she’d ever relinquish under any circumstances. “Why wait until someone is dead to get a good night’s sleep?” she said, adding, “Maybe the question is: What is a bedroom? Is it a place for you to have sex? Is it a place for you to go read your book? For me, the bedroom has always been the place where I go to rejuvenate and sleep.”
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In the more than a decade I've known her, Airport Authority candidate Vanessa Emlich has never done anything subpar. I've had both the pleasure to work under and beside her leadership, and in both instances she worked with integrity, grit and compassion. She has proven analytical and critical thinking skills and does her best to see both sides of every story.
If you know Vanessa, you know she's very well traveled. She's lived abroad, in other parts of the country, and even other parts of Nebraska. She's a natural explorer -- jet-setting to far away places like Thailand, Israel, South Africa and Germany.
She's seen the inside of more airports than most people in this city and believes she can help make ours the best it can be.
Even though she's traveled near and far, she still chooses to call Lincoln home. She cares about this city and, if elected, will work so the rest of us can travel, for work or for play, so we, too, can appreciate it more when we return home.
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New CFA Institute Future of Work Research Examines the Skills, Learning Trends, Competencies and Pathways for Career Success
NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, today released the fourth report in its Future of Work series, exploring the Context, Culture, and Content of Work in the investment industry.
Advancing technologies and hybrid working continue to change the shape of careers in finance. The Future of Work in Investment Management: The Future of Skills and Learning draws on CFA Institute survey data to identify the skills and learning equation for building talent and careers in a rapidly transforming investment industry. The report highlights current gaps between the supply and demand for skills in the investment industry, examines learning trends, and proposes changes to investment teams to better leverage diverse talent and the combined power of discrete but complementary skills.
Fewer than half of survey respondents receive support from employers to develop the new skills they need. Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, decentralized finance, and sustainability currently present some of the largest gaps between interest in learning and supply of expertise. Chief Investment Officers and those in fintech/IT, trading, sales, and accountancy positions have the highest expectation of significant change to their roles.
Rebecca Fender, CFA, Head of Strategy and Governance for Research, Advocacy and Standards, CFA Institute comments:
"The world of work has been experiencing dramatic changes, and as the investment industry competes for the best talent, an opportunity exists for investment organizations to reset and reframe their focus on talent development programs that match the pace of change. It's not only new markets, asset classes, data sources, and investing techniques that are demanding a fresh focus on skills and learning. For many, hybrid working has opened a new way of thinking about the employer-employee relationship."
Key Findings:
- The impact of new analytical methods on roles: More than a third of CFA Institute members surveyed believe the role they perform will be substantially different in 5-10 years' time, and the biggest disruptive factor will be new analytical methods, including AI and machine learning.
- The pathway of traditional investment careers: For CFA Institute members, the most common job role transition is from analyst to portfolio manager to chief investment officer. Among portfolio managers surveyed, 46 percent were analysts previously and 25 percent went on to become CIOs. Among asset management CEOs surveyed, the most common preceding roles were chief investment officers (20 percent), portfolio managers (18 percent), and relationship managers (10 percent). Some private wealth managers and financial advisers have the most varied career pathways to their respective roles.
- The outlook for less traditional investment career paths: Career paths are becoming more varied and characterized by more career breaks and greater flexibility. The primary influences on career path developments are from the technology sector (via fintech) and entrepreneurs (particularly private equity boutiques).
- The skills pathway: Technical skills are most important at career entry, with soft skills, leadership skills, and T-shaped skills (a combination of deep knowledge in a single domain and wider knowledge in other fields and the ability to connect them) growing in importance over time.
- The skills in high demand: New sources of data will affect the skills needed for investment decision-making. The skills mentioned most by investment professionals include a foundational understanding of AI and machine learning, as well as knowledge of sustainability issues. The most important soft-skill category is influencing, persuading, and negotiating. Other skills that have become more important in the new world of work include time management, direct communication, and being more resourceful. Managers and leaders will need to adapt their skillsets to succeed in a more flexible and dispersed work environment.
- Skills availability and areas for development: Investment professionals are interested in new skills but are time constrained. Of 16 trending skills areas, notable differences between "saying and doing" are evident. For AI, for every person pursuing the skill, three others intend to do so. Currently some 20 percent of respondents say they are pursuing learning in AI and machine learning, indicating how much respondents anticipate AI will change the investing landscape. Sustainability and data visualization have seen the highest overall increase in interest levels over the previous two-year period.
- The talent factors: Employers seek a combination of skills, grit, and experience.
Nick Bartlett, CFA, Head, Practice Analysis, CFA Program, CFA Institute comments:
"Today's investment industry professionals and CFA charterholders will invest in continuous professional development to stay fluent beyond their foundational studies. For graduates and early career professionals aspiring to roles within the investment profession, the CFA Program offers a comprehensive curriculum for demonstrating professional competence, and a platform from which candidates can deepen their expertise and drive forward their careers."
To access The Future of Work in Investment Management: The Future of Skills and Learning, visit here.
Methodology
Future of Skills and Learning offers new survey data collected through a "Skills and Careers Survey" of 2,137 CFA Institute members conducted in November 2021, with a margin of error of +/–2.1 percent. The complete four-part Future of Work series draws from quantitative responses from a combined group of more than 11,000 investment professionals globally across three surveys conducted between March and November 2021. The series also draws on survey input from leaders at 41 investment organizations representing more than 230,000 employees. In addition, more than 100 investment professionals and human resources professionals in the investment management industry provided qualitative input through virtual roundtables in the following markets: Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. The report also draws on research captured in previous CFA Institute Future of Finance publications, notably Investment Professional of the Future (2019).
Aligned reading
The Next 75 Years: Will Generalists or Specialists Prevail?
by Larry Cao, CFA, Senior Director of Industry Research, CFA Institute
About CFA Institute
CFA Institute is the global association of investment professionals that sets the standard for professional excellence and credentials. The organization is a champion of ethical behavior in investment markets and a respected source of knowledge in the global financial community. Our aim is to create an environment where investors' interests come first, markets function at their best, and economies grow. There are more than 190,000 CFA® charterholders worldwide in more than 160 markets. CFA Institute has nine offices worldwide and there are 160 local societies. For more information, visit www.cfainstitute.org or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter at @CFAInstitute.
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Matt Long, General Manager, and Ave King, Head of Compliance, Hired to Scale Asia Pacific Growth as Company Announces Launch of OTC Derivatives Trading Business across APAC
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FalconX, the most reliable digital assets prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions, today announced expansion of its services into Singapore. Matt Long has joined FalconX as General Manager and Ave King as Chief Compliance Officer, both based in Singapore. Alongside these key executive hires, FalconX is also launching its OTC derivatives business in Singapore to service institutional clients across APAC, augmenting its leading position in the United States as the first and only CFTC-registered cryptocurrency swap dealer also registered with the National Futures Association (NFA).
The international expansion follows a year of significant growth for the company, closing out 2022 with an $8 billion valuation after a $150 million Series D funding round led by B Capital and GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore.
Singapore is an ideal regional hub for the organization as FalconX continues to invest in the future of digitized finance. Singapore is well-positioned as a major digital assets hub, is central to global capital and asset management flows and is the 4th most "crypto ready" city in the world, following London, New York, and Dubai.
"Expanding internationally to Singapore is a strategic move, as it's known globally for its heavy investment in the future of blockchain and digital finance," said CEO Raghu Yarlagadda. "With Matt and Ave at the helm, the Singapore team is poised to accelerate FalconX's growth in APAC as we continue to shape the future of finance on a global scale."
FalconX's momentum continues to be driven by demand from a diverse range of institutional market participants, including some of the world's largest financial institutions, hedge funds, asset managers, venture capital firms, payment providers, family offices and investment applications.
"Our goal is to provide Singapore and APAC institutions access to our world-leading expertise in digital asset OTC derivatives and as we seek to obtain the appropriate licenses in Singapore and across APAC, deliver the complete FalconX prime solution which includes access to the world's deepest pools of spot liquidity, staking, credit, portfolio margining, reporting and risk management," said Long.
Long's Hiring Further Establishes FalconX as Global Leader in Digital Assets
As the financial services industry increasingly shifts toward digital asset transformation, FalconX has created the most comprehensive prime brokerage infrastructure, enabling institutions safe, efficient and scalable access to digital asset markets while paving the way for traditional assets to be tokenized. The addition of Long, who will help grow the business in Singapore and the greater Asia-Pacific region, signifies the increased demand from institutional customers globally for a prime broker with a comprehensive product suite.
Long brings over 20 years of experience across digital assets, traditional financial markets and technology and investing in disruptive businesses. Immediately prior to joining FalconX, Long was Managing Director and Head of Prime Brokerage and SaaS at institutional digital asset platform OSL. He has also run traditional finance sales, trading, derivative and asset management businesses globally, with specific expertise in APAC markets.
FalconX Increases Focus on Regulation With Hiring of King
As institutional investors increasingly seek the surety of dealing with trusted and regulated counterparty, Ave King joins as Chief Compliance Officer, APAC, to manage compliance across international entities including securing relevant regulatory licenses, where appropriate. King will play a key role in continuing to build out the global regulatory compliance and AML program. King has more than 20 years of experience and prior to joining FalconX, King held roles at Bitstamp, Coinbase, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.
In 2022, FalconX became the first and only cryptocurrency swap dealer registered with the National Futures Association (NFA) in the U.S. and one of the first crypto-focused Primary Level Members of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA).
About FalconX
FalconX is the largest, most reliable prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions. We provide the most comprehensive access to the deepest global digital asset liquidity. Through our prime brokerage platform, FalconX 360, investors unlock and scale returns faster and more efficiently than any other platform. Our 24/7, dedicated team for account, operational and trading needs enables investors to navigate dynamic markets around the clock. The company is backed by investors including Accel, Adams Street Partners, Altimeter Capital, American Express Ventures, B Capital, GIC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Thoma Bravo, Tiger Global Management and Wellington Management. FalconX has offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Chicago, Bengaluru, Singapore and Malta. For more information visit falconx.io or follow on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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In Puriscal, 4th canton in the province of San José, Costa Rica, with a population of 41,000, few men or women own a darker skin tone than mine.
In fact, my arrival here, especially in a downtown park, produces whispers — (El Moreno es aqui.) The Black man is here. Blackness attracts attention, a curiosity with most configurations believing the stranger in town hails from this nation’s Caribbean coast, perhaps Limón.
The lone Moreno gains attention from policia who notice my presence. On occasion, they walk closely, even shadow drive on some streets. Yes, it’s Moreno profiting but not offensive enough to ruin the joy of being on vacation with loved ones.
Moreno represents a Spanish term used to refer to individuals of dark complexions. It is not considered offensive, and is commonly used as an endearing term. In fact, a walk through the park induced a “What’s up, Moreno?” inquiry. No offense here as I frequently play with ideas of an alter ego, an aged rapper named El Moreno, dismantling Costa Rican society with raps and rhymes, searing stereotypes and breaking down psyches.
A celebration of the term “Black” exists here. It’s far better than African-American and millions time more impressive than the N-word. Recent attendance for a Trenton Central High School boys basketball game encountered several Black teens who voiced the N-word repeatedly.
Loathing exists for that racial epithet no matter how users justify sending N-words into the universe or dance floors. Moreno (Black) offers a riff toward coolness, a cache of color. “Hey, what’s up, Black?”. Friends and acquaintances should expect this new greeting upon my return.
Our major getaway from Puriscal involved a bus to San José, the capital, then a four-hour junket west to Puerto Viejo, one hour south of Limón, and close to the border of Panama.
Limón, commonly known as Puerto Limón is a district, the capital city and main hub of Limón Province, as well as of the same-named canton in Costa Rica. The seventh largest city in Costa Rica, shoes a population of over 94,000, and is home to the Afro-Costa Rican community.
Reports note that part of the community traces its roots to Italian, Jamaican and Chinese laborers who worked on a late nineteenth-century railroad project that connected San José to Puerto Limón. Until 1948, the Costa Rican government did not recognize Afro-Caribbean people as citizens and restricted their movement outside Limón province.
As a result of this travel ban, this Afro-Caribbean population became firmly established in the region, which influenced decisions not to move even after it was legally permitted. Nowadays, there is a significant outflow of Limón natives who move to the country’s Central Valley in search of better employment and education. The Afro-Caribbean community speaks Spanish and Limonese Creole, a creole of English.
Limon remains an underdeveloped area of Costa Rica and features pristine beaches on a shoreline that stretches roughly 125 miles between Nicaragua and Panama.
Limón is largely known for its creole and black population. Our bus has just arrived and anticipation of food, music, culture grows. In Limón, El Moreno will be just another Black man.
Will catch you up later on this wonderful adventure.
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New Allan Domb Ad Compares Him to Jalen Hurts
Plus, Rendell endorses Rhynhart. And the Citizen app continues to suck.
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New Allan Domb Ad Compares Him to Jalen Hurts
I’m not exactly sure who has the most ads running in the Philadelphia mayoral primary, but if you made me bet you dinner at Parc on it, I’d probably pick Allan Domb.
There’s the Allan Domb ad where he’s talking about all the menial jobs he had when he was younger. There’s the one where he’s driving around complaining about potholes. I could go on and on. Allan Domb ads have even become a “thing” on TikTok. (No, really, you gotta watch this.)
Well, on Thursday morning, the Domb campaign took advantage of the NFL Draft, which starts today, to release a new ad on local sports radio. The spot, which is framed as a sports-talk call-in, compares Mayor Kenney to Carson Wentz, in that Kenney doesn’t want to be mayor just like Wentz didn’t want to play for the Eagles anymore. And then it compares Domb to Eagles superstar quarterback Jalen Hurts. (Gotta chuckle over the description of Domb’s time on City Council as “clutch.”)
Have a listen:
Ed Rendell Endorses Rebecca Rhynhart
As I told you a few weeks ago, after both John Street and Michael Nutter endorsed Rebecca Rhynhart for mayor, Ed Rendell was also planning to make an endorsement. He just wasn’t ready yet. (Interestingly, Rendell told me he thought that Derek Green and Maria Quiñones Sánchez would drop out of the race, which they later did did, so I guess this guy does know a thing or two.) On Wednesday, Rendell endorsed Rhynhart for mayor, giving her a former-mayor endorsement trifecta. He also gave major props to Allan Domb and Cherelle Parker and even suggested that Rhynhart hire them if she wins. He also proposed possible roles for Green and Quiñones Sánchez in a theoretical Rhynhart administration. Notably, Rendell didn’t mention Helen Gym or Jeff Brown at all. I think that’s what they call a diss-by-omission in this biz.
Call Me, Amen
Yesterday, I told you about can’t-win mayoral candidate Amen Brown’s bizarre screwup in the Tuesday night debate. (Watch the quick video here.) Near the end of the debate, when each candidate was given the chance to ask another candidate a question, Brown went after Rhynhart, asking her how on earth she could call two Black men “boys” in her “Two Mayors” ad, which, of course, she didn’t.
After I ran the story, I got Brown on the phone and asked him how he could make such an error. How could he get a fact so wrong, especially when these questions were all planned in advance? Who advised him on that? Was he just winging it? I tried to ask Brown those questions and others. He simply replied “Okay” every time I asked a question. And then he told me he’d call me back in a few minutes. That was yesterday. I’m here for you, Amen.
Reader Mail
I continue to be amazed that readers still stumble upon my ancient Bruce Springsteen Sucks article and send me mail about it. Usually, these emails are filled with hate for me. Sometimes, they even border on threatening. But once in a very great while, a like-minded reader from somewhere in the world finds this masterwork of sophomoric critique and reaches out to me, as a reader named K.K. just did.
Here’s K.K.’s short and sweet message to me:
I hate Bruce Springsteen songs and his voice. He is like a big trash can full of garbage and cheap trinkets.
Love it. Let me know when you come to Philly, K.K., so I can buy you a drink and we can talk about how Springsteen ruined Christmas forever with his stupid cover of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.”
By the Numbers
1,000: Wawas in existence, now that the latest one, in Camden County, debuted this morning.
12: Students at one Philly school who got sick on Wednesday after drinking grape juice laced with an opioid. Some had to be hospitalized. No, the cafeteria didn’t serve it. Initial reports say the grape juice came from outside the school
0: Days from Friday through Sunday that don’t have rain in the forecast.
100%: Chances my wife will tell me I still have to water the garden for one reason or another that I will never understand.
$1,000: Amount I would have bet you that the Citizen app alert for a huge mayonnaise spill yesterday was yet another fake Citizen alert. Indeed it was. Say it with me now: Citizen sucks.
And from the What-Me-Worry Sports Desk …
The Phils started last night’s rain-delayed game against the Mariners with a bang — a two-run homer in the first by Nick Castellanos that brought home Bryson Stott, who’d walked. But in the top of the second, starter Taijuan Walker got dinged for a J.P. Crawford grand slam — damn! And look where he had the audacity to send it:
JP Crawford SLAMS one into the bullpen! pic.twitter.com/T38SKhRhZ0
— MLB (@MLB) April 26, 2023
Insult to injury: The very next batter, Julio Rodriguez, also homered, and just like that, it was 5-2 Seattle. In the bottom of the third, singles by Sosa and Stott brought Trea Turner to bat; his sac fly sent Sosa to third, and Kyle Schwarber singled Sosa home: 5-3. Castellanos and Brandon Marsh both grounded out to end the rally.
In the fourth, J.T. Realmuto led off with a single, but Alec Bohm popped up and Edmundo Sosa ground into a double play. It was raining again. In the fifth, Luis Ortiz replaced Walker, who was experiencing “arm tightness,” we were told. Stott singled and advanced on a wild pitch to Turner, who then grounded out. Schwarber struck out, but Castellanos singled to bring Stott home: 5-4!
Trevor Gott relieved starter Logan Gilbert in the bottom of the sixth. For the Phils, Seranthony came in for the seventh, gave up a single, and then notched three quick outs. Gabe Speier came in for Gilbert in the seventh, and Craig Kimbrel replaced Seranthony in the eighth, and Justin Topa replaced Speier, but despite all the pitching changes, the score didn’t budge. In the bottom of the eighth, though, Castellanos, Marsh and Realmuto all singled to tie it up at 5-5. That brought up Alec Bohm, who singled, too:
Alec Bohm clutches up to give the @Phillies the lead in the 8th inning 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/Z9ixaPC8od
— Top Bunk Sports (@Topbunksports) April 27, 2023
Guess what: pitching change! In came Penn Murfee, who’s high on my all-time-great-baseball-name list. OMG, he got two outs! Men on second and third after a Sosa steal, but Stott ground out. On to the ninth!
Alvarado came in to pitch for the Phils, because what MLB game doesn’t need 10 different pitchers? How’s that speeding-up-the-game thing working out, Commissioner Manfred, sir? With two Mariner outs, J.P. Crawford — who else? — doubled, but Alvarado got the final strikeout for the win. Well done! The Phils have one more game against the Mariners, today at 1:05. Oh, and in case you missed it, the Fightin’s have a new puppy!
Introducing: Major 🐾🥹 pic.twitter.com/8b0maN0dri
— Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) April 26, 2023
In soccer news, LAFC came to soggy Subaru Park for a rematch of what the announcer called “the greatest game in MLS history” — last year’s MLS Cup championship game between the two teams, which LAFC won on penalty kicks. This was the first of their two semifinal games in the CONCACAF Champions League playoffs. It was a tight, close match, with no score but one pretty exciting brawl as of halftime.
Julián Carranza finally made a pass to Dániel Gazdag for a score at 57 minutes in the second half, but Gazdag was called offsides. Soccer’s a cruel game. Two minutes later, a Union corner! And another! And nothing doing. Then L.A. heated up, and Andre Blake became team savior, as he so often is. In the 83rd minute, the refs called for a video review on a possible handball in the box on Kellyn Acosta and awarded a penalty kick to the Union. I didn’t see it as a handball, personally, but my husband told me to hush. Gazdag buried the PK against former Union player and MLS Cup nemesis Andrew McCarthy. Union up, 1-0!
But just into the five-minute overage, LAFC tied it up on a goal from … Acosta. Did I mention soccer is a cruel game? Oh, wait — now there was a foul on LAFC, and a Union free kick with seconds left! Nothing doing: 1-1 tie is in the books. “What a wild finish!” the announcer declared. And so it was. Rematch a week from tonight in L.A.
The NFL draft begins tonight, in case you care. The Eagles have the 10th and 30th first-round picks.
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NEW YORK (AP)The New York Mets signed veteran outfielder Tommy Pham to a one-year contract for $6 million Tuesday, adding to their busy offseason.
Pham can earn another $2 million in performance bonuses based on plate appearances. He provides depth and a dangerous bat, giving New York a proven fourth outfielder and a right-handed option at designated hitter to complement lefty Daniel Vogelbach.
The 34-year-old Pham spent last season with Cincinnati and Boston, batting .236 overall with 17 home runs, 63 RBIs and a .686 OPS. He scored 89 runs in 144 games.
”Tommy adds another versatile right-handed bat to our lineup,” general manager Billy Eppler said in a statement. ”His ability to grind through at bats, stay within the strike zone, impact the baseball, and run the bases is a valuable addition to our ballclub.”
Pham is a .259 career hitter with 114 homers, 97 stolen bases and a .787 OPS in nine major league seasons with the Cardinals, Rays, Padres, Reds and Red Sox.
He made headlines in May when he was suspended for three games by Major League Baseball after he slapped San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson because of a dispute about their fantasy football league. While the Giants warmed up in the outfield before their series opener with the Reds, Pham confronted Pederson and smacked him in the face before they were separated.
Pham gets a $1 million signing bonus and a $5 million salary. He can earn another $200,000 each for 225, 250, 275, 300, 325, 350, 375, 400, 425 and 450 plate appearances this season.
Mets owner Steve Cohen has committed $498.2 million to 10 major league free agents this offseason – including $102 million over five years to keep All-Star closer Edwin Diaz, who re-signed before other clubs were permitted to negotiate with him.
In a corresponding roster move, left-handed pitcher Tayler Saucedo was designated for assignment by the Mets.
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Congress prepares to take up bill preventing rail strike
Congress is moving swiftly to prevent a looming U.S. rail workers strike, reluctantly intervening in a labor dispute to stop what would surely be a devastating blow to the nation’s economy if the transportation of fuel, food and other critical goods were disrupted.
The House was expected to act first on Wednesday after President Joe Biden asked Congress to step in. The bill lawmakers are considering would impose a compromise labor agreement brokered by his administration that was ultimately voted down by four of the 12 unions representing more than 100,000 employees at large freight rail carriers. The unions have threatened to strike if an agreement can’t be reached before a Dec. 9 deadline.
Lawmakers from both parties expressed reservations, but the intervention was particularly difficult for some Democratic lawmakers who have traditionally sought to align themselves with the politically powerful labor unions.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, announced that he would object to fast-tracking the president's proposal until he can get a roll-call vote on an amendment that would guarantee seven paid sick days for rail workers. Some of the more liberal lawmakers in the House such as Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri tweeted that they couldn't support the measure.
Still, the bill was expected to receive a significant bipartisan vote. That show of support began when the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate met with Biden on Tuesday at the White House.
“We all agreed that we should try to avoid this rail shutdown as soon as possible," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said as he returned to the Capitol.
A letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Democratic colleagues promised two votes, reflecting the consternation she was hearing from members. The first vote will be on adopting the tentative labor agreement. The second will be on a measure to add seven days of paid sick leave for railroaders to the agreement.
“It is with great reluctance that we must now move to bypass the standard ratification process for the Tentative Agreement," Pelosi wrote. “However, we must act to prevent a catastrophic strike that would touch the lives of nearly every family: erasing hundreds of thousands of jobs, including union jobs; keeping food and medicine off the shelves; and stopping small businesses from getting their goods to market."
The compromise agreement that was supported by the railroads and a majority of the unions provides for 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses retroactive to 2020 along with one additional paid leave day. The raises would be the biggest rail workers have received in more than four decades. Workers would have to pay a larger share of their health insurance costs, but their premiums would be capped at 15% of the total cost of the insurance plan. But the agreement didn’t resolve workers’ concerns about demanding schedules that make it hard to take a day off and the lack of paid sick time.
Lawmakers from both parties grumbled about stepping into the dispute, but they also said they had little choice.
“The bottom line is we are now forced with this kind of terrible situation where we have to choose between an imperfect deal that has already been negotiated or an economic catastrophe," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
“This is about whether we shut down the railroads of America, which will have extreme negative effects on our economy," said Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House. “We should have a bipartisan vote."
Republicans needled the Biden administration and Democrats for Congress being asked to step in now to avert an economic crisis. But many indicated they were ready to do so.
“This has got to be tough for Democrats in that they generally kowtow to unions," said Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind.
“At this late hour, it's clear that there is little we can do other than to support the measure," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.
Business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Farm Bureau Federation said earlier this week in a letter to congressional leaders they must be prepared to intervene and that a stoppage of rail service for any duration would represent a $2 billion per day hit to the economy.
On several past occasions, Congress has intervened in labor disputes by enacting legislation to delay or prohibit railway and airline strikes.
Railroad unions on Tuesday decried Biden’s call for Congress to intervene in their contract dispute, saying it undercuts their efforts to address workers’ quality-of-life concerns.
Conductor Gabe Christenson, who is co-chairman of the Railroad Workers United coalition that includes workers from all the rail unions, said Biden and the Democrats are siding with the railroads over workers.
“The 'most labor-friendly president in history’ has proven that he and the Democratic Party are not the friends of labor they have touted themselves to be,” Christenson said.
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri in Washington and Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed to this report. | https://www.kcra.com/article/congress-rail-strike-bill/42107812 | 2022-11-30 13:49:46 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/congress-rail-strike-bill/42107812 |
Kyle Jacobs, songwriter and husband of singer Kellie Pickler, dead at 49
Kyle Jacobs, a country music producer and songwriter, who co-starred with his wife, singer Kellie Pickler, in a CMT docuseries, has died, according to Nashville police. He was 49.
Jacobs died by apparent suicide in their Nashville home on Friday, according to authorities.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Pickler for comment.
According to Nashville's Department of Emergency Communications, a 911 call was received at 1:21 p.m. local time on Friday. Officers and Nashville Fire Department personnel responded to the home of Pickler and Jacobs.
Pickler told police that she awoke a short time earlier, did not see her husband and began looking for him, a police statement said. After she and a personal assistant were unable to open the door to the upstairs bedroom/office, the assistant called authorities, the statement added.
Jacobs, a music producer, has worked with artists including Garth Brooks, Kelly Clarkson, Darius Rucker and Tim McGraw.
He often shared updates on his musical collaborations on Instagram.
"One of my favorite things to do as a songwriter is writing songs with beautiful hearts in beautiful places," he shared in a 2021 post.
Pickler is best known for her participation in Season 5 of "American Idol," which helped launched her career as a musician and television personality.
Jacobs starred alongside Pickler in the docu-comedy series "I Love Kellie Pickler," which debuted in 2015 and proved to be a ratings hit for CMT. It ran for three seasons.
In a 2015 interview about their reality show, Jacobs said he was more accustomed to being behind the scenes instead of on camera but that he felt at ease collaborating with his wife on the project.
"I'm just going to be me and be with my wife and just be us," Jacobs said.
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Hard rock legend Ozzy Osbourne announced the cancellation of his 2023 tour dates in the U.K. and continental Europe.
Osbourne issued a statement early Wednesday saying damage to his spine suffered in an accident four years ago will prevent him from touring.
“I am honestly humbled by the way you’ve all patiently held onto your tickets for all this time, but in all good conscience, I have now come to the realization that I’m not physically capable of doing my upcoming European/UK tour dates, as I know I couldn’t deal with the travel required,” Osbourne said.
The 74-year-old Grammy winner and former vocalist for the metal band Black Sabbath said “my singing voice is fine” but said he remained physically weak following three operations, stem cell treatments, physical therapy and Hybrid Assistive Limb treatment, which uses a robotic exoskeleton to help improve movement and balance.
He thanked his family, fans, band and crew members and fellow metal pioneers Judas Priest.
“Never would I have imagined that my touring days would have ended this way,” Osbourne said. “My team is currently coming up with ideas for where I will be able to perform without having to travel from city to city and country to country.”
Ticket refunds will be available at the point of purchase, the statement said.
Osbourne previously canceled tour dates in Europe and North America in 2019 due to health problems, including a “bad fall” in which he said he injured vertebrae in his neck.
The singer, who enjoyed solo success after leaving Black Sabbath, announced in 2020 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a nervous system disorder that affects movement.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifty days into a strike with no end in sight, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a new contract with studios that includes payment guarantees and job security.
Speakers at the Writers Guild of America’s WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract on Wednesday emphasized the broad support for their cause shown by other Hollywood unions — including actors in their own contract negotiations — and labor at large.
“We’re all in it together, we’re all fighting the same fight, for a sustainable job in the face of corporate greed,” Adam Conover, a writer and a member of the guild’s board and its negotiating committee, told a crowd at the end of the march at the La Brea Tar Pits. “We are going to win because they need us. Writers are the ones who stare at a blank page. We are the ones who invent the characters, tell the stories and write the jokes that their audiences love. They’d have nothing without us.”
Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios in negotiations, have not resumed since breaking off hours before the writers’ contract expired on May 1. The strike began a day later, with more and more productions shutting down as it has gone on.
A similar deadline now looms for actors, whose union, SAG-AFTRA, is negotiating with the AMPTP on a contract that expires June 30. Members voted overwhelmingly to authorize guild leaders to call a strike if no deal is reached.
Streaming and its ripple effects are at the center of the dispute. The guild says that even as series budgets have increased, writers’ share of that money has consistently shrunk.
The AMPTP says writers’ demands would require they be kept on staff and paid when there is no work for them, and that its contract proposals have been generous.
“We are here for the sake of the profession we love,” writer Liz Alper said at Wednesday’s rally. “The industry we work in, our audiences, our fellow sister unions in Hollywood, and all the workers across America who have been hurt and disenfranchised by Wall Street and big tech.” | https://who13.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/hollywood-writers-at-rally-say-theyll-win-as-strike-reaches-50-days/ | 2023-06-22 20:34:21 | 1 | https://who13.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/hollywood-writers-at-rally-say-theyll-win-as-strike-reaches-50-days/ |
If a foe fails to score, you can't lose. Chicago Amundsen proved that in blanking Chicago Kennedy 10-0 in Illinois high school baseball action on May 9.
In recent action on May 4, Chicago Kennedy faced off against Chicago Lake View and Chicago Amundsen took on Chicago Muchin on May 4 at Chicago Muchin College Prep.
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Elon Musk warns Twitter employees of ‘difficult times ahead,' ends remote work: report
Hours after Twitter CEO Elon Musk admittedly predicted he will do "lots of dumb things" as he learns to helm the new social media platform, he told his employees to brace for "difficult times ahead," according to a report.
In a mass email Wednesday afternoon, Musk said there was "no way to sugarcoat the message" and that employees should expect changes concerning office policy, according to Bloomberg News.
The email allegedly said Musk will discontinue remote work and will be requiring employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week. Any exceptions would need his personal approval.
Musk reportedly said he expected half of Twitter’s revenue to come through a subscription service and his newly proposed verification fee. He also said content creators will be able to monetize their pages to supporters, without further elaboration.
The email came shortly after Musk implemented, then swiftly deleted, a new official badge icon on the platform, before telling users to expect to see many changes going forward.
"Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t," he wrote.
The "official" blue "verified" badge appeared on several accounts but was ultimately deleted. The company said the subscription program will cost between $4 and $8 per month.
TWITTER ADDS ‘OFFICIAL’ LABELS TO SELECT VERIFIED ACCOUNTS — THEN REVERSES COURSE
"In days to come, we’ll add granularity to verified badge, such as organizational affiliation & ID verification," Musk added in another tweet.
And: "Rollout of new verified Blue is intentionally limited just to iOS in a few countries with very little promotion. As we iron out issues, we will expand worldwide on all platforms."
Musk also said the platform was looking to add features such as a more robust direct messaging system, the option to save videos, and it will deactivate or delete inactive accounts to clear up user profile names.
TWITTER CLAIMS USER GROWTH AT 'ALL-TIME HIGHS' AFTER ELON MUSK'S PURCHASE: REPORT
His stated goal in purchasing Twitter was to protect freedom of speech, sparking criticism on the platform and elsewhere.
Since taking over Twitter two weeks ago, Musk fired several top executives at the company, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde, and most of the company’s staff.
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NEW YORK (AP)Former Atlanta Braves general manager John Coppolella has been reinstated by Major League Baseball after serving more than five years of a suspension originally announced as permanent.
Now 44, Coppolella began with the Braves in 2006 when he oversaw quantitative analysis and baseball information initiatives. He became general manager following the 2015 season and was suspended on Nov. 21, 2017, after MLB concluded that the team circumvented international signing rules from 2015-17.
Commissioner Rob Manfred said MLB determined that the Braves funneled extra signing bonus money to five players in 2015-16 by giving the funds first to another player considered a foreign professional under baseball’s rules and having the money redistributed to the other five.
His reinstatement was first reported by The Athletic.
”We can confirm that Mr. Coppolella has been reinstated, given the more than five years he spent on the ineligible list, the contrition he expressed and the other steps he took in response to this matter,” MLB said in a statement Monday.
Atlanta was stripped of 13 prospects and was unable to bargain at full strength for a top Latin American prospect until 2021. Under new GM Alex Anthopoulos, the Braves won the 2021 World Series.
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Police in Wausau are asking for the public’s help for a sex offender who allegedly tampered with his GPS monitor, according to a department Facebook post.
Kurt B. Jacobs, 24, is wanted by the Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Jacobs was previously convicted of child enticement and sexual assault of a child and was relocated in September to Wausau after reaching his mandatory release date. He is under supervision and was living in the 700 block of Jackson Street when he vanished.
Anyone with knowledge of Jacob’s whereabouts is encouraged to call Marathon County Dispatch at 715-261-7795. If you would like to remain anonymous, you can submit a tip through Marathon County Crime Stoppers by calling 1-877-409-8777 or by visiting www.marathoncountycrimestoppers.org. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2022/05/24/wausau-police-seek-missing-sex-offender-2/ | 2022-05-24 23:23:50 | 0 | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2022/05/24/wausau-police-seek-missing-sex-offender-2/ |
A whale belonging to one of the rarest species is ‘likely to die,’ after entanglement, NOAA says
By Kristen Rogers, CNN
The world’s population of North Atlantic right whales has been decimated in recent years by human-caused vessel strikes and rope entanglements, and now another member of this rare species faces the same fate.
A 4-year-old female right whale found heavily entangled about 20 miles east of Rodanthe, North Carolina, is “likely to die,” according to the fisheries division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
An aerial survey team from Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium spotted the whale January 8, noticing several wraps of line around its mouth and tail, and additional line trailing behind it. The entanglement has caused numerous wounds across the whale’s body and allowed tiny parasitic crustaceans known as whale lice to thrive on its head, according to images NOAA Fisheries and its partners reviewed.
The division’s biologists have preliminarily determined these details meet the criteria of a “serious injury,” meaning the whale “is likely to die,” NOAA said in a news release.
Scientists at the New England Aquarium, which manages the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog tracking the identification and sighting history of right whales, identified the whale as No. 4904, the daughter of an adult female named Spindle (right whale No. 1204). Spindle was recently seen with a new calf off the coast of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. The last known sighting of No. 4904 was in May 2022 in Massachusetts Bay.
When No. 4904 was first spotted this month, entanglement response teams didn’t “mount a response … because it was too late in the day and the whale was too far from shore,” NOAA said. “However, as conditions permit, NOAA Fisheries will work with authorized responders and trained experts to resight her. We will further document the entanglement, and determine if an entanglement response will be possible.”
An ‘unusual mortality event’
In 2017, NOAA Fisheries declared an “unusual mortality event” (UME) as the number of dead, injured or ill North Atlantic right whales in Canada and the United States began to rise — largely due to human interaction, specifically via vessel strikes and entanglements.
No. 4904 is 94th on the list of all right whales affected in any way by this event.
“This is more bad news for this species that has been suffering from many years of ineffective protection,” said Gib Brogan, campaign director at Oceana, an international organization working to protect and restore the world’s oceans. “To hear that there is another entanglement is frustrating, because we know that more needs to be done (to prevent it).”
Today, it’s believed there are probably fewer than 350 right whales remaining worldwide. Right whales impacted by the UME represented 20% of their already endangered population — a significant setback to the recovery of an endangered species in which deaths are outpacing births, NOAA said. Additionally, only about a third of right whale deaths are documented, meaning the situation could be worse than what is known.
The potential death of No. 4904 could exacerbate the strain on the species. Female right whales can’t reproduce until around age 10, and they bear one calf after a year-long pregnancy, according to NOAA.
The normal or healthy interval between right whale births is three years, but these days, the average is every six to 10 years — likely because of stress, insufficient food sources and ocean noise caused by human activities, according to NOAA. Ocean noise can harm right whales’ ability to navigate, identify their surroundings, find food and mates, and detect and avoid predators and human hazards.
There are fewer than 100 known breeding females remaining. While the species would need to reproduce 50 or more calves per year over a period of multiple years to stop the decline and foster recovery, only 57 have been born since 2017. Only 15 right whale calves were spotted during the 2021-2022 calving season.
North Atlantic right whales’ ill-fated encounters with humans didn’t begin in 2017. By the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted them to the brink of extinction, according to NOAA. The species got its name from being the “right” whales to hunt, since they floated when killed. Whaling is no longer a threat due to a 1935 ban on the commercial hunting of North Atlantic right whales, but the species has never recovered to pre-whaling numbers.
And right whales’ decline affects more than just their species.
“As they eat, they will process that food and essentially fertilize the oceans … which is proven to be important to the health of the oceans,” Brogan said. “The oceans produce a tremendous amount of oxygen that we breathe. They moderate climate, they absorb a tremendous amount of heat that’s being produced by humans, and they provide food for billions of people.”
If you see an entangled whale, “please do not intervene, and instead call the experts for the whale’s sake as well as yours,” NOAA said.
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Second Consecutive Quarter of Record Net Income with Total Revenue Up 9% Sequentially
2022 Third-Quarter Highlights:
- Earnings per common share (EPS) for the quarter were $0.39, an increase of $0.04 from the prior quarter.
- Net interest income increased $143 million, or 11%, from the prior quarter, reflecting net interest margin expansion of 27 basis points to 3.42% and higher average total loans and leases.
- Noninterest income increased $13 million, or 3%, from the prior quarter, reflecting strength in capital markets supported by full quarter impact of Capstone.
- Pre-Provision Net Revenue (PPNR), excluding Notable Items, increased $109 million, or 14%, from the prior quarter to $867 million.
- Average total loans and leases increased $3.0 billion, or 3%, from the prior quarter to $117.0 billion. Excluding the decrease in PPP loans, average total loans and leases increased $3.3 billion, or 3%, from the prior quarter.
- Average total deposits increased $1.0 billion from the prior quarter.
- Net charge-offs of 0.15% of average total loans and leases for the quarter, and 0.08% year to date.
- Nonperforming assets have declined five consecutive quarters.
- Allowance for credit losses (ACL) $2.2 billion, or 1.89% of total loans and leases at quarter end.
- Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) risk-based capital ratio increased to 9.27%, within our 9% to 10% operating guideline.
- Ranked first nationally for SBA 7(a) loan origination by volume for the fifth year in a row for SBA fiscal year 2022 and the 14th year in a row that Huntington has been the largest originator, by volume, of SBA 7(a) loans within footprint.
- Huntington was named a Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance 2022, reflecting our commitment to colleagues.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (Nasdaq: HBAN) reported net income for the 2022 third quarter of $594 million, or $0.39 per common share, an increase of $217 million, or $0.17 per common share from the year-ago quarter.
Return on average assets was 1.31%, return on average common equity was 13.9%, return on average tangible common equity (ROTCE) was 21.9%, and adjusted ROTCE was 22.2%.
"We are very pleased with our performance this quarter, which included record net earnings for the second consecutive quarter," said Steve Steinour, chairman, president and CEO. "We successfully executed on our business strategies, delivering robust loan growth, higher deposit balances, and expanded fee income. These results, and the benefit from the higher interest rate environment, combined to produce sequential pre-provision net revenue growth of 14% for the quarter when excluding Notable Items.
"We continue to make strategic investments to drive sustainable revenue growth, which resulted in broad-based commercial loan growth across geographies and sectors. Our recent addition of Capstone Partners has expanded the expertise we bring to customers, benefiting our deepening efforts with commercial customers and bolstering our fee income opportunities. In the consumer bank this quarter, we implemented additional Fair Play enhancements that offer a compelling value proposition for customers.
"Credit continues to perform very well with five consecutive quarters of declining nonperforming assets, reflecting our aggregate moderate-to-low risk appetite through the cycle. Capital levels increased during the quarter and credit reserves are robust allowing us to continue supporting customers and economic growth in the communities we serve. Looking forward, we are well positioned with a high quality balance sheet, and earnings power to drive long-term performance and generate significant value for our shareholders in a variety of economic scenarios.
"Finally, Huntington is proud to have been ranked as the largest Small Business Administration 7(a) lender by volume nationally for the fifth consecutive year. This reinforces our commitment to support small businesses and reflects the successful efforts to expand into new geographies, such as Colorado and Minnesota where we are already rank first and third, respectively."
The third quarter 2022 earnings materials, including the detailed earnings press release, quarterly financial supplement, and conference call slide presentation, are available on the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website, http://huntington.com/ In addition, the financial results will be furnished on a Form 8-K that will be available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov.
Huntington's senior management will host an earnings conference call on October 21, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The call may be accessed via a live Internet webcast at the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website, www.huntington.com, or through a dial-in telephone number at (877) 407-8029; Conference ID #13732539. Slides will be available in the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website about an hour prior to the call. A replay of the webcast will be archived in the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website. A telephone replay will be available approximately two hours after the completion of the call through October 28, 2022 at (877) 660-6853 or (201) 612-7415; conference ID #13732539.
Please see the 2022 Third Quarter Quarterly Financial Supplement for additional detailed financial performance metrics. This document can be found on the Investor Relations section of Huntington's website, http://www.huntington.com.
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $179 billion asset regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1866, The Huntington National Bank and its affiliates provide consumers, small and middle‐market businesses, corporations, municipalities, and other organizations with a comprehensive suite of banking, payments, wealth management, and risk management products and services. Huntington operates more than 1,000 branches in 11 states, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Visit Huntington.com for more information.
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NEW YORK, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces that it is investigating potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSN) resulting from allegations that LivePerson may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased LivePerson securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On March 15, 2023, after the market closed, LivePerson issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter 2022 financial results disclosing that LivePerson reported a loss and revenue decline. In its press release, LivePerson also revealed that its subsidiary, WildHealth, received a notice that Medicare was suspending reimbursement for services rendered under the Medicare demonstrate program (the "Program") in which certain non-core services would be provided and reimbursed by Medicare. Accordingly, LivePerson stated that given the "inherent uncertainty as to the timing and amount of further reimbursement for services rendered under the Program, the Company has elected to take a reserve for revenue associated with services delivered under the Program in the fourth quarter of 2022 for which payment has not yet been collected."
On this news, LivePerson's stock price fell $5.64, or 57.73% to close at $4.13 per share on March 16, 2023, thereby injuring investors.
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Ways to combat extreme heat if you do not have AC
According to a recent NewsNation article, extreme heat “affects more Americans than any other weather emergency.” To help people across the nation better prepare for these unhealthy conditions and prevent heat-related illnesses and death, the government has recently launched heat.gov.
If you do not have an air conditioner, heat waves can be even more dangerous because your body has no chance for relief. However, there are several products you can buy to help you get through days or weeks of relentless high temperatures.
Why is heat so dangerous?
To function properly, the human body needs to maintain a core temperature that is between 97 and 99 degrees. Once the body drops below or rises above this temperature, it invites a wide range of illnesses. To maintain this functional core temperature, the weather needs to be roughly 82 degrees.
When the body’s core temperature rises, blood is diverted away from vital organs and directed toward the skin to help release internal heat. Additionally, the water in your skin is excreted as sweat. To evaporate, it requires energy in the form of heat. With limited blood flowing to vital organs and a rapidly diminishing water supply, your body can quickly fall into a life-threatening crisis mode.
What are the symptoms of heat-related illnesses?
Both external and internal heat can be a problem. Therefore, it is important to stay hydrated and wear breathable, moisture-wicking clothing. Additionally, heat-related illnesses can have an immediate or cumulative effect on an individual. Symptoms can intensify over the course of several days.
The primary symptoms of heat-related illness are:
- Heavy sweating
- Muscle cramps
- Thirst
- Mild shock
- Dizziness
- Nausea
- Weakness
- Unconsciousness
Heat exhaustion vs. heat stroke
It can help to keep these two heat-related illnesses clear in your mind by remembering that exhaustion is something that builds up over time, while a stroke is something that strikes suddenly with substantial impact.
Heat exhaustion
With heat exhaustion, the body becomes fatigued from trying to maintain its core temperature. An individual suffering from heat exhaustion requires help to maintain their body heat. This is accomplished by moving them to a cooler area and replenishing fluids.
Heat stroke
Heat stroke happens when the body has lost the battle and your core temperature rises. This can happen suddenly or be the result of prolonged heat exhaustion. It is a life-threatening illness, so immediate medical attention is required. Call 911. While waiting for help to arrive, get the person out of direct sunlight and try to cool them down with whatever means is available.
What are some strategies you can employ to stay cool during an extreme heat wave?
The key factors to staying safe during extreme heat are:
- Be aware of the temperature and humidity
- Avoid going outdoors, especially for prolonged periods
- Remove yourself from dangerous environments, such as a car interior
- Wear lightweight, breathable, moisture-wicking clothing
- Avoid strenuous activities
- Stay hydrated
- Wear sunscreen
Products that help you stay cool without AC
Igloo Half-Gallon High-Performance Sports Jug
Trying to stay cool without drinking water is like trying to run an air conditioner without refrigerant. This half-gallon, insulated jug has a flip cap that snaps closed to prevent spills and a wide mouth that allows for chugging. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
The double-wall structure of this stainless steel tumbler ensures your beverage will stay cold. It has an innovative magnetic seal that keeps the lid closed. The tumbler is BPA-free, features a no-sweat design and is dishwasher safe. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Eclipse Fresno Modern Blackout Curtains
The easiest way to stay cool is to not let your home or apartment get hot in the first place. This blackout curtain can keep up to 99% of home-warming sunlight out of your living space, providing an impressive barrier against summer heat. As a bonus, it also dampens noise to create a more soothing environment. Sold by Amazon
Air King Whole House Window Fan
When used properly, a window fan is extremely effective at either expelling household heat or bringing in cooling air. This model has three speeds, a front-mounted switch and a powder-coated steel front grill. Sold by Amazon
Hunter Fan Company Builder Deluxe Indoor Ceiling Fan
Circulating air can even out the overall temperature of a room. More importantly, when a breeze crosses the body, it helps with evaporation and allows you to cool down with greater efficiency. This whisper-quiet model is energy efficient and has a long-lasting, dimmable LED light. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
One of the most uncomfortable times during a heat wave is the night. Your body needs a bedsheet that allows for air exchange so you can stay cool. This luxuriously soft bamboo option helps regulate your body temperature, letting you have a more pleasant night’s sleep, even without AC. Sold by Amazon
Your pillow is another bedtime necessity that can cause more harm than good when it comes to trapping heat. This ultrasoft, gel-infused memory foam pillow helps diffuse body heat so you can have a more comfortable sleeping experience. Sold by Amazon
HomeLabs Countertop Ice Maker Machine
Ice can be used in drinks and on your body, cooling you from both the inside and the outside. This countertop machine can make up to 26 pounds of refreshing coolness every day. It features a compact design, so it is suitable for a kitchen with limited space. The reservoir reuses any water that is a result of melted ice, making the model extremely efficient. Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Rent the Runway, Inc. (NASDAQ: RENT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Rent the Runway Class A common stock in or traceable to the Company's October 2021 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 13, 2023
No obligation or cost to you.
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Rent the Runway, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Rent the Runway was continuing to face extraordinary business headwinds, such as transportation headwinds and labor wage rate increases, from the COVID-19 pandemic; (ii) Rent the Runway's active subscriber enrollments had sharply decelerated from the growth trajectory represented in the offering documents and, as a result, Rent the Runway was several months away from approaching its pre-pandemic levels of active subscriptions; (iii) Rent the Runway needed to substantially increase marketing and advertising costs from historical figures in order to attempt to grow its active subscriber network; (iv) Rent the Runway was suffering from ballooning fulfillment and transportation costs; and (v) as a result, Rent the Runway was suffering accelerating operational losses at the time of the initial public offering and was far less likely to achieve profitability in the near term, if ever, than represented.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Rent the Runway you have until January 13, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Rent the Runway securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the RENT lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/rent-the-runway-lawsuit-loss-submission-form?id=35419&from=4.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The trial for a man accused of killing a woman last year in a west side Indy apartment has ended in a mistrial one day after it began.
The trial for John Moreno began Monday in Marion County court. On Tuesday the court declared a mistrial for unknown reasons.
Moreno faces one murder charge for his alleged involvement in the death of Donna Hawes.
The 54-year-old victim was found dead on Feb. 7, 2021, along the 1000 block of Hardin Boulevard. Her body was in a unit of Cloverleaf Apartments.
Officers arrived around 1 p.m. to find Hawes suffering from apparent trauma. IEMS crews arrived and pronounced the woman dead at the scene.
Indianapolis police said Moreno, 27 at the time, was arrested on Feb. 24, 2021, on a preliminary murder charge in connection with the case.
A new trial date has been set for Moreno with a pretrial conference scheduled for Dec. 2. | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/court-declares-mistrial-in-west-side-indy-murder-case/ | 2022-11-30 02:04:08 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/court-declares-mistrial-in-west-side-indy-murder-case/ |
Benn, Seguin in different roles as 30-somethings for Stars in push to West final
DALLAS (AP) — Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin were regularly among the NHL’s top scorers when they first started playing together in Dallas a decade ago.
Now 30-something forwards, captain Benn and six-time All-Star Seguin are far removed from skating together on the top line, or even leading the Stars in scoring while having the two biggest contracts on the roster. Their roles have changed and they have played a little less this season on different lines, but that plan has certainly worked out well for the players — and the team that is in the Western Conference final.
“You’ve seen the effect of it with the season we’ve had, directly on our standings, directly on our scoring, directly on the consistency of their seasons,” first-year Stars coach Pete DeBoer said Wednesday. “We’re not a passive stand-around team, so you’re expending a lot of energy to play the way we want to play. And I think that’s benefited our team game too, because they have that energy to do that.”
Benn again played all 82 regular-season games, with 33 goals and 78 points for his best totals since 2017-18, even with an average ice time of 15:47 that was his lowest since his 2009-10 rookie season. He had 18 goals and 28 assists playing the same number a games and nearly a minute more per game last season.
“We sat down at the start of the year when he got hired, and I got to talk about individual players, myself and then obviously our group as a whole,” Benn said. “You know what he wanted to bring here and change a little bit, and he’s done a great job so far.”
Seguin played more than a minute less a game than last season, also his fewest since being a rookie, and had 50 points (21 goals) in 76 games. He is the only player on the Stars’ roster to win a Stanley Cup, but that was as a 19-year-old with Boston in 2011, only a year after he was the second overall draft pick. The Bruins traded him to Dallas on July 4, 2013.
Game 1 of the West final against the Golden Knights is Friday night in Las Vegas. It is the second time in four seasons for these teams to meet in a conference final, though DeBoer was on the other bench in 2020 when the Stars won in five games in the NHL’s bubble in Canada. Tampa Bay then took the Stanley Cup in six games.
Seguin was playing with a torn labrum in his hip when the Stars made that Stanley Cup Final, their first in 20 years. After hip surgery and an arthroscopic procedure on his knee, there was a grueling rehab that kept him out for all but three games at the end of the 2020-21 season and made him change how he played.
But when Joe Pavelski went into concussion protocol and missed five games in the first round last month, it was Seguin who moved up to the top line with Jason Robertson and Roope Hintz — a pair of high-scoring young stars like Seguin and Benn in the past. Seguin had four power-play goals against Minnesota and initially stayed on the top line after Pavelski returned for the second round against Seattle that the Stars won in seven games.
“You get slotted where you’re slotted and you just want to contribute as much as you can, whether it’s first PP (power play), no PP, first line, fourth line,” Seguin said. “When you have a team like this, it’s exciting. It’s always a lot easier because you’re so deep and you can kind of play anywhere. I’ve been trying to have as much fun with it as I can.”
DeBoer said he never looked at salary, ego or what they did in the past, and instead coached every player like he’d want to be coached. Dallas is the fourth different team he’s taken to a conference final.
“The teams you have a chance to win with, those guys accept that coaching, they want that coaching, they’re willing to to buy into to that,” DeBoer said. “In the places I’ve been where where those key guys have pushed back, you know you’re usually not winning.”
Seguin has four seasons left on a $78.8 million, eight-year contract. Benn’s $76 million, eight-year deal goes two more seasons, and he wants to take full advantage of an opportunity to finally win a Stanley Cup.
“Every player goes through this, you come in the league, you’re a young guy, you want to prove yourself,” general manager Jim Nill said. “In the end, you get to a point in your career, you want to win the Stanley Cup or you want to win consistently, and I think that’s where they’re at now in their careers.”
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(WGHP) — The mixed martial arts community is in mourning after the unexpected loss of Anthony “Rumble” Johnson at the age of 38.
Bellator MMA confirmed Johnson’s death on Twitter Sunday night, saying “The Bellator family is devastated by his untimely passing and we send our condolences to his family and friends during this difficult time.”
A spokesperson told the Associated Press that Johnson had been ill for more than a year.
In September 2021, Johnson asked for prayers in an Instagram post, saying, “This is gonna be a battle and I’m gonna have to dig deeper than I ever have before.” He went on to say it was “NOT COVID.”
Late last month, Johnson’s manager told ESPN the 38-year-old was “not doing well.”
Many high-profile members of the MMA community expressed shock at the news on Sunday.
“For a guy who struck fear in so many [people’s hearts] Anthony Johnson was a caring person,” Daniel Cormier, a two-time Olympian and MMA fighter wrote on Twitter. “What a person he was, Rumble will be missed. Sometimes life doesn’t seem fair.”
Johnson will be remembered as one of the most terrifying knockout artists in the history of the sport. During his career, Johnson won 23 fights, 17 of which were by knockout or technical knockout.
Johnson fought for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship twice in his career. His last fight was with Bellator MMA in May 2021, he won the fight by knockout. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/ufc-mma-legend-anthony-rumble-johnson-dead-at-38/ | 2022-11-14 01:55:21 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/ufc-mma-legend-anthony-rumble-johnson-dead-at-38/ |
Democracy conference set for USD on March 10
VERMILLION, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - The state of American democracy, and the role the media play in creating an informed electorate, will be at the heart of a daylong conference to be held on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion on Friday, March 10.
The annual Democracy Conference, sponsored by the Chiesman Center for Democracy at USD, will feature presentations, a panel discussion and a keynote speaker who will all address ways to improve democratic government and civic engagement in South Dakota.
The Chiesman center is a non-profit organization that is “dedicated to facilitating public dialogue, active civic engagement and the promotion of civic values” as a path toward protecting democracy in America, according to its website. The center conducts polling and research into democratic institutions, representative government and civic engagement, and provides information and activities aimed at increasing civic engagement and the fundamentals of a democratic nation.
Shane Nordyke, a USD political science professor who leads the Chiesman center, said attendees of the March 10 conference can attend sessions providing an update on polling and research data on democracy in South Dakota; hear presentations from USD students on civic engagement research; and listen to a roundtable discussion and ask questions of media members from around the state.
The keynote speaker is Michael W. Wagner, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin who will discuss the nexus between democracy, civic engagement and the media.
“Increasingly people have questions about the health of democracy,” Nordyke said. “In our polling data, we’re seeing a disconnect and a disengagement from the process.
“We’ll address what is the state of democracy in South Dakota currently, and how do people feel about their engagement in the political process and the ways in which they are represented, and we’ll highlight the important role of journalism and the media in facilitating healthy democracies.”
South Dakota News Watch is a co-sponsor of the event, and News Watch content director Bart Pfankuch will be a panelist in the media roundtable discussion.
The event begins at 8:30 a.m. and runs until 3:45 p.m. Central time and will be held at the Al Neuharth Media Center, 555 N. Dakota St., on the USD campus.
Attendance is free and lunch will be provided.
Copyright 2023 KSFY. All rights reserved. | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/03/08/democracy-conference-set-usd-march-10/ | 2023-03-08 21:31:28 | 0 | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/03/08/democracy-conference-set-usd-march-10/ |
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