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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
If approved by a judge, the settlement, which was filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, would be among the most expensive payouts ever awarded in a lawsuit over mass arrests, experts said.
The lawsuit focused on 18 of the many protests that erupted in New York City in the week following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught.
It comes as many other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements with protesters who spilled into the streets to decry racist police brutality after Floyd’s death, a period of unrest that saw 10,000 people arrested in the span of a few days.
Attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild, which represented the plaintiffs in New York, accused NYPD leaders of depriving protesters of their 1st Amendment rights through a “coordinated” campaign of indiscriminate brutality and unlawful arrests.
Through more than two years of litigation, attorneys for the city maintained that police were responding to a chaotic and unprecedented situation, pointing to some unruly protests in which police vehicles were set on fire and officers pelted with rocks and plastic bottles.
A spokesperson for the NYPD deferred questions to the city’s Law Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
During some of the 2020 protest marches, officers deployed a crowd control tactic known as kettling against peaceful protesters, corralling them in tight spaces and attacking them with batons and pepper spray before making mass arrests.
Adama Sow, one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said their group of marchers were trapped by police without warning. Sow and the other arrestees were placed in zip ties until their hands turned purple, then held in a sweltering correctional bus for several hours.
“It was so disorganized, but so intentional,” Sow said. “They seemed set on traumatizing everyone.”
The city invoked qualified immunity, which protects police officers from lawsuits stemming from lawful work performed in the line of duty, and defended the decision to arrest medics and legal observers as within the rights of the department.
While attorneys for the plaintiffs cited past crackdowns on large demonstrations, including during the 2004 Republican National Convention, as evidence of longstanding “systemic violations” by the NYPD, attorneys for the city said there was no systematic effort to deprive people of their right to protest.
“There is no history — or present or future — of unconstitutional policing,” Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city, wrote in a memo. “There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights.”
The lawsuit named former Mayor Bill de Blasio and retired NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea as well as other police leaders as defendants. Under the settlement agreement, neither the city nor the NYPD is required to admit any wrongdoing.
Protesters who were arrested on certain charges — including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, arson or weapons possession — will be excluded from the settlement. Those who were seen on video blocking police from making arrests may also be ineligible.
Unlike some other lawsuits related to the 2020 protests, the class action was not meant to force the NYPD to change its practices. There are several other lawsuits aimed at injunctive relief that are ongoing, including one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James that calls for a federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s policing of protests.
Another class action settlement announced earlier this year would award $21,500 to those arrested by police during one demonstration in the Bronx, a payout that could total around $10 million including legal fees.
Separately, more than 600 people have brought individual claims against New York City related to police action during the 2020 protests, according to the city’s comptroller, Brad Lander. Roughly half of them have resulted in settlements and resolutions, costing the city nearly $12 million to date.
Wylie Stecklow, an attorney for the protesters in the class action lawsuit, said the growing cost to taxpayers should serve as a “red flag” for city leaders about the NYPD’s inability to correct its “decades old problem with constitutionally compliant protest policing.”
“While the arc of the moral universe is indeed long, sometimes it needs reform to bend towards justice” he said. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/ap-new-york-city-agrees-to-pay-13-million-to-2020-racial-injustice-protesters-in-historic-class-action/ | 2023-07-21 00:58:30 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/ap-new-york-city-agrees-to-pay-13-million-to-2020-racial-injustice-protesters-in-historic-class-action/ |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, January 6, 2023
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...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Very high surf of 10 to 14 feet expected at some
beaches.
* WHERE...Beaches of San Diego County and Orange County.
* WHEN...From late Thursday afternoon through Friday evening.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions. Areas of
coastal flooding and beach erosion probable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A westerly swell of 10 to 12 feet and a
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West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, left, and Marshall University President Brad D. Smith are shown during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours.
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, seated at left, Marshall University President Brad D. Smith, seated at right, and others pose during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, Marshall University President Brad D. Smith and others visit California in connection with the ChooseWV tours
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, left, and Marshall University President Brad D. Smith are shown during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours.
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West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, speaks during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours.
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West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee speaks during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours.
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West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, seated at left, Marshall University President Brad D. Smith, seated at right, and others pose during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours
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Marshall University President Brad D. Smith speaks during a visit to California in connection with the ChooseWV tours.
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West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, Marshall University President Brad D. Smith and others visit California in connection with the ChooseWV tours
HUNTINGTON — Leaders from Marshall University, West Virginia University and the West Virginia government will visit several states in the coming months as a continuation of economic development tours that began last year.
In connection with the ChooseWV tours, Marshall President Brad D. Smith, West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee, members of the universities’ staffs and individuals from the West Virginia government including House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, will visit Seattle, Los Angeles and Houston during the week of June 25, Smith said. They will also visit Boston on May 17 and 18.
“The goal of Choose West Virginia is to recognize that we have a great story to tell, but we have historically not been the greatest storytellers,” Smith said. “We are a humble people as a state, and so I tease when when I’m out on the Choose West Virginia tour, and I say that if it wasn’t for John Denver singing ‘Country Roads’ and if it wasn’t for Matthew McConaughey making a movie, people wouldn’t know a lot about our story.”
Smith, Gee, members of the West Virginia government and others from the Marshall, WVU and WV government staffs visited several different locations in connection with the ChooseWV tours last year, including New York; Washington, D.C.; and California’s Silicon Valley in July and Charlotte, North Carolina, in December.
During the tours, the group met with CEOs, investment bankers, government officials, trade ambassadors and alumni, Smith said.
“We got a crash course in economic development when Fortune 200 company Nucor selected Mason County last year, and these ChooseWV visits stemmed from a lot of those lessons learned,” Hanshaw said in an emailed statement.
“We heard from those executives how much they appreciated being able to get the state’s decision-makers on the phone or in a meeting room right away.
“We learned the country doesn’t know about the new and boundless opportunities we have here in West Virginia because they’re not even looking at West Virginia,” Hanshaw continued. “And we realized that if a little outreach from one department is good, then a lot of outreach from a wide and united front is great, so we hit the road this summer in what started out as a bit of an experiment.”
Smith said that West Virginia is “at a strategic intersection where our greatest assets are the answers to many of the questions the rest of the world is struggling with.”
“So we have incredible talent, we have amazing communities that are attractive to live in and we have business-friendly policies and universities that are aligned in trying to create opportunities for employers to choose us,” Smith said. “And that story in a post-COVID world is resonating for remote workers, it’s resonating for CEOs who want to create offices where they know where their employees are going to be taken care of and it just really is coming together in an incredibly strong way.”
Smith said those on the ChooseWV tours are sharing “West Virginia’s current status in terms of our game plan and our strategy,” as well as what they need to know about hiring employees, opening an office or potentially starting a business in the state.
“Jobs are not paychecks, they’re dignity,” Smith said. “They’re a reason to get out of bed. They’re a reason to show you that you’re a part of something bigger than yourself and that you can make the rest of your community stronger. So, economic development will help West Virginia not only create better livelihoods, but it’ll create better lives, because it’ll help us avoid the things that sometimes we turn to when we’re in despair, whether it’s substance abuse or anything else, and so that’s why economic development is so important.”
Others who regularly participate in the ChooseWV visits include Sen. Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, and Mitch Carmichael, secretary of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development, Smith said.
“We try to do more listening than talking,” Hanshaw said. “We try to show how nimble and responsive we’ve become as a state government to enact business-friendly policies, and we continue working on those connections after the first meetings.”
Another round of ChooseWV visits is being planned, he said.
“Choose West Virginia gives state policymakers and higher education leaders an opportunity to share a positive message about the Mountain State directly with business and industry leaders across the United States who are considering future investment decisions,” Gee said in an emailed statement. “I am proud to be part of this coalition which I believe is making a difference in promoting economic development efforts in West Virginia. Working together, we can leverage our expertise, our drive and our connections for the betterment of the entire state.”
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NORMAL — Maybe the turn of a new calendar year will help solve Illinois State's turnover woes.
From the beginning of the season, turnovers have hurt the Redbirds' chances, especially in games decided by two possessions or less. That happened again on New Year's Eve at CEFCU Arena when ISU committed a season-high 20 turnovers while falling to Northern Iowa, 66-60.
"Sometimes I feel maybe I teach it and emphasize it so much maybe they're getting tight," said ISU head coach Ryan Pedon after the game. "But the turnovers we have wouldn't indicate we're getting tight, but careless."
Pedon emphasized to his team after returning from Christmas break, MVC teams that make the NCAA Tournament the last 10 years are among the league leaders in assist-to-turnover ratio.
Right now, the Redbirds rank last among the 12 MVC teams in assist-to-turnover ratio at 0.73.
The leader? Indiana State at 1.30.
It's no coincidence the Sycamores come to CEFCU Arena at 7 p.m. Wednesday as the only undefeated team in league play at 4-0. The Redbirds are 6-9 overall and 1-3 in the league.
The Sycamores (11-4 overall) were eighth out of 10 teams in assist-to-turnover ratio last season when they went 11-20 in Josh Schertz's first season as head coach.
"Probably having a point guard (is the difference). We had to play without one last season," said Schertz on Monday's MVC coaches Zoom call. "The biggest key has been the improvement of Julian Larry at the point guard position. His growth from last year, where he was trying to figure it out and trying to figure out our system, he's made a huge step forward.
"Julian and Trent Gibson (a transfer) have given us two true point guards and allowed us to play and take the ball out of some guys' hands."
McChesney shines
A bright spot in ISU's loss to UNI was Liam McChesney returning to full health.
The 6-foot-10 junior forward battled an ankle injury then flu-like symptoms after scoring a career-high 25 points in an 87-81 victory against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 7.
McChesney was a non-factor in a 55-51 loss to UIC last Wednesday with two points and three rebounds in 11 minutes. He was a different player against UNI with 22 points, four rebounds and four blocks in 30 minutes.
"Young players underestimate the importance of practice sometimes with the confidence and success and the rhythm of game that is necessary," said Pedon. "When you get repetitions over consecutive days that helps. The best ability as a player is availability."
Drake struggling
Drake was the overwhelming preseason favorite to win the league title. But the Bulldogs (11-4 overall) are off to a 2-2 league start ahead of Wednesday's game at Southern Illinois (11-4, 3-1).
"We're just not quite as dynamic in the open floor has been part of it," said Drake head coach Darian DeVries. "Even though we have a lot of guys back, missing ShanQuan Hemphill and Tremell Murphy we haven't replaced that speed and athleticism in spots. We're not quite clicking on offense the way I thought we would."
Senior guard D.J. Wilkins also is returning from ACL surgery at the end of last season. Wilkins is averaging 7.6 points and shooting 36.9% from the field.
"He's not (100%). It's just part of the ACL injury," said DeVries. "Even though a guy is back on the floor and their knee is healthy, it still takes months a lot of times for guys to get their full speed and strength back. He's fighting through it and giving us what he's got."
Defense keys Bradley
Bradley leads the league in points allowed (58.7 per game) and opponents' field goal percentage (.381).
While 6-9 senior forward Malevy Leons paces the Braves in steals (27) and blocks (26), However, Bradley head coach Brian Wardle said the team's top two defenders are junior forward Rienk Mast and sophomore guard Connor Hickman.
"Everyone votes for All-Defensive Team and Defensive Player of the Year based on how many blocks and steals you get. We vote, as coaches, on who gives up the most points," said Wardle. "When Rienk got back after being out a month (with a knee injury), our execution went up defensively because he's a great talker and positionally he's almost flawless.
"He'll give up 2-4 points in 30 minutes of play. The same with Connor Hickman. That's really, really hard to do, especially when they're playing (against) good players."
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(The Hill) – Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person, according to Forbes’s real-time billionaire ranking.
Bernard Arnault and his family, who own luxury goods company LVMH, surpassed Musk on the list as Tesla shares fell sharply and the LVMH stock price simultaneously increased early this week.
Musk’s net worth clocked in at $176.8 billion as of Tuesday, compared to Arnault’s $186.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Arnault’s company includes many clothing and luxury brands as subsidiaries, including Sephora, Birkenstock and Tiffany & Co.
Musk’s wealth is largely tied to Tesla, causing him to lose billions as shares fell 6.3 percent on Monday and another 4.1 percent on Tuesday.
He owns about 25 percent of the electric car company between stock and options, according to Forbes.
Tesla’s market cap has fallen by more than half this year after the company’s financial successes largely drove Musk’s rise to the top of the list.
But as Musk moved closer to purchasing Twitter, Tesla’s share price in mid-September began experiencing significant drops. Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal to own the social media company in part involved loans collateralized by Musk’s Tesla stock holdings.
He also runs private space company SpaceX and Boring Company, a firm that aims to defeat traffic.
Musk has said he did not purchase Twitter to make money and instead wanted to “create a digital town square.”
He laid off more than half of the social media’s staff since closing the deal in late October and ushered in new content moderation policies that have drawn ire from liberals and many civil rights groups.
Musk’s net worth remains more than $40 billion higher than the No. 3 on Forbes’s list, Indian industrialist Gautam Adani. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, clocked in at No. 4 on the list with a net worth of $115.7 billion. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/elon-musk-no-longer-worlds-richest-person-forbes/ | 2022-12-14 13:57:48 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/elon-musk-no-longer-worlds-richest-person-forbes/ |
It is understandable, what with a war on in Ukraine, democracy on trial in Washington, and women being patted on the head and told they cannot control their own bodies, that news that Boston now has a street named after Donna Summer didn’t get as much attention as it deserved.
If you grew up in or around Boston during the 1970s or 80s, you listened to the Trammps and went to The Palace in Saugus, or Faces in Cambridge, or Lucifer’s in Kenmore Square and you knew that Donna Summer, a Boston kid, was the queen of disco.
Before she was Donna Summer, she was LaDonna Gaines, born at the old Boston City Hospital, brought up in Mission Hill. The street she grew up on, Parker Hill Avenue, was just renamed Donna Summer Avenue. Her sister, Mary Gaines Bernard, was at the annual Donna Summer Disco Party in Copley Square a couple of weeks ago when city officials announced their intention to rename the street.
That party, which draws one of the most diverse crowds in the city every year, has been Boston’s most visible way to honor her since Summer died of cancer at 63 in 2012. It is an annual homage to both the woman and the music that brought a lot of different kinds of people together.
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As Alison Harvey, a Harvard Divinity School program manager who still listens to disco religiously, put it: “It is such a joyful event for all ages, and the best way to put 14,000 steps on your fitness watch.”
Summer grew up on the second floor of a triple-decker at 16 Parker Hill Ave, in an extended family living situation common throughout Boston neighborhoods. Her aunt and uncle lived on the first floor; her grandmother and cousins on the top floor. Her father was a butcher, her mother was a school teacher.
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Her household was full of music: the Supremes, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Janis Joplin. And lots of gospel. Donna Summer developed her extraordinary voice singing at her family’s church, Grant AME Church in the South End.
She knew she would become a star when, as a 10-year-old, she stood up in Grant AME and belted out the old Mahalia Jackson standard “I Found the Answer,” and the minister wept.
The sexual innuendo in some of her hits, particularly “Love to Love You Baby,” led some preachers, even the Rev. Jesse Jackson, to denounce her overt sexuality. But then, the holier-than-thou crowd went after Ma Rainey, too, and what did that get them?
Donna Summer never cut her links with her faith, her church, or her hometown. Long after she moved from Boston and became an international star, she kept her tithes at Grant AME. She gave generously to Boston-based charities.
After Summer died, Representative Ayanna Pressley recounted that when she was a little girl she got separated from her mom in a department store. Donna Summer, by then one of the world’s most famous singers, found her wandering, took her to security and waited until Pressley’s mom got there.
As girls, Summer and her sisters held singing shows on their back porch. In her autobiography, she recalled moving the shows to the front porch so residents in the big brick nursing home next to their house could hear them better.
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She took the Green Line to swim at the Brighton pool. She almost drowned at that pool once, and that near-death experience made her take her Christian faith more seriously.
She left Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester in 1967, shortly before graduating, to move to New York, got famous in Europe, then made it big everywhere. She had 42 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100, five Grammys, and launched countless romances on dance floors all over the world.
Donna Summer was a legend. There’s a whole generation or two who have grown up in Boston and probably know little or nothing about her.
England has its queen. We had ours, and she lived on Donna Summer Ave.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at kevin.cullen@globe.com. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/30/metro/immortal-donna-summer-gets-boston-street-named-after-her/ | 2022-06-30 19:23:36 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/30/metro/immortal-donna-summer-gets-boston-street-named-after-her/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A 6-year-old horse died after being injured in a race at Belmont Park ahead of next week’s Triple Crown finale in New York.
Chaysenbryn injured his right front leg nearing the quarter pole in Thursday’s third race. He bumped another horse before being pulled up by jockey Joel Rosario and had to be euthanized on the track, according to the Equibase race chart notes.
Trained by Rudy Rodriguez, Chaysenbryn had six wins in 25 career starts and earnings of $212,530, according to Equibase, the industry database.
It was the second incident involving one of Rodriguez’s horses in four days at the track. Midnight Empress was pulled up by jockey Javier Castellano in the ninth race on May 28 and vanned off by equine ambulance, according to the New York Gaming Commission.
Rodriguez has had four horses, including Chaysenbryn, die this year, with three occurring at Aqueduct, according to the commission’s database.
The Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, will be run June 10.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, the sport’s new governing body, is investigating 12 horse deaths in the last month at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka made it back to the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park for the first time since 2016 by beating Zhu Lin 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in a match that began late Sunday night and ended at nearly 2:20 a.m. on Monday.
“I really focused on staying patient, staying focused on myself,” said the 33-year-old Azarenka, who won the title in Australia in 2012 and 2013, “because it was very, very easy to just lose that patience, lose control, because it was very tough out there.”
The third set began with six consecutive breaks of serve, before Zhu finally was the first to hold, taking a 4-3 lead.
But the 24th-seeded Azarenka grabbed the final three games. She held, then broke to go up 5-4 when Zhu put a forehand into the net.
Azarenka faced two break points while trying to serve for the victory. She managed to save both and closed it out with a cross-court forehand winner after 2 hours, 40 minutes of play.
“It was a bit frustrating for me, I’m not going to lie. I probably didn’t show it, but I was a bit upset because, ‘When is it going to turn my way?’” Azarenka said. “At one point, I had to tell myself a little bit to stop thinking (about) what she’s doing, really focus on myself: ‘What I can do, control? I can’t control her making winners. I can’t control her hitting lines or playing amazing tennis. I can play a part in not letting her play such a good tennis.’”
The result ends a career-best run for the 87th-ranked Zhu, who had lost in the first or second round in each of her previous 13 Grand Slam appearances.
“I’m really exhausted right now. I mean, I gave everything out there. I’m really proud of myself,” Zhu said. “Victoria, she’s a Grand Slam champion. You have to be, like, 120%, even 200%, to be able to beat her.”
Azarenka will face No. 3 Jessica Pegula on Tuesday for a place in the semifinals.
Pegula eliminated 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 6-2 on Sunday.
“She’s a great friend of mine. I absolutely adore her,” Azarenka said about Pegula. “We have really tough battles every single time. We practice with each other. There’s going to be no surprises, absolutely.”
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Inflation: Shoppers choosing chicken over steak
Published: Aug. 9, 2022 at 10:26 AM EDT|Updated: 16 minutes ago
(CNN) - Demand for chicken is surging while shoppers are passing up higher-priced cuts of beef, according to Tyson Foods.
That’s likely due to inflation, which is at its highest level in more than 40 years.
It’s something Kroger and Walmart have also noticed. They point out customers are buying more store-branded food over pricier national brands.
Tyson is planning to respond by offering lower-priced cuts of beef and bigger package sizes that deliver more value.
The company says demand for meat in general remains strong.
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Toy companies aim to focus on adults this holiday season
Published: Sep. 27, 2022 at 4:17 PM EDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
(CNN) - Toy companies say they have a new target audience for gifts this holiday season.
Companies are looking towards adults as potential customers, and not just parents buying for their kids.
A Hasbro executive says the company is pitching collectibles and nostalgic products to adults because grown-up shoppers tend to be more invested in the brands that they played with as kids.
Hasbro expects strong demand for toy brands like Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Wars and Marvel.
Mattel is also hoping to cash in on adults buying toys, particularly Hot Wheels. It is also partnering with Elon Musk’s Space-X to sell “Space-X inspired” collectible toys under the Matchbox brand.
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ASTORIA, Ore. — The city of Astoria is limiting the hours people can camp on public property in order to cut down the number of people sleeping outside local businesses and parks for long periods of time.
An ordinance passed during last week’s city council meeting only allows people to camp on public property between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. People are allowed to use small tents, tarps and sleeping bags but can’t take up more than 50 feet of space.
“This doesn’t help nothing,” said Rob, who lived on the streets for seven years.
He and others stood outside in the rain on Commercial Street Tuesday near one of the city’s only organizations that provides food, clothes and hygiene supplies to homeless people.
“There are places to go in the daytime. There’s really no place to go at night,” added John, who lived on the streets in Astoria for 10 years.
“I don’t feel like it’s a good idea for the city to say you can’t be someplace if there’s not a designated place for someone to be,” said Osarch Orak, who runs Life Boat Services, a homeless services organization that feeds about 30-50 people per day.
Orak doesn’t believe the city’s new ordinance is fair.
“It really sucks,” he said. “In my opinion, it’s inhumane. It’s moving people along, displacing people so they can go to the next place to get displaced from.”
Others told KGW many living on the streets don’t keep up with the changing ordinances and rules.
“The problem is nobody knows when or where this stuff’s happening at,” said Rob.
“People are going to sleep when and where they want to. They really can’t stop that. A lot of people living on the streets are on their last leg. I know quite a few people out here that know they’re dying," he added.
Others say there should be some regulations when it comes to public camping.
“I think there has to be some limits,” said John, who now lives in a nearby hotel. “There needs to be a place where they can congregate, and usually that’s one of the public parks.”
Astoria’s police department receives calls every day from residents and business owners complaining about those living on the streets.
“Sometimes it’s quality of life issues, behavioral type things, public intoxication,” said interim police chief Eric Halberson.
“I think that the ordinance will give us another tool to address some of the camping issues. However, it’s not a permanent solution,” he added.
Astoria Mayor Bruce Jones said the ordnance addresses some residents' safety concerns.
“Some of these groups of unhoused people have made our residents and visitors business owners feel unsafe, and that’s unacceptable,” Jones said. “I certainly see there’s arguments on both sides, and I understand the folks who are advocates for the unhoused don't want any ordinances that place any restrictions whatsoever on camping. But from the perspective from our residents and visitors and business owners, it’s unacceptable to have people simply allowed to camp out for long periods of time.”
In July, the city will discuss a list of public places where camping will also soon be prohibited. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/astoria-bans-daytime-camping/283-82e10621-af99-4f98-8b43-58468a55403d | 2022-06-29 07:46:10 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/astoria-bans-daytime-camping/283-82e10621-af99-4f98-8b43-58468a55403d |
WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Winnipeg 7 Brandon 6 (OT)
Regina 3 Lethbridge 2
Moose Jaw 4 Edmonton 1
Kamloops 6 Prince Albert 4
Tri-City 6 Portland 1
Prince George 8 Victoria 1
Kelowna 5 Vancouver 4
Swift Current 3 Spokane 1
Seattle 6 Everett 5 (OT)
Saturday's results
Edmonton 5 Calgary 1
Saskatoon 3 Winnipeg 2
Prince George 4 Victoria 2
Portland 4 Tri-City 1
Medicine Hat 4 Lethbridge 2
Everett 1 Seattle 0
Kamloops 3 Vancouver 2
Red Deer 1 Spokane 0 (OT)
Kelowna 4 Prince Albert 0
Sunday's results
Moose Jaw 2 Calgary 1
Saskatoon 4 Brandon 2
Medicine Hat 5 Regina 1
Vancouver 4 Tri-City 1
Everett 4 Red Deer 2
Kamloops 4 Victoria 3
Seattle 3 Spokane 1
Tuesday's results
Edmonton at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Thursday's games
Calgary at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
429 PM CDT Tue Sep 6 2022
...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in
Texas...
Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 9:15 AM CDT Tuesday the stage was 13.7 feet (4.2 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
late this evening and continue rising to 20.7 feet (6.3
meters) early Friday morning. Additional rises are possible
thereafter.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Tue Wed Wed Wed
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Rio Grande
Presidio Internation 15.5 13.7 Tue 9am 15.7 16.2 16.8 17.6
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio Internation 4.7 4.2 Tue 9am 4.8 4.9 5.1 5.4
the Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE.
- At 3:15 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 8.1 feet (2.5 meters).
this evening and continue rising to 13.1 feet (4.0 meters)
early Sunday morning. Additional rises are possible
Fld Observed Tue Wed Thu Fri
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm
Presidio 5SE 9.0 8.1 Tue 3pm 8.9 11.2 12.8 13.0
Presidio 5SE 2.7 2.5 Tue 3pm 2.7 3.4 3.9 4.0
the Rio Grande at Boquillas.
- At 3:00 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 30.5 feet (9.3 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 3:00 PM CDT Tuesday was 31.4 feet (9.6 meters).
late tomorrow evening and continue rising to 18.4 feet (5.6
meters) Sunday morning.
Fld Observed Tue Wed Thu Fri
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm
Boquillas 13.0 30.5 Tue 3pm 6.3 12.0 15.6 17.4
Boquillas 4.0 9.3 Tue 3pm 1.9 3.7 4.8 5.3
the Rio Grande at Johnson Ranch.
- At 3:15 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 9.2 feet (2.8 meters).
late tomorrow morning and continue rising to 20.4 feet (6.2
meters) Sunday morning. Additional rises are possible
Fld Observed Tue Wed Thu Fri
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm
Johnson Ranch 15.0 9.2 Tue 3pm 9.4 16.7 19.4 19.9
Johnson Ranch 4.6 2.8 Tue 3pm 2.9 5.1 5.9 6.1
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LONDON (AP) — A foreign correspondent, a consultant, a businessman, a retired accountant and his wife stand in a line for nearly eight hours.
That is how this story begins, once I claim my spot among a growing queue of mourners coming from all corners of the United Kingdom and the world to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II in England’s capital.
It ends when the five of us exit the majestic hall — each in awe, in our own individual way, of the forces of change that swirl around us.
One step into the line, a volunteer named Kofi jots down my number; a wristband later confirms I am No. 3,017 in the queue.
I look back, and the chain of people has already grown by a dozen. It will stretch for miles along the south bank of the River Thames toward Westminster Hall, where the late queen is lying in state ahead of her funeral on Monday.
We were told to expect this. Long waiting times, potentially for 30 hours, in lines that could stretch more than five miles.
A single-zip backpack was all we were allowed to bring; food and drink would be tossed before entering the hall. I packed as I would for a hostile assignment: Layers and waterproofs to account for the notoriously moody weather. Protein bars and a fully charged power bank. An obscene number of pens. And good shoes.
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The first challenge is finding the end of the ever-moving queue. I start from the beginning, near the Albert Embankment, and work my way through the sea of humans from all walks of life who are lined up in single file.
My fellow queuers and I assess each other silently. There is Ramakant and his wife Usha, a retired pair with a passion for mountains. Daniel, a jolly businessman from Essex, specializes in office refurbishment. There is a consultant whose identity I’ve sworn to secrecy because she was skipping work to stand in line.
In the course of our normal lives, we are unlikely to ever cross paths. But the forces of history have somehow bound us together, at least for these next few hours. Quietly, not explicitly, a sense of community has mysteriously formed between us.
We have different reasons for coming. Ramakant and Usha adored the queen. Daniel admired her dedication. For the unnamed consultant, saying goodbye to the queen was something she had to do “for myself.”
Me? I was curious. Death has been on my mind lately.
A week prior, I had been in southern Iraq to witness thousands of pilgrims make their way to the holy city of Karbala to mark the Shiite religious observance of Arbaeen — a 40-day mourning period to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, Prophet Mohammed’s grandson.
I watched an endless procession of pious Iraqis recreate scenes from seventh-century Islam under the scorching 105-degree (40 degrees Celsius) sun. Men rode camels in Hejazi regalia and black-clad youth waved religious flags. Food stalls that dotted the many miles to the shrine gave out rice and beans.
Now I am witness to a dramatically different queue of mourners, there to mark the passing of a monarch whose 70-year reign encompassed the end of an empire. Unlike in the parched terrain of Iraq, people here are fearful it may rain.
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The queue, observed: Readers engrossed in thick novels. Groups of friends chatting and sharing large bottles of champagne. A woman practicing tai chi.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Ramakant says.
Usha marvels at how Elizabeth worked up until hours before she died, handling the transition of power from Boris Johnson to Liz Truss two days before her demise.
“Imagine all the things she has done behind the scenes, in the background, none of us know anything about,” she says.
They can’t believe Elizabeth is dead, despite the fact they knew she could not live forever. “Did you notice her fingertips?” Daniel says of Elizabeth’s last appearance two days before her death. “They were see-through almost, weren’t they?”
We are silent, listening to the gentle soundtrack of the Thames.
It’s a good thing, he adds, that she died soon after Prince Philip, her husband of 74 years. It had been the same with his parents; they died within two weeks of each other. “It’s the best death, really.”
The consultant ducks to avoid a TV crew. Later she scrolls social media, hoping not to find herself on international news broadcasts. A colleague calls, and she tells them she is just “getting lunch.”
I ask: Why not just tell them you are here?
“It’s just one of those things I want to do for myself, and not have to explain." ___
Suddenly, the line is moving. The queen’s coffin has arrived in the Hall.
Everything that follows is the epitome of order. The line snakes quickly around the bank, down to the embankment, where we watch boats cruise by. Before us, in the late-afternoon sun, the gothic complex of Westminster glimmers.
Ramakant was an accountant and has spent his retirement years traveling the world with his wife. From Niagara Falls to Mt. Kilimanjaro, they have been everywhere. “The key,” says Usha, “is not to wait until tomorrow.”
“You might be dead,” Ramakant says. To our left is the National COVID Memorial Wall, with one heart for each life lived and lost.
The consultant has to use the bathroom, but the line is now moving rapidly. So we share our location with her and, moments later, wave when we are many yards ahead and are reunited.
At the final stretch, we eye the security check just before the hall entrance. We are surprised by how fast the line has moved. A woman behind me complains to the volunteers who come to take away drinks: “I’ve got 30 hours' worth of alcohol in here!”
Ramakant is stopped from taking off his shoes before the X-ray. “This isn’t like Gatwick!” jokes one policeman, invoking the name of one of London's airports.
Inside the hall, all falls silent and still. We look up at the lofty wood-beam ceilings. We look down, and there it is — the queen’s coffin on a raised platform, surrounded by honor guards. On top, the imperial state crown glitters with its 3,000 diamonds.
The line divides in two, and each of us is given three seconds to pay last respects. A man in a tartan and walking stick salutes. An elderly woman rises from her wheelchair and makes the sign of the cross. Daniel gets on one knee. Ramakant and Usha bow their heads. Then it is my turn. Outside, the sun is setting.
“We probably would never have met if it weren’t for this,” Daniel says afterward. Everyone exchanges numbers. “Even in death, she’s still doing her work.”
Total time elapsed: Just over 7½ hours.
Ramakant turns to me. “So,” he says. "What will you write about us?”
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Samya Kullab, Iraq correspondent for The Associated Press, is on assignment in London covering the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/samya_kullab
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PRAGUE – Thousands of people rallied again in the Czech capital on Sunday to protest high inflation and demand the government’s resignation.
It was the second such rally at Prague’s Wenceslas Square after one on March 11 that was organized by a new political party known as PRO under an "against the poverty" banner.
The demonstrators, speakers at the protest and the head of the populist group, Jindrich Rajchl, blamed the European Union and the Czech government for soaring inflation and all repeatedly called on the current five-party coalition to resign.
“We want the government’s resignation,” Rajchl told the crowd. Rajchl, a lawyer by profession, is the former deputy head of the Czech soccer association.
“Resign, resign,” the protesters chanted.
“We’re here to stand by our country,” Rajchl said.
His group, whose name in English stands for Law, Respect, Expertise has no seats in parliament.
Rajchl claimed his group was ready to further escalate the protests.
Inflation has been high but on the decline in recent months, dropping to 15% in March, down from 16.7% in February and 17.5% the month before.
The protesters also want the Czech government to stop taking actions that are intended to reduce misinformation and fake news.
Although Raichl rejected his group is pro-Russia, the protesters condemned the government’s stance in Russia's war against Ukraine.
The Czech Republic has staunchly supported the government in Kyiv since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. The country has provided weapons for the Ukrainian military and taken in about 500,000 refugees.
Rajchl called Defense Minister Jana Cernochova, a vocal supporter of the pro-Ukraine stance, “the biggest security risk for our country.”
Some people at the rally were signing a petition demanding the country quits NATO.
Protesters were planning to march to the government office later Sunday. Prime Minister Petr Fiala is currently on a trip to Asia. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/04/16/thousands-turn-out-for-anti-government-protest-in-prague/ | 2023-04-16 17:23:35 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/04/16/thousands-turn-out-for-anti-government-protest-in-prague/ |
Nate Eovaldi’s start on Monday against the Astros will be one of the most scrutinized outings in baseball.
According to major league sources, the Red Sox are open to moving the righthander — but not driven to do so given the team’s position on the fringes of the Wild Card race. On one hand, there’s a chance he could fetch a strong return given his credentials as a top-five AL Cy Young finisher last year and a past postseason force.
On the other hand, his trade value could be diminished by his drop-off in stuff — his last four starts have seen him post the lowest average four-seam fastball velocity of the last five seasons — and vulnerability to hard contact. He’s allowed 18 homers this year, his most since 2016. Monday’s start could give some indication of his potential value to the Red Sox and other teams moving forward in 2022.
Eovaldi is aware of the swirl, but trying to dismiss it.
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“I understand my name’s coming around,” said Eovaldi. “My job is to go out there and perform whether it’s the Red Sox or not, whether interested teams are watching or not. I’m not thinking about going out there and trying to do better or anything else. It’s just, go out, focus on mechanics and executing pitches.”
Eovaldi, who will be making his third start since coming off the injured list with a lower back injury, feels like his stuff improved both in his most recent outing last week against the Guardians and in his between-starts bullpen.
“I definitely feel confident. Everything feels really good,” said Eovaldi, who noted his need to be precise against an Astros team that scored nine runs and hit five homers against him in 1⅔ innings on May 17. “I feel like I finally found that missing part. I’m hoping everything is going to click.”
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Getting Story straight
Second baseman Trevor Story said there was a measure of relief in learning that the reason for his deliberate recovery from a right hand injury was a hairline fracture at the top of the hand.
“You certainly never want to want to hear something like [a diagnosis of a fracture],” said Story, who will go 10-14 days without swinging. “But it’s just nice to have a little clarity on why it wasn’t getting better . . . Obviously the situation sucks, but I can live with knowing and having a plan, having something that we can point out and be like, ‘This is what we’re going to do.’”
Story said that part of the difficulty diagnosing the injury came because the fracture occurred in a different area from where he was hit by a pitch on July 12. The ball hit him just above the knuckles on his lower hand, an area where there was swelling but no fracture. The fracture was found a few inches above that, just below the wrist.
“We’re glad we finally got the diagnosis,” said Story.
Those around the Sox describe the loss of Story as huge, due in large part to the absence of his power and run production in the sixth spot in the order and the massive falloff in the team’s defense.
Through July 12, the Sox held opponents to a .238 average on groundballs. Since his injury, that mark has jumped to .268.
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“Trevor is very valuable for us,” said Sox manager Alex Cora. “We miss him.”
The loss of Story was made more drastic by the simultaneous absence of Christian Arroyo. But Arroyo returned on Saturday, going 3-for-4, then reached base in all four plate appearances (2-for-2 with a double and two walks) in Sunday’s 7-2 win in the series finale against the Brewers.
“I’m not going to sit here and say I’m proud of [the strong return] because I’d rather not have been out,” said Arroyo. “[But] sometimes you just have to take a step back and reset . . . Since I came back, it’s been easier to relax.”
Hill to climb
Rich Hill is slated to start for the Red Sox in Houston on either Tuesday or Wednesday, barring a trade. As much as Hill — a Milton native and resident — would love to stay in Boston, the 42-year-old lefthander is prepared to move. “I completely understand that side of it. Business is business,” said Hill. “It’s a great game. It’s a difficult business. It’s a really difficult business.” . . . Rafael Devers (right hamstring) remains on track to be activated on Tuesday. Michael Wacha (right shoulder) and Matt Barnes (right shoulder) are both traveling to Houston and are expected to be activated during the upcoming seven-game road trip . . . Kiké Hernández (right hip) swung a bat on Saturday for the first time since receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection during the All-Star break. The Red Sox are optimistic he’ll return to the roster in August. He’ll remain in Boston during the upcoming road trip to continue his rehab . . . Rob Refsnyder, one of the most productive hitters in baseball this year against lefties (.413/.451/.630), was out of the lineup against Brewers southpaw Aaron Ashby due to a knee injury. In his absence, Jaylin Davis started in right and led off, going 1 for 4 with an RBI, walk and pair of strikeouts . . . James Paxton is throwing in Fort Myers but has not progressed to the point of facing hitters in live batting practice.
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Russell remembered
Fenway Park observed a moment of silence prior to the first pitch to remember Celtics great Bill Russell, who died Sunday at age 88, for his extraordinary contributions to sports and society . . . Bryan Loor-Almonte, the Red Sox’ senior manager of baseball communications and media relations, spent his final day with the Red Sox. He will take over as the director of communications for the Memphis Grizzlies.
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MIDNIGHTS CONTINUES BREAKING RECORDS AROUND THE WORLD RACKING UP OVER 6 MILLION ALBUM EQUIVALENT UNITS SINCE LATE OCTOBER WITH 3+ MILLION EQUIVALENT UNITS IN THE U.S. ALONE
SWIFT RECOGNIZED AS ARTIST, SONGWRITER & DIRECTOR
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Swift extended her record-setting 2022 performance with the debut of her tenth studio album Midnights on October 21st, released on Republic Records/Universal Music Group. In just eight weeks, Midnights has achieved over 6 million album equivalent units worldwide, 3 million in the U.S. alone, and cements her in music history as the only artist ever to have five albums with over 1 million units during release week. The blockbuster release moved almost 1.6 million during its debut week. Midnights is the first album to sell over 1 million physical albums since 2015.
Universal Music Group Chairman & CEO, Sir Lucian Grainge said, "Taylor is a multidimensional creative force whose achievements place her among the most accomplished artists in the history of music, and we are thrilled and honored to partner with her across so many aspects of her career."
Republic Records Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Monte Lipman said, "Taylor's achievements over the past year have been absolutely spectacular! With more than two dozen historic milestones set by Midnights, it's nearly unimaginable for any artist to sell more than six million albums in less than eight weeks during any era of our business. These accomplishments further exemplify Taylor's prowess as the consummate artist and storyteller defining a generation."
The eleven-time GRAMMY winner broke streaming, physical and vinyl album sales milestones around the world as the critically acclaimed Midnights became the fastest-selling album of her career and Swift became the first artist in history to capture the entire Top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Taylor Swift has 36.6 billion combined streams of her music and 22.4 million album-equivalent units to-date in 2022.
Universally acclaimed as one of her generations' most influential artists, Swift was also recognized for her work this year as a performer, songwriter and director. Over the course of the year, she earned multiple awards, including: six American Music Awards (Artist of the Year, Country Female Artist, Pop/Rock Female Artist, Music Video, Country Album & Pop Album), extending her lead as the most awarded artist in AMA history; three People's Choice Awards (Album Of The Year, Best Music Video & Female Artist of The Year); The NSAI Nashville Songwriter Award for Songwriter of the Decade; three MTV Video Music Awards (Video of The Year, Best Director, Best Longform Video for All Too Well: The Short Film), four MTV EMA's (Best Artist, Best Pop, Best Video, & Best Longform Video for All Too Well: The Short Film); four Billboard Music Awards (Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Country Artist, Top Female Country Album and Top Country Album); among others.
Swift has also been nominated for a string of forthcoming awards, including: four Grammy Awards (Song of The Year – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (The Short Film)"; Best Country Song; Best Music Video and Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Carolina" from the motion picture soundtrack to Where The Crawdads Sing. "Carolina" was also recently nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Critics Choice Award and Hollywood Critics Association Award. Carolina was also named to the Oscar shortlist for Best Original Song in 2023.
Taylor Swift: Accolades & History Made in 2022
-Midnights debuted with a career high 1+ billion first week global streams
-Became only artist to have five albums debut with over 1 million units sold in their first week in U.S. Nielsen history
-Leading artist in U.S. for on-demand and streaming equivalent albums
-Midnights achieved 3 Million+ album consumption in its first week
-Midnights earned over 1 million US pure album sales in one week, the first album to achieve this since her own 'reputation' (2017)
-In the U.S. Midnights was the highest selling physical release of 2022, selling +1.3 million copies. Additionally Swift sold another 1.1 million physical records in the U.S. across her catalog in 2022.
-Midnights launched at #1 with a career-high 1.578 Million units sold first week
-First Artist in History to Capture the Entire Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, and the entire top ten on the Digital sales chart. She also claimed the same feat in Canada.
-Set new record for vinyl sales week with 575K copies sold in the U.S., Also the biggest selling vinyl in U.K., Canada and Australia in the modern vinyl era
-First artist in history to capture entire top 5 on Billboard Global 200
-First artist to simultaneously debut #1 on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 on four occasions
-Broke record for most consecutive #1 studio album debuts on billboard 200 (11)
-Captured biggest streaming week for album by a female artist (549 million)
-Midnights broke record for biggest album debut in Spotify history with 185m+ streams
-Biggest first week global streams for an album on Spotify (785m)
-Captured top 5 biggest song debuts in global Spotify chart history
-Biggest first day and first week global streams for an album on Amazon
-Biggest first day global streams for a pop album on Apple Music
-Biggest first day global streams for an album in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music
-Midnights Debuted at #1 in 19 countries including U.S., Australia, U.K., France, Germany & Italy
-In Australia, Swift became first artist in history with a #1 Single, #1 Album & #1 Airplay debut, and topped both sales charts for five consecutive weeks.
-In Canada, tracks from Midnights occupied entire on Canadian Hot 100 chart
-In Brazil, Midnights had biggest first-day streams for an album on Spotify
-In the Philippines, Midnights captured the top 6 biggest debuts in Spotify history
-In China, the album was the fastest selling album by a Western artist.
-More than 22.6 million Album Equivalent Units in 2022*
-36.6 billion total combined streams across all platforms*
-Broke record for most Top 10 Hits by a Female Artist (40)
(*To 12/15 – Source: UMG Data)
In 2023, Swift will embark on her highly anticipated Taylor Swift |The Eras Tour, playing 52 stadium shows in the U.S.
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KFC employee announces retirement after 47 years on the job
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) – A longtime KFC employee in Memphis, Tennessee, is being honored for her decades of work with the company before she retires.
Loretta Neely has been on the job for nearly 47 years, working in all types of positions.
Whether she’s taking orders, cooking in the kitchen, or guiding new employees, Neely says it’s all about taking pride in your work.
When her managers learned of Neely’s plans for retirement, they wasted no time honoring her. Corporate leaders said Neely is passionate, with a strong work ethic, and someone who never complains.
KFC created the Loretta Neely Drive and Passion Award in Nelly’s honor. The company is calling it a Living Legend Award.
While Neely said she’s seen a lot of change over the years, her passion for serving others is what’s kept her on the job for so long.
“My people coming in,” she said. “I like working with people ... I like developing people, making sure that they be successful, along with me being successful.”
Neely says she’s in no rush to leave her work family, but she is eager for what’s to come in retirement. She’s looking forward to spending time with her grandchildren, her church family and her husband.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Friday announced further rolling blackouts in and around the country’s largest cities amid ongoing Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure.
Ukrenergo, the state operator of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission lines, said “emergency outages” of four hours a day or more had resumed in the Kyiv region.
Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba, said on Telegram on Friday that residents of the capital region could expect to see “tougher and longer” power outages compared to earlier in the war.
The mayor of Kyiv said that the city’s power grid was operating in “emergency mode,” due to with electricity supplies down by as much as a half compared to pre-war levels. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said he hoped Ukrenergo would find ways to address the shortage “in two to three weeks, barring circumstances beyond their control.”
Oleg Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine, announced on Telegram that daily one-hour power outages would begin Monday across the province, including the regional capital, which is Ukraine’s second-largest city.
He said the measures “are necessary to stabilize the power grid, because the enemy continues shelling (Ukraine’s) energy infrastructure.”
Officials across the country have urged people to conserve energy by reducing their electricity consumption during peak hours and avoiding the use of high-voltage appliances.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week said that 30% of Ukraine’s power stations had been destroyed since Russia launched the first wave of targeted infrastructure strikes on Oct. 10.
In Russia, the defense minister reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the military had called up 300,000 reservists since Putin issued a mobilization order last month to bolster the country’s forces in Ukraine.
Putin’s effort to beef up the number of Russian troops positioned along the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line in Ukraine followed several setbacks, including the Russians having to withdraw from the Kkarkiv region. The mobilization fueled protests in Russia and prompted tens of thousands of men to flee the country.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin on Friday that 82,000 reservists were deployed to Ukraine, while 218,000 others were still being trained. Shoigu said there was no immediate plan to round up more.
Putin told Shoigu the military needs to make sure the 300,000 reservists called up so far are trained and appropriately equipped “to make people feel confident when they need to go to combat.”
Activists and Russian media reports have said that many of the draftees were told to procure basic items such as medical kits and flak jackets themselves and did not receive training before they were sent to fight in Ukraine.
Some were killed within days of being called up and deployed without receiving even basic refresher training.
Shoigu acknowledged that “problems with supplies existed in the initial stages” but told Putin that they have now been solved and the reservists have received all the necessary items.
Putin ordered Shoigu to submit his proposals for reforming the ground troops and other parts of the military on the basis of their performance in Ukraine.
Russian missile and artillery barrages killed at least four people and wounded 10 others in 24 hours, most of them in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, the country’s presidential office said Friday. Russian forces were gearing up for an assault on Bakhut following a string of setbacks in the east.
Russian fire struck several towns across the Dnieper River from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the presidential office said. Shelling damaged dozens of residential buildings and cut power lines in Nikopol. Power also was cut to thousands of families in the neighboring towns of Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka.
An S-300 air defense missile destroyed a three-story administrative building and damaged a new residential building nearby, said Mykolaiv regional governor Vitalii Kim. Russian forces have frequently used converted S-300 missiles to strike ground targets in Ukraine.
While Russian forces pounded targets across Ukraine with missiles and artillery, Moscow pressed its ground advance on the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiikva, turning the entire Donetsk region into “a zone of active hostilities,” according to Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko.
“Civilians who remain in the region live in constant fear without heating and electricity,” Kyrylenko said in televised remarks. “Their enemy is not only Russian cannons but also the cold.”
A Russian takeover of Bakhmut, which has remained in Ukrainian hands throughout the war, would open the way for the Kremlin to push on to other key Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk.
A reinvigorated eastern offensive could also potentially stall or derail Ukraine’s push to recapture the southern city of Kherson, a gateway to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin also illegally annexed the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Much of the fighting since then has appeared geared toward consolidating Moscow’s control over territory that Putin has proclaimed as Russia’s in violation of international law and put under martial law.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai reported Friday that Russian soldiers had retreated from some areas as Ukraine’s army fought to retake ground. Moscow claimed Luhansk’s complete capture in July.
“The Russians practically destroyed some villages after they started to retreat,” Haidai said. “There are a lot of freshly mobilized Russians in the Luhansk region, but they are dying in droves.” His claim could not be independently verified.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Kremlin-appointed officials urged residents Friday not to switch to daylight savings time along with Kyiv and the rest of the country.
“The old time remains. The clocks will not go back in 2022,” the administration said in a post on its official Telegram channel.
The Russian-installed mayor of Enerhodar, where Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is located, also called on residents to ignore the time switch.
“We live in the Russian Federation, and our city lives by Moscow time,” Alexander Volga said in a video posted on Telegram.
Russia switched to permanent winter time in 2014. The move came after nationwide surveys found that citizens largely disapproved of an earlier government decision to put clocks on year-round summer time and struggled to adjust to long, dark mornings.
Meanwhile, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency plan to visit two locations where Russia alleged without citing evidence that Ukraine was building radioactive “dirty bombs.” IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said Thursday inspectors are being dispatched following a written request from the Ukrainian government.
Earlier this week, Russia alleged in a letter to U.N. Security Council members that construction began on the “direct orders” of the Ukrainian government. Moscow has repeatedly made the unfounded claim that Ukraine is preparing to detonate a device that spreads radioactive waste on its own territory while trying to blame Russia.
Western officials have dismissed the claim as misinformation possibly designed as a pretext for Russia to justify its own military escalation.
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The Nation's Weather for Sunday, April 9, 2023
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NATIONAL SUMMARY
After days of heavy rain that produced flooding downpours
and intense rainfall rates in some locations, much of the
southeastern United States will experience drier conditions
today as the storm system finally moves offshore into the
Atlantic Ocean. However, showers and thunderstorms may
linger through the day within the Florida Peninsula.
Elsewhere, a cold front pressing through the Pacific
Northwest will be enhanced with additional moisture, leading
to a separate zone of heavy rainfall that could produce
ponding on roadways and even some areas of flooding through
western portions of Washington state. Most others will
remain dry, but a strip of showers will form from Minnesota
into Texas, with thunder likely along its southern flank.
SPECIAL WEATHER
No new information for this time period.
WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS
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DAILY EXTREMES
National High Saturday 91 at Plant City, FL
National Low Saturday -5 at Boulder, WY
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced that Richard L. Gelfond, CEO, will present at the Credit Suisse 24th Annual Communications Conference on June 14, 2022, at 4:35 PM ET.
A live webcast of both events will be made available on the IMAX investor relations website at investors.imax.com.
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IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of March 31, 2022, there were 1,690 IMAX theater systems (1,606 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 87 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles is facing more questions over his charities after a newspaper reported that one of his funds accepted a 1 million pound ($1.2 million) donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden.
The Sunday Times reported that the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund received the money in 2013 from Bakr bin Laden, patriarch of the large and wealthy Saudi family, and his brother Shafiq. Both are half-brothers of the former al-Qaida leader, who was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan in 2011.
The newspaper said advisers had urged the heir to the throne not to take the donation.
Charles’ Clarence House office disputed that but confirmed the donation had been made. It said the decision to accept the money was taken by the charity’s trustees, not the prince, and “thorough due diligence was undertaken in accepting this donation.”
The fund’s chairman, Ian Cheshire, also said the donation was agreed “wholly” by the five trustees at the time, and “any attempt to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate.”
The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund was founded in 1979 to “transform lives and build sustainable communities,” and gives grants to a wide variety of projects in Britain and around the world.
Charles, 73, has faced a series of claims about the operation of his charities. Last month the Sunday Times reported he had accepted bags of cash containing $3 million from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.
London police are currently investigating a separate allegation that people associated with another of the prince’s charities, the Prince’s Foundation, offered to help a Saudi billionaire secure honors and citizenship in return for donations. Clarence House has said Charles had no knowledge of any such offer. | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/report-prince-charles-charity-got-donation-from-bin-ladens/ | 2022-07-31 21:44:06 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/report-prince-charles-charity-got-donation-from-bin-ladens/ |
Former Capital One Exec to Assume New Positions as WCG Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- West Cary Group, one of the largest minority-owned advertising and technology firms in the U.S., has appointed Troy Dye as its first Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff. He will enhance the firm's marketing strategy capabilities and accelerate unification of WCG's creative, analysis, and technology functions.
"We are extremely fortunate to have attracted Troy to our agency," said Moses Foster, President and CEO of West Cary Group. "We're creating something truly unique – a new kind of agency that operates as a delivery engine…a place where services aren't siloed and clients can take advantage of our full suite of offerings – from idea through execution. Hiring Troy is another step in that progression."
Dye most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Growth and Customer Experience at Metromile. Prior to that, he served as Managing Vice President, Head of Consumer Card Marketing, Engagement and Insights at Capital One. He brings over 25 years of experience across a variety of marketing, P&L, analytics, and operations roles in both B2C and B2B.
"I was a client of West Cary Group at two different companies, so I already knew this was a special place," said Dye. "Moses and the WCG team are redefining the role of capabilities of a modern marketing agency to the delight of their clients. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be part of the journey."
Dye's appointment comes at a time when West Cary Group has grown 132% in just the past two years. The firm recently celebrated its 15-year anniversary and has been honored as a Top Workplace in the Richmond Region for two consecutive years. Clients include Capital One, Atlantic Union Bank, Richmond International Airport, New York Life, CoStar, Fannie Mae, and Dominion Energy.
"As technology becomes a larger and larger piece of the marketing value chain, we're augmenting our capabilities to ensure we not only reach a consumer with world-class marketing but also reinforce the message and remove friction within a brand or product conversion funnel," continued Dye. "Ultimately, marketing is still about pinpointing why people do what they do. We're unique in that we can execute on those insights throughout the customer journey, driving stronger ROI for our clients."
"One of the things that I love about Troy is that he is an excellent bridge between people who know what they want to accomplish and people who know exactly how to do it," said Foster. "At the end of every day, he needs to see that he closed the divide and made a difference. That quality is a tremendous asset to our agency and to our clients."
West Cary Group is a full-service, minority-owned, advertising, marketing, technology and communications agency founded in 2007 by Moses Foster. The firm specializes in merging award-winning creative with rigorous data analysis to create marketing campaigns with truly measurable outcomes. West Cary Group's capabilities include digital advertising and media, mobile application design and development, web design and development, brand marketing and advertising, and direct response marketing.
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PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden said he will resume talks with congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday as a standoff over the debt limit pushes the country closer to its legal borrowing limit with no agreement in sight.
Biden, who was in Philadelphia on Monday to attend granddaughter Maisy’s graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, told reporters the meeting was on for Tuesday but did not elaborate on prospects for a deal.
Biden was returning to Washington later Monday and is scheduled to leave for the Group of Seven summit in Japan on Wednesday. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that so far, “we are still planning to leave as scheduled.”
Biden on Sunday did not detail much progress in the talks, but said he remained hopeful that an agreement could be reached with Republicans to avoid what would be an unprecedented debt default, which could trigger a financial catastrophe.
“I remain optimistic because I’m a congenital optimist,” Biden told reporters while out for a bike ride in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. “But I really think there’s a desire on their part as well as ours to reach an agreement. I think we’ll be able to do it.”
Aides said talks had continued throughout the weekend. But at least publicly, there was little indication that either the White House or House Republicans had budged from their initial positions. Biden has called on lawmakers to lift the debt limit without preconditions, warning that the nation’s borrowing authority should not be used to impose deep spending cuts and other conservative policy demands.
“We’ve not reached the crunch point yet,” Biden told reporters Saturday before flying to his beach home. “There’s real discussion about some changes we all could make. We’re not there yet.”
Biden did signal over the weekend that he could be open to tougher work requirements for certain government aid programs, which Republicans are proposing as part of the ongoing discussion. He has said he will not accept anything that takes away people’s health care coverage.
“I voted for tougher aid programs that’s in the law now, but for Medicaid it’s a different story,” he said. “And so I’m waiting to hear what their exact proposal is.”
Administration officials said the talks among staff had so far been productive after Biden and the leaders — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — ended their first meeting last Tuesday without a breakthrough.
The president described that Oval Office session as “productive” even though McCarthy said later he “didn’t see any new movement” toward resolving the stalemate. White House and congressional aides have been in talks since Wednesday.
“The staff is very engaged. I would characterize the engagement as serious, as constructive,” Lael Brainard, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
McCarthy has insisted on using the threat of defaulting on the nation’s debts to wrangle spending changes, arguing that the federal government can’t continue to spend money at the pace it is now. The national debt now stands at $31.4 trillion.
An increase in the debt limit would not authorize new federal spending. It would only allow for borrowing to pay for what Congress has already approved.
The Treasury Department has said the government could exhaust the ability to pay its bills as early as June 1. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office gave a similar warning Friday, saying there was a “significant risk” of default sometime in the first two weeks of next month.
But federal estimates still remain in flux.
The CBO noted Friday that if the cash flow at the Treasury and the “extraordinary measures” that the department is now using can continue to pay for bills through June 15, the government can probably finance its operations through the end of July. That’s because the expected tax revenues that will come in mid-June and other measures will give the federal government enough cash for at least a few more weeks.
“Ultimately the stakes are, the United States has never defaulted on its debt,” Wally Adeyemo, the deputy treasury secretary, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “And we can’t.”
And Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told ABC’s “This Week”: “I think defaulting is not the right path to go down. So I am an eternal optimist.’’
He added, “this is always a game we play, every Congress, you know, in daring each other to jump off the cliff. It’s a dangerous game.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/debt-limit-biden-mccarthy-white-house-meeting/708a93d8-f34c-11ed-918d-012572d64930_story.html | 2023-05-15 18:52:05 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/debt-limit-biden-mccarthy-white-house-meeting/708a93d8-f34c-11ed-918d-012572d64930_story.html |
Phil Nevin is 0-for-2 as Los Angeles Angels interim manager, losing a pair of games to the Boston Red Sox after the club fired Joe Maddon on Tuesday.
Nevin had been in his first year as Angels third base coach, following a four-year run with the New York Yankees.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Nevin is one of four ex-Yankees on the Angels’ short list as the team searches for a new full-time skipper.
Nevin: Even if they miss the playoffs but post a winning record, Nevin is likely to remain. ... Should the Angels continue to lose, or even flounder around .500, owner Arte Moreno and general manager Perry Minasian would be expected to embark on a search for the next manager, who would be the fifth in five seasons.
Trey Hillman: Hillman, 59, is in his first year with the Angels as part of the player development staff. ... He’s also managed in the New York Yankees farm system for a decade.
Hillman’s coaching odyssey began in 1990 at the age of 27 when he was manager of the Yankees’ Low-A affiliate in Oneonta, N.Y. He rose through the Yankees’ ranks, eventually becoming manager of their Triple-A affiliate in Columbus, Ohio from 1999 to 2001. Hillman returned to the Yankees in 2014 as special assistant for major and minor league operations.
Luis Rojas: Rojas spent 16 years with the Mets organization and managed four of their minor league teams in eight years.
The former New York Mets manager joined the Yankees in November, replacing Nevin as third base coach.
Joe Espada: He was a finalist for the Mets job last offseason and has been a candidate for several other managerial positions, including the Angels’ job before Maddon was hired.
Espada was special assistant to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman in 2014. He was instrumental in the scouting process that helped the Yankees decide to acquire shortstop Didi Gregorius when Derek Jeter retired. From 2015-17, Espada was the Yankees’ third base coach for Joe Girardi.
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A court in Moscow sentenced a municipal council member to seven years in prison Friday for his remarks opposing the war in Ukraine. The unprecedented sentence raises the stakes for Kremlin critics in Russia who speak out against Moscow’s invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbor.
Alexei Gorinov was found guilty of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian military, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison under a law the Russian parliament rubber-stamped a week after the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine.
The 60-year-old member of Moscow’s Krasnoselsky municipal council is the first person sentenced to serve time behind bars for a conviction on that charge, according to Net Freedoms, a legal aid group focused on free speech cases.
The two other convictions so far led to a fine and a suspended sentence, the group said. Gorinov, who was arrested in April, is the first elected representative to face charges under the wartime law.
Gorinov criticized Russia’s military actions in Ukraine at a municipal council meeting in March. A video available on YouTube shows him voicing skepticism about holding a planned children’s art competition in his constituency while “every day children are dying” in Ukraine.
Photographs published by Russian media of a Friday court hearing showed Gorinov behind inside a glass-walled defendant’s dock and holding up a sign that read, “Do you still need this war?” A bailiff tried to cover the sign with his hands.
When President Vladimir Putin ordered the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, a massive wave of outrage and antiwar sentiment swept Russia. Thousands of people protested on the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg daily, and hundreds of thousands signed online petitions opposing the attack.
The Kremlin insisted that what it called a “special military operation” in Ukraine had overwhelming public support, and moved swiftly to suppress any criticism. Thousands of protesters were arrested, and dozens of critical media outlets were shut down.
Individuals who spoke out publicly against the invasion or accused Russian troops of committing atrocities in Ukraine have been targeted under the new legislation, which outlawed the spread of “false information” about the invasion and disparaging the military.
As of Friday, Net Freedoms had counted 68 criminal cases involving false information charges and at least 2,000 misdemeanor cases for the alleged disparagement of the Russian military.
Gorinov refused to plead guilty, and he denounced the invasion again while giving his closing statement in court on Thursday.
“For five months, Russia has been carrying out hostilities, coyly calling them a special operation. We’re being promised a victory and glory. Why, then, are a large part of my compatriots feeling shame and guilt?” Gorinov said. “I am convinced that a war is the fastest way to dehumanization, when the line between good and evil fades. It is always death, I don’t accept it and reject it.”
Bruce Millar, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia deputy director, called the sentence handed to Gorinov “shocking.”
“It is an unlawful reprisal for expressing his views, and not the administration of justice,” Millar said in a statement. The council member “did not commit any internationally recognized crime by calling the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin on Ukraine what it is, a criminal war.”
Political analyst Tatyana Stanovaya, the founder of the R.Politik think tank, said Gorinov’s seven-year sentence took a “special political decision” and that his case stood out because he aired antiwar views while speaking as a public official at a council meeting.
“The sentence is a defiantly and emphatically cruel warning to all: ‘Dissent, you will all land behind bars for a long time if you combine antiwar rhetoric with political activity,” Stanovaya wrote on Telegram.
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NEW YORK (AP) — With time running out before the election, President Joe Biden highlighted his administration’s push to crack down on so-called junk fees that banks and other companies charge their customers. The announcement comes after months of high inflation have eaten away at Americans’ savings and made the economy the top issue for voters.
Biden was joined by Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the nation’s financial watchdog agency created after the Great Recession. The bureau is targeting overdraft fees charged by banks as well as bad check fees, which are levied against a bank customer when a check isn’t valid.
The bureau’s guidance would make it illegal for banks to charge an overdraft fee on a transaction when a customer’s account shows a positive balance at the time of a purchase, or when they withdraw money from their account.
Prior to the pandemic, banks collectively charged their customers roughly $15 billion in overdraft and bounced check fees, according to a bureau estimate. The bureau estimates that its new enforcement push on junk fees will save Americans roughly $3 billion in fees annually.
“These steps will immediately start saving Americans collectively billions of dollars in fees,” Biden said.
Roughly two weeks away from the midterm elections, Biden is using public events to show how his administration is trying to reduce costs for families. That push comes as high inflation — averaging 8.2% over the past year — has been a drag on the president’s approval rating and put Democrats at a disadvantage with voters.
Back in 2021 as the economy emerged from the pandemic, Biden tried to minimize the risks of lasting inflation. But continued pandemic shutdowns and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have pushed up prices globally, a challenge that the U.S. is primarily trying to address by having the Federal Reserve raise interest rates.
Banks have long been criticized for the high fees they charge customers when their accounts go temporarily negative. Relenting after years of public pressure, banks have reined in their overdraft fee practices. Most notably, Bank of America reduced its overdraft fee from $35 to $10. Other banks have instituted changes to their policies so customers cannot overdraft their accounts, or are given repeated warnings that they need to bring their accounts current before a fee is charged.
The banking industry responded that it was taking steps to reduce fees on customers before the White House stepped in.
“These changes were made without regulatory or legislative intervention,” said Lindsey Johnson, president and CEO of the Consumer Bankers Association, the trade and lobby group for the nation’s biggest retail banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
The CFPB is also targeting bounced check fees, which occur less frequently nowadays because Americans have largely moved away from writing paper checks and largely use peer-to-peer payment platforms like Zelle, Venmo, PayPal and CashApp. These fees are typically between $10 and $19, according to the bureau, and are charged to the customer depositing the check.
“Charging a fee to the depositor penalizes the person who could not anticipate the check would bounce, while doing nothing to deter the originator from writing bad checks,” the bureau said in a statement.
The bureau did not have an estimate of how much Americans pay in bad check fees, because banks do not publicly disclose those figures in regulatory filings.
Biden also highlighted a number of other fees the administration plans to go after, which include resort fees, processing fees for concert tickets, and various fees charged by airlines.
“We’re just getting started,” Biden said.
The White House’s push is also a public display of support for the CFPB days after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the way the bureau is funded is unconstitutional. The conservative-leaning court ruled that because the CFPB receives its funding from the Federal Reserve and not through Congressional appropriations, the way the bureau writes its rules and regulations is unconstitutional.
The court case, which could wind up in the Supreme Court, is the latest in a long list of conservative and Republican challenges to the bureau’s structure. Within hours, Republicans attacked the bureau’s announcement.
“It’s no surprise that an out-of-control and unaccountable agency — which the Fifth Circuit recently ruled is unconstitutional — has chosen to sidestep the congressionally mandated rulemaking process to change the rules of the road,” said Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania and the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, in a statement.
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Georgia police have secured a warrant to arrest highly-touted draft prospect Jalen Carter, according to a report from Seth Emerson.
Per the report, police implicated Carter in street racing, which resulted in a crash and the deaths of a Georgia football teammate, and a member of the Bulldogs staff.
Previous to the report of his arrest warrant, Carter was widely believed to be a top-four pick in the upcoming NFL Draft and many projected the Bears could select him at No. 1 overall.
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It’s unclear how this report will affect his draft stock, but prospects have seen their names fall down draft boards after similar stories broke. In 2016, Laremy Tunsil was regarded as the top left tackle in the draft and a possible top-five pick, but moments before the draft started Tunsil’s Twitter account was hacked and published a video of him using a gas mask bong. Tunsil was passed over by two teams who drafted left tackles, and was ultimately selected No. 13 overall.
Carter was scheduled to speak with the media at 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine, but his availability was delayed.
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The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the end of pandemic-era spending, fast economic growth and higher tax revenues have caused the federal debt this year to be lower than forecast.
But the non-partisan office also includes a warning in its 30-year outlook about how debt will soon spiral upward to new highs that could ultimately imperil the U.S. economy. The estimates show the complex politics beneath government finances. Debt-related pressures have faded somewhat in the short-term for lawmakers, even as they continue to loom as a troubling risk for future congresses and presidents.
Accumulated debt held by the public will be equal to 98% of U.S. gross domestic product this year, four points lower than the 2021 forecast. But this would be a brief respite from rising levels of debt that would surpass the historical high in 2031 and climb by 2052 to 185% of GDP.
President Joe Biden has made reducing the annual budget deficit a priority, but that would likely require tax increases that Republican lawmakers and some Democrats oppose. GOP lawmakers have also stressed the importance of containing federal debt, yet annual deficits worsened during the tenure of former President Donald Trump.
This year’s budget deficit is equal to 3.9% of GDP, but annual federal borrowing will average nearly twice that level — 7.3% — over the next 30 years.
The CBO views debt increases as a danger to the economy and action by lawmakers as needed to put the U.S. on a safer and financially sustainable path. They say the current path of federal debt could slow growth, increase interest payments to foreign nationals, heighten the odds of a fiscal crisis and make the economy more vulnerable to rising interest rates.
So, why is the debt rising over the next three decades?
The simple answer is that spending commitments are rising faster than tax revenues. This year, federal spending equals 23.5% of GDP. That figure will rise because of higher interest expenses and rising costs for major health care programs and Social Security. By 2052, the CBO said, federal spending will be 30.2% of GDP.
But taxes are not growing as a share of the total economy. They’re 19.6% of GDP this year and are estimated to be 19.1% of GDP in 2052.
Underlying all of this is changes in U.S. demographics. Americans are steadily aging with a rising number becoming 65 or older, but they’re also having fewer children and population growth will become more dependent on immigration from abroad, according to a separate report on demographics that the CBO released Wednesday.
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Guardians third. Tyler Freeman strikes out swinging. Austin Hedges walks. Myles Straw singles to center field. Austin Hedges to second. Steven Kwan lines out to left field to MJ Melendez. Amed Rosario singles to right field. Myles Straw to second. Austin Hedges to third. Jose Ramirez singles to left field. Amed Rosario to second. Myles Straw scores. Austin Hedges scores. Oscar Gonzalez strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Guardians 2, Royals 0.
Royals fourth. Bobby Witt Jr. flies out to deep center field to Myles Straw. Salvador Perez homers to right field. Nick Pratto lines out to second base to Amed Rosario. Michael A. Taylor singles to shallow infield.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Guardians 2, Royals 1.
Guardians seventh. Owen Miller called out on strikes. Tyler Freeman singles to second base. Austin Hedges singles to right field. Tyler Freeman to third. Myles Straw singles to center field. Austin Hedges to second. Tyler Freeman scores. Steven Kwan strikes out swinging. Amed Rosario flies out to deep left center field to Michael A. Taylor.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Guardians 3, Royals 1.
Guardians eighth. Jose Ramirez flies out to deep right field to Drew Waters. Oscar Gonzalez doubles to deep left field. Andres Gimenez grounds out to second base, Michael Massey to Nick Pratto. Oscar Gonzalez to third. Owen Miller singles to shortstop. Oscar Gonzalez scores. Tyler Freeman grounds out to second base, Michael Massey to Nick Pratto.
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DETROIT (AP) — Tage Thompson scored his 45th goal of the season, Dylan Cozens had two goals and the Buffalo Sabres outlasted the Detroit Red Wings 7-6 in a shootout Thursday night.
Henri Jokiharju, Zemgus Girgensons and Jordan Greenway also scored for the Sabres, and Devon Levi made 26 saves. Alex Tuch and Jack Quinn scored in the shootout.
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Thompson is the first Sabres player to reach 45 or more goals in a single season since Alexander Mogilny (76) and Pat LaFontaine (53) did so in 1992-93. Thompson also has 91 points, becoming the first Sabres player to reach that mark since Daniel Brière had 95 in 2006-07.
Austin Czarnik, Dylan Larkin, Alex Chiasson, Simon Edvinsson, Jonatan Berggren and David Perron scored in regulation for the Red Wings. Lucas Raymond scored the only shootout goal for Detroit.
Larkin’s goal was his 32nd, tying his career high, originally set in the 2018-19 season.
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With three assists Thursday, Owen Power has six in the last five games. He's the first Sabres rookie defenseman with six or more assists in a five-game stretch since Nikita Zadorov did from Jan. 18-Feb. 8, 2015.
Ville Husso made 30 saves for Detroit.
NOTES: Cozens became the 10th Sabres player to score 30 or more goals in his age 21 season or earlier and is the first to do so since Mogilny (30) and Pierre Turgeon (32) both did it in 1990-91. ... Jokiharju’s goal was his first since Nov. 22 at Montreal and marked his second in his last three games against Detroit. ... Power is one of just six Buffalo defensemen to record three or more assists in a single game, joining Doug Barrie, Phil Housley, Calle Johansson, Timo Julia and Tyler Myers. ... Raymond’s three assists gave him 101 points for the season and he is the third-youngest Red Wings player to reach the 100-point mark at 21 years, nine days. Current Detroit executive vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman was 19 years, 274 days old and Gordie Howe was 20 years, 350 days old when they hit 100 points.
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Sabres: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday.
Red Wings: Host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. —
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DETROIT (AP) — Kevin Love had 21 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds as the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Detroit Pistons 112-88 on Friday night for their seventh straight win.
Jarrett Allen scored 22 points and Cedi Osman added 15 as the Cavaliers had a 54-21 edge in bench scoring and a 58-24 edge in points in the paint.
The Cavaliers played without guards Darius Garland (knee) and Donovan Mitchell (ankle), who were both injured in an overtime win over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday.
Cade Cunningham had 19 points for Detroit, but scored only three in the second half. Bojan Bogdanovic, who came into the game leading the Pistons in scoring at 21.8 points, scored six on 2-for-9 shooting.
The Pistons have lost three straight and eight of nine. Their last three games have come against teams with a combined record of 17-1.
Without Garland and Mitchell, the Cavaliers took their offense inside, outscoring Detroit 34-10 in the paint in the first half. Both teams were under 30 percent on 3-pointers in the half, but Cleveland's ability to get to the rim let it lead by as many as 21 points on the way to a 57-39 halftime advantage.
The Cavaliers led 90-68 at the end of the third quarter and Love added a four-point play on the first possession of the fourth to end any doubt.
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Cavaliers: Mitchell and Garland combined for 54 points, 16 assists and nine rebounds in 86 minutes against the Celtics, but Cleveland didn't miss a beat without them against Detroit. ... Cleveland is 7-3 in its last 10 games against the Pistons.
Pistons: Isaiah Livers scored 11 of Detroit's 21 bench points. No other reserve had more than one field goal.
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Cavaliers: Visit the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
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Matt Olson Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Rays - July 9
Published: Jul. 9, 2023 at 6:30 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Atlanta Braves, including Matt Olson (.385 batting average in his past 10 games), battle starting pitcher Zach Eflin and the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
In his previous game, he went 1-for-4 with an RBI against the Rays.
Matt Olson Game Info & Props vs. the Rays
- Game Day: Sunday, July 9, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Tropicana Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rays Starter: Zach Eflin
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +230)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +120)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Matt Olson At The Plate
- Olson is batting .254 with 16 doubles, two triples, 29 home runs and 54 walks.
- Among qualifying batters in MLB play, he ranks 83rd in batting average, 32nd in on-base percentage, and fifth in slugging.
- Olson has gotten a hit in 57 of 88 games this season (64.8%), with multiple hits on 23 occasions (26.1%).
- In 25 games this season, he has hit a home run (28.4%, and 7.3% of his trips to the plate).
- Olson has had at least one RBI in 44.3% of his games this season (39 of 88), with two or more RBI 19 times (21.6%). He has also been responsible for three or more of his team's runs in nine contests.
- He has scored at least once 50 times this season (56.8%), including 18 games with multiple runs (20.5%).
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Rays Pitching Rankings
- The Rays pitching staff is ninth in the league with a collective nine strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Rays have the fourth-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.68).
- Rays pitchers combine to allow 95 home runs (one per game), the 10th-fewest in baseball.
- Eflin (9-4 with a 3.24 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 97 1/3 innings pitched) looks for his 10th win when he makes the start for the Rays, his 17th of the season.
- In his most recent appearance on Tuesday, the right-hander went seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, allowing two earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB play this season, the 29-year-old ranks 18th in ERA (3.24), third in WHIP (.997), and 27th in K/9 (9.2).
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Miracle Treat Day to benefit Sanford Children’s Hospital
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - On Miracle Treat Day this week, thirty Dairy Queen locations in South Dakota and Minnesota will give a part of Blizzard sales to supporting kids at Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls.
Miracle Treat Day is on July 27.
According to Sanford Health, at least $1 from every Blizzard sold on Miracle Treat Day will benefit patients at Sanford Children’s Hospital.
The money goes toward pediatric specialized equipment, programs like child life and art therapy, and direct child and family assistance.
“Miracle Treat Day helps Sanford Children’s provide hope and healing to each child we care for. Families can enjoy a treat on the sweetest day of the year while simultaneously helping kids in our region,” said Erin Sanderson, executive director of Sanford Health Foundation in Sioux Falls. “Every child who needs it deserves the best care, close to home, with access to specialized equipment. It’s events like Miracle Treat Day that help raise funds to make this possible.”
Miracle Treat Day helps raise $120,000 for Sanford Children’s every year, according to Sanford Health.
Participating Miracle Treat Day locations
Minnesota:
Pipestone: 301 8th Ave S.E.
Worthington: 1640 Humiston Ave.
South Dakota:
Aberdeen: 2416 6th Ave. S.E.
Brandon: 201 S Splitrock
Brookings: 520 22nd Ave.
Canton: 101 N. Lawler St.
Chamberlain: 1960 E. King Ave.
Dell Rapids: 404 N. Hwy 77
De Smet: 207 US Hwy 14 W
Eagle Butte: Hwy 212
Groton: 11 E. Hwy 12
Hartford: 704 S. Western Ave
Huron: 165 S. Lincoln Ave. S.W.
Madison: 117 Second St. N.E.
Miller: 1502 N. Broadway Ave.
Mitchell: Southside Plaza 1501 W. Havens St.
Mobridge: 407 E. Grand Crossing
Pierre: 519 W. Sioux Ave.
Redfield: 820 W. Third St.
Sioux Falls: 204 N. Kiwanis Ave.; 2100 S. Minnesota Ave.; 4407 E. 10th St.; 57th & Western; 5420 W. 26th St.
Sisseton: 418 Hickory St. E.
Tea: 725 N. Heritage Pkwy
Vermillion: 905 E. Cherry St.
Watertown: 115 Ninth Ave. S.E.
Winner: 1014 E. Fifth St. Yankton: 1917 Broadway Ave.
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Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large
By STEFANIE DAZIO, AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — The police chief in the California city where 20 people were shot — 11 fatally — at a ballroom dance hall defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose, saying Wednesday he didn’t have enough information to effectively alert residents.
Monterey Park Chief Scott Wiese said police in the region were alerted and it didn’t make sense to send out a warning at night to residents in the predominantly Asian American city even after learning the suspect may have targeted a nearby dance club after the massacre.
“I’m not going to send my officers door to door waking people up and telling them that we’re looking for a male Asian in Monterey Park,” Wiese told The Associated Press. “It’s not going to do us any good.”
The shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio at 10:22 p.m. Saturday occurred just an hour or so after tens of thousands of people attended Lunar New Year festivities in the city. The public wasn’t notified of the mass shooting for five hours, raising questions about why an alert wasn’t sent to people in the area.
Huu Can Tran, 72, who was said to frequent the dance hall and fancied himself as an instructor, carried out the shooting with a submachine gun-style semi-automatic weapon with large capacity magazine, authorities said.
Tran fled in a white van before officers arrived at the scene of chaotic carnage and about 20 minutes later he entered another dance hall in nearby Alhambra, where an employee confronted and disarmed him during a brief struggle.
Chris Grollnek, an active shooter expert, said police never should have waited so long to warn the public about the possible threat posed by a gunman at large. The city had access to an automated alert system and even putting out a little information would have been better than nothing.
“They should have gotten the word out sooner,” Grollnek said. “I think everybody’s lucky he didn’t make it to a third location.”
Wiese, who had been sworn in as chief two days before Saturday’s shooting, said he quickly learned about the second incident at the Lai Lai Ballroom but it wasn’t immediately clear the two were connected.
Patrol officers in Monterey Park and Alhambra traded details of their two incidents, prompting investigators to look into a potential connection, Wiese said.
“We put that together pretty quickly but we still had very limited information,” he said.
Wiese said they were piecing together information from some 40 witnesses — many of whom didn’t speak English — and didn’t want to broadcast incorrect information. He said that notifying other local, state and federal agencies gave them the ability to get the word out.
A sheriff’s official confirmed the fatalities to the AP shortly before 2:36 a.m. Sunday but it wasn’t until roughly an hour later — some five hours after the shooting — that law enforcement first mentioned a suspect was at-large.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said his department’s decision to release information was “strategic” but promised a review of the timeline.
“When we started putting out public information, the priority was to get this person into custody,” Luna said Monday. His department, which is handling the investigation, hasn’t released information about the shooting since Monday.
The first news conference about the shooting was held Sunday morning by a sheriff’s captain. Several hours later, Tran was found dead in his van from a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. A handgun was found in the vehicle.
The slayings during what should have been joyful Lunar New Year celebrations sent ripples of fear through Asian American communities that were already dealing with increased hatred and violence directed at them.
Less than 48 hours later, a gunman in Northern California shot eight fellow farmworkers — killing seven — at mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay. The shooter was of Chinese descent and most of the victims were Asian.
Outside the locked gates of Star Dance Studio, a popular venue for older Asian Americans, a memorial grew higher Wednesday with mounds of bouquets and balloons. Hundreds of people carrying flowers, candles and incense showed up for a vigil.
Marlene Xu gathered with fellow dancers by a row of flower-framed photos of the victims. Xu said she danced at Star Dance Studio four times a week and when she heard about the shootings, spent an entire day and night in tears.
“It’s hard for us because it’s a part of my life — it’s like a part of your life is gone,” she said.
Sabine Slome, who works as a pharmaceutical representative in the city, wept after paying her respects and leaving behind flowers.
“I just pray that we will learn from this,” she said. “It’s just heartbreaking. How many more shootings?”
Hearts were scribbled in pink and red chalk in the parking lot where the first victim was killed in her car.
“Monterey Park I hope you know how loved you are,” a message read.
Vice President Kamala Harris, dressed in black, visited the memorial in the dance studio parking lot Wednesday before heading to a senior center to talk to relatives of the victims.
Harris paused in front of each of the large, rose-framed placards that contained photos or names of the victims. She placed a large bouquet of yellow and white flowers alongside scores of others.
Speaking briefly to reporters, Harris relayed sentiments on behalf of President Joe Biden and called for stricter gun control laws.
“Tragically we keep saying the same things,” Harris said. “Congress must act.”
“Can they do something? Yes. Should they do something? Yes. Will they do something? That is where we all must speak up,” Harris said.
Pope Francis was among those offering condolences, saying in a message to the Los Angeles archbishop that he “implores the divine gifts of healing and consolation upon the injured and bereaved.”
Wiese said he’s seen a lot during his three decade career, but some of the first officers on the scene were rookies who had never faced such carnage and the trauma will be hard to forget.
Paramedics were loading the wounded into ambulances and treating others inside when the chief arrived. There were bodies every 10 feet: some slumped over tables, others sprawled on the dance floor.
“It’s hard to put words to it,” he said. “It takes your breath away when you see it. And it kind of burns the image into your brain.”
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TAMPA, FL, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Primo Water Corporation (NYSE: PRMW) (TSX: PRMW) (the "Company" or "Primo"), a leading provider of sustainable drinking water solutions in North America and Europe, announced that its Board of Directors authorized a new $100 million share repurchase program and declared a quarterly dividend.
The Board of Directors authorized a new $100 million share repurchase program which commences on August 15, 2022 and expires on August 14, 2023. Under the program, the Company's common shares may be repurchased periodically in open market or privately negotiated transactions through the facilities of the NYSE.
"Primo's cash flow and balance sheet enable us to simultaneously return value to shareholders through regular quarterly dividends as well as an opportunistic share repurchase program of $100,000,000, while at the same time continuing to invest in internal and external opportunities that will further strengthen our operations and drive long-term growth. The Board of Directors and management team strongly believe that Primo's shares are an attractive investment opportunity and repurchasing stock is an important part of our capital allocation strategy," said Tom Harrington, Primo's Chief Executive Officer.
The actual timing, manner, number, and value of shares repurchased under the program will be determined by management at its discretion and will depend on a number of factors, including the market price of Primo's common shares, general market and economic conditions, applicable law and other requirements, and other business considerations, provided however that the price per common share will not exceed the market price as at the date of acquisition (plus reasonable brokerage fees and commissions) in accordance with applicable securities laws and exchange rules.
Primo also announced that its Board of Directors declared a dividend of US$0.07 per share on common shares, payable in cash on September 7, 2022 to shareowners of record at the close of business on August 24, 2022.
Primo Water Corporation is a leading pure-play water solutions provider in North America and Europe and generates approximately $2.1 billion in annual revenue. Primo operates largely under a recurring razor/razorblade revenue model. The razor in Primo's revenue model is its industry-leading line-up of sleek and innovative water dispensers, which are sold through retailers and online at various price points. The dispensers help increase household penetration which drives recurring purchases of Primo's razorblade offering. Primo's razorblade offering is comprised of Water Direct, Water Exchange, and Water Refill. Through its Water Direct business, Primo delivers sustainable hydration solutions across its 21-country footprint direct to the customer's door, whether at home or to businesses. Through its Water Exchange and Water Refill businesses, Primo offers pre-filled and reusable containers at approximately 14,000 locations, water dispenser sales at approximately 9,000 locations and water refill units at approximately 24,000 locations, respectively. Primo also offers water filtration units across its 21-country footprint.
Primo's water solutions expand consumer access to purified, spring, and mineral water to promote a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle while simultaneously reducing plastic waste and pollution. Primo is committed to its water stewardship standards and is proud to partner with the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) in North America as well as with Watercoolers Europe (WE), which ensures strict adherence to safety, quality, sanitation and regulatory standards for the benefit of consumer protection.
Primo is headquartered in Tampa, Florida (USA). For more information, visit www.primowatercorp.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 conveying management's expectations as to the future based on plans, estimates and projections at the time Primo makes the statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties and Primo cautions you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any such forward-looking statement. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements related to the amount of shares that may be repurchased under the share repurchase program. The forward-looking statements are based on assumptions regarding management's current plans and estimates. Management believes these assumptions to be reasonable but there is no assurance that they will prove to be accurate.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in this press release include, among others: the impact of the spread of COVID-19, related government actions and Primo's strategy in response thereto on our business, financial condition and results of operations; Primo's ability to compete successfully in the markets in which it operates; fluctuations in commodity prices and Primo's ability to pass on increased costs to its customers or hedge against such rising costs, and the impact of those increased prices on its volumes; Primo's ability to maintain favorable arrangements and relationships with its suppliers; Primo's ability to manage its operations successfully; currency fluctuations that adversely affect the exchange between currencies including the U.S. dollar, the British pound sterling, the Euro and the Canadian dollar; the impact on Primo's financial results from uncertainty in the financial markets and other adverse changes in general economic conditions; any disruption to production at Primo's manufacturing facilities; Primo's ability to maintain access to its water sources; the impact of climate change on Primo's business; Primo's ability to protect its intellectual property; the seasonal nature of Primo's business and the effect of adverse weather conditions; the impact of national, regional and global events, including those of a political, economic, business and competitive nature; Primo's ability to fully realize the potential benefit of transactions or other strategic opportunities that it pursues; Primo's ability to realize cost synergies of its acquisitions due to integration difficulties and other challenges; Primo's exposure to intangible asset risk; Primo's ability to meet its obligations under its debt agreements, and risks of further increases to its indebtedness; Primo's ability to maintain compliance with the covenants and conditions under its debt agreements; fluctuations in interest rates, which could increase Primo's borrowing costs; Primo's ability to recruit, retain and integrate new management; Primo's ability to renew its collective bargaining agreements on satisfactory terms; compliance with product health and safety standards; liability for injury or illness caused by the consumption of contaminated products; liability and damage to Primo's reputation as a result of litigation or legal proceedings; changes in the legal and regulatory environment in which Primo operates; Primo's ability to adequately address the challenges and risks associated with its international operations and address difficulties in complying with laws and regulations including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010; the impact on Primo's tax obligations and effective tax rate arising from changes in local tax laws or countries adopting more aggressive interpretations of tax laws; disruptions in Primo's information systems; Primo's ability to securely maintain its customers' confidential or credit card information, or other private data relating to Primo's employees or the Company; Primo's ability to maintain its quarterly dividend; or credit rating changes.
The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures, including but not limited to risk factors contained in Primo's Annual Report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as well as other filings with the securities commissions. Primo does not undertake to update or revise any of these statements considering new information or future events, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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It’s job done for Roy Hodgson.
The former England coach was enticed out of retirement at the age of 75 in late March, tasked with keeping Crystal Palace in the Premier League as the team plunged toward the relegation zone on the back of a 13-match winless run.
Hodgson, one of the most well-respected and well-traveled managers in soccer, clearly still has the magic touch.
A 4-3 win over West Ham on Saturday was Palace’s fourth victory in six matches since the arrival of Hodgson. With it, the team moved onto 40 points — the number long associated with being the safety mark in England’s top-flight.
Surely, Palace is safe, given it is 11 points clear of the relegation zone. Hodgson, it seems, was an inspired appointment.
“The sword has been removed from my head, it’s been removed from the players’ heads,” Hodgson said.
“We will keep the sword where it is as far as we’re concerned, because we like to win games.”
Unlike in the painful final days of Hodgson’s predecessor, Patrick Vieira, Palace is scoring goals again, with this swashbuckling performance coming soon after a 5-1 win at Leeds.
The goals conceded against West Ham were from corners, signifying that this could have been a much more cleaner win for Palace.
Palace recovered from going behind to Tomas Soucek’s ninth-minute opener by scoring three goals in a 15-minute span by the 30th, through Jordan Ayew, Wilfried Zaha and Jeffrey Schlupp.
Michail Antonio reduced the deficit, Eberechi Eze stroked home a penalty to restore the two-goal cushion for Palace, and Nayef Aguerd bundled in West Ham’s third goal to set up a tense finish at Selhurst Park.
STYLISH BRIGHTON
A 6-0 thrashing of Wolverhampton put the smiles back on the faces of Brighton’s players.
It has been a tough few days for the south-coast club, which was defeated on penalties by Manchester United in the FA Cup semifinals last weekend and lost at Nottingham Forest in the league in a weary display three days later.
Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi rang the changes and they worked, with the team going 4-0 ahead after 39 minutes and adding two more after the break. Deniz Undav, Danny Welbeck and Pascal Gross all scored twice.
Brighton stayed in eighth place but moved two points behind Tottenham in fifth, and has two games in hand. Finishing fifth or sixth would secure a Europa League qualification place, with Brighton seeking to play in Europe for the first time in its 122-year history.
“It is an exciting time,” De Zerbi said. “We want to achieve our targets. We are fighting. Results are not everything in football, the style and DNA is important. But if we deserve to achieve our target, we have to achieve it.”
FOREST COLLAPSE
Nottingham Forest conceded in the fourth minute of stoppage time to lose at Brentford 2-1 and miss a chance to make a big leap away from the relegation zone.
Leading 1-0 until the 82nd minute, Forest let in an equalizer in the 82nd minute to Ivan Toney — his 20th league goal — before substitute Josh Dasilva grabbed a winner that was only confirmed after a long VAR check for offside.
Forest remained one point above the relegation zone and has four games left, including what appears to be a must-win match at home against last-placed Southampton next.
“We have to stick together with the players more than ever now after a result like that,” Forest manager Steve Cooper said.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former Afghanistan Minster of Education Rangina Hamidi after speaking to her a year ago, as Taliban forces captured city after city in the country.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The family of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead in the West Bank last spring, again called for an independent investigation after briefly meeting Pope Francis during the general audience Wednesday.
Palestinian officials, Abu Akleh’s family and news network Al Jazeera accuse Israel of intentionally targeting and killing the 51-year-old journalist. She was wearing a helmet and a protective vest marked with the word “press” when she was shot last May in the occupied West Bank. Israel has acknowledged that Israeli fire probably killed Abu Akleh, but vigorously denies allegations that a soldier intentionally targeted her.
Abu Akleh’s niece Lina Abu Akleh said she hoped the Pope would put pressure on the U.S. and other states to independently investigate the killing and bring her family justice.
"That’s why we are here, to demand and to call on people to continue to fight for justice,” she said.
The niece and her parents, Anton and Lisa, shook hands with the pope during the audience and later planned to attend a Mass in Rome in Shireen Abu Akleh’s memory. The family recently met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court seeking justice for her killing.
A series of investigations by international media organizations, including The Associated Press, have found that Israeli troops most likely fired the fatal bullet. The United States concluded that an Israeli soldier likely killed her by mistake, but it did not explain how it reached that conclusion. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Family-of-slain-Palestinian-journalist-meets-Pope-17536014.php | 2022-10-26 18:33:01 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Family-of-slain-Palestinian-journalist-meets-Pope-17536014.php |
Local grocery store prepares for rush before storm
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - People are stocking up and preparing as mid-Michigan braces for another snow storm after recent severe weather left thousands without power across the state.
One local grocery store is preparing for the rush.
“There’s a lot of people that come into the store before the storm just trying to get their groceries and get through,” said Andrew Waterman, an employee at Jack’s Fruit and Meat Market in Saginaw County.
Waterman said it’s all hands on deck for the store on M-46 in Thomas Township.
“Normally we have a lot of people and we have maybe four to five employees, and normally we have two or three,” Waterman said. “So normally we get rushed pretty bad. And normally we bring out carts and have everything stocked and just ready to go, make sure that everybody gets their groceries and gets home.”
Ahead of Friday’s winter storm, there are a few items that Jack’s Fruit and Meat Market recommends you should stock up on.
“Come in and stock up on water, fruits and vegetables, cold cuts, meat, some eggs, and bread too,” Waterman said.
The storm is expected to start Friday afternoon and continue through the evening before tapering off early in the overnight hours.
Waterman said the earlier customers come in, the better.
“It’s going to be a bigger storm. And we’ve had a few storms in the past month but this is going to be one of the bigger ones and the roads are going to be slippery,” Waterman said. “Just make sure to drive safe and get your groceries before the rush hits.”
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A huge fire at an industrial site filled with various types of plastics has been extinguished ahead of schedule, a little over two days after the fire began.
In a statement on social media, Richmond Mayor Dave Snow said that the city’s fire department “is to be highly commended for their brave and swift action.” He said that now officials could collect air and water samples to determine when the evacuation order can be lifted.
“Our goal is to get people back into their homes as soon as possible,” he said.
The blaze began Tuesday afternoon as multiple fires at the 14-acre industrial site and spread, creating a column of black smoke that was visible for miles as well as on weather radar.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 people who live in a half-mile of the plant were told to leave after the fire began, according to David Hosick, spokesperson for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security speaking to the Associated Press.
People downwind of the fire were advised to shelter in place, bringing pets inside, closing windows and turning off A/C.
City officials said that the fire was fully contained Wednesday evening, but still was burning overnight and during the day on Thursday.
Indiana’s state fire marshal, Steve Jones, told the AP on Tuesday “the smoke is definitely toxic” and residents need to get away from the smoke plumes, especially elderly people with respiratory problems. He said that if the wind changes, officials may alter the evacuation order.
The industrial site was used to store various kinds of plastic for recycling and resale, the AP said, adding that the mayor said the site had been under a city order to clean up and remediate the complex, but the business owner had ignored that order.
Snow called that person “a negligent business owner.”
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local):
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12:55 p.m.
Wimbledon has its first quarterfinalist in women’s singles: Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic.
Bouzkova beat Caroline Garcia of France 7-5, 6-2 in a fourth-round match on No. 2 Court to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.
The 23-year-old Bouzkova will next face either third-seeded Ons Jabeur or Elise Mertens for a place in the semifinals.
Bouzkova upset seventh-seeded Danielle Collins in the first round.
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12:30 p.m.
Roger Federer returned to Wimbledon as the All England Club prepared to celebrate the centenary of Centre Court.
Federer has won eight Wimbledon titles — a men’s singles record — but is not playing at the grass-court tournament for the first time since his debut in 1999.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion was dressed in a dark suit and white sneakers as he walked the grounds toward Centre Court.
Federer said earlier this year that any tournament comeback from his knee surgery last year will not be until at least the late summer.
The 40-year-old Swiss hasn’t played since losing in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon a year ago in his 22nd appearance in the tournament.
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11:15 a.m.
Three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic will be back on Centre Court on Day 7 at Wimbledon as fourth-round play gets started.
The traditional day of rest on the middle Sunday at the All England Club is no more. A British player, Heather Watson, will be first on Centre Court to mark the occasion. She will face Jule Niemeier.
Fifth-seeded Carlos Alcaraz then plays Jannik Sinner, before the top-seeded Djokovic is last in the main stadium against Tim van Rijthoven of the Netherlands.
On No. 1 Court, third-seeded Ons Jabeur will play Elise Mertens.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese envoy asked Australian authorities Thursday to increase efforts to find survivors in an Indian Ocean search for 39 crew members missing from a capsized Chinese fishing boat.
Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian said the Australian authority had already sent four airplanes and three ships to the search area, which is in the center of the Indian Ocean.
No survivors or life rafts have been spotted.
Xiao said China wanted to coordinate with “friendly countries,” including Australia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, on the search and rescue effort following the capsizing Tuesday. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the search coordinator, said the upturned hull was spotted Tuesday from a cargo ship 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth.
Chinese authorities say the missing crew includes 17 from China, 17 from Indonesia and five from the Philippines.
“We wish that they could send more — more aircraft, more ships and more staff,” Xiao told reporters, referring to Australian authorities. “We wish that our Australian colleagues would coordinate with other international or foreign vessels or ships near that area … to help the search and rescue to save as many lives as possible.”
On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang ordered Chinese diplomats, as well as the agriculture and transportation ministries, to assist in the search for survivors.
Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines have also expressed their willingness to join in the search, and merchant and fishing vessels in the area searched for survivors Wednesday.
The search authority said the multinational search effort was continuing Thursday over an area of 12,000 square kilometers (4,600 square miles) south of where the upturned hull was found.
An Australian military P-8A Poseiden aircraft and a chartered aircraft based in Perth would rejoin the search after spending the night in the Maldives, the authority said in a statement. Australia was liaising with the Chinese Maritime Rescue Coordination Center, with three Chinese naval ships continuing the search.
“A number of merchant ships and other vessels have been assisting with the search and will continue to do so today,” the statement said.
The authority would not reveal how many ships and aircraft were involved in the search. “We are not supplying that level of detail at this stage,” the authority said in an email.
Transport Minister Catherine King, who is responsible for the search authority, was traveling overseas and was not available for comment, her office said.
No word was given on the cause of the capsizing.
The capsized boat, Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028, was based in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, operated by the Penglai Jinglu Fishery Co. Ltd., according to reports. Another Chinese vessel, Lu Peng Yuan Yu 018, is operating near to the upturned hull and has been asked to conduct a grid search for survivors, according to Indonesian authorities. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-chinese-envoy-asks-australia-to-increase-search-for-39-aboard-capsized-fishing-boat-in-indian-ocean/ | 2023-05-18 09:54:09 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-chinese-envoy-asks-australia-to-increase-search-for-39-aboard-capsized-fishing-boat-in-indian-ocean/ |
MANSFIELD, Pa., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Citizens Financial Services, Inc. (OTCPink: CZFS), the bank holding company for First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB), recently declared a cash dividend for its shareholders.
The cash dividend of $0.475 per share and a 1% stock dividend are payable on June 24, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 10, 2022. This quarterly cash dividend is an increase of 3.2% over the regular cash dividend of $0.460 per share declared one year ago, as adjusted for the 1% stock dividend declared in June 2021.
"As evidenced by our financial performance, our Community Banking model is not only strong, but thriving," noted Randall Black, CEO & President. "We believe that our recent approval to uplist our stock on Nasdaq complements our demonstrated growth and will raise our overall profile, driving shareholder value."
Citizens Financial Services, Inc. is a $2.19 billion bank holding company conducting business through First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB). First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB) operates 30 offices in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York.
For further information regarding the common stock of Citizens Financial Services, Inc., please contact any of the following firms: Automated Trading Desk, 866-283-2831; Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., 800-842-8928; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., 800-342-5529; Monroe Securities Inc., 800-766-5560; Pershing LLC, 201-413-2700; RBC Capital Markets Corp., 800-959-5951; Sandler O' Neill & Partners, 212-466-8020; Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., 973-549-4200; UBS Securities, LLC, 203-719-8710.
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I can feel the heat. This has to be the low ebb of the Ron Rivera Era in Washington, right? It’s not just the 1-3 start. It’s the way that start has unfolded. There are questions about the coach. There are questions about his choice at quarterback. There are questions about the defensive coordinator. So many questions about the Washington Commanders!
Hopefully, we will have some answers. I’ve enlisted the help of Sam Fortier — one of our Commanders beat writers — to tackle anything and everything you might have about the loss to Dallas or the upcoming game against Tennessee or whatever’s on your mind.
We will start providing answers at 1 p.m. Tuesday, but feel free to submit your questions early below. Thanks for chiming in!
Send us your questions below. The question box includes a space for your name, but this is optional. Your question may be edited for accuracy and clarity.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Lakers vs. Nuggets Western Conference Finals Game 3 on May 20, 2023
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Lakers vs. Nuggets Game Info
- Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ABC
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Crypto.com Arena
NBA Props Today: Los Angeles Lakers
Anthony Davis Props
- Davis' 25.9 points per game average is 1.4 points more than Saturday's over/under.
- Davis' per-game rebound average -- 12.5 -- is 1.0 less than his prop bet over/under for Saturday's game (13.5).
- Davis has averaged 2.6 assists per game, 0.1 more than Saturday's assist over/under (2.5).
- Davis' 0.3 made three-pointers per game is 0.2 less than his over/under in Saturday's game (0.5).
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LeBron James Props
- The 28.9 points LeBron James scores per game are 3.4 more than his prop total on Saturday (25.5).
- He averages 1.2 less rebounds than his prop bet Saturday of 9.5.
- James has collected 6.8 assists per game, 0.7 lower than his prop bet on Saturday (7.5).
- He has hit 2.2 three-pointers per game, 0.7 more than his prop bet total on Saturday (1.5).
D'Angelo Russell Props
- The 17.8 points D'Angelo Russell scores per game are 4.3 more than his over/under on Saturday.
- Russell averages 0.5 more rebounds than his over/under on Saturday (which is 2.5).
- Russell's 2.7 three-pointers made per game is 1.2 more than his over/under on Saturday.
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Nikola Jokic Props
- Jokic is averaging 24.5 points in the 2022-23 season, 4.0 less than Saturday's over/under.
- Jokic has grabbed 11.8 boards per game, which is less than his prop bet for Saturday's game (14.5).
- Jokic's assist average -- 9.8 -- is 0.7 lower than Saturday's prop bet (10.5).
- Jokic averages 0.8 made three-pointers, which is less than his over/under on Saturday (1.5).
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Jamal Murray Props
- The 24.5 point total set for Jamal Murray on Saturday is 4.5 more than his scoring average on the season (20).
- Murray has averaged 0.6 fewer rebounds per game (3.9) than his prop bet total in Saturday's game (4.5).
- Murray's year-long assist average -- 6.2 per game -- is 0.7 higher than Saturday's assist prop bet total (5.5).
- Murray has averaged 2.6 made three-pointers per game, 0.9 less than his over/under in Saturday's game (3.5).
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LEAWOOD, Kan. (WDAF) — Police say a semitrailer dragged a Kia compact car roughly 8 miles along an interstate in Kansas after the car was trapped under the truck Wednesday morning.
Just after 3:30 a.m., dispatchers received a call of a big rig dragging the Kia under the edge of its trailer on westbound I-435.
The call came from someone who witnessed what happened, according to radio traffic on Broadcastify.
“It’s actually going to be a semi that’s pulling a car that’s stuck underneath it. They’re now passing Antioch,” the dispatcher said to emergency crews. “…thinks there’s actually someone in the vehicle that’s stuck underneath the semi.”
At 3:46 a.m. Overland Park police stopped the truck at I-435 and Lackman Road. There they found a 28-year-old Kansas City woman in the compact car stuck under the rear passenger side of the trailer.
“The female party is telling us she can’t get out or move,” an emergency responder told dispatchers, according to Broadcastify.
Officers said the crash initially happened at the intersection of the on-ramp to westbound I-435 and State Line Road in Leawood. The semi was moving westbound with a green light from the exit ramp back onto the highway.
Police said the Kia was moving southbound and slid through the red light into the intersection, hitting the semi-truck trailer in front of the right rear wheel. The driver of the semi didn’t see anything after the crash and continued driving onto the highway, according to police.
After officers removed the woman from the car, she was taken to a local hospital for evaluation. Her condition is unknown at this time. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/car-pinned-under-big-rig-dragged-for-miles-along-kansas-interstate/ | 2023-01-26 18:20:39 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/car-pinned-under-big-rig-dragged-for-miles-along-kansas-interstate/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Americans traveling for Thanksgiving may have to deal with messy weather later this week.
While the weather looks to be largely calm across much of the U.S. through Wednesday, certain pockets of the country can expect rain (and perhaps snow) in the lead-up to, and after, Thanksgiving Day.
A cross-country storm is expected to move from the Pacific Northwest through the northern and central Plains, bringing wind, rain and snow to these parts of the country on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the latest short-range forecast from the National Weather Service.
Much of the snow possible in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies is expected for Tuesday and into Tuesday night, with the storm “spreading what’s left of its moisture over the Northern/Central Plains on Wednesday,” the NWS writes.
But on Thanksgiving — and in the days that follow — the weather is expected to get wetter in parts of the Plains, the South and along the East Coast.
In the South, storms are expected Thanksgiving Day, with heavy rains across portions of the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley beginning on Wednesday night and lasting into Thursday and Friday, according to the NWS. The NWS Weather Prediction Center also warns of rain and thunderstorms from Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeast.
Dave Longley, meteorologist with Nexstar’s WSYR, added that this moisture — which will be gathering across Texas — will result in “a wet Black Friday” across other areas, as well.
“That lingering moisture in the Southeast U.S. will team up with another bundle of energy coming out of Texas and into the Plains with an expanding area of rain over the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, the southeast U.S. and mid-Atlantic states Saturday,” Longley added.
Major flooding was said to be unlikely on Thanksgiving, though rains are expected in cities including Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; and New Orleans during the holiday, AccuWeather reported.
On the East Coast, the NWS says “meaningful precipitation” is also expected near the end of the week and possibly beyond, making return travel especially wet for those driving in the Northeast and Southeast, specifically.
“Low clouds and fog could result in flight delays at the major airports of the Northeast,” Longley added. “Roads will be wet and the fog could be especially thick where there is snow on the ground.”
The good news? Langley says severe winter weather isn’t expected through the end of the weekend.
“Winter reared its head across much of the country last week, but by and large cold and snow are gone for this holiday travel weekend.”
Thanksgiving travel, meanwhile, is expected to near pre-pandemic levels, according to AAA. Just under 55 million Americans are said to be traveling this year, with around 49 million of those reaching their destination by car.
“Regardless of the mode of transportation you have chosen, expect crowds during your trip and at your destination. If your schedule is flexible, consider off-peak travel times during the holiday rush,” says Paula Twidale, AAA’s Senior Vice President of Travel.
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Alan Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross
(THE CONVERSATION) The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. This gift, and the observance of Torah’s principles, is at the core of the Jews’ relationship with God, referred to as the “covenant.”
Shavuot has deeply agrarian roots. As a scholar of early Rabbinic Judaism, I know that the holiday has evolved significantly over the centuries, as has Judaism itself. Today, rather than primarily marking the harvest, Shavuot observance transports the Jewish community back to Sinai, to symbolically experience the awe of revelation and personally recommit to the covenant.
Ancient roots
In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot marks the harvest of the first summer grain. Each Passover, which is celebrated midspring, the Israelites brought a sheaf of the earliest post-winter barley harvest to the Jerusalem Temple. Fifty days later, on Shavuot, they brought the first of the summer wheat harvest, which they presented as an offering to God.
In Hebrew, the word “Shavuot” means “weeks,” referring to the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot. The 49 days between are a period known as “The Counting of the Omer.”
Passover and Shavuot thus are linked as holidays that, in the Bible, thanked God for the harvests that sustained people year to year. Jewish scriptures refer to Shavuot as the Festival of the Harvest, “Chag Ha-Katzir,” and Day of First Fruits, “Yom Ha-Bikkurim.” In modern times, synagogue sanctuaries are decorated on Shavuot with greenery, baskets of fruit or other produce that represent the bounty of the land and the divine blessing that helps it grow.
A holiday transformed
But Shavuot gradually evolved, as did other Jewish practices, after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70. This dramatic event meant an end to animal sacrifices and agricultural offerings. In their place, Jews paid increased attention to the observance and study of Torah.
Since then, Shavuot has taken on new symbolism, based on its timing in the Jewish calendar. Passover, 49 days before, commemorates the Jews’ deliverance from slavery. According to scripture, God gave Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai soon after their escape from Egypt. Therefore, people imagine that the counting between Passover and Shavuot represents the Jewish people’s progress from slavery to freedom, from Egypt to Sinai – toward knowledge of God that is revealed through the study and observance of Torah.
On the surface, these holidays mark one-time events. But Shavuot reframes them to represent an ongoing ethical commitment. The prayers and rituals of Passover emphasize God’s desire that no one be oppressed. Seven weeks later, at Shavuot, the Jewish people recommit themselves to Torah’s revealed principles and practices – traditions that Jews are encouraged to use to oppose oppression and create a better world.
In this context, the 49-day Counting of the Omer leads to a heightened reflection on Jews’ responsibilities in a flawed world. To encourage serious contemplation, during the counting, Jews who are traditionally observant do not schedule weddings or other joyous celebrations and do not engage in activities that might distract from the deep purpose of this sacred time.
Increasingly today, programs of daily reflection and meditation have been developed to turn the Counting of the Omer into a seven-week time of meditation and personal spirituality.
All-night celebration
When Shavuot arrives, the community gathers in worship, which includes the reading of the Bible’s Sinai narrative and Ten Commandments. While the Commandments are read, the congregation stands to accept the covenant, just as scripture says the Israelites did at Mount Sinai. To heighten this symbolic reaffirmation, some congregations prepare wedding contracts that imagine the Jewish people and God as spouses, mutually committed to the value of “Tikkun Olam,” or repairing the world.
One beautiful part of communal Shavuot worship is chanting the biblical Book of Ruth. Ruth was a woman from the ancient region of Moab who left her own nation and homeland to join the people of Israel, and is remembered today as the first convert to Judaism. Her story is relevant because it takes place in the harvest season and, perhaps, because Ruth was a great-grandmother to the Jewish hero King David, who legend says died on Shavuot. And as a convert, Ruth willingly took on the obligations outlined for Jews in Torah – just as all Jews renew their covenant with God on Shavuot.
Another Shavuot tradition is eating dairy foods, such as blintzes and cheesecake. The origins of this custom are not clear, and many diverse reasons have been suggested. Some say eating milk products reflects the biblical description of Israel as a land flowing with milk and honey, or that the Israelites, when they received the revelation at Sinai, were like spiritual newborns. Whatever the reason, the practice renders Shavuot a unique culinary experience.
Some 600 years ago, Jewish mystics in Safed, a hilltop town in Israel, developed a custom of staying up late on Shavuot eve to study Torah, underscoring their commitment to religious learning. These study sessions, called “Tikkun Leil Shavuot,” are today a central part of Shavuot observance.
A Tikkun Leil Shavuot might go all night and conclude when it is time for morning prayers. Or it might continue until midnight, understood by the mystics to be a particularly auspicious time for connecting with God. These events have evolved to offer something for everyone, from well-educated adults to schoolchildren.
Bringing the community together to study, these celebrations highlight what is most important about Shavuot. In Judaism, community, Torah and the covenant with God create a world of meaning and purpose. The holiday is a reminder that in life, as in study, people do not go it alone.
Exodus 24 teaches that when God revealed Torah at Sinai, the Jewish people said, “All that the Lord has spoken, we will do and we will listen!” This year, on June 5 and 6, they will make that same statement again.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Humanigen, Inc. ("Humanigen" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: HGEN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Humanigen investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 28, 2021 and July 12, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
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CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Humanigen's lead product candidate, lenzilumab, was less effective in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients than defendants had represented; (ii) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the lenzilumab Emergency Use Authorization and the ACTIV-5/BET-B study was unlikely to meet its primary endpoint; (iii) accordingly, lenzilumab's clinical and commercial prospects were overstated; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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- Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages select Clarke Energy to deliver a turn-key quadgeneration plant generating electricity, heat, cooling and recovering carbon dioxide (CO2).
- Beverage-grade quality CO2 upgrading systems will provide Liberty with an in-house supply of carbonation for beverage production.
NEW YORK, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarke Energy USA, Inc., a KOHLER Company, today announced they have signed on in agreement with Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages LLC (Liberty) to deliver a "quadgeneration" system in New York. Liberty is the largest family-owned authorized producer and distributor of Coca-Cola beverages in the northeast United States.
Quadgeneration is the process of generating electricity, heat, and cooling at high efficiency and in parallel recovering carbon dioxide (CO2) from the system then polishing it to beverage grade standard CO2. Generating energy using combined heat and power technology delivers significant carbon savings versus grid sourced electricity. The recovery of CO2 further improves the environmental performance of the system by reducing the need to source CO2 from the market. The electricity, heat, and cooling will be generated locally to the bottling plant, helping to eliminate transmission and distribution losses.
Liberty has selected Clarke Energy to design and install the turnkey solution that will bring carbon dioxide generation and recovery on-site. Previously, Liberty would purchase CO2 and import it to site to aide in the carbonation process during the production of beverages. With the new installation of two Jenbacher gas-powered reciprocating engines, the company will now be able to recover CO2 directly from the engine exhaust systems. The CO2 recovery process involves exhaust gas upgrading systems to bring the final product to International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT) and Coca-Cola internal CO2 standards. In addition to providing almost 1,700kW of electrical power to the facility, the engines will also provide thermal energy and cooling for internal processes.
Liberty's emission reduction strategy was a key driver in the company's decision to develop a project that incorporates a highly efficient quadgeneration plant. Clarke Energy worked closely with Liberty to evaluate the facility's manufacturing systems and processes to create an energy solution that will help to optimize the site's environmental performance.
Paul Mulligan, co-owner of Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages commented "As a beverage manufacturer driven by ensuring environmental responsibility, we are proud to partner with Clarke Energy to deliver an advanced energy system at our Elmsford, NY facility. Through Clarke Energy's technology, we will be able to generate our own beverage-grade quality CO2 for our products while simultaneously powering our bottling plant."
Jamie Clarke, Chief Executive Officer of Clarke Energy said "We are pleased to be working with Liberty Coca-Cola to deliver an advanced quadgeneration system in New York. This complex technology can substantially reduce manufacturer's carbon emissions through high efficiency local energy production. With the benefits of the recent Inflation Reduction Act and increased price of CO2 globally, this provides many opportunities for carbon capture technologies in the United States."
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About Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, www.libertycoke.com
Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages LLC is a privately-owned bottler that operates production facilities in Philadelphia, PA, Moorestown, N.J., and Elmsford, N.Y. and sales and distribution centers in Philadelphia, PA, Marmora and South Brunswick, NJ; the Bronx, Maspeth, Elmsford, New Windsor, and Smithtown, NY Backed by nearly 3,200 highly-trained associates and a creative leadership team, Liberty serves thousands of restaurants, supermarkets, and retailers spanning more than 16,000 square miles across three states, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.LibertyCoke.com, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Liberty Coca Cola are "your strategic partner for total beverage solutions".
About Clarke Energy, www.clarke-energy.com
Clarke Energy, a KOHLER Company, is a leader in the engineering, design, installation, and long-term maintenance of distributed energy solutions. Clarke Energy can delivery complex installations and microgrids incorporating gas engine CHP units, battery energy storage systems, biogas upgrading systems and solar photovoltaic units. Clarke Energy can supply solutions including a range of low carbon or decarbonized fuels including biogas, renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen.
Clarke Energy operates in 28 countries. Clarke Energy employs over 1,300 staff and has over 8GW of power generation, 1.4GW of which is from biogas, a renewable fuel.
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Salma Hayek Pinault's relationship with husband François Henri Pinault is solid.
Together for over 15 years, the actress, who is currently starring alongside Channing Tatum in "Magic Mike's Last Dance," felt confident enough to establish a relationship with the strippers on the set of her latest film.
"My husband is not a jealous man," she told People.
"I used to call him all the time [from set] and say, 'Oh my God, I feel so bad,' because I had this predisposition about how the guys, the strippers were going to be. But they're not. They're lovely. They're such great guys. And [my husband] goes, 'Oh God, you're becoming best friends with the strippers, aren't you?' And I said, 'Yes!'"
SALMA HAYEK CREDITS ADAM SANDLER FOR HELPING HER MOVE ON FROM 'SEXY' ROLES: 'I WAS TYPECAST FOR A LONG TIME'
Married since 2009, Hayek Pinault says her French businessman husband made a significant impression on the strippers on set, even garnering more attention than herself.
"He came a couple of times to the set. There was especially one who would come and ask him advice for business. He spoke French and he knew everything about François. He says, 'I'm a big fan.' He reacted more to François than to me!"
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When the movie wrapped, enough of a relationship had been established that Hayek Pinault felt comfortable bringing the strippers into her home.
"By the end of the movie they all came to the house. They were all hanging out with me. Then François was saying, 'You're right, they're adorable, they're lovely.'"
In the move, Hayek Pinault plays a wealthy socialite in the midst of a divorce, seeking the help of Magic Mike (Tatum) to produce a new show in London.
Of Tatum, the 56-year-old actress says, "He's like a Southern gentleman and he cares about that. Because he's so cool and goofy and funny. He can be that. Or he can also be very smart and intense and focused… He's always kind.
"I told him, I said, 'Your mom taught you well.' I think that normally comes, most of the times, from the mother. I think that is true."
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ANDERSON, Ind. — The Madison County Coroner’s Office could be fined for storing bodies in a barn without running water, proper medical supplies, and more.
WISH TV reports that a former employee of the Coroner’s Office said its freezer is inside a pole barn with a gravel floor. This pole barn is where fallen Elwood Police Officer Noah Shahnavaz was taken after he died.
Coroner/nurse practitioner Katherine Callahan said she tried to get county commissioners to provide more funding for the facility when she worked there, but she was unsuccessful. Finally, she decided to let the Indiana Department of Labor know about the conditions.
If the facility is not improved, the Coroner’s Office could incur a $22,500 fine for the county. | https://wibc.com/150319/coroners-office-pole-barn-or-both/ | 2023-04-28 14:57:42 | 0 | https://wibc.com/150319/coroners-office-pole-barn-or-both/ |
First Alert: A warm and humid weekend lies ahead with a slight chance of rain on Saturday
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EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - The ridge of high pressure that has remained in control of our weather all week long has started to loosen its grip on east Texas. As a result, that will open up a small window for isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms to enter the picture both this evening as well as on Saturday afternoon.
This evening’s rain chance will be for the far northwestern counties in east Texas, mainly from Kaufman, Van Zandt, Henderson, Rains, Hunt, and Delta counties and areas further north towards Sulphur Springs as decaying storms may hold up just enough to get a few residents a drink of water.
There is also another batch of showers and thunderstorms that will flare up in Louisiana later today and drift westward. It is possible one or two storms may try to sneak across the state line and impact the far eastern counties and communities near Toledo Bend.
Since these storms will be in a weakening phase, most areas will just end up staying completely dry.
We have a bit more confidence that Saturday will offer everyone a slightly better chance of being on the receiving end of a cooling shower or thunderstorm. Even though the chance of rain is only 30%, it sure beats the 0% chance that has been with us for over a week now.
Saturday’s 30% chance of rain and storms will mainly be for areas along and east of the Highway 69 corridor and the best timing to see that will be in the mid-to-late afternoon hours.
If you do not get in on any rain this weekend, which is likely for most east Texas communities, then it will just remain warm and humid with highs in the lower 90′s.
By the time we get to Sunday and beyond, that ridge of high pressure will strengthen overhead, bringing back the dry weather as temperatures really begin to heat up by next week in our part of the state.
This will lead to mostly sunny skies with unseasonably warm weather as we can call it ‘hot’ in east Texas since daytime highs will be trending about ten degrees above average this week with highs topping out in the middle 90′s.
This means that daily record highs will be in jeopardy on several occasions next week.
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2 former OceanGate employees voiced safety concerns years ago about the hull of the now-missing vessel
By Celina Tebor, CNN
(CNN) — Two former OceanGate employees separately voiced similar safety concerns about the thickness of the now-missing Titan submersible’s hull when they were employed by the company years ago, and a statement from a research lab appears to show conflicting information about the engineering and testing that went into the development of the vessel.
David Lochridge, the company’s former director of marine operations, claimed in a court filing he was wrongfully terminated in 2018 for raising concerns about the safety and testing of the Titan, which vanished Sunday with five people on board during a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
Details about Lochridge and another former employee’s concerns come as officials scour a swath of ocean about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, racing to locate the submersible and rescue the crew inside. If the vessel is intact, they have a dwindling supply of oxygen, with perhaps less than a day of breathable air as of early Wednesday, based on a US Coast Guard officials’ estimate.
Lochridge worked as an independent contractor for OceanGate in 2015, then as an employee between 2016 and 2018, according to court filings.
The company terminated his employment and sued Lochridge and his wife in 2018, claiming he shared confidential information, misappropriated trade secrets and used the company for immigration assistance then manufactured a reason to be fired. The lawsuit noted Lochridge is not an engineer, calling him a submersible pilot and a diver.
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Lochridge said in a countersuit he was tasked by Stockton Rush – OceanGate’s CEO, who is among the five onboard the Titan – to perform an inspection of the submersible.
Lochridge brought up concerns that no non-destructive testing had been performed on the Titan’s hull to check for “delaminations, porosity and voids of sufficient adhesion of the glue being used due to the thickness of the hull,” the suit says. When Lochridge raised the issue, it says, he was told no equipment existed to perform such a test.
The lawsuit was settled and dismissed in November 2018. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, and Lochridge could not be reached for comment.
Court filings from the company indicate there was additional testing after Lochridge’s time at OceanGate, and it’s unclear whether any of his concerns were addressed as the vessel was developed.
Another former OceanGate employee who worked briefly for the company during the same time period as Lochridge had similar concerns, he said, speaking to CNN on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly.
The former employee became concerned when the carbon fiber hull of the Titan arrived, he said, echoing Lochridge’s concerns about its thickness and adhesion in his conversation with CNN. The hull had only been built to five inches thick, he said, telling CNN company engineers told him they had expected it to be seven inches thick.
The former employee worked at the submersible company for two and a half months in 2017; he was an operations technician who assisted with towing submersibles out into the ocean and preparing them for the diving operation.
He said more concerns were raised by contractors and employees during his time at OceanGate, and Rush became defensive and shied away from answering questions during all-staff meetings. When the former employee raised concerns directly to Rush that OceanGate could potentially be violating a US law relating to Coast Guard inspections, the CEO outright dismissed them, the former employee said, and that’s when he resigned.
CNN has reached out to OceanGate for comment.
OceanGate touted safety features of Titan in 2021 court filing
In a 2021 court filing, OceanGate’s legal representative touted the specs and a hull monitoring system built into the Titan that he called “an unparalleled safety feature.” The legal representative informed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia – the court that oversees matters having to do with the Titanic – of the company’s expedition plans at the time.
The filing lays out the Titan’s testing details and its specifications, including that it had undergone more than 50 test dives and detailing its five-inch-thick carbon fiber and titanium hull.
The filing says OceanGate’s vessel was the result of over eight years of work, including “detailed engineering and development work under a company issued $5 million contract to the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory.”
But according to the University of Washington, the laboratory never dealt with design or engineering for OceanGate’s Titan vessel.
The lab’s expertise involved “only shallow water implementation,” and “the Laboratory was not involved in the design, engineering or testing of the TITAN submersible used in the RMS TITANIC expedition,” Kevin Williams, the executive director of UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory, said in a statement to CNN.
In 2022, the legal representative updated the Virginia court on OceanGate’s expeditions in another court filing.
“On the first dive to the Titanic, the submersible encountered a battery issue and had to be manually attached to its lifting platform,” the filing reads. “OceanGate decided to cancel the second mission for repairs and operational enhancements” after the vessel “sustained modest damage to its external components,” it reads.
There were not any submersible-related issues that canceled dives on the third, fourth, or fifth missions, according to the court filing.
OceanGate explains choice not to class the Titan submersible
In a 2019 blog post on OceanGate’s website, the company said most marine operations “require that chartered vessels are ‘classed’ by an independent group such as the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), DNV/GL, Lloyd’s Register, or one of the many others.”
But the Titan is not classed, the blog post says, adding that classing innovative designs often requires a multiyear approval process, which gets in the way of rapid innovation.
Classing agencies “do not ensure that operators adhere to proper operating procedures and decision-making processes – two areas that are much more important for mitigating risks at sea. The vast majority of marine (and aviation) accidents are a result of operator error, not mechanical failure,” it says.
“Classing assures ship owners, insurers, and regulators that vessels are designed, constructed and inspected to accepted standards. Classing may be effective at filtering out unsatisfactory designers and builders, but the established standards do little to weed out subpar vessel operators – because classing agencies only focus on validating the physical vessel,” it reads.
“By itself, classing is not sufficient to ensure safety,” the blog post says.
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In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not replace the country's top law enforcement official, but does expect to reappoint a convicted tax felon to a senior position in government, after passing a contentious law this week giving his government some unchecked powers over senior appointments.
It is the first time Netanyahu has publicly stated what he expects to do with the new legislation passed Monday limiting a power of the Supreme Court.
The law has sparked months of unprecedented domestic protest over concerns it will erode the democratic separation of powers.
Speculations over the future of Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, whose office is leading the charge against Netanyahu in an ongoing corruption trial, have been swirling since the prime minister's return to power in December.
Legal experts say this law could help Netanyahu fire or sideline the attorney general, and Netanyahu's party members have advanced a bill to strip her of her prosecutorial powers.
But Netanyahu claims he has no intentions of removing Baharav-Miara from her post.
"It's not even on the table and it won't happen," Netanyahu tells NPR.
Speaking with Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep, the prime minister also rejected any notion that the new law will make it easier for him to outright dismiss his own trial.
"It's completely false. There's no connection between this judicial reform, which is very broad, and my trial," he says.
Mordechai Kremnitzer, a law expert from the non-partisan Israel Democracy Institute, questioned the claim.
"I'm afraid to say that the level of trustworthiness of Netanyahu is so low in my view, that I just don't trust his word," Kremnitzer told NPR. "It's clear that despite what Netanyahu says, that the firing of the attorney general is on the table. It's clear that it has to do with the trial of Netanyahu, as well as it has to do with the wish of this government to get rid of the rule of law."
Return of a convicted felon?
The court used the "reasonability" clause in January to dismiss Aryeh Deri, a key Netanyahu ally, from his position as Israel's interior and health minister. Deri was also meant to serve as finance minister later on.
The Supreme Court found that Deri's prior conviction for tax fraud made his appointment unreasonable, and that his promise to the court to stay out of politics — which appears to have granted him leniency in his sentencing — also should preclude him from serving in Netanyahu's government.
But with this judicial check now gone, unless the Supreme Court repeals the new law, Netanyahu could appoint Deri to his cabinet position without intervention from the Supreme Court deeming it unreasonable. And he's considering doing just that.
When asked directly if he will reappoint Deri, Netanyahu responded: "Well, you know, it depends what happens, of course, with the legislation, we have to see. But if it stands, I expect it to happen."
On Wednesday, Israel's Supreme Court announced it will hear legal challenges to the new law amid intense public protest.
Netanyahu denies national security concerns
President Biden had urged Netanyahu not to pass the legislation this week considering Israeli security threats. Thousands of Israeli reservists have announced they will not serve in protest of the law.
In the NPR interview, Netanyahu denied that the legislation impacted Israel's national security, despite public concerns from defense officials. Israeli officials have reportedly been holding meetings to evaluate at what point Israel's readiness for battle will be adversely affected.
"I don't think it's affecting our national defense, Israel is very strong," Netanyahu said. "There's no real, I would say, no real detraction or reduction in our ability to, to meet our security challenges."
That appears to contradict statements from Israel's military. In a public statement, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said requests by reservists not to serve have increased, and "if reservists do not show up for reserve duty in the long term, there will be damage to the military's readiness."
Army chief of staff Herzi Halevi said in a video, "When a dispute spills over into the ranks of the IDF, and cracks begin to emerge...These are dangerous cracks."
The following interview excerpts have been edited for clarity.
On how to proceed with his government's plan to overhaul the judiciary:
Now that we've passed [the first law] and we have the votes to to continue legislating, maybe now we'll be able to get some buy in from the opposition, and I'm prepared to do that. I think we should just sit down. We have about three months, four months. We should just sit down, work out the entire judicial reform, find a happy middle.
On why judicial reform is needed:
People agree that the balance between the three branches of government has been taken off the rails in the last 20 years, and people want to bring it back. What does it mean bring it back? It means that that neither one of the three branches of government has that overwhelming dominance over the other three. That assures democracy. ... [Over] the last 20 years, the Supreme Court has aggregated for itself the powers of the judiciary, executive branch and the legislative.
The broadcast story was produced by Adam Bearne. The digital story was edited by Erika Aguilar contributed to this story
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday:
GitLab Inc., up $11.04 to $46.44.
The software development platform gave investors an encouraging earnings forecast update.
HealthEquity Inc., up $6.83 to $65.67.
The provider of services for managing health care accounts raised its profit and revenue forecasts for the year.
Nevro Inc., down $4.04 to $23.48.
The medical device developer trimmed its revenue forecast for the current quarter.
Joann Inc., down 47 cents to $1.14.
The owner of Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores reported disappointing first-quarter financial results.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., down $4.43 to $92.87.
The restaurant chain’s fiscal third-quarter profit and revenue fell short of analysts’ forecasts.
G-III Apparel Group Ltd., up $4.59 to $20.98.
The owner of DKNY and other clothing brands raised its profit forecast for the year.
ABM Industries Inc., up $3.21 to $48.51.
The provider of cleaning and other maintenance services beat Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter earnings forecasts.
Thor Industries Inc., up $13.99 to $93.15.
The recreational vehicle maker reported strong fiscal third-quarter financial results. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/cracker-barrel-joann-fall-thor-industries-healthequity-rise/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-06-06 20:36:37 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/cracker-barrel-joann-fall-thor-industries-healthequity-rise/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Since 2012 the Syracuse Police Department has maintained the safety of Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, but soon that will change.
Thanks to a bill passed during the latest legislative session by lawmakers in Albany, the Airport Authority will now be able to hire and operate their own police force.
“This is just kind of the evolution of creating a real standalone airport authority,” said Jason Terreri, Executive Director of the Syracuse Airport Authority, “So we’re going to be creating our own police force, which is real similar to what other airport authorities have done around the country.”
“It’s to create a little bit more consistency, a little bit more command and control over the facility.”
Terreri says this will be helpful, especially during busy times at the airport.
“To be able to have a little bit more flexibility in our law enforcement and security posture, that’s going to become important.”
Even though these are not SPD officers, they still hold all of the same qualifications and responsibilities. Terreri says they hope to have all New York State officers make up the force who can use force and make arrests when necessary.
For folks traveling in and out of Hancock International, likely the only thing they will notice is a change in uniform.
“These officers will be Airport authority employees,” Terreri said, “That’s the difference.”
“It gives us a little bit more control over security posture at the airports and consistency with the number of officers, as well as the same officers here at the airport who will then start to get very familiar with our facility, our process, and then if something were out of place, they would notice it.”
The bill itself is still pending approval from Governor Hochul but once approved, Terreri said they expect to have the new patrols in place in 6 months. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/new-police-force-coming-soon-to-hancock-airport/ | 2022-06-21 04:52:42 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/new-police-force-coming-soon-to-hancock-airport/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Hugh Evans highlighted a staggering new statistic to explain why this year’s Global Citizen NOW conference was packed with calls to action and urgent requests for involvement.
The CEO of Global Citizen, who has been fighting against extreme poverty since he was 14, told The Associated Press that climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a global debt crisis have erased decades of progress in raising people’s quality of life.
“For the first time in my lifetime, we’re making reverse progress on this issue,” Evans said. “When I was born in 1983, 52% of the planet lived in extreme poverty. We got it down to 7%. That was about 690 million people. It’s now increased by hundreds of millions in the last three years.”
This reversal is why Evans turned the two-day Global Citizen NOW conference, which wrapped up Friday night in New York, into a collection of calls to action. Political, business, philanthropic and cultural leaders urged Global Citizen supporters, especially younger generations, to tackle the causes concerning them.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said young people have been responsible for every movement in the world.
“I know that all of you have the power and the compassion and the fire in your belly to make a difference,” she said. “I will be with you, cheering you on and leading the way.”
Some actions were big, such as supporting Global Citizen’s Power Our Planet initiative, which urges supporters to demand global financing reform from political and banking leaders to help speed investments to battle climate change.
French President Emmanuel Macron, addressing the conference virtually from France, offered support for the idea. “We all have to be a part of the reshaping and reinvention,” he said.
The nonprofit JUST Capital, which advises companies how to deploy their investments more equitably, announced the creation of the Corporate Care Network, which aims to improve health care benefits for workers.
Singer-songwriter John Legend challenged supporters to pledge to build systems to create record-breaking youth turnout in the 2024 election.
“We want a democracy that’s open to everybody, and one that encourages our leaders to do what’s right because they know that they answer to the people,” Legend said.
Other actions were more personal. A panel of advocates for a more plant-based diet – including Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuiness and restaurateur Pinky Cole, owner of the Slutty Vegan burger chain – sought promises from the conference’s worldwide audience to eat one plant-based meal a day.
“Food choice is the No. 1 weapon we have to combat climate change,” McGuiness said.
Global Citizen’s Evans said even though his organization remains focused on fighting extreme poverty, that battle cannot be won without addressing climate change and gender equity at the same time.
“We are all interconnected in some ways, whether you like it or not,” he said. “What happens on one side of the planet will affect you. And so we can’t just close our eyes and say, ‘OK, these issues don’t matter to me.’ No nation is an island unto itself.”
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Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. | https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/global-citizen-now-summit-yields-commitments-big-and-small/ | 2023-04-29 18:34:02 | 0 | https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/global-citizen-now-summit-yields-commitments-big-and-small/ |
NBL's Adelaide 36ers stun Suns 134-124 in preseason game originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
The Phoenix Suns just got scorched.
During their preseason game against the NBL's Adelaide 36ers on Sunday night, the Suns were stunned 134-124.
All of Phoenix's primary starters - bar Jae Crowder who reportedly is seeking a trade - played 22 minutes each in the contest.
The 36ers jumped out to a 33-28 lead after one quarter but hit the gas in the second. Two free throws from Kai Sotto, who went undrafted in the 2022 NBA Draft, made it 57-41 to increase the gap to 16, which was the largest lead either team managed on the night.
After leading 71-59 at halftime, the Suns came out with more energy and got within six points by the end of the quarter to make it 96-90. Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Mikal Bridges and Deandre Ayton all contributed in the scoring column following an iffy start.
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In the fourth, the closest the Suns would get was three when two Jock Landale free throws made it 111-108. From there, Robert Franks, a former G Leaguer, and Craig Randall, who went undrafted in 2020, put away Phoenix.
Both Randall and Franks put up extremely impressive performances. Randall dropped 35 points on 9-for-17 3-point shooting while Franks contributed 32 points on 6-for-10 3-point shooting. Guard Antonius Cleveland added 22 points on 3-for-4 shooting from distance, as the 36ers shot a combined 55.8% from deep on 43 attempts.
Compare that to Phoenix's 9-for-34 long-ball clip (26.5%) and that's the ball game.
Cameron Payne scored 23 points off the bench to lead the Suns while Bridges and Ayton each scored 22. Booker had 13 on 5-for-8 shooting overall while Paul mustered just six points on 2-for-4 shooting.
After finishing the 2021-22 season with the league's best record and becoming the top-seeded team in the Western Conference as a result, this is not the way head coach Monty Williams and Co. envisioned to start the new campaign after bouncing out of the playoffs in disappointing fashion.
With the Pacific Division looking to be even more difficult this year as all teams are hoping to contend for a playoff spot, it'll be interesting to see if this loss is foreshadowing what's to come for Phoenix or if it's just a minor bump on the road back to the top position in the West. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/nbls-adelaide-36ers-stun-suns-134-124-in-preseason-game/3380215/ | 2022-10-03 05:45:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/nbls-adelaide-36ers-stun-suns-134-124-in-preseason-game/3380215/ |
Another weekend, another round of I-95 closures in the Restore the Corridor work zone in Wilmington as the project gets closer to completion.
Starting Friday night, October 28, 2022, Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) spokesman C. R. McLeod says the northbound lanes of I-95 will be closed through Wilmington starting Friday night.
"Allowing for paving, and striping, and signage work between the I-495 split and Exit 8/U.S. 202," said McLeod.
The roadway is expected to reopen Monday morning, October 31st, and when it does, McLeod said that stretch should be completed.
"We will have our regular traffic pattern restored through the City of Wilmington for the first time in almost two years."
That will include a new four lane segment on the Brandywine River Bridge with a designated merge lane from Delaware Avenue.
"Used to have a very, very, short and abrupt merge there and it was a frequent spot of crashes," said McLeod.
In fact, it had the second most number of wrecks in the corridor surpassed only by the southbound I-95 ramp from 4th and Jackson streets which has also been reconfigured.
The weekend closures will not be limited to the northbound side, with the southbound lanes being shut down Saturday night into Sunday morning.
"That will be for the installation of a very large overhead sign structure," said McLeod. "We have to remove the one that is currently in place."
When completed three miles of pavement, 19 bridges, and eleven ramps will have been rebuilt or rehabbed. | https://www.wdel.com/news/i-95-restore-the-corridor-closures-for-this-weekend/article_835cb0f4-56c6-11ed-9d99-d3e869648e84.html | 2022-10-28 17:54:27 | 0 | https://www.wdel.com/news/i-95-restore-the-corridor-closures-for-this-weekend/article_835cb0f4-56c6-11ed-9d99-d3e869648e84.html |
TX Brownsville TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Texas
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
TXZ253-122100-
Southern Hidalgo-
Including the cities of McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr, Mission,
and Weslaco
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the mid 70s.
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TXZ255-122100-
Inland Cameron-
Including the cities of Brownsville and Harlingen
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
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TXZ355-122100-
Coastal Cameron-
Including the cities of Port Isabel and Laguna Vista
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the upper 80s. Lows in the mid 70s.
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TXZ455-122100-
Cameron Island-
Including the cities of South Padre Island and Boca Chica Beach
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Near steady temperature in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the lower 80s. Lows in the upper 70s.
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TXZ252-122100-
Starr-
Including the cities of Rio Grande City and Roma
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around
100. Lows in the lower 70s. Heat index values up to 110.
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TXZ254-122100-
Inland Willacy-
Including the city of Raymondville
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the mid 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
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TXZ354-122100-
Coastal Willacy-
Including the city of Port Mansfield
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy.
Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
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TXZ248-122100-
Zapata-
Including the city of Zapata
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
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TXZ249-122100-
Jim Hogg-
Including the city of Hebbronville
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around
100. Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ250-122100-
Brooks-
Including the city of Falfurrias
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ353-122100-
Northern Hidalgo-
Including the city of San Manuel
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
70. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ251-122100-
Inland Kenedy-
Including the city of Sarita
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
70. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the mid 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ351-122100-
Coastal Kenedy-
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy.
Lows in the lower 70s. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs
around 90. Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ454-122100-
Willacy Island-
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. South winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the upper 80s. Lows in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ451-122100-
Kenedy Island-
357 AM CDT Thu May 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. South winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Southeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in
the mid 80s. Lows in the mid 70s.
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Berhalter back as US coach after feud, domestic-violence investigation
NEW YORK (AP) — Gregg Berhalter was rehired as the U.S. men’s national team coach through the 2026 World Cup, returning to the job after he led the Americans to the second round of last year’s tournament and then was dropped amid a feud with a famous soccer family and a domestic-violence investigation.
The U.S. Soccer Federation announced Friday Berhalter had been hired through the 2026 tournament that it will co-host. The USSF planned a news conference for later in the day in Las Vegas, where interim coach B.J, Callaghan led the team to Thursday night’s 3-0 win over Mexico in the CONCACAF Nations League.
“When I started this search, my focus was on finding someone with the right vision to take this program to new heights in 2026,” new USSF sporting director Matt Crocker said in a statement. “Gregg has that vision, as well as the experience and growth mindset on and off the field to move this team forward.”
Callaghan will remain as interim coach for Sunday’s Nations League final against Canada and for the CONCACAF Gold Cup from June 24 to July 16. Berhalter will return after that for a schedule that includes October exhibitions against Germany and Ghana.
Crocker said he planned to “work collectively with Gregg on some of the big-picture items away from the team.”
Berhalter, 49, was hired in December 2018 after the failure to qualify for that year’s tournament in Russia and coached the Americans at last year’s World Cup in Qatar, where they were eliminated with a 3-1 loss to the Netherlands. The U.S. gets an automatic berth in the 2026 World Cup as co-host with Mexico and Canada.
He led the Americans to 37 wins, 11 losses and 12 draws and was discussing a new contract with USSF sporting director Earnie Stewart when the family of Gio Reyna, upset with his lack of playing time in Qatar, contacted the USSF about the allegation involving Berhalter in a 1992 incident with the woman who became his wife.
Gio Reyna’s parents — former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna and midfielder Danielle Egan — were angered that Berhalter discussed his issues with Gio at a management conference after the World Cup that, while not identifying Gio, clearly were about the 20-year-old midfielder.
The USSF retained the Alston and Bird legal team to investigate, and the law firm said in a report released March 13 that while Berhalter’s conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female,” Berhalter did not improperly withhold information when he was hired.
“There is no basis to conclude that employing Mr. Berhalter would create legal risks for an organization,” the report said.
Berhalter said there were “zero excuses for my actions that night” and said the behavior was never repeated.
Stewart announced Jan. 26 that he was quitting and was replaced in late April by Crocker, the Southampton director of football operations, who was tasked with leading the search. Crocker said planned to make a decision by late summer.
Anthony Hudson, one of Berhalter’s assistants, became interim coach on Jan. 4 and coached the Americans to two wins, one loss and two draws, then quit on May 30 to become coach of the Qatari club Al Markhiya.
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YOOM Signs Strategic Partnerships with Several of the Most Influential Leaders in Global Music, Entertainment and Culture
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, YOOM, the volumetric capture and immersive content company formerly known as Tetavi, has announced a series of actions positioning it as the leader in the creation of content experiences for the Metaverse and Web3. YOOM has received the support of leaders of content and culture, including Jimmy Iovine [Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Interscope Records and Beats Electronics, among numerous other companies]; Finneas O'Connell [Grammy Award-winning producer, singer and songwriter]; Maverick Carter [CEO of The SpringHill Company]; Justin Lubliner, [CEO of the Darkroom]; and Paul Wachter [Founder, Chairman and CEO of Main Street Advisors].
All of these artists and executives have signed agreements to help YOOM conceive, develop, and create the future of immersive and interactive content with a focus on music, entertainment, gaming, sports and popular culture. Additionally, these strategic partners have joined the company's largest existing investors and shareholders, including Insight Partners, Marc Rowan and Aaron Stone, in personal investments totalling $15 million to further YOOM's growth.
Since its founding, YOOM has used its cutting-edge volumetric technology to pave the way for the future of immersive and interactive content. YOOM has established a home for artists and creators to be at the forefront of creating new types of content that can enable novel forms of social and community experiences. Shortly, YOOM will democratize the ability to create such content and experiences by making it available to anyone and everyone, from the highest-caliber professional artist to any amateur with a smartphone and an idea. YOOM's new funding will enable it to expand its roster of influential talent and top-tier brand partnerships as well as invest more into its production, R&D capabilities and mobile app development.
To further support its strategy, and in advance of several major projects that YOOM will release over the next few months, Aaron Stone, former senior partner and Head of Media, Entertainment and Communications, and current advisor to Apollo Global Management, has been named as YOOM's first non-founder Chairman. Stone was a seed investor in the company and has partnered with YOOM's founders and senior executives to help develop the organization's strategy and structure.
YOOM CEO Gilad Talmon commented: "We are honored to receive the endorsement and investments in time, effort, and capital from these titans in the music and entertainment industries, who are among the leading global trend setters in culture broadly. We are grateful that they share our vision of a more immersive and connected future where people can engage both with each other as well as their favorite personalities in a more intimate and meaningful way."
Aaron Stone added, "We are at the inception of a period in which new AI-based technologies will revolutionize the way we create and experience content, and interact socially. YOOM will partner with artists to create content that can engender enhanced feelings of presence, enabling new and different ways for people to emotionally engage and form communities. I am particularly excited that YOOM will provide the ability to create extraordinary content and experiences previously unavailable to anyone, to virtually everyone. I am thrilled to be a part of such a talented team in developing new methods to inspire creativity and to explore and express the human condition."
The company's new branding aims to create an inclusive and authentic identity that resonates with creators, consumers and commercial partners. It signals a new era and a calling to the Metaverse. "Our new name, YOOM, reflects the universal and meaningful experiences that our technology enables. It is the combination of 'You and Me', as we want to create a deeper connection between content creators and their audiences. It is also the sound of the second syllable of the word 'volume' since our technology allows you to create a digital version of yourself in 3D and with volume. Our new logo, a butterfly with symmetrical faces that appear as mirror images of each other, aims to convey creativity, freedom, duality and metamorphosis, symbolizing the passage from the real world to the digital world. The name YOOM represents who we are both as people and as a company: Dynamic, Bold, Expressive and Playful," continued Talmon.
"I am always looking for new possibilities that advance entertainment and move the culture forward. YOOM is going to bring artists and brands into the Metaverse and Web3, and that feels really exciting." said Jimmy Iovine. "This team and the proprietary technology they've built levels the playing field for creatives and widens the space where communities can grow. I'm inspired to help define what the future of entertainment can look like."
Earlier this year, YOOM partnered with the Los Angeles Kings to become the first NHL team to enter the Metaverse. In the near-term, YOOM will introduce its first major projects in areas such as music, gaming, TV and location-based entertainment.
To learn more please visit: YOOM.com
About YOOM:
YOOM is a deep tech company founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, that brings real humans into the digital world with cutting-edge volumetric technology. Its mission is to enable the creation of new immersive content and experiences for the Metaverse and Web3, pioneering new ways for people to express themselves, create and consume content. YOOM's AI technology consists of proprietary neural networks dedicated to volumetric video production. YOOM currently operates studios worldwide and is commercially active in the U.S., Europe, Middle East and APAC.
Please visit www.yoom.com and follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Discord for information.
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State-of-the-Art Intelligent Edge AI Computing Takes Center Stage for Next Generation Distributed Network Technology with up to a 30X Performance Improvement for Inferencing Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, will be showcasing its latest generation of systems that accelerate workloads for the entire Telco industry, specifically at the edge of the network. These systems are part of the newly introduced Supermicro Intel-based product line; the better, faster, and greener systems based on the brand new 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids) that deliver up to 60% better workload-optimized performance. From a performance standpoint these new systems that demonstrate up to 30X faster AI inference speedups on large models for AI and edge workloads with the NVIDIA H100 GPUs. In addition, Supermicro systems support the new Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series (formerly codenamed Ponte Vecchio) across a wide range of servers. The Intel Data Center GPU Max Series contains up to 128 Xe-HPC cores and will accelerate a range of AI, HPC, and visualization workloads. Supermicro X13 AI systems will support next-generation built-in accelerators and GPUs up to 700W from Intel, NVIDIA, and others.
Supermicro's wide range of product families is deployed in a broad range of industries to speed up workloads and allow faster and more accurate decisions. With the addition of purpose-built servers tuned for networking workloads, such as Open RAN deployments and private 5G, the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor vRAN Boost technology reduces power consumption while improving performance. Supermicro continues to offer a wide range of environmentally friendly servers for workloads from the edge to the data center.
"Supermicro continues to innovate and design application-optimized solutions across the entire IT industry," said Charles Liang, president, and CEO of Supermicro. "At the network's edge, we are innovating quickly with the recent announcement of a complete family of servers optimized for deployments where significant computing power is required. The edge and Hyper-E servers are based on the latest Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs with up to 60 cores per CPU, addressing the network edge challenges in addition to our rack-scale solutions for back-end processing. The Building Block Solutions® architecture enables us to be first to market with the most advanced servers from the edge to the data center, addressing a wide range of customer needs."
Supermicro servers are used for demanding workloads across the entire IT industry, including 5G workloads in the core, to the network edge, and accelerating AI for network optimization and IOT and 5G applications.
The advanced thermal architecture and optimized airflow of Supermicro X13 systems enable them to run in high-ambient-temperature environments of up to 40°C (104°F) with free-air cooling, reducing cooling-related infrastructure costs and OPEX. Liquid cooling options are also available for many X13 systems and can reduce OPEX by up to 40% compared to standard air conditioning. In addition, Supermicro's resource-saving architecture for multi-node systems utilizes shared cooling and power to reduce power consumption and raw materials usage, lowering both TCO and TCE.
In addition, the in-house design of Titanium Level power supplies further ensures improved operational efficiency. As a result, the PUE of a data center can realistically be reduced from an industry average of 1.60 down to the 1.05 range.
The range of Supermicro X13 servers, together with the latest GPU technology, such as the NVIDIA H100, A30, and A10 GPUs, or the Intel® Data Center GPU Flex or Max Series, accelerates data processing at the edge where extremely low latency enabled by 5G is critical. The Supermicro Universal 4U/5U GPU server containing NVIDIA H100 GPUs is ideal in data center environments requiring massive AI performance.AI at the edge. It is becoming a crucial technology for many industries and smart solutions. By utilizing the latest AI technology, decisions can be made closer to where the data is constantly generated, reducing network traffic and improving the customer experience. In addition, the Supermicro edge server product line, including the SYS-211E and the Supermicro Hyper-E server SYS-221HE are ideal for edge deployments where environmental conditions require compact yet high-performance servers. When large amounts of data need to be collected and analyzed, the Supermicro Petabyte storage system containing up to 16 E3.S NVMe drives is also available.
Supermicro will demonstrate several solutions at MWC in Barcelona, Spain, from February 27 to March 2, 2023, in Hall 5, booth 5D66. Supermicro is collaborating closely with Intel and Capgemini to showcase the real world performance gains for Open RAN with the Intel vRAN Boost technology. In addition, Supermicro will be demonstrating a wide range of server and edge products at the Rakuten Symphony booth.
Supermicro will be demonstrating, in conjunction with leading-edge providers, the following solutions:
- UST – Application of Machine Vision technology to provide frictionless checkout
- Sodaclick – Voice-activated interaction in smart spaces
- VSBLTY – Machine Vision / Security and smart spaces analytics
To learn more about the Supermicro at MWC 2023, please visit the Supermicro Hall 5, Stand 5D66. Interested attendees can schedule meetings with Supermicro executives and view Supermicro's February 28th roundtable discussion on 5G/IoT market trends.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are transforming into a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, and switch systems, software, and services while delivering advanced high-volume motherboard, power, and chassis products. The products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
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Actor Ezra Miller has been charged with felony burglary in Stamford, Vermont, the latest in a string of incidents involving the embattled star of “The Flash.”
In a report Monday, Vermont State Police said they responded to a burglary complaint in Stamford on May 1 and found several bottles of alcohol were taken from a residence while the homeowners weren’t present. Miller was charged after police consulted surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses.
The police report said Miller was located shortly before midnight Sunday and was issued a citation to appear for arraignment in Vermont Superior Court on Sept. 26.
The felony charge adds to Miller’s mounting legal woes and reports of erratic behavior. The 29-year-old actor was arrested twice earlier this year in Hawaii, including for disorderly conduct and harassment at a karaoke bar. The second incident was for second-degree assault.
The parents of 18-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes, a Native American activist, also earlier this year filed a protection order against Miller, accusing the actor of grooming their child and other inappropriate behavior with her as a minor from the age of 12. Tokata Iron Eyes recently told Insider that those allegations were false.
Attorneys for Miller didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the Vermont felony charge or the protection order related to Tokata Iron Eyes.
After appearing in several films for Warner Bros. and D.C. Films as the Flash, Miller stars in the upcoming standalone film “The Flash,” due out in June 2023. Though Warner Bros. last week axed the nearly completed “Batgirl” film, the studio has suggested it remains committed to releasing “The Flash.”
In an earnings report last week, David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery referenced “The Flash.” “We have seen ‘The Flash,’ ‘Black Adam’ and ’Shazam 2. We are very excited about them,” said Zaslav. “We think they are terrific, and we think we can make them even better.”
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McLEAN, Virginia (AP) — The CIA has revealed a model of Ayman al-Zawahri’s safe house, used to brief President Joe Biden about the al-Qaida leader’s whereabouts before the agency killed him in a drone strike in Afghanistan.
Shortly after al-Zawahri’s death, White House officials released a photo showing Biden talking to CIA Director William Burns with a closed wooden box on the table in front of them. Now, the contents of the box — a model depicting a white-walled home with at least five stories and three partially obscured balconies — are on display at the CIA Museum inside the agency’s Virginia headquarters.
The museum is closed to the public and access is generally limited to the agency’s employees and guests. The CIA allowed journalists to tour the museum, newly refurbished in time for the agency’s 75th anniversary, as part of a broader effort to showcase its history and achievements.
Most of the exhibits took years or decades to declassify. The al-Zawahri model home is the rare artifact that had been used by intelligence officers just weeks beforehand.
Al-Zawahri was killed in late July, nearly a year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan ending a two-decade war in which the CIA had a central role. The agency sent the first American forces two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Two decades later, it pulled out intelligence assets and assisted in the chaotic evacuation of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies.
The Biden administration has said the strike shows it retains what it calls an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan. Opponents of the administration and some analysts question whether al-Zawahri’s presence in a Kabul neighborhood suggests extremist groups like al-Qaida or the Islamic State are growing stronger under the Taliban, who now rule the country.
The strike was particularly meaningful for the CIA, which lost seven employees in trying to find al-Zawahri, a key plotter of the Sept. 11 attacks who was then al-Qaida’s second-in-command.
They were killed when a Jordanian doctor who pretended to have information about al-Zawahri carried out a 2009 suicide bombing at a base in Khost, Afghanistan. The doctor was working for al-Qaida.
On display near the model of al-Zawahri’s home are seven stars honoring the CIA employees slain at Khost. The stars were previously part of a memorial in Afghanistan that was taken down as the U.S. withdrew.
Other newly revealed artifacts include concept drawings for the fake film created as part of a 1980 operation to rescue American diplomats from Iran, the subject of the 2012 movie “Argo” starring Ben Affleck. There are also crew uniforms and other items from the Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes-built ship that served as cover for a 1970s mission to surface a sunken Soviet submarine carrying nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. (The story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times exposing the operation is reproduced on a nearby museum wall.)
The museum also includes some information on the agency’s darker moments, including its role in the ultimately false assertions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion, as well as the exposure and execution of several key spies the U.S. had in the Soviet Union.
Janelle Neises, the museum’s deputy director, says a running agency joke about the collection is that for most people, it’s “the greatest museum you’ll never see.”
The CIA wants to use its history to engage more with the public, albeit on the narrow terms one might expect of an intelligence service. The number of annual visitors to the museum, for example, is classified. Among the known guests are U.S. lawmakers, officers from other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and foreign officials.
But CIA employees post about some of the museum’s roughly 600 exhibits on social media. The agency also recently started a podcast with Burns, the CIA director, as its first guest.
A primary goal of the museum is to reinforce lessons from the agency’s successes and failures for the current workforce, Neises said. Some CIA veterans who served in the missions depicted in the museum donated artifacts to the collection. But the agency is now hiring officers in their twenties who are too young to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“The idea here is as you’re going to lunch or as you’re going to a meeting, leave 10 minutes early, leave 20 minutes early, and just take the time to look at one section and really learn about your history,” Neises said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-cia-unveils-model-of-al-qaida-leader-al-zawahris-hideout/ | 2022-09-25 11:47:42 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-cia-unveils-model-of-al-qaida-leader-al-zawahris-hideout/ |
(NewsNation) — Concerns are growing nationwide for rapidly increasing cases of what health officials have deemed a tripledemic: the flu, RSV and COVID-19, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again urging the public to wear face masks indoors.
According to the agency’s Dec. 8 report, 13.7% of Americans now live in communities now rated “high” COVID-19 Community Levels, up from 4.9% of the population last week. An additional 38.1% of Americans are in “medium” areas and 48.2% are in “low” areas.
A number of major cities are now mulling a return to masking measures.
In California, more than 10 counties, including Los Angeles, Maricopa, Nassau and San Bernardino, are now in the “high” tier.
Los Angeles County health officials are again strongly recommending that everyone wears masks indoors.
Over the past week, Los Angeles hospitals saw an average of 1,245 COVID-positive patients every day — that’s a nearly 20% jump over the previous seven days.
“When you put on your mask for these few weeks during this surge, it is about the people of LA County. it is about every individual, every visitor, our health care workers, essential workers and other people who serve. in addition to vaccination, it is one of the easiest things everyone can do right now,” Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County director of public health, wrote in a press release.
In New York, a health advisory notice was sent out alerting hospitals, local health departments, emergency rooms and labs to prepare for rapidly rising cases of respiratory illness.
The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island are in orange, meaning high-risk levels, while Manhattan is in yellow, the medium-risk level, according to the latest CDC data.
On Dec. 9, state officials urged schools to return to indoor masking to curb the spread of respiratory illnesses.
As the Christmas and New Year’s holidays approach, when families are expected to gather across the country, health officials fear that could put a significant strain on our health care system if people don’t take the proper precautions.
“Our immune system has not been revved up. The vaccine rates are lower. We are a prime sitting target for other respiratory illnesses as we relax our guard down and begin to have contact with other people,” said Dr. Bruce Hirsch, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Northwell Health.
Medical centers across America are reporting higher rates of hospitalizations, and nursing homes are pushing boosters for residents.
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Which Atkins shake is best?
It can be challenging to get everything done when you have a busy schedule, but that doesn’t mean you have to go hungry. If sitting down for a meal isn’t always an option, a nutrition shake can serve as a quick, healthy snack to keep you satisfied.
Atkins offers several delicious nutrition shakes made with high-quality ingredients. If you want to keep your hunger at bay for a while, the Atkins Iced Chai Protein Shake is excellent. It’s tasty, creamy and loaded with nutrients and a hint of caffeine to help get you through the day.
What to know before you buy an Atkins shake
Caloric intake
If you’re interested in losing weight and cutting down your caloric intake, Atkins shakes are an excellent snack to incorporate into your diet. They’re low in calories and are packed with several essential vitamins and nutrients, making them a healthy snack. However, because they’re low in calories, they’re not very filling, so they aren’t suitable to be treated as meal replacement shakes.
Carbs, sugars and fiber
Atkins shakes are low in sugar and carbs, so they’re excellent for those looking to lose weight. They’re also a great source of fiber, which can improve your digestion and help burn fat.
Special diet considerations
Everyone’s body is different, meaning any nutrition shake can affect you in a way that others don’t experience. However, Atkins shakes are specially formulated to be safe for consumption by people with special diets, such as ketogenic or gluten-free. They’re also low in fat and sugar, making them an excellent shake for people with diabetes.
What to look for in a quality Atkins shake
Protein
Atkins shakes aren’t like those protein shakes or powders you’d see at a nutrition store. Most of those shakes are for athletes and weightlifters to help them recover from their workouts faster and help regenerate muscle. Atkins shakes are more of a snack for the average person, but they still pack a decent amount of protein, which is great if you’re not getting enough of it in your diet.
Atkins Plus shakes
If you enjoy the taste of an Atkins shake but want something with more protein content, you can try an Atkins Plus shake. They’re loaded with twice the protein of a regular shake but still retain the same delicious flavor and creamy texture.
It’s worth noting that since Atkins uses proteins derived from a blend of several sources, they don’t contain the optimal amount of branched-chain amino acids high-performance athletes or bodybuilders might want from a protein shake.
Flavor and taste
Atkins shakes all have a smooth, creamy consistency that makes them excellent on their own or as supplements to other drinks such as tea and coffee. Shakes are available in several delicious flavors. Familiar shake flavors include chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, but Atkins also offers others such as creamy caramel, dark chocolate royale and chocolate banana.
For those looking for that extra kick to help them get through the day, Atkins also offers flavors with caffeine, including iced chai tea, iced coffee, café caramel iced coffee, vanilla iced coffee and mocha iced coffee.
How much you can expect to spend on an Atkins shake
Atkins shakes are usually sold in four-packs, costing $7-$15. However, some retailers bundle several packs together, so if you make a bulk purchase, you can expect to pay $15-$25 for a pack of 12 or 16.
Atkins shake FAQ
Why are Atkins shakes recommended for people with diabetes?
A. Type 2 diabetes makes it difficult to lose weight on a standard diet. Atkins shakes are low-carb, so they’re an effective way to cut calories without stimulating one’s appetite as many diabetic drugs can.
Are there any lactose-free shakes?
A. No, all Atkins shakes contain milk and protein derived from dairy sources.
What’s the best Atkins shake to buy?
Top Atkins shake
Atkins Iced Chai Protein Shake
What you need to know: Iced chai tea enthusiasts will love this tasty, creamy shake that’s perfect for a snack between meals.
What you’ll love: It contains 170 calories and offers 15 grams of protein, 5 grams of fiber and just 1 gram of sugar per 325 milliliters. Plus, it has a pinch of caffeine equivalent to a cup of tea that’s excellent for giving you a jolt of energy when you most need it.
What you should consider: Some customers report that it’s slightly sweeter than traditional ice chai teas or lattes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Atkins shake for the money
What you need to know: This shake is loaded with essential nutrients and is suitable for anyone with diabetes due to its low-fat content.
What you’ll love: This creamy vanilla shake has a smooth consistency, making it versatile as a coffee creamer. It has 15 grams of protein, 5 grams of fiber and just 2 grams of net carbs. Plus, it’s gluten-free, keto-friendly and helps in burning fat.
What you should consider: Some users found it too sweet on its own, and others reported a metallic aftertaste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Atkins Plus Creamy Milk Chocolate Shake
What you need to know: This shake is ideal for athletes, heavy weightlifters or anyone looking for an extra boost of protein in their diet.
What you’ll love: It’s similar to the regular Atkins chocolate shake, but it’s packed with more fiber at 7 grams and twice the protein at 30 grams per 325 milliliters. It’s an excellent source of essential vitamins and nutrients, and as with other Atkins shakes, it contains just 2 grams of net carbs.
What you should consider: Its consistency isn’t as thick as other shakes, and some customers report that the taste is somewhat diluted.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
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Supreme Court strikes New York gun law in major ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a restrictive New York gun law in a major ruling for gun rights.
The justices’ 6-3 decision is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Boston — and elsewhere. About a quarter of the U.S. population lives in states expected to be affected by the ruling, the high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade.
The ruling comes as Congress is actively working on gun legislation following recent mass shootings in Texas, New York and California.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that the Constitution protects “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”
In their decision, the justices struck down a New York law requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public. The justices said the requirement violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”
California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island all have similar laws likely to be challenged as a result of the ruling. The Biden administration had urged the justices to uphold New York’s law.
Backers of New York’s law had argued that striking it down would ultimately lead to more guns on the streets and higher rates of violent crime. The decision comes at a time when gun violence already on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic has spiked anew.
In most of the country gun owners have little difficulty legally carrying their weapons in public. But that had been harder to do in New York and the handful of states with similar laws. New York’s law, which has been in place since 1913, says that to carry a concealed handgun in public, a person applying for a license has to show “proper cause,” a specific need to carry the weapon.
The state issues unrestricted licenses where a person can carry their gun anywhere and restricted licenses that allow a person to carry the weapon but just for specific purposes such as hunting and target shooting or to and from their place of business.
The Supreme Court last issued a major gun decision in 2010. In that decision and a ruling from 2008 the justices established a nationwide right to keep a gun at home for self-defense. The question for the court this time was about carrying one outside the home.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Opendoor Technologies Inc. ("Opendoor" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OPEN).
Class Period: December 21, 2020 – September 16, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: December 6, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Opendoor lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/opendoor-technologies-inc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) the algorithm used by the Company to make offers for homes could not accurately adjust to changing house prices across different market conditions and economic cycles; (2) as a result, the Company was at an increased risk of sustaining significant and repeated losses due to residential real estate pricing fluctuations; (3) accordingly, Defendants overstated the purported benefits and competitive advantages of the algorithm; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Las Vegas Aces player Riquna Williams has been charged after police say she hit, kicked, and strangled her wife in a domestic violence incident that lasted an hour, according to police documents.
Williams, a member of last year’s championship team, is facing five felony charges, including counts of domestic battery, domestic battery by strangulation, assault with the use of a deadly weapon, and coercion of domestic violence with force or threat to force, court records show.
According to an arrest report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers were called to Williams’ home on Tuesday around noon after her wife called 911.
Williams and her wife have been together for four years and were married in September.
Speaking with police, Williams’ wife said the veteran WNBA player had been standoffish and would not spend any time with her for the past couple of days. The victim said she texted Williams on Monday night, saying the two needed to take a break from each other. She added she would go back to Florida, where the couple lives in the off-season, to spend time with her son. Williams replied “OK” but did not join the victim in bed, police said.
Early Tuesday morning, the victim said she began packing when Williams allegedly came into the room and told her “not to take anything she did not pay for.” Williams then threw clothes that had been packed in a suitcase onto the floor.
According to the report, Williams asked the victim where she was going, to which the victim replied, “We agreed you would let me leave?”
Williams’ wife also accused her of taking her cellphone, iPad, credit and debit cards, and ID, so “[the victim] could not leave her.”
Williams allegedly accused the victim of cheating on her and getting in her face, yelling at her. The victim told police Williams grabbed her by the shirt and threw her to the ground before choking her “until she could not breathe.” Williams reportedly choked her wife multiple times during the incident.
“I’ll kill you here and walk to the jail myself!” Williams reportedly told the victim.
Williams has also been accused of grabbing her wife at one point and punching her. The victim told police that because Williams is a professional athlete and works out every day, there was no way she could overpower Williams.
Her wife also accused her of blocking her in the bedroom and swinging items at her head. At one point, after choking the victim, Williams allegedly began hitting her in the face again.
According to the report, the victim told police that the incident lasted about an hour.
The victim also told police that Williams said she was going to stay at a hotel and when she got back, the victim needed to be gone. When the victim asked Williams where she could go without her ID and credit cards, Williams told the victim that “she did not care, she just wanted [the victim] gone.”
Williams left for part of the morning, returning to argue with the victim about things she had found on her phone, the victim told officers. That’s when Williams allegedly began hitting and kicking the victim.
The victim told police that Williams then took a shower and left. According to the report, the victim waited a few hours to build courage before going to a neighbor’s house to call a family member and then the police.
The neighbor told police he overheard the victim telling a family member that Williams was planning on killing [the victim] and then herself, and said “she did it again,” in reference to being hit by her wife.
Detectives took Williams into custody outside of a gym. She reportedly asked detectives why she was being detained, telling police she was the victim and had been beaten up. The report stated she had asked police if she was the suspect “because [the victim] had called first.”
The WNBA player allegedly accused her wife of being the aggressor but did not provide any specific details and kept changing her story, police said. Officers also noted that Williams said she had “a busted lip” and two black eyes, however, medical staff at an area hospital told police that she “did not have injuries consistent to what she was alleging.”
Williams was arrested and taken to the Clark County Detention Center. She was released on Wednesday without having to pay bail and was ordered to stay away from the victim.
“The court does have concerns regarding the extremely violent nature of the allegations in this case, that they alleged to have occurred over an extended period of time, and that you came back as a high-risk lethality on the domestic violence report. The court does balance that, however, with your lack of any criminal history at age 33,” Las Vegas Judge Rebecca Saxe said in court.
Court records obtained by the Associated Press show that Williams was arrested in 2019 for domestic battery charges when she played for the Los Angeles Sparks. The WNBA suspended Williams for 10 games following that arrested. Those charges were dismissed in 2020.
The Las Vegas Aces released this statement:
“The Las Vegas Aces were made aware of domestic violence charges against a member of our team, Riquna Williams. As an organization, we condemn domestic violence of any kind. At this time, Riquna Williams will be precluded from participating in team activities. Our thoughts are with the parties involved in this situation. We are currently gathering more information, and as such we will not have any further comments at this time.”
In a statement shared with ESPN Wednesday, the WNBA said it is “aware of the alleged incident” and is “in the process of gathering more information.”
Williams’ next court appearance is scheduled for August 2. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/wnba-player-charged-for-allegedly-strangling-hitting-wife-police/ | 2023-07-27 00:27:37 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/wnba-player-charged-for-allegedly-strangling-hitting-wife-police/ |
Super Bowl 57 is set with the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs taking on the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles. The big game will be played in Glendale, Ariz., next month.
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The Biden administration is seeking new regulations to address the unexpected costs and inconveniences experienced by passengers after the widespread flight disruptions this past winter.
Those regulations could include requiring airlines to compensate passengers as well as cover their meals and hotel rooms in cases of preventable delays and cancelations.
President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are expected to announce the start of the rulemaking process on Monday afternoon — just weeks before the busy summer travel season.
As of right now, virtually no airline offers cash compensation in addition to refunds or amenities, according to the White House.
Policies mandating this type of additional compensation already exist in Canada and the European Union, the White House said — and one study showed such regulations led to fewer flight delays in the EU.
In addition to the new rules, the Transportation Department has expanded its online Airline Customer Service Dashboard, which tracks each airline's policies on refunds and compensation when flights are cancelled or delayed.
The pressure for airlines to improve their customer service comes after widespread flight disruptions during the holiday season. Southwest canceled more than 16,000 flights between Christmas and the New Year, as massive winter storm coincided with the collapse of the company's outdated crew-scheduling software. Passengers throughout the country were left stranded for days with unexpected costs.
During a Senate hearing in February, Southwest Airlines chief operating officer Andrew Watterson said the company was working hard to refund airfares for canceled flights and to reimburse customers for extra expenses that they incurred, like hotels and meals.
"I want to sincerely and humbly apologize to those impacted by the disruption. It caused a tremendous amount of anguish, inconvenience and missed opportunities for our customers and our employees," Watterson said.
Despite the airline's efforts, the Transportation Department is currently investigating the airline company's holiday travel debacle and whether Southwest set unrealistic flight schedules.
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A new Florida law preventing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy will remain in effect while a legal battle plays out.
Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper last week issued a temporary injunction to block the law, finding that it violated the Florida Constitution. But the state appealed, which, under court rules, triggered an automatic stay of the injunction.
Cooper on Tuesday denied a request from abortion clinics and a physician to vacate the stay. That effectively means the injunction remains on hold and that the 15-week restriction will remain in effect at least until the 1st District Court of Appeal — or possibly the Florida Supreme Court — rules on the state’s appeal.
Cooper pointed to a “very high burden” that the 1st District Court of Appeal has set for vacating stays while appeals are pending. He wrote that “courts are obliged to follow binding precedent even if they might wish to decide the case differently” and pointed to direction from the appeals court that automatic stays may only be vacated “under the most compelling circumstances.”
In addition, Cooper’s order listed a series of cases in recent years, including a high-profile decision in May by a circuit judge to vacate an automatic stay in a congressional redistricting lawsuit. The Tallahassee-based appeals court quickly overturned that decision, putting the stay back into effect.
“The above cases regarding the automatic stay are included in this order to demonstrate the basis for this court’s conclusion that the First District has established a high barrier, based on the ‘most compelling circumstances’ doctrine, to a trial court issuing an order vacating an automatic stay,” he wrote.
The abortion clinics and physician filed the lawsuit June 1, arguing that the 15-week limit violated a privacy clause in the Florida Constitution that has long played a key role in bolstering abortion rights in the state. Cooper agreed with that argument in issuing the temporary injunction July 5.
After the state quickly appealed, triggering the automatic stay, the plaintiffs filed an emergency motion to vacate the stay.
“Every day that HB 5 (the law) remains in effect, Florida patients in desperate need of post-15-week abortion services are being turned away and forced to attempt to seek abortions out of state, if they are able to do so; to attempt abortions outside the medical system; or to continue pregnancies against their will,” the emergency motion said.
But Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office objected to vacating the stay, in part saying in a court filing that the plaintiffs had not “shown a likelihood of success on the merits” of their arguments in the case. Also, the filing cited the Florida Supreme Court’s “preference for preserving legislative enactments pending appeal even when a trial court has found them invalid.”
The plaintiffs could ask the appeals court to vacate the stay. It is not clear how long it could take for the appeals court to rule on the temporary injunction — or whether it will.
The state has asked that the case be fast-tracked to the Florida Supreme Court, bypassing a decision by the appeals court. The plaintiffs have objected to such a move. | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/abortion-ban-remains-in-effect-as-state-appeals-judges-ruling-32013677 | 2022-07-12 21:16:55 | 1 | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/abortion-ban-remains-in-effect-as-state-appeals-judges-ruling-32013677 |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company will build a factory in Kentucky, creating 2,000 jobs in a $2 billion investment that reinforces the state’s leadership in battery production, Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday.
The Envision AESC plant at Bowling Green in south-central Kentucky will produce battery cells and modules to power the next generation of electric vehicles, the Democratic governor said.
The gigafactory’s products will be made for multiple auto manufacturers globally.
The announcement represents Kentucky’s second-largest economic development investment, the governor said, following an even larger battery production plant announcement last year.
“With today’s announcement, we solidify that the commonwealth of Kentucky is the undisputed electric battery production capital of the United States of America,” Beshear said as he gathered with other state leaders to celebrate the new project.
The Envision AESC announcement comes months after Bowling Green was among several Kentucky cities hard hit by tornadoes last December. Parts of Bowling Green were devastated by the storm.
Envision AESC Group CEO Shoichi Matsumoto said the Kentucky investment is part of the company’s next phase of battery strategy to power electric vehicles in the U.S.
“This major investment builds on our commitment to the U.S. market, supports growth of the electrification supply chain and secures high value jobs for future generations in the region,” he said.
“This commitment takes us one step further toward our ambition to make high-performance, longer-range batteries for a diverse range of automotive manufacturers worldwide to support the EV transition,” he added.
Plans for the Kentucky plant follow the company’s announcements last year to build gigafactories in France and the United Kingdom. Envision AESC has 4,000 employees and 10 production plants in Japan, the U.S., the United Kingdom, China and France.
Automakers are trying to outdo each other with electric vehicle announcements and proclamations that they plan to sell nothing but zero emissions vehicles in the next decade or so. At present, there are 38 fully electric models now on sale in the U.S., with more than 120 expected by 2025.
Automakers sold nearly 4.6 million electric vehicles worldwide last year. LMC Automotive, an industry consulting firm, expects that to rise to nearly 7 million this year and to more than 15 million by 2025. Still, that will be only about 15% of global vehicle sales.
In the U.S., LMC says just over 400,000 EVs were sold last year. The company expects that to rise to more than 2.2 million by 2025. Still, that’s only about 13% of new vehicle sales.
In Kentucky, the Envision AESC project follows last year’s announcement that Ford and its battery partner will build twin battery plants outside Glendale in central Kentucky. That mega-project will create 5,000 jobs to produce batteries for the automaker’s next generation of electric vehicles.
“So once again a company that is redefining the automobile industry is betting their future on Kentucky and our workforce,” Beshear said Wednesday of the Envision AESC project.
The Democratic governor thanked the state’s Republican-dominated legislature for its role in luring the new company. Republican Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne said the new plant announcement shows “great things can happen when we all pull in the same direction.” Soon after the plant celebration, Republican lawmakers started overriding the governor’s many vetoes.
The state’s new partnership provides the company up to $116.8 million from state incentive programs and up to $5 million in grant-in-aid for skills training, the governor’s office said.
Envision AESC picked a fast-growing college town with its plans to build the approximately 3 million-square-foot factory at the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green.
“The scale of this project is like nothing our community has ever seen before,” Bowling Green Mayor Todd Alcott said.
Bowling Green is also home to General Motors’ Corvette assembly plant.
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Associated Press auto writer Tom Krisher in Detroit and Associated Press writer Piper Hudspeth Blackburn in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed to this report. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/japanese-e-vehicle-battery-company-to-build-kentucky-plant/ | 2022-04-14 11:19:53 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/japanese-e-vehicle-battery-company-to-build-kentucky-plant/ |
One person is dead and at least six other people were shot during a Cinco de Mayo party at a Mississippi restaurant late Friday night, police said.
Ocean Springs Police Capt. Ryan LeMaire, in a news release, confirmed that seven people were shot at The Scratch Kitchen on Government Street. The surviving victims were transported to area hospitals for treatment, LeMaire said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately released.
He identified the man killed as Chase Harmon, 19, of Pascagoula.
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No arrests had been made as of Saturday morning, but Lemaire said the investigation is ongoing.
“We urge anyone with any information to call the Ocean Springs Police Department,” he said.
The Scratch Kitchen's owner told the Sun Herald there were about 200 people at the restaurant when the shooter ran past employees who were doing security checks at the entrance to the patio.
“The person who did the shooting wasn’t a customer,” owner Brittany Alexander said. “He didn’t get an arm band or anything to be out here.”
Ocean Springs is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) east of Biloxi, Mississippi. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/1-dead-at-least-6-injured-at-mississippi-party-shooting/3561056/ | 2023-05-06 17:54:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/1-dead-at-least-6-injured-at-mississippi-party-shooting/3561056/ |
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TORONTO and GATINEAU, QC, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Converge Technology Solutions Corp. ("Converge" or "the Company") (TSX: CTS) (FSE: 0ZB) (OTCQX: CTSDF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Avjit Kamboj to the Company's Leadership team as Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Kamboj will join the executive leadership team of Converge, reporting to Shaun Maine, Group CEO. An experienced finance professional with over 16 years of leadership experience in capital markets, strategic acquisitions, and international markets. Avjit was the first CFO of Converge leading the finance function in the early phase of the Company. Avjit was also instrumental in the Company's public listing process. Previously, Avjit served as the Chief Financial Officer at Dye & Durham, one of the world's largest providers of cloud-based legal practice management software designed to make managing a law firm, organizing cases, and collaborating with clients easy. Avjit was also the Managing Director of KAM Consulting Services Inc., helping many publicly listed technology companies in implementing public company policies, process, systems and controls.
"I'm thrilled to welcome Avjit back to Converge and have someone of Avjit's caliber and character returning to Converge as our CFO," stated Shaun Maine. "His extensive background in technology sector, his track record of success, and his experience building companies into market leaders will complement our existing dynamic executive leadership team. To that end, Matt Smith will remain with Converge as VP, Finance, reporting to Avjit, with expanded duties related to leading operational improvements across the Company to support its accelerating growth. Avjit will assume overall responsibility for finance, accounting, tax, financial planning and analysis and investor relations and I look forward to partnering with him to further Converge along its growth and value creation path."
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Converge Technology Solutions Corp. is a services-led, software-enabled, IT & Cloud Solutions provider focused on delivering industry-leading solutions. Converge's global approach delivers advanced analytics, application modernization, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and digital workplace offerings to clients across various industries. The Company supports these solutions with advisory, implementation, and managed services expertise across all major IT vendors in the marketplace. This multi-faceted approach enables Converge to address the unique business and technology requirements for all clients in the public and private sectors. For more information, visit convergetp.com.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un attended groundbreaking ceremonies for new housing and farming projects, which are part of his push for domestic achievements as the country’s economic isolation deepens amid his defiant pursuit of nuclear arms.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim broke ground Wednesday for the construction of a huge greenhouse farm in the outskirts of the capital, Pyongyang, where senior North Korean official Jo Yong Won in a speech said that providing Pyongyang residents with “fresh vegetables in all seasons” was a “top priority.”
Kim also attended a ceremony marking the start of second-stage construction project to build 10,000 new homes in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district. The project is part of broader plans to supply 50,000 new homes in the capital under a five-year national development plan that runs through 2025.
Experts say North Korea has severe shortages in quality housing that deepened over decades of economic decay. But living conditions are much better in capital Pyongyang, where Kim in past years has pushed huge development projects that upgraded housing for elites and changed the city’s skyline.
Kim Tok Hun, premier of North Korea’s Cabinet, gave a speech encouraging the “army-civilian builders” to produce “eye-opening miracles in the construction of the capital city in the great era of Kim Jong Un.” He stressed that the construction should be “carried out without fail” in the face of unspecified “harsh difficulties.”
The ceremonies came a week after Kim Jong Un staged a massive military parade in Pyongyang where troops rolled out around a dozen intercontinental ballistic missiles — an unprecedented number despite limited resources while diplomacy remains stalled.
But the costs of Kim’s nuclear push appear to be piling up. North Korea’s ruling Korean Workers’ Party is planning to hold a major meeting this month to discuss the “urgent” task of improving agricultural production as outside experts and officials say the country’s food insecurity could be getting serious.
Already battered by decades of mismanagement and U.S.-led sanctions over Kim’s nuclear ambitions, the North Korean economy took a further hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the country to shield its poor health care system with stringent border controls that significantly reduced trade with China, its main ally and economic lifeline.
During a December political conference, ruling party members identified key economic projects for 2023 that emphasized construction and agricultural activities — focuses that are less dependent on trade as industrial production has been decimated by sanctions and halted imports of factory materials.
State media reports on the latest meeting of North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament in January hinted that Kim’s government was still struggling to revive the moribund economy. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-north-koreas-kim-breaks-ground-for-housing-farm-projects/ | 2023-02-16 17:13:30 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-north-koreas-kim-breaks-ground-for-housing-farm-projects/ |
South Carolina store allows teenage shoplifters to work instead of pressing charges
Two South Carolina teenagers stole from a store at a mall in Greenville, but the business elected to turn the incident into a learning opportunity and a chance to give back to the community instead of pressing charges against the shoplifters.
The teenage boys were caught by Greenville Police on surveillance video on March 13 stealing from Palmetto Moon in Haywood Mall.
But Palmetto Moon president Amber Dube said that when the clothing store learned the shoplifters were teenagers, they wanted to work with the families on resolving the issue without pressing charges. As a result, the boys will work for Palmetto Moon.
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"I think this is a situation where teenagers do stupid things, and we know that," Dube told FOX Carolina. "So I think it’s important for us to think about what they did and really judge on the merits of who they are and what they can contribute back to the community."
Dube said the teenagers' parents were heavily involved in finding a solution to the shoplifting incident and that the boys went back to the store to return the stolen items, apologize and pay for the items.
"These kids are smart kids, they’re athletes, they have a strong future," she said. "So we wanted to make sure that they learned a lesson, and they were held accountable for their actions, and felt that this was the best way for them to learn their lesson and also to give back to the community."
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The teenagers will work in the back of Palmetto Moon to learn what the workers do to prepare the store for customers. The boys will donate the wages they receive to the Greenville Police Department and will also do volunteer work for the agency.
"I’m hoping really that this is a message of community, of giving back, of partnership in a parent’s involvement," Dube said. "I’m hoping that this message is really resonating with the community to say, we’re all in this together, and we can make our communities much better and more positive."
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WASHINGTON — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional work periods. And he refused mental health treatment recommended by his doctors, worried he would be recognized in that wing of the hospital.
Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat and the son of the late Edward Kennedy, was eventually forced to reveal his struggles when he crashed his car outside the Capitol while intoxicated in May 2006. He talked openly about his mental health and substance abuse for the first time, and something surprising happened — he became more popular with his constituency, winning reelection by a bigger margin than he had two years earlier.
On Thursday, the office of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat who was elected to the Senate after a bruising campaign during which he suffered a stroke, announced he had checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. The statement said Fetterman had experienced depression on and off in his life, but it had only become severe in recent weeks.
Fetterman’s public struggle is extraordinary in a building where few talk about their own mental health, even while members of both parties have legislation to expand aid for it. Kennedy and a handful of others who have been open about their own problems, or those in their family, say they hope Fetterman’s honesty — and his decisive action to get help — will foster more openness among lawmakers and their constituents in the wake of a global pandemic that has had far-reaching effects.
“This is a moment for us to tear down the stigma of depression and anxiety,” said Kennedy, who retired in 2010 and has become a leading voice on mental illness. “Sen. Fetterman may do more for people just by admitting that he’s getting help for depression than any bill he ends up sponsoring.”
The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murphy, tweeted praise for Fetterman, saying he hopes his "courage will serve as an example for others."
Fetterman's Senate colleagues were immediately supportive.
“In every single city and town and rural community there is someone struggling with mental health,” said Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat who shared her own stories about periods of depression on the Senate floor four years ago. “If they see somebody else, like John, saying, ‘OK, I need to get medical care,’ that can be important to people.”
South Dakota's John Thune, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, said he thinks politicians have become more comfortable discussing the issue since the pandemic.
“The more open, transparent people can be, the better our understanding is,” Thune said.
Fetterman’s hospitalization comes after a rough year in which the 53 year-old suffered a stroke just ahead of the May primary election and spent much of the summer off the campaign trail, recovering. He has said the stroke nearly killed him. He also underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator to manage two heart conditions, atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy. He entered the Senate in January, where he has had to adjust to life in Washington and the daily grind of a federal lawmaker.
“It’s unreal what @JohnFetterman has been through in the last year,” tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “A stroke, a recovery, a bruising campaign, a transition to the Senate. I’m so proud of him for taking his health seriously. He’s going to be a great Senator for a long time, and I’m pulling for him today.”
Texas Sen. John Cornyn said the Senate “can be arduous. So I’m sure if somebody is not up to 100% then it’s especially tough, so I wish him well.”
Post-stroke depression is common, doctors say. And that could be even more difficult when dealing with it publicly, like Fetterman is.
“Having a stroke in and of itself is devastating and having to recover from a stroke in the public eye only adds to the level of stress as one recovers,” said Dr. Bruce Ovbiagele, associate dean and professor of neurology at the University of California-San Francisco.
Dr. Eric Lenze, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, said he thinks it's “interesting and heroic" for a major political figure to acknowledge depression, "instead of saying they’re hospitalized for exhaustion or trying to hide it.”
While many members are still loath to talk about themselves or their own hardships, some have been more forthcoming about mental illness in recent years. Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild declared from the House floor in 2019 that suicide is a “national emergency” and told the story of her partner, who had recently taken his own life. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., who was elected in 2020, has said he dropped out of college and at times thought of suicide after struggling with depression, substance abuse and grief after the loss of a friend. Smith said she found that ever since she told her own story of periods of depression as a college student and young mother, people still come up to her to talk about it.
Many lawmakers have also been open about their fear and anxiety after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, when many of them ran for their lives, and the months afterward when tensions between the two parties became even worse. Democratic Reps. Dan Kildee of Michigan and Annie Kuster of New Hampshire both talked about dealing with post-traumatic stress during that time.
The Jan. 6 attack was another inflection point amid the global pandemic.
"We're living in a time of extraordinary stress and crisis," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who lost his son to suicide just a few days before the insurrection and has since written a book about his experience. “We've come through a plague, we’ve had tremendous mental and emotional health problems.”
Raskin, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, says there may have been a time when political leaders had to pretend that hardships didn't touch their own families, “but I don't think we are living in that time."
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has been in the Senate for almost three decades, credits returning veterans from the Iraq war and other conflicts "who have convinced us that this is simple medical, mental health care that many people need from time to time. There isn’t a single family that isn’t touched by it.”
Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, credited Fetterman for being honest. “This is a challenge, unimaginable challenge, that he's faced in life,” Durbin said.
Kennedy says that when he returned from his recovery in the mid-2000s, many of his colleagues sought his help and advice privately. And he has continued to talk to some members in the decade since he retired.
He predicted Fetterman could find a “whole new world of connection with his constituency” when he returns to the Senate, and could help people understand the brain science behind depression.
“This is a very teachable moment here,” Kennedy said. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/fetterman-praised-for-seeking-help-depression-mental-health/507-bf2f5ace-9512-4d6c-a291-1e213ada815c | 2023-02-17 14:54:58 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/fetterman-praised-for-seeking-help-depression-mental-health/507-bf2f5ace-9512-4d6c-a291-1e213ada815c |
Pekin gathered points in bunches fueling an onslaught that downed Canton 8-3 in an Illinois high school baseball matchup on May 1.
In recent action on April 26, Canton faced off against Dunlap and Pekin took on Chillicothe Illinois Valley Central on April 27 at Pekin High School.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HillVets is proud to announce Veterans United Home Loans as their newest partner in their mission to open doors for Veterans on Capitol Hill by providing education, networking and other supportive resources for Veteran Fellows and LEAD Protégé cohorts.
The HillVets Foundation is a community of Veterans, service members, and supporters in the Veteran policy space who are pursuing careers in government, policy, international affairs and politics.
"We are honored to have the support of Veterans United Home Loans. There are few things more important to a Veteran than owning their own home. We are grateful that their team sees the value in supporting HillVets House, our home for Veterans in our Nation's Capital. We work hard to help Veterans get their start, get their first job in Washington D.C., and our partnership with Veterans United Home Loans will continue to help our military-connected community have a powerful voice on Capitol Hill," said Justin Brown, HillVets Founder.
HillVets House is for Veterans, service members, spouses and survivors and is within walking distance from the United States Capitol. The organization also provides space for HillVets LEAD, a leadership training and mentorship program for the military-connected community.
"We are focused on enhancing the lives of our Veterans and HillVets is doing that by pushing for voices of the military community to be heard on Capitol Hill," said Pam Swan, Vice President of Military Relations at Veterans United Home Loans. "Veterans, service members, and their families have given so much to serve and protect us. It is crucial that we continue to support them as they've done for us."
To learn more about HillVets or to become a partner, visit https://www.hillvets.org/.
About HillVets
HillVets' mission is to serve the military-connected community in and around our Nation's capital with opportunity, mentorship, housing, peer support, education, and networking in their pursuit of second service in government. The HillVets House Fellowship program is but one path we utilize to fulfill our mission.
About Veterans United Home Loans
Based in Columbia, Missouri, the full-service national lender financed more than $29.9 billion in loans in 2021 and is the country's largest VA purchase lender, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs Lender Statistics. The company's mission is to help Veterans and service members take advantage of the home loan benefits earned by their service.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
01-14-21-32-39
(one, fourteen, twenty-one, thirty-two, thirty-nine)
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The St. Kitts and Nevis National Emergency Management Association has been closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fiona, and the storm has passed the Federation. As a result, Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport is once again open and operating at full capacity, as of 17 September at 12:00 p.m. AST.
"The Federation's main priority was the safety of our citizens and international guests, and we are watching closely and sending well-wishes to our neighbours as the storm continues to move," said Honourable Marsha Henderson, Minister of Tourism, International Transport, Civil Aviation, Urban Development, Employment, and Labour. "We thank our first responders and our tourism and business partners who together ensured our preparedness plans were put in place efficiently across the island. St. Kitts is open for business."
Stay up to date on revised travel and flights for St. Kitts at www.stkittstourism.kn or on our social media channels Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About St. Kitts
Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean, you will find the captivating island of St. Kitts, an exciting oasis that beguiles the senses. Once known as the gateway to the Caribbean, St. Kitts invites you to Awake Your Sense of Wander and journey the island of a thousand treasures. Wander the secluded beaches and rainforests that stretch for miles. Hear the pulsating sounds of nature as you explore via ziplines, mini speed boats, and jeep safaris. Take a leisurely ride on the Caribbean's only authentic scenic passenger train, hike to the rim of a dormant volcano, dive into an ancient shipwreck. Embrace the scents of a smoky, sizzling beach barbecue, and taste culinary delights fresh from the sea. Indulge your wanderlust in one-of-a-kind attractions such as the UNESCO recognized Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park. Ignite your sense of style with Caribbean flair and the pure artistry as you feel the fabrics of Caribelle Batik. The serene beauty of the tropical island allows your mind and spirit to wander. Let the sun warm your soul and the island to tempt your thirst for exploration. For more information about St. Kitts, visit www.stkittstourism.kn.
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18-year-old dies in motorcycle accident on Man o’ War
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — An 18-year-old woman died in a motorcycle accident around midnight Monday.
Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn identified the woman as Jillian Pendergrass.
She died from multiple blunt force injuries.
The crash was ruled an accident. It happened at the Man o’ War and Armstrong Mill Road intersection. | https://www.wtvq.com/18-year-old-dies-in-motorcycle-accident-on-man-o-war/ | 2023-05-15 21:48:02 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/18-year-old-dies-in-motorcycle-accident-on-man-o-war/ |
Van Horne Benton dominated from start to finish in an imposing 62-26 win over Independence in Iowa girls basketball action on January 10.
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The San Francisco Giants host the Arizona Diamondbacks in MLB 2022 action Thursday, August 17, at Oracle Park in San Francisco. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV.
Right-hander Zach Davies gets the start on the mound for the Diamondbacks, vs. left-hander Carlos Rodon for the Giants. San Francisco is 59-57 this season, while Arizona is 53-63.
The Giants vs. Diamondbacks game starts at 8:45 p.m. Central (9:45 p.m. Eastern) and will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a 7-day free trial. MLB Network will broadcast the game nationally.
Preview
BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants, on a five-game home winning streak, host the Arizona Diamondbacks.
San Francisco is 59-57 overall and 34-27 in home games. The Giants have the eighth-best team on-base percentage in the majors at .320.
Arizona is 53-63 overall and 21-34 on the road. The Diamondbacks are 28-13 in games when they did not give up a home run.
The matchup Wednesday is the 12th time these teams match up this season. The Diamondbacks have a 6-5 advantage in the season series.
TOP PERFORMERS: Wilmer Flores has 23 doubles and 16 home runs for the Giants. LaMonte Wade Jr is 6-for-20 with two doubles, four home runs and seven RBI over the past 10 games.
Ketel Marte has 32 doubles, two triples, 10 home runs and 42 RBI while hitting .258 for the Diamondbacks. Christian Walker is 14-for-33 with four doubles and four home runs over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 8-2, .260 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs
Diamondbacks: 6-4, .249 batting average, 3.52 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs
INJURIES: Giants: Evan Longoria: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Mauricio Llovera: 60-Day IL (hip), Jose Alvarez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Zack Littell: 15-Day IL (oblique), Colton Welker: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Sam Delaplane: 60-Day IL (forearm), Anthony DeSclafani: 60-Day IL (ankle)
Diamondbacks: Ketel Marte: day-to-day (hamstring), Kyle Nelson: 15-Day IL (back), Tyler Gilbert: 60-Day IL (elbow), Caleb Smith: 15-Day IL (hand), Keynan Middleton: 15-Day IL (ankle), Humberto Castellanos: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Ahmed: 60-Day IL (shoulder)
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CALGARY, AB, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Vermilion Energy Inc. ("Vermilion", "We", "Our", "Us" or the "Company") (TSX: VET) (NYSE: VET) will release its 2022 second quarter operating and condensed financial results on Thursday, August 11, 2022 after the close of North American markets. The unaudited financial statements and management discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 will be available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml, and on Vermilion's website at www.vermilionenergy.com.
Vermilion will discuss these results in a conference call and webcast presentation on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 7:00 AM MST (9:00 AM EST). To participate, call 1-888-394-8218 (Canada and US Toll Free) or 1-647-484-0475 (International and Toronto Area). A recording of the conference call will be available for replay by calling 1-888-203-1112 and using the conference ID 2192689 from August 12, 2022 at 12:00 MST to August 26, 2022 at 21:59 MST.
You may also access the webcast at https://app.webinar.net/7qKmxpmoJpv The webcast link, along with conference call slides, will be available on Vermilion's website at http://www.vermilionenergy.com/invest-with-us/events--presentations.cfm under Upcoming Events prior to the conference call.
Vermilion is an international energy producer that seeks to create value through the acquisition, exploration, development and optimization of producing assets in North America, Europe and Australia. Our business model emphasizes free cash flow generation and returning capital to investors when economically warranted, augmented by value-adding acquisitions. Vermilion's operations are focused on the exploitation of light oil and liquids-rich natural gas conventional resource plays in North America and the exploration and development of conventional natural gas and oil opportunities in Europe and Australia.
Vermilion's priorities are health and safety, the environment, and profitability, in that order. Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the public and those who work with us, and the protection of our natural surroundings. We have been recognized by leading ESG rating agencies for our transparency on and management of key environmental, social and governance issues. In addition, we emphasize strategic community investment in each of our operating areas.
Employees and directors hold approximately 4% of our outstanding shares and are committed to delivering long-term value for all stakeholders. Vermilion trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VET.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Sao Paulo gubernatorial candidate’s campaign event in the Paraisopolis neighborhood came to an abrupt halt on Monday when gunfire erupted outside.
Paraisopolis is one of Brazil’s biggest favelas, or slums, and videos of the moment from local media show journalists and Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas crouching below windows.
Sao Paulo Gov. Rodrigo Garcia said in a statement that he had ordered an investigation.
Osvaldo Nico, the head of the state’s police, said in a press conference there was a shooting in the region and one person was killed, but that the incident had no connection with de Freitas’ visit.
On Twitter, de Freitas characterized the shooting as an attack by “criminals.”
Sao Paulo is the most populous state and its biggest economic power, making its race for governor prominent in any election. But this year there is heightened attention, with the contest seen as a proxy for the presidential race between President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
De Freitas was Bolsonaro’s infrastructure minister until he resigned to run for governor. He is running against leftist Fernando Haddad, a staunch ally of da Silva who ran against Bolsonaro in 2018.
If elected, de Freitas has said he will reverse the recent policy to equip Sao Paulo’s police officers with body cameras, claiming that the devices prevent them from doing their jobs. Analysts say the cameras provide much-needed transparency and, since their implementation last year, killings by police have dropped.
Law and order played a central role in the 2018 presidential election, when then-candidate Bolsonaro pledged to give cops permission to use lethal force.
Paraisopolis is controlled by the Brazil’s most powerful criminal gang, known as First Capital Command.
In a debate Sunday night, Bolsonaro accused da Silva of rallying alongside criminals last week when visiting Rio de Janeiro’s Alemao complex of favelas. Da Silva shot back that the poor residents of the favelas who attended his rally were honest workers. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-shooting-disrupts-bolsonaro-backed-candidates-campaign-stop/ | 2022-10-17 22:04:53 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-shooting-disrupts-bolsonaro-backed-candidates-campaign-stop/ |
Ja Morant NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Grizzlies vs. Lakers - April 28
The Memphis Grizzlies, Ja Morant included, will be in action at 10:30 PM on Friday versus the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2023 NBA Playoffs.
We're going to examine Morant's prop bets, using stats and trends to help you make good selections.
Ja Morant Prop Bets vs. the Lakers
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Ja Morant Insights vs. the Lakers
- This season, Ja Morant has made 9.3 field goals per game, which adds up to 15.8% of his team's total makes.
- This season, he's accounted for 9.3% of his team's three-pointers made, averaging 1.5 per game.
- Morant's Grizzlies average 104.1 possessions per game, sixth-highest among NBA teams, while the Lakers are one of the league's fastest, ranking second with 104.8 possessions per contest.
- Defensively, the Lakers are 20th in the NBA, allowing 116.6 points per game.
- The Lakers concede 44.9 rebounds per game, ranking 25th in the NBA.
- The Lakers are the 15th-ranked squad in the NBA, conceding 25.7 assists per game.
- Giving up 12.5 made 3-pointers per game, the Lakers are the 18th-ranked team in the league.
Ja Morant vs. the Lakers
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LAWN MOWER. JURY SELECTION RESUMES THIS MORNING FOR THE MAN CHARGED WITH KILLING SEVEN PEOPLE IN A 2019 CRASH IN RANDOLPH. VOLODYMYR ZHUKOVSKYY IS CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE, MANSLAUGHTER, AND DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. NO JURORS WERE SEATED YESTERDAY. THE JURY IS SCHEDULED TO TOUR THE CRASH SITE ON MONDAY. OPENING STATEMENTS ARE EXPEC
Jury selection process continues Tuesday in Volodymyr Zhukovskyy trial
Updated: 8:42 AM EDT Jul 19, 2022
Jury selection resumes Tuesday for the man charged in the deaths of seven people in a 2019 crash in Randolph.Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, is charged with homicide, manslaughter and driving under the influence.No jurors were seated Monday. Last week, prosecutors asked the judge only to have 16 jurors, rather than 18, because of the potential difficulty of selecting a jury given the high-profile nature of the case. The defense objected, calling it speculation, and the judge agreed, ruling that they would aim to seat 18 jurors and adjust if they have to later.Once seated, the jury is scheduled to tour the crash site next Monday. Opening statements are expected next Tuesday.Five Marine veterans and two of their loved ones were killed in the motorcycle crash three years ago:Michael Ferazzi, 62, of ContoocookAlbert Mazza, 59, of LeeDesma Oakes, 42, of ConcordAaron Perry, 45, of FarmingtonDaniel Pereira, 58, of Riverside, Rhode IslandJo-Ann and Edward Corr, both 58, of Lakeville, Massachusetts
RANDOLPH, N.H. — Jury selection resumes Tuesday for the man charged in the deaths of seven people in a 2019 crash in Randolph.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, is charged with homicide, manslaughter and driving under the influence.
No jurors were seated Monday.
Last week, prosecutors asked the judge only to have 16 jurors, rather than 18, because of the potential difficulty of selecting a jury given the high-profile nature of the case. The defense objected, calling it speculation, and the judge agreed, ruling that they would aim to seat 18 jurors and adjust if they have to later.
Once seated, the jury is scheduled to tour the crash site next Monday.
Opening statements are expected next Tuesday.
Five Marine veterans and two of their loved ones were killed in the motorcycle crash three years ago:
- Michael Ferazzi, 62, of Contoocook
- Albert Mazza, 59, of Lee
- Desma Oakes, 42, of Concord
- Aaron Perry, 45, of Farmington
- Daniel Pereira, 58, of Riverside, Rhode Island
- Jo-Ann and Edward Corr, both 58, of Lakeville, Massachusetts | https://www.wmur.com/article/volodymyr-zhukovskyy-trial-71922/40651477 | 2022-07-19 14:24:55 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/volodymyr-zhukovskyy-trial-71922/40651477 |
The company also announced an open API for AI-powered contract ingestion and new
capabilities to bring customizable AI experience to the entire contract lifecycle
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ironclad, the leading digital contracting platform for modern legal teams, announced today that it will be releasing its generative AI tool – AI Assist™ – to its entire customer base. The first generative AI-powered contract negotiation tool to be released publicly to the market, AI Assist utilizes OpenAI's GPT-4 to assist legal teams by instantly generating contract redlines based on pre-approved legal guidelines, creating net-new contract language via prompt, and more.
"The results with AI Assist have been beyond what we could even have imagined," said Ironclad CEO and co-founder, Jason Boehmig. "An initial pass at contract redlining usually takes about 40 minutes. With AI Assist, we're seeing users complete them in two minutes. Already, some large enterprises are using Ironclad AI to review over 50% of their incoming contracts, so the compounding business impact there is unprecedented."
"We've reached a tipping point in the legal field where lawyers will start to become exponentially more effective through artificial intelligence," said Stephen Myers, VP, Head of Legal at People.ai. "I've tested other generative AI negotiation tools, and Ironclad is leaps and bounds beyond what others are offering. AI Assist does the heavy lifting during contract review and allows me to put my legal knowledge to use in a more streamlined, efficient way."
Using the most advanced AI, and developed to be intuitive and allow customers to control when and how to apply it, AI Assist is now available for all Ironclad customers. All users can now leverage the power of generative AI in their contracts to:
- Augment Legal's issue-spotting and negotiation capabilities: AI Assist automates manual legal review so teams can focus on challenging strategic work that requires deep legal problem solving.
- Dramatically speed up the contract review process: instantly identify and redline irregularities in contracts with over 90% accuracy and save countless hours of manual review.
- Scale contract review and compliance: AI Assist makes redline suggestions based on a company's preferred clause and language guidelines in their existing Playbooks – meaning companies don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they review a contract.
- Optimized for accuracy and security: Ironclad has processed over 1 billion contracts and trained its AI models with large data sets of public, proprietary, and secure contract data.
New AI Customization and Enhanced Tools
Along with the general availability of AI Assist, Ironclad also announced the release of several new features within Ironclad AI, which lets customers:
- Define and extract the most relevant data for your business using custom AI models: train Ironclad AI using your own contracts and the clauses, language, and data most relevant to your business.
- Gain business insights from Ironclad AI: gain valuable business insights and drive impact with Ironclad's full stack analytics and visualization platform, Insights, which now extracts and analyzes data on contract clause usage.
- Upload unlimited contracts at scale: while Smart Import already handles up to 2,000 contract uploads at a time, the new Smart Import API will now allow unlimited contracts to be uploaded, indexed, tagged, and stored in the Ironclad Repository.
"Our approach with AI is to help legal teams slice through the rote work they don't want to do, so they can focus on the interesting problems they went to law school to solve," said Cai GoGwilt, co-founder and Chief Architect at Ironclad. "AI Assist clears the 'underbrush' and is a force multiplier for legal teams – a super-power that knows problems to look for, offers ways to solve them, and puts the decision making in the users' hands."
To learn more about AI Assist and Ironclad AI, please visit Ironclad.ai.
About Ironclad
Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. L'Oréal, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It's the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Recently named to the Forbes AI 50 2023 list, and named a Top Company to Bet Your Career On by Business Insider, the company is a Leader on the Forrester Wave for Contract Lifecycle Management and is backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, Franklin Templeton and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — US Navy says Iran seizes American sea drone in second-such incident in recent days; Tehran says its navy let 2 drones go.
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REACH, a Phase 3 Clinical Trial of losmapimod in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) utilizes AMRA's Muscle Fat Infiltration (MFI) as a secondary endpoint.
LINKÖPING, Sweden, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AMRA Medical, a digital health company delivering a new standard in body composition analysis through rapid whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), today announced that Fulcrum Therapeutics is using AMRA's muscle fat infiltration (MFI) as a secondary endpoint in the phase 3 clinical trial: REACH. The clinical trial is evaluating the efficacy and safety of losmapimod for the treatment of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD). The results of the REACH trial will help move Fulcrum closer to delivering the first-ever medicine approved for FSHD and help establish whole-body MRI-based measurements as critical endpoints in clinical trials for neuromuscular diseases.
FSHD is a progressive and debilitating neuromuscular disease for which there are no approved treatments. The disease is characterized by fat infiltration of skeletal muscle, impacting a patient's ability to perform daily tasks and live independently. Losmapimod is the first and only investigational medicine in clinical development, and with positive data, REACH could be the basis for approval.
REACH is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-national trial expected to enroll approximately 230 adults with FSHD. Patients will receive either losmapimod or placebo, and be evaluated over a 48-week treatment period. AMRA's MRI protocol will be used to produce a muscle fat infiltration (MFI) composite score for each patient as a secondary endpoint, with Reachable Workspace (RWS) as the primary endpoint.
This is not the first time Fulcrum is leveraging AMRA's measurements. AMRA and Fulcrum have partnered with MRI in their losmapimod studies from early biomarker development, through ReDUX4 Phase 2b, and now to the REACH phase 3 trial. The ReDUX4 trial, which demonstrated that losmapimod slowed disease progression and improved function in people with FSHD, revealed RWS and MFI are reliable measures of disease progression. This led the EU and US regulatory agencies, including the FDA, to support the use of MFI composite scores in REACH.
MFI composite scoring can help describe specific aspects of disease onset patterns, functional impairment, and disease progression between scans. The scores are generated following whole-body, whole-muscle MRI by combining muscle fat infiltration measurements from multiple muscles throughout the body. By converting all the MFI data for a given individual into a simplified score, researchers get meaningful information that is easier to interpret compared with trying to draw conclusions from 36 different MFI measurements for a given individual, let alone all of the 230 study participants. With AMRA, researchers can observe meaningful differences in both functional (RWS) and imaging (MFI) endpoints to gain more holistic insights and, ultimately, advance their clinical pipeline.
The losmapimod journey demonstrates that progressive pharmaceutical companies can get valuable insights from AMRA's MRI-based body composition measurements when used in proof-of-concept studies through late-stage clinical trials. Learn how AMRA can help you advance metabolic and musculoskeletal clinical research and development by visiting AMRA's website.
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A well-known former investigative journalist for ABC News has been arrested on a charge of “transporting” images depicting the sexual abuse of children, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, who covered national security and the military, was arrested Tuesday, months after his home was searched by federal authorities.
Authorities found images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct on electronic devices taken from his home. Authorities also discovered multiple conversations in which “participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children,” according to court papers.
He faces a charge of transportation of child pornography, which calls for a minimum of five years and up to 20 years in prison, officials said. An email seeking comment was sent to Meek’s attorney.
ABC News declined to comment Wednesday. Meek resigned from ABC News last year.
The FBI’s investigation was prompted by a tip from Dropbox about videos showing the sexual abuse of children found in March 2021 in an account that was associated with Meek, according to court papers. Federal authorities searched his home in April.
Investigators also found that Meek engaged with minors on platforms like Snapchat, according to court documents. A minor interviewed by law enforcement told authorities that Meek approached her through Snapchat and pressured her to provide sexually explicit photos, according to court papers.
Meek joined ABC News’ Washington bureau as an investigative producer in 2013. He previously worked for the New York Daily News and also served as senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security.
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SEATTLE, June 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Research indicates that approximately 3.5 million children under the age of 14 in North America do not participate in sports due to physical disabilities, genetic disorders, or other chronic health conditions. Unlimited Potential envisions a world where children facing challenges have the tools to overcome them, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can participate in school sports.
Rakshith Srinivasan, a driven high school student from Eastside Preparatory School, Kirkland, WA, has founded a nonprofit organization called Unlimited Potential (UP). UP is dedicated to generating awareness and fundraising for sports medicine research, aiming to empower children with physical disabilities and chronic health conditions to participate in school sports with ease. Rakshith Srinivasan's passion for sports medicine research and STEM awareness has led him to create UP and make a difference in the lives of young athletes within the community.
Unlimited Potential focuses on collaborating with sports medicine researchers, sports medicine research labs, orthopedic doctors and universities to raise awareness about groundbreaking research and to secure funds for hospitals and labs across North America.
The organization supports research initiatives that have resulted in significant breakthroughs such as prosthetics, bionics, stem cell therapies, CAR-T cell therapies, and other innovative treatments, maximizing their affordability and availability.
"Our mission at Unlimited Potential is to generate awareness within our communities about game-changing research in sports medicine and to raise funds for researchers and doctors working on complex medical problems. We believe accelerating research, and enabling affordability should ultimately lead to enabling our vision of - No Wheel Chairs by 2050"! said Rakshith Srinivasan, the founder of Unlimited Potential.
UP operates as a network of passionate high school students who are actively engaged in sports and have a keen interest in science and research. These student volunteers collaborate with doctors and medical researchers from renowned organizations such as Seattle Children's, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Special Olympics of Washington and the University of Washington's Institute of Sports Medicine. Through these partnerships, the volunteers gain insights into the research, understand its impact, and actively contribute to fundraising efforts.
Since its establishment in 2020, Unlimited Potential has achieved significant milestones. With ten full-time volunteers and over 600 part-time volunteers across North America, the organization has made substantial strides in advocating for sports medicine research within local communities. These efforts have resulted in the cultivation of over 500 grassroots donors. Contributions from these donors have supported eight research programs in areas such as prosthetics, bionics, muscular dystrophy, skeletal dysplasia, limb deformities, bone cancer, athlete mental health, and human-centered design.
Since its inception, UP campaigns played a pivotal role in raising $100,000 for research through community donors in their respective school districts. The funds were subsequently presented to researchers at labs such as Seattle Children's Orthopedic Research Lab and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to name a few.
Team Unlimited Potential has assembled a dedicated advisory board of like-minded leaders who mentor the volunteers. This advisory team assists in research selection, donor discussions, campaign planning, fundraising activities, and facilitates introductions to researchers and doctors.
UP's founder, Rakshith Srinivasan has written a book, "Overcoming Obstacles" which details the cutting-edge research happening in the field of sports science and research. The sales from the book will 100% go to the fundraising campaigns conducted by Unlimited Potential
"Overcoming Obstacles", can be purchase in online version or paperback from Barns and Noble, Rakuten Kobo, Goodreads and Amazon.
You can learn more about Rakshith Srinivasan at https://enableup.org/founder
For more information about Unlimited Potential and to get involved, please visit their website at https://enableup.org.
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NEW YORK (AP) — America’s top television networks on Thursday turned prime time over to a gripping account of former President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — with one prominent exception.
The top-rated news network, Fox News Channel, stuck with its own lineup of commentators. Sean Hannity denounced the “show trial” elsewhere on TV just as he was featured in it, with the House’s Jan. 6 committee examining his tweets to Trump administration figures.
Hannity aired a soundless snippet of committee members entering the hearing room as part of a lengthy monologue condemning the proceedings.
That was all Fox News Channel viewers saw of the hearing.
“It’s really just a cheap, selectively edited political ad,” Hannity told his viewers.
Meanwhile, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and MSNBC aired the second prime-time hearing, focusing on Trump’s real-time response to the riot. The committee said it was the last hearing until September.
“This very much sounded like a closing argument, certainly of this chapter of their investigation, and it was profound,” ABC News anchor David Muir said.
About 20 million people watched the first prime-time hearing on June 9, the Nielsen Company said. Generally, reaching that big an audience in mid-July would be a long shot, as it is the least-watched television month of the year.
Yet the seven daytime hearings have proven something of an oddity. Buoyed by strong word-of-mouth, the hearings grew in audience as they went along. CNN, for example, reached 1.5 million people for the second daytime hearing on June 16, and 2.6 million for the last one on July 12, Nielsen said.
Fox’s broadcast station in New York, which did not air last month’s prime-time hearing, showed the Thursday night session. The 17 other Fox-owned stations elsewhere in the country aired both hearings.
There’s little interest at Fox News Channel, which televised the daytime hearings, although only up until the demarcation line of the network’s popular show “The Five.” Ratings show that roughly half the network’s audience flees when the hearings start, and return when they’re over.
That would be a much more serious problem in prime time, where Fox’s audience is more than double what it is during the day. Fox News Channel’s decision not to air the prime-time hearings is almost certainly a function of the demands of their audience and prime-time hosts, said Nicole Hemmer, an expert on conservative media and author of the upcoming book “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.”
“It creates an awkward situation when a host like Tucker Carlson tells his audience that the hearings are a debacle not worth their time, and then the network preempts his show to air them,” Hemmer said.
Carlson found plenty of things to talk about besides the hearing Thursday, including President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 diagnosis, a “meltdown” by liberals over the U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision, the failure of drug legalization, “climate crazies” and “trans-affirming” lessons in Los Angeles schools.
Hannity’s lead story was the “grand finale” of the Jan. 6 committee, although he didn’t show it — at least with the sound on.
He brought on guests like GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, who said that if the hearings have done anything, “they’ve exonerated President Trump and the people supporting him.”
Talk show host Mark Levin told Hannity the U.S. Justice Department is corrupt because “the Colbert 9 are roaming free.” That’s a reference to federal prosecutors’ decision not to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” who were arrested in a U.S. Capitol complex building last month.
While Hannity was on the air, the Jan. 6 committee showed tweets that Hannity and other Fox News personalities had sent to Trump administration officials, warning that the Capitol riot was making the president look bad.
In a closing statement, Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice chair, noted that most of its case against Trump has been made by Republicans. She ridiculed the notion that the committee’s findings would be much different if Republicans other than she and Rep. Adam Kinzinger were members.
“Do you really think that Bill Barr is such a delicate flower that he would wilt under cross-examination?” she said.
The Republicans watching Fox News Channel on Thursday night didn’t hear her.
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