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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
9-2-6-4
(nine, two, six, four)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
9-2-6-4
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BOSTON (AP) — A passenger who helped restrain a threatening man on a weekend flight from Los Angeles to Boston said Tuesday that the entire chaotic episode was over within seconds thanks to teamwork.
Simik Ghookasian said in a telephone interview that he was seated several rows behind the man, who had quietly tried to open an airliner’s emergency door before trying to stab a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon, according to prosecutors.
“I heard the guy getting louder and louder and I thought it was just an argument, but he started yelling and screaming and threatening people, threatening to kill them,” said Ghookasian, a Los Angeles government contractor flying to Boston on United Flight 2609 on Sunday for work.
Until the yelling, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual about the man, who federal authorities have identified as Francisco Severo Torres.
Ghookasian said he saw the spoon and he was among five or six passengers who piled onto Torres and removed it from his grasp. It turned out to be the handle of a metal spoon, from which the bowl portion had been broken off, authorities said.
“That guy was really strong and was really resisting,” Ghookasian said. “We had a hard time holding him down. It was total teamwork.”
Ghookasian asked a flight attendant for some zip ties or duct tape, and the flight attendant produced some zip ties.
Ghookasian, who said he has first aid and counter-terrorism training, said he didn’t have time to be scared, he just reacted and used his instincts.
“Everything just exploded in a few seconds,” he said.
Torres, 33, of Leominster, Massachusetts, was arrested when the plane arrived in Boston and charged with interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon, federal prosecutors said. He was detained pending a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The plane was about 45 minutes from Boston when the crew received an alarm that a side door on the aircraft was disarmed, according to court documents. One flight attendant noticed the door’s locking handle had been moved. Another flight attendant had noticed that Torres was seen near the door and believed he had moved the handle.
Airplane doors cannot be opened once in flight due to cabin pressure.
The crew told the captain that he was a threat and the plane should be landed as soon as possible, authorities said.
Then Torres approached two flight attendants, according to the court documents. One of the flight attendants felt the metal object in Torres’ hand hit him on his shirt collar and tie three times.
Torres told investigators that he went into the airplane’s bathroom and broke a spoon in half to make a weapon, prosecutors said in the documents. They say he told authorities he wanted to open the door so that he could jump out of the plane.
Investigators said Torres admitted knowing that if he opened the door many people would die.
Torres said the flight attendants confronted him and he stabbed one of them in an attempt to defend himself, according to investigators. They said he believed the flight attendant was trying to kill him.
Authorities did not say where Torres got the spoon, but TSA rules allow airline passengers to bring metal utensils except knives onto planes.
United Airlines said no one was injured.
“Thanks to the quick action of our crew and customers, one customer was restrained after becoming a security concern on United flight 2609 from Los Angeles to Boston,” the company statement said. “The flight landed safely and was met by law enforcement.”
If convicted of the charges against him, Torres could face life in prison.
An email seeking comment from him was sent to his federal public defender, and a voicemail was left.
Torres has previously sued two mental health facilities where he was patient, according to federal court records. He sued the state-run Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital in March 2021, alleging medical malpractice for misdiagnosis. That suit was dismissed several months later.
He also sued Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts last May, alleging his constitutional rights were violated because he was a vegan and was denied almond milk. The suit was dismissed in June.
In both cases he acted as his own attorney. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/passengers-restrain-man-who-tried-to-stab-flight-attendant/ | 2023-03-08 13:02:39 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/passengers-restrain-man-who-tried-to-stab-flight-attendant/ |
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he wants to cut the number of municipalities in the country from 262 to 44 to reduce the tax burden.
The proposal would require the approval of the country’s Legislative Assembly, in which Bukele’s party and its allies hold a majority. The president also proposed reducing the number of lawmakers in that body from 84 to 60.
“How is it possible that in a territory of 8,100 square miles (21,000 square kilometers) we have 262 municipalities?” Bukele said in a speech Thursday marking his fourth year in office. The president’s New Ideas party controls the majority of the current municipalities.
The president said the names of municipalities would not be lost because they would be converted into districts by the same name.
The conservative National Republican Alliance (Arena) party said it saw clear electoral motivation behind the move just one year before Bukele plans to seek re-election despite a widespread interpretation of the constitution that forbids consecutive re-election.
In 2021, the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber, recently overhauled by Bukele’s party, told electoral authorities to allow re-election. Constitutional scholars considered the court’s decision unconstitutional. Bukele announced his intention to seek re-election last September.
“The president changes the country’s political distribution with electoral ends,” the party’s congressional delegation said via Twitter.
Bukele’s supporters shouted “re-election, re-election, re-election” during the president’s speech.
Bukele also said authorities were carrying out searches of all of the properties of former President Alfredo Cristiani who governed El Salvador from 1989 to 1994. It was not clear what the objective of the searches was.
In March of last year, a court ordered Cristiani’s capture, though he had already left the country. Prosecutors allege that Cristiani knew of the military’s plan to eliminate six Jesuit priests and two others in 1989 and did nothing to stop them.
Last year, his daughter released a statement from Cristiani denying that he knew the military’s plans.
On Nov. 16, 1989, an elite commando unit killed the six priests — five Spaniards and one Salvadoran — along with their housekeeper and the housekeeper’s daughter in the priests’ residence. The killers tried to make the massacre appear as though it had been carried out by leftist guerrillas. | https://phl17.com/news/ap-top-headlines/el-salvador-president-wants-to-cut-the-number-of-municipalities-from-262-to-44/ | 2023-06-02 20:19:21 | 1 | https://phl17.com/news/ap-top-headlines/el-salvador-president-wants-to-cut-the-number-of-municipalities-from-262-to-44/ |
Isiah Thomas has been around the NBA long enough to know that it’s a league where imposing dominance goes a long way.
From NBATV’s “GameTime” desk last season, Thomas listened to Candace Parker as she pondered the hot starts by Golden State and Phoenix — both 22-5 — and asked if it was possible for a team to peak too soon.
“You don’t want to peak too early,” Thomas said. “But you do want to establish dominance.”
When a team rattles off wins early in the season, Thomas said, it rings an alarm around the league.
“Now the whole league — even us as announcers, media people — they’re saying, ‘Hey, this is the team,’ ” Thomas posited. “So there’s a certain aura that you walk out on the floor with that you can put on the opposing team. When you talk about imposing your will, that’s what we’re talking about — when you walk into the arena and everybody just kind of trembles a little bit.”
The Suns finished last season with the best record in the Western Conference, and even though they lost in the second round of the playoffs, the way they started the season made it clear that the path through the West would go through them at some point.
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The Warriors finished 53-29. They had enough wins stockpiled to withstand losing their centerpiece, Stephen Curry, for the final 12 games of the season. They were still the third seed, and once Curry returned for the playoffs, they went on to beat the Celtics in the Finals.
In the NBA, the teams that start good stay good.
This year, the Celtics, who started 21-6, and Bucks, 20-7, joined a group of 124 teams since 1979 (when the NBA adopted the 3-pointer) to win at least 20 of their first 27 games.
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The Celtics have run into some speed bumps in midseason; they’re 4-5 in their last nine, including Tuesday’s lopsided loss at Oklahoma City. The Bucks hit a rut, too, and had lost five of seven going into Wednesday.
But history says they should be fine in the long run. A dominant start through the first third of the season is essentially a guaranteed ticket to the playoffs.
All of the other 124 NBA teams that got off to similar starts made the playoffs, 118 finished fourth or higher in their conference, and 112 won at least 50 games.
The definition of playoff success varies depending on a team’s expectations, but out of that group, all but 16 made it out of the first round, 72 reached the conference finals, 44 reached the Finals, and 29 won the title.
In fact, establishing early dominance is practically the first step on the way to a title. Of the NBA’s 76 champions, 52 won 70 percent of their first 27 games.
Hot streaks and injuries
The Celtics and Bruins got off to historically hot starts this season, and in both leagues, getting off the blocks strong is typically the first step in toward a playoff push.
Since the NHL first played a schedule of at least 70 games in 1949-50, 18 teams have won at least 20 of their first 27 games. The Bruins’ 22-4-1 start this season (along with New Jersey’s 21-5-1 start) puts them in that rare air.
All of those teams reached the playoffs. Five reached the Stanley Cup Finals, and four won it all (the 2012-13 Blackhawks, the 2001-02 Red Wings, and the 1984-85 and 1983-84 Oilers). The other team in that group to reach the Stanley Cup Final was the 1973-74 Bruins.
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Only four of those 18 fast-starting teams ended the season with a first-round playoff exit.
Of course, the NHL can certainly be a league of streaks. Case in point: the 2018-19 St. Louis Blues.
They started the season 10-13-4. Coach Mike Yeo didn’t make it through November before being fired. In January, the Blues had the worst record in the league (15-18-4). But an 11-game win streak and a 30-10-5 run to end the season — with Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” as their theme song — got them into the playoffs. They never cooled off and beat the Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals.
The Pittsburgh Penguins were coming off a Stanley Cup Finals appearance in 2008-09 but were barely above .500 in February when they fired coach Michel Therrien. A coaching change and two key trades at the deadline brought them back from the brink. They went 19-5-4 over their last 28 games, earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference, got back to the Finals, and beat Detroit to hoist the Cup.
Those kinds of lightning strikes don’t happen often in the NBA. Teams don’t necessarily have to be “playing their best ball” going into the playoffs. Last year’s Warriors, for example, ended a four-game win streak but lost 16 of their last 28.
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The more obvious factor in maintaining a high level of success is health. Going through the short list of NBA teams that got out of the gate fast but didn’t get out of the first round, the common thread is a key injury.
Last year, Utah started 20-7. But injuries hit two stars. Rudy Gobert missed 16 games, including nine straight, with a calf strain. Donovan Mitchell missed 13 games, including eight with a concussion. The Jazz finished 49-33 and lost their first-round series to the Mavericks.
Coming off a title win in the bubble, the 2020-21 Lakers won 21 of their first 27 games. But Anthony Davis (Achilles’ tendon) and LeBron James (ankle) missed significant stretches with injuries. The Lakers finished 42-30, had to beat Golden State in the first-ever play-in tournament to earn the seventh seed in the West, then lost in the first round.
The 2011-12 Bulls are an extreme example. Led by reigning MVP Derrick Rose, they started the season 21-6 and ripped through the lockout-shortened season to finish 50-16. But Rose tore an ACL in the playoff opener against the 76ers, and without him, the Bulls lost that series in six games.
When things fall apart
Rare are the cases like the 2006-07 Mavericks or 2010-11 Spurs, who were the top teams in their conference but ran into buzzsaws in the first round.
“Peaking early” isn’t nearly as much of a concern as simply unraveling. If a team gets off to a hot start and somehow manages to miss the playoffs, generally, something went terribly wrong, whether it’s an injury or just internal strife.
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The 2010-11 Jazz are a perfect example of a team imploding from within. Deron Williams was arguably one of the best point guards in the league. But he didn’t see eye to eye with coach Jerry Sloan. So even though Utah started the season 21-9, their relationship became contentious and boiled over to the point that Sloan stepped down in midseason. The Jazz traded Williams to the Nets after the All-Star break, finished 39-43, and missed the playoffs.
The 2000-01 Bucks came within an infamous Game 7 against the 76ers of reaching the Finals, and thought they were one piece away from breaking through. The next season, they parted ways with key role players including center Scott Williams and brought in veteran (and wild card) Anthony Mason. They started the season 18-9 and then unraveled.
Pick a low point: Sam Cassell kicking the ball into the stands in the third quarter of a loss to the Wizards, coach George Karl calling out players after a loss to the 76ers, facing a must-win against the Pistons in the final game of the season and losing by 34.
But falling apart after a fast start is the exception to a rule that Thomas knows to be true. Generally, the best teams separate themselves from the start, and that sets them up well at the end. The Celtics and Bruins have done the early work this season.
Julian Benbow can be reached at julian.benbow@globe.com. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/04/sports/could-celtics-bruins-be-peaking-too-soon-heres-what-history-says-about-fast-starts/ | 2023-01-04 22:21:02 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/04/sports/could-celtics-bruins-be-peaking-too-soon-heres-what-history-says-about-fast-starts/ |
Promising 'dark matter' cancer therapy has clinical trials in sight
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amaroq Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focussed on developing a new class of therapeutics that target lncRNA in cancer, is progressing towards clinical trials following a promising initial development phase and securing key appointments to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
Amaroq Therapeutics is pleased to announce early milestone achievements and the appointment of Prof David L. Spector (chair), Prof Sherene Loi, Prof Anna Pyle, and Dr Henrik Ørum as SAB members.
"We're really fortunate to welcome four industry leading experts to our board. With a mixture of expertise in cancer research, RNA biology, drug development and clinical trials, Amaroq has never been better supported to progress our therapy to market," says Dr Sarah Diermeier, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder, Amaroq Therapeutics.
"These appointments of industry leaders from the scientific community is a great show of confidence in our development of RNA therapy. This brings us much closer to clinical trials and delivering potentially life-changing treatment to patients with some of the most common cancers," says Diermeier.
Amaroq Therapeutics is one of the world's first companies exploring long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), often referred to as "dark matter" of the genome, for oncology application. Their newly bolstered team of experts are exploring the use of lncRNA molecules as therapeutic targets and diagnostic markers in the treatment of cancer.
Amaroq Therapeutics' research has shown that specific lncRNA molecules are highly expressed in cancer cells but not in normal healthy cells. Removing these lncRNA molecules from cancer cells can slow down the process of the cells dividing.
"This gives us the very real hope that lncRNA molecules could hold the key for treating many common forms of cancer such as breast, colorectal and liver cancer," says Diermeier. "The new generation of RNA therapeutics we develop could be the breakthrough treatment the world has been waiting for to treat cancers – one of the world's most deadly and debilitating diseases."
Led by Brandon Capital and supported by Otago Innovation Ltd, NZ Innovation Booster and Cure Kids Ventures, a total of $14m has been invested in Amaroq Therapeutics to date.
"We're pleased to continue to support Amaroq Therapeutics towards clinical development, and the extremely high calibre of experience and expertise among their newly appointed board members speaks to the potential we all see in them as pioneers in RNA therapy. We'll be watching with keen interest," says Duncan Mackintosh, Senior Investment Manager with Brandon Capital Partners.
New Amaroq SAB Board appointments:
Prof David L. Spector, Chair
David L. Spector, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of Research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is co-leader of the Gene Regulation and Inheritance program of the National Cancer Institute designated Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center. In 2014 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and as a foreign Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. In 2017 he was elected a Lifetime Fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology for Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of Cell Biology.
Prof Sherene Loi
Sherene Loi is a Medical Oncologist specialized in breast cancer treatment and Group Leader at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. She is recognized internationally as a leading clinician scientist whose work has led to new insights in the breast cancer immunology field, including an immune biomarker and formation of the TILs international working group. Professor Loi's research is highly cited – she is ranked in the top 1% of highly cited researchers globally by the Web of Science since 2018. She co-chairs the International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) based in Bern, Switzerland, which conducts breast cancer clinical trials in over 16 countries. She is the current holder of the Inaugural National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) of Australia Endowed Chair and a research fellow of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), New York.
Prof Anna Marie Pyle
Anna Marie Pyle is the Yale Sterling Professor in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Chemistry, and she is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Pyle formed her own research group in 1992 in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical Center. In 2002, she moved to Yale University, where her group specializes in determining the structure and function of large RNA molecules and associated protein enzymes. Pyle is Past- President of the RNA Society, she is Vice-Chair of the Science and Technology Steering Committee for Brookhaven National Laboratory, and she is on the scientific advisory board of Arrakis Therapeutics and RADD Pharma.
Dr Henrik Ørum
Henrik Ørum brings more than 25 years of experience in every aspect of creating, building, leading and exiting successful biotechnology companies. Dr. Ørum started his biotech career at PNA Diagnostics A/S in 1993, serving as Chief Scientific Officer from 1993 to 1999. During his tenure, the company was sold to Boehringer Mannheim in 1994 and later to Hoffman-La Roche in 1997. In 1996, Dr. Ørum cofounded Exiqon A/S, a nucleic acid diagnostics company that was listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in 2007. In 2000, he co-founded Santaris Pharma A/S, where he served as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of business development until the company's acquisition by Roche in 2014. In 2017 Dr. Ørum founded CiVi Biopharma Inc, where he serves as Chief Scientific Officer.
About Amaroq Therapeutics
Amaroq Therapeutics is a New Zealand-based biotechnology company focussed on developing a new class of therapeutics that target lncRNAs in cancer.
Long non-coding RNAs are a relatively recently discovered class of molecules often referred to as "dark matter" of the human genome. These naturally occurring molecules do not code for proteins but fulfill important regulatory functions in the cell that could be exploited as a new therapeutic approach for multiple indications. Amaroq's research team has discovered lncRNA molecules that are highly expressed in cancer cells, and once removed, cancer cell growth slows. Amaroq Therapeutics is developing innovative therapeutics to target lncRNAs for cancer treatment.
Amaroq Therapeutics is funded by the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund, managed by life science venture capital firm Brandon Capital Partners, Otago Innovation Ltd, University of Otago, Cure Kids, and NZ Innovation Booster. The Company has been spun out of research from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
About Brandon BioCatalyst and Brandon Capital
Brandon Capital is Australasia's leading life science venture capital firm, with a strong global presence supported by key partnerships and team members across the US and UK. From early-stage seed investment through to expansion capital, Brandon Capital supports life science companies from proof-of-concept through to commercialisation.
Managed by Brandon Capital, Brandon BioCatalyst is a unique collaboration of over 50 leading medical research institutes, investors, and government united by a single purpose: progressing the next generation of medical therapies and technology which improve health and save lives.
www.brandoncapital.vc | www.brandonbiocatalyst.com
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Grand Island, N.Y. (WIVB) — Residents on Grand Island are not happy with the idea of a potential toll increase for the New York State Thruway. The Thruway Board of Directors will consider the rate hike at a meeting Monday.
The New York State Thruway Authority is putting the wheels in motion for a potential rate hike. It was revealed a proposal calls for a 5 percent price increase for E-ZPass holders beginning in 2024. that includes another 5 percent jump in 2027.
People like Karen Mahoney are not happy.
“It seems like it’s always being taken out of our pockets and I think they should find another way to fund the roads,” said Mahoney.
“I just shake my head at that because in the past they would take that away, they would take the tolls away and we were all hoping for that,” Mahoney added. “The opposite is happening, now they’re increasing it and it’s making us a little bit more angrier.”
The biggest hit to the wallet would be for those without an E-ZPass. Right now, it costs those who pay by mail 30 percent more than the E-ZPass rate. Under the proposal, that would jump to a 75 percent differential.
It would be the first increase since 2010.
Roger Greinert is worried a toll hike might turn away visitors from the Island.
“I’m upset with anyone who is trying to propose increases,” Greinert told News 4.
“I’m sure there’s other places that they could do that, that would have less impact on the people,” he added.
The Authority said the increase is needed to pay off debt and keep up with infrastructure improvements.
The proposal faces a lengthy public hearing and approval process if it moves forward.
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The National Hurricane Center announced today that an unnamed subtropical storm formed over the open Atlantic Ocean south of Nova Scotia in January 2023.
Because the designation wasn’t made official until today, the system will count in the total tally of storms for the year, but won’t take up the first name of the storm naming list for this season.
Had the subtropical storm system been designated at the time of its formation, it would have been given the name Arlene, as subtropical systems have been given names since 2002.
Instead, going forward from this point should the next system to organize this year become a tropical depression, it would be dubbed Tropical Depression Two, not one. Whenever the next named storm of the year forms though, it will be dubbed Arlene, not Bret.
Subtropical storms are essentially hybrid storm systems that aren’t fully tropical. Unlike tropical systems which tend to have the worst weather near their centers, subtropical systems tend to have the worst impacts away from the centers.
There were no land impacts from what happened in January.
Hurricane season starts on June 1, but it’s not overly unusual for a system to develop before the official start date. Weather systems rely on the conditions in the ocean and atmosphere to form, and don’t account for what the calendar date happens to say.
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NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) recently celebrated its first Law Day in two years. Mike Rose, a founding partner at Hach & Rose, LLP, gave a speech entitled "The Partners in Justice" and presented an award to New York Governor Kathy Hochul at the celebration.
The in-person event had been postponed due to COVID-19, and while members were unable to convene in person during the pandemic, they continued working virtually to promote legislation for the benefit of their clients. As Mike Rose noted in his speech, one of the biggest victories the NYSTLA achieved during the pandemic was the repeal of the COVID immunity executive order, which was issued by then Governor Andrew Cuomo. By successfully blocking the legislation, the NYSTLA helped to protect New Yorkers from hazardous conditions in healthcare facilities.
Mike Rose also praised the integral role the NYSTLA played in the codification of two new laws: the "Speaking Agents" law, which overrules the former limitations on employees' out-of-court statements, and the Insurance Disclosure Act, which requires defendants in civil cases to divulge information about insurance coverage that could be used to settle a judgment. Defendants have 90 days from the date they answer a complaint to disclose this information.
"Without NYSTLA's vigilance and hard work, our clients' voices would never be heard in Albany," Mike Rose said of the organization.
The NYSTLA's roots can be traced back to more than 60 years ago. Initially founded by a group of 20 trial lawyers who desired a forum for plaintiff's attorneys, the association grew over the decades to approximately 3,500 members.
The association's mission is "to promote a safer and healthier society, to assure access to the civil justice system by those who are wrongfully injured and to advance representation of the public by ethical, well-trained lawyers." The NYSTLA is dedicated to ensuring that victims of personal injury are able to freely exercise their constitutional rights in the civil justice system.
Today, Hach & Rose attorney Halina Radchenko is the president of the NYSTLA. During Halina's tenure as president, three new laws have been passed, including the Insurance Disclosure Act and the Adult Survivors Act (ASA). The NYSTLA is currently advocating for the passage of two other laws that would benefit plaintiffs, the Grieving Families Act, which would allow families to recover emotional, non-financial damages if their loved one was killed due to wrongful death, and the Consumer Good Faith Act. The Grieving Families Act was recently passed by both the New York Senate and State Assembly, and is expected to be signed into law by Governor Hochul.
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The Biden administration says it'll spend nearly $1 billion to upgrade airports around the country.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday the money will go to 85 airports. The projects include $60 million to upgrade the terminal and bag-handling system at the Denver airport and $50 million apiece for Boston’s Logan Airport and Orlando International Airport in Florida.
The main airports in Detroit and Philadelphia will get more than $20 million each to renovate restrooms. The grants are the first installment in $5 billion of airport spending included in a huge infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed last year. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touts the spending, saying America's airports need it.
The Associated Press reported that more than 500 airports filed for grants totaling $14 billion.
The upgrades come as demand returns to near pre-pandemic levels. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/faa-to-give-airports-1-billion-for-terminals-and-upgrades | 2022-07-07 13:58:27 | 1 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/faa-to-give-airports-1-billion-for-terminals-and-upgrades |
By pulling out of a landmark deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea, Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking a gamble that could badly damage Moscow’s relations with many of its partners that have stayed neutral or even been supportive of the Kremlin’s invasion of its neighbor.
Russia also has played the role of spoiler at the United Nations, vetoing a resolution on extending humanitarian aid deliveries through a key border crossing in northwestern Syria and backing a push by Mali’s military junta to expel U.N. peacekeepers — abrupt moves that reflect Moscow’s readiness to raise the stakes elsewhere.
Putin’s declared goal in halting the Black Sea Grain Initiative was to win relief from Western sanctions on Russia’s agricultural exports. His longer-term goal could be to erode Western resolve over Ukraine and get more concessions from the U.S. and its allies as the war grinds toward the 17-month mark.
The Kremlin doubled down on terminating the grain deal by attacking Ukrainian ports and declaring wide areas of the Black Sea unsafe for shipping.
But with the West showing little willingness to yield any ground, Putin’s actions not only threaten global food security but also could backfire against Russia’s own interests, potentially causing concern in China, straining Moscow’s relations with key partner Turkey and hurting its ties with African countries.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who helped broker the grain deal with the U.N. a year ago, has pushed for its extension and said he would negotiate with Putin.
Turkey’s role as a top trading partner and a logistical hub for Russia’s foreign trade amid Western sanctions strengthens Erdogan’s hand and could allow him to squeeze concessions from Putin, whom he calls “my dear friend.”
Turkey’s trade with Russia nearly doubled last year to $68.2 billion, feeding U.S. suspicions that Moscow is using Ankara to bypass Western sanctions. Turkey says the increase is largely due to higher energy costs.
Their relationship is often characterized as transactional. Despite being on opposing sides in fighting in Syria, Libya and the decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, they have cooperated in areas like energy, defense, diplomacy, tourism and trade.
Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, director of the German Marshall Fund in Ankara, said the relationship’s dual nature dates back to the sultans and czars.
“Sometimes they compete, sometimes they cooperate. At other times they both compete and cooperate at the same time,” he said.
While the pendulum seems to have swung in Ankara’s favor for now, Unluhisarcikli noted the Kremlin has a few levers to pull, such as canceling a deferment of gas payments or removing financial capital for the Akkuyu nuclear plant being built by Russia. Moscow also could hurt Turkey by restricting Russian tourists, who visit in greater numbers than any other nationality. offering a steady flow of cash.
“How much weaker the relationship gets depends on how Russia responds to Turkey getting closer to the West,” he said.
Some observers in Moscow speculate that Russia agreed to extend the grain deal for two months in May to help Erdogan win reelection but was appalled to see his pro-Western shift afterward.
Erdogan backed Sweden’s membership in NATO earlier this month. In another snub to Moscow, Turkey allowed several Ukrainian commanders who led the defense of Mariupol last year to return home. They surrendered after a two-month Russian siege and then moved to Turkey under a deal that they stay there until the end of the war.
Kerim Has, a Moscow-based expert on Turkey-Russia ties, said Erdogan had been emboldened by his reelection to pursue rapprochement with the West, appointing a “pro-Western” Cabinet and adopting a stance that was causing “discomfort” in the Kremlin.
“It’s a dilemma for Putin,” Has said. “He supported Erdogan’s candidacy but he will face a more active, pro-Western Turkey under Erdogan in the coming period.”
Moscow could try to pressure Erdogan by challenging Turkey’s interests in northwestern Syria, where Ankara has backed armed opposition groups since the start of the conflict. Even though Russia has joined with Iran to shore up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government while Turkey has backed its foes, Moscow and Ankara have negotiated cease-fire deals.
But Russia abruptly toughened its stand this month when it vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution backed by virtually all members to continue humanitarian aid deliveries to opposition-held areas through the Bab el-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, a key lifeline for about 4.1 million people in the impoverished enclave. Moscow warned that if its rival draft was not accepted, the crossing would be shut.
The presence of 3.4 million Syrians in Turkey is a sensitive issue for Ankara. Erdogan has advocated their voluntary repatriation to parts of northern Syria under Turkish control.
Dareen Khalifa, senior analyst on Syria at the International Crisis Group, says Russia’s hard-line approach to the issue was an attempt to pressure Ankara.
“Turkey will be directly impacted by that if the mechanism ends,” he said.
Others were skeptical Russia could use the border crossing issue to strong-arm Ankara. “I do not think Russia is in a position to increase its pressure on Turkey in Syria,” Has said.
Joseph Daher, a Swiss-Syrian researcher and professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, observed that Russia could be trying to pressure the West by raising the prospect of a new wave of refugees in Europe.
Richard Gowan, U.N. director of the International Crisis Group, noted that along with the tougher stand on Syria, Russia’s “disruptive” actions included support for Mali’s push to expel U.N. peacekeepers.
“It looks like Russia is looking for ways to annoy the West through the U.N,” he told The Associated Press.
Reflecting Moscow’s increasingly muscular stand, Russian military pilots recently have harassed U.S. aircraft over Syria in incidents that added to tensions between Moscow and Washington. The Pentagon described Russia’s maneuvers as unprofessional and unsafe, while Moscow sought to turn the tables by accusing the U.S. of violating deconfliction rules intended to prevent collisions over Syria.
Amid the hardball at the U.N. and in Syria, Russia has been courting African nations with promises of support.
The Kremlin has emphasized it stands ready to provide poor countries in Africa with free grain after the termination of the Black Sea deal, and Putin is set to woo African leaders at a summit in St. Petersburg later this month. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow’s offer of free grain shipments would be on the agenda.
The Black Sea deal allowed Ukraine to ship 32.9 million metric tons of grain and other food to global markets. According to official data, 57% of the grain from Ukraine went to developing nations, while China received the most — nearly a quarter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that 60,000 metric tons of grain destroyed by Russia’s strike on the port of Odesa on Wednesday were bound for China.
Putin, in turn, accused the West of using the grain deal to “shamelessly enrich itself” instead of its declared goal of easing hunger. Despite such rhetoric, the Russian move won’t play well in African countries.
Even as the Kremlin tried to contain the damage to those ties, it unleashed more attacks on Odesa and other ports to thwart Ukrainian attempts to continue grain shipments. Moscow described them as ” strikes of retribution ” for Monday’s attack that damaged the Kerch Bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea with Russia.
Hard-liners in Moscow praised Putin for halting the deal, which they have criticized as a reflection of what they described as the Kremlin’s futile hope to compromise with the West.
Pro-Kremlin commentator Sergei Markov lauded the retaliatory strikes and argued that the withdrawal from the deal was long overdue.
“The grain deal’s extension led to a drop in the government’s ratings and was fueling talk about betrayal on top,” he said.
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Andrew Wilks in Istanbul, Turkey, Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Lebanon and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed.
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Industrial-style ceiling fans
If you have a summer home that’s warm and sunny with a large living area, you’re probably equal parts excited to spend your summer basking in the sun and curious about how you’ll keep your household cool without running up a gargantuan bill.
Enter the ceiling fan. Industrial fans circulate a large amount of air, making a room feel substantially cooler at a fraction of the cost of AC. Their large blades and high spin rate move air throughout the room quickly and effectively, outperforming traditional fans and consuming less energy.
Top industrial ceiling fan recommendations include the Westinghouse Lighting Industrial 56-Inch Indoor Ceiling Fan. Read on to learn more about how to make the best selection to keep your summer home cool all season.
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Is an industrial-style ceiling fan a good choice for my summer home?
It’s vital to note that true industrial fans are not appropriate or safe for use in most residences. Their long blades and extreme spin rate are designed for spaces like factories, so they pose a safety hazard and require a clearance of at least 10 feet in order to be safe. Plus, they’re often pretty loud.
If you have a massive living space in your summer home, such as a den with towering ceilings and lots of windows, an industrial fan is a good option for you.
Otherwise, your best bet is to look for industrial-style ceiling fans designed for residential settings. Industrial-style fans have the aesthetics of an industrial fan and the functionality to work in a smaller space.
What to look for in an industrial-style ceiling fan
Safety
True industrial fans are only recommended for use in large industrial settings like factories because they have long, thin metal blades that spin very quickly, sometimes up to 500 RPM, and so they require a large clearance to be safe for use.
Fans approved for residential use are designed and regulated not to pose a safety hazard, even if they’re touched while in motion. They’re restricted to a much lower speed which varies based on the thickness and length of blades, closer to around 235 RPM.
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If you don’t have a ceiling higher than 11 feet, it’s recommended to purchase an industrial-style fan to achieve the aesthetic you want in your summer home without the industrial performance.
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Size of your space
For safety, the bottom of a residential fan (versus an industrial fan, whose RPM requires high clearance) needs to be at least 7 feet from the floor. The fan blades should hang at least 8 inches from the ceiling to allow for air to circulate.
Westinghouse Lighting 7214100 Harmony Indoor Ceiling Fan
You should consider these guidelines when selecting a fan. If your space has low ceilings, such as is typical in many bathrooms or breakfast nooks, select a low-profile or flush mount ceiling fan. Flush mounts are anchored directly to the ceiling so that the base is flush, which is essential in areas with low floor-to-ceiling space.
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Westinghouse Gun Metal Ceiling Fan
A very large bedroom, family room or great room will require a larger fan than a small room for adequate circulation. A 400 square foot room will require a fan that is around 52 inches blade span, whereas an 144 square foot room will only require a fan around 42 inches blade span. This Westinghouse Gun Metal Ceiling Fan is designed for spaces up to 80 square feet.
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Design
You’re likely looking for an industrial ceiling fan because you love the aesthetics of old warehouse and factory equipment — exposed hardware, aged finish, sleek metal parts and rugged utilitarian design. Many residential fans are now designed to look like they belong as a factory as well as being efficient and budget-friendly.
Best industrial-style ceiling fans for summer homes
Top industrial-style ceiling fan
Honeywell Ceiling Fans 52-Inch Carnegie LED Ceiling Fan
What you need to know: An industrial-style ceiling fan with gorgeous modern aesthetics, an array of features and LED lights.
What you’ll love: Rustic Barnwood blades, caged Edison-style light bulbs and matte black finish. Uses a remote control. Can be run in reverse during winter to rotate warm air.
What you should consider: Some users found this difficult to install, while others called it a breeze. If you aren’t super DIY-savvy, be sure to have an additional set of hands to assist in installation.
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Top industrial-style ceiling fan for the money
Westinghouse Lighting Industrial 56-Inch Indoor Ceiling Fan
What you need to know: Meant for cooling larger work and living spaces such as workshops, lofts and high-ceilinged great rooms with ceilings higher than 11 feet.
What you’ll love: Moves a lot of air quickly. Comes in a variety of colors. Excellent price for its power. Relatively quiet performance for an industrial fan.
What you should consider: Not safe in smaller spaces. No lights included.
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Worth considering
Big Ass Fans 52-Inch Haiku L Smart Ceiling Fan
What you need to know: A seven-speed fan with a sleep mode, a “whoosh” mode to simulate outdoor breezes and a remote control operation. Recommended for 225 square foot spaces.
What you’ll love: Can be used inside or outside, so it makes an excellent addition to your great room or large porch. Comes in a variety of colors.
What you should consider: An expensive fan, though worth it for people who need to move a lot of air and who value smart WiFi features.
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DALLAS, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank, as Trustee of the Hugoton Royalty Trust (OTCQB:HGTXU) (the "Trust"), today declared there would not be a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest for May 2022 due to the excess cost positions on two of the three Trust's conveyances of net profits interests, the outstanding payable to Simmons Bank, and absence of a cash reserve. Properties underlying the Wyoming net profits interests contributed net profits income of approximately $334,000. The Trustee paid current month administration expenses of $104,000 and used the remaining net profits of $230,000 to pay down the outstanding payable to Simmons Bank, which was $658,000 as of May 31, 2022. To the extent net profits income is received in future months, the Trustee anticipates repaying the outstanding payable to Simmons Bank and replenishing the cash reserve of approximately $1,000,000 prior to engaging in future distributions to unitholders. The following table shows underlying gas sales and average prices attributable to the net overriding royalty for both the current month and prior month. Underlying gas sales volumes attributable to the current month were primarily produced in March.
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that it has included oil sales volumes of approximately 5,000 barrels from the new horizontal wells drilled in Major County, Oklahoma and has deducted development costs of $190,000, production expense of $1,355,000 and overhead of $1,000,000 in determining the royalty calculation for the Trust for the current month.
On July 2, 2021 the Trustee announced that it has entered into a purchase and sale agreement with XTO Energy pursuant to which XTO Energy would acquire for $6,600,000 in cash the net overriding royalty interest created pursuant to the net profits interest conveyances held by the Trust and certain other assets constituting substantially all of the assets of the Trust.
The consummation of the sale of the assets is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including approval of the sale from holders of units of beneficial interest in the Trust ("Units") holding Units representing eighty percent (80%) or more of all the Units outstanding, or a final judicial determination authorizing the Trustee to consummate the sale of the assets. The Trustee held a Special Meeting of unitholders on December 10, 2021 for the purpose of approving the sale of assets. The sale was not approved by unitholders.
Execution of the purchase and sale agreement followed a process previously announced by the Trust whereby the Trustee had engaged a third party to market the Trust's assets.
The expense reserve used to pay administrative expenses in the absence of current month distributions was depleted in October 2020. As a result, Simmons Bank, the Trustee, has paid expenses for the Trust, subject to its rights to be indemnified and reimbursed pursuant to the terms of the Trust indenture. However, there is nothing in the Trust indenture that requires Simmons Bank to pay the expenses for the Trust. The right to indemnification would include proceeds received from a sale of the Trust's assets, if any.
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that $82,000 of excess costs were recovered on properties underlying the Kansas net profits interests. However, after the partial recovery, there were no remaining proceeds from the properties underlying the Kansas net profits interests to be included in the current month's distribution. Underlying cumulative excess costs remaining on the Kansas net profits interests total $2,846,000, including accrued interest of $486,000.
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that $2,132,000 of excess costs, including accrued interest of $763,000, were recovered on properties underlying the Oklahoma net profits interests. However, after the partial recovery, there were no remaining proceeds from the properties underlying the Oklahoma net profits interests to be included in the current month's distribution. Underlying cumulative excess costs remaining on the Oklahoma net profits interests consists entirely of accrued interest of $1,744,000. This balance does not include the portion of the Chieftain settlement the arbitration panel determined could be charged as a production cost. XTO Energy has estimated the amount to be approximately $14.6 million (net to the Trust).
As previously disclosed, XTO Energy advised the Trustee that it reached a settlement with the plaintiffs in the Chieftain class action royalty case. On July 27, 2018, the final plan of allocation was approved by the court. Based on the final plan of allocation, XTO Energy advised the Trustee that it believes approximately $24.3 million in additional production costs should be allocated to the Trust. On May 2, 2018, the Trustee submitted a demand for arbitration seeking a declaratory judgment that the Chieftain settlement is not a production cost and that XTO Energy is prohibited from charging the settlement as a production cost under the conveyance or otherwise reducing the Trust's payments now or in the future as a result of the Chieftain litigation. The Trust and XTO Energy conducted the interim hearing on the claims related to the Chieftain settlement on October 12-13, 2020. In the arbitration, the Trustee contended that the approximately $24.3 million allocation related to the Chieftain settlement was not a production cost and, therefore, there should not be a related adjustment to the Trust's share of net proceeds. However, XTO Energy contended that the approximately $24.3 million was a production cost and should reduce the Trust's share of net proceeds.
On January 20, 2021, the arbitration panel issued its Corrected Interim Final Award (i) "reject[ing] the Trust's contention that XTO has no right under the Conveyance to charge the Trust with amounts XTO paid under section 1.18(a)(i) as royalty obligations to settle the Chieftain litigation" and (ii) stating "[t]he next phase will determine how much of the Chieftain settlement can be so charged, if any of it can be, in the exercise of the right found by the Panel." Following briefing by both parties, on May 18, 2021, the Panel issued its second interim final award over the amount of XTO Energy's settlement in the Chieftain class action lawsuit that can be charged to the Trust as a production cost. The Panel in its decision has ruled that out of the $80 million settlement, the "Trust is obligated to pay its share under the Conveyance of the $48 million that was received by the plaintiffs in the Chieftain lawsuit by virtue of the settlement of that litigation. The Trust is not obligated by the Conveyance to pay any share of the $32 million received by the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Chieftain lawsuit by virtue of the settlement." XTO Energy and the Trustee are in the process of determining the portion of the $48 million that is allocable to Trust properties to be charged as an excess cost to the Trust, but estimate it to be approximately $14.6 million net to the Trust.
The Oklahoma conveyance is already currently subject to excess costs that will need to be recovered prior to any distribution to unitholders. Therefore, the reduction in the Trust's share of net proceeds from the portion of the settlement amount the Panel has ruled may be charged against the Oklahoma conveyance would result in additional excess costs under the Oklahoma conveyance that would likely result in no distributions under the Oklahoma conveyance while these additional excess costs are recovered. This award completes the portion of the arbitration related to the Chieftain settlement.
Other Trustee claims related to disputed amounts on the computation of the Trust's net proceeds for 2014 through 2016 were bifurcated from the initial arbitration and will be heard at a later date, which is still to be determined should the arbitration proceed. Pursuant to the purchase and sale agreement entered into between the Trustee and XTO Energy, the parties have agreed to stay the arbitration from the date of execution of the purchase and sale agreement to the earlier of the termination of the purchase and sale agreement or closing date of the sale of assets. The Panel has stayed proceedings.
For more information on the Trust, please visit our website at www.hgt-hugoton.com.
Statements made in this press release regarding future events or conditions are forward looking statements. Actual future results, including closing of the sale, development costs and future net profits, could differ materially due to the ability to obtain unitholder or court approval of the sale, changes in natural gas prices and other economic conditions affecting the gas industry and other factors described in Part I, Item 1A of the Trust's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
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What makes humans different from other species? To environmental engineer and Santa Clara University professor Stephanie Hughes, it's the fact that we produce things that can't be used again in nature. We break the cycle. Professor Hughes doesn't even like to use the word, "waste."
"I'm not very pleased with that terminology because really, humans are the only ones that have waste streams," Hughes says. "In the rest of the world, this planet operates cyclically: waste from one animal becomes nutrients for another."
For many Americans, throwing something away means that it's gone forever. But Professor Hughes wants students to learn that this is not always the case. Hughes has taken her students to tour a paper recycling plant, sewage treatment plant and household hazardous waste facility.
By training, Hughes is a chemical and environmental engineer with a particular love for sewage. She's known for cruising around campus on her bike and lending her worms to students she's inspired to start composting.
"I was kind of like a worm dealer," says Gabby Farrer, a recent grad and former Teaching Assistant. "Stephanie was giving me the worms, and I was giving them to my friends for their compost bins."
For Farrer, studying environmental science came with a side of deep existential dread. After spending the first few post-grad months applying for jobs, she now works at the California Academy of Sciences. Each day, she thinks about the future of the planet. She tries her best to live sustainably, but doesn't think we can compost our way out of this.
While the U.S. is four percent of the global population, it accounts for 12% of all trash produced worldwide, according to a 2021 report from the advocacy organization Environment America.
"That is unfair to everybody because we send our trash overseas a lot of times, especially our recyclables."
Before going to college, Farrer used to bring certain types of recycling to her high school, because she knew that not all types could be recycled at home. In taking Garbology, she learned that the system didn't work as well as she thought it did.
Plastic is hard to recycle because there are so many different types, and many of them can't be melted together. Paper can only be recycled five to seven times, according to the EPA.
"In the past I viewed it a lot as an individual effort and everybody should be doing their part," Farrer says. "And then, learning more, I realized that the best thing that I could be doing is probably making less trash. I feel hopeless at times. I feel sad. I feel frustrated. Lost. Definitely angry, but sometimes hopeful."
Right now, our planet is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, as a large portion of distinct species are dying off. She thinks that even if humans wipe ourselves out, life will spring back. At least, that's what happened after the five previous mass extinctions.
"There is going to be life on this planet in the future. I just won't be here to see it thrive," Farrer says.
But before we just accept that as fate, things can be done in the here and now. At the individual level – people aren't great at recycling correctly. Professor Hughes has seen diapers, greasy pizza boxes and unrinsed yogurt cups in recycling bins. Most plastics, like those clamshells that berries come in, aren't even recyclable in many cities.
"All of this reduces the quality of the contents of those recycling bins," Hughes says. "And sometimes those just have to go right to trash."
Claire Parchem graduated from Santa Clara University in 2016 but still remembers a project where she found menstrual pads to be worse for the environment than tampons – due to the amount of materials they use. After taking the class, she was hooked on waste and got an internship with Waste Management. Today, she's a manager at startup AMP Robotics, which programs AI-driven robots that sort waste from recycling.
"It's like this triangle with a suction cup on it," says Parchem. "It moves almost like a spider. It's so quick in how it attacks the recycling and puts it into the different boxes."
Despite the temptation to be pessimistic about the future of the environment, students say that Professor Hughes keeps things exciting and positive.
"It feels like a mountain of dread," says Oli Branham-Upton, a junior who took Garbology in 2022. "But I think classes like this, that are specific enough to cover a certain dimension of stuff that we can control within the climate crisis, are important."
After graduating, Branham-Upton hopes to work at the intersection of racial and environmental justice.
"By the end of the course, I want students to be uplifted," Hughes says. "I want them to know that there are visions out there to move us towards a cyclical society."
This story was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. contributed to this story
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation's strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas law that was passed last year. The law takes effect immediately upon Stitt's signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions. Abortion providers have said they will stop performing the procedure as soon as the bill is signed.
"I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk and I am proud to keep that promise today," the first-term Republican said in a statement. "From the moment life begins at conception is when we have a responsibility as human beings to do everything we can to protect that baby's life and the life of the mother. That is what I believe and that is what the majority of Oklahomans believe."
Abortion providers across the country have been bracing for the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court's new conservative majority might further restrict the practice, and that has especially been the case in Oklahoma and Texas.
"The impact will be disastrous for Oklahomans," said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the abortion-rights supporting Guttmacher Institute. "It will also have severe ripple effects, especially for Texas patients who had been traveling to Oklahoma in large numbers after the Texas six-week abortion ban went into effect in September."
The bills are part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states to scale back abortion rights. It comes on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the nation's high court that suggests justices are considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nearly 50 years ago.
The only exceptions in the Oklahoma law are to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.
The bill specifically authorizes doctors to remove a "dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion," or miscarriage, or to remove an ectopic pregnancy, a potentially life-threatening emergency that occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube and early in pregnancy.
The law also does not apply to the use of morning-after pills such as Plan B or any type of contraception.
Two of Oklahoma's four abortion clinics already stopped providing abortions after the governor signed a six-week ban earlier this month.
With the state's two remaining abortion clinics expected to stop offering services, it is unclear what will happen to women who qualify under one of the exceptions. The law's author, State Rep. Wendi Stearman, says doctors will be empowered to decide which women qualify and that those abortions will be performed in hospitals. But providers and abortion-rights activists warn that trying to prove qualification could prove difficult and even dangerous in some circumstances.
In addition to the Texas-style bill already signed into law, the measure is one of at least three anti-abortion bills sent this year to Stitt.
Oklahoma's law is styled after a first-of-its-kind Texas law that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in place that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion. Other Republican-led states sought to copy Texas' ban. Idaho's governor signed the first copycat measure in March, although it has been temporarily blocked by the state's Supreme Court
The third Oklahoma bill is to take effect this summer and would make it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That bill contains no exceptions for rape or incest.
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USWNT beats Canada 1-0 in 2022 CONCACAF W Final originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
The U.S. Women’s National Team are champions of CONCACAF once again.
After a narrow encounter against Canada in the final, the USWNT pulled off a 1-0 victory thanks to Alex Morgan’s penalty kick to win the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship on Monday.
Here is Morgan’s cool, calm and collected penalty conversion that eventually served as the game-winner:
The U.S. got off to a hot start early. Within 42 seconds, forward Mallory Pugh had a shot from the right side of the penalty box denied. Just a few minutes later, Morgan nearly finessed a shot into the right corner from the left side of the penalty box.
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In total, the USWNT had six golden opportunities to open the bank account in the first half, but couldn’t finish off plays despite excellent build-up work.
Perhaps the best chance came right before the end of the first half when Sophia Smith had a one-on-one moment against Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan, who had made some brilliant saves throughout the opening 45 minutes.
Right-back Sofia Huerta delivered a cross from the right wing that was deflected and fell onto Smith’s lap, but Sheridan was quick to react on the initial shot and the follow-up deflection:
Smith had another crucial chance in the 64th minute when she broke through in the final third after a beautiful through ball split two defenders, but her work to get around the goalkeeper resulted in nothing after steering the shot wide of the open net:
After Morgan’s penalty, her first attempt for the USWNT in the last four years, it was Canada that started to generate momentum, as expected with the game on the line. Ashley Lawrence and Jordyn Huitema both had moments where they could’ve tied the game, but both attempts went over the crossbar.
In the end, the USWNT continued its streak of not allowing a goal in CONCACAF since 2010. And with the victory, the U.S. punched its ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics after already qualifying for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
Just before this contest, Jamaica beat Costa Rica 1-0 in the third-place game. Jamaica will now play Canada in September 2023 for a spot in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The USWNT has won the tournament five times under the CONCACAF W Championship branding, with four of those wins coming against Canada. It has won the tournament three years in a row (2014, 2018).
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Significant Growth and Premier Returns Under Current Board and Management Show that Shareholders Should Look to the Future, Not the Past
IAA is Right Next Step in Ritchie Bros.' Value Creating Transformation Strategy
VANCOUVER, BC, March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) ("Ritchie Bros.") today issued the following statement related to the acquisition of IAA, Inc. (NYSE: IAA) ("IAA"):
The substantial value created under Ritchie Bros.' current Board of Directors and management team shows that shareholders should look to the future, not the past.
We have great respect for Mr. Ritchie as a co-founder of the Company. However, he retired from the Company nearly 20 years ago. Mr. Cmolik's history with the Company is similarly dated.
Ritchie Bros. is very different from the small family-run traditional auction business that Mr. Ritchie co-founded in Kelowna, British Columbia in 1958. Under the current Board and management team, the Company has evolved, including through M&A, from physical auctions to embrace technology and digitization. Ritchie Bros. today is a trusted global marketplace for value-added insights, services and transaction solutions. As a result, Ritchie Bros. is no longer a stagnant business with little to no growth. Instead, under current leadership, Ritchie Bros. is now delivering record growth and premier shareholder returns year-after-year.
The IAA acquisition was carefully considered and thoroughly due diligenced. It is the right next step to accelerate Ritchie Bros.' transformation into a global, multi-vertical, digital marketplace with a long runway for continued outstanding profitable growth and significant, sustainable value creation.
We've heard from many customers at both Ritchie Bros. and IAA who share our enthusiasm about the Ritchie Bros. + IAA combination and the services, capabilities and reach we can offer together. We look forward to continuing our record of execution and delivering outstanding value for shareholders, employees and customers alike. Integration planning is well underway with dedicated teams, oversight and structure to support a seamless execution. We are ready to hit the ground running once the transaction closes.
We could not be more excited about our future with IAA.
Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks and other assets. Operating in a number of sectors, including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, mining, and forestry, the company's selling channels include: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer offering live auction events with online bidding; IronPlanet, an online marketplace with weekly featured auctions and providing the exclusive IronClad Assurance(R) equipment condition certification; Marketplace-E, a controlled marketplace offering multiple price and timing options; Ritchie List, a self-serve listing service for North America; Mascus, a leading European online equipment listing service; Ritchie Bros. Private Treaty, offering privately negotiated sales; and sector-specific solutions GovPlanet, TruckPlanet, and Ritchie Bros. Energy. The company's suite of solutions also includes Ritchie Bros. Asset Solutions and Rouse Services LLC, which together provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers' management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; plus equipment financing and leasing through Ritchie Bros. Financial Services. For more information about Ritchie Bros., visit RitchieBros.com.
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It is uncertain whether any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do, what impact they will have on the results of operations and financial condition of the combined companies or the price of RBA's common shares or IAA's common stock. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on any such statements and caution must be exercised in relying on forward-looking statements. While RBA's and IAA's management believe the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, these forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the parties' control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: the possibility that shareholders of RBA may not approve the issuance of new common shares of RBA in the Merger or that stockholders of IAA may not approve the adoption of the merger agreement; the risk that a condition to closing of the proposed Merger may not be satisfied (or waived), that either party may terminate the merger agreement or that the closing of the proposed Merger might be delayed or not occur at all; the anticipated tax treatment of the proposed Merger; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships, including those resulting from the announcement or completion of the proposed Merger; the diversion of management time on transaction-related issues; the response of competitors to the proposed Merger; the ultimate difficulty, timing, cost and results of integrating the operations of RBA and IAA; the effects of the business combination of RBA and IAA, including the combined company's future financial condition, results of operations, strategy and plans; the failure (or delay) to receive the required regulatory approval of the transaction; the fact that operating costs and business disruption may be greater than expected following the public announcement or consummation of the proposed Merger; the effect of the announcement, pendency or consummation of the proposed Merger on the trading price of RBA's common shares or IAA's common stock; the ability of RBA and/or IAA to retain and hire key personnel and employees; the significant costs associated with the proposed Merger; the outcome of any legal proceedings that could be instituted against RBA, IAA and/or others relating to the proposed Merger; restrictions during the pendency of the proposed Merger that may impact the ability of RBA and/or IAA to pursue non-ordinary course transactions, including certain business opportunities or strategic transactions; the ability of the combined company to realize anticipated synergies in the amount, manner or timeframe expected or at all; the failure of the combined company to realize potential revenue, EBITDA, growth, operational enhancement, expansion or other value creation opportunities from the sources or in the amount, manner or timeframe expected or at all; the failure of the trading multiple of the combined company to normalize or re-rate and other fluctuations in such trading multiple; changes in capital markets and the ability of the combined company to generate cash flow and/or finance operations in the manner expected or to de-lever in the timeframe expected; the failure of RBA or the combined company to meet financial forecasts and/or KPI targets; any legal impediment to the payment of the special dividend by RBA; legislative, regulatory and economic developments affecting the business of RBA and IAA; general economic and market developments and conditions; the evolving legal, regulatory and tax regimes under which RBA and IAA operates; unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, pandemics, acts of terrorism or outbreak of war or hostilities, as well as RBA's or IAA's response to any of the aforementioned factors. These risks, as well as other risks related to the proposed Merger, are included in the Registration Statement (as defined below) and joint proxy statement/prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities in connection with the proposed Merger. While the list of factors presented here is, and the list of factors presented in the Registration Statement are, considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties.
For additional information about other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, please refer to RBA's and IAA's respective periodic reports and other filings with the SEC and/or applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities, including the risk factors identified in RBA's most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K and IAA's most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K. The forward-looking statements included in this communication are made only as of the date hereof. Neither RBA nor IAA undertakes any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, new information, future events, changes in its expectations or other circumstances that exist after the date as of which the forward-looking statements were made, except as required by law.
This communication is not intended to and shall not constitute an offer to buy or sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, such registration requirements.
In connection with the proposed Merger, RBA filed with the SEC and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities a registration statement on Form S-4 to register the common shares of RBA to be issued in connection with the proposed Merger on December 14, 2022 (the "Initial Registration Statement"), as amended by Amendment No. 1 and Amendment No. 2 to the Initial Registration Statement filed with the SEC and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on February 1, 2023 and February 9, 2023, respectively (together with the Initial Registration Statement, the "Registration Statement"). The Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on February 10, 2023. The Registration Statement includes a joint proxy statement/prospectus which will be sent to the shareholders of RBA and stockholders of IAA seeking their approval of their respective transaction-related proposals. Each of RBA and IAA may also file other relevant documents with the SEC and/or applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities regarding the proposed Merger. This document is not a substitute for the proxy statement/prospectus or Registration Statement or any other document that RBA or IAA may file with the SEC and/or applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-4 AND THE RELATED JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, AS WELL AS ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THOSE DOCUMENTS AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC AND APPLICABLE CANADIAN SECURITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE MERGER OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT RBA, IAA AND THE MERGER.
Investors and security holders may obtain copies of these documents (when they are available) free of charge through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov, SEDAR at www.sedar.com or from RBA at its website, investor.ritchiebros.com, or from IAA at its website, investors.iaai.com. Documents filed with the SEC and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities by RBA (when they are available) will be available free of charge by accessing RBA's website at investor.ritchiebros.com under the heading Financials/SEC Filings, or, alternatively, by directing a request by telephone or mail to RBA at 9500 Glenlyon Parkway, Burnaby, BC, V5J 0C6, Canada, and documents filed with the SEC by IAA (when they are available) will be available free of charge by accessing IAA's website at investors.iaai.com or by contacting IAA's Investor Relations at investors@iaai.com.
RBA and IAA, certain of their respective directors and executive officers and other members of management and employees, and Jeffrey C. Smith and potentially other employees of Starboard Value LP and certain of its affiliates, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of RBA and IAA in respect of the proposed Merger under the rules of the SEC. Information about RBA's directors and executive officers is available in RBA's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for its 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed with the SEC and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on March 15, 2022, and certain of its Current Reports on Form 8-K. Information about IAA's directors and executive officers is available in IAA's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on May 2, 2022, and certain of its Current Reports on Form 8-K. Other information regarding persons who may be deemed participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, including information with respect to Mr. Smith, are contained or will be contained in the joint proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials filed or to be filed with the SEC and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities regarding the proposed Merger when they become available. Investors should read the joint proxy statement/prospectus carefully before making any voting or investment decisions. You may obtain free copies of these documents from RBA or IAA free of charge using the sources indicated above.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto’s Michael Bunting has been suspended three games for a head shot on Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak in the teams’ first-round series opener.
Bunting will now miss Games 2, 3 and 4. The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced the suspension Wednesday after a phone hearing with Bunting to discuss the play.
Bunting was given a match penalty and ejected from Game 1 for an illegal check to the head late in the second period. Cernak left and did not return.
Veteran Maple Leafs defenseman Mark Giordano said Bunting did not intend to injure Cernak.
“I think (Bunting’s) thinking both guys are going to sort of engage shoulder-to-shoulder, but unfortunately their guy wasn’t really in that mode of engaging, and he got hit,” Giordano said Wednesday after practice in Toronto, before the suspension was announced.
“I don’t think Bunts really even looked at him. I think it was just one of those plays where you know who you’re playing against, and the guy knows he’s going to come at you hard. He was trying to just go shoulder-to-shoulder, get some separation, and it ended up in that.”
Coach Jon Cooper generally deferred to the league when asked about Bunting’s hit Tuesday night but said it “checks all the boxes” for supplemental discipline.
Cernak was one of three Lightning players to leave with an injury and along with forward Michael Eyssimont won’t play in Game 2 Thursday night in Toronto. Cooper said top defenseman Victor Hedman was questionable to play.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Scores of Somalis fleeing violence in Sudan arrived in their Horn of Africa nation on Sunday, an official said.
Some 148 Somali nationals, mostly students, arrived by plane in the capital Mogadishu, said Abdurahman Nur Mohamed Diinaari, a top official with the Somali foreign ministry.
“Through the assistance of the International Organization for Migration, Somalia’s foreign ministry has finally been able to relocate 148 Somalis from Sudan to Somalia today,” he said.
The Somalis had traveled by land from Sudan to Ethiopia and then onward by air to Somalia. Forty-five of those who arrived Sunday were later transported to Garowe, the administrative capital of the Somali state of Puntland, Diinaari said.
Somalia itself has been plagued by violence for years. The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which opposes the federal government, frequently launches deadly attacks in Mogadishu and other parts of the country.
One of the Somalis evacuated on Sunday said in an interview that she was happy to be alive and back in her country.
“I am pleased that I have finally arrived in my country. However, what we have been through is unusual and hard to describe, but I am grateful for the opportunity to survive,” Ramlo Mohamed, one of the evacuees, told AP. “I pray in the meantime for God to assist our Muslim brothers in Sudan in alleviating their plight.”
There were an estimated 7,000 Somali nationals in Sudan before violence broke out earlier this month, most of them attending universities there. Others are business people and migrants hoping to reach Europe, according to Ewa Naqvi, deputy chief of mission of the U.N. migration agency.
The fighting in Sudan pits the army chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, against Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. Some of the deadliest battles have raged across Khartoum, the capital.
Ordinary Sudanese have been caught in the crossfire. Tens of thousands have fled to neighboring countries, including Chad and Egypt, while others remain pinned down with dwindling supplies. Thousands of foreigners have been evacuated in airlifts and land convoys.
The Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate, which monitors casualties in the violence, said Sunday that over the past two weeks 425 civilians were killed and 2,091 wounded. The Sudanese Health Ministry on Saturday put the overall death toll, including fighters, at 528, with 4,500 wounded. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/official-148-somalis-evacuated-from-sudan-via-ethiopia/ | 2023-05-01 01:29:40 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/official-148-somalis-evacuated-from-sudan-via-ethiopia/ |
Oduro leads George Mason past Davidson 67-65
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Josh Oduro led George Mason with 22 points and sealed the victory with a free throw with 13 seconds left as the Patriots took down Davidson 67-65 on Saturday.
Oduro added nine rebounds and five assists for the Patriots (11-7, 3-2 Atlantic 10 Conference). Malik Henry scored 12 points and added six rebounds. De’Von Cooper added 10 points.
Grant Huffman led the way for the Wildcats (9-9, 2-4) with 16 points, seven rebounds, six assists and four steals. Davidson also got 16 points from Foster Loyer and 13 from Sam Mennenga.
George Mason trailed 36-31 at halftime. Oduro scored a team-high 16 points to lead the Patriots’ second-half rally.
George Mason plays Monday against George Washington at home. Davidson visits Dayton on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When an increasingly fractious committee of Federal Reserve policymakers meets next week, Chair Jerome Powell will need to forge a consensus.
One group of Fed officials would like to pause their relentless campaign of rate increases after 10 straight hikes to allow time to look around and assess whether higher borrowing rates are slowing inflation.
But a second group worries that inflation is still too high and thinks the Fed should continue hiking at least once or twice more — beginning next week.
So how will Powell achieve an accord between the two?
By turning what might normally be considered a “pause” into a “skip.” Whereas a “pause” might suggest that the Fed won’t necessarily raise its benchmark rate again, a “skip” implies that it probably will — just not now. When Powell speaks at a news conference next week, he will likely make clear that the Fed's key rate — which has elevated the costs of mortgages, auto loans, credit card and business borrowing — may go even higher.
One way the Fed may signal the likelihood of a future rate hike could come in the quarterly economic projections the policymakers will issue. The projections may show that the officials expect their key rate to rise a quarter-point by year’s end — to about 5.4%, above their estimate in March. This would illustrate their belief that next week's rate decision isn't so much a pause as a skip.
“That’s probably the only way to keep the committee cohesive in an environment where they have seem to have somewhat broadening disagreements,” said Matthew Luzzetti, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities.
For more than a year, the Fed's 18-member rate-setting committee has presented a united front: The officials were nearly unanimous in their support for rapid rate hikes to throttle a burst of inflation that had leapt to the highest level in four decades. (The committee has 19 members at full strength; one spot is now vacant.)
The Fed raised its rate by a substantial 5 percentage points in 14 months — the fastest pace of increases in 40 years, to a 16-year high. The policymakers hope that the resulting tighter credit will slow spending, cool the economy and curb inflation.
Yet several Fed officials contend that rates are already high enough to slow hiring and growth and that if they go much higher, they could cause a deep recession. This concern has left policymakers deeply divided about their next steps.
One camp is more “dovish,” meaning it leans against another rate increase. The doves, who include Powell and other top officials, think it takes a year or more for rate hikes to deliver their full effect and that the Fed should stop hiking, at least temporarily, to evaluate the impact so far.
The more dovish officials also worry that this spring's banking turmoil, with three large banks collapsing in two months, might have compounded the brake on economic growth by causing other banks to restrict lending. Raising rates again too soon, they feel, could excessively weaken the economy.
The doves also think that pausing rate hikes to ensure that the Fed doesn't go too far might help achieve the tantalizing prospect of a “soft landing.” This is the hoped-for scenario in which the Fed would manage to tame inflation without causing a recession, or at least not a very deep one.
“Maybe the majority of the tightening impact of what the Fed already did is still to come,” Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said last month. “And then you add the bank stresses on top of it. ... We have got to take that into account.”
Another group expresses a more "hawkish" view, meaning it favors further rate increases. Although food and gas prices have come down, overall inflation remains chronically high, hiring remains hot and consumers are still stepping up their spending — trends that could keep prices high.
And some of the reasons Fed officials had previously cited in support of a pause no longer pose a threat. Congress, for example, approved a suspension of the federal debt ceiling, thereby avoiding a U.S. default that could have caused a global economic meltdown.
“I don’t really see a compelling reason to pause — meaning wait until you get more evidence to decide what to do,” Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Fed, said last month in an interview with the Financial Times. “I would see more of a compelling case for bringing (rates) up."
For now, the doves appear to have the upper hand. Powell signaled his support for a pause in carefully prepared remarks May 19.
“Given how far we’ve come, we can afford to look at the data and the evolving outlook and make careful assessments,” Powell said, referring to the Fed's streak of rate hikes.
More recently, Philip Jefferson, whom President Joe Biden has nominated to serve as vice chair of the Fed, also expressed support for a pause in rate hikes while making clear that it was likely to be a skip.
"A decision to hold our rate constant at a coming meeting should not be interpreted to mean that we have reached the peak rate for this cycle,” Jefferson said in a speech. “Skipping a rate hike at a coming meeting would allow (the Fed's policymakers) to see more data before making decisions” about interest rates.
In March, seven Fed officials indicated that they preferred to raise the Fed's key rate to about 5.4% or higher by the end of 2023. If three more policymakers were to raise their projections next week to that level, that would be enough to boost the median estimate a quarter-point above where it is now.
If only two officials raise their forecasts for rate hikes, it would leave the committee evenly split over whether to hike again later this year. This could create a more muddled message about what comes next.
Still, any skip in rate hikes might not last long. There won't be much major economic data released between next week's Fed meeting and the next one in July — just one more jobs report and one more inflation report.
As a result, inflation will likely still remain high, according to the most recent data, when the Fed meets in July, with hiring still strong. The hawks may well prevail at that session and win another rate hike.
A report on inflation in May will be issued on Tuesday, the first day of the Fed's two-day meeting. But most economists think the officials will largely have their rate decision in mind by then. So the inflation report for May will likely have more influence on what happens at the following Fed meeting in July. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/is-it-a-skip-or-a-pause-federal-reserve-wont-likely-raise-rates-next-week-but-maybe-next-month/KELQ3PNF6FAVFMLHMI4ATZMMJA/ | 2023-06-07 10:14:13 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/is-it-a-skip-or-a-pause-federal-reserve-wont-likely-raise-rates-next-week-but-maybe-next-month/KELQ3PNF6FAVFMLHMI4ATZMMJA/ |
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed human rights advocate says hundreds of boys — some as young as 11 — held in detention camps run by U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria have been wrongly separated from their mothers on the “unproven” belief that they pose a security risk.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, an independent U.N. rapporteur on the protection of rights while countering terrorism, aired concerns Friday about lingering “mass arbitrary detention” in the infamous al-Hol camp and others like it that she saw during her trip to the region this week — billed as the first visit of its kind by an independent human rights expert.
For years, human rights advocates have been calling on foreign countries — in Europe, north Africa and beyond — to repatriate their nationals from the camps housing family members of Islamic State group militants, especially children who were not involved in the atrocities carried out by the extremist group.
The group rose to power amid an uprising-turned-civil war that erupted 12 years ago and has left hundreds of thousands dead. At one point the militants controlled large swaths of Syria and Iraq, but Kurdish forces backed by an international anti-IS coalition, as well as Iraqi and Syrian government troops, recaptured that territory by 2019.
Ni Aolain said her team’s experts have calculated that since 2019, some 7,000 people have been repatriated by some 36 countries — more than three-quarters of them women and children.
But tens of thousands of others remain left behind in the detention centers — and no immediate sign of getting out, let alone traveling to the countries that they or their families came from.
Fearing that a new generation of militants will emerge from al-Hol Camp, the Kurdish officials who govern eastern and northern Syria have been experimenting with a rehabilitation program aimed at pulling children out of extremist thought — by removing them from their families and whisking them away for training in tolerance and other education.
The Kurdish officials fear that kids who grow up in the camp could give rise to a new generation of violent extremists.
Ni Aolain lashed out at the use of “dehumanization language” against so-called “Cubs of the Caliphate” — a reference to children from areas formerly under Islamic State control — “to describe 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds born on this territory by no choice of their own.”
Ni Aolain said conditions were “dire” in al-Hol, which she said was currently home to more than 49,000 people. She expressed concerns about security, access to health care, and “scarcity of water” in camps where temperatures rose to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) and tents were providing shelter.
“The second issue I want to highlight is the separation of hundreds of adolescent boys from their mothers without any legal procedure, in what I describe as ‘summary separation’ based on an unproven security risk that male children pose upon reaching the age of adolescence,” Ni Aolain said.
“Every single woman I spoke to made clear that it was the snatching of the children that provided the most anxiety, the most suffering, the most psychological harm,” she said, alluding to the ”distress” felt by many of the boys.
“The taking of these boys may in itself constitute a disappearance practice under international law, which is in direct contravention of multiple human rights obligations,” said Ni Aolain, who is faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School. | https://www.kark.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-un-expert-decries-the-practice-of-taking-boys-from-their-mothers-at-detention-camps-in-syria/ | 2023-07-21 21:25:42 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-un-expert-decries-the-practice-of-taking-boys-from-their-mothers-at-detention-camps-in-syria/ |
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Fate of 2,500 Ukrainian POWs from steel plant stirs concern
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) - With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals.
Russia has declared its full control of the Azovstal steel plant, which for weeks was the last holdout in Mariupol and a symbol of Ukrainian tenacity in the strategic port city, now in ruins with more than 20,000 residents feared dead. The seizure gives Russian President Vladimir Putin a badly wanted victory in the war he began nearly three months ago.
As the West rallies behind Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit and will address the country’s parliament on Sunday, his office said.
Poland, which has welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war, is a strong supporter of Ukraine’s desire to join the European Union. With Russia blocking Ukraine’s sea ports, Poland has become a major gateway for Western humanitarian aid and weapons going into Ukraine and has been helping Ukraine get its grain and other agricultural products to world markets.
The Russian Defense Ministry released video of Ukrainian soldiers being detained after announcing that its forces had removed the last holdouts from the Mariupol plant’s extensive underground tunnels. It said a total of 2,439 had surrendered.
Family members of the fighters, who came from a variety of military and law enforcement units, have pleaded for them to be given rights as prisoners of war and eventually returned to Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday that Ukraine “will fight for the return” of every one of them.
Denis Pushilin, the pro-Kremlin head of an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, said the captured fighters included some foreign nationals, though he did not provide details. He said they were sure to face a tribunal. Russian officials and state media have sought to characterize the fighters as neo-Nazis and criminals.
“I believe that justice must be restored. There is a request for this from ordinary people, society, and, probably, the sane part of the world community,” Russian state news agency Tass quoted Pushilin as saying.
Among the defenders were members of the Azov Regiment, whose far-right origins have been seized on by the Kremlin as part of its effort to cast the invasion as a battle against Nazi influence in Ukraine.
A prominent member of Russia’s parliament, Leonid Slutsky, said Moscow was studying the possibility of exchanging the Azovstal fighters for Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian with close ties to Putin who faces criminal charges in Ukraine, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. Slutsky later walked back those remarks, saying he agreed with Pushilin that their fate should be decided by a tribunal.
The Ukrainian government has not commented on Russia’s claim of capturing Azovstal. Ukraine’s military had told the fighters their mission was complete and they could come out. It described their extraction as an evacuation, not a mass surrender.
The capture of Mariupol furthers Russia’s quest to create a land bridge from Russia stretching through the Donbas region to the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.
The impact on the broader war remained unclear. Many Russian troops already had been redeployed from Mariupol to elsewhere in the conflict.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported Saturday that Russia destroyed a Ukrainian special-operations base near Odesa, Ukraine’s main Black Sea port, as well as a significant cache of Western-supplied weapons in northern Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region. There was no confirmation from the Ukrainian side.
The Ukrainian military reported heavy fighting in much of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
“The situation in Donbas is extremely difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation. “As in previous days, the Russian army is trying to attack Sloviansk and Sievierodonetsk.” He said Ukrainian forces are holding off the offensive “every day.”
Sievierodonetsk is the main city under Ukrainian control in the Luhansk region, which together with the Donetsk region makes up the Donbas. Gov. Serhii Haidai said the only functioning hospital in the city has just three doctors and supplies for 10 days.
On Sunday, the British Ministry of Defense said Russia’s only operational company of BMP-T Terminator tank support vehicles, which are designed to protect main battle tanks, “has likely been deployed to the Sievierodonetsk axis of the Donbas offensive.” It said, however, with a maximum of 10 of the vehicles deployed, “they are unlikely to have a significant impact on the campaign.”
Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region, is critical to Russia’s objective of capturing all of eastern Ukraine and saw fierce fighting last month after Moscow’s troops backed off from Kyiv. Russian shelling on Saturday killed seven civilians and injured 10 more elsewhere in the region, the governor said.
A monastery in the Donetsk region village of Bohorodichne was evacuated after being hit by a Russian airstrike, the regional police said Saturday. About 100 monks, nuns and children had been seeking safe shelter in the basement of the church and no one was hurt, the police said in a Facebook post, which included a video showing extensive damage to the monastery as well as nuns, monks and children boarding vans on Friday for the evacuation.
Zelenskyy on Saturday emphasized that the Donbas remains part of Ukraine and his forces were fighting to liberate it.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, he pressed Western countries for multiple-launch rocket systems, which he said “just stand still” in other countries yet are key to Ukraine’s success.
Portugal and Poland, where Costa stopped for talks before traveling on to Kyiv, support bringing Ukraine into the European Union quickly, even if some other EU members balk at granting it speedy access.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed off Saturday on a fresh, $40 billion infusion of aid for Ukraine, with half for military assistance. Portugal pledged up to 250 million euros, as well as continued shipments of military equipment.
Mariupol, which is part of the Donbas, was blockaded early in the war and became a frightening example to people elsewhere in the country of the hunger, terror and death they might face if the Russians surrounded their communities.
The seaside steelworks, occupying some 11 square kilometers (4 square miles), were a battleground for weeks. Drawing Russian airstrikes, artillery and tank fire, the dwindling group of outgunned Ukrainian fighters held out with the help of airdrops that Zelenskyy said cost the lives of many “absolutely heroic” helicopter pilots.
The Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday released video of Russian troops taking into custody Serhiy Volynskyy, the commander of the Ukrainian Navy’s 36th Special Marine Brigade, which was one of the main forces defending the steel plant. The Associated Press has not been able to independently verify the date, location and conditions of the video.
With Russia controlling the city, Ukrainian authorities are likely to face delays in documenting evidence of alleged Russian atrocities in Mariupol, including the bombings of a maternity hospital and a theater where hundreds of civilians had taken cover. Satellite images in April showed what appeared to be mass graves just outside Mariupol, where local officials accused Russia of concealing the slaughter by burying up to 9,000 civilians.
An estimated 100,000 of the 450,000 people who resided in Mariupol before the war remain. Many, trapped by Russia’s siege, were left without food, water and electricity.
The Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol warned Saturday the city is facing a health and sanitation “catastrophe” from mass burials in shallow pits across the ruined city as well as the breakdown of sewage systems. Vadim Boychenko said summer rains threaten to contaminate water sources as he pressed Russian forces to allow residents to safely leave the city.
“In addition to the humanitarian catastrophe created by the (Russian) occupiers and collaborators, the city is on the verge of an outbreak of infectious diseases,” he said on the messaging app Telegram.
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McQuillan reported from Lviv. Stashevskyi reported from Kyiv. Associated Press journalists Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Frances D’Emilio in Rome, and other AP staffers around the world contributed.
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Troubled trucking company Yellow Corp. is shutting down and filing for bankruptcy, the Teamsters said Monday.
Yellow is one of the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers. The 99-year-old Nashville, Tennessee-based company had 30,000 employees across the country as of earlier this year.
An official bankruptcy filing is expected any day for Yellow, after years of financial struggles and growing debt. Its expected liquidation would mark a significant shift for the U.S. transportation industry and shippers nationwide.
“Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising. Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien.
The Associated Press reached out to Yellow for comment on Monday. No bankruptcy filings were found as of the early morning.
The company’s collapse arrives just three years after Yellow, formerly known as YRC Worldwide, Inc., received $700 million in pandemic-era loans from the federal government. But the company was in financial trouble long before that—with industry analysts pointing to poor management and strategic decisions dating back decades.
Former Yellow customers and shippers will face higher prices as they take their business to competitors, including FedEx or ABF Freight, experts say—noting that Yellow historically offered the cheapest price points in the industry.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal and FreightWaves reported that Yellow was preparing for bankruptcy — with some noting that customers had already started to leave the carrier in large numbers. And the company reportedly stopped freight pickups earlier in the week.
Yellow shut down operations on Sunday, according to The Wall Street Journal, following the layoffs of hundreds of nonunion employees on Friday.
The bankruptcy preparation reports arrived just days after Yellow averted a strike from the Teamsters, which represents Yellow’s 22,000 unionized workers, amid heated contract negotiations. On July 23, a pension fund agreed to extend health benefits for workers at two Yellow Corp. operating companies, avoiding a planned walkout—and giving Yellow “30 days to pay its bills,” notably $50 million that Yellow failed to pay the Central States Health and Welfare Fund on July 15.
Yellow has racked up hefty bills over the years. As of late March, Yellow had an outstanding debt of about $1.5 billion. Of that, $729.2 million was owed to the federal government.
In 2020, under the Trump administration, the Treasury Department granted the company a $700 million pandemic-era loan on national security grounds. Last month, a congressional probe concluded that the Treasury and Defense departments “made missteps” in this decision—and noted that Yellow’s “precarious financial position at the time of the loan, and continued struggles, expose taxpayers to a significant risk of loss.”
The government loan is due in September 2024. As of March, Yellow had made $54.8 million in interest payments and repaid just $230 million of the principal owed, according to government documents.
The current financial chaos at Yellow “is probably two decades in the making,” said Stifel research director Bruce Chan, pointing to poor management and strategic decisions dating back to the early 2000s. “At this point, after each party has bailed them out so many times, there is a limited appetite to do that anymore.”
A Wednesday investors note from financial service firm Stephens estimated that Yellow was burning daily amount of $9 million to $10 million in recent days.
According to Satish Jindel, president of transportation and logistics firm SJ Consulting, Yellow handled an average of 49,000 shipments per day in 2022. On Friday, he estimated that number was down to between 10,000 and 15,000 daily shipments.
Yellow’s prices have historically been the cheapest compared to other carriers, Jindel said. “That’s why they obviously were not making money,” he added. “And while there is capacity with the other LTL carriers to handle the diversions from Yellow, it will come at a high price for (current shippers and customers) of Yellow.”
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Caleb Sharpe, who shot one classmate to death and wounded three others five years ago in a Washington state high school, apologized to his victims before he was sentenced Friday to at least 40 years in prison.
Sharpe, who was 15 at the time of the 2017 shootings, pleaded guilty early this year in Spokane County Superior Court. The 20-year-old Sharpe showed no emotion as Superior Court Judge Michael Price handed down a sentence that was twice what defense attorneys had requested.
After serving his sentence, Sharpe will have to go before a sentencing review board prior to his release, Price ruled. The board will evaluate Sharpe’s likelihood to reoffend and his level of rehabilitation.
He will get credit for the nearly five years he has already been in custody, the judge said.
After closing statements by attorneys for both sides, Sharpe made his first public comments since his arrest five years ago.
“I'm sorry to this entire community,” Sharpe said Friday. “I'm sorry to the people who can't sleep at night.”
Sharpe also directly apologized to his three wounded victims and to Ami Strahan, the mother of 15-year-old Sam Strahan, who died in the attack.
“Most of all I am sorry to Ami and Emily for taking Sam from them,” Sharpe said.
“Evil has no place in my heart,” Sharpe said. “I can never do enough penance to pay back what I have taken. I pray for forgiveness.”
On Thursday, Ami Strahan and the three wounded girls gave statements, all saying they wanted Sharpe to serve the maximum time in prison, which was 45 years.
Sharpe brought several weapons to school the morning of Sept. 13, 2017, and opened fire in a hallway, hitting four students before he was confronted and surrendered to a custodian.
After years of court delays, Sharpe pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder in January.
On Thursday, victims Emma Nees and Gracie Jensen described what happened the day Sharpe shot them on the second-floor hallway of their school.
“As I lay there, I watched you walk by me. Lockdown alarm blaring, wearing all black with the most emotionless face I’ve ever seen," Jensen said to Sharpe. "Shooting at my classmates as they run for their lives into classrooms. I screamed. There was nothing else I could do.”
“I started running and was so scared because I felt like I was running in slow motion,” Emma Nees said in her testimony. “My mission was to get to the nearest classroom as fast as possible. As I was running, I began thinking there’s absolutely no way I’m getting out of this.”
Ami Strahan said she was at work when friends came up to her desk and told her to get off the phone. They said there had been a shooting at Freeman High.
When she arrived at the school, she noticed she was being led to a different area than other parents: She was taken to the sheriff.
When she told Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich who she was, he just shook his head.
“I screamed twice, loud,” Strahan said. “And I fell down."
“You took my son in the worst way possible and you have zero remorse,” Strahan told Sharpe. “You ruined my life.”
She called Sharpe a “sick, evil coward.”
Brooke Foley, Sharpe’s public defender, earlier asked the judge for a sentence of 20 years, because of Sharpe's age and lack of maturity at the time of the shooting.
Deputy Prosecutor Sharon Hedlund agreed that Sharpe's sentence should be below the standard range, but urged Price to issue a 35-year sentence.
On the day of the shootings, Sharpe brought a duffel bag onto his school bus which contained an AR-15 rifle and handgun, along with numerous boxes of .223 ammunition.
At school Sharpe headed straight to a second-floor hallway, where he dropped the duffel bag and removed the assault rifle. He started to load the gun, which jammed.
As Sharpe struggled to load the weapon, Strahan approached him.
“I always knew you were going to shoot up the school,” Strahan told Sharpe, according to court documents. “You know that is going to get you in trouble.”
Sharpe then pulled the pistol from under his coat and fired a single shot, striking Strahan in the stomach. Strahan collapsed forward, at which point Sharpe shot him again, this time in the face.
Sharpe continued to walk down the hallway and shot and wounded the three girls.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Hye-Jin Choi shot a 5-under 66 to join fellow South Korean rookie Narin An atop the leaderboard Saturday in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.
Choi matched second-round leader An at 16-under 197 at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club. In July in Michigan, An and Choi teamed to finish sixth in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.
“Obviously, we’re both focusing on our individual play when we played together today, but I hope we both play well tomorrow and put up a good score,” Choi said.
An had a 68.
“In general, I didn’t like my play today as much as I did yesterday and two days ago,” An said. “But I think not making any big mistakes is a positive to take away.”
First-round leader Paula Reto of South Africa was a stroke back after a 67.
Third-ranked Nelly Korda (68) and Sarah Schmelzel (66) were 14 under. Korda is coming off her first victory of the year in the Aramco Series on the Ladies European Tour, where she rallied from seven shots back against sister Jessica.
“We always say this is like our sixth major,” Korda said. “The crowds are amazing. I feel like so many proud Canadians come out and support us. It’s a big event. It would be nice to be on that champion’s list.”
Maddie Szeryk was the top Canadian, shooting a 69 to get to 9 under.
Canadian star Brooke Henderson, the 2018 winner at Wascana in Regina, Saskatchewan, was tied for 60th at 3 under after a 73. | https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-south-korean-rookies-an-choi-lead-cp-womens-open/ | 2022-08-28 15:29:33 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-south-korean-rookies-an-choi-lead-cp-womens-open/ |
Preliminary hearing set for Marcus Spanevelo in Cassie Carli case
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A preliminary hearing has been set for Marcus Spanevelo, the man charged with abuse of a corpse in connection to the disappearance and death of Navarre, Fla., mom Cassie Carli.
According to Judge Furr’s Clerk, Spanevelo is expected in court on Dec. 6, 2022.
Investigators said Carli was found buried in a shallow grave inside of a barn in Alabama.
Carli was last seen alive on Sunday, March 27, when she met with her ex, Spanevelo, to swap custody of their child.
The final autopsy report lists both Carli’s cause of death and manner of death as “undetermined,” according to the St. Clair County Coroner’s Office.
Spanevelo is being held on no bond.
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SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Thousands of women living in rural, eastern Maryland have few options when they’re looking for someone to deliver their babies.
The local hospital doesn’t have an obstetrics doctor on staff so most women in this region, flanked by sprawling farm fields and antique stores, turn to the Chesapeake Health Care clinic.
Five of the 10 obstetricians and midwives at the clinic are there because of the National Health Service Corps, which promises to pay off $50,000 in medical school debt for every two years that a doctor serves working in rural, urban or poor areas.
“OB is frightfully difficult to recruit, and I’m not real sure exactly why,” said the clinic’s chief medical officer Dr. Lee Jennings. “We’re isolated, we’re in an area where we’re the only OB group in the entire area.”
Over the last three years, millions of taxpayer dollars were pumped into the National Health Service Corps to hire thousands more doctors and nurses willing to serve the country’s most desperate regions during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for forgiving medical school debts. Now, with the health emergency over, the program’s expansion is in jeopardy – even as people struggle to get timely and quality care because of an industry-wide dearth of workers.
Funding for the program expires at the end of September, although President Joe Biden asked Congress to sign off an extra half-billion dollar for the project in his budget.
The number of nurses, physician, dentists, counselors, and midwives has ballooned thanks to an extra $800 million the U.S. Congress kicked to the program in stimulus packages unveiled as coronavirus raged. Last year, just over 20,000 people were corps members – up 50% from 13,000 people in 2019.
The program has placed medical professionals across a variety of disciplines – from occupational therapists in Ohio to counselors who treat drug and alcohol addictions in Alaska – in community health centers around the country. Those clinics receive federal funding to provide primary care for patients, regardless of their health insurance status or ability to pay.
The program has found rare bipartisan support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers who say they’re grateful for the void corps members fill in rural and needy communities alike that are coping with shortages. The U.S. is short thousands of family doctors, OB-GYNs and nurses, a problem that is only expected to worsen over the next decade.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who oversees the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has made the issue a top talking point in hearings. Sanders said in his state, people have complained to him about waits as long as five months just to get a physical with a doctor.
The situation would worsen, he told The Associated Press, if corps funding is not renewed and increased.
“People are going to struggle to find a dentist, to find a mental health counselor,” Sanders said. “If it’s bad now, it’s only going to get worse.”
Last month, a group of House Republicans sponsored a bill that would continue funding for the corps program, but not give it the same cash infusion that Biden has requested.
“One of the most consistent issues I’ve heard in my district in Pennsylvania is the shortage of physician and health care workers,” Republican Rep. John Joyce, who introduced the bill, said during a congressional hearing on the health care worker shortage last month.
Still, the program’s future is hanging in the balance with a split Congress that’s just weeks away from allowing the U.S. to default on its debts. Uncertainty around funding for the program also makes it difficult for health clinics to recruit providers, said Carole Johnson, who heads up the federal Health Resources and Services Administration that oversees corps funding.
“We’re hopeful to continue to grow. We know there’s a net demand out there,” Johnson said. “All the conversations that we’ve had have been very positive; that doesn’t make it easy.”
One of the largest areas of growth for the program has been in mental health, with more than 2,000 additional counselors, social workers, psychologists, and substance abuse counselors being hired over the past four years.
At Chicago’s largest, around-the-clock treatment center, about eight of the Haymarket Center’s providers are corps members. The center sees roughly 12,000 patients every year, many of them homeless. The corps program allows the not-for-profit Haymarket Center to recruit health care workers in a competitive market with a different benefit: as much as $250,000 in student loan repayment, said Jeffrey Collord, the vice president of operations at the center.
“We might not be able to compensate staff at the highest levels so being able to be part of the program allows us to provide a benefit that other sites don’t have access to,” Collord said.
Student loan forgiveness allowed Dr. Stephen Robinson to be the family physician that he always hoped to be. He worried through medical school about the mountain of student loan debt that was piling up and watched as many of his classmates pursued more lucrative salaries as specialty doctors. But his dad researched alternatives and discovered the National Health Service Corps program.
“If more providers thought they could come out and still be able to pay off their debt, they’d go into primary services,” Robinson said. “This has allowed us to do that.”
His wife, Caitlin, is one of the coveted OB-GYNs that Chesapeake Health Care recruited through the program. Pregnant women drive as much as an hour to see her.
Both are now nearly debt-free after spending seven years in the program. But they don’t plan on leaving this small Maryland town anytime soon. The Robinsons love raising their children close to the shore, fresh air and parks.
“We have no plans on going anywhere, even though we’re done,” Stephen Robinson said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/federal-governments-1-billion-effort-to-recruit-next-generation-of-doctors-at-risk/ | 2023-05-13 07:51:17 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/federal-governments-1-billion-effort-to-recruit-next-generation-of-doctors-at-risk/ |
Which Sorel shoes are best?
Sorel shoes can help you brave Mother Nature’s worst with insulation for freezing conditions and waterproofing for wet weather. On less adventurous days, the brand’s casual and office-appropriate boots, sneakers and sandals have enhanced traction for slippery surfaces and cushioning for long hours on your feet.
The Women’s Out ‘N About III Classic Boots are a top pick because they come with comfortable footbeds, extreme traction outsoles and a seam-sealed waterproof design.
What to know before you buy Sorel shoes
What are Sorel shoes?
The Sorel brand launched in 1962 with a passion for high-quality all-weather footwear. While it prioritizes functionality over fashion, its boots, sneakers and sandals are effortlessly on-trend season after season.
Sorel shoes can help you stay warm and dry with thick insulation, seam-sealed waterproof materials and enhanced-traction outsoles. The brand’s ethylene-vinyl acetate foam footbeds keep you comfortable no matter where your adventuring takes you.
Casual Sorel shoes
Sorel’s casual shoes are designed for strolling in cities and beaches, hiking in the hills or trekking snow-covered mountains. They come in eight styles.
- Cork sandals: These breathable sandals give you height and shock-absorbent footbeds.
- Flat sandals: These slip-on and strappy designs have EVA foam footbeds with enhanced-traction outsoles.
- Sport sandals: These are lightweight with straps, extreme traction and foam footbeds for long days on your feet.
- Sneakers: These are built for comfort with traction outsoles and soft footbeds. Some designs are waterproof.
- Sneaker boots: Many of these practical boots are waterproof and insulated. Different styles can help you navigate heavy snow, rain or a day on your feet.
- Winter boots: These ultra-insulated styles keep you warm and dry as they give you traction in heavy snow, rain and slush.
- Rain boots: These have enhanced traction and are made with seam-sealed waterproof materials to keep the water out.
- Hiking boots: These comfortable boots give you support for rigorous terrain with slip-proof designs, flexible footbeds and waterproofing.
Work-appropriate Sorel shoes
Sorel’s dressier designs prioritize comfort, although many are non-slip and waterproof. The brand has six office-approved style.
- Chukka: These ankle boots and shoes are made from high-quality waterproof leather and suede with non-slip rubber soles.
- Chelsea: These weatherproof boots are chic enough to wear with nice jeans or slacks and have enhanced traction.
- Moc toe: These fashionable waterproof leather-and-suede shoes are ideal if you’re on your feet all day.
- Ankle boots: This style is fashionable and functional, with added waterproofing, traction and insulation.
- Wedge and heeled boots: These give you some height with on-trend designs that can withstand wet, slippery and cold conditions.
- Wedge and heeled sandals: These comfort-focused shoes give you height with comfortable footbeds and non-slip outsoles.
What to look for in quality Sorel shoes
EVA footbed
EVA insoles are a must-have if you plan to be on your feet for long hours. Sorel shoes with removable EVA footbeds protect your joints and ligaments by absorbing the impact as you walk. They are made from a lightweight material typically found in running shoes for their superior flexibility and comfort.
Enhanced traction
Many Sorel shoes have heavy tread patterns to help you navigate slippery, wet surfaces. Manufacturers texturize outsoles to improve their grip. The more intricate the designs are, the more traction they have. Even if a model does not directly state that it has enhanced traction support or a non-slip design, you can tell by looking at its outsole.
Waterproof
Materials such as waterproof suede, leather and rubber are essential when contending with wet, rainy weather. The best Sorel shoes take waterproofing a step further by adding seam sealants, where the lower rubber section of its waterproof shoes meets the fabric, to ensure that moisture cannot seep through.
How much you can expect to spend on Sorel shoes
Depending on the material and shoe type, Sorel shoes cost between $90-$260.
Sorel shoes FAQ
How can you wash waterproof leather shoes?
A. Remove dirt with a brush made for cleaning your shoes’ leather type, wipe them down with a damp cloth, then let them dry in a cool, dry place.
How should you clean liners and inner boots?
A. While some liners are machine-washable, many are not and must be hand-washed. Spot-clean the fabric with a damp cloth for light dirt. For heavy soiling, hand-wash in a sink with a gentle detergent. To dry, blot the liners with a towel and lay them flat, out of direct sunlight. For odors, you can use an odor-eliminating spray.
What are the best Sorel shoes to buy?
Top Sorel shoes
Women’s Out ‘N About III Classic Boots
What you need to know: These classic waterproof rain boots keep you comfortable and dry all day and come in nine varieties.
What you’ll love: They have a leather upper that’s seam-sealed to the molded rubber lower and outsole. Their thick outsole has enhanced traction to prevent you from slipping on wet surfaces, and they have a soft EVA footbed.
What you should consider: A couple of reviewers said the tongue bunched a bit when laced up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Sorel shoes for the money
Sorel Women’s Joanie II Lace Wedge Sandals
What you need to know: These wedge sandals are stylish and well-cushioned for long days on your feet.
What you’ll love: They have an EVA footbed with a hidden wedge. The full-grain leather upper has a lace-up design, and the outsole has enhanced traction. The heel is 2.75 inches high with a 1-inch platform, and the sandals come in six colors.
What you should consider: Some people reported that the suede footbed made their foot slip forward a bit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Sorel Men’s C-Street Lace-Up Sneakers
What you need to know: These classic low lace-up sneakers have an EVA footbed to keep you going on long days.
What you’ll love: Their rubber outsole is seam-sealed to its waterproof suede upper to keep your feet dry in wet weather. They come in three colors.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said they’re a little heavier than expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Florida Highway Patrol troopers warn drivers to be on high alert while traveling Memorial Day weekend
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Many people are hitting the road this Memorial Day weekend and Florida Highway Patrol is asking people to drive cautiously to help avoid accidents.
State troopers are asking all drivers to pay close attention to speed limits and keep a safe distance from other vehicles. They say if you’re driving a vehicle that usually sits for a long period of time, like a boat trailer or camper, double-check the tires.
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“Recreational vehicles, boat trailers, campers, many times what happens is especially the tires on those they don’t get worn very quickly because they don’t get a lot of miles on them but they can actually dry rot,” said Lt. Patrick Riordan, FHP.
Riordan asks drivers to stay away from multi-tasking while driving to prevent possible crashes. Troopers also want to remind travelers that drinking and driving is illegal and can have deadly consequences.
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If you’re heading out on the roads this weekend, he suggests getting an early start to avoid any kind of traffic.
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- Represents the Largest eFPGA Contract to Date
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP (eFPGA), and Endpoint AI solutions, today announced that it was awarded a new eFPGA contract for a previously announced foundry / process node combination, worth approximately $3.0 million. This award brings the aggregate value of all eFPGA engagements since July 2021 to more than $9.0 million.
The Company will leverage its Australis™ eFPGA IP Generator, launched in September 2021, to implement the customer's specific eFPGA configuration. This tool quickly generates custom eFPGA IP, optimized for power, performance, and area, for nearly any foundry/process node combination. Further information on the Australis™ eFPGA IP Generator can be found on the Company's website at www.quicklogic.com/products/efpga/efpga-ip2/.
"When we introduced the Australis tool with its high degree of flexibility, we were convinced that its capabilities would result in multiple significant eFPGA design wins," said Brian Faith, president, and CEO of QuickLogic. "Now we are seeing that conviction manifested in actual results, and the pace of new wins is accelerating."
Initial revenue from this contract is expected to be recognized beginning this quarter and continue through June of 2025, with follow-on revenue expected after the contract period.
The second quarter revenue guidance range of $4.5 million, plus or minus 10%, and the outlook for fiscal 2022 growth, which were previously provided during the Company's financial results conference call on May 17, 2022, remain unchanged.
About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) is a fabless semiconductor company that develops low power, multi-core semiconductor platforms and Intellectual Property (IP) for Artificial Intelligence (AI), voice and sensor processing. The solutions include embedded FPGA IP (eFPGA) for hardware acceleration and pre-processing, and heterogeneous multi-core SoCs that integrate eFPGA with other processors and peripherals. The Analytics Toolkit from our recently acquired wholly owned subsidiary, SensiML Corporation, completes the end-to-end solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. The full range of platforms, software tools and eFPGA IP enables the practical and efficient adoption of AI, voice, and sensor processing across mobile, wearable, hearable, consumer, industrial, edge and endpoint IoT. For more information, visit www.quicklogic.com and https://www.quicklogic.com/blog/.
The QuickLogic logo and QuickLogic are registered trademarks of QuickLogic Corporation. All other brands or trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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When New Year’s comes around, there are plenty of traditions that vary from culture to culture that people participate in. This particular ‘sitting under the table’ trend is sweeping across social media and people are adding it to their lists.
According to many viral videos on TikTok, if you’re looking for love in the new year, you’re supposed to sit under a table and eat 12 grapes. This tradition is popular in Latin America and the girls are showing proof that they’ve done the tradition and found the love of their lives within the next year.
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Some of the videos say to wear red underwear to bring in love and passion and eat 12 grapes, one for every month, and wish on each grape for the things you want in life. According to sources, the grape tradition comes from Spain. A TikTok user explained how she did this and gave a tutorial and proof.
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Many people in the comments vouched that this method has worked for them. In summary, the girl states that she got under the table starting a couple of minutes before the new year, wear red underwear, make a wish on 12 grapes and eat them from 11:59 pm to 12:01 am.
So if you’re looking for love watch the videos and add this to your New Year’s Eve plans.
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Miami guard Tyler Herro has been upgraded to questionable for Game 5 of the NBA Finals, a strong indication that the Heat plan on having him available to play against the Denver Nuggets on Monday night as they try to extend their season.
Herro has not played since breaking his right hand in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against Milwaukee. He has recovered from surgery to repair the fractures and has been doing on-court work for several days in an effort to get back on the court.
He was listed as out for Game 5 when the initial Heat injury report for the game was released Sunday. The Heat upgraded him on Monday morning in Denver.
“You have to go through stages,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said last week when discussing Herro's return. “First part of it was just shooting, then movement, then contact versus coaches and then the next level of contact in practice.”
Miami trails the finals 3-1. The Nuggets are seeking their first NBA title and need only one win to get it, with Game 5 — and Game 7, if necessary — both set to be played in Denver. If the Heat win on Monday, Game 6 would be in Miami on Thursday.
Herro also missed some time in last season's playoffs with a groin injury. It sidelined him for three games of the East finals against Boston, before he returned for Game 7 and struggled in what became the final game of the season for the Heat.
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FIRST ON FOX: Actor-writer-producer Kirk Cameron has held several story hour events at public libraries across America in recent weeks and months, with a focus on his illustrated children's book, "As You Grow," which imparts biblical wisdom.
Now, he's taking his next step — and "it couldn't come at a better time," he said, "given the crumbling state of the morality of our nation."
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Cameron, based in Los Angeles, said he'll be appearing at another public library this week as he works to "take back story hour" for kids and families in "a woke and broke America."
KIRK CAMERON, ‘RESPONDING TO THE CRIES OF PARENTS’ WHO ‘FEEL BULLIED,’ IS HEADED TO MORE PUBLIC LIBRARIES
"More parents," said Cameron, "have been crying out more loudly than when we first started this book tour in December."
On Thursday, he'll visit the Chatham County Public Library in Savannah, Georgia, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to share his pro-faith, pro-family and pro-country messages. Chatham County is located on the state's Atlantic coast.
Cameron will be joined at the event by Coffey Anderson, the country singer-songwriting star based in Texas best known for his patriotic hit, "Mr. Red White and Blue."
The two will address an expected crowd of about 1,000 people at the event.
Cameron and his publisher, Brave Books, have reserved a room at the library for three hours. The room they've booked holds 200 people — so they're prepared to usher in several groups of attendees during the time period they have allotted.
Americans want "real faith and morality for our children," said Cameron.
KIRK CAMERON GREETED BY OVERFLOW NEW YORK LIBRARY CROWD FOR MESSAGE OF FAITH, FAMILY, COUNTRY
He said that "people are beginning to see the speed and intensity with which an alternate set of values is taking over our culture — and the Grammy performance the other night is a perfect picture of the moral state of the union."
"People are crying out even more now," Cameron emphasized.
"You had a mainstream celebrity dressed up as Satan, and men dressed as women performing erotic acts on stage, with no warning — all sponsored by your favorite health care professional, Pfizer," he added of the Grammy Awards ceremony shown on Sunday evening on CBS.
"If we don't turn the tide quickly, it will soon be ‘The Sam Smith Show’ in your kid's classroom," said Cameron. "That's why I'm hitting the road and going state to state, library to library, to sound the alarm and wake up those who are asleep or on the sidelines — so that we can win back the hearts and minds of our children."
Cameron also told Fox News Digital on Wednesday, "We can't look to celebrities to do that. We can't look to the government or to schools to do that. Change in America does not begin at the White House," he said. "It begins at your house."
Cameron's book, "As You Grow," is an illustrated children's book that tells the story of an oak tree throughout its multiple seasons of life. The story encourages children to develop and share the virtues of patience, joy, kindness, compassion, self-control and other biblical values.
KIRK CAMERON DECLARES A WIN OVER TWO PUBLIC LIBRARIES THAT DENIED HIM STORY HOURS BUT NOW HAVE ‘CAVED’
Cameron told Fox News Digital previously that at his appearances at the Indianapolis Public Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Scarsdale Public Library in Scarsdale, New York, people came up to him and thanked him for taking the time to sharing his Christian values and beliefs.
It's why he's determined, he said, to visit many other public libraries "where people are crying out for someone to push back and stand up and bring the kinds of values that made this country free and led to its blessings."
Cameron and his publisher said they were turned down earlier by some 50 public libraries around the country who were either not interested in hosting Cameron because of his points of view — or simply ignored his queries and outreach, essentially saying "no" by their silence.
Yet when Cameron and Brave Books "pushed back on two of them, they opened up," said the actor and writer. "And we turned out [there] and were greeted by thousands of people in Indianapolis and Scarsdale."
Cameron and his publisher noted that both the Indianapolis and Scarsdale public libraries previously held "drag queen story hours" at their facilities — events widely publicized on the libraries' websites and in local listings.
Given that these types of events are taking place regularly in American society, Cameron said that "many people are looking for some way to be represented. They're looking for some way to let their voices be heard and show what they stand for."
He said, "The message I kept hearing was, ‘Thank you for coming to our city. People have passed us by and written us off thinking that we want this woke mafia to teach these values to our children — and it's not true. We love what you're bringing, and we're so thankful that you're here.'"
Cameron's tour of public libraries will take several months, he said.
His entire family, including his parents and his sister, Candace Cameron Bure, stand behind him in his efforts to share his belief in traditional values across the country, he said.
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Camerson and his wife, Chelsea, have six children, four of whom are adopted.
As he previously told Fox News Digital, "People are saying they want to be part of something that is letting others know, 'We don't want this woke garbage. We want the right kinds of values that lead to our children, our families and our communities flourishing.'"
And "they see this opportunity as an opportunity to be part of something that they believe could turn the country around."
At the end of the day, he added, "there are millions of Christians, parents, patriots and concerned Americans who realize that we are in a battle for the hearts and minds of our children."
He also said, "I'm going to lead the charge with story hour."
He noted on Wednesday that at his previous public library appearances, "People were happy. They were cheerful. It was like they were seeing a ray of hope coming through the dark clouds. That's what so many Americans are looking for," added Cameron.
"They feel like the light is being snuffed out by this oppressive system of ideas that goes against what they believe in and what they want for their children."
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He said, "People need hope like they need air. We all do. Otherwise, we suffocate. That's why I'm doing this. And that's why we're putting out the invitation, for others to join us in the battle for the hearts and minds of our kids."
Noting that he's been hearing from pastors, governors, singers, celebrities and many others who want to join him now in this effort, he said, "We need a whole new generation of heroes to rise up — and who raises these heroes? It's parents — parents who teach faith and morality and love to their children." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/kirk-cameron-heads-to-georgia-public-library-amid-crumbling-morality-in-us-people-need-hope/article_7b258e0c-5b71-596a-a104-015e8527843f.html | 2023-02-08 11:48:45 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/kirk-cameron-heads-to-georgia-public-library-amid-crumbling-morality-in-us-people-need-hope/article_7b258e0c-5b71-596a-a104-015e8527843f.html |
TROY, Mich., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELMS; ELMSW) ("ELMS" or the "Company") today announced that it has received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") stating that because the Company has not yet filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 (the "Form 10-Q") or its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (the "Form 10-K"), the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The notification letter has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
The Company previously discussed the circumstances behind the late filing of the Form 10-Q in a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25, filed with the SEC on May 18, 2022 (the "Notification"). In addition, the Company's delay in filing the Form 10-K was disclosed in a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25 filed on April 1, 2022 and discussed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 11, 2022 (the "April Current Report").
As described in the April Current Report, the Company must submit a plan to Nasdaq no later than May 31, 2022, addressing how it intends to regain compliance with Nasdaq's listing rules.
The Company's management is working diligently to complete the Form 10-Q, as well as the Form 10-K, and intends to file as soon as practicable. However, the Company does not expect to file the Form 10-Q within the timeframe specified by Rule 12b-25 for the reasons discussed in the 10-Q Notification.
Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELMS; ELMSW) is focused on defining a new era in which commercial vehicles run clean as connected and customized solutions that make our customers' businesses more efficient and profitable. ELMS is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.electriclastmile.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company's actual results may differ from its expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the possibility of the Company's common stock becoming delisted from the Nasdaq Global Select Market and the Company's timeframe for filing the Form 10-Q and the Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside the Company's control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition and the ability of the Company to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; (2) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (3) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (4) the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's business; (5) any delays the Company may experience in realizing its projected timelines and cost and volume targets for the production, launch and ramp up of production of the Company's vehicles and the modification of its manufacturing facility; (6) the ability of the Company to obtain customers, obtain product orders, and convert its non-binding pre-orders into binding orders or sales; (7) the Company's ability to implement its business plans and strategies; and (8) other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2021 and in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2021, and in the Company's future filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of these risks and uncertainties may in the future be amplified by the COVID-19 outbreak and there may be additional risks that the Company considers immaterial or which are unknown. The Company cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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As the world begins building back post-pandemic, TBD Media Group brings together the businesses building a better planet for everyone
LONDON, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The scale of the challenges facing humanity today are massive, but we should not be overwhelmed by them. That's the signal coming loud and clear from today's ambitious business leaders who make up the Vision 2045 project, dedicated to meeting the moment with innovation, collaboration, ingenuity and grit.
As we contemplate the long term fate of our planet, Vision 2045 provides a roadmap for our survival as a species and the ultimate fate of our world.
Acclaimed production company TBD Media Group has brought together businesses from around the world and across industries to showcase the actions being taken today that set the standard for better practices that protect people, planet and profit.
In a series of compelling documentaries, TBD Media Group tells the story to a global audience of how the Sustainable Development Goals are being addressed: from transforming the investment markets to using the latest technology to decarbonize the supply chain, these films give thought leaders a platform for laying out their strategy to protect and repair our natural resources.
Paolo Zanini, Founder and CEO at TBD Media Group says:
"We are seeing a huge shift in the attitudes of businesses around the world which are looking beyond short term profits to imagine a fairer future, cleaner planet and long term sustainability. The UN has laid down a huge challenge to the world's businesses and we are seeing the bravest and most passionate of leaders stepping up to that challenge. In a media environment that leads with bad news, I am proud to say that the TBD team of filmmakers is using their talent to bring hope to anyone who questions whether the problems of the world can be fixed. They can, and these films explain how."
Zanini believes that this kind of engagement is essential to driving positive change. He says:
"We don't have the luxury of pessimism. Only optimists can see a better tomorrow and TBD Media Group, as part of the news landscape, has a responsibility to highlight the progress that has been made by Vision 2045 businesses. Solutions to our most urgent problems are here, we just need to learn the lessons."
The Vision 2045 documentary series examines how the most ambitious businesses in the world are harnessing innovation to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Companies featured in this launch:
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ESSITY
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More information on the Vision 2045 Campaign may be found here: https://vision2045.com/
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TBD Media Group is an international, purpose-driven, media developer that helps companies, organizations and governments tell their brand stories in a human and direct way. Learn more at https://www.tbdmediagroup.com/
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TX Shreveport LA Zone Forecast for Sunday, November 20, 2022
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variable winds.
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around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 50.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Lows in the upper 30s.
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.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Harrison-Panola-
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244 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
evening. Cold with lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Cherokee-Rusk-
Including the cities of Jacksonville, Rusk, and Henderson
244 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s. East winds
around 5 mph this morning, becoming light and variable. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 50. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in
the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Nacogdoches-Angelina-
Including the cities of Nacogdoches and Lufkin
244 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds,
becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 50. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
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slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
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Shelby-San Augustine-Sabine-
Including the cities of Center, San Augustine, Hemphill,
and Pineland
244 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds,
becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
lower 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump is planning to visit Iowa in mid-March, a first foray to the leadoff caucus state since announcing his 2024 White House campaign.
The former president hinted at an Iowa trip “very soon” in a radio interview with Des Moines talk show host Simon Conway on Tuesday. A Trump aide confirmed Wednesday that plans were underway for an upcoming appearance, but declined to provide details about the location or date, beyond the middle of this month.
The aide spoken on condition of anonymity to discuss plans that have not been publicly announced.
“We’re planning something very soon,” Trump told Conway on WHO radio. “And then we’ll be coming back at least a couple of times before the election.”
Trump has been notably absent in Iowa, where Republican candidate Nikki Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, and potential rivals Mike Pence, the former vice president, and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., have visited after a slow start to campaigning in the state.
Some Iowa Republican activists, including Gloria Mazza, chairwoman of the Polk County Republicans, representing Iowa’s most populous county, have noted that Trump has stayed away so far. Trump traveled in January to New Hampshire, scheduled to host the first Republican presidential primary next year, and South Carolina, the South’s first primary. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-planning-first-iowa-trip-since-announcing-2024-bid/ | 2023-03-02 20:32:09 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-planning-first-iowa-trip-since-announcing-2024-bid/ |
BEIJING, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 28, in the prolonged applause, the performance of the original fairy tale ballet "The Nine-Colored Deer" came to a successful conclusion at the "Tianqiao Theater" in Beijing. The choreographer of the play Daxue Yu from Beijing Tao Li Wu Yan Culture & Art Co., Lt adapted and sublimated the mysterious, fantastic, childlike and thought-provoking ancient mythology in the Dunhuang mural "Jataka of the Deer King", and presented it on the stage for the first time in a unique form of ballet art, interpreting this legend with a brand new interpretation and exquisite perspective. When the fairy tale ballet "The Nine-Colored Deer" was first adapted, Daxue Yu spent nearly a year to bring this mysterious and thought-provoking story to the ballet stage, conveying the values of harmony between man and nature and the honesty and trustworthiness between people. Although this year is the fifth time that "The Nine-Colored Deer" has been performed, it is still fresh and enduring in the minds of the audience.
Ms. Ying Feng, director and artistic director of the National Ballet of China, mentioned many times in interviews and articles: "the ballet 'The Nine-Colored Deer' is a model of local ballet in China, which has broken the stylized dance language of Western Ballet, formed the unique charm of Chinese ballet, creatively presented Chinese culture in the form of Western Ballet Art, and played an exemplary and guiding role in the development of Chinese ballet in the future."
For more than 20 years, Daxue Yu has always adhered to the exploration of dance innovation, and applied his innovative ideas to the choreography, making his works more innovative and distinctive. His diversified style of dance choreography is to shape the image of dance characters in the profound cultural connotation, and show the bright charm of cultural images through body language, hence many excellent works has also been created.
In addition to the representative work "The Nine-Colored Deer", Daxue Yu also created another fairy tale ballet "Swan Lake". He made a new interpretation of the classic works in a unique way, adapted the original story plot with love as the theme into a more educational theme of environmental protection, and told the children's good morality of caring for the nature. Through the re-creation of the theme of his works, he perfectly realized the combination of plot and characters' fate, and the combination of psychological emotion and concrete life, which made the works have a distinctive artistic form and made the characters in the dance more lively and vivid. The play has been performed 12 times in China with the audience of 24,000 people in total and has also appeared at the Edinburgh International Art Festival in the UK to promote environmental awareness to the world.
Another innovative representative work of Daxue Yu, the fairy tale Peking Opera "Pinocchio", adopted the performance form of Peking Opera for the first time to interpret the world's classic fairy tales, and displayed the styles and characteristics of different characters through the authentic tune, action and gorgeous costumes of Peking Opera. The play not only told the world's classic fairy tales, but also inherited the quintessence of Chinese art treasures, which was deeply loved by children, and even Peking Opera professionals were full of praise for the play. The play has also been staged at the Mermaid Theatre in London as part of a series of activities to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the UK. Londoners who came to see the show praised the play, describing it as refreshing with its Oriental charm.
Shortly after the public performance of these two representative works of Daxue Yu, a "diversified creative style" was set off in the domestic dance art circle, and his works were regarded as two phenomenal dance works. Professor Zhitao Pan, a famous dance educator, once commented on the dance creation of Daxue Yu: "Many works of Daxue Yu show the perfect integration of culture and art. By combining traditional cultural materials with modern creative ideas, he shows the innovation of cultural ideas in modern art forms. Daxue Yu's works also endow the new era with exploration and entry point, and try novel ways of expression in modern dance forms. Its unique artistic style of dance is the goal pursued by every dance choreographer. In the works of Daxue Yu, bold innovations were made in both dance forms and movements, as well as artistic expression techniques."
For the dance creation and choreography, Daxue Yu made a comprehensive consideration of imagination, space, strength, behavior and visual impact, which made his works unique and left an extraordinary feeling for the audience. Looking at Daxue Yu's continuous innovation along the way in the field of dance, Beijing Tao Li Wu Yan Culture & Art Co., Lt believe that he will bring more excellent works to audiences of different ages in the future.
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Novelist Salman Rushdie suffered damage to his liver, nerves and an eye when he was attacked at a speaking event in western New York state Friday, according to his agent. He is on a ventilator.
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Novelist Salman Rushdie suffered damage to his liver, nerves and an eye when he was attacked at a speaking event in western New York state Friday, according to his agent. He is on a ventilator.
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Kyler Murray’s return to practice field a welcome sight for Cardinals
TEMPE, Ariz. - Arizona Cardinals coaches and teammates welcomed Kyler Murray’s return to the practice field on June 1, saying it was fun to watch their star quarterback do his usual magic throwing a football.
One thing’s certain: It sure beats watching his social media accounts.
"It was good to have him," Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said.
Murray returned to the field for the second set of Arizona’s voluntary offseason workouts after missing the team’s first practices in May.
It’s been an eventful offseason for the quarterback, who has been in a passive-aggressive contract spat with Arizona management, even wiping his social media accounts of any Cardinals references at one point.
Murray is entering the fourth year of his rookie contract and wants a new long-term deal. It appears he’s looking for a contract in the neighborhood of Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen’s $254 million pact he signed last offseason.
Murray is already a two-time Pro Bowl selection, but there were grumblings that his leadership wasn’t ideal during the team’s late-season collapse last season. The Cardinals started with a 10-2 record, which was the best mark in the NFL, before losing four of their last five games and getting bounced from the playoffs in an ugly opening-round loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
There didn’t seem to be any lingering discontent on Wednesday. Cardinals right tackle Kelvin Beachum praised Murray, saying he’s going through the growing-up process that all players must navigate.
"He’s always had that presence, that was never in question," Beachum said. "It’s just all the intangibles that he continues to fine tune. I’m excited to see that maturation process continue to occur."
Murray didn’t talk with reporters on Wednesday, but his presence at the workout is another sign that his relationship with the franchise has improved considerably over the past several weeks. General manager Steve Keim and coach Kingsbury were both quick to praise Murray in April after the draft.
The GM is optimistic a deal will get done.
"Nothing’s changed," Keim said. "The way we’ve approached it is we have free agency, we have the draft, then we’ll take a deep breath and refocus. It’s the same reason every other player who has been a third-year quarterback, (their deal) has been done in the middle of the summer to the late summer. It’s no different for us. It’s just sort of the way the system works."
Murray wasn’t the only veteran who showed up for Wednesday’s workout after missing the first voluntary workouts. Newly acquired receiver Marquise "Hollywood" Brown was on the field, as were offensive linemen such as D.J. Humphries, Justin Pugh and Beachum.
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"A lot of starters back," Kingsbury said. "I thought the work was good. Spirited."
MOURNING GLADNEY
The Cardinals were on the field for the first time since cornerback Jeff Gladney died in a car accident early Monday morning in Dallas. He was 25.
Gladney was signed during the offseason and hadn’t played a game yet for the Cardinals. Still, several Arizona players, particularly the defensive backs, had gotten to know the cornerback over the past couple of months.
Kingsbury said he addressed the team on Wednesday. The team also broke into smaller groups to talk about Gladney’s death.
"It’s hard to handle," Kingsbury said. "But I think it gives all our players perspective on how precious life is. I know a lot of guys want to make sure they’re living the right way because you never know."
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle receive coronation invitation from King Charles III
King Charles III is attempting to bring his family together once again despite ongoing tension in the monarchy.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were extended an invitation to His Majesty's coronation in May, according to the Sunday Times.
It's unclear if the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will attend the ceremony.
Charles will be formally crowned on May 6 at London's Westminster Abbey, nearly nine months after he ascended the throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Buckingham Palace and Archewell did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
May 6 is a particularly important date for Prince Harry and Meghan as the day coincides with their son Archie's fourth birthday. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex removed themselves from royal responsibilities in January 2020 and moved to Canada before settling in Southern California.
Social media fans believe the palace's decision to host the event on Archie's big day was a calculated slight against the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
"I wonder why King Charles chose to hold his coronation on Archie's birthday? Maybe so his grandson could share his special day or he's done this to steal his grandson's 'thunder,’" one Twitter user mused.
Another claimed, "Charles III wants media to bombard Harry & Meghan until next year who they’ll sacrifice…to have Archie’s birthday in peace in USA or a messy chaotic stressful coronation for a cold fish father in UK. Charles continues to be a horrible person."
The palace previously shared that the featured roles for members of the king and queen’s family are part of a ceremony that "will reflect the monarch’s role today and look toward the future while being rooted in long-standing traditions and pageantry."
Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort (R) and Britain's King Charles III (L) share a moment at a reception at Clarence House in London on Feb. 23, 2023, for authors, members of the literary community and representatives of literacy charities, to celebrate
KING CHARLES DENIED BY HARRY STYLES, ADELE, ELTON JOHN FOR CORONATION CONCERT: EXPERTS REVEAL WHY
Reports also claim that Queen Consort Camilla will be recognized simply as "queen" and drop the "queen consort" title.
In February 2022, several months before her death, the late queen marked the 70th anniversary of her rule with support for Camilla. At the time, the monarch expressed her "sincere wish" that Charles’ wife should be known as "Queen Consort" when her son succeeds her.
It took years for many in Britain to forgive Charles, whose admitted infidelity and long-time links to Camilla torpedoed his marriage to Princess Diana, known as "the People’s Princess." The glamorous young mother of Princes William and Harry died in a Paris car crash in 1997, five years after her messy, public split from Charles. She was 36.
When Camilla, 75, married Charles in 2005, it was widely assumed she would not be known as queen when Charles, 74, acceded to the throne. However, Elizabeth's words set the record straight on her daughter-in-law, who was initially shunned by Diana's supporters.
In January, Harry accused his stepmother of leaking private conversations to the media to burnish her own reputation. The accusation was published in his explosive memoir, "Spare."
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In interviews to promote the book, the Duke of Sussex accused members of the royal family of getting "into bed with the devil" to gain favorable tabloid coverage, singling out Camilla’s efforts to rehabilitate her image with the British people after her longtime affair with his father.
"That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press," the 38-year-old told CBS. "There was open willingness on both sides to trade information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street."
In the book, Harry wrote that he and William both "begged" their father not to marry Camilla, worried she would become a "wicked stepmother." Harry also wrote in his book that from the very beginning of his relationship with Meghan Markle, his family was just as skeptical about the American actress as was the British press.
FILE - A woman poses as she watches an episode of the Netflix docuseries "Harry and Meghan" about Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in London on Dec. 8, 2022. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)
After Harry tried to set the tone and released a statement condemning tabloid coverage of their relationship, William grew furious with his brother. When Meghan and Harry were given the Duke and Duchess of Sussex title, everything boiled over and William reportedly became physically violent toward Harry.
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Disney Cruise Line dropping vaccination requirement for kids ages 5 to 11
Video above: CDC relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines
Disney Cruise Line said on Monday it's dropping its vaccination requirement for children younger than 12.
Starting on Sept. 2, a requirement to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer apply to guests ages 5 to 11 for sailings leaving U.S. and Canadian ports.
The cruise line's previous rule, which still extends to sailings departing through Sept. 1, required guests 5 and older to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized COVID vaccines for children as young as 6 months, the cruise line had not extended its requirement to the youngest children.
With the change, a vaccination requirement will still apply for all guests 12 and older. The cruise line notes that vaccinations are recommended for younger travelers.
"In consideration of CDC guidance, Disney Cruise Line highly recommends that Guests ages 11 and younger be fully vaccinated before sailing," Disney Cruise Line's website reads.
COVID-19 testing is required for all guests, with different requirements for vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers.
Fully vaccinated guests who provide a negative COVID-19 test result taken one to two days before setting sail are exempt from testing at the cruise terminal. Fully vaccinated guests who do not provide the required negative test results are required to take a test at the cruise terminal and will be charged for those tests.
Guests who aren't fully vaccinated must provide a negative test result before travel and take a second test at the terminal before embarkation that is paid for by Disney.
CNN Travel has reached out to Disney Cruise Line for comment on the revised policy.
More cruise lines easing COVID rules
Disney isn't the only cruise line loosening COVID-19 rules, and several cruise lines are going farther in easing protocols.
As of Sept. 5, Royal Caribbean will allow all travelers, regardless of vaccination status, to sail from several U.S. ports as well as European homeports.
Celebrity Cruises has also announced plans to ease vaccination requirements on voyages from some ports starting on Sept. 5. And Carnival Cruise Line has plans to allow unvaccinated guests to sail on most cruises starting on Sept. 6.
The moves come after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its program monitoring cruise ships in mid-July.
The agency said it would continue to provide testing recommendations to cruise lines and that ships would still report COVID cases to the CDC.
The CDC said cruise lines have the tools and guidance for managing their own COVID mitigation.
"Additionally, cruise travelers have access to recommendations that allow them to make informed decisions about cruise ship travel," the CDC said. | https://www.kcra.com/article/disney-cruise-line-dropping-vaccination-requirement-for-kids/40908727 | 2022-08-16 17:34:59 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/disney-cruise-line-dropping-vaccination-requirement-for-kids/40908727 |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
4-3-6-1
(four, three, six, one)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
4-3-6-1
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Republican and Democratic negotiators spent Memorial Day working on cementing congressional support to pass a deal to raise the debt ceiling and trim federal spending ahead of a disastrous default expected next Monday if the deal fails.
The legislation, which was publicly released Sunday evening, accomplishes much for President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., enabling both to tout a victory that appeared elusive just days ago.
For Biden, the deal avoids the headache of another debt ceiling debate this term, while staving off Republican demands for steep cuts to domestic spending. McCarthy gets a deal that curtails federal spending and increases some work requirements in federal aid programs, such as food stamps. For the next fiscal year, the bill matches Biden's proposed defense budget of $886 billion. The bill would also rescind about $30 billion in unspent coronavirus relief money and cut a chunk of the money allocated to the IRS to hunt down wealthy tax cheats.
Both leaders spent some of Memorial Day making phone calls to shore up support from their parties.
The bill faces a tricky path to final passage, which must happen by June 5, when the federal government will exhaust funding to pay its bills. McCarthy needs a "majority of the majority," or at least half of the 222 Republicans in the House, even to bring the bill to the floor. He could lose up to 111 of his own party members, but then would need up to 107 Democratic votes to pass the bill.
McCarthy returned to the Capitol on Monday morning but provided no new details. He went to his office to continue the work of selling the bill to fellow Republicans.
House Republicans had already begun to reach out to members who have publicly expressed opposition, as well as others on their radar who could be persuaded. Leaders of each of the Republican ideological factions are working to get a sense of where their membership stands ahead of their return to the Capitol this evening, when leaders will work to whip up support among apparent holdouts.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., who chairs the conservative centrist Main Street Caucus group, said leadership and their allies are working the phones, sitting down with members and "working through the bill," specifically noting how some defense hawks have concerns that military spending will not be increased significantly.
"This thing will absolutely pass," Johnson said. "I've taken [it] to dozen of members and, listen, not every single member is on board ... We've got a big diversity of opinions in the U.S. House. Some people are going to vote no, but a lot more are going to vote yes."
Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., echoed that point, stressing, "how can [Republicans] not be comfortable with the $2.1 trillion in savings?"
On "Fox News Sunday," McCarthy brushed off criticism from some House Republicans that he had failed to extract sufficient spending cuts, saying: "Well, that's OK, because more than 95 percent of all those in the conference were very excited." He continued to confidently project throughout the day that he would have all the necessary Republican votes and that far-right members of his conference would not move to vacate him as speaker.
"In divided government, that's where we end up," he said in a separate interview. "I think it's a very positive bill."
BIDEN AT WORK
Biden also spent Memorial Day working the phones, talking with lawmakers about the debt ceiling, according to a White House official. He was also getting updated several times a day, the official added.
As Biden was leaving the White House on Monday afternoon, he was asked whether he was confident the debt ceiling deal would pass Congress, and he replied: "I feel very good about it." Biden said he had spoken with a number of lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
White House officials had briefed House Democrats in a Sunday call, running through the bill and trying to assuage lawmakers' concerns by answering questions about specifics. House Democratic leaders began to poll their members on support for the deal, although most members were still digesting the details, according to several people on the call who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity.
Biden officials are also planning to hold half a dozen briefings over the next two days for congressional Democrats about changes to specific subject matters, particularly on the budget and appropriations process, energy, and the new work requirements for food assistance.
"The agreement prevents the worst possible crisis, a default, for the first time in our nation's history," the president said.
DIVIDING UP
White House officials spoke directly Monday with the New Democrat Coalition, a group of roughly 100 centrist Democrats, whose leadership pledged Sunday to help the administration and leadership shepherd the votes necessary to prevent a default. Notably, the White House has not set up a similar call with the liberal faction, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, whose members have expressed concern that Biden didn't do enough to include their concerns in the negotiations.
New Democrat Coalition chair Ann Kuster, D-N.H., pressed on whether she believed there would be a significant amount of support for the legislation among Democrats, said she expected most of the bipartisan votes will come from ideologically centered groups like hers.
"There will be some bitter pills to swallow. But at the end of the day," she said, "it's very clear that you can be part of the solution or part of the problem. And right now our country needs us to step up and be part of the solution."
On Monday, Ben LaBolt, the White House communications director, told MSNBC that the White House is focusing on persuading Democrats to accept the deal. He said Biden has seen "supportive signs" from members of a coalition of roughly 100 center-left House Democrats -- he didn't name the group -- while other House members were still receiving the bill text overnight. "We're hopeful ... that they will end up supporting the agreement," he said.
Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a lead negotiator, told the "Today" show Monday that she was confident members of Congress would support the deal because they "know default would have been devastating to this country -- and on balance, this deal strikes a responsible tone."
The first real test comes this afternoon, when the House Rules Committee will meet to consider the bill. Four Democrats and nine Republicans sit on the panel, including three siding with the far-right wing of the GOP conference. Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Chip Roy, R-Tex., have already come out in opposition.
In a positive sign for McCarthy, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a key swing vote on that panel and popular among far-right conservatives, used social media posts to tout aspects of the bill, particularly its inclusion of a measure he sponsored for a mandatory 1 percent cut in government accounts if Congress doesn't pass all of its bills to fund federal agencies.
"That's in this debt limit deal," Massie tweeted late Sunday, posting an image of the bill's text with a red arrow drawn to his provision. He has not formally endorsed the overall legislation, but his posts have generally praised the process and content of the legislation.
In the Senate, at least nine Republican senators will need to join all 51 members of the Democratic caucus to send the bill to Biden's desk. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has come out against the deal. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has threatened to stall the legislation in hopes of holding the line on the nation's rising debt. But McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, issued a statement Sunday night backing the deal, calling on the Senate to "act swiftly and pass this agreement without unnecessary delay."
Economists have begun to weigh in, suggesting the deal to raise the debt ceiling appeared to be good news for the economy, which has been on uneven footing lately.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, tweeted Sunday that while some of the proposed cuts could become an "economic headwind later this year and next," they are not dramatic enough to topple the economy.
"A sigh of relief will be appropriate when the deal becomes law," he wrote, "as it will help the nation avoid a recession."
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ATLANTA (AP) — Dead last in the AL East, the Boston Red Sox were due for a hard look in the mirror.
That’s where Alex Cora thinks he found the problem.
The Red Sox manager has shaved the salt-and-pepper beard he grew prior to this season, hoping a new vibe might help Boston snap its season-worst five-game losing streak. Cora arrived clean shaven for Tuesday night’s opener of a two-game series in Atlanta, and he was willing to pin his team’s 10-19 start on his new look.
“If we win 10 in a row, it’s on me because I should have recognized that before,” Cora said with a smile.
After being held to a combined five runs while being swept in three games by the Chicago White Sox, Boston is 10 1/2 games behind the first-place New York Yankees. The Red Sox have lost 14 of 18 games.
Of course, Cora tweaked his lineup, too. Trevor Story, hitting .194, hit sixth instead of at the top of the lineup. Designated hitter J.D. Martinez hit third instead of fourth. Xander Bogaerts moved down one spot to fourth.
“Flip-flopping the big boys, see what happens,” Cora said. “We’ve got some capable guys and they’re not swinging the bat well. Hopefully, moving some people around helps.”
Cora indicated his shave was an impromptu decision. He didn’t have a beard and moustache before this season, and obviously that wasn’t working.
“Yesterday I got up and took the family to the airport and decided to shave,” he said.
Cora insists he’s not as superstitious as many others in the game.
Cora said his brother, former infielder Joey Cora, would listen to the same song before every game. He said that “went to the extreme.”
Should the Red Sox take off on a winning streak, expect a personal ban on facial hair to become a new routine for the manager.
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The new Minnesota Army National Guard Division Headquarters reimagines the readiness center for a new era of warfighting, peacekeeping and emergency response challenges
OMAHA, Neb., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Minnesota Army National Guard Division Headquarters in Arden Hills, Minnesota, designed by LEO A DALY and built by Stahl Construction, has been named the Grand Design Award winner (built) in the Society of American Military Engineers' biannual Design Awards program. Representing the highest honor for a facility, infrastructure, landscape or planning project designed for a SAME partner agency (DoD, VA, DHS, Public Health Service, or GSA) worldwide, the award recognizes the project as one of the best works of federal architecture built this decade.
The award was presented to members of the LEO A DALY planning, architecture, engineering and interior design team during the Society Ball & Awards Gala at the 2022 JETC conference on Thursday, May 12 in the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado.
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Nestled among the rolling hills, wetlands and mature oak trees of a federal cantonment area, the project makes landscape a central focus of the design. The black building blends shadow-like into the environment while working to mitigate its impact on the surrounding ecosystem. From a previously contaminated state, the site has been restored to natural harmony, with building systems, waterways, old-growth forest and nesting bird habitats integrated as a sustainable whole.
Jury members for the award praised the project for its:
- "Elegant design [that] integrates well into the existing site – long and low. Great use of passive and active sustainable systems to reduce energy consumption."
- "Great care and respect for the ecology of the site; preservation of wetlands, trees, natural landscape and ecosystems."
- "High level integration of energy and water conservation techniques, plus use of innovative geothermal technologies."
- "Excellent master plan and building design and execution for the site and functional program."
Completed in October 2020, the 149,735-SF facility reimagines the National Guard readiness center for a new era of warfighting, peacekeeping and emergency response challenges. The building program responds to the National Guard's evolving mission in the 21st century, providing secure space for advanced cyber activities, a Class-A workplace designed to recruit tech talent, and a highly sustainable and resilient design that honors the National Guard's commitment to community and the future.
The building's iconic architecture represents a defining step forward for the 34th Infantry Division's "Red Bulls," providing a connection to the past and demonstrating reverence to the site. The use of color, materials and form expresses the simplicity and clarity of the activities within and provides visual impact while staying true to the pragmatic sensibilities of the region, the client, and the communities it serves.
"LEO A DALY's long history of design excellence for the federal government led to this achievement for a project that captures the spirit and mission of the Minnesota National Guard in every detail. This recognition signifies our devotion to design that enhances the human experience and natural environment while delivering life-cycle cost-effectiveness, facilitating mission accomplishment and positively impacting our federal agencies," said LEO A DALY President Steven A. Lichtenberger, AIA.
About LEO A DALY
LEO A DALY is a leader in holistic, high-performance design, specializing in planning, architecture, engineering, interior design and program management. Since 1915, the firm's unyielding focus on design excellence has resulted in exceptional spaces that enhance and enrich the human experience. The firm's award-winning, diverse portfolio includes projects in a wide range of markets in more than 91 countries, all 50 US states and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit www.leoadaly.com.
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAGE Studios® CEO, Jason Olsen placed top of the list of most inspiring leaders by CXO magazine. CXO features a variety of global leaders in the franchise industry and IMAGE Studios® debuted in the top 10 most inspiring.
"The idea for IMAGE came in 2009, and by June 2010, IMAGE Studios® was born. Since then, we've had incredible success growing and scaling the IMAGE brand all across the country, helping thousands of health, wellness, and beauty entrepreneurs expand or start their own businesses safely, easily, and with much-deserved success," said Jason. In 2016, Jason launched the IMAGE Studios® Franchise and awarded his first licenses to expand the brand nationwide. By the end of 2017, IMAGE Studios® opened its first franchised locations in Florida and Utah.
"Under Jason's leadership, IMAGE has grown exponentially, awarding 190 licenses YTD across 22 states nationwide. 2022 is shaping up to be another record-breaking year with 30 locations open nationwide and another 15 opening by the end of the year," stated Taylor Lamont, Chief Operating Officer. Taylor boasted, "Jason possesses the foresight, strength, and operational genius to scale our brand. He is both a thoughtful and visionary leader, preparing for impending growth months in advance. Jason's inspirational leadership is driven by his humanity and compassion - he's heavily invested in our people."
Creativity, Freedom, Success® are the founding core values for Jason and the IMAGE Studios® brand. "There is nothing like a sense of belonging to a tribe, a community, a group of people that thinks and acts like you do. Entrepreneurs take risks and build something from nothing based on the relentless thoughts and dreams of an idea that won't let up until you execute. IMAGE is the luxury leader in salon suites and we teach, train, and develop all members of the IMAGE community to be the best entrepreneur they can be," Jason explained.
There are currently 190 IMAGE Studios® Salon Suites in development throughout the US and this number increases month over month. IMAGE Studios® is an exclusive salon suite that creates modern, high-end salon suites at affordable rates for salon professionals – this makes it possible for salon professionals to easily launch their new business and become successful entrepreneurs. IMAGE Studios® provides this unique opportunity by bringing together like-minded professionals under one roof, along with the guidance of mentors who are invested in the success of their business owners.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
08-13-14-15-17-40
(eight, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, forty)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
08-13-14-15-17-40
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas-area politician has been indicted on a murder charge — which carries the possibility of the death penalty — in the killing of a veteran investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct.
Robert “Rob” Telles, 45, was indicted Thursday and scheduled for arraignment next Wednesday in Clark County District Court, according to court records.
One of Telles’ court-appointed lawyers, Edward Kane, declined to comment about the indictment, a move by prosecutors that means Telles will not face a preliminary hearing of evidence that had been scheduled next week.
Telles, 45, a Democrat, lost his party primary in June and has been stripped by court order of his position as Clark County Administrator, heading the office that handles assets of people who die without a will or family contacts.
The state Supreme Court has suspended Telles’ law license pending a State Bar of Nevada investigation of allegations that he misappropriated client funds.
He was arrested Sept. 7, several days after the Sept. 2 stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German outside German’s home. Telles is being held without bail at the Clark County jail.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said he’ll make a decision in coming weeks whether Telles, will face the death penalty.
Prosecutors have characterized the evidence against Telles as overwhelming, including DNA believed to be from Telles found beneath German’s fingernails; video showing a man believed to be Telles walking near German’s home; and a vehicle believed to be Telles’ in the area.
German, 69, was widely respected for his tenacity, and his colleagues said he was working on follow-up reports about Telles and the public administrator’s office when he was killed.
A separate case is pending before the state Supreme Court over concerns about revealing German’s confidential sources and notes.
A judge has issued an order preventing police from accessing the records, which police, prosecutors and Telles’ defense attorneys say they want to review for additional evidence — including the possibility that someone other then Telles had a motive to kill German.
The Review-Journal, with backing from dozens of media organizations, argues that the government should not be able to access German’s cellphone and electronic devices.
The newspaper cites Nevada’s so-called “news shield law,” which is among the strictest in the nation, along with the federal Privacy Protection Act and First Amendment safeguards.
The Review-Journal on Friday reported that Telles was assigned two deputy Clark County public defenders at public expense despite reporting to the court last month that he and his wife were making $20,500 per month before his arrest and that he owns five rental houses in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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During Mental Health Awareness Month, Company Furthers Commitment to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace
STAMFORD, Conn. and NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synchrony, a premier financial services company, and Thrive Global, the leading enterprise behavior change technology company founded by Arianna Huffington, announced a new partnership that brings well-being tools and technology to Synchrony employees and leaders directly in their flow of work, furthering the company's commitment to prioritize the mental health and wellness of its people.
Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO of Thrive Global and DJ Casto, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Synchrony, highlighted the initiative at Synchrony's Global Diversity Experience in Chicago, a three-day event which brought together employees, leaders and Board members – in-person and virtually – to celebrate equity, diversity, inclusion and citizenship.
Synchrony makes active listening a consistent part of its hybrid work model, using Agile test and learn methods to co-innovate benefits and offerings with employees to better support their evolving needs. The partnership with Thrive was born out of that process.
How Thrive is Helping Synchrony Frontline Associates "Reset"
For Synchrony's frontline hourly associates, who represent a majority of the company's workforce, the process of taking back-to-back customer calls and resolving disputes can be intense. Thrive Resets, 60-second, science-backed breaks, are pushed to associates directly in their flow of work when they need a short break. In a pilot program launched late last year, Synchrony contact center associates shared that they were able to reset mentally and prepare for the next customer service conversation using Thrive Reset, which aims to break the cycle of cumulative stress in just one minute through breathing, stretching and mindfulness. The company expanded this well-being pilot initiative with hundreds of frontline associates.
How Thrive Will Embed Well-Being Into the Flow of Work
Synchrony is also planning a phased rollout of the Thrive Global platform to its leaders and teams later this year after testing with dozens of employees who are also caregivers. The technology platform embeds well-being directly into people's daily experience, offering tools, webinars and personalized resources, and all integrated into the Microsoft Teams (mobile app and desktop) platform that the company uses. Thrive also gives employees "Microsteps," which are small, science-backed actions to build healthy habits, strengthen connections and improve their overall health.
"We continue to invest in the total well-being of our employees," Casto said. "Thrive Global shares our belief in active employee listening and co-designing solutions together with our people that integrate wellness into their daily lives and enhance innovation. It's one more step we are taking to care for our colleagues and eliminate the stigma of mental health."
"Thrive Global and Synchrony are deeply aligned on our whole-human approach to help employees improve every aspect of their lives," said Huffington. "Together, we are embedding employee well-being into everyday workflows, which lowers stress, builds resilience and improves performance."
Supporting Employees' Total Well-Being
The Thrive program is part of Synchrony's broader efforts to support employee total well-being. In response to employee feedback, Synchrony went all in offering its people flexibility and choice on how, when and where they work. Synchrony also provides flexible scheduling options to better support frontline associates' needs and Flex Fridays where employees are encouraged on Fridays to avoid morning meetings and take the afternoons for enrichment, learning or personal time.
Synchrony also offers a wide range of mental health initiatives and wellness resources, including sabbatical and employee balance programs, which allow employees to reduce their schedules or take time off (up to a year) while retaining benefits, 16 diverse well-being coaches dedicated to employees and their families, career coaches and financial wellness counseling.
About Synchrony
Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally-enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoor, pet and more. We have an established and diverse group of national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations and healthcare service providers, which we refer to as our "partners." We connect our partners and consumers through our dynamic financial ecosystem and provide them with a diverse set of financing solutions and innovative digital capabilities to address their specific needs and deliver seamless, omnichannel experiences. We offer the right financing products to the right customers in their channel of choice. For more information, visit www.synchrony.com and Twitter: @Synchrony.
About Thrive Global
Thrive Global is a leading behavior change technology company founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016 with the mission to end the stress and burnout epidemic. Thrive provides solutions for corporate, frontline, and contact center employees to improve their well-being, productivity and mental resilience through its behavior change technology platform. Thrive's Microsteps – small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity – have been adopted by employees at more than 125 organizations in over 140 countries, from frontline and contact center workers to executives at multinational companies. Thrive is integrated into the top workflow software tools, including Microsoft Teams and Slack for corporate employees and Genesys, NICE, and Intradiem for contact center employees. Thrive Global is headquartered in New York City and has talent hubs in San Francisco, Boston, and Dublin. For more information, visit www.thriveglobal.com.
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Cyberattacks on hospitals are increasing. We follow an Indiana hospital's hacking story, showing how patient care was affected, in addition to the hospital's bottom line.
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Cyberattacks on hospitals are increasing. We follow an Indiana hospital's hacking story, showing how patient care was affected, in addition to the hospital's bottom line.
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PORTLAND — Woodhull, an integrated architecture, construction, and millwork firm in Maine, has purchased the Safford House (1858) at 93 High Street in Portland to become its new main office. The building was purchased on Feb. 3 from the trustees of Greater Portland Landmarks who have owned the building for the last 15 years.
Woodhull, formerly known as Caleb Johnson Studio|Woodhull of Maine, will consolidate its architecture and construction teams into the historic Safford House and continue running its millwork shop in Brunswick’s Fort Andross. Utilizing historic rehabilitation tax credits and SBA programs, Woodhull will renovate and restore Safford House to showcase the building’s Renaissance Revival-style architecture while creating modern office space.
“Over the past 20 years, our company has grown exponentially. We now employ more than 70 people and have outgrown our Old Port office space,” said Caleb Johnson, principal architect and founder of Woodhull. “This new office will allow our architecture and construction teams to work more closely together to produce a fully integrated product for our clients. Our firm also has a strong interest in historic preservation, and we look forward to re-designing this building while honoring the past and preserving the structural integrity and historic significance of the building.”
“We are thrilled that Woodhull is the new steward for Safford House,” said Sarah Hansen, executive director of Greater Portland Landmarks. “Such a well-respected company experienced in historic preservation, they will build on Landmarks’ work to ensure that the building receives all the care it needs to thrive as a modern center of design and architecture long into the future.”
In November 2021, the Trustees of Greater Portland Landmarks made the decision to sell the Safford House after 14 years of stewardship. Built in 1858, the Safford House is one of the last high-style homes constructed on High Street in the 19th century. The Renaissance Revival-style dwelling with brick and brownstone details was converted to business use in the mid-20th century and was used as classroom space by the Portland Society of Art from 1965-83. In 1983 the Portland Society of Art sold the building with historic preservation covenants to Safford Associates, who renovated the building, adding a rear elevator and restoring some interior partitions removed to create large classrooms.
Woodhull is an integrated architecture, construction, and millwork firm delivering thoughtful residential and commercial projects throughout New England. The team is comprised of architects, designers, cabinetmakers, support staff, construction project managers, site superintendents, estimators, and carpenters. Woodhull approaches each project with integrity, an open mind, and an unwavering commitment to quality and client experience. The work is informed by the landscape, intentional materials, simplicity of expression, and enduring character. For more , go to www.woodhullmaine.com. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/02/21/bdn-maine/woodhull-purchases-the-historic-safford-house-in-portland-for-new-main-office/ | 2023-02-21 23:33:59 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/02/21/bdn-maine/woodhull-purchases-the-historic-safford-house-in-portland-for-new-main-office/ |
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DCS Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Raul Sagun as its new Chief Growth Officer. Since joining DCS in 2016 as Vice President of Business Development, Raul has been a steady hand guiding the company's organic growth. DCS has grown quickly beyond the small business realm, and the position of Chief Growth Officer was created to ensure sustained, long-term growth. With all corporate growth functions, including mergers and acquisitions centralized under his direction, Raul will formulate strategy and direct its implementation for efficient, sustained growth for DCS.
"Raul has proven his ability and expertise to propel the company's growth strategy going forward," commented Jim Benbow, DCS CEO. "We are thrilled to have his leadership as he guides the company into the next phase of growth."
Raul brings over 30 years of experience providing strategic, programmatic, and technical services to business development, capture, and proposal efforts both large and small. He began his professional career as a Program Manager for the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, where he served as a civilian for more than 11 years. He has helped lead companies to contract wins with agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, Department of State, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member nations, as well as commercial customers. Raul is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
About DCS
An employee-owned company, DCS offers advanced technology, engineering, and management solutions to government agencies in the national security sector. The transformative ideas, commitment to quality, and entrepreneurial spirit that characterize our employee-owners allow us to ensure the success of each customer's mission and actively contribute to the well-being of the Nation. For more information, please visit: https://www.dcscorp.com.
Contact: DCS Media, dcsmedia@dcscorp.com, 571-227-6000
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Callan, a leading institutional investment consulting firm, announced today that Kevin Schmidt joined the firm's Summit, NJ, consulting team on Jan. 1 as a senior vice president and investment consultant. Mr. Schmidt brings over two decades of industry and investment consulting expertise, and reports to Summit group leader and investment consultant Annoesjka West.
"What initially drew me to Callan was their incredibly strong reputation within the industry—their effectiveness with clients as well as a high level of respect and support given to their employees," said Mr. Schmidt. "I look forward to working alongside such a talented group of individuals, with the shared goal of consistently delivering actionable, best-in-class investment ideas to our clients."
Most recently, Mr. Schmidt was an investment consultant with RVK where he advised a variety of client types, including public funds, endowments and foundations, corporate entities, and insurance funds. He assisted clients on investment policy development, governance, asset allocation, asset class structure, performance evaluation and attribution, and investment manager searches. Prior to RVK, Mr. Schmidt was an analyst and client portfolio manager at OppenheimerFunds, Invesco, and UBS. He earned an MBA from Fordham University and a BS in economics from the University of Maryland.
"We are excited to have Kevin join the Summit team," said Ms. West. "He brings years of experience working with a variety of client types and will be a great asset to Callan and our clients."
Callan was founded as an employee-owned investment consulting firm in 1973. Ever since, we have empowered institutional clients with creative, customized investment solutions backed by proprietary research, exclusive data, and ongoing education. Today, Callan advises on more than $3 trillion in total fund sponsor assets, which makes it among the largest independently owned investment consulting firms in the U.S. Callan uses a client-focused consulting model to serve pension and defined contribution plan sponsors, endowments, foundations, independent investment advisers, investment managers, and other asset owners. Callan has six offices throughout the U.S. Learn more at callan.com.
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Orange Cyberdefense will work with NightDragon portfolio companies to infuse technology into high-value security services to help customers stay ahead of threats
SAN FRANCISCO and PARIS, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NightDragon, an investment and advisory firm focused on the cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy industry, today announced a new strategic partnership with Orange Cyberdefense, a global leader in cybersecurity services, to bring innovative technologies and services to European organizations. The collaboration will enable NightDragon's portfolio companies in the European market and empower Orange customers with innovative technologies and services to stay ahead of cyber threats.
Orange Cyberdefense, the cybersecurity business unit of the Orange Group, has a global footprint with a European anchorage. As a key player in the European cybersecurity ecosystem, Orange Cyberdefense supports regional start-up ecosystems while seeking best-of-breed innovation globally. Through this partnership, NightDragon companies will work with Orange Cyberdefense's more than 2,500 multi-disciplined experts across 160 countries. They will also leverage the organization's deep expertise in threat research and intelligence through its trusted partnership with over 8,500 customers.
According to IDC, overall spending on IT security in Europe alone is projected to reach $46.4 billion in 2024, up from an estimated $35.6 billion in 2021. Factors like the increased push towards digitization and remotely securing key assets continue to drive this strong regional growth, the research firm said. Orange Cyberdefense has expertise in many of these relevant growth areas such as cloud and application security, managed detection and response, zero trust and cyber crisis management.
"The opportunity is immense for NightDragon companies to deliver leading innovation to European enterprises and public sector organizations to help them better defend against growing cyberthreats. We could not imagine a better partner in this mission than Orange Cyberdefense, a proven global leader that will help hyper scale NightDragon companies to both support organizations meet today's risk landscape and drive thought leadership in the essential European market," said Dave DeWalt, Founder and Managing Director, NightDragon.
Under this partnership, Orange Cyberdefense will receive early access to innovative NightDragon companies to evaluate their fit to expand Orange Cyberdefense offerings and services around cybersecurity technology areas. Where direct relationships are formed, the NightDragon companies will benefit from preferred terms with Orange Cyberdefense, including elevated marketing support, business development, and technical support to assist with the joint sales efforts. Orange Cyberdefense and NightDragon will also collaborate to regularly review assets in their respective portfolios for potential capital co-investment opportunities.
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This partnership expands NightDragon's capabilities under its ND Go-to-Market business unit, a dedicated set of playbooks, programs and partnerships to help accelerate its portfolio's go-to-market capabilities. Orange Cyberdefense's leading cybersecurity services capabilities will complement existing go-to-market partnerships.
NightDragon is an investment and advisory firm focused on growth and late-stage investments within the cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy industries. Its platform and vast industry network provide unparalleled threat insights, deal flow, market leverage and operating expertise to drive portfolio company growth and increase shareholder value. Founded by Dave DeWalt, the NightDragon team has more than 25 years of operational and market expertise leading technology companies such as Documentum, EMC, Siebel Systems (Oracle), McAfee, Mandiant, Avast and FireEye. Read more about NightDragon at www.nightdragon.com.
Orange Cyberdefense is the expert cybersecurity business unit of the Orange Group. As a leading security services provider, we strive to build a safer digital society.
We are a threat research and intelligence-driven security provider offering unparalleled access to current and emerging threats.
Orange Cyberdefense retains a 25+ year track record in information security, 250+ researchers and analysts 17 SOCs, 13 CyberSOCs and 8 CERTs distributed across the world and sales and services support in 160 countries. We are proud to say we can offer global protection with local expertise and support our customers throughout the entire threat lifecycle.
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The Monday After: Pieces of history and pop culture
The upcoming autumn show and sale held annually in the Akron-Canton area by the American Political Items Collectors isn't just campaign buttons and military artifacts anymore.
Vintage postcards, historical photographs, music posters, items of a political nature, and a burgeoning variety of unique and interesting popular culture items will be part of the "Big Collectible Show" coming Friday and Saturday to MAPS Air Museum in Green.
The show, organized by the Ohio Chapter of American Political Items Collectors with sponsorship of Hakes Auctions in Pennsylvania and Angels for Animals dog rescue in Canfield, will include 250 tables set up by dealers coming from throughout the country, said Jack Dixey, show coordinator.
"We've got the country pretty well covered (with dealers)," said Dixey. "One guy is driving stuff from California. Others are coming from North Carolina and southern states. And there will be dealers from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and surrounding states."
The midwest regional event, once called the Political Items and Pop Culture Show, has been broadened in scope since it moved to the MAPS museum from venues in Canton and North Canton, Dixey noted.
"This is a bigger venue and it accommodates a larger variety of collectibles," Dixey explained, adding that hours for the show are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, with admission of $5. That ticket price includes admission to MAPS exhibits.
He said that the event will be followed in the same venue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday by the North Coast Military Show.
Dixey also noted that the focus and scope of such collectibles events also is evolving to meet the needs of both dealers and buyers. In a world in which "what goes around comes around," producing shows of a more general nature isn't a new concept.
"To me, what's interesting is that this (broad focus) used to be the style of the 1980s and 1990s," said Dixey. "It makes coming to the show sort of a treasure hunt, because you don't know what you're going to find from booth to booth."
Military and political collectibles
Items being displayed and sold by dealers of course will include a multitude of the expected military and political objects from the past.
"We'll have a lot of home front collectibles − the 'V For Victory' sort of stuff," said Dixey. "A lot of it is propaganda used at home to promote the war effort during World War II. Posters and other printed material includes 'Buy War Bonds' sort of things."
Also displayed will be military weaponry and such other items as military patches and insignias.
Pieces of political campaign memorabilia still "are at the forefront," Dixey said. Included are unique containers once used to contain "Candidate Biscuits" − "an odd and interesting piece," said Dixey − as well as more traditional campaign buttons and ribbons. Stressed at the Stark MAPS show are items used in the campaigns between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, as well as campaigns of other Ohio presidents.
Some items brought by dealers are considered "crossover"pieces because they will appeal to multiple categories of collectors. Those might include photographs and printed material, such as advertising.
"One of the dealers is beringing a very unusual photograph of a biplane factory in 1919," said Dixey. "I thought that was very apprpopriate that it would be displayed at an an aviation museum. It's a very nice crossover item. A photograph collector and an aviatioln collector would have an interest in the same item."
Pop culture still popular
Such pop culture items as comic books and sports memorabilia still draw intense interest, Dixey said.
"I'm amazed at how much money is spent in both those categories," said Dixey, noting that the value of those collectibles has transcended their place in time. "Pop culture items have gone from contemporary to nostalgic to historical."
Dixey said that one dealer is bringing "early" rock and roll concert posters, with "early" referring to advertising material promoting early concerts in a band's existence. Some of those posters are valued in the thousands of dollars, he said.
"In rock and roll (collectibles), the thing is to get posters of groups before they made it big, before they became superstars," said Dixey, using Nirvana as an example of bands whose early posters are fetching high prices.
Antique advertising of many kinds, especially advertising on metal, has become popular among collectors, Dixey noted.
"Advertising trays for breweries (are very popular)," he said. "Before prohibition, every place had its own brewery and every brewery would advertise on beautifully illustrated serving trays."
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About the event
WHAT − "Big Collectibles Show"
WHERE − MAPS Air Museum, 2260 International Parkway in Green.
WHEN − Oct. 21-22.
WHO − Organized by American Political Items Collectors, Ohio Chapter; sponsored by Hake Auctions of Pennsylvania and Angels for Animals dog rescue in Canfield.
WHY − To provide an opportunity for collectors to purchase collectible items from dealers setting up 250 tables of items .
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole dreamed of this moment growing up in California, winning a postseason game in pinstripes at Yankee Stadium.
Harrison Bader had a similar fantasy while sitting in the first base seats as a 15-year-old and watching New York’s last championship team.
They combined to make each other’s wishes come true.
Cole cruised for most of the night, Bader and Anthony Rizzo homered and the Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 on Tuesday in their AL Division Series opener.
Bader hit his first home run since the Yankees made the surprising deal to acquire him from St. Louis at the trade deadline, tying the score with a third-inning drive to left-center on a Cal Quantrill sinker after Steven Kwan had homered in the top half.
A graduate of Horace Mann School, 5 miles from Yankee Stadium, Bader was in a walking boot with a foot injury at the time of the trade and didn’t make his Yankees debut until Sept. 20.
“I want to validate myself,” Bader said. “I want to play hard and I want to show my teammates and I want to show —- my parents are in the stands — I want to show them all why I earned that uniform.”
Not even another Josh Donaldson baserunning blunder could slow the Yankees, who have won six straight postseason games against Cleveland dating to a comeback from a 2-0 deficit in the 2017 Division Series. The crowd of 47,807 roared from the first pitch.
“It was just a really awesome experience,” Cole said. “Sometimes when you feel the crowd or the energy, it sometimes can become a little easier just to quiet things down because it’s so loud. I don’t know if that makes sense, but it does to me.”
After Kwan’s homer, Cole hit Amed Rosario with a pitch and José Ramírez lined a gapper to left-center. Bader, a Gold Glove center fielder, saved a run by cutting off the ball and holding the runners at second and third. Cole escaped a bases-loaded jam by striking out Andrés Giménez with his 60th pitch.
“That may be the at-bat of the game right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Cole needed just eight pitches in the fourth and allowed just two more runners, on a single and his only walk. He left after giving up one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts.
“We did a really good job early of driving his pitch count up,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. “And then he had a real quick fourth inning, that kind of got him back into the game.”
Jonathan Loáisiga, Wandy Peralta and Clay Holmes finished with two-hit relief to begin the best-of-five matchup. Holmes hit Owen Miller with a pitch before retiring the final two batters.
“Just had to check on my heart,” quipped Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who got a pacemaker last year.
AL Central champion Cleveland, playing on the 74th anniversary of its last World Series title, struck out nine times against the AL East-winning Yankees, who returned from a five-day layoff. Guardians batters had the fewest strikeouts in the majors during the regular season.
Jose Trevino put New York ahead with a sacrifce fly in the fifth after Isiah Kiner-Falefa reached on a single into the right-field corner and Wild Card Series star Oscar Gonzalez allowed the ball to bounce through his legs for a two-base error.
“It took a little more spin than I was expecting, and it just went away,” Gonzalez said through a translator.
Rizzo chased Quantrill with a drive into the right-field second desk in the sixth after Aaron Judge walked.
“The Guardians are a young team that has a lot of momentum and have been pitching really well and playing really well,” Rizzo said. “That’s a scary combination.”
An inning earlier, Donaldson made another of the lack-of-hustle gaffes marking his first season in New York. With the score tied 1-1, the former AL MVP led off the fifth with a drive that hit the top of the 10-foot wall in right field, just in front of a fan’s hands, and bounced back onto the field.
Donaldson went into a trot, thinking it was a home run, and even high-fived first base coach Travis Chapman. But Gonzalez grabbed the ball off the carom and threw to shortstop Amed Rosario, whose throw to first caught Donaldson trying to get back.
“We have to make sure we’re getting where we need to get to,” Boone said.
After the final out, that became a minor matter. Judge, who set an AL record with 62 homers, cited Bader for poor form.
“Judgey told me I ran a little too fast,” Bader said. “As soon as he clips it, he knows he’s got it. I haven’t hit a home run in a long time, so I have to work back into it.”
WEB GEMS
Yankees rookie left fielder Oswaldo Cabrera made a leaping catch against the stand s on Will Brennan leading off the fourth as his cap fell into the hands of a fan. Cabrera threw the ball back to the infield, took a step toward the wall as the fan tossed back his cap, then gave the spectator a high-five with his glove. Two pitches later, Donaldson snagged Austin Hedges’ grounder as he slid into foul territory, then got up and made a strong throw to first to retire the slow-footed catcher.
MOUND MATTERS
Quantrill lost for the first time since July 5 following 11 wins over 17 starts. He gave up four runs — three earned — four hits and three walks in five-plus innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians: RHP Nick Sandlin (strained shoulder) was dropped along with LHP Kirk McCarty, and RHPs Aaron Civale and Cody Morris were added.
Yankees: INF DJ LeMahieu was left off the roster and may have a broken bone under the second toe of his right foot. … RHP Scott Effross needed Tommy John surgery.
UP NEXT
After an unusual day off between Games 1 and 2, LHP Nestor Cortes (12-4) starts for the Yankees against RHP Shane Bieber (13-8) on Thursday. Rain is in the forecast.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) — Rapper Travis Scott was being sought by police Wednesday in connection to a New York City assault case, law enforcement sources told Nexstar’s WPIX.
Scott, 31, allegedly punched a sound engineer in the face and caused about $12,000 worth of damage to equipment at Nebula, a nightclub in Midtown Manhattan, around 2 a.m., sources said. He is wanted on charges of assault and criminal mischief in the incident, according to sources.
Sources said the victim and Scott, whose birth name is Jacques Bermon Webster II, got into an argument before the rapper punched him in the face. The victim reported no serious physical injury to police, per sources.
Scott then left the nightclub, hopped into a vehicle and took off in an unknown direction, sources said.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) informs that Juan Emilio Posada Echeverri resigned as an independent member of the Board of Directors of the Company on June 6, 2022.
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Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia and one of the main integrated energy companies in the American continent, with more than 18,000 employees. In Colombia, it is responsible for more than 60% of the hydrocarbon production of most transportation, logistics, and hydrocarbon refining systems, and it holds leading positions in the petrochemicals and gas distribution segments. With the acquisition of 51.4% of ISA's shares, the company participates in energy transmission, the management of real-time systems (XM), and the Barranquilla - Cartagena coastal highway concession. At the international level, Ecopetrol has a stake in strategic basins in the American continent, with Drilling and Exploration operations in the United States (Permian basin and the Gulf of Mexico), Brazil, and Mexico, and, through ISA and its subsidiaries, Ecopetrol holds leading positions in the power transmission business in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, road concessions in Chile, and the telecommunications sector. This press release contains business prospect statements, operating and financial result estimates, and statements related to Ecopetrol's growth prospects. These are all projections and, as such, they are based solely on the expectations of the managers regarding the future of the company and their continued access to capital to finance the company's business plan. The realization of said estimates in the future depends on the behavior of market conditions, regulations, competition, the performance of the Colombian economy my and the industry, among other factors, and are consequently subject to change without prior notice.
This release contains statements that may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All forward-looking statements, whether made in this release or in future filings or press releases or orally, address matters that involve risks and uncertainties, including in respect of the Company's prospects for growth and its ongoing access to capital to fund the Company's business plan, among others. Consequently, changes in the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward -looking statements: market prices of oil & gas, our exploration, and production activities, market conditions, applicable regulations, the exchange rate, the Company's competitiveness and the performance of Colombia's economy and industry, to mention a few. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
For more information, please contact:
Head of Capital Markets
Tatiana Uribe Benninghoff
Email: investors@ecopetrol.com.co
Head of Corporate Communications
Mauricio Téllez
Email: mauricio.tellez@ecopetrol.com.co
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Be Remarkable: Claudia Massie is a champion for our senior citizens
Claudia Massie has become a beacon of hope for seniors and adults in need within our community.
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Claudia Massie, the Director of Patient Care at College Station-based Visiting Angels, has become a beacon of hope for seniors and adults in need within our community. Claudia spends a significant amount of her free time volunteering for the Brazos Valley Adult Protective Services Volunteer Board where she is currently serving as chair of the Fundraising Committee.
The primary objective of the Brazos Valley Adult Protective Services Volunteer Board is to support the mission of Adult Protective Services by procuring goods and services for senior citizens in dire need, recognizing APS case workers, and providing APS-focused community awareness and education.
Since joining the volunteer board in 2017, Claudia has held multiple positions such as PR/Marketing, Secretary, and four years as President.
Claudia puts in a lot of effort to procure durable medical equipment, emergency food, fans, heaters, and other essential items needed by APS clients going through challenging situations.
Aside from organizing donations, Claudia also volunteers to help individuals who need assistance in our community. Recently, she was a lead contact for the “Backing Bill Benefit” which raised over $30,000 in only a month.
Despite her busy volunteering schedule, Claudia never forgets to make time for her family, friends, and co-workers. Her efforts to improve the lives of seniors and adults in our community have shown her dedication to serving others, and she serves as an inspiration to all who know her.
“I believe Claudia is a perfect person to receive the award due to her dedication to assisting the clients of Adult Protective Services, and her love and devotion to all seniors and adults who live in our community,” said Amie Brauer, who nominated Claudia for the Be Remarkable award.
“I love to be a part of a team that just wants to help people. People who will never be able to repay you. Never be able to say thank you. But it’s just something that will help make their lives better and that’s why we do what we do,” said Massie.
Next month, the Brazos Valley APS Volunteer Board is hosting a Lunch & Learn event with an expert who will discuss abuse, neglect, and exploitation of the elderly. Details are below.
If you have someone you want to nominate for our Be Remarkable campaign click here! Be Remarkable airs on News 3 at 6 p.m. every other Monday and is proudly sponsored and made possible by Daniel Stark Injury Lawyers.
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Located on the highly desirable intersection, WEHO Quartet's four displays capture an affluent and trendy hard-to-reach audience
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KEVANI, Inc. ("KEVANI")—LA's market leader in out-of-home media sales and development—has signed a multi-year media sales and development agreement for the four multidirectional media displays located at the intersection of La Cienega Boulevard and Holloway Drive in West Hollywood. The new agreement will go into effect on January 1, 2023. KEVANI has branded their new asset "WEHO Quartet," a nod to the location and four display faces.
The displays tower above one of West Hollywood's busiest thoroughfares and provide an enormous, 3,072-square feet of advertising space. Brands are offered a rare marketing investment opportunity as this unique tiered and multi-directional configuration of displays can deliver their messages to traffic approaching from all sides.
As a visual landmark in West Hollywood for many years, the displays target premium audiences within the popular and trendy location, garnering more than 4 million monthly impressions. KEVANI plans to enhance the displays while maintaining their current size and configuration. Future plans include an aesthetic upgrade, with improvements to the surrounding landscaping.
"Located at one of LA's most prestigious out-of-home advertising locations, the WEHO Quartet will join our growing roster of iconic media destinations," said Kevin Bartanian, CEO and Founder of KEVANI. "It will soon offer visually profound experiences, complement and enhance the local community, and be more appealing to the many brands with which we work."
KEVANI's growing collection of premium advertising locations includes The Towers®, Sunset Limelight, i10 Beacon®, i5 Pillars, SoHo Spectacle, The Sunset Wallscape, and 2nd & PCH. For more information, please visit www.kevani.com/media
KEVANI is an out-of-home (OOH) media sales organization that promotes national and local brands through innovative outdoor advertising destinations. Our inventory provides a unique opportunity for our brand and agency partners to captivate their audience. We started KEVANI because we want to bring value to our medium, from the development of new destinations to the way the medium is sold. Simply put, our mission is to transform our industry and we do so by adhering to our Mission Statement.
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Mayor Muriel Bowser wins DC Primary Election, will go on to run for third term in November
WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has won the 2022 Primary Election in the District. She survives a challenge by Councilmembers Trayon White and Robert White Jr.
She will go on to run for her third term in the November General Election on Tuesday, November 8th, 2022.
Mayor Bowser and Councilmembers Trayon White and Robert White Jr. squared off over a range of issues during FOX 5's Democratic Mayoral Debate hosted with the Georgetown University Institute of Politics on June 1st.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during March for Our Lives 2022 on June 11, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for March For Our Lives)
Elsewhere in the District, Phil Mendelson won the Democratic bid for D.C. City Council Chair. The incumbent Brianne Nadeau won her race for city council in Ward 1, and Eleanor Holmes Norton is the Democratic candidate for delegate to the United States House of Representatives. | https://www.fox5ny.com/election/mayor-muriel-bowser-wins-dc-primary-election-will-go-on-to-run-for-third-term-in-november | 2022-06-22 12:12:11 | 1 | https://www.fox5ny.com/election/mayor-muriel-bowser-wins-dc-primary-election-will-go-on-to-run-for-third-term-in-november |
PARIS – Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday used his first trip abroad since taking office to urge world powers to step up pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities, calling the Islamic republic a threat to regional stability.
Lapid met in Paris on Tuesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, who called on Lapid to revive talks toward peace with the Palestinians and said Israelis are “lucky” to have him in charge.
Lapid, who took office Friday, focused on Israel's concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions and the stalled global deal aimed at curbing them. Israel accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons — a charge Iran denies — and says the tattered nuclear deal doesn't include sufficient safeguards to halt Iran’s progress toward making a bomb.
“The current situation cannot continue as it is. It will lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which would threaten world peace. We must all work together to stop that from happening,” Lapid told reporters.
He and Macron, both centrists, called each other friends, but disagreed over the Iran nuclear deal.
The 2015 deal offered Iran relief from economic sanctions in exchange for curbs on its nuclear activities. In 2018, then President Donald Trump, with strong Israeli backing, withdrew from the deal, causing it to unravel. Since then, Iran has stepped up key nuclear activities, including uranium enrichment, well beyond the contours of the original agreement.
Macron called for a return to the 2015 deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but acknowledged that it “will not be enough.” France helped negotiate the deal and is one of the parties in talks aimed at trying to revive it. Israel says that if the agreement is restored, it should include tighter restrictions and address Iran’s non-nuclear military activities across the region.
Lapid called the JCPOA a “dangerous deal," saying it isn't tough or far-reaching enough.
He said Israel and France “may have disagreements about what the content of the agreement should be, but we do not disagree on the facts: Iran continues to violate the agreement and develop its program, enriching uranium beyond the level it is allowed to and removing cameras from nuclear sites.”
He heads the centrist Yesh Atid party, and was one of the architects of the historic alliance of eight diverse factions that found common ground in opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu, the first governing coalition to include an Arab party.
Lapid will stay in office until a November election and perhaps beyond if no clear winner emerges. Making his first trip abroad as prime minister, Lapid may try to use the meeting with Macron to bolster his credentials as a statesman and alternative to Netanyahu with the Israeli electorate.
Macron used their meeting to urge efforts by Israel toward long-term peace with the Palestinians.
“There is no alternative to a return to political dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians,” he said, to revive “a process that’s been broken for too long.”
Lapid didn’t address Macron’s appeal in their public remarks. Lapid, unlike Netanyahu, supports a two-state solution with the Palestinians. But as a caretaker leader, he isn't in a position to pursue any major diplomatic initiatives.
He and Macron were also expected to discuss Lebanon, days after Israel said it downed three unmanned aircraft launched by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that were heading toward an area where Israel recently installed an offshore gas platform. Hezbollah, which fought a monthlong war against Israel in 2006, has confirmed sending the unarmed drones in a reconnaissance mission.
Israel and Lebanon don't have formal diplomatic relations, but have been engaged in indirect U.S.-brokered talks to delineate their maritime border. France is a key supporter of Lebanon, a former French protectorate, and Macron has unsuccessfully tried to broker a solution to Lebanon's political crisis.
“Hezbollah has more than 100,000 rockets in Lebanon, aimed at Israel. It tries to attack us with Iranian rockets and UAVs,” Lapid said, referring to unmanned aerial vehicles. “Israel will not sit back and do nothing, given these repeated attacks.”
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King Car Conductor won one of 5 Kavalan Double Golds in San Francisco
TAIPEI, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kavalan's Double Gold award-winning King Car Conductor has unveiled a new packaging design.
King Car Conductor was one of five Kavalans to scoop Double Gold at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, making it the fourth SFWSC Double Gold awarded to this expression.
First launched in 2011, King Car Conductor is the first Kavalan whisky released that pays tribute to its parent company King Car Group. Matured and vatted from multiple oak barrels, this expression delivers delicate notes of papaya, banana, and green apple with rich and floral complexities. The label design presents "King Car Conductor" written in a semi-cursive Chinese calligraphic script in gold, paired with flowing lines referencing the Snow Mountain where Kavalan sources its mineral-rich meltwaters.
The 22nd SFWSC drew about 5,000 spirits from more than 40 countries, which were assessed by 70 judges, making it the biggest SFWSC contest so far.
Kavalan SFWSC 2022 results:
Double Gold
- King Car Conductor Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Podium Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Solist ex-Bourbon Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Distillery Reserve Peated Malt Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
Gold
- Kavalan Concertmaster Port Cask Finish Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Concertmaster Sherry Cask Finish Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Solist Fino Sherry Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Solist Brandy Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
- Kavalan Solist Amontillado Sherry Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
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In honor of the approaching 2022 holiday season, Wayfair has officially kicked off its second Way Day of the year with items marked up to 80 percent off.
This now semi-annual, two-day event offers discounts on indoor and outdoor furniture, home decor, appliances and so much more.
The sale starts today and will go through the end of the day Oct. 27, 2022.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)Tevin Smith scored 19 points in Denver’s 86-64 win against IUPUI on Wednesday night.
Smith shot 6 of 8 from the field and 6 for 8 from the line for the Pioneers (4-1). Tommy Bruner added 15 points while going 5 of 6 from the floor, including 2 for 3 from distance, and 3 for 3 from the line, and he also had five assists. Touko Tainamo shot 4 of 6 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line to finish with 13 points, while adding 10 rebounds.
Jlynn Counter led the Jaguars (1-4) in scoring, finishing with 16 points. Chris Osten added 14 points and 10 rebounds for IUPUI. Bryce Monroe also recorded 10 points.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 1, 2022
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LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
209 PM EST Tue Nov 29 2022
...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM WEDNESDAY
TO 7 PM EST THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations
of 8 to 16 inches in the most persistent lake snows across the
Tug Hill Plateau, with 4 to 8 inches for surrounding lower
elevations. Winds gusting as high as 50 mph will produce
extensive blowing and drifting snow.
* WHERE...The Eastern Lake Ontario Region. Greatest accumulations
across the Tug Hill Plateau.
* WHEN...From 8 PM Wednesday to 7 PM EST Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult at times. Areas of
blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. The
hazardous conditions will impact the morning commute on
Thursday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Heavy snow will fall in relatively narrow bands. If traveling, be
prepared for rapidly changing road conditions and visibilities.
Submit snow reports through our website or social media.
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COORD...4393 7515 4408 7515 4417 7534 4397 7575
4398 7584 4385 7606 4367 7602 4367 7575 4379 7563
4388 7544
TIME Y22M12D01T0100Z-Y22M12D01T0600Z
COORD...4398 7514 4401 7526 4392 7570 4394 7588
4388 7606 4376 7623 4348 7623 4346 7564 4355 7547
4360 7513
TIME Y22M12D01T0600Z-Y22M12D01T1200Z
COORD...4378 7512 4371 7550 4384 7569 4384 7611
4359 7625 4350 7647 4343 7595 4348 7581 4342 7550
TIME Y22M12D01T1200Z-Y22M12D01T1800Z
COORD...4360 7552 4364 7569 4365 7598 4360 7612
4349 7611 4341 7616 4339 7601 4345 7570 4342 7550
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TIME Y22M12D01T1800Z-Y22M12D02T0000Z
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM WEDNESDAY
TO 1 PM EST THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4
to 7 inches in the most persistent lake snows across higher
terrain. Winds gusting as high as 50 mph will produce extensive
blowing and drifting snow.
* WHERE...Wyoming, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Southern Erie
counties. Greatest snow accumulations across the Boston Hills,
western Wyoming County, and the Chautauqua Ridge.
* WHEN...From 4 PM Wednesday to 1 PM EST Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on snow covered and slippery road conditions.
Areas of blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility.
The hazardous conditions could impact the evening commute
Wednesday and the morning commute Thursday.
Lake effect snow will fall in relatively narrow bands. If
traveling, be prepared for rapidly changing road conditions and
visibilities.
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DUBAI, UAE, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yalla Group Limited ("Yalla" or the "Company") (NYSE: YALA), the leading voice-centric social networking and entertainment platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 after the U.S. market closes on Monday, March 13, 2023.
Yalla Group Limited will hold a conference call on Monday, March 13, 2023, at 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time, 4:00 A.M. Dubai Time on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, or 8:00 A.M. Beijing Time on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, to discuss the financial results. Listeners may access the call by dialing the following numbers:
The replay will be accessible through March 20, 2023, by dialing the following numbers:
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will also be available at the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.yallagroup.com.
About Yalla Group Limited
Yalla Group Limited is the largest voice-centric social networking and entertainment platform in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA). The Company operates two flagship mobile applications, Yalla, a voice-centric group chat platform, and Yalla Ludo, a casual gaming application featuring online versions of board games, popular in MENA, with in-game voice chat and localized Majlis functionality. Building on the success of Yalla and Yalla Ludo, the Company has expanded its content, creating a regionally-focused, integrated ecosystem dedicated to fulfilling MENA users' evolving online social networking and entertainment needs. The ecosystem includes YallaChat, an IM product tailored for Arabic users; Waha, a social networking product designed for the metaverse; and games such as Yalla Baloot and 101 Okey Yalla, developed to sustain vibrant local gaming communities in the region. Yalla is also actively exploring outside of MENA, having launched Yalla Parchis, a Ludo game designed for the South American markets. Yalla's mobile applications deliver a seamless experience that fosters a sense of loyalty and belonging, establishing highly devoted and engaged user communities through close attention to detail and localized appeal that profoundly resonates with its users. In addition, through its holding subsidiary, Yalla Game Limited, the Company has expanded its capabilities in mid-core and hard-core game distribution in the MENA region, leveraging its local expertise to bring exciting new content to its users.
For more information, please visit https://ir.yallagroup.com.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A carbon monoxide leak at a Pennsylvania day care center sent more than two dozen children and several adults to hospitals early Tuesday, some of them unconscious, but none of the injuries were considered serious, authorities said.
Emergency responders went to the Happy Smiles Learning Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on reports of an unconscious child. The building was evacuated after air quality detectors worn by firefighters were triggered.
The leak was caused by a malfunctioning heating unit and a blocked venting system, investigators said. They noted the building did not have carbon monoxide detectors, which will be required for child care facilities under a new state law that has not fully taken effect yet.
The sites are in the midst of a 30-day compliance period to have the detectors installed, and Happy Smiles owner Jesenia Gautreaux said the work will be done at her business.
A staffer called Gautreaux at home to tell her a child had collapsed, she told The Morning Call newspaper of Allentown. She arrived at the center within minutes and saw the boy in an ambulance, she said. He looked ill, she said, but gave her a thumbs-up.
“He was a little dizzy and out of it,” she told the newspaper, adding that other children cried as they evacuated. “I believe they were scared and worried about their friends.”
Of the patients treated by hospitals in the Lehigh Valley Health Network, symptoms included headache, dizziness and nausea, “and several were unresponsive prior to arrival,” Dr. Andrew Miller, chief of pediatric emergency medicine, said in a statement.
Some patients who “required more aggressive treatment” were transferred to hospitals in Philadelphia, about 50 miles away, he said.
Eight staffers were at the child care center, which usually cares for about 40 kids each day and will be closed while repairs are made, Gautreaux said. She hopes to reopen soon.
The center’s last state inspection was conducted late last year, and state records show the only problem found was a door that remained locked when the fire alarm sounded. That was soon repaired, and no sanctions were issued. | https://www.kark.com/news/national/ap-carbon-monoxide-leak-at-day-care-center-injures-kids-staff/ | 2022-10-11 21:17:52 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national/ap-carbon-monoxide-leak-at-day-care-center-injures-kids-staff/ |
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The griddy celebration has taken over the sports world, but not every player gets love for it.
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Trump’s tax returns to be released Friday after long fight
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
A House committee is set to release six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, pulling back the curtain on financial records that the former president fought for years to keep secret.
The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee voted last week to release the returns, with some redactions of sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers and contact information. Their dissemination comes in the waning days of Democrats’ control of the House and as Trump’s fellow Republicans prepare to retake power in the chamber.
The committee obtained six years of Trump’s personal and business tax records, from 2015 to 2020, while investigating what it said in a Dec. 20 report was the Internal Revenue Service’s failure to pursue mandatory audits of Trump on a timely basis during his presidency, as required under the tax agency’s protocol.
The release raises the potential of new revelations about Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s. The returns could take on added significance now that Trump has launched a third campaign for the White House.
Trump’s tax returns are likely to offer the clearest picture yet of his finances during his time in office.
Trump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, broke political norms by refusing to make public his returns as he sought the presidency — though he did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms.
Instead, Trump has touted his wealth in the annual financial statements he gives to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires.
Trump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing.
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A second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made.
In its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings.
The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 — more than two years into his presidency — when Ways and Means chair Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns.
By comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office.
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Antoine Davis helped keep Detroit Mercy’s season alive on Tuesday, and put himself in good position to set college basketball’s all-time scoring record.
Davis scored 38 points in a win over Purdue Fort Wayne in the Horizon League Tournament opener. Playing in his final game at Calihan Hall -- a gym where his jersey hangs in the rafters -- he moved just 25 points behind Pete Maravich’s NCAA record 3,667 points.
The fifth-year point guard shot 14-of-27 from the field and 6-of-13 from 3. He is seven 3s away from tying the single-season record of 162 held by Stephen Curry. Davis added a career-high eight rebounds, eight assists, and four steals, all of which were game highs.
Detroit Mercy, the 8 seed, will visit top-seed Youngstown State on Thursday in the quarterfinals (8 p.m. ET, ESPN+).
See also: Inside Antoine Davis’ chase of the NCAA scoring record: ‘He works like nobody’
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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona will get to serve on committees now that Republicans have dislodged Democrats from the majority. When Democrats were in charge, both lawmakers were booted from their assignments for being too extreme.
Santos, who has acknowledged lying to New York voters about his past, has picked up two committee assignments.
The full House Republican conference must ratify the recommendations, but that generally is a formality.
A look at who went where in the new House.
GREENE, GOSAR BACK ON COMMITTEES
Two years ago, Democrats under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi voted just weeks into the last Congress to remove Greene from both her committees. It was an extraordinary punishment that Democrats said she had earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Eleven Republicans joined 219 Democrats in backing Greene’s ejection from her committees.
This week, a GOP panel that selects most of the committee leaders and hands out committee assignments recommended that Greene serve on two important committees: Homeland Security and House Oversight and Accountability.
Greene, who is now one of McCarthy’s fiercest supporters, had embraced an array of conspiracy theories before winning election in 2020. For example, in November 2018, she talked about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, referring to a “so-called” plane that crashed into the Pentagon. She also “liked” a January 2019 Facebook post that called for “a bullet to the head” of Pelosi.
McCarthy, R-Calif., argued that the majority party in the House should not dictate how the minority disciplines its members. He described the removal of Greene’s committee assignments as a partisan power grab. Greene, who often trolls Democrats on social media, has said Biden should resign.
“Joe Biden, be prepared. We are going to uncover every corrupt business dealing, every foreign entanglement, every abuse of power, and every check cut for The Big Guy,” Greene said.
Gosar lost his committee assignments in late 2021 after posting an animated video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword. Democrats said the video was a clear threat to a lawmaker’s life, and they argued that Gosar’s conduct would not be tolerated in any other workplace — and shouldn’t be in Congress.
The vote to censure Gosar and remove him from his House committee assignments was approved almost entirely along party lines. Then-Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois the only Republicans voting in favor.
Gosar will return to the House Natural Resources Committee and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, his assignments before the punishment.
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SANTOS TO SCIENCE AND SMALL BUSINESS
State and local Republican leaders in New York have called on Santos to resign after lying to voters about his resume and family heritage. Santos says he’s staying and McCarthy has taken the position that the voters will have the final say in the matter in 2024, when Santos would be up for reelection.
Republicans have such a slim House majority that even losing one Republican seat makes it that much tougher to pass legislation. Santos represents a Long Island-based district that could flip to Democrats in a special election.
Santos will serve on two lower-profile committees: the House Small Business Committee and the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.
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MCCARTHY’S DETRACTORS
A core group of Republicans who opposed McCarthy for speaker but ultimately changed their votes to present, allowing him to prevail in the 15th round, got their committee assignments.
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Matt Gaetz of Florida will remain on the House Judiciary Committee. Biggs also returns to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona, in his first term, was recommended for the House Homeland Security Committee, where he says he will “fiercely combat the disaster at our border.” He also will be on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and the House Small Business Committee.
Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana will return to the House Natural Resources Committee.
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado will serve on that committee as well as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, where Republicans will look into the business dealings of Hunter Biden in an attempt to find any connection to the president.
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OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE NOTABLES
Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, chairman of ultra-conservative Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus, retained his seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and added a new assignment: the high-profile House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
“Boy, do I have some questions,” said Perry, about his role on that investigative committee.
Perry has continuously disputed the validity of Biden’s 2020 victory in Pennsylvania. The committee investigating the Capitol riot referred him to the House Ethics Committee, along with McCarthy, Biggs and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, for defying subpoenas seeking their testimony.
The addition of Perry, Boebert, Greene and Gosar to the House Oversight and Accountability presents challenges for Republicans who will need to show a strong measure of seriousness and even-handedness over the coming months to ensure credibility with voters about their findings. Those lawmakers are among Trump’s strongest allies in the House and are known for their inflammatory political discourse.
The committee chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, called members of his committee “an all-star lineup ready to hit the ground running and go to bat for the American people.”
White House spokesman Ian Sams said that “with these members joining the Oversight Committee, it appears that House Republicans may be setting the stage for divorced-from-reality political stunts, instead of engaging in bipartisan work on behalf of the American people.”
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TORONTO and OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cordelio Power and Tenaska are pleased to announce a joint development agreement to originate new wind projects in select power markets in the United States.
Under the five-year agreement, Tenaska will originate and develop new wind energy projects exclusively for Cordelio, with a focus on power markets in MISO, PJM and the Western Interconnection. As part of the arrangements, Cordelio has acquired a 1,000 MW portfolio of renewable projects currently under development by Tenaska.
Nick Karambelas, Cordelio's Chief Commercial Officer, said: "We look forward to working with Tenaska, a proven developer, to build out a large-scale portfolio of wind projects over the next several years, as we expand our efforts to provide clean power to North American markets."
"Tenaska's business is relationship-driven, and our team looks forward to continued collaboration with Cordelio as we advance wind development across the U.S.," said Joel Link, senior vice president in Tenaska's Strategic Development and Acquisitions Group.
Cordelio previously acquired two other wind development projects from Tenaska, including the Firebrick project in Missouri, and Tenaska will continue to support the development of each of those projects.
Cordelio is a renewable power producer that manages an operating portfolio of over 1,200 MW of renewable power assets in Canada and the USA. We also oversee a growth pipeline of over 14,000 MW of wind, solar and storage projects spread across the USA. We strive to work with all of our stakeholders in an efficient, safe and environmentally responsible manner. Cordelio is wholly owned by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
For Further Information:
Ajay Sharma – Vice President, Cordelio Power
647-201-2546
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Tenaska is proud to be one of the leading independent energy companies in the United States, with a reputation for high standards and expertise in natural gas and electric power marketing, energy management, development and acquisition of energy assets, and operation of generating facilities. Forbes magazine consistently ranks Tenaska among the largest private U.S. companies. Gross operating revenues were $18.4 billion in 2021. Tenaska has developed, managed and/or operated approximately 22 gigawatts (GW) of natural gas-fueled and renewables generation. Its development portfolios include more than 23 GW of solar, wind and energy storage projects.
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MONTRÉAL, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mason Graphite Inc. ("Mason Graphite" or the "Company") (TSXV: LLG) (OTCQX: MGPHF) wishes to congratulate Black Swan Graphene Inc. ("Black Swan") (TSXV: SWAN) on the closing of its Qualifying Transaction (as such term is defined in TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") Policy 2.4 – Capital Pool Companies) announced by Black Swan in its news release dated August 2, 2022. At market open on Tuesday August 9, 2022, Black Swan's common shares will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSX-V") under the ticker symbol "SWAN". Mason Graphite owns approximately 41.49% of the issued and outstanding shares of Black Swan.
Mason Graphite is a Canadian corporation focused on the production and transformation of natural graphite. Its strategy includes the development of value-added products, notably for green technologies like transport electrification. The Company also owns 100% of the rights to the Lac Guéret deposit, one of the richest graphite deposits in the world. The Company is also the largest shareholder of Black Swan Graphene Inc., a Canadian private company focusing on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries and others.
For more information, please visit: www.masongraphite.com.
Black Swan Graphene Inc. is focused on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries, and others, which are expected to require large volumes of graphene and, in turn, require large volumes of graphite. Black Swan aims to leverage the low cost and green hydroelectricity of the province of Québec as well as the proximity of the eventual production sites of Mason Graphite in order to establish a fully integrated supply chain, reduce overall costs, and accelerate the deployment of graphene usage.
For more information, please visit: www.blackswangraphene.com
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Mason Graphite Inc.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says dozens of migrants have been rescued from a sailboat that issued a distress call after it began taking on water while sailing in the eastern Aegean Sea.
The coast guard said it had launched a search and rescue operation after receiving a distress call in the early hours of Monday about a vessel in distress in rough seas south of the remote island of Syrna, south of the island of Kos.
A German-flagged cargo container ship in the area rescued the 62 people who had been on the stricken sailboat, which was taking on water, the coast guard said. There were no immediate reports of any missing people or any casualties.
The survivors were later transferred to a coast guard lifeboat and were being transported to the island of Kos. Their nationalities weren’t immediately known.
Tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa try to make their way into the European Union each year via perilous sea journeys, with most attempting to reach Greece or Italy.
Many attempt the short but perilous sea journey from Turkey to the nearby Greek islands, usually in inflatable dinghies. But others have increasingly been attempting to head from Turkey directly to Italy in severely overcrowded sailboats or yachts.
Sinkings and capsizings of both sailing boats and dinghies in the last few months have left dozens of people dead and missing in Greek seas.
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LUXEMBURG, Wis. — It’s a late Friday afternoon like most in the Cornette Dairy Farm near Luxemburg.
Paul Cornette is mixing feed for the cows as the February sun starts to wane. It’s the start of another year in the dairy in the business.
“Thankfully 2022 turned out to be a pretty decent year,” he said. “Crops were good. We had a kind of crazy high spike in milk price in April, May, and June that by the time that sort of leveled out and evened out for the year, we had a pretty good year revenue wise.”
In the early part of the new year, dairy farmers are seeing softer milk prices while the costs of doing business remain high. For the past two years, farmers have paid more for everything from seed and fertilizer to diesel fuel.
Cornette owns the family farm — located right on the Kewaunee/Brown County line — with his brother.
“At least on our farm, and I’m guessing on a lot of others, we carried over a lot of those profits into ’23 to tied us over through any potential downturns in the ag economy,” Cornette said. “Right now, the prices are lower, but not bad.”
Increased production and lower consumer demand, due in part to inflation, are pushing dairy prices lower in the early months of 2023.
University of Wisconsin - Madison Division of Extension Regional Dairy Educator Aerica Bjurstrom said milk and crop prices last year helped offset the additional costs of production.
“Prices are definitely down from last and our inflation and input costs just as high, if not higher, this year or expected to be higher this year,” she said. “It’s going to be a lot tighter margins this year than last year.”
But forecasts appear to show improving prices through the summer.
“The prices look to be stabilizing later in the year and they’re decently strong for mid year,” Bjurstrom said. “Not as a good as last year, but still strong enough to still make some profit if they’re watching their expenses.”
Cornette said despite the dip in prices and the cost of essential farm products remaining high, he’s confident in what the year holds for the farm.
“I feel confident ’23 is going to be a pretty good year provided that all of our inputs don’t continue to go crazy, and we don’t see another 10 percent of inflation or something along those lines,” he said. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/02/16/what-dairy-faces-in-2023 | 2023-02-24 23:28:54 | 0 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/02/16/what-dairy-faces-in-2023 |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe and sanitary way to use a shopping cart or basket at the store," said an inventor, from Harrisburg, Pa., "so I invented BASKET AND CART LINERS - REUSEABLE AND DISPOSABLE. My design provides added protection and it eliminates the hassle of spraying or wiping down cart/basket surfaces before use."
The invention provides a more sanitary way to utilize a shopping cart or basket. In doing so, it prevents the hands, grocery items and purses from directly contacting cart/basket surfaces. As a result, it helps to reduce the spread of germs and viruses and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for consumers, grocery stores and shopping centers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Lancaster sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-LBT-301, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MAGNOLIA, Ark. (KTVE/KARD)– Jackie Briggs was recently named the Walker Pre-Kindergarten Center’s Teacher of the Year. Jackie grew up in Mr. Holly, Ark, and is a 1985 graduate of Mt. Holly High School. She graduated from Southern Arkansas University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and an early childhood certification.
After 34 years of teaching, Mrs. Briggs came to the end of her career. In the fall of 1989, she began a committed teaching career at West Side Kindergarten Center for the Magnolia School District. She spent 25 years instructing kindergarteners before deciding to leave the profession.
She chose to go back to teaching after a year of retirement after understanding that the children and the teaching are her ministry calling and the core of her being. Jackie went back to Magnolia Schools as a certified third-grade literacy intervention teacher substitute.
She moved on to Pre-K the next year before spending two years in second grade at East Side Elementary. Jackie believed that her ministry had directed her to Columbia Christian School for the 2018–19 academic year school year. In August 2019, Mrs. Briggs returned to the Walker Pre-Kindergarten Center where she will be finishing her fourth year. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/www-myarklamiss-com-news-south-arkansas/jacquelyn-briggs-selected-as-teacher-of-the-year-by-walker-pre-kindergarten-center/ | 2023-04-24 20:02:02 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/www-myarklamiss-com-news-south-arkansas/jacquelyn-briggs-selected-as-teacher-of-the-year-by-walker-pre-kindergarten-center/ |
Folk Singer Gordon Lightfoot Passes Away At 84
TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday. He was 84.
Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not immediately available.
One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
In the 1970s, Lightfoot garnered five Grammy nominations, three platinum records and nine gold records for albums and singles. He performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs.
He toured late into his life. Just last month he canceled upcoming U.S. and Canadian shows, citing health issues.
“We have lost one of our greatest singer-songwriters,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. “Gordon Lightfoot captured our country’s spirit in his music – and in doing so, he helped shape Canada’s soundscape. May his music continue to inspire future generations, and may his legacy live on forever.”
Once called a “rare talent” by Bob Dylan, Lightfoot has been covered by dozens of artists, including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Cash, Anne Murray, Jane’s Addiction and Sarah McLachlan.
Most of his songs are deeply autobiographical with lyrics that probe his own experiences in a frank manner and explore issues surrounding the Canadian national identity. “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” depicted the construction of the railway.
“I simply write the songs about where I am and where I’m from,” he once said. “I take situations and write poems about them.”
Lightfoot’s music had a style all its own. “It’s not country, not folk, not rock,” he said in a 2000 interview. Yet it has strains of all three.
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” for instance, is a haunting tribute to the 29 men who died in the 1975 sinking of the ship in Lake Superior during a storm.
While Lightfoot’s parents recognized his musical talents early, he didn’t set out to become a renowned balladeer.
He began singing in his church choir and dreamed of becoming a jazz musician. At age 13, the soprano won a talent contest at the Kiwanis Music Festival, held at Toronto’s Massey Hall.
“I remember the thrill of being in front of the crowd,” Lightfoot said in a 2018 interview. “It was a stepping stone for me…”
The appeal of those early days stuck and in high school, his barbershop quartet, The Collegiate Four, won a CBC talent competition. He strummed his first guitar in 1956 and began to dabble in songwriting in the months that followed. Perhaps distracted by his taste for music, he flunked algebra the first time. After taking the class again, he graduated in 1957.
By then, Lightfoot had already penned his first serious composition — “The Hula Hoop Song,” inspired by the toy that was sweeping the culture. Attempts to sell the song went nowhere so at 18, he headed to the U.S. to study music for a year. The trip was funded in part by money saved from a job delivering linens to resorts around his hometown.
Life in Hollywood wasn’t a good fit, however, and it wasn’t long before Lightfoot returned to Canada. He pledged to move to Toronto to pursue his musical ambitions, taking any job available, including a position at a bank before landing a gig as a square dancer on CBC’s “Country Hoedown.”
His first gig was at Fran’s Restaurant, a downtown family-owned diner that warmed to his folk sensibilities. It was there he met fellow musician Ronnie Hawkins.
The singer was living with a few friends in a condemned building in Yorkville, then a bohemian area where future stars including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell would learn their trade at smoke-filled clubs.
Lightfoot made his popular radio debut with the single ”(Remember Me) I’m the One” in 1962, which led to a number of hit songs and partnerships with other local musicians. When he started playing the Mariposa Folk Festival in his hometown of Orillia, Ontario that same year, Lightfoot forged a relationship that made him the festival’s most loyal returning performer.
By 1964, he was garnering positive word-of-mouth around town and audiences were starting to gather in growing numbers. By the next year, Lightfoot’s song “I’m Not Sayin’” was a hit in Canada, which helped spread his name in the United States.
A couple of covers by other artists didn’t hurt either. Marty Robbins’ 1965 recording of “Ribbon of Darkness” reached No. 1 on U.S. country charts, while Peter, Paul and Mary took Lightfoot’s composition, “For Lovin’ Me,” into the U.S. Top 30. The song, which Dylan once said he wished he’d recorded, has since been covered by hundreds of other musicians.
That summer, Lightfoot performed at the Newport Folk Festival, the same year Dylan rattled audiences when he shed his folkie persona by playing an electric guitar.
As the folk music boom came to an end in the late 1960s, Lightfoot was already making his transition to pop music with ease.
In 1971, he made his first appearance on the Billboard chart with “If You Could Read My Mind.” It reached No. 5 and has since spawned scores of covers.
Lightfoot’s popularity peaked in the mid-1970s when both his single and album, “Sundown,” topped the Billboard charts, his first and only time doing so.
During his career, Lightfoot collected 12 Juno Awards, including one in 1970 when it was called the Gold Leaf.
In 1986, he was inducted into the Canadian Recording Industry Hall of Fame, now the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He received the Governor General’s award in 1997 and was ushered into the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2001. | https://www.kfornow.com/folk-singer-gordon-lightfoot-passes-away-at-84/ | 2023-05-02 20:36:16 | 0 | https://www.kfornow.com/folk-singer-gordon-lightfoot-passes-away-at-84/ |
Busy is a way of life for Kelly Johnston. Attending UAB to earn her Bachelor of Science degree and keeping neighbors throughout St. Clair County’s skin all a glow as an esthetician means Johnston’s schedule has her constantly on the go.
Originally from Talladega, Johnston now resides in Pell City where she serves her community by helping citizens beautify themselves in her role as an esthetician at Tranquil Massage & Facial Spa located at 1155 Walkers Crossing Road in Pell City.
“I’ve been licensed since 2007,” said Johnston. “An esthetician is a licensed skin care therapist. I’m honored to serve my community in this way.”
Community is important to Johnston. To her, it means togetherness. “Community is about neighbors reaching out to one another to lend a helping hand.”
Another thing near and dear to Johnston’s heart is her family.
“My mom, Dana Ellison is a local realtor with LAH. Her husband, Bill Ellison, is a business developer here in Pell City,” Johnston said. “And then there’s my dog Buddy who’s a long haired Chihuahua mix that I rescued in 2018.”
Helping provide animals a wonderful life is also at the top of Johnston’s to do list.
“We have awesome organizations like Animal Savers of Pell City Incorporated (ASPCI) and the Pell City Animal Control Center helps discarded and abandoned pets find their second chance and ‘furever’ homes,” Johnston said.
Enjoying being close to family and living in a small town, Johnston also loves that Pell City has great shopping.
“We will soon have a shopping center that will rival bigger cities and I love that we have the gently used secondhand shop, Resale to the Rescue that’s run by the ASPCI,” Johnston said.
For Johnston community and family go hand-in-hand.
“I think you can’t have a community without family,” she said. “But personally, both my mom and her husband play vital roles in building the community. Since she sells houses and brings families into Pell City, Bill has been bringing businesses here for over 35 years. Anyone who sells real estate, has a small business, or lives and works here, contributes to building this community.”
Johnston describes her perfect day as a crisp autumn day. “I like a chill in the air. It’s great weather for a cozy sweater and a warm cup of tea.”
When she’s not at work or studying, Johnston enjoys reading and cooking. A few of her favorite things are a sugar free salted caramel and hazelnut latte from the Pell City Coffee Company accompanied with one of their blueberry scones. She loves the sandwiches at Daily Bagel, especially the Lox of Love and likes to have a bit of honey peanut butter ice cream from JNR’s.
Her favorite season is Fall and her favorite holiday is Thanksgiving with Christmas being a close second. “My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade every year.”
Her first concert was Matchbox 20 at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre when she was 14 and her last concert was Hootie and the Blowfish with Barenaked Ladies, also at the same venue.
Looking ahead to the coming year, Johnston is inspired by her impending graduation and something very close to home—her mom.
“The fact that I’m only a year away from my degree inspires me to get up every day and keep going even when I feel like I can’t,” Johnston said. “But my mother is my biggest inspiration and my hero. She has overcome so many obstacles in her life, including beating breast cancer and living everyday as a survivor.”
In 2023, Johnston looks forward to growing the skincare business by gaining new clients at Tranquil Massage & Facial Spa and graduating from UAB.
As for what being a good neighbor means to her, for Johnston it’s all about lending a helping hand. “A good neighbor reaches out even when not asked to and is there to just listen if someone needs it.”
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(AP) – Blockbusters like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” and pop stars like Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Rihanna just got one step closer to getting Oscar nominations.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 95th Oscars, including documentary feature, international film, makeup and hairstyling, score, original song, sound, visual effects and shorts.
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” was along the 15 films shortlisted in the international film category, one of the most competitive. The category also includes already decorated films like “Holy Spider” (Denmark), “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany), “Saint Omer” (France), “Corsage” (Austria), “EO” (Poland), “Return to Seoul” (Cambodia), “Decision to Leave” (South Korea), “Close” (Belgium) and “Argentina, 1985” (Argentina).
The inclusion of “Joyland” marks the first time Pakistan has ever made the shortlist. Most of the directors are first-timers on the shortlist too, with the exception being Iñárritu.
India’s official submission was not S.S. Rajamouli’s popular action epic “RRR,” but rather Pan Nalin’s “Last Film Show,” which made the cut becoming the first film from the country to do so in over 20 years. “RRR” could get nominations in other categories, including for the shortlisted original song “Naatu Naatu.”
Jafar Panâhi was also not put forward to represent Iran, whose selection was not among the 15, and Russia did not submit a film this year.
Documentaries advancing to the next stage of voting include Laura Poitras’s Venice-winning “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about photographer Nan Goldin’s work and activism, Brett Morgen’s David Bowie film “Moonage Daydream,” Daniel Roher’s “Navalny,” about the Russian opposition leader, “The Janes ” about pre-Roe v. Wade activists, “All that Breathes,” “Descendant,” “Fire of Love” and “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.” It is a rather diverse group of stories and filmmakers: Eight were directed by women and four by people of color.
With many below-the-line categories at hand, big-budget sequels like “Avatar,” “Top Gun,” and “Black Panther” were well represented in the effects and sound categories, as well as original song which included Gaga’s “Hold My Hand,” The Weeknd’s “Nothing is Lost” from “Avatar: The Way of Water” and Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther.”
Also on the original song shortlist are Swift’s “Carolina” from “Where the Crawdads Sing,” Drake’s “Time” from “Amsterdam,” LCD Soundsystem’s “New Body Rhumba” from “White Noise,” Selena Gomez’s “My Mind and Me” from the documentary of the same name and Rita Wilson’s “Til You’re Home” from “A Man Called Otto.” Diane Warren also gets another shot at a competitive Oscar with “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman.” Doja Cat’s song from “Elvis” was not eligible.
For the most part, shortlists are determined by members in their respective categories, though the specifics vary from branch to branch: Some have committees, and some have minimum viewing requirements.
“All Quiet on the Western Front” got quite a few spots on the shortlist, including original score, makeup and hair, sound and visual effects.
Among the visual effects, selections were “Jurassic World Dominion, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” while makeup and hairstyling includes films David Cronenberg’s body horror “Crimes of the Future.”
Other films advancing in makeup and hairstyling include “The Whale,” in which Brendan Fraser transforms into a 600-pound man, “Elvis, “Emancipation,” “The Batman,” and the Marilyn Monroe film “Blonde.”
The 15 original scores selected were winnowed from 147 eligible and include “Women Talking” from Hildur Guðnadóttir, “The Fabelmans” from John Williams, “The Banshees of Inisherin” from Carter Burwell, “Babylon” from Justin Hurwitz, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” from Alexandre Desplat and “The Woman King” from Terence Blanchard. Also in the mix are Ludwig Göransson (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), Nicholas Britell (“She Said”) and Son Lux (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”).
Guðnadóttir’s “Tár” score was not eligible, nor was the “Top Gun: Maverick” score, written by Hans Zimmer, Harold Faltermeyer, Lorne Balfe and Gaga.
Nominations for all categories will be announced on Jan. 24. The 95th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 12, and broadcast live on ABC. | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/top-gun-black-panther-advance-in-oscars-shortlist/ | 2022-12-22 00:26:38 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/top-gun-black-panther-advance-in-oscars-shortlist/ |
Legislation calling for safe patient limits follows nurses filing of more than 8,300 official reports of unsafe staffing that jeopardized the safety of their patients in 2022
MNA legislation filed for the 2023-2024 term focuses on patient care conditions, equal access to essential healthcare services, and workplace violence protection
BOSTON, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The more than 25,000 nurses and healthcare professionals of the Massachusetts Nurses Association have joined with allies in the Massachusetts House and Senate to file new legislation that would enact safe patient limits for all hospital units through a process led by the Department of Public Health.
The measure responds to a longstanding and growing crisis in Commonwealth patients' access to appropriate nursing care, a crisis that is endangering patients and has driven thousands of nurses away from hospital bedside nursing. The most glaring symptom of this crisis is the recent flurry of high profile strikes by nurses, including the groundbreaking 10-month strike by the St. Vincent Hospital nurses in 2021/2022, as well as more recent strikes or planned strikes in Minnesota, New York and California including several thousand nurses and allied health professionals – all of which called for safer staffing with safer patient limits as a primary issue.
The new patient safety legislation is entitled "An Act Promoting Patient Safety and Equitable Access to Care" and is sponsored by Sen. Lydia Edwards, D-Third Suffolk, and Rep. Natalie Higgins, D-4th Worcester. It features a different approach to developing nurse-patient limits in each unit of acute care hospitals than Question 1, the ballot question put forward by the MNA in 2018. The bill would empower DPH to hold public stakeholder hearings and promulgate regulations that establish specific limits on the number of patients a registered nurse shall be assigned to care for at one time.
"There is absolutely no question that limiting the number of patients a nurse cares for at one time is safer for patients and the only solution to the current nurse staffing crisis," said Katie Murphy, a practicing ICU nurse, and President of the Massachusetts Nurses Association. "To be clear, there is no shortage of nurses in Massachusetts, there is a shortage of nurses willing to continue working under the current conditions and staffing practices implemented by profit-driven hospital administrators over the last 15 years. The benefits of safe patient limits were settled science before the pandemic, and today there is even more research and nurse experiences to support this legislation."
"It's about safety," said bill sponsor Senator Lydia Edwards, D-Third Suffolk. "Safety for patients and safety for nurses. I want to know that my nurse is working under the best conditions. To know what works best for nurses means we have to listen to them."
"I am proud to introduce legislation that will help address our nurse staffing and care quality crisis by directing the Department of Public Health to gather feedback and establish safe patient limits for all of our hospitals," said bill sponsor Representative Natalie Higgins, D-4th Worcester. "Our nurses have fought to protect our loved ones during the pandemic, and we need to make sure they can continue to provide that care safely for all of our neighbors."
The approach featured in the new MNA safe patient limits legislation is like that taken by California when it enacted a safe patient limits law in 1999 and implemented it in 2004. Research has shown that California's law reduced nurse workloads, improved recruitment, and retention of nurses, and had a favorable impact on quality of care.
NEW RESEARCH AND DECADES OF SCIENCE SUPPORT SAFE PATIENT LIMITS
A study recently published by a group of professors at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing – including Linda Aiken and Matthew D. McHugh, two of the world's preeminent researchers of nurse-patient limits – demonstrates that nurse staffing problems predate the pandemic, were created by the hospital industry, and require permanent improvements to nurse working conditions. The highlights, as presented in the December 2022 edition of the journal Nursing Outlook, include:
- Better staffed hospitals before pandemic had better outcomes during it.
- Policies to prevent chronic hospital nurse understaffing are needed.
- Minimum hospital patient/nurse ratio policies recommended.
"Chronic nurse understaffing and poor work environments in hospitals that existed prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and worsened during it are the major explanations for why many hospitals cannot hire and keep enough nurses even though Covid-19 hospitalizations have dropped," the study authors concluded.
"Without fundamental improvements in hospital nurse staffing and work environments, the shortage of nursing care in hospitals will not likely abate even after the Covid-19 pandemic has run its course. Increasing the supply of nurses through short-term emergency measures is unlikely to solve the problem. Hospitals need to hire more permanent registered nurses, provide more favorable work environments, and earn back the confidence of nurses that quality and safety of patient care are institutional priorities. Because most hospitals have not implemented substantial improvements in either staffing or work environments over the past decade (Aiken et al., 2018; Sloane et al., 2018), policymakers should mandate hospitals to meet minimum safe nurse staffing standards." (emphasis added)
The study joins decades of scientific research showing the benefits of safely limiting the number of patients a nurse cares for at one time. Recent research on the topic includes:
- "Patient outcomes and cost savings associated with hospital safe nurse staffing legislation: an observational study," BMJ Open, December 2021.
- "Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study," BMJ Quality and Safety, September 2022.
- "The association between nurse staffing and inpatient mortality: A shift-level retrospective longitudinal study," International Journal of Nursing Studies, August 2021.
- "Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals," Lancet, May 2021.
- "Is Hospital Nurse Staffing Legislation in the Public's Interest? An Observational Study in New York State," Medical Care, May 2021.
- "Staffing levels and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes: Umbrella review and qualitative study," Health Services Research, March 2021.
- "Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: an observational study," BMJ Quality and Safety, August 2020.
In addition, there is significant research specific to the California safe patient limits law and research connecting patient limits to safety in Massachusetts hospitals:
- Research Linking Safe Patient Limits to Patient Safety in Massachusetts Hospitals (PDF)
- Research Showing How a Law Setting Safe Patient Limits Has Improved Patient Care for California Hospitals (PDF)
8,300+ UNSAFE STAFFING REPORTS FILED IN 2022
Faced with this industry-created crisis, nurses in 2022 filed at least 8,320 official unsafe staffing reports at hospitals across Massachusetts. These reports document to hospital administrators instances in which nurses were forced to take excessive patient assignments that "poses a serious threat to the safety and well-being of my patients."
"Objection and Documentation of Unsafe Staffing" forms, as they are called, are used by nurses in all MNA-represented hospitals, which is 73% of the state's acute care hospitals. They are a tool for nurses to document, in real time, any situation where they come on their shift and are given an assignment that is unsafe for their patients, which prevents them from delivering the quality care those patients require.
The MNA has established a webpage featuring examples of unsafe staffing reports at www.massnurses.org/unsafeexamples. A newborn baby, who was supposed to be cared for by a single nurse, lay screaming for 10 minutes in a pediatric unit on Cape Cod while nurses struggled to manage another patient admitted in severe pain. Patients needed continuous telemetry and oxygen monitoring but are in an unsafe situation in a hallway in the Brigham and Women's Hospital ED. A Beth Israel Plymouth nurse struggled with a high patient assignment in the Senior Behavioral Health Unit, including patients at risk for falls, with impulsivity and severe aggression. "This is not safe!" wrote a desperate nurse in the Cooley Dickinson Hospital ED about a shift when they need 11 nurses and had only nine.
The examples include a vivid explanation of a harrowing patient assignment given to a St. Vincent Hospital nurse. "Even with help from my colleagues, it was a terrible day, which left me sitting in my car, weeping, a broken heap of a nurse. I really wanted to walk that day," the nurse wrote.
These reports are an effort by nurses to communicate their concerns to management so that steps can be taken to improve care. In fact, in the hospitals represented by the MNA, nurses often meet monthly with hospital administrators where they present these reports in the hope of creating meaningful solutions. But rarely, if ever, are steps taken to address these issues. In other instances, nurses, like the nurses at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton had to file a federal complaint with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services over chronic and dangerous understaffing and patient safety concerns in the hospital's emergency department, after failed attempts to convince to address the crisis.
NEW STAFFING BILL EVOLVES FROM PREVIOUS EFFORTS
In 2019, the MNA filed the Workforce Development and Patient Safety Act following the defeat of Question 1. The legislation was an effort to clear up the confusion and misinformation caused by the intense debate over the issue of safe patient limits for nurses and the hospital industry spending more than $30 million on TV and radio advertising, as well as on direct mail to voters and policymakers, much of it containing misleading information about the issue to scare the public into opposing the measure. That legislation would have funded independent research studies on nurse staffing, the supply of nurses, and measures of care quality.
Since the pandemic hit, those issues have become much clearer. As evidenced in the research described above, numerous studies have shown the efficacy of safe patient limits in several different places. As WBUR has documented, there is not a shortage of nurses in Massachusetts. Rather, there is a shortage of nurses willing to work under the current conditions at the bedside. In addition, countless media stories and the MNA's State of Nursing in Massachusetts survey demonstrate a care quality problem that must be addressed with nurse retention and recruitment tools that are accountable to the public and not just hospital executives. According to the 2022 survey, more than 8 in 10 nurses have seen hospital care quality worsen significantly, with 69% saying their biggest obstacle was understaffing and having too many patients.
"Now is the time for safe patient limits to help fix our broken healthcare system, address our staffing crisis and give the public a way to hold hospitals accountable for the quality of nursing care," Murphy said. "Everyone deserves a safe standard of hospital care, and this advocacy – this fight we continue to wage on behalf of our patients – won't be over until we achieve that goal."
HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES CALLED FOR POST-QUESTION 1 NURSE STAFFING SOLUTIONS
After Question 1 was defeated in 2018, the Massachusetts hospital industry explicitly said it would continue looking for solutions. MHA President & CEO Steve Walsh said in a statement, "This is not a victory, but an opportunity to continue to find solutions together as health care professionals -- working together, as one, for patients. Question 1 forced some difficult and necessary discussions about the future of healthcare and the future of our workforce going forward."
The Cape Cod Times reported that Michael Lauf, president, and CEO of Cape Cod Healthcare, sent a statement to staff after the Question 1 vote saying now is the "opportunity to begin a greater conversation" about reforming health care. However, when the pandemic hit our state, Lauf decided to furlough more than 600 hospital staff, and then closed the maternity unit at Falmouth Hospital. A report subsequently issued by the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association did not include any enforceable staffing improvement measures.
"Unlike nurses, hospital executives cannot be trusted to fix our broken healthcare system and staffing crisis," Murphy said. "When the pandemic hit, hospitals were already barely staffed to meet corporate financial priorities. Hospital executives then exclaimed in wonder that they did not have enough healthcare workers. Safe patient limits will help halt this damaging cycle and prepare us better for future health crises."
In addition to the new safe patient limits law, the MNA is filing with its legislative sponsors nearly 20 other bills. Proposed legislation includes clarifying the existing ban on nurse mandatory overtime, workplace violence prevention, protection for essential services, and bills to address the mental healthcare crisis. New legislation filed this term by the MNA includes bills to prevent home health violence, address the danger of surgical smoke, and examine the state of essential services across the Commonwealth. Click here for the full MNA 2023-2024 legislative agenda.
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Rangers seek pair accused of 'harassing' bison calf in Grand Teton National Park
Intentionally interfering with park wildlife is considered harassment and is punishable by law, according to park officials.
MOORE, Wy. – National Park Service rangers have opened an investigation into two individuals who are accused of "harassing" a bison calf in Grand Teton National Park on Sunday afternoon.
According to the NPS, investigators are seeking any information regarding two men who were seen approaching and touching the calf about 1 p.m. Sunday at the southern end of Elk Ranch Flats. Information can be reported by calling the park's tip line at 307-739-3367.
Intentionally interfering with park wildlife is considered harassment and is punishable by law, according to park officials.
In the case of calves and other offspring, interactions with humans can cause the wildlife to be rejected by their mothers and their pack, officials said. This rejection can put the offspring in danger and present a hazard to humans, so they are often euthanized as a result.
Any cases of harassment of wildlife in Grand Teton National Park can be reported to the Teton Interagency Dispatch Center at 307-739-3301.
Grand Teton, Yellowstone park rangers exasperated over tourists’ too-close encounters with wildlife
A spate of recent encounters between humans and animals in America’s national parks put the safety of those involved at risk – with one leading to deadly consequences.
Many of those encounters occurred in Yellowstone National Park, where animals such as bison, bears and other wildlife freely roam the grounds and often come within mere feet of tourists and their vehicles as the wildlife cross the roads.
No other location in the world has the amount of wildlife and the amount of visitation all in the same place, according to Yellowstone superintendent Cam Sholly.
"You go to Africa and see a lot of animals, no people. You go to Alaska and see a lot of animals, no people. You come here, you see a lot of animals, and you see a lot of people," Sholly said in an interview with FOX Weather correspondent Robert Ray.
This close proximity between man and beast has led to a number of potentially dangerous situations, in which tourists have been seen approaching wildlife to snap a few pictures.
For photographer Bruce Becker, a more frustrating situation is one involving professional photographers who come too close to animals for the sake of a good shot.
"They're out there getting too close to get the shot -- no shot is worth an animal's life," Becker said.
Other tourists have come even closer to wildlife. Over Memorial Day weekend, park visitors placed a baby elk into their car and brought the calf to the West Yellowstone, Montana, Police Department.
One week prior, another park visitor helped a baby bison out of a waterway. This encounter led the pack to reject the calf, leading park officials to euthanize the animal so it would no longer be a hazard to itself and humans. Officials also charged the park visitor with a $500 fine and a series of other fees.
HAWAII MAN FINED FOLLOWING DEATH OF BISON CALF AT YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
"We just ask that people, if they come across the baby animal, leave it where it is, give it space, don't disturb it, and definitely don't touch it," said Justin Schwabedisse, park official at Grand Teton National Park. "If we as humans touch that animal, the mother may come back and abandon that animal. So, just leave the animal in its place."
The National Park Service cautions park visitors from approaching wildlife. Bison, in particular, have injured more people in Yellowstone than any other animal.
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Russia's intentions in Ukraine are becoming clearer. Earlier this month, an official installed by Russia in the Kherson region said he wants Russia to annex the area, just as it did with nearby Crimea in 2014. The Russians have occupied Kherson since early March and are trying to turn it into a Russian city. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports.
FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: When Russia recently celebrated Victory Day, which marks the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany, Russian-installed officials organized a celebration in Kherson as well.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
LANGFITT: They put up billboards with hammers and sickles on otherwise empty streets, as captured in this Russian government video.
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UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting in non-English language).
LANGFITT: Several dozen people went to a local monument to the war dead, where they waved red Soviet-era flags. Thank you, Grandpa, for the victory, they chanted. Russia has installed a Ukrainian named Kirill Stremousov as deputy head of its government there. Stremousov, who's best known as a pro-Russian blogger, says he plans to phase in the ruble as the local currency. He laid out his vision for the region on YouTube.
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KIRILL STREMOUSOV: (Through interpreter) We will integrate as much as possible into the Russian Federation. All those citizens in the Kherson region will have the right to obtain Russian citizenship, Russian passports so they can be a part of a state that has the potential to provide stable social assistance and security.
LANGFITT: But Kherson residents I spoke with say life there is hardly secure or stable - for instance, a woman named Olha (ph). She's 31. She said Russian-controlled checkpoints have choked off food shipments, and the new Russian-backed government disbanded many public services.
OLHA: (Through interpreter) There's no food, no police. Nobody will protect you. You have no one to turn to. You're just scared. At some point, it just breaks your spirit, and you want to leave.
LANGFITT: Last month, Olha fled to the Black Sea coast city of Odesa. Like others I spoke with, she asked we not use her full name for fear of retaliation by Russian authorities. Kherson had a population of 290,000. Some 40% of residents have left since the Russian takeover, according to the former mayor. Because Kherson fell quickly, Russian troops did not destroy it, as they did to Mariupol.
In recent weeks, Russian soldiers have sealed off the area of Kherson they occupy, worsening food and medicine shortages. Until that happened, a woman, who asked that we only use her first initial, S, had been shuttling from her home in Kherson to bring in medicine from the nearby city of Mykolaiv. S, who's in her early 40s and the mother of three, says some Russian soldiers she encounters are polite, but others, especially from Ukraine's eastern separatist regions, terrify her.
S: (Interpreter) They swear a lot. They look like they are under the influence of drugs. When they thought I got too close to a bus at a checkpoint, they fired an automatic rifle in front of my car. I got out of the car, and one soldier pointed the machine gun literally near my stomach. It was terrible, very scary.
LANGFITT: A man who asked we only use his first initial, A, has also run medicine in and out of the Kherson region and taken out people who want to leave. A says some Russian occupying soldiers try to present themselves as helpful.
A: (Through interpreter) The Russians give people what they call Russian humanitarian aid, which is really things they've previously looted from our supermarket.
LANGFITT: S says she believes the Russians then use this for propaganda purposes.
S: (Through interpreter) Some people come to them because they have nothing to eat. The Russians record this. As one person gives the aid, other Russians write down the passport info of those who receive it. They make videos. I've seen it.
LANGFITT: In addition, S says, some soldiers tell her she can only rely on Russia for security in this war.
S: (Through interpreter) One soldier said, only Russia will help you - only us. We will do better. I said, it used to be very nice until you came here. And he was like, no, you are wrong. Everything will be fine. Only we will help you. I said, do you understand that if everything was great, people wouldn't run away from their homes? Do you see how many people want to flee the city? He looked at me and said, move, fast.
LANGFITT: S says the medicine runs in and out of Kherson have been harrowing.
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LANGFITT: To avoid the fighting, she drives down narrow dirt tracks through the forest. The branches of trees slap the sides of a red hatchback, as you can hear in this video shot. S says she carefully follows the tire tracks of previous vehicles to avoid setting off landmines. A's medicine and evacuation runs are similarly terrifying.
A: (Through interpreter) During every single trip, we come under mortar fire. We spend the night in Russian territory, in a field with children and women. And the journey, which previously took me 140 miles in 4 hours, now takes two and a half days and 470 miles.
LANGFITT: Last week, a Russian soldier allegedly shot and killed a fellow driver who was trying to evacuate people, according to local news sources. A estimates that he and other drivers with whom he works have brought out 100 people from Kherson, delivered two tons of food and 440 pounds of medicine. He says the waiting list of those trying to leave runs to 15,000. S says that in her exchanges at checkpoints, she's tired of Russian soldiers telling her how they're making Kherson better.
A: (Non-English language spoken).
LANGFITT: "They said it's a liberation. A liberation from what?" she says. "The only thing they bring here is pain, tears and fear."
Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Odesa.
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Episode 4: "Rocky's Stoop"
In a city that has seen dramatic change since Rocky’s time, why do so many still identify with this movie character? We tour the neighborhoods where Rocky lived to understand their modern-day challenges, like development, violence and addiction. Along the way, we meet courageous advocates and public artists who fight every day to bring hope and opportunity to their communities.
Show Notes
- Rocky, original screenplay
- Michelle Angela Ortiz, Our Market Project
- Operation Save Our City, Roz Pichardo FB Page
- Learn more about “Mama Sunshine”
- Kensington Corridor Trust website
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Episode Transcript
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PAUL FARBER, HOST: It’s arguably the most iconic scene in the entire Rocky series. The training montage in the first movie.
An amateur boxer just found out he has a one-in-a-million shot at the title. So he downs a glass of raw eggs, puts on a gray sweatsuit and Converse sneakers, and runs through the city — along the waterfront, over some train tracks… and then…
[RUNNING SOUNDS]
Up 9th Street, a commercial corridor known as the Italian Market. Rocky passes outdoor produce stands, with little fires blazing from trash cans to keep the vendors warm. A guy on the street throws an orange at him, and he catches it.
It feels triumphant, like a homecoming. But some longtime residents say that’s not actually how it played out.
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MICHELLE ANGELA ORTIZ: When Rocky was coming down the market, people were upset. They were like throwing fruit at him as he was just running down, because there was no conversation of, “Hey, we’re doing this movie and we want to do this.” Like he just literally, they just popped up with a camera and started running through the market. They had to have a conversation and just say, “Hey, we’re just trying to get this shot and just kind of running through.” And so, you know, then we were like, “OK.” So some folks ran behind Rocky. But that was all completely improvised.
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PF: This is The Statue. I’m your host, Paul Farber.
Today on The Statue, we’ll explore the city that’s home to the monument to Rocky Balboa. We’re going to take you to the neighborhoods where movie Rocky lived and trained. You’ll meet residents who are now actively fighting to keep their communities alive — and whose relationships with Rocky are complicated and profound.
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MAO: My name is Michelle Angela Ortiz. And titles are usually visual artist, muralist, filmmaker, and an educator too. But I also see myself as a visual storyteller. I’m a child of immigrants. So we’ll start with that, ‘cause that’s a huge, huge influence.
PF: Michelle’s neighborhood has a big reputation.
MAO: People always like to just blurt out about the market, “And this is where Rocky ran. Rocky ran through these streets.” Right? And so it’s like this connection to Rocky, connection to the movie.
PF: Rocky is often known for being from South Philly. In pop culture, the neighborhood is also known for him.
MAO: And I always say, you know, we’re just so much more than that.
PF: Michelle knows the neighborhood as well as anyone. She’s a lifelong resident.
MAO: I live on the same block, right? So right across the street from where I was born and raised, I bought the house across the street.
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And I’m literally, just, I would say, what, 25 foot steps away from the market. And that’s how close I am. Like, I can literally look out my door and check to see if a stand, a produce stand is open before I walk over to purchase any produce.
PF: Something about the market has always felt familiar for Michelle and her family. Even when it was thousands of miles from home.
MAO: The outdoor market was a place that really reminded my parents of home away from home. You know, my mother had early memories of her and my grandmother selling food at the outdoor markets in the plaza in Puerto Rico, even, you know, my grandfather, my father’s father, worked on the land. And so there’s all these things that really connect us to this place, to this place that felt really for them, really familiar in a city that they’re not necessarily from, but made their home.
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PF: Michelle’s story isn’t unique. This neighborhood has changed a lot since Rocky’s time.
In the last few decades, countless immigrant families have found a new home in Philly’s famous 9th Street Market. It’s no longer the domain of just Italian families — but a place of commerce for Black, Vietnamese, Mexican, and Central and South American communities.
Michelle thinks that to love the neighborhood means more than just treating it as a place to shoot a highlight reel.
MAO: And what I say is that, if we’re a great place for movies, or if we’re a great place for tourism shots that you see when Phillies are fighting in the World Series, right? Then we should also be seen as a place where the city should be investing in small businesses and those produce vendors and finding ways to support, you know, comprehensive policies that help the market, which is struggling. So, you know, when I think about Rocky and the story behind that, it’s also just representative of, I feel like, the frustration of our people, our community, that we’re just not there for those like 15 minutes of filming, right? It’s like, there’s so much more value that we have, and we should be a place where we’re receiving those resources and investment from the city.
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PF: Investing in the neighborhood has become a passion for Michelle. She founded an art project called Our Market. She hosts multi-lingual dinners with residents, and tries to identify concrete needs that the community can solve through public art.
Whether that’s custom lightboxes to keep the community safe at night. Or new hand-crafted produce stands to replace old ones. Michelle sees it as a way to keep the market vibrant, for generations to come.
MAO: It’s like having these like really physical, tangible representations of memory, because my concern is that if we don’t take the time to do that right now and to reflect on these stories, they can very easily be lost.
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SYLVESTER STALLONE: I don’t know how many times I’m gonna get a chance to visit this place. So maybe this is the last time I sit here on the Rocky steps.
PF: That’s Sylvester Stallone on his Instagram page. This is five years ago, back during the filming of Creed 2. He goes back to the neighborhood where Rocky lived.
SS: Great memories. 1818. Pretty fantastic. Wow.
PF: He goes up and touches the address out front. 1818 East Tusculum Street. A brick, corner rowhome with a modest stoop. This house, where Rocky dreamt of becoming a champ, is not in South Philly.
It’s actually five miles north, in a neighborhood called Kensington.
SS: There’s just no end to Rocky. You keep punching.
PF: This is a big misconception from the series. Everyone seems to think Rocky is from South Philadelphia. Even the original screenplay says he lives in, quote, “the most deprived section of South Philly.”
But in reality, Rocky’s house, his local bar and pet shop, even his boxing gym… they’re all in Kensington. In many scenes, you can even read the street signs and recognize local landmarks.
The fact that this Oscar-winning film is actually set here, but that the neighborhood gets none of the credit — makes it feel like this place is an underdog, too. So we went to the heart of Kensington, to hear directly from people with a stake in the community.
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ROSALIND PICHARDO: So we are at Susquehanna and Front Street at the old Rocky Gym.
PF: First, we visited the building that was once Mighty Mick’s Gym. It’s closed down. Across the street, Adrian’s old pet shop is a heap of rubble. Demolished, likely for redevelopment.
Our tour guide was a multi-generational Kensington resident. This is where she calls home.
RP: My name is Rosalind Pichardo, and founder of Operation Save Our City. I’m a harm reductionist, a community activist, and advocate here in Kensington.
PF: We spoke in fits and starts due to a local phenomenon.
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MICHAEL OLCOTT, PRODUCER: What’s that sound?
RP: The El. That’s the train! Any time we’re outside and we’re having our meetings outside, we literally call that the Kensington pause.
PF: The Kensington pause, a time to stop and reset as the noisy El train goes rattling overhead. Every eight minutes or so, the train turns everyone to statues, until it passes by.
RP: Like it’s no need to try to talk over the train. You just pause and reflect on what’s happening at the moment. And then we just wait for the next train.
MICHAELA WINBERG, PRODUCER: I guess that’s what we’ll do.
RP: It’s a lot of pauses.
MW: Yeah.
PF: In Rocky’s time, the neighborhood was an industrial hub. A working-class community with jobs and opportunities, which earned the city the reputation of “Workshop of the World.”
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But decades of disinvestment have changed things. Families have lived here for generations, but now many are being priced out by a development boom. Those who remain are grappling with the concurrent emergencies of a billion-dollar opioid epidemic and higher rates of gun violence.
Roz was born and raised here.
RP: So here in this park, the Norris Square Park, my mom would let us come out for a couple of hours or whatever. And me and my twin sister, my brother, and older sister would come here and we would play hide and go seek.
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PF: As warm as her childhood was in Kensington, she also experienced pain.
RP: I think, I mean, for me, experiencing the immense trauma, you know, losing my brother to murder, my boyfriend to murder. I’m a survivor of an attempted homicide. And then 2001, lost my twin sister to suicide. And then, you know, so all these layers of trauma, you know, it needs somewhere to go, right? You can wallow in it or you can do something about it.
PF: Kensington has a national reputation for being ground zero for the opioid epidemic.
NEWSCASTER: It’s broad daylight in Philadelphia, so it’s plain to see this heroin deal in the making.
PF: The neighborhood has been dominated by an open-air drug market, one that contributed to nearly 1,300 fatal overdoses in Philadelphia in 2021.
In response, Roz founded an organization called Operation Save Our City. It’s an outlet for her own trauma, and a desperate attempt to make her community safer. When she serves, she calls everyone her sunshine.
RP: I just started serving people out of my minivan, like snacks and, you know, giving them socks and clothes and like, the necessities they need for that day.
PF: Here she is giving out meals on a Kensington street corner.
RP: Hey guys, this is Roz. And I am here at the meal site. We have delicious lunches today if you guys want to come out and get some lunches.
PF: This is every day for Roz. Some days she’s up before dawn.
RP: Good morning everyone. It’s a bit early I know. It’s super, super early, I know. The sun’s not up or nothin’.
PF: All in the name of feeding her community.
RP: So I’m on my way to go to work to make bread pudding. We got a donation of all this bread. So now I’m up at the crack of dawn, for my sunshines to make bread pudding. I’m good with that.
PF: She doesn’t let a celebration pass her by, either. Last summer, she hosted an impromptu birthday party for a friend on the street. There was chocolate cake — enough to share.
[PEOPLE SINGING HAPPY BIRTHDAY]
[MUSIC]
PF: Roz also learned to administer Narcan, a fast-acting, life-saving nasal spray that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose. She carries it on her at all times.
RP: And I’m probably 1,049 overdose reversals in, since 2018.
PF: That’s more than 1,000 overdoses that Roz has reversed, single-handedly. One thousand, forty-nine people, who were on death’s door, who she brought back to life with a spray from a tiny bottle.
How does she remember that number so precisely?
RP: I carry this small little Bible. And every time I reverse an overdose, I put in like a time, a location. No names, just time, location. How many Narcans it took to bring them back, whether they’re white or Black or Hispanic.
PF: Roz’s Bible serves the vital role of preserving memory. Like a personal, handheld monument to the people whose lives she has saved.
RP: So a lot of times people who’ve experienced a lot of trauma, I mean, and people don’t talk about this, and even outreach workers, frontline workers, there’s always a memory lapse. Those memory issues that a lot of us have because of the trauma that we’re seeing every day. You know, I face a lot of my issues head on and I’m not afraid to talk about it. So memory is one of them for me. Like I want to be able to remember who that person was, what they look like, what I experienced, and writing things down definitely helps.
[MIDROLL BREAK]
[MUSIC]
PF: Fighting addiction is just one front of the battle in Kensington. There’s also a development boom that’s pricing longtime residents out of their community.
In Kensington, developers are swooping in, purchasing bundles of properties and flipping them, or raising the rent, forcing many residents out and making Roz’s community work more difficult.
RP: They don’t want the people who are unhoused and the people who are suffering from substance use disorder that visible in a corridor like that, you know, because it’s changing. I mean, everything is changing.
PF: Helping these struggling families is the daily focus of Adriana Abizadeh, executive director of the Kensington Corridor Trust.
ADRIANA ABIZADEH: I think it’s like, almost like the American story, right? Like, pull yourself up, figure it out. I will denote that, like, not everyone has the boots and the bootstraps.
PF: She explained to us how developers make the situation in Kensington worse.
AA: Purchasing these properties in Kensington and building up a portfolio. The kind of interesting thing I guess you could say about a lot of private developers and speculators is that they have time. So time is not as critical or essential for them as it would be, let’s say, for like a mom and pop who owns one building. They’re fine to wait 10 years for the property values to rise and then cash out, right? And so they’ve now held onto a property that could have been otherwise utilized and productive and potentially affordable. And it’s just kind of been sitting offline, because they were just waiting for it to increase in value.
NEWSCASTER: And when it comes to the housing market in our area, one thing is clear: it is pricing people out.
SECOND NEWSCASTER: So much so that researchers say the average income here may not be enough to support the average home price if it keeps climbing.
PF: When profits are the priority, affordability and quality of life fall by the wayside. Not that there’s anything new going on here.
AA: Yeah, it’s just, it’s super predatory. But besides that, you know, it’s also like the American way, if you would, right? Like it’s the system that we have had in place for a very, very long time.
PF: That’s why she works at the Kensington Corridor Trust. It’s a nonprofit that fights gentrification by buying land and using a collective financial structure, maintaining it at a manageable price for generations. That way, residents can use these properties as housing or retail space, and re-invest back into the neighborhood.
AA: Most folks in Kensington would tell you like they love their neighbors, and they love their house of worship, and they love being so close to the El, and like they’ve totally tuned out the seven-second pause, right? We call it the Kensington pause. The train goes by, everyone stops talking for a second. We take a pause, and we keep going.
[TRAIN SOUNDS]
The lived experience of folks here is a difficult one. And folks are navigating a lot of challenges, you know, by continuing to live inside of this neighborhood. But I think there’s also a lot of beauty here. And there’s a ton of community here.
PF: Through all of this, Adriana sees an overlap of Rocky’s story with Kensington’s.
AA: I think Rocky is just like the tough fight story, right? Like the person that folks didn’t expect to win, the underdog, if you would. Just like striving, and having grit, and constantly working at something, and setting goals, and pushing yourself. It feels like there’s a ton of alignment with that for Kensington, because I think you can’t give up.
PF: Just as it was for the struggling fighter, the only way out for Kensington is through.
AA: Like Kensington does not have the option to give up, because we will be failing an entire neighborhood. We’d be giving up on 32,000 people. That’s insane to think that anyone would do that.
PF: Roz sees a little bit of Rocky in herself, too, walking the same streets a half century later.
RP: And I know a lot of people. Like Rocky knew everybody, right? People would be yelling out the window, “Rocky!” And that’s kind of sometimes how I feel. When you show people compassion, empathy, love, and no judgment, and that’s how Rocky was.
PF: Rocky made the most of the chance to win a seemingly insurmountable fight. With the odds stacked against her, Roz is trying to do the same.
RP: Rocky was like, listen, I got one task and that’s to win this fight. And it’s kind of like that for me. I want to win the fight of reducing stigma, of practicing harm reduction, sharing harm reduction, teaching harm reduction. And when you’re in the community for that long, doing the work, and people know you, it’s like Rocky. Like I’m like Rocky’s little sister or something.
[MUSIC]
PF: Ever since she was a kid, Roz has internalized Rocky’s climb up the Art Museum steps, a few neighborhoods removed from Kensington.
RP: What I do remember is, when I watched Rocky, dreaming of going to the Rocky, to the Art Museum, to the, we call it, the Rocky steps. Going to the Art Museum, and running it. I just remember wanting to do that. And, like my family didn’t really, like, travel outside of North Philly very much.
PF: When she finally got the chance to run the steps herself, Roz says it was challenging — but meaningful.
RP: I just remember the first day I ran the steps and I was like, you know, like Rocky at the top and heavy breathing, probably about to pass out. But I remember just running and being so excited, like, “Man, I ran the Rocky steps.” And like, this is a real person. Like, this is a real guy from Philly, you know?
It’s one of those things where you like, good energy, good love, persevering, and just this sense of not giving up. I remember when I started working with families of homicide victims, I was like, man, these steps is like, so important. Like, everyone views these steps as awareness of overcoming, of, like, all of these good things of, like, doing something really good.
[SOUNDS OF OUTDOOR MEMORIAL SERVICE]
PF: Roz has organized memorials all over Philadelphia, like this one.
The feeling she had at the top of the Rocky steps, that connection to the underdog character, pushed her to help organize a vigil there, too.
RP: So it was a memorial. I want to say it was National Remembrance Day. And it was a lot of homicides that year, and it was a lot of unsolved cases. And I was doing a call out for families to bring their images.
[MUSIC]
PF: Roz set up a memorial for homicide victims, filling the steps with their memories. She created a place for their families and friends to gather, to mourn.
When it comes to the gun violence crisis, there’s no time for bronze or marble. This memorial was more personal.
RP: And I remember collecting, you know, all of these shoes and images of people who had passed on. And it took a couple of months, but I finally, I had got the steps completely filled with images and shoes of loved ones that passed on. I’m like, I really did something on these steps that means so much. That means like, you’ve accomplished something. That’s kind of like what Rocky did. You know, he overcame a lot of people who said he couldn’t, a lot of people have said he wouldn’t make it, a lot of people said he couldn’t finish, a lot of people said he couldn’t win.
PF: For Roz, the Rocky story turned a set of steps into a place fit for a vigil.
RP: It was a great feeling to get the steps filled, you know, with images. I didn’t want to leave anybody, like, behind. Because there’s times where people will have these events and they would like, not bring my brother, you know, I’m like, “Well, my brother was murdered too. Like, why isn’t he acknowledged?” So it’s like this sense of including everyone in this moment, because it’s a remembrance thing, you know? Don’t matter if the case is solved or unsolved, we always want our loved ones to be acknowledged, you know?
PF: And when Roz placed her brother’s photo on the steps, alongside so many others gone too soon, she felt like they had finally made it.
It’s not just Roz. In the shadow of the Rocky statue, this is the spot where, as a city, we mourn, parade, go on strike, protest, rise up. The steps are the ultimate people’s pedestal.
RP: It’s big. You can see every image on there. Like, you can’t, you can’t miss the image. You can’t. Everybody goes to the steps.
PF: To support Roz and the other advocates we interviewed in this episode, you can check out the links in our show notes.
[THEME MUSIC]
Next time on The Statue, we’re headed to Rocky’s home away from home: Hollywood, the world capital of blurring art and life.
PF IN WAX MUSEUM: Are you allowed to touch the wax statues?
WAX MUSEUM EMPLOYEE: Not their faces.
PF IN WAX MUSEUM: Not their faces, but anything else?
PF: We track down the sculptor who created the Rocky statue, who says he didn’t just make a movie prop. He made an icon.
A. THOMAS SCHOMBERG: I was trying to create as much as anything Rocky Balboa, not just Sly Stallone.
PF: Then, we go behind the scenes to see the Rocky statue come to life on stage.
ROBERT SALVIA: Where am I tonight? I am at the Walnut Street Theatre, totally stoked up, ready for my man Rocky. We are ready to go.
PF: This is The Statue. I’m your host, Paul Farber. Our producers are Michael Olcott and Michaela Winberg. Our executive producers are Tom Grahsler and Paul Farber. Our engineer is Charlie Kaier.
Sound design and mixing by Jon Ehrens for Rowhome Productions. Rowhome’s executive producers are Alex Lewis and John Myers.
Marketing support is provided by The Podglomerate.
Our tile art was made by William Hodgson. Our theme song is a remix of Bill Conti’s Gonna Fly Now, created by Moqita, that’s Justin Geller and Billy Dufala. Special thanks to Gabriel Coffey, Kayla Watkins, Grant Hill, Avi Wolfman-Arent, and the Monument Lab team especially Laurie Allen, Lola Bakare, Aubree Penney, Gebby Keny, Clare Fisher, and Florie Hutchinson.
The Statue is a production of WHYY and part of the NPR podcast network, in partnership with Paul Farber Projects, and with in-kind support from Monument Lab. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
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Producers: Michael Olcott, Michaela Winberg
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Tile Art: William Hodgson
Theme Song: Justin Geller and Billy Dufala of MoqitaSpecial Thanks to Kayla Watkins, Grant Hill, Avi Wolfman-Arent & Gabriel Coffey
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'Rust' to be finished, still star Alec Baldwin as he faces involuntary manslaughter charges, attorney says
Alec Baldwin, who is set to face involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of a crew member during a "Rust" film rehearsal, will continue starring in the lead role, a production attorney told CNN on Friday.
As the film proceeds, operations will include "on-set safety supervisors and union crew members and will bar any use of working weapons or any ammunition," said Melina Spadone, attorney for Rust Movie Productions.
Spadone's remarks come a day after prosecutors announced plans to charge Baldwin and the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, in the on-set shooting death of Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 at a ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Hutchins, the film's director of photography, was struck and killed by a live round of ammunition Baldwin fired from a prop gun, and director Joel Souza was wounded in the right shoulder. Souza will continue directing the film as production moves forward, Spadone said.
Baldwin, who is also a producer of the film, did not answer reporters' requests for comment on the charges while walking into his Manhattan home on Friday. A source close to Baldwin told CNN on Friday that he plans to complete the movie.
Despite the fatal shooting being ruled an accident by the New Mexico chief medical investigator, prosecutors believe a crime was committed.
"Just because it's an accident doesn't mean that it's not criminal," First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said Thursday as she explained the charging decision. "Our involuntary manslaughter statute covers unintentional killings."
Carmack-Altwies said she will charge Baldwin and the film's armorer with involuntary manslaughter, accusing them of failing to perform safety procedures that could have prevented the accident.
Formal charges are expected to be filed by month's end, Carmack-Altwies told CNN.
"Every person that handles a gun has a duty to make sure that if they're going to handle that gun, point it at someone and pull the trigger, that it is not going to fire a projectile and kill someone," Carmack-Altwies said.
Still, prosecutors face immense challenges in attempting to try a case centering around a prominent Hollywood figure in addition to the legal thresholds they must prove to obtain a conviction.
Baldwin has been a major film, Broadway and TV star for decades, winning Emmys for TV's "30 Rock" and an Oscar nomination for 2003's "The Cooler."
How prosecutors are preparing for the case
The two trials Baldwin and the film's armorer could potentially undergo would take weeks to a month and would require expert testimony, Carmack-Altwies said.
The district attorney requested $635,000 in "emergency" funds "to prosecute such a high-profile case," she wrote to state officials last August.
"I need funding for an attorney, investigator, media contact person, paralegal, expert witnesses, and general trial expenses," she said.
And even before any trial could be held, each defendant will attend a preliminary hearing to determine if probable cause for trial exists.
"These hearings will take weeks to complete and will happen rather quickly once charges are filed," Carmack-Altwies explained.
But the case will be difficult to prosecute given that it's unclear how live rounds got on set, according to CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig, adding that experts have varying opinions regarding the on-set responsibilities of actors and crew members.
"Remember, this is a criminal case. You need all 12 jurors to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. So I'm not saying that there's no chance here, but this is a really difficult case for the prosecution," Honig said.
Questions over set safety
Baldwin faces charges in both capacities as the person who's accused of firing the gun and as the producer of the film, Carmack-Altwies said, arguing that Baldwin as a producer had a responsibility to ensure the set was safe.
Gutierrez Reed, the film's armorer who loaded the prop gun, is also responsible for not ensuring the gun's safety, prosecutors say. Her attorney has said she believed the rounds were dummy ammunition.
"Nobody was checking those or at least they weren't checking them consistently," Carmack-Altwies said. "And then they somehow got loaded into a gun handed off to Alec Baldwin. He didn't check it. He didn't do any of the things that he was supposed to do to make sure that he was safe or that anyone around him was safe. And then he pointed the gun at Halyna Hutchins and he pulled the trigger."
Baldwin has maintained that he never pulled the trigger and was not aware the gun contained live rounds.
Gutierrez Reed and Baldwin each will face two counts of involuntary manslaughter, but each count carries a different level of punishment, Carmack-Altwies said when she announced the charges.
A jury would decide which count would be more appropriate, and if convicted, they will only be sentenced to one count, the prosecutor said.
Conviction for both defendants carries up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. But one charge carries an additional firearms enhancement — because a gun was involved — and would require a mandatory punishment of five years in jail, Carmack-Altwies said.
Regarding the charges, Gutierrez Reed's attorney Jason Bowles said Thursday, "We're expecting the charges but they're absolutely wrong as to Hannah - we expect that she will be found not guilty by a jury and she did not commit manslaughter. She has been emotional about the tragedy but has committed no crime."
Video below: Legal analysis on charges filed against Alec Baldwin on 'Rust' movie set shooting
Meanwhile, Baldwin's attorney Luke Nikas said the actor was "blindsided" by the charges.
"Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun — or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds."
When prosecutors announced the charges Thursday, Hutchins' family praised their decision.
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genuine Marketing Group Inc. announces the appointment of William Le Voir-Barry to Chief Technology Officer and GMG Board Member. On June 22nd, the company announced official filings were submitted for a pending merger with The World Poker Store Inc. (OTC: WPKS), which merger will be effective on July 15, 2022. Mr. Le Voir-Barry will officially join the board after the merger is effective.
As a seasoned Blockchain and Technology portfolio executive, William (Bill) brings over a decade of Blockchain; Cloud; Cognitive / AI, NFT and Digital Currency experience. Serving as IBM Watson and Cloud Technical lead as well as CTO of Esports and Video Gaming, he also has a long history of designing, engineering, and building tech infrastructure for multiple companies in the blockchain space. As Genuine Marketing Group's CTO, Bill will focus on emerging trends, emerging markets, and driving consumer, client and brand value through app development, tech modifications and user sentiment as core pillars of GMG. Bill will also lead GMG's Reward/Utility Token and crypto exchange development as the company continues to expand its value proposition for all retail and product safety stakeholders. With a wide variety of industry engagement, Bill also brings working knowledge and experience with Government, DOD, Transportation and Healthcare complex environments.
Genuine Marketing Group Inc. or GMG is a retail and consumer focused marketing company that creates brand affinity and builds consumer confidence through its proprietary authentication system, ZPtag. Combining the user-friendly engagement of a smartphone app with the smart contracts of the IBM blockchain, GMG seamlessly integrates brand marketing and measuring consumer sentiment into the everyday consumer shopping experience.
As GMG's app development and technology partner, IBM not only serves as the blockchain engine, but also as an integral part of the data-rich user experience. IBM blockchain is utilized to authenticate products while tracking and recording the product journey from origin to shopping cart. This allows for real-time customer engagement and product authentication direct from the shopping aisle.
More information about Genuine Marketing Group Inc. can be found at https://genuinemarketinggroup.com/
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The European Union’s executive commission has proposed phasing out imports of Russian oilwithin six months. It is part of Europe’s struggle to stop paying Russia $850 million a day for energy and hit the Kremlin’s finances over its invasion of Ukraine.
But reversing decades of dependence on Russian oil and natural gas is not a simple matter for the 27-nation bloc. For one thing, Hungary says it won’t go along with a boycott, while Slovakia and Czech Republic are seeking a multiyear transition period. All are landlocked and big users of Russian oil.
Here is what the oil sanctions could mean for people in Europe and the rest of the world:
HOW MUCH DOES EUROPE PAY RUSSIA FOR ENERGY?
Gas and oil have kept flowing even as governments denounce the war. The EU sends $450 million a day to Russia for oil and $400 million per day for natural gas, according to calculations by analysts at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels.
That means energy revenue is bolstering the Kremlin’s budget, adding to foreign currency reserves that could help Russia support the ruble and partly make up for Western sanctions that froze much of Russia’s foreign currency reserves held outside Russia.
HOW MUCH RUSSIAN OIL GOES TO EUROPE?
Europe is the biggest purchaser of Russian crude, receiving 138 million tons in 2020 out of Russia’s total exports of 260 million tons — or 53%, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Europe, which imports almost all of its crude, gets a quarter of its needs from Russia.
Oil is refined into fuel for heating and driving as well as being a raw material for industry.
WHY IS THE FOCUS ON OIL INSTEAD OF NATURAL GAS?
It’s harder to find alternative sources of natural gasbecause it comes mainly by pipeline. It would be easier to find other sources for oil, which mostly moves by tanker and is traded globally. So a natural gas boycott is off the table for now. Heavy gas users like Germany say an immediate cutoff could cost jobs, with industrial associations warning of shutdowns in glass and metals businesses.
Cutting off both natural gas and oil would likely cause a recession in Europe, economists say.
WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN RUSSIAN OIL SUPPLIES STOP?
Europe imported 3.8 million barrels a day from Russia before the war. In theory, European customers could replace those barrels from suppliers in the Middle East, whose exports now mostly go to Asia, as well as from the United States, Latin America and Africa. Meanwhile, cheaper Russian oil could take the place of the Middle East shipments to Asia.
But it would take time to make that adjustment. New supplies would have to be found elsewhere. Several large refineries in central and Eastern Europe rely on oil from a Soviet-era pipeline and would have to find another way of getting oil to make gasoline and other products.
Bruegel analysts say that means European countries should be ready to impose measures to reduce fuel use, such as making public transport free and incentivizing car-sharing. If those measures don’t work, tougher ones such as odd-even driving bans based on license plate numbers would be needed. Similar measures were taken during the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, when Germany imposed car-free Sundays.
Russia is a major supplier of Europe’s diesel fuel for trucks and farm equipment, meaning its price affects those for a wide range of food and goods.
EU governments also are gambling that Russia will not respond by turning off natural gas supplies to Europe. Russia has already cut off Bulgaria and Poland, ostensibly for refusing to pay in rubles.
WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO THE GLOBAL OIL MARKET?
Chances are that oil prices would go up for everyone because oil is a global commodity. That would mean higher prices at the pump and for home heating, less disposable income for consumers and be a drag on the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Russia would probably produce and export less oil after losing its biggest customer, Europe. That’s because all of Russia’s exports can’t simply be redirected from nearby Europe to far-off Asia due to shipping and logistical constraints. It would mean a major reshuffling of the world’s crude oil flows.
Buyers in India and China might avoid Russian oil if it means possible sanctions trouble with the West. And Western customers are already shunning Russian oil because they don’t want to be associated with the country or can’t find insurers or banks willing to handle dealings with Moscow.
On the other hand, some Asian customers might jump at the chance to snap up discounted Russian oil. Especially if the sales are off the books, as appears to be happening in some cases.
The OPEC oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia — which sets production levels along with allied non-members like Russia — has made it clear it won’t increase output to make up for any supply loss from Russia due to a boycott. They meet again Thursday.
Rystad Energy expects a loss of 1.5 million to 2 million barrels per day and oil reaching $120 to $130 per barrel by year’s end.
A milder scenario, in which most Russian oil shunned by Europe is snapped up in other energy-hungry countries not taking part in the sanctions, would see a loss of 1 million barrels per day. Oil prices would drop below $100 by June and keep falling to $60 by year’s end.
HOW MUCH WOULD A BOYCOTT COST RUSSIA?
Energy is the main pillar of the Kremlin’s budget. The Russian government got an average of 43% of its revenue from oil and natural gas between 2011 and 2020.
While the price for Russia’s main export benchmark to Europe, Urals crude, has been discounted by $35 a barrel compared with international benchmark Brent, Russia’s revenue losses have so far been limited because of generally higher oil prices.
Those foreign currency earnings are helping prop up Russian finances amid sanctions.
The latest sanctions would likely to have a “significant impact” on Russia’s ability to keep funding the war because of its dependence on the European oil market, said John Lough, associate fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
“Further reductions of federal tax revenues on top of an already anticipated 5-10% decline in GDP from existing sanctions will have huge consequences for government spending across the board and may generate serious social discontent,” he said.
But he warned the embargo also carried risks: “A sharp rise in the oil price could mitigate the effects on the economy if Russia is able to divert crude to non-European markets.”
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HOUSTON (AP) — Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, sending nine workers to a hospital and causing a huge plume of smoke visible for miles.
Emergency responders were called to help around 3 p.m. at the Shell facility in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston. The city of Deer Park said in an advisory that there was no shelter-in-place order for residents.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said earlier in the day that five contracted employees were hospitalized for precautionary reasons, adding that they were not burned. He said they were taken to a hospital due to heat exhaustion and proximity to the fire.
Shell Deer Park officials said on Twitter Friday night that they were continuing to respond to the fire, all workers were accounted for and nine workers had been released after undergoing precautionary medical evaluations.
Nothing exploded, Gonzalez said, although the sheriff’s office initially responded to emergency calls saying there was an explosion.
As of Friday evening, the fire was still burning but had died down and was contained, Gonzalez said.
The cause of the blaze was still being investigated. The fire started while the olefins unit was undergoing routine maintenance. Air monitoring for any impact from the fire was ongoing, and had not detected any harmful levels of chemicals, Shell Deer Park said.
“There is no danger to the nearby community,” the post said.
The fire started at about 2:56 p.m. in the facility’s olefins unit. The product that ignited includes cracked heavy gas oil, cracked light gas oil and gasoline, Shell Deer Park said.
“The cause of the fire will be the subject of a future investigation, and our immediate priorities remain the safety of people and the environment,” facility officials said.
Shell was conducting its own air quality monitoring, but the city has yet to receive an update, said Kaitlyn Bluejacket, a spokesperson for Deer Park.
The city was advised by Shell that there was no need at the time to shelter in place, but that the city would update residents if that changed, Bluejacket said.
Fire crews from the Deer Park facility and nearby plants responded.
Wind conditions were favorable for fighting the blaze, although temperatures soared to near 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius) in the Houston area, but high humidity made it feeler hotter than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius.)
Harris County Fire Marshal Captain James Singleton said his office would be in Deer Park through the weekend investigating.
“You’re looking at a large number of people that need to be interviewed,” Singleton said. “Everyone who was at the unit at the time of the fire, the controllers, management, anybody that called 911.”
Houston meteorologists said the smoke plumes were visible from space via satellite.
Facility fires are not uncommon in the area, with the strong presence of the petrochemical industry. In March, an explosion and a fire erupted at a facility owned by INEOS Phenol in nearby Pasadena, Texas, leaving one injured.
A fire in 2019 at a facility owned by Intercontinental Terminals Company burned for days and though it caused no injuries, it triggered air quality warnings.
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Coronado reported from Austin, Texas. AP writer Lisa Baumann reported from Bellingham, Washington. | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/houston-area-shell-chemical-plant-catches-fire/ | 2023-05-06 18:30:12 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/houston-area-shell-chemical-plant-catches-fire/ |
BERLIN (AP) — The German economy shrank unexpectedly in the first three months of this year, marking the second quarter of contraction that is one definition of recession.
Data released Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office shows Germany’s gross domestic product, or GDP, declined by 0.3% in the period from January to March. This follows a drop of 0.5% in Europe’s biggest economy during the last quarter of 2022.
Two consecutive quarters of contraction is a common definition of recession, though economists on the euro area business cycle dating committee use a broader set of data, including employment figures. Germany is one of the 20 countries that use the euro currency.
Employment in the country rose in the first quarter and inflation has eased, but higher interest rates will keep weighing on spending and investment, said Franziska Palmas, senior Europe economist for Capital Economics.
“Germany has experienced a technical recession and has been by far the worst performer among major eurozone economies over the past two quarters,” Palmas said, predicting further weakness ahead.
The figures are a blow to the German government, which last month boldly doubled its growth forecast for this year after a feared winter energy crunch failed to materialize. It said the economy would grow by 0.4% — up from a 0.2% expansion predicted in late January — a forecast that may now need to be revised downward.
Economists said high inflation hit consumer spending, with prices in April 7.2% higher than a year ago.
GDP — the broadest gauge of economic output — reflects the total value of goods and services produced in a country. Some experts question whether the figure alone is a useful indicator of economic prosperity given that it doesn’t distinguish between types of spending.
As a whole, the eurozone economy scraped out meager growth of 0.1% in the first quarter, according to initial estimates, with inflation eroding people’s willingness to spend as their pay fails to keep pace.
The U.S. also reported disappointing growth estimates Thursday that kept alive fears of a recession in the world’s largest economy.
The International Monetary Fund predicted this week that the United Kingdom would avoid falling into recession this year after previously expecting it to perform the worst among the Group of Seven leading industrial nations.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Tuesday that “we’re likely to see the U.K. performing better than Germany, for example.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-germany-economy-shrinks-in-first-quarter-signaling-one-definition-of-recession/ | 2023-05-25 23:22:27 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-germany-economy-shrinks-in-first-quarter-signaling-one-definition-of-recession/ |
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Free summer food program begins in Sioux Falls
Published: Jun. 5, 2023 at 10:33 AM CDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The Sioux Falls School District kicks off the Summer Food Service Program on Monday, which is open to all children 0-18 years of age.
The program is free and no paperwork is necessary.
Breakfast will be served from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at eight different locations.
Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at six different locations, and five days a week at two locations.
No meals will be served July 3rd or 4th due to the Independence Day holiday.
A full list of locations for meals can be found here.
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On-air challenge: Today I've brought a game of Categories based on the word JOKES. For each category I give, name something in it starting with each of the letters J-O-K-E-S. For example, if the category were "Four-Letter Names Traditionally Given to Boys," you might say John, Owen, Kurt, Evan, and Stan. Any answer that works is OK, and you can give the answers in any order.
Note: In some cases there may be other answers. Any answer that works will be counted as correct.
1. PLACES IN FLORIDA
2. BIRDS
3. HIGHWAY SIGNS
4. SPACES ON A MONOPOLY BOARD
Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge came from Henri Picciotto, of Berkeley, Calif. He coedits the weekly "Out of Left Field" cryptic crossword. Name a branch of scientific study. Drop the last letter. Then rearrange the remaining letters to name two subjects of that study. What branch of science is it?
Challenge answer: Astronomy -> Star, Moon
Winner: Kevin Gorton of San Lorenzo, Calif.
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Alan Hochbaum, of Duluth, Ga. What common eight-letter noun can be shortened in two ways — using either its first three letters or its last four letters? The answer is a familiar item.
If you know the answer to the two-week challenge, submit it here by Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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