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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida sun-seekers, beach enthusiasts and golf fanatics who are in the market for a luxury home might want to clear their Friday evening calendars. At 7pm ET on October 21, an oceanside home located within 10 minutes of the prestigious TPC Sawgrass golf course and PGA Tour headquarters will be sold at auction to the highest bidder. Recently asking $4.2 million, the Ponte Vedra Beach property will be offered without reserve in a luxury auction® sale held by Miami-based Platinum Luxury Auctions. Platinum is conducting the sale in concert with Ponte Vedra Beach Realty, Inc., the property's listing brokerage of record.
The single-family home sits on a large, 1.1-acre parcel with 220 feet of frontage along Ponte Vedra Boulevard. The oversized parcel also enjoys an "end lot" location, with no neighbors to the north. Preserved lands are located immediately west, preventing any future development and allowing for beautiful sunset views.
With 4,100 sf of interior living space, the 2-story home can readily accommodate a single owner or a small-to-medium-sized family. It includes 4 bedrooms and 4 full bathrooms, with a relaxed luxury style ideal for Florida seaside living.
Notable features of the residence include a gourmet kitchen, living room with lofted ceilings and a marble fireplace, formal dining, wet bar and screened lanai. There is also a 3-car garage, gently winding driveway, and rear patio with tiered decking and ample greenspace.
With the residence only occupying what amounts to the southern half of its oversized parcel, there exists the possibility of additional construction on the northern portion, which might include the development of a pool, guesthouse, tennis court or other amenities.
The glistening Atlantic Ocean is just across the street and can be reached easily, thanks to an access point located just a short stroll south of the property, at Mickler Beach.
Ponte Vedra Beach is one of northern Florida's most coveted residential communities. The seaside town is located 18 miles southeast of Jacksonville in St. John's County, often ranked as the wealthiest county in the sunshine state.
The community is also home to the PGA Tour headquarters and the famous TPC Sawgrass golf course. Each year, TPC Sawgrass hosts The Players Championship, one of the PGA Tour's premier events. Ranking as high as #1 in Golf Advisor's 2017 list of "The Top 10 Golf Courses in the U.S.," the highly awarded course is also open to the public, bringing golfers from all over the world to try their hand on the cherished links.
"The amenities afforded by living in this seaside community are very hard to beat," according to David Ashcroft, Platinum's Managing Director. "You have the ocean and its beautiful beaches, PGA Tour-caliber golf, a world-class resort and club, and a 'big city' experience provided by nearby Jacksonville. It's difficult to think of many other locations in the U.S. with a comparable value proposition."
The "world-class resort and club" mentioned by Mr. Ashcroft is the beloved Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, an oceanfront country club and AAA Five Diamond rated resort in Pointe Vedra Beach. "The club is so adored by folks in the area that immediately surrounding home prices generally increase in line with their proximity to it," Ashcroft added.
The property is available for previews by appointment each day this week, until 5pm ET on Thursday, October 20, which also represents the deadline by which buyers must register to participate in the auction. Registration requires the completion of paperwork (available from Platinum), in addition to a refundable deposit of $100,000. Details on bidder registration, auction terms of sale, property features, and more is available online at PonteVedraBeachLuxuryAuction.com, or by calling Platinum's representative, Ms. Trudy Vella, at 800.871.9269.
About Platinum Luxury Auctions: Platinum Luxury Auctions created the luxury auction® model for high-priced real estate auctions and owns the federal trademark rights to the term(s) "luxury auction(s)." The real estate auction house specializes in the non-distressed sale of multimillion-dollar properties located within and beyond the United States. Platinum's team has closed more than $1.2 billion in luxury real estate auction sales to date, while consulting on more than $2.9 billion in additional luxury property assets worldwide. Learn more at PlatinumLuxuryAuctions.com.
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau called his move to the LIV Golf series “a business decision,” and a difficult one at that.
The 2020 U.S. Open champion, who as recently as 10 days ago had said he was sticking with the PGA Tour, offered his first comments about his change of heart Monday after a practice round at The County Club.
“At the end of the day, it’s a business decision for my family’s future,” he said. “And it gave me a lot more free time.”
The big-hitting 28-year-old, who has been hampered by a hand injury for most of this year, says the money he’ll get for playing the series will also help him build his charitable foundation. DeChambeau is unmarried and has no children.
Much as Phil Mickelson had in a news conference earlier in the day, DeChambeau didn’t want to delve into the politics of where the money is coming from — the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia — or how the PGA Tour will react to his decision. Like Mickelson, DeChambeau has not surrendered his tour card.
“It’s not my decision to make,” he said about his future on the PGA Tour, where he has $26.3 million in career earnings and eight of his 10 worldwide victories.
DeChambeau is scheduled to make his LIV series debut next month in Portland, Oregon. He said the decision to play on the Saudi-backed tour was one that he did not take lightly.
“Very difficult,” he said. “It’s been weighing on everyone out here for the last couple of years.”
LOCAL FAVORITE
Growing up 15 minutes away from The Country Club, Michael Thorbjornsen knows plenty about the course and its history.
Most of it from the movies.
A resident of nearby Wellesley, Thorbjornsen has seen “The Greatest Game Ever Played” eight times but only once played the course where the film about Francis Ouimet’s 1913 U.S. Open victory took place.
“I mean, Tom Brady tried to become a member here. I think it took him a long time,” Thorbjornsen said Monday after a practice round for the U.S. Open. “It feels really cool to be on property.”
The Country Club is hosting the U.S. Open for the fourth time. After Ouimet, an amateur who lived across the street and caddied at the club, beat English professionals Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff in 1913, Julius Boros won in 1963 and Curtis Strange won in 1988.
In the 1999 Ryder Cup, the Americans charged back from a 10-6 deficit on the final day for a victory dubbed “The Battle of Brookline.”
Thorbjornsen wasn’t born yet for any of that, and he was only 13 when the USGA announced the course would host the 2022 U.S. Open.
“At that moment, I made it my goal to qualify for this event,” said Thorbjornsen, who played a practice round on Monday with a high school friend, with his family following him around the course. “It felt great. It feels like a home event.”
BACK IN TOWN
Matt Fitzpatrick didn’t only leave his first visit to The Country Club with a nice shiny trophy. He also made some lifelong friends.
The 2013 U.S. Amateur champion is staying with the same family that hosted him when he won the tournament in Brookline. The Englishman spent his first-ever Thanksgiving with the Fulton family later that year when he was in college at Northwestern, and also visited them in 2016.
“We came for a week and played the course and stuff,” Fitzpatrick said. “Staying with them this week, which is going to be good fun.”
The U.S. Amateur victory earned Fitzpatrick a spot in the British Open and the following year’s Masters and U.S. Open, along with invitations to a handful of PGA Tour events. He earned his first professional win at the British Masters in 2015 and has won six other tournaments in Europe and Asia.
“All of a sudden it opens up all these doors. I never realized how big of a deal it was over here until after winning,” he said on Monday. “So I’ve got all these events that I’ve been invited to, and just opportunities to get experience playing professional golf. … Because of winning here, it sort of gave me that experience.”
Fitzpatrick finished tied for seventh at the Masters in 2016 and has twice finished tied for 12th at the U.S. Open. He is coming off his best-ever performance at a major, a tie for fifth at the PGA Championship after shooting 73 on Sunday.
“It was disappointing at first when you come off the golf course and sort of the realization that you had a chance to win and you’ve not taken it,” he said. “I feel like I’m playing well. I feel like I just made so many mistakes last week, just simple bogeys that you clear them up and all of a sudden you’re picking up a lot of shots.”
Fitzpatrick was 18 and heading off to college when he first came to Brookline in 2013, and he said it was a thrill to have his family with him, with his brother on the bag.
But not all the memories of the area are good.
“I don’t really like Thanksgiving food. It’s not for me,” he said, calling green beans the “worst thing ever invented.”
Asked if he had ever tasted New England clam chowder on one of his visits, he said: “Never tried it, but probably terrible.”
NICE GROUPING
Shane Lowry will have the best seat at Brookline to hear how fans respond to Phil Mickelson and other players who have joined a Saudi-funded rival league. He is in the same group as Phil Mickelson and Louis Oosthuizen, both of whom played in the LIV Golf Invitational last week.
It was a delicate act for the USGA, which often has fun with the tee times.
Sergio Garcia and Kevin Na also are in the rival league, and both have heard their share of heckling even without having to mention Saudi Arabia. They are paired together and joined by Tyrrell Hatton.
One traditional group is the defending champion (Jon Rahm), the British Open champion (Collin Morikawa) and the U.S. Amateur champion (James Piot), even though Piot is now a pro. He also was on the LIV Golf circuit last week.
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AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson and AP Sports Writer Eddie Pells contributed to this report.
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CALGARY, AB, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CONDUCTIVE ENERGY INC. (the "Company" or "Conductive"), a leading direct lithium extraction ("DLE") technology company, is scheduled to participate on a leadership panel on day one of the Reuters Industry Transition 2022 event on September 28th in San Diego, California, USA.
Conductive is one of the first direct lithium extraction companies that have an end-to-end solution for producing battery-grade lithium carbonate (LCE) from lithium bearing brine resources. The company is involved in multiple projects across North America. For more information about Conductive, visit www.conductive.energy.
This news release contains forward-looking statements and information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") that reflect the current expectations of management about the future results, performance, achievements, prospects or opportunities for Conductive. This presentation may use words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "likely", "except", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "plan", "forecast", "project", "estimate", "outlook", and other similar expressions to identify forward-looking information. All forward-looking information is inherently uncertain and subject to a variety of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, including the inherent risks and uncertainties of technology development, the effectiveness and feasibility of emerging lithium extraction technologies which have not yet been tested or proven on a commercial scale. As a result, we cannot guarantee that any forward-looking statements will materialize and we caution you against relying on any of these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Except as may be required by Canadian securities laws, we do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this document whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The forward-looking statements contained in this document are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) announced today that its 2021 Schedule K-3 is available online. Unitholders requiring this information may access their Schedule K-3 at https://partnerdatalink.com/Summit. SMLP will also mail a 2021 Schedule K-3 to any unitholder making a request for a physical copy. For additional information or assistance, unitholders may also contact Partner DataLink via email at SummitK1Help@deloitte.com or via phone at (855) 375-4158, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CST, or visit SMLP's website at www.summitmidstream.com under "Investors >> K-1 Tax Information."
A limited number of unitholders (primarily foreign unitholders, unitholders computing a foreign tax credit on their tax return and certain corporate and/or partnership unitholders) may need the detailed information disclosed on Schedule K-3 for their specific reporting requirements. To the extent Schedule K-3 is applicable to your federal income tax return filing needs, we encourage you to review the information contained on this form and refer to the appropriate federal laws and guidance or consult with your tax advisor.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a value-driven limited partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering, processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties in six unconventional resource basins: (i) the Appalachian Basin, which includes the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in Ohio and West Virginia; (ii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota; (iii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; (iv) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; and (v) the Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado. SMLP has an equity method investment in Double E Pipeline, LLC, which provides interstate natural gas transportation service from multiple receipt points in the Delaware Basin to various delivery points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas. SMLP also has an equity method investment in Ohio Gathering, which operates extensive natural gas gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica Shale in Ohio. SMLP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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(The Hill) – The due date to file a tax return this year is Tue., April 18 and it comes against the backdrop of some major structural changes in U.S. tax administration that have been a serious point of contention between Democrats and Republicans.
But those changes, which will impact audits rates and help the government collect hundreds of billions in missing taxes every year, are likely not being felt by regular taxpayers this season.
The backstory: Here’s how the IRS will spend its $80 billion funding boost
Instead, filers can expect the preliminary wave of the $80 billion provided to the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act to result in basic improvements in time spent waiting on the phone and refund delivery speeds.
A hiring spree to clear up backlogs
Over the course of the pandemic, backlogs of unprocessed tax returns and unanswered phone calls piled up as the agency had to close field offices and have employees start working from home.
Even so, service levels are now improving as the IRS expects to hire an additional 7,400 taxpayer service specialists, 1,500 auditors, 730 operational support workers and 360 technologists the this year. There were 2.26 million unprocessed individual returns at the beginning of this month, down from tens of millions at the height of the pandemic.
The easiest way to file taxes
The IRS recommends that taxpayers file electronically to avoid processing delays using the Free File public-private partnership or commercial software programs that give improved user experience and additional support for extra fees.
The agency reminds taxpayers to report all taxable income and keep good annual records so that information from previous years can be easily accessed if necessary.
The way of the future? Here’s what a free IRS e-filing tax return system could look like
“Taxpayers who need more time to file can easily request a six-month filing extension to Oct. 16 to prevent late filing penalties,” the IRS says. “While an extension grants additional time to file, tax payments are still due on April 18 for most taxpayers.”
The majority of refunds issued by the IRS are sent out within 21 days, the agency says, but filing by mail can make this process longer. The vast majority of Americans now file their taxes electronically.
Specialists in the private tax preparation world are recommending some of the agency’s publicly available tools.
“Double check your 2023 withholdings using the IRS Withholding Estimator, so that you will not receive an unexpected tax bill next tax season, and don’t forget to update your W-4 if needed,” said Mimi Lewi, a senior tax compliance specialist at Empeon, a human resources software platform for companies doing payroll and hiring.
Lawmakers weigh in on IRS plan for $80 billion funding boost
The average tax refund gets processed in about 12 to 15 days, Lewi said.
The Treasury Department gave the IRS a thumbs-up on Monday for its work during this tax season so far.
“Thanks to Inflation Reduction Act resources, the IRS delivered dramatically improved service in Filing Season 2023. The IRS achieved 87 percent level of service, exceeding Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s goal of 85 percent,” the Treasury said in a statement.
Treasury-measured IRS service levels dropped as low as 15 percent in 2022.
Call wait times are way down, falling to just 4 minutes from 27 minutes, and the agency has answered 2 million calls through live assistance.
Tax help in your neighborhood
In-person taxpayer assistance centers (TAC) have reopened in Wyoming, New York, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Virginia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Washington, Colorado, Missouri, Tennessee, Maine and New Jersey.
A new center to help taxpayers was opened in Greenville, Mississippi.
Since the beginning of the year, the IRS reopened TACs in Casper, Wyo.; Binghamton, N.Y., West Nyack, N.Y.; Overland Park, Kan.; Longview, Texas; Santa Fe, N.M.; Queensbury, N.Y., Charlottesville, Va.; La Crosse, Wis., Cranberry Township, Pa.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Joplin, Mo.; Jackson, Tenn.; Augusta, Maine; Bellingham, Wash., and Trenton, N.J. IRS also opened a new TAC in Greenville, Miss.
The road ahead
While the 2023 filing season is being marked by service improvements, bigger changes in tax enforcement and administrative design lie ahead.
Tax attorneys are paying attention to the idea that the IRS is becoming more centralized in the way it handles data and makes decisions related to enforcement.
“I’m struck that the pendulum is swinging back to centralized planning. This has been the trend in certain areas … but it hasn’t been so plainly stated. Audit priorities will be dictated centrally, based on data analytics … and the field agents will merely be conduits of the wisdom descending from Washington,” Rob Kovacev, an attorney with law firm Miller & Chevalier, said, noting that the term “analytics” appears 149 times in the IRS’s new operating plan. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/how-the-irs-is-trying-to-make-tax-filing-day-easier/ | 2023-04-18 01:57:56 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/how-the-irs-is-trying-to-make-tax-filing-day-easier/ |
Argentines wakes up dreaming of World Cup glory in Qatar
By DANIEL POLITI
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines woke up ready to watch the national team play for its third World Cup title amid a national feeling of unity and joy that is rare for a country that has been engulfed in an economic crisis for years and has one of the worst inflation rates in the world. Argentina will face France in the final in Qatar. Argentina fan Guillermo Ortiz says “the whole city is dressed with the flag.” Argentina last reached the World Cup final in 2014 but lost to Germany. Everyone in the country agrees the sense of anticipation and excitement for this year’s game is far higher than it ever was for that match in Brazil. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/18/argentines-wakes-up-dreaming-of-world-cup-glory-in-qatar-2/ | 2022-12-18 13:39:33 | 1 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/18/argentines-wakes-up-dreaming-of-world-cup-glory-in-qatar-2/ |
WASHINGTON — Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
The announcement follows years of criticism that the social media platforms withhold too much information about how campaigns, special interest groups and politicians use the platform to target small pockets of people with polarizing, divisive or misleading messages.
Meta, which also owns Instagram, said it will start releasing details in July about the demographics and interests of audiences who are targeted with ads that run on its two primary social networks. The company will also share how much advertisers spent in an effort to target people in certain states.
“By making advertiser targeting criteria available for analysis and reporting on ads run about social issues, elections and politics, we hope to help people better understand the practices used to reach potential voters on our technologies,” Jeff King wrote in a statement posted to Meta's website.
The new details could shed more light on how politicians spread misleading or controversial political messages among certain groups of people. Advocacy groups and Democrats, for example, have argued for years that misleading political ads are overwhelming the Facebook feeds of Spanish-speaking populations.
The information will be showcased in the Facebook ad library, a public database that already shows how much companies, politicians or campaigns, spend on each ad they run across Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp. Currently, anyone can see how much a page has spent running an ad and a breakdown of the ages, gender and states or countries an ad is shown in.
The information will be available across 242 countries when a social issue, political or election ad is run, Meta said in a statement.
Meta collected $86 billion in revenue during 2020, the last major U.S. election year, thanks in part to its granular ad targeting system. Facebook's ad system is so customizable that advertisers can target a single user out of billions on the platform, if they wanted.
Meta said in its announcement Monday that it will provide researchers with new details that show the interest categories advertisers selected when they tried to target people on the platform. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/facebook-instagram-reveal-more-how-ads-target-users/507-2448f7b6-60f8-4fd2-ab96-c90cc518645e | 2022-05-24 15:20:39 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/facebook-instagram-reveal-more-how-ads-target-users/507-2448f7b6-60f8-4fd2-ab96-c90cc518645e |
Actor Max Greenfield urges studio CEOs to 'be the heroes' and make a deal in Hollywood strikes
Los Angeles – Two weeks into the the actors strike, Max Greenfield is urging the studios and their CEOs to return to the bargaining table.
“Be the heroes, come to the table, make a deal,” said Greenfield, who co-stars in the CBS sitcom “The Neighborhood.” “My hope is these guys get organized and have a real conversation with both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA so that we can get to a resolution," he said, referencing the unions for the writers and actors, respectively.
Greenfield spoke at a charity ping pong event at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night, joined by his co-star Cedric the Entertainer.
“We struck because our deal was up and it’s time to adjust to what has changed in the business. To make a minor adjustment feels disproportionate to what has obviously changed in a massive, massive way,” Greenfield said. “Until we feel like we’re getting fair compensation and we feel like we’re protected, this is going to continue to go on.”
Bryan Cranston, who had fiery words for Disney CEO Bob Iger at a New York rally on Tuesday, acknowledged things are “going very, very slowly.”
“Until we’re able to get back to the table, which we are more than willing to do and we’ve told them so, we want to keep talking through this strike,” he said. “We want to end this as soon as possible."
On July 14, actors joined striking screenwriters who walked out in May. The stoppage has shuttered nearly all film and television production.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America are striking for fair pay and protections involving the use of artificial intelligence, among other issues.
There has reportedly been no negotiating between the unions and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers since shortly after the actors hit the picket lines.
“I think when people realize that the artists are the people that are making this and nothing is going to get made without the actors and the writers, maybe that will force a little more flexibility in the negotiations,” Oscar-winning actor Casey Affleck said.
Actor and entrepreneur Danny Trejo urged the studios to look beyond Hollywood's highest-paid actors and consider the financial plight of those working behind the scenes.
“One of the problems is people on top are making a lot of money right now and they don’t want to share,” he said. “We’ve got people that are in SAG that can’t even afford to live in LA. It’s like, wait a minute guys, we got to just be fair.
“Figure if one of your kids was trying to get into the movies and was working as an extra or just made it into SAG, they couldn’t live in LA,” Trejo said, imagining the offspring of a Hollywood CEO. “Oh no wait, yes they could. They could live in Beverly (expletive) Hills with you, punk.”
Trejo filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy earlier this year and owes over $2 million in back taxes to the IRS, according to a report by KABC-TV.
“I make good money, but right now I’m buried in taxes, so I have to work that out,” he said. “This strike is killing me. I can’t pay what I’m supposed to be paying for my taxes, so man, imagine the guy that’s making $18 an hour and not working all the time.”
Actor Holly Robinson-Peete, a SAG member since 1977, said it's important for the actors' union to communicate the economic issues behind the strike.
“We're not just a bunch of spoiled people that want more and we’re greedy,” she said. “The majority of our union are people who are not working very often, can’t really make a living at this. It’s going to take an incredible amount of patience and messaging, and we just got to stick to it.” | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/28/actor-max-greenfield-urges-studio-ceos-to-be-the-heroes-and-make-a-deal-in-hollywood-strikes/70488311007/ | 2023-07-28 19:45:48 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/28/actor-max-greenfield-urges-studio-ceos-to-be-the-heroes-and-make-a-deal-in-hollywood-strikes/70488311007/ |
BEIJING, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from Science and Technology Daily | IUSTC:
With Spring Festival approaching, a reception for foreign experts was hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on January 12.
On behalf of the MOST and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), Li Meng, vice-minister of MOST and administrator of SAFEA, extended festival greetings and best wishes to foreign experts in China and other foreigners who contribute to China's social and economic development, via video link.
"Over the past decade, China has made remarkable achievements in scientific and technological innovation, which have also been made with the contribution of foreign experts," said Li.
Li applauded foreign experts' role in promoting international exchanges and cooperation in the fields of scientific research, technological innovation, cultural exchanges and other fields. He sincerely hoped more foreign experts could work and start businesses in China.
"In the future, we will continue to strengthen cooperation and exchanges and contribute more wisdom and strength to addressing common challenges of humanity and building a community with a shared future for mankind," he said.
Nearly 140 foreign experts and their families from over 40 countries and regions attended the event at the main venue in Beijing. At the same time, sub-venues were set up in Shandong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangzhou, Shaanxi, Fujian, Hubei and Xizang Autonomous Region. More than 200 foreign experts attended the event on-line to celebrate the year of rabbit at the sub-venue.
During the talent show, foreign experts demonstrated the beauty of cultural diversity through their well-designed performances and shared the festival happiness via video link. Furthermore, some foreign dignitaries such as the Mayor of Cologne of Germany, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering of UK and Secretary General of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, delivered their Spring Festival wishes to participants in the form of videos and congratulatory letters.
This article is also contributed by the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel.
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Hiker dead after group runs out of water, got lost on trail in extreme heat
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (3TV/CBS 5) – A man in his 20s died Monday afternoon when a group of hikers he was with ran out of water and got lost on a trail in Arizona.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 1:30 p.m. for possible heat exhaustion at the Spur Cross Trailhead near Cave Creek, AZ Family reports.
“When we got out on that trail, the temperature on the asphalt alone was reading 127 off of our truck. I think it was 109 outside, so it was extreme heat,” said Scottsdale Fire Capt. Dave Folio.
According to the fire captain, a group of six was about four miles in on the trail when they ran out of water and got lost.
Their phones were dead, and they had to borrow someone else’s to call 911.
When deputies and firefighters arrived, the group of hikers was flown to safety.
A man in his 20s was taken to the hospital, where he later died from extreme heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Officials said the other five hikers didn’t need to be taken to the hospital and are expected to be OK.
Folio is reminding hikers to be mindful of the extreme temperatures and to bring plenty of water if they plan on hitting the trials.
“If you get to half your water, we’re asking people to turn around and go back to the trailhead,” Folio said. “Have a plan. Know your limitations.”
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Get paid $1,000 to taste test doughnuts from Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’
Published: May. 26, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
(Gray News) – If getting paid to eat doughnuts sounds like your dream job, you’re in luck.
PlayStar online casino is looking to pay someone $1,000 to taste test doughnuts from the most popular brands in the country.
The winner will get the chance to taste a range of doughnuts from brands like Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’.
The winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, expenses to cover the cost of the doughnuts, and a review published on PlayStar’s website.
Applicants must be U.S. residents and at least 21 years of age.
To apply, visit PlayStar’s website here.
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- Company to break ground in October, complete construction in early 2025 with plan to invest 15 trillion won over 5 years
- M15X to be first new fab since company commemorated 10th anniversary this year
- Investment during economic downturn to lay foundation for future growth
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) announced today that it will build the M15X(eXtension), a new fabrication plant, in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, in preparation for future growth.
The company will start construction of the M15 extension on the site it secured previously earlier than initially planned, considering various market situations.
The new plant will be built from October on the 60,000㎡ land located in the Cheongju Technopolis industrial complex and completed early 2025. A total of 15 trillion won will be injected over the next five years to build the fab and set up production facilities. The fab will be a two-story building equivalent to a combination of M11 and M12 in size.
As for the next M17 fab, the company will decide construction plan after reviewing overall business environment including changes in the semiconductor business cycle.
"Looking back on the past 10 years, SK hynix could grow into a global company as it boldly carried out investment during crisis," said Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Park Jung-ho. "As we look to prepare for the next 10 years now, I believe starting the M15X will be a first step to lay foundation for a solid future growth."
SK hynix has so far solidified its leadership in the memory market through preemptive and bold investments despite rapid changes in business environment. In 2012, when the broader industry was scaling back investments and the company was in the red, SK hynix decided to increase investment by more than 10% compared with a year ago, resulting in a dramatic turnaround by the end of the year. Market uncertainties continued to linger, but in 2015, the company built the M14 fab in Icheon to prepare for the next boom in the memory business, which led to record-high financial results for two straight years from 2017.
Since it became a member of SK Group in 2012, SK hynix has pushed forward investments for the next 10 years in accordance with the Future Vision it has made public in 2015. The Vision was the company's pledge that it will invest 46 trillion won from 2014 to build three more fabrication plants including the M14 in Icheon. Such promise was met earlier than targeted following completion of the M15 in Cheongju and the M16 in Icheon in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
Demand for memory chips is rapidly falling in the wake of the global economic slowdown and instability of the supply chain, but experts foresee that the business will start to recover steadily from 2024 and rebound in 2025 as the memory business cycle is increasingly getting less volatile in recent years.
The plan to build the M15X comes as SK hynix prepares for the next upturn expected to come in 2025. With the construction of the M15X, the company will be ready to provide more memory chips when the industry enters a boom again.
About SK hynix Inc.
SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM"), flash memory chips ("NAND flash") and CMOS Image Sensors ("CIS") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.
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Online Information Sessions October 13 and October 25 for Certificate Course for Professionals at all Levels
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Negotiation at work is constant – whether with customers, colleagues or bosses. Professionals at all levels should be ready to "think on their feet" when the next situation arises to negotiate – whether in product pricing, partnership agreements or the next job offer, says Professor of Management and Organization Vijaya Venkataramani at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Venkataramani is co-director of "Building Negotiating Skills" – a three-day professional certificate course from Nov. 2-4, 2022, at the Maryland Smith Washington D.C. campus in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The workshop can be previewed in free information sessions, via Zoom, noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 and 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25.
"The workshop-based program will involve experiential exercises and real-life simulations that cover a broad spectrum of workplace negotiation simulations," Venkataramani says. The activities further are designed "to bust the myth that good negotiators are born, not made."
But it's not about learning how to "win" at any cost, says program co-director Rellie Derfler-Rozin, associate professor of management and organization at Maryland Smith. "The goal is to learn how to get to a place where you are happy with the negotiation outcome, and your partner is also happy with the outcome and wants to negotiate with you further in the future. This is an invaluable skill in the dynamic business environment, in which reputation builds very quickly and is very important to maintain."
What's crucial to success in negotiations, she says, is for "both parties to shy away from the idea that if one side is getting more, the other must be coming out worse for wear."
Derfler-Rozin, who has extensively researched and taught about effective negotiating, gives three keys:
Don't have a zero-sum mindset. "Don't think about negotiations as a 'fixed pie,' where if one side gains a larger slice, the other side is losing. Instead, think about how you can expand what you are offering and asking for so that everyone leaves satisfied."
Decide what's most important. "Both sides can win if they prioritize the factors most important to them. Chances are, those aren't the same things and with a successful give-and-take based on those priorities, both sides can gain in a negotiation."
Finish strong. "You want to finish a negotiation in a situation where the other party highly respects you as a competent problem solver who tries to create value for both sides."
For more information and to register, go to the Smith Executive Education's Building Negotiation Skills homepage.
Video: Rellie Derfler-Rozin and Vijaya Venkataramani preview the Building Negotiation Skills workshop.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate, full-time and flex MBA, executive MBA, online MBA, business master's, PhD and executive education programs, as well as outreach services to the corporate community. The school offers its degree, custom and certification programs in learning locations in North America and Asia.
Contact: Greg Muraski at gmuraski@umd.edu
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YPSILANTI, MI -- A man and woman charged with murder and armed robbery in the death of a man found in an Ypsilanti park had their pretrial hearing adjourned on Wednesday, March 22.
Parker Adams, 29, and Emily Gordon, 30, are accused of killing Gavin Carney, 28, in Ypsilanti’s Peninsular Park on Jan. 16, 2022. | https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/03/woman-charged-in-fatal-stabbing-of-man-found-with-100-wounds-to-undergo-competency-exam.html | 2023-03-25 10:09:52 | 1 | https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/03/woman-charged-in-fatal-stabbing-of-man-found-with-100-wounds-to-undergo-competency-exam.html |
Republicans pass a defense bill with unusual stipulations about abortion and diversity training. It's unlikely to pass the Senate, but still has ramifications.
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Republicans pass a defense bill with unusual stipulations about abortion and diversity training. It's unlikely to pass the Senate, but still has ramifications.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Three weeks before he faced sentencing, the Malaysian defense contractor at the center of one of the biggest bribery investigations in U.S. military history made an escape as stunning and brazen as the case itself: U-Haul trucks were seen at his home in a tony San Diego neighborhood before Leonard Glenn Francis, known as “Fat Leonard,” snipped off his ankle monitor and disappeared.
Nearly a dozen U.S. law enforcement agencies were searching for Francis on Tuesday. But officials acknowledged he may already be in Mexico, and possibly on his way back to Asia.
Four years ago, U.S. District Court Judge Janis Sammartino feared Francis might run off when she turned down his lawyer’s request to allow him to be under house arrest without round-the-clock security guards watching the ailing defense contractor. At the time, Francis was cooperating with prosecutors as they pursued charges against dozens of Navy officials who accepted bribes in exchange for classified information that gave Francis’ ship servicing business in Asia an edge in getting military contracts.
When asked about the bold escape Tuesday, his lawyer, Devin Burstein, who pushed for more leniency for his client, said: “At this time, I have no comment, sorry.”
Sammartino repeatedly maintained that Francis, who was in poor health and needed medical care, could only remain under house arrest if private security guards were on site. At one point she expressed concern that if he were to escape and ended up “back in Malaysia for whatever reason,” her name would come up if anyone asked “who let somebody do this without any security,” according to a transcript of a closed-door hearing in February 2018 that was unsealed in January.
She raised similar concerns in another hearing on Dec. 17, 2020, after receiving a report that the home was left without anyone guarding it for nearly three hours, according to the court transcript. The guard said he had been on a long lunch break, and Francis apologized to the judge for the mishap.
It was unclear if round-the-clock security guards were still in place this weekend.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in San Diego declined to comment, referring calls to the U.S. Marshals Service. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, Omar Castillo, said his officers found no security officers at the home when they arrived Sunday afternoon, nearly seven hours after Francis is believed to have removed his ankle monitor with heavy scissors. The device was found in the home.
Castillo said someone called the San Diego police department, which sent officers to the home shortly before 2 p.m. to check on it. Castillo said he did not know who made the call. After finding the home empty, police contacted U.S. Pre-Trial Services, the federal agency in charge of his confinement, which then called the U.S. Marshals Service.
Castillo said he did not know if security guards were still ordered to be there. He said neighbors reported seeing U-Haul trucks coming and going from the home one or two days before the escape. Pre-Trial Services declined to comment or answer questions.
The home is about a 40-minute drive from the Mexican border, where vehicles stream into Tijuana and are only stopped randomly. Castillo said Mexican authorities have been put on alert and 10 U.S. law enforcement agencies at local, state and federal levels were searching for Francis on Tuesday.
Castillo said GPS ankle monitors are easy to remove and do not stop people from escaping. He added that he would not be surprised if Francis was already in Mexico since it is easy to drive into the country and not be stopped.
“That’s the risk that is taken when defendants are on GPS monitoring, you know,” he said. “They don’t all cut off their GPS bracelets, but this can happen.”
It was a surprising turn in a case already full of shocking revelations.
Nearly a decade ago, Francis was arrested in a San Diego hotel as part of a federal sting operation. Investigators say he and his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, bilked the Navy out of more than $35 million by buying off dozens of top-ranking Navy officers with booze, sex, lavish parties and other gifts. In exchange the officers, including the first active-duty admiral to be convicted of a federal crime, concealed the scheme in which Francis would overcharge for supplying ships or charge for fake services at ports he controlled in Southeast Asia.
The case, which delved into salacious details about service members cheating on their wives and seeking out prostitutes, was an embarrassment to the Pentagon. It was prosecuted by the U.S. attorney’s office, which offered an independent authority from the military justice system.
Francis was scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 22 after working with prosecutors for years, leading to dozens of convictions.
All that cooperation will mean nothing now, but Francis may be hard to catch, given his wealth and vast worldwide connections, said Jason Forge, a former federal prosecutor in San Diego who worked on a number of high-profile corruption cases.
“He doesn’t strike me as the type of person under these circumstances to make a spontaneous decision,” Forge said. “I’m assuming this means he has planned things out and he has the wherewithal to do so. He will probably be a free bird for awhile.” | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/ap-fat-leonards-escape-as-stunning-as-his-navy-bribery-case/ | 2022-09-07 12:57:38 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/ap-fat-leonards-escape-as-stunning-as-his-navy-bribery-case/ |
Men's cinch Championships Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jun. 17, 2023 at 8:46 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
A showdown between world No. 16 Tommy Paul and No. 104 Taro Daniel highlights today's action in the cinch Championships round of 16, with eight matches total taking place.
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- Date: June 17
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- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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NASA collaboration results in ultralight automotive brakes expected to change the standard for price, performance, safety, and sustainability
SANTA ROSA, Calif., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Developed in partnership with NASA, and highly anticipated within the automotive industry, Orbis Brakes has announced the launch of its Periodic Wave™ disc brake line, expected to shake up the category.
Although considered the most important part of any car or truck, brakes have not seen a significant disruption since the introduction of carbon-ceramic brakes 20 years ago. Orbis had been pioneering a design innovation that would cool brakes more efficiently when a NASA engineer offered his agency's heat-dissipation expertise. The partnership resulted in the patented Periodic Wave™ disc brake, which uses advanced aerodynamics to provide superior surface cooling, reduce dangerous brake fade, and extend vehicle range and fuel efficiency.
"This is a collaboration of some of the smartest people on the planet," says Orbis co-CEO and co-Founder Marcus Hays. "We decided from the beginning that it wasn't innovation unless it produced real-world results, and that's exactly what we've done."
Lighter, cooler, and vastly more efficient, Orbis Brakes are slated to deliver the kind of market disruption carbon-ceramic brakes couldn't: racetrack performance at consumer prices. Its first product, the NextWave, is an innovative superlight disc brake rotor and pad expected to retail at a fraction of comparable performance brakes. The EcoWave is an environmentally-driven high-performance replacement brake rotor and pad priced to compete with entry-level brakes. The company will also be introducing LightWave, the lighter, cooler, high-performance replacement rotor, monoblock caliper, and vented pad, and CarbonWave, the world's first integral wheel and brake, delivering the lowest unsprung weight in the industry.
While performance, safety, and price are key values in any braking equation, Orbis Brakes have added another revolutionary advantage: lower environmental impact. The Orbis brake weighs 50% less on average than conventional cast iron brakes, reducing the energy needed to manufacture them by half and lowering carbon consumption across the supply chain. A global upgrade to Periodic Wave brakes could remove billions of pounds of Co2 from the atmosphere.
Made from 100% recyclable iron, the unique design also dramatically reduces brown emissions, the particulate matter from brakes, tires, and road surfaces that is considered exponentially more toxic than tailpipe emissions and is expected to become a major environmental issue in coming years. Next month, Europe will be including brake pad pollution for the first time in issuing its Euro 7 regulatory mandates.
Industry analysts expect high-performance and commercial vehicle owners to be a prime audience for the Orbis upgrade, as well as the fast-growing number of electric car owners looking for aftermarket products that share their high-efficiency, low-emission values.
Orbis Brakes plans launch the NextWave Q3 2022, and EcoWave Q1 2023, and is currently taking pre-orders at orbisbrakes.com
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"There's about to be a new name in lightweight, high-performance brakes: Orbis."
"The result is the new Periodic Wave Disc Brake Rotor, said to rival the best performance aftermarket brakes available today."
"Ideal for the Tesla Plaid crowd"
"Configured to replace conventional rotors and calipers inside any manufacturer's wheel."
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Chance Claxton
chance@orbisbrakes.com
Marcus Hays
415.225.1094
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Only African Americans Are Eligible
AUSTIN, Texas, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC sent letters on behalf of the Project on Fair Representation (POFR) to Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina and ITW Corporation domiciled in Glenview, Illinois warning them that the ITW Technical Fellowship Program is likely violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and other federal civil rights laws.
The letter notes that this fellowship program, while laudable, purposely excludes Hispanics, Asian Americans and whites. Currently, only African Americans are eligible for this program.
As highlighted in the letter, ITW and Central Piedmont Community College have created a fellowship program—the ITW Technical Fellowship Program—for students "pursuing a career path in Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Technology; Welding Technology; Automotive Systems Technology; or Electrical Systems Technology." The fellowship laudably offers "fully funded tuition" and other training benefits to selected applicants.
The letter underscored that the fellowship program inexplicably refuses to consider students of certain races. The program requires that the student "[m]ust be Black/African American" to be eligible for the program. In other words, whites, Hispanics, Asians need not apply. Even worse, it appears that ITW has established this same unlawful program at other colleges throughout the nation.
Edward Blum, president of the Project on Fair Representation said, "This racial discrimination is patently illegal and must stop immediately. No one should be denied a fellowship or scholarship because of their race or ethnicity"
The letter reminds both the corporation and the public community college that the Equal Protection Clause prohibits the government from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. As the Supreme Court has written, distinctions between citizens 'solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people, and therefore are contrary to our traditions and hence constitutionally suspect.'
Blum concluded, "This program needs to be open to all students, regardless of their ethnic heritage or skin color. Excluding students from programs like this one because they are not the 'right' race or ethnicity is unfair, polarizing and illegal."
Contact:
Edward Blum
703-505-1922
edwardjayblum@gmail.com
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A government attorney for the Philippines was fatally shot in a car on the way to the Philadelphia International Airport over the weekend, police said.
The black car then pulled up beside theirs and fired several more rounds. Laylo was shot in the back of the head and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead Sunday morning, according to police.
His mother said in a Facebook post that she was wounded by shrapnel. It’s unclear whether the driver, who was working for Uber at the time, was injured.
Police said officers responded to the scene about 4 a.m. Saturday. It’s unclear whether the shooting was a targeted or random attack, and the investigation is ongoing. As of Monday afternoon, police had not made arrests or identified a suspect.
Elmer Cato, the Philippines’ consul general for New York, urged Philadelphia police to “do everything to bring [the] perpetrator to justice” on Twitter on Sunday.
Cato said Sunday that he visited Leah Laylo shortly after her son had died.
“I said a prayer for him and assured him that we will do everything we can to bring him home as soon as possible,” Cato tweeted.
In her Facebook post on Sunday, Leah Laylo shared photos from the trip, writing that they show her last happy moments with her son.
“We traveled together and we are supposed to go home together!” Laylo said in the post. “I will bring him home soon in a box!”
Leila de Lima, a senator in the Philippines, said on Facebook that John Albert Laylo had served on her legislative team for two years.
“He was so young and still full of dreams,” she wrote.
As with many cities across the United States, Philadelphia has seen a surge in homicides and gun violence recently. Last year, the city set a record for homicides.
This year, up until Saturday, there had been 1,939 shooting incidents in the city — a 7 percent increase compared to the previous year.
Between May 23 and Saturday, there were 349 shootings, according to weekly data from the Philadelphia Police Department, an increase of just below 5 percent from the previous month.
On Monday, an Uber spokesperson told NBC10 Philadelphia that the company had been in communication with the employee who had been driving Saturday. The company added that it would cooperate with the investigation.
“The violent attack that took Mr. Laylo’s life is heartbreaking and our thoughts are with his family during their time of grief,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “We hope the police are able to quickly arrest those responsible.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/20/philippines-lawyer-killed-philadelphia/ | 2022-06-20 22:37:11 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/20/philippines-lawyer-killed-philadelphia/ |
AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Luka Modric led Croatia to third place in what was likely the midfield great’s last appearance at the World Cup.
The runners-up from four years ago secured another medal by beating Morocco 2-1 in the third-place match on Saturday.
Mislav Orsic scored the decisive goal shortly before halftime at Khalifa International Stadium to ensure Modric finished on a winning note, if this does turn out to be his last World Cup match.
At the age of 37, that seems likely, even if there are hopes he will lead his country at the 2024 European Championship.
Josko Gvardiol put Croatia ahead in the seventh minute, but Achraf Dari evened the score in the ninth.
It is the second time Croatia has taken third place. The team also achieved that feat in its first World Cup as an independent nation 1998.
After becoming the first African team to reach the World Cup semifinals, Morocco’s tournament ended in two losses. But then team's achievements in Qatar will be remembered for the outpouring of pride among Arab nations.
The World Cup final between defending champion France and Argentina is scheduled for Sunday at Lusail Stadium.
The third-place match is considered by some to be a meaningless exhibition. Even Morocco coach Walid Regragui described it as a “booby prize” in the buildup. But neither team lacked motivation in a fiercely contested game between two nations that few expected to go so far.
That was underlined by a host of players needing to be substituted because of injury in the second half as Morocco pushed for an equalizer.
The teams had already played out 0-0 draw in the group stage and had made to the semifinals on the back of tough defenses, with a combined six shutouts. Goals weren't a problem this time.
Perhaps that was because of the relative freedom of playing in a game with supposedly little at stake. Another factor for Morocco, at least, was the absence of three key defenders, Romain Saiss, Nayef Aguerd and Noussair Mazraoui.
The impact of those absences was felt when Croatia took the lead off Gvardiol's diving header. In a slick move, Ivan Perisic flicked a free kick into the middle of the penalty box and the center back did the rest.
Morocco responded two minutes later when Lovro Majer inadvertently helped on Hakim Ziyech’s free kick and Dari headed in to even the score.
Croatia, however, was back in front three minutes before halftime.
Orsic picked up the ball on the left of the box and curled a shot toward the top corner. Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou got a touch on the ball, but could only push it onto the post on its way into the net. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/croatia-beats-morocco-to-take-3rd-place-world-cup-2022/507-1cb252a0-6083-4eaa-b9ec-f8909ca68c23 | 2022-12-17 18:35:09 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/croatia-beats-morocco-to-take-3rd-place-world-cup-2022/507-1cb252a0-6083-4eaa-b9ec-f8909ca68c23 |
The NBA fined the Dallas Mavericks $750,000 on Friday, saying the team engaged in “conduct detrimental to the league” by sitting out most of its key players against the Chicago Bulls on April 7 despite still having a chance to reach the postseason.
The league’s investigation, which took less than a week, said Dallas violated the league’s policy on resting players and had a desire to lose that game to the Bulls “in order to improve the chances of keeping its first-round pick in the 2023 NBA Draft.”
Dallas sat Kyrie Irving for the entire game against the Bulls. Luka Doncic played about one quarter, presumably getting minutes because the Mavericks had scheduled a tribute to Doncic’s home country, Slovenia.
The Mavericks blew an 11-point fourth-quarter lead, lost and were eliminated from postseason consideration.
“The Dallas Mavericks’ decision to restrict key players from fully participating in an elimination game last Friday against Chicago undermined the integrity of our sport,” said Joe Dumars, the head of basketball operations/executive vice president for the NBA. “The Mavericks’ actions failed our fans and our league.”
Losing that game and missing the play-in tournament could help ensure that Dallas has a top-10 draft pick this summer — and with it, potentially a chance of winning the lottery and getting the opportunity to select French phenom Victor Wembanyama.
Having a top-10 pick is important, because otherwise, Dallas wouldn’t have it at all. If the Mavs’ pick is between No. 1 and No. 10, Dallas keeps it. If it is No. 11 or deeper in the draft, it conveys to New York as part of the compensation agreed to in the Kristaps Porzingis trade in 2019.
The league said it did not find that the Dallas players who participated in the game were not playing to win. Dallas coach Jason Kidd said before the game that the decision to sit players was made by “the organization” and after the game referenced the decision as being made by his bosses — owner Mark Cuban and general manager Nico Harrison.
Dallas had Irving, Tim Hardaway Jr., Maxi Kleber, Josh Green and Christian Wood all out for that win-or-else game, plus limited Doncic. The Mavs cited right foot injury recovery for Irving, right hamstring injury recovery for Kleber, left ankle soreness for Hardaway and rest for both Wood and Green.
It’s the second time that the Mavericks were fined after a look into potential tanking.
In February 2018, the NBA fined Cuban $600,000 for comments about tanking during a podcast with Basketball Hall of Fame player Julius Erving. The Mavericks were well on their way to what became a 24-58 season when Cuban spoke to Erving and discussed tanking. Commissioner Adam Silver called those “public statements detrimental to the NBA.”
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WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 3, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
903 AM PST Mon Jan 2 2023
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in
California...
Mokelumne River Near Benson's Ferry Near Thornton affecting
Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties.
.Heavy rainfall over the past few days has produced significant
rises on local rivers. The Mokelumne River near Benson's Ferry
remains at minor flood stage and is forecast to slowly recede.
For the Mokelumne River...including Benson's Ferry Near Thornton...
Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
This warning will be in effect until the river falls below its flood
stage.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
For more hydrologic information and stage definitions refer to the
following web site: wrh.noaa.gov/sto/hydro_data.php
The next statement will be issued on Tuesday morning around 9 AM
PST.this evening at 915 PM PST.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
This approaches the flood of record.
* WHERE...Mokelumne River near Benson's Ferry Near Thornton.
* WHEN...Until early Tuesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 17.3 feet, Some local farm roads are closed. Low
lying areas along the river are flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:15 AM PST Monday the stage was 19.3 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to slowly recede. It will
then fall below flood stage just on Monday night shortly
after midnight.
- Flood stage is 17.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
19.9 feet on 01/12/2017.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Mokelumne River At
Benson's Ferry Near Thornton 1/02 8:15 stage 19.3 ft
Forecast to recede to near 15.5 FT tomorrow morning.
Monitor stage 12.0 ft, Flood stage 17.0
Impact for Benson's Ferry Near Thornton...Near 17.25 feet, Some
local farm roads are closed. Low lying areas along the river are
flooded.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peninsula Family Service (PFS) officially kicked off a major initiative to rebuild and transform the Midway Early Learning Center in Daly City. PFS is one of the largest early learning providers on the Peninsula with eight sites that annually serve 600+ children aged three weeks to twelve years.
PFS is partnering with MidPen Housing and the San Mateo County Department of Housing to build a new Early Learning Center in the new 555-unit complex at Midway Village, Daly City, which will be one of the largest affordable housing projects in the County.
"Today marks a key milestone in the nearly 75-year journey PFS has been on to support innovative early learning for underserved children," said Heather Cleary, CEO of Peninsula Family Service. "We are proud to partner with MidPen Housing and San Mateo County Department of Housing to make the Midway Early Learning Center a reality."
The new PFS-designed Midway Early Learning Center Campaign will fund a brand new, high-quality learning environment for those who otherwise could not obtain the early learning needed to thrive. The design of the new center will draw from PFS' expertise in child development, emphasizing STEM-based learning to augment literacy and arts curriculum, to better prepare students for kindergarten and beyond.
"Peninsula Family Service's vision for an expanded and state of the art early learning center is an important component of MidPen Housing Corporation's revitalization of Midway Village. We are proud to partner with them to address the need for more care options in the Bayshore neighborhood," said Abby Goldware Potluri, Director of Housing Development at MidPen.
Speakers at today's launch included: Heather Cleary, Chief Executive Officer, Peninsula Family Service; Supervisor David Canepa, County of San Mateo, Board of Supervisors District 5; and Mayor Dr. Rod Daus-Magbual, City of Daly City.
Peninsula Family Service (PFS) is a 72-year-old $18M Silicon Valley nonprofit reaching program participants at every life stage from three weeks to one hundred years. PFS has thirty-nine programs, services, and sites in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties.
Media Contact: Theresa Myers
Director, Marketing & Communications
tmyers@pfso.org
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NEW DELHI (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist said Wednesday that Indian immigration authorities prevented her from flying to the United States to receive the award even though she had a valid visa and ticket.
Sanna Irshad Mattoo was scheduled to fly to New York on Monday to receive the Pulitzer Prize but was blocked by officials at New Delhi’s airport, she said.
Mattoo said she was stopped without reason and her ticket was canceled.
Mattoo was working on assignment for Reuters, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for coverage of the COVID-19 crisis in India.
She said she was traveling with two colleagues who were cleared to travel while she was stopped. Mattoo said the immigration official handed her boarding pass back but did not respond when she asked repeatedly what the problem was. She was then taken to the airline counter to collect her luggage.
Mattoo said she has no idea why she was prevented from traveling. “Is it about my work? Is it something else? I should be told. The problem is I don’t know what the problem is,” she said.
There was no immediate comment from Indian authorities.
It was the second such experience for Mattoo, who was stopped from traveling to Paris in July for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of 10 winners of the Serendipity Arles Grant 2020. Again, Mattoo said that immigrations officials gave her no reason but told her she would not be able to travel internationally.
She has been working since 2018 as a freelance photojournalist depicting life in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where insurgents have been fighting for the region’s independence or merger with neighboring Pakistan.
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NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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686 FPUS51 KALY 140808
ZFPALY
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
NYZ033-142015-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. North winds around 5 mph
in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Lows in
the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ052-142015-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ058-142015-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ065-142015-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs around 90.
$$
NYZ041-142015-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest around 5 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ038-142015-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
East winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ032-142015-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Light
and variable winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ042-142015-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ083-142015-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows
around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ043-142015-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ084-142015-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ082-142015-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ039-142015-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with
scattered showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ040-142015-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs around 80. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with
scattered showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ047-142015-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with
scattered showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ048-142015-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ049-142015-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ050-142015-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ051-142015-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ053-142015-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ054-142015-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ060-142015-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows around 60.
Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ061-142015-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ059-142015-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Lows
in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ063-142015-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 80. Lows in
the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ064-142015-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming south around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ066-142015-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
408 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. North winds around 5 mph, becoming
west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NAS
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Indiana Lawmakers had a little slumber party at the Statehouse last night as they decided on what to do with Hoosier taxpayer money.
Under the cover of darkness and behind closed doors in an overnight legislative session, the Indiana legislature passed a whopping $44.5B budget. Shortly after 1:30 a.m. eastern time, the House voted 70-27 to pass the two-year spending plan. Less than an hour later, the Senate followed suit in a 39-10 vote to send it to Gov. Eric Holcomb, who “gladly” signed off on it.
“The budget that was just passed and the budget that I will gladly sign is not just your average, ordinary, typical, two-year budget,” said Gov. Eric Holcomb at around 3:00 a.m. “It is a generational impact budget.”
The “generational impact budget” includes a massive boost to education funding. Lawmakers even added more education funding to the budget at the last minute which pushed the total to around $1.5 billion, making up over half of the overall budget.
Gas taxes will also keep going up under the new budget. The annual 1-cent gas tax increase set to expire in 2024 was extended three more years to 2027. That particular gas tax currently sits at 33-cents for every gallon you buy.
In addition, lawmakers also added provisions to give themselves raises. Holcomb will especially benefit from this as his salary will increase by 50 percent to nearly $200,000 a year. | https://wibc.com/150376/indiana-lawmakers-pass-44-5b-budget-in-late-night-session/ | 2023-04-28 21:12:27 | 1 | https://wibc.com/150376/indiana-lawmakers-pass-44-5b-budget-in-late-night-session/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A postseason rainout in New York left the Cleveland Guardians feeling right at home.
The second game of the American League Division Series between the Guardians and New York Yankees was postponed Thursday because of steady rain in the forecast and rescheduled for 1:07 p.m. on Friday.
Major League Baseball called the game more than seven hours before the first pitch was supposed to be thrown at 7:37 p.m.
Baseball’s youngest team, the surprising Guardians were rained out nine times at home this season due to Cleveland’s inconsistent and unpleasant weather.
They had two more postponements on the road, one because of a COVID-19 outbreak. That forced the Guardians to play eight doubleheaders — they even had to push back a celebration and flag-raising ceremony late last month to salute their AL Central championship due to a rainy forecast.
Veteran manager Terry Francona said he’s never seen anything like it.
“Never in my life,” he bemoaned with a helpless grin. “And it sounds like when we get back to Ohio, it’s not perfect. They think it’s going to be OK, but we’ll be dodging some raindrops both days it looks like.”
Francona’s solution?
“Play a doubleheader. We’re used to it,” he joked.
New York won Tuesday night’s opener in the best-of-five series 4-1, and the rainout followed an unusual scheduled off day between Games 1 and 2.
Now, the clubs could play four days in a row.
Game 3 and a potential Game 4 are scheduled in Cleveland this weekend. If Game 5 is needed, it would be Monday night at Yankee Stadium.
The winner advances to the AL Championship Series against Houston or Seattle.
All-Star lefty Nestor Cortes (12-4) remains scheduled to pitch Game 2 for the AL East champion Yankees against 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber (13-8).
The latest rainout wipes away any chance the Guardians would start Bieber on short rest late in the series. Without the postponement, he would have had three days of rest between Game 2 and a potential Game 5. Now, there will be only two days in between.
“It takes out the possibility of Bieber coming back early. Which, to be totally honest, I don’t know how I felt about that to begin with,” Francona said.
“I think the way I worded it the other day was like, if he had gone maybe two innings because of rain or something, you don’t ever want to just say no. But I think (pitching coach Carl Willis) and I, both our thoughts were that we weren’t leaning towards that as an option that we really wanted to do, just because of what he’s been through and everything.”
A strained right shoulder limited Bieber to 16 starts last year. He rebounded this season with a 2.88 ERA in 200 innings across 31 starts, and threw 7 2/3 innings of three-hit ball in a 2-1 victory over Tampa Bay last Friday in the wild-card round for his first postseason win.
“Nobody wants to win more than we do, believe me. But we just — right is right,” Francona said. “So that one’s off the table.”
Triston McKenzie (11-11) is slated to start Game 3 for Cleveland against Luis Severino (7-3) on Saturday night, and then the Guardians will adjust from there if the series is still going.
Cal Quantrill would be on full rest Sunday for Game 4. He took the loss in the series opener at Yankee Stadium, ending his 11-game winning streak.
“We need to win a couple, but we’ll see what we do the last couple games, which order it would be,” Francona said. “Some of that may be determined by how much we’ve used our bullpen.”
Cleveland held an optional workout Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium for players to throw outside and hit in the indoor batting cage.
New York held no media availability.
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York and AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump was impeached in late 2019 after pressuring Ukraine's leader for “a favor,” all while withholding $400 million in military aid to help confront Russian-backed separatists, even the staunchest defense hawks in the Republican Party stood virtually united by Trump's side.
But as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military marched toward Kyiv this February, threatening not only Ukraine but the rest of Europe, Republicans and Democrats in Congress cast aside impeachment politics, rallied to Ukraine's side and swiftly shipped billions to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's defense.
The question ahead, as Ukrainians battle Russia’s grinding invasion now past its 100th day, is whether the rare bipartisanship on Capitol Hill is resilient enough to withstand Trump’s isolationist influences on his party or whether Republicans who yielded to Trump's “America First” approach will do so again, putting military and humanitarian support for Ukraine at risk.
“Maybe there is a recognition on both Republican side and Democratic side that this security assistance is very important,” said Bill Taylor, a former ambassador to Ukraine, in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
"And maybe neither side is eager to crack that coalition."
The fraught party politics comes at a pivotal moment as the Russian invasion drags on and the United States gets deeper into the conflict before the November elections, when lawmakers face voters with control of Congress at stake.
New polling from The Associated Press shows public support in the U.S. for punishing Russia over the war is wavering if it comes at the expense of the economy.
While Congress mustered rare and robust bipartisan support to approve a $40 billion Ukraine package, bringing total U.S. support to a staggering $53 billion since the start of the war, opposition on the latest round of aid came solely from the Republican side, including from Trump.
That is a warning sign over the sturdiness of the bipartisan coalition that the top Republican in Congress, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, tried to shore up when he led a delegation of GOP senators to stand by Zelenskyy's side in a surprise trip to Kyiv last month.
“There is some isolationist sentiment in my party that I think is wrongheaded, and I wanted to push back against it," McConnell told a Kentucky audience this past week, explaining his Ukraine visit.
The divisions within the GOP over Ukraine are routinely stoked by Trump, who initially praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a “genius” negotiating strategy. Trump has repeatedly lashed out against the U.S. aid to Ukraine, including last weekend at a rally in Wyoming. Before the Senate vote on the $40 billion in assistance, Trump decried the idea of spending abroad while America's “parents are struggling.”
As Trump considers whether to run for the White House in 2024, the persistence of his “America First” foreign policy approach leaves open questions about the durability of his party's commitment to U.S. support for a democratic Ukraine. Senators are poised this summer to vote to expand NATO to include Sweden and Finland, but Trump has repeatedly criticized U.S. spending on Western military alliance.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, among 11 Republican senators who voted against the Ukraine package, called the tally an "astronomical number” at a time when foreign policy should be focused elsewhere, including on China.
“That is nation-building kind of number,” Hawley said in an interview. “And I think it’s a mistake.”
It was nearly three years ago that Ukraine was at the center of U.S politics with the 2019 Trump impeachment proceedings that rocked Washington.
Zelenskky, a comedian turned politician, had just been elected when he asked Trump during a July 25, 2019, phone call for a meeting to strengthen U.S.-Ukraine relations and ensure military aid, according to a transcript released by Trump's White House.
“We are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes,” Zelenskyy told Trump, referring to anti-tank weaponry Ukraine relies on from the West.
Trump replied: “I would like you to do us a favor, though.”
Trump asked Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden, a chief Democratic rival to Trump at the time and now the American president, and Biden's son Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
The impeachment investigation, sparked by a government whistleblower's complaint over Trump's call, swiftly became a milestone, the first in a generation since Democrat Bill Clinton faced charges over an affair with a White House intern.
During weeks of impeachment proceedings over Ukraine, witnesses from across the national security and foreign service sphere testified under oath about the alarms that were going off in Washington and Kyiv about Trump’s conversation with Zelenskyy.
Complicated stories emerged about the scramble by Trump allies to secure the investigations of the Bidens — and of the civil servants pushing back against what they saw as a breach of protocol.
Yet American opinions over the gravity of the charges against Trump were mixed, polling at the time by the AP showed.
Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House and acquitted by the Senate, with just one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, joining Democrats to convict.
“The allegations were all horse hockey,” said Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., recalling his decision not to impeach.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., brushed back questions about whether Trump’s actions then played any role in Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine this February.
“It wasn’t like Putin invaded right after. It’s been almost two years," Rubio said.
Republicans are quick to remind that Trump was, in fact, the first president to allow lethal arms shipments to Ukraine — something Barack Obama’s administration, with Biden as vice president, declined to do over worries of provoking Putin.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the co-chair of the Senate’s Ukrainian Caucus who persuaded Trump in a phone call to ultimately release the $400 million in aid, stood by his decision not to convict Trump over the delay of that assistance.
“As long as it was done,” Portman said about the outcome.
But Romney said people need to remain “clear-eyed” about the threat Putin poses to the world order. "I did the right thing at the time, and I haven’t looked back," he said.
Democrats are blistering in their criticism of Republicans over the impeachment verdict.
“It's a shame,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“Every single Republican who voted in support of Donald Trump’s geopolitical shakedown and blackmail of Volodymyr Zelenskky and the Ukrainian people should be ashamed of themselves,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., “because the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions were understood to us then, and now the world understands.”
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Deadly Christmas week blizzard to intensify into bomb cyclone; power outages explode amid travel nightmare
A dangerous blizzard will likely intensify into a bomb cyclone Friday as it wallops the Great Lakes and Northeast with snow, damaging winds and plummeting temperatures, creating to a travel nightmare for millions trying to reach their destination for the Christmas holiday weekend.
Hundreds of thousands of power outages have been reported from Texas to the East Coast due to the widespread high winds knocking down trees and limbs, causing damage to power lines and other electrical equipment.
CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD, ICE STORM COULD LEAVE THOUSANDS ACROSS U.S. WITHOUT POWER AMID BITTER COLD
Current power outages across the U.S.(FOX Weather)
The winter storm will usher in bitterly cold, life-threatening temperatures that will spawn a widespread flash freeze in the East and South as rain is followed by temperatures rapidly falling below freezing all the way to Florida, which could see its coldest Christmas in more than 30 years.
HERE'S HOW LONG IT'LL TAKE YOU TO GET FROSTBITE AS WIND CHILLS DIP BELOW ZERO
On top of the dangerous wind chills, accumulating snow is expected across a large swath of the U.S.
Blizzard Warnings are in effect for more than 10 million people in the northern Plains, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, including Fargo in North Dakota, Sioux Falls in South Dakota, Rochester in Minnesota, Cedar Rapids in Iowa, La Crosse in Wisconsin, South Bend in Indiana, Grand Rapids in Michigan and Buffalo in New York.
Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories have also been issued by the National Weather Service from the northern Plains eastward to the Midwest, Great Lakes, mid-South, central Appalachians and interior Northeast. These include the cities of Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Nashville in Tennessee.
Various winter weather alerts are posted along the path of the winter storm. (FOX Weather)
Travel conditions will become extremely difficult, if not impossible, in many of the areas covered by winter weather alerts due to the combination of snow, high winds and frigid wind chills.
Data from FlightAware showed more than 4,000 flights had been canceled across the U.S. through Saturday, and nearly 15,000 flights were delayed between Wednesday and Friday.
RECORD-BREAKING, LIFE-THREATENING WIND CHILLS PLUNGE 150 MILLION AMERICANS INTO DEEP FREEZE
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the highest additional snowfall totals along the path of this winter storm will likely be found near the Great Lakes. More than a foot of snow could pile up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, western Lower Michigan, far northern Indiana and western and northern New York due to bands of heavy lake-effect snow through the weekend.
Snow accumulations elsewhere will likely be under 6 inches, except for some locally higher totals from the Adirondacks of New York to the Green Mountains of Vermont, White Mountains of New Hampshire and parts of northern Maine.
Snowfall forecast through Christmas Day.(FOX Weather)
There could even be a light dusting of snow that could slicken roads as far south as portions of Tennessee as an arctic cold front sweeps all the way to the Gulf Coast.
WHITE CHRISTMAS FORECAST: BLIZZARD TO LEAVE MUCH OF NATION COVERED IN SNOW FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND
The dangerous driving conditions have been blamed for at least one death in Oregon. Deputies in the Portland area reported roadways were icy on Tuesday when a semi-truck crashed into the scene of a previous wreck on Interstate 84, where one man was killed.
Where is the winter storm now?
Snow from the intense winter storm is falling across the Great Lakes and the central Appalachians. Meanwhile, the precipitation is falling as a soaking rain across much of the Northeast out ahead of an arctic cold front.
In the wake of the arctic front, wind gusts between 30 and 40 mph are still producing areas of blowing and drifting snow in the Plains and Midwest, resulting in dangerous travel conditions even where the snow has already ended.
Even higher wind gusts are being reported in the East, where gusts have topped 50 mph Friday morning in parts of Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts, contributing to the rising power outages.
Behind the arctic cold front, weather observation sites from the Plains to the Appalachians have reported temperature drops of more than 30 degrees in under an hour.
FROM 50 DEGREES TO BELOW ZERO: ARCTIC FRONT SENDING INSTANT BONE-CHILLING BLASTS OF FRIGID AIR
Friday-Friday night: Blizzard conditions snarl travel in Great Lakes as damaging winds blast East Coast
The winter storm will reach its peak intensity on Friday over the Great Lakes. Blizzard conditions will snarl travel from eastern Wisconsin and far northeastern Illinois to portions of Michigan, northern Indiana, northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and western New York, where heavy snow will overlap with 40- to 80-mph wind gusts as wind chills plunge well below zero.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the high winds will likely knock out power to thousands of people across the Great Lakes and Northeast, which could turn into a life-threatening situation for those who lose power amid such frigid temperatures.
WHAT ARE THE WORST AIRPORTS TO FLY INTO DURING WINTER?
Forecast for Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. (FOX Weather)
To the east, on the warmer side of the storm, significant impacts are still expected along the East Coast, even in the absence of blizzard conditions.
Wind-driven rain is expected across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Friday as damaging winds blast the region with widespread 50-plus-mph gusts. Some gusts between 60 and 70 mph cannot be ruled out as the arctic cold front plows through the East from Friday into Friday night.
At least scattered power outages are likely, and more widespread outages are possible in areas that see the highest wind gusts, including western and northern New York and northern and coastal New England.
Power outage forecast through Christmas Eve.(FOX Weather)
High Wind Watches and Warnings and Wind Advisories have been issued across upstate New York, New England and the New York City tri-state area.
HERE’S WHAT TO HAVE ON HAND IF THE POWER GOES OUT DURING A WINTER STORM
The wind gusts will be strong enough to knock down tree limbs and power lines, especially in locations where heavy snow adds extra weight to the trees and power lines, making them more vulnerable to being damaged by the high winds.
Make sure you plan ahead for potential power outages during the life-threatening conditions that are expected to accompany the winter storm.
Even after the rain ends, the dangers will not. Rapidly dropping temperatures will lead to a widespread flash freeze of any standing water on the roads, causing dangerous travel conditions from Friday night to at least Saturday.
Additionally, for the immediate East Coast, strong onshore winds will lead to a significant coastal flooding threat along south-facing coastlines, especially during the Friday morning high tide. The FOX Forecast Center said the flood levels could potentially rank among the 10 highest on record along the south shore of Long Island, the Jersey Shore and the Connecticut coast.
EAST COAST FLOODING THREAT FROM CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD LIKELY NEAR SUPERSTORM SANDY LEVELS
Christmas weekend: Feet of snow to bury Great Lakes snowbelts
On Christmas Eve, the winter storm will exit into eastern Canada, but high winds will continue to impact the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region. As those winds blow over the lakes, intense lake-effect snow bands are expected to develop in the Great Lakes snowbelts and dump heavy snowfall in localized areas through at least Christmas Day.
Forecast for Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (FOX Weather)
Buffalo, New York, has been placed under a Blizzard Warning due to the combination of heavy lake-effect snow and high winds.
"True blizzard conditions are rare in western NY, and it's unusual to even consider blizzard headlines this far in advance of a storm," the National Weather Service office in Buffalo wrote in a forecast discussion. "However, the magnitude of this storm justifies this consideration."
According to the FOX Forecast Center, snowfall amounts through Monday will range from 1 to 4 feet not only across western New York, but also in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and western Lower Michigan.
Lake-effect snow forecast through Monday, Dec. 26, 2022.(FOX Weather)
The lingering gusty winds will also continue to produce dangerously cold wind chills throughout Christmas weekend, which could seriously threaten anyone who remains without power.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Injuries to Pelicans stars Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram took some of the luster off of New Orleans’ promising start to the regular season.
Williamson was diagnosed with a posterior hip contusion after crashing to the court on a transition dunk attempt that was blocked from behind by Utah’s Jordan Clarkson during the fourth quarter of a 122-121 overtime triumph by the Jazz on Sunday night.
Ingram, a dynamic scorer from the wing who’d averaged 28 points in the Pelicans’ first two games, left in the first half with a concussion.
The 6-foot-6 Williamson, who is listed at 284 pounds but appears lighter coming off of a new summer workout program, remained on the floor in pain for a few moments before briefly trying to continue playing.
“I thought, ‘Oh, man, this isn’t good,'” Pelicans guard CJ McCollum said of the sight of Williamson crashing to the floor on his back side. “Unfortunate play.
“Hopefully, he’s back sooner than later,” McCollum added. “But that’s a lot of weight, a lot of energy, a lot of athleticism coming down.”
Ingram scored 10 points in 11 minutes before a collision with teammate Naji Marshall knocked him out of New Orleans’ home opener.
Williamson had 25 points before his hard fall, after which he checked out of the game for good.
The Pelicans play next on Tuesday night at home against Dallas and it was unclear whether Williamson or Ingram will be available for that game.
When Williamson checked out, he did not leave the bench area to seek immediate treatment for his bruised hip. He remained with his team until the end of the game, but coach Willie Green said there was no discussion about putting Williamson back in the game.
“The word that I got (was) that he wasn’t going back in,” Green said.
Williamson, the first overall choice in the 2019 NBA draft out of Duke, missed all of last season while recovering from a broken foot. He was cleared to return to full basketball activities this offseason and his return to action has been eagerly awaited in New Orleans.
He opened the season by scoring 25 points in a victory at Brooklyn and followed that up with 16 points in a win at Charlotte.
The Pelicans’ home opener marked Williamson’s first regular-season action in New Orleans since May 4, 2021. And there was a buzz in the sell-out crowd whenever he got the ball on the offensive end. His highlights included an alley-oop dunk on a lob from McCollum in the first half and he scored most of his points around the rim.
Williamson was out in front of a fast break and leapt toward the rim, seemingly about to slam down a crowd-pleasing, one-handed jam, when Clarkson, chasing from behind, got his hand on the ball and seemed to throw Williamson off-kilter.
The block appeared clean on video replays and no foul was called.
“I saw the replay and it was all ball, so a really great play by J.C.,” Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen said of Clarkson’s block adding that it looked like Williamson “had a wide-open dunk.”
“Really good hands by him just to get all ball,” Markkanen said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting outside U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home is giving the Republican a fresh, personal perspective on the kind of violent crime that has been a focus of his campaign for governor.
Two 17-year-old boys were wounded by gunfire from a moving car Sunday afternoon while walking in front of Zeldin’s home, police said. Zeldin’s daughters, both 16, heard the gunshots, locked themselves in a bathroom and called 911.
“It doesn’t hit any closer to home than this,” Zeldin said to a reporter while marching in a parade on Monday. “This could be anyone across this entire state.”
Police have divulged few details about the wounded teens, whose wounds were not life threatening, or what might have led to the shooting.
Speaking to reporters outside Zeldin’s home Monday, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said investigators suspect the victims were targeted and were looking in to whether the shooting might be gang related. No arrests have been made.
Harrison said he’s deploying more officers to Zeldin’s neighborhood, in Shirley on Long Island’s South Shore, as a precaution. A squad car was parked Monday near Zeldin’s home.
Zeldin, who is running against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, has made tackling violent crime a pillar of his campaign.
Overall, statistics show Suffolk County, where he lives, is relatively safe.
Linked in popular imagination with the Hamptons and its beachy coastlines, the county is one of the richest in the United States. Last year it had the fifth-lowest violent crime rate of the state’s 62 counties, according to state data.
Through August this year, the Suffolk Police Department, which patrols much of the county of 1.5 million people, had reported 47 shootings and 12 shooting deaths. That’s fewer than at this same point in 2021.
Zeldin and his wife were returning from a parade in the Bronx and weren’t home at the time of the shooting. Police said they had no reason to believe it had any connection to him. The wounded teens were from the nearby towns of Mastic and Mastic Beach.
Zeldin said his daughters were rattled but otherwise safe. They marched with him Monday in the 78th Annual Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan.
“Yesterday was a pretty traumatic day,” Zeldin said. “When they heard the screaming the concern was — for them, what was most traumatic, was that they thought that these people were trying to get in the house.”
It’s the second scare Zeldin has had in several months.
In July, he was assaulted while campaigning in upstate New York when a man approached him onstage and thrust a sharp object near his head and neck. He was uninjured and the man was arrested.
Zeldin has pledged to fight crime by scaling back the state’s bail reforms, which went into effect in 2020, and has singled out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, saying he’d seek to remove him from office, if elected.
He also applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that struck down a New York gun law and made it easier for people to own guns.
There have been at least three other shootings in other parts of Zeldin’s town, Shirley, this year.
In January, a 34-year-old man was shot and killed about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Zeldin’s home. In February, a man was wounded, and three houses were struck by gunfire. In August, a couple died of gunshot wounds in a suspected murder-suicide. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/shooting-brings-violent-crime-to-rep-zeldins-doorstep/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-10-11 00:03:05 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/shooting-brings-violent-crime-to-rep-zeldins-doorstep/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed into law a first-of-its kind bill that makes it illegal for TikTok to operate in the state, setting up a potential legal fight with the company amid a litany of questions over whether the state can even enforce the law.
The new rules in Montana will have more far-reaching effects than TikTok bans already in place on government-issued devices in nearly half the states and the U.S. federal government. There are 200,000 TikTok users in Montana as well as 6,000 businesses that use the video-sharing platform, according to company spokesperson Jamal Brown.
Here’s what you need to know:
WHY IS MONTANA BANNING TIKTOK?
Proponents of the law in Montana claim the Chinese government could harvest U.S. user data from TikTok and use the platform to push pro-Beijing misinformation or messages to the public.
That mirrors arguments made by a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate, as well as the heads of the FBI and the CIA, all of whom have said TikTok could pose a national security threat because its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance operates under Chinese law.
Critics have pointed to China’s 2017 national intelligence law that compels companies to cooperate with the country’s governments for state intelligence work. Another Chinese law, implemented in 2014, has similar mandates.
TikTok says it has never been asked to hand over its data, and it wouldn’t do so if asked.
HOW DOES MONTANA PLAN TO BAN TIKTOK?
The law will prohibit downloads of TikTok in the state and fine any “entity” — an app store or TikTok — $10,000 per day for each time someone accesses TikTok, “is offered the ability” to access it, or downloads it.
That means Apple and Google, which operate app stores on Apple and Android devices, would be liable for any violations. Penalties would not apply to users.
The statewide ban won’t take effect until January 2024. It would be void if the social media platform is sold to a company that is not based in “any country designated as a foreign adversary” by the federal government.
The governor indicated he wants to expand the bill to other social media apps in order to address some of the bill’s “technical and legal concerns.” But the legislature adjourned before sending him the bill, which meant he couldn’t offer his amendments.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has pointed to technology used to restrict online sports gambling apps as a way to curtail TikTok from operating in the state. Those violations can be reported by anyone. And once the state verifies a breach has taken place, it sends a cease-and-desist letter to the company involved, said Kyler Nerison, a spokesperson for Knudsen’s office. He said different companies use different methods for compliance and it’s up to them “to not allow their apps to work in Montana and other states where they are not legal.”
SO, COULD THE TIKTOK BAN WORK?
Cybersecurity experts say that, other than avoiding the fine, there’s nothing incentivizing the companies involved to comply and it will be extremely difficult — if not impossible — to adequately enforce the law.
For one, the U.S. doesn’t have anything equivalent to the type of control countries like China have on what their citizens access on the web. Compounding that, internet service providers are out of the picture.
Before the Montana law passed, lawmakers rewrote portions of the bill to let them off the hook after a lobbyist for AT&T said during a February hearing the legislation was “not workable” to put into effect.
COULD TECH COMPANIES BLOCK IT?
Apple and Google have not spoken out against the law. But a representative for TechNet, the trade group that counts the two tech giants as its members, has said app stores don’t have the ability to “geofence” apps in different states and it would be impossible to prevent TikTok from being downloaded in Montana. The group has also said the responsibility should be on an app to determine where it can operate, not an app store.
Telecoms analyst Roger Entner, of Recon Analytics, says he believes the app stores could have the capability to enforce the law, but it would be cumbersome to implement and full of loopholes. Apple and Google’s address-linked billing could be bypassed with prepaid cards and IP geolocation easily masked by using a VPN service, which can alter IP addresses and allows users to evade content restrictions, said mobile security expert Will Strafach, the founder of Guardian, which makes a privacy protection app for Apple devices.
Oded Vanunu, head of products vulnerability research at the cybersecurity firm Check Point, agreed it would be difficult for app stores to isolate a single state from downloading an app. He suggested it would be more feasible for TikTok to comply since it controls the software and can “adjust the settings based on the geographical location or IP addresses” of users.
COULD TIKTOK BLOCK ITSELF?
When users allow TikTok to collect their location information, it can track a person to at least 3 square kilometers (1.16 square miles) from their actual location. If that feature is disabled, TikTok can still collect approximate location information – such as the region, city or zip code in which a user may be located – based on device or network information, like an IP address.
But similar to the app stores, cybersecurity experts note that any enforcement measures the company implements could be easily bypassed with a VPN and efforts to use IP geolocating might lead to other issues.
David Choffnes, the executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University, said cell providers may use the same types of IP addresses for multiple states, which could mean someone who is not in Montana could incorrectly be blocked from using TikTok.
WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?
Likely a legal battle.
Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, has already said he expects the law will end up in court.
TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter said in a prepared statement Wednesday that the law infringes on Montanan’s free speech rights and is unlawful.
“We want to reassure Montanans that they can continue using TikTok to express themselves, earn a living, and find community as we continue working to defend the rights of our users inside and outside of Montana,” Oberwetter said.
Oberwetter declined to say if the company will file a lawsuit but described some of the legal issues at play. She argued Montana is attempting to override U.S. foreign policy by claiming the bill addresses a national security risk. She said foreign policy and national security laws are not made at the state level.
NetChoice, a trade group that represents TikTok and other tech companies, says the bill would violate the First Amendment and “bill of attainder” laws that prohibit the government from imposing a punishment on a specific entity without a formal trial.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok are failing to stop hate and threats against LGBTQ users, a report issued Wednesday from advocacy group GLAAD found.
Those are some of the internet’s most vulnerable users, with a majority of LGBTQ people saying they’ve faced menacing posts or comments when they’re scrolling through social media. But it’s unclear how social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube are handling those threats.
Instead of protecting their users, GLAAD says in the report, the tech companies are safeguarding information about how they respond to those attacks, revealing few details about how often they take down posts or accounts that push hate speech or harass LGBTQ users.
“The reality is, there’s very little transparency and very little accountability,” said Jenni Olson, GLAAD’s director for social media safety and author of the report. “And people feel helpless.”
Los Angeles resident Peter Sapinsky, a gay musician who said he has faced harassment in the online gaming community, shared screenshots with The Associated Press of dozens of messages he’s sent to YouTube about users and videos that use racist and homophobic slurs. YouTube has responded to only some of the messages, he said.
Sapinsky, 29, said some use YouTube to livestream themselves harassing people at Pride parades. They quickly delete those live videos once they’ve wrapped to evade being detected by YouTube for violating its policies against hate speech, he said. He listed a series of homophobic slurs he’s heard in videos posted by users who are still operating on the site.
“YouTube doesn’t do anything about it,” Sapinsky said. “For someone who says they don’t allow hate on the website, they sure do.”
Hateful or violent speech directed at members of the LGBTQ community is prohibited on the platform, YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon said.
“Over the last few years, we’ve made significant progress in our ability to quickly remove hateful and harassing content,” Malon said. “This work is ongoing, and we appreciate the thoughtful feedback from GLAAD.”
A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement that the company was discussing the report’s findings with GLAAD. A statement from TikTok did not directly address the report but said the company is working to create an “inclusive environment.”
GLAAD recommended that the platforms start releasing the training methods for content moderators as well as the number of accounts and posts the companies remove for violating rules designed to protect LGBTQ users.
GLAAD’s report examines the policies and actions Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter have implemented around LGBTQ issues.
All of the social media platforms have outlined policies that are designed to prevent LGBTQ users from being harassed, threatened or discriminated against by other users because of their identity.
Twitter and TikTok also have specific policies against intentionally misgendering, using the wrong pronoun to describe someone, for example, or deadnaming, which involves reviving a transgender person’s name from before the person transitioned to a new identity. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it removes similar posts upon request.
Some users bully LGBTQ people on social media by misgendering or deadnaming them. One example came last month, when a conservative social media pundit sent a swarm of Twitter users to harass transgender actor Elliot Page with the wrong pronoun and name. That Twitter user was suspended under the company’s hateful conduct policy.
“The idea that these figures with millions of followers are bullying and harassing trans people, for being trans, is just wrong,” Olson said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — This week marks a big step forward in bringing medical cannabis to Alabama. On Monday, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission awarded business licenses to companies in several categories.
Those licenses will allow businesses to cultivate and produce cannabis products that can be sold at dispensaries in the state.
For people to purchase medical marijuana, they need to have a qualifying medical condition and be recommended by a doctor.
In order for doctors to be able to recommend medical cannabis to patients, they need to become certified. The Alabama State Medical Examiners Board is handling the certification process.
“What we’re looking for is physicians who have clean records, good licensure, and disciplinary history, and not have a history of being an over-prescriber,” explained Wilson Hunter, General Council for the Alabama State Medical Examiners Board.
Physicians who want to get certified will need to meet a list of requirements, pay a $300 application fee, and take a four-hour training course.
“What we’ve done is set up rules and regs and standards for physicians to follow, that one implement the law passed by the Alabama Legislature, and two set good standards for medicine so that physicians can do this in a safe and effective manner for the patients,” Hunter said.
While the ball is now rolling on getting medical cannabis businesses up and running, doctors can’t apply for certification just yet.
On Monday, the AMCC awarded business licenses, but they are not officially issuing licenses until their next meeting on July 10. The Alabama State Medical Examiners Board cannot start accepting applications for physician certification until the business licenses are issued.
Hunter estimated the Alabama State Medical Examiners Board would start accepting applications by “mid-July.”
Hunter also emphasized that part of the Medical Examiners Board’s role is to ensure doctors are familiar with the regulations for recommending medical cannabis to patients.
It should “not be a first line of treatment,” he said.
Doctors will need to consult with their patients about their current medical ailments and medical history.
“Before making that recommendation of marijuana, [doctors will] have viewed the patients’ prior treatment, their response to treatment, available diagnostic results,” Hunter said.
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How to Watch Indiana vs. Kent State on TV or Live Stream - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 17, 2023 at 10:17 AM EDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
The No. 13 Kent State Golden Flashes (28-6) are looking to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament when they meet the No. 4 Indiana Hoosiers (22-11) on Friday. This 4-13 matchup in the Midwest Region bracket is scheduled for 9:55 PM.
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Indiana vs. Kent State Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 9:55 PM ET
- Where: MVP Arena in Albany, New York
- TV: TBS
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Indiana Stats Insights
- The Hoosiers are shooting 49% from the field this season, 8.7 percentage points higher than the 40.3% the Golden Flashes allow to opponents.
- Indiana has a 21-7 straight-up record in games it shoots better than 40.3% from the field.
- The Hoosiers are the 98th-ranked rebounding team in the country, the Golden Flashes sit at 138th.
- The 75 points per game the Hoosiers record are 9.3 more points than the Golden Flashes allow (65.7).
- When Indiana totals more than 65.7 points, it is 18-5.
Kent State Stats Insights
- The Golden Flashes' 45.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.5 percentage points higher than the Hoosiers have given up to their opponents (40.9%).
- Kent State is 21-2 when it shoots higher than 40.9% from the field.
- The Golden Flashes are the 138th-ranked rebounding team in the country, the Hoosiers sit at 254th.
- The Golden Flashes put up 8.1 more points per game (76.6) than the Hoosiers allow their opponents to score (68.5).
- Kent State is 23-4 when giving up fewer than 75 points.
Indiana Home & Away Comparison
- Indiana scores 80.1 points per game when playing at home, compared to 67.5 points per game away from home, a difference of 12.6 points per contest.
- The Hoosiers give up 65.4 points per game at home this year, compared to 72.2 in away games.
- In home games, Indiana is making 1.8 more threes per game (6.4) than in away games (4.6). It also owns a higher three-point percentage at home (40.4%) compared to in away games (33.3%).
Kent State Home & Away Comparison
- Kent State is putting up more points at home (83.9 per game) than on the road (68.3).
- At home the Golden Flashes are conceding 65.7 points per game, 0.5 more than they are on the road (65.2).
- Beyond the arc, Kent State sinks fewer treys on the road (7.2 per game) than at home (8.5), and makes a lower percentage away (32.1%) than at home (35.5%) too.
Indiana Schedule
Kent State Schedule
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Climate danger: UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon
There’s a two-out-of-three chance within the next five years that the world will temporarily reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change, a new World Meteorological Organization report forecasts.
It likely would only be a fleeting and less worrisome flirtation with the agreed-upon climate danger point, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. That’s because scientists expect a temporary burst of heat from an El Nino will supercharge human-caused warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas to new heights and then slip back down a bit.
The 2015 Paris climate agreement set 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) as a global guardrail in atmospheric warming, with countries pledging to try to prevent that much long-term warming if possible. Scientists in a special 2018 United Nations report said going past that point would be drastically and dangerously different with more death, destruction and damage to global ecosystems.
"It won’t be this year probably. Maybe it’ll be next year or the year after" that a year averages 1.5 degrees Celsius, said report lead author Leon Hermanson, a climate scientist at the United Kingdom’s Met Office.
But climate scientists said what's likely to happen in the next five years isn't the same as failing the global goal.
"This report does not mean that we will permanently exceed the 1.5C level specified in the Paris Agreement which refers to long-term warming over many years. However, WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.
"A single year doesn’t really mean anything," Hermanson said. Scientists usually use 30-year averages.
Those 66% odds of a single year hitting that threshold in five years have increased from 48% last year, 40% the year before, 20% in 2020 and 10% about a decade ago. The WMO report is based on calculations by 11 different climate science centers across the globe.
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The world has been inching closer to the 1.5-degree threshold due to human-caused climate change for years. The temporary warming of this year's expected El Nino — a phenomenon that starts with a warming of parts of the central Pacific Ocean and then sloshes across the globe — makes it "possible for us to see a single year exceeding 1.5C a full decade before the long-term average warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases does," said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth, who wasn't part of the WMO report.
"We don't expect the longer-term average to pass 1.5C until the early-to-mid 2030s," Hausfather said in an email.
But each year at or near 1.5 matters.
"We see this report as more of a barometer of how we're getting close, because the closer you get to the threshold, the more noise bumping up and down is going to bump you over the threshold randomly," Hermanson said in an interview. And he said the more random bumps over the mark occur, the closer the world actually gets to the threshold.
Key in all this is the El Nino cycle. The world is coming off a record-tying triple dip La Nina — three straight years of El Nino's cooler cousin restraining the human-caused warming climb — and is on the verge of an El Nino that some scientists predict will be strong.
The La Nina somewhat flattened the trend of human-caused warming so that the world hasn't broken the annual temperature mark since 2016, the last El Nino, super-sized one, Hermanson said.
And that means a 98% chance of breaking the 2016 annual global temperature record between now and 2027, the report said. There's also a 98% chance that the next five years will be the hottest five years on record, the report said.
Because of the shift from La Nina to El Nino "where there were floods before, there will be droughts and where there were droughts before there might be floods," Hermanson said.
The report warned that the Amazon will be abnormally dry for a good part of the next five years while the Sahel part of Africa — the transition zone between the Sahara on the north and the savannas to the south — will be wetter.
That's "one of the positive things coming out of this forecast," Hermanson said. "It's not all doom-and-gloom and heat waves."
University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann said reports like this put too much emphasis on global surface temperature, which varies with the El Nino cycle, even though it is climbing upward in the long term. The real concern is the deep water of oceans, which absorb an overwhelming majority of the world's human-caused warming, leading to a steady rise in ocean heat content and new records set regularly.
Mann said it's wrong to think the world's about to exceed the threshold any time now because "a concerted effort to lower carbon emissions can still avoid crossing it altogether," Mann said. "That's what we need to be focused on."
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2023 hurricane season begins June 1: Here’s what to know
TAMPA, Fla. - It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastlines to make sure their storm plans are in place as the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway on Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting a "near-normal" season, but Mike Brennan, the new director at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, stressed during a Wednesday news conference that there’s really nothing normal when it comes to hurricanes.
"A normal season might sound good in comparison to some of the hurricane seasons in the past few years," he said. "But there’s nothing good about a near-normal hurricane season in terms of activity."
Will the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season be busy?
Uncertainty is the keyword, Brennan said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted in late May a 40% chance of 2023 being a near-normal hurricane season, a 30% chance of an above-average season, which has more storms than usual, and a 30% chance of a below-normal season, which has fewer.
"So we’re expecting a busy season with 12 to 17 named storms," Brennan said, adding that five to nine of those storms could become hurricanes, with one to four growing into major hurricanes.
"It only takes one storm affecting your area to make it a busy season for you," he added.
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What's new this season?
This year, the hurricane center is rolling out a new storm surge model that Brennan said "helps push real-time storm surge prediction out to 72 hours in advance of the storm" in hopes of getting life-saving information to emergency managers regarding evacuation orders.
In addition, tropical weather outlooks have been extended from five days out to seven days, providing "an additional heads up" for residents to make decisions about whether to evacuate in advance of a storm, Brennan said.
What is El Niño? How will it affect the 2023 hurricane season?
El Nino is a natural temporary warming of the Pacific Ocean that occurs every few years, changing weather patterns worldwide.
Generally, the Atlantic is quieter and has fewer storms during El Nino years. That’s because the warmer waters of El Nino make warmer air over the Pacific reach higher into the atmosphere and affect wind shear that could head off storms.
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Brennan noted there are other factors that add to the uncertainty of the effects of El Nino, such as very warm sea surface temperatures, weaker low-level easterly flows and a more active African monsoon season.
"So these forces are going to kind of fight it out over the course of this hurricane season," Brennan said. "We don’t know how his season’s going to play out."
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency's role?
FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said her agency is working to protect residents in hurricane zones by getting them the "critical information that they need" and making it easier for people to apply for help.
She said the summer doesn’t just bring the start of hurricane season, but it’s also the beginning of wildfire season.
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"So we are in the summer season of severe weather events, but I think as many of you know, it’s not just a summer season of severe weather anymore," she said, noting weather-related events take place throughout the year.
Why do hurricanes have names? When are they retired?
Hurricanes are named primarily to eliminate confusion if there are two or more storm systems occurring at the same time.
The United States began using female names for storms in 1953 and began alternating male and female names in 1978.
There is a rotating list of Atlantic hurricane season names every six years. The list can then be repeated, with names being eliminated if they are retired from the rotation, according to the National Hurricane Center’s website.
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The 2023 hurricane names are: Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harold, Idalia, Jose, Katia, Lee, Margot, Nigel, Ophelia, Philippe, Rina, Sean, Tammy, Vince and Whitney.
Hurricane names are routinely retired if a storm was so deadly or caused so much destruction that using the name again would be inappropriate. It’s not up to the National Hurricane Center to retire a name, however. That practice is left to an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which selects another name to replace the retired one.
The most recent names to be retired include Ian, which struck southwest Florida as a Category 5 hurricane in September 2022 with ferocious winds and storm surge as high as 15 feet (4 meters). Ian killed more than 156 people in the U.S., the vast majority in Florida, according to a comprehensive National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report on the hurricane.
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Other retired names include Katrina, Harvey, Charley, Wilma, Matthew, Michael and Irma.
What have been some of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States?
In August 1992, powerful Hurricane Andrew struck south of Miami, crossing Florida and making a second landfall in Louisiana. For years, it was the costliest and most damaging hurricane to ever hit the U.S. coastline, resulting in around 65 reported deaths and causing more than $27.3 billion in damages at the time. The Category 5 storm destroyed more than 65,000 houses.
Hurricane Katrina, which struck the New Orleans area as a Category 5 storm in August 2005, still ranks as one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the United States. Katrina caused more than 1,200 deaths and produced catastrophic damage along the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Harvey struck Louisiana before slamming into Houston as a Category 4 storm in 2017, causing severe flooding. Harvey killed more than 80 people, including 50 in the Houston area.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Katrina and Harvey are listed as the two costliest U.S. hurricanes on record with total costs over $160 billion and $125 billion,
respectively.
What items are tax-free during the Hurricane Preparedness Tax Holiday?
Florida's Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday is when consumers can purchase qualifying storm supplies and household goods without paying sales taxes. The first tax exemption period runs from May 27 to June 9. The second exception period is from Aug. 26 to Sep. 8.
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A few qualifying items are listed below. The full list can be found here:
$10 OR LESS:
- Dog or cat food
$20 OR LESS:
- Reusable icePet pads
$30 OR LESS:
- Laundry detergent
- Toilet paper
- Cleaning or disinfecting wipes
- Trash bags
$40 OR LESS:
- Portable self-powered light sources
- Pet beds
$50 OR LESS:
- Batteries
- Gas or diesel fuel tanks
$60 OR LESS:
- Portable power banks
- Non-electric food storage coolers
$70 OR LESS:
- Smoke detectors or smoke alarms
- Fire extinguishers
- Carbon monoxide detectors
$100 OR LESS:
- Portable pet kennels or pet carriers
- Over-the-counter pet medications
$3,000 OR LESS:
- Portable generators
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PHOENIX (AP) — Stephanie Pullman died on a sweltering Arizona day after her electricity was cut off because of a $51 debt.
Five years later, the 72-year-old’s story remains at the heart of efforts to prevent others in Arizona from having their power cut off, leaving them without life-saving air conditioning in temperatures that have topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) on every day this month.
“Stephanie Pullman was the face of the fight that helped put the disconnect rules in place for the big, regulated utilities in Arizona,” said Stacey Champion, an advocate who pushed for new regulations. “But we need more.”
Arizona Public Service, known as APS, disconnected Pullman’s power in September 2018 at a time when outside temperatures in her retirement community west of Phoenix reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41.6 Celsius). Just days before, a $125 payment was made toward Pullman’s past-due bill of $176.
Her body was found inside her home during a subsequent wellness check.
The medical examiner’s office said Pullman died from “ environmental heat exposure ” combined with cardiovascular disease after the shutoff.
Like many older residents of Phoenix-area retirement communities, Pullman was a native Midwesterner, living alone after moving from Ohio, where her family remains.
Details about Pullman’s life are sketchy because her family cannot discuss the case under a private legal settlement with APS.
“I can’t talk,” Pullman’s son, Tim Pullman, said when reached by telephone in Ohio.
Champion said the family also suddenly stopped talking to her after the 2019 settlement.
APS didn’t address the settlement when contacted last week, but said in a statement it “is here to help customers and we are making sure they stay connected during the summer months.”
Pullman’s death prompted Champion and others to demand new rules to prevent shutoffs. The case raised awareness about extreme heat dangers, and it did spark change.
“People are now more cognizant that low-income people can lose the power in their home at any time,” said Phoenix attorney Tom Ryan, a consumer advocate familiar with the Pullman case. “Couldn’t someone have spared her the $51?”
In 2019, the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates most of the state’s utilities, issued a moratorium on summertime shutoffs by APS and other power companies it oversees.
Last year, the commission permanently banned electricity cutoffs during the hottest months.
Electric utilities can choose to pause disconnections from June 1 through October 15, or pause them on days forecasted to be above 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) or below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 Celsius). APS; Tucson Electric Power, which serves Arizona’s second largest city; and UniSource, which provides power in Mohave and Santa Cruz counties, chose the date-based option.
“There will be no disconnections for past due residential accounts through mid-October,” with late fees waived during that period, APS confirmed. “We urge customers who are struggling with overdue bills to contact us so we can work with them to get their account in good standing and try to keep balances from continuing to build.”
APS is the principal subsidiary of publicly traded Pinnacle West Capital Corp., and has about 1.2 million customers. It gives a discount of up to 25% on energy bills for people who qualify, like a family of three with a gross monthly income under $4,143, or a single person in a home with a gross monthly income of up to $2,430.
Arizona’s second largest provider of electricity, Salt River Project, or SRP, is known as a power and irrigation district rather than a utility and has around 1.1 million customers. It additionally supplies water in parts of metro Phoenix. As a community based, not-for-profit district, SRP is not overseen by the state commission but is governed by a publicly elected Board and Council.
SRP says it halts shutoffs during excessive heat warnings issued by the National Weather Service. But Champion noted that people have died on hot days without such warnings.
Amid the current heat wave, SRP announced Friday it was halting all cutoffs for nonpayment for residential and commercial customers through July, and would not disconnect for failure to pay anyone on its economy price plan for customers with limited income through August.
“SRP’s priority is to maintain reliable and affordable power for our customers, and we understand the significance of keeping customers in service during Arizona’s hot summer days,” the utility said in a response to a query. “We value our customers’ safety and have programs in place to assist those in need.”
“We urge customers who are having difficulty paying their bill for any reason to contact us as quickly as possible so we can offer solutions to help them avoid a worsening financial situation,” the company said in a separate statement.
Gov. Katie Hobbs sent a letter to Arizona’s power companies on Friday, demanding that they spell out in writing their plans during the current hot spell for disconnections of service, how they will handle possible grid outages, and how they will react in the event of an emergency outage.
Champion said she thinks state legislation would help ensure stricter rules against power company shutoffs, but nothing is before the state Legislature.
Within Phoenix city limits, an ordinance requires landlords to ensure that their air conditioning units will cool to 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) or below and that evaporative coolers bring the temperature down to 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius). Both types of cooling units must be kept in good working order.
Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, reported Wednesday that as of July 15, there were 18 heat-associated deaths confirmed this year going back to April 11. Another 69 deaths remain under investigation.
Just four of the heat-associated deaths confirmed in 2023 occurred inside. Three involved non-functioning air conditioners and one that had access to electricity but wasn’t turned on.
Maricopa County confirmed 425 heat-associated deaths for 2022 during the region’s hottest summer on record, more than half of them occurring in July. Eighty percent of the deaths occurred outside.
Like Pullman, most of the 30 people who died indoors in the county last year were isolated and had mobility issues or medical problems. One was an 83-year-old woman with dementia who died in a home with an air conditioner that had not been switched on. She was living alone after her husband entered hospice care.
There have long been utility assistance programs for homeowners and renters across the state, but advocates say efforts to protect people from shutoffs in America’s hottest big metro increased after Pullman died.
Local governments and nonprofit agencies often pay utility bills without a requirement for repayment and the Arizona Department of Economic Security also helps with bills.
Efforts to help repair and replace faulty cooling systems were also ramped up.
Maricopa County in April used federal funds to allocate another $10 million to its air conditioner replacement and repair program for people who qualify, bringing total funding to $13.7 million.
In greater Phoenix and several rural Arizona counties, older low-income people can get free repair or replacement of air conditioners through the Healthy Homes Air Conditioning Program, run by the nonprofit Foundation for Senior Living. Last summer, it helped about 30 people get new air conditioners or repairs.
Demonstrating the dangers for older people, two sisters were rescued from their home in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise earlier this month after police found them sweltering in 114 degrees Fahrenheit (45.5 Celsius) with a faulty cooling system.
“I don’t like the heat over here,” Paula Martinez, 93, told Fox 10 news. The officers took her and her sister Linda, 87, to a senior center to cool off and bought a new air conditioner with the department’s community grant funds.
Surprise Police Sgt. Richard Hernandez said he and fellow officers still remember Pullman’s death in a community just 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.
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Time is running out
Some have wondered if it may be better to rely on local time standards rather than a national fix.
Time is running out on a Senate plan to make permanent Daylight Saving Time the law of the land.
The Senate stunned everyone in March when members approved a bill by unanimous consent to shift the nation forward one hour, year-round.
"Without objection, so ordered!" declared Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., trying to suppress a smile, as she presided over the stupefying vote to end the bi-annual time change.
Sinema then sounded like Marv Albert after Bernard King drained a three-pointer at Madison Square Garden.
"Yes!!!" exclaimed Sinema from the Senate dais, pulling her forearms toward her and clenching her fists in a sign of victory.
"I think everyone was a little bit surprised that no one came down to object because they were all made aware of it," said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who wrote the bill. "I think there's growing support for the notion of this flipping back and forth makes no sense."
Americans switch the clocks this weekend for the first time since the Senate passed the Daylight Saving Time bill eight months ago. But the House of Representatives isn’t convinced that perpetual Daylight Saving Time is an idea whose time has come. The House hasn’t touched the bill. The Senate bill will expire if the House doesn’t align before the end of this Congress: 11:59:59 a.m. ET on Jan. 3, 2023.
For the Senate legislation, you can almost see the grains of sand slipping through the neck of an hourglass – until they all disappear.
That said, this is the closest Congress has come to implementing permanent Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. in decades. President Richard Nixon shifted the U.S. ahead an hour for two years during the 1970s OPEC oil embargo. And once one body of Congress approves a piece of legislation, that often ripens the potential for passage in the other chamber.
THE SPEAKER’S LOBBY: PROTECTING CONGRESS
That’s why Standard Time may be operating on borrowed time.
Congress may not adopt a bill to go to Daylight Saving Time all the time before the end of the 117th Congress. In fact, it may take a few years. But this issue is maturing.
"Why do we keep doing this back and forth thing?" groused Rubio. "Maybe there's a good reason. But I don't think there is, to be frank."
So why is Congress involved in the setting of time at all?
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress control of time, via a provision to "fix the standard of weights and measures."
Lawmakers have tweaked time ever since. In fact, Ben Franklin was the first to propose a seasonal switch of the clocks to align better with the sun. Franklin suggested the practice would conserve candles. Believe it or not, Congress has only successfully overridden a presidential veto on 112 occasions in the history of the republic. One of them was over a dispute between Congress and President Woodrow Wilson about changing the clocks after World War I.
Lawmakers last wrinkled time in 2004. Congress adopted a massive energy policy bill. Buried in the legislation was a provision that reduced the period the U.S. spent on Standard Time from approximately six months to just four months. That’s why we now "spring forward" in March and "fall back" in November. The time changes just to unfold in April and October, respectively.
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., crafted the language to change the time.
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"Halloween is the number one death day for your kids," said Upton.
He noted that the time change sometimes fell in October when various communities would hold "Beggar’s Night," a week or two prior to Halloween.
"So you had one less hour of sunlight, and you’ve got little kids darting between cars in neighborhoods," said Upton. "We have the extra hour, and it can show that it actually reduces crime because most crime is at night at dusk."
But sleep experts aren’t sold on the time change.
Dr. Beth Malow of the Sleep Disorders Division at Vanderbilt University Medical Center says choosing one time or another would be better overall. But Malow dislikes a permanent shift to Daylight Saving Time.
"We’re off cycle for an hour for almost eight months out of the year," said Malow. "We’re changing our clocks. But we’re not changing the light."
There are also questions about the economic impact of switching the clocks twice a year. The general thesis is that adjusting the clocks for summer "gave" people more daylight.
"Ninety-nine percent of your population is awake and moving around and about at that time of the day, and they can use the sun to help them," said University of Washington law professor Steve Calandrillo. "Commerce and most economic and business interests do favor the uniform, permanent Daylight Saving Time because they realize that more people are awake and want to go out and top and recreate and engage in activities in the early evening. That’s when we live our lives."
But it’s debatable whether the time shift is truly lucrative.
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"The Dow, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 experienced negative returns the Monday following both time switches," said Calandrillo. "You pick any random calendar day over the course of history, it's a positive expected value. And yet the expected value is negative on the Mondays following both clock changes. That will show that people hate when you mess up their sleep cycles. They're in a bad mood and that affects the stock market."
Some have wondered if it may be better to rely on local time standards rather than a sweeping, national mandate from Congress. For instance, St. Paul, Minn., and Minneapolis used to operate on different clocks. The Mississippi River carved a temporal border between the Twin Cities.
"Geography probably plays more of a role than politics," says Malow. "This is a nonpartisan issue because it's really about where you live."
That’s why residents in the north or extreme ends of time zones worry about a change that would make it get dark too early – or light too late.
"It can be really disruptive to us," said Malow. "They feel off-cycle. Off-kilter. And they just want to be done with it."
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There’s only a finite amount of light and dark to go around, regardless of the season or where you live.
If Congress doesn’t change the time change, we’re stuck with the time changing.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army was found guilty Friday of arbitrarily detaining and torturing prisoners perceived as supporters of Serbia and murdering one of them during a late 1990s war for Kosovo’s independence.
It was the first war crimes conviction by a special court that was established in the Netherlands to investigate crimes from the conflict.
The commander, Salih Mustafa, was sentenced to 26 years’ imprisonment for the crimes committed at a KLA compound in Zllash, Kosovo, in April 1999. He was acquitted of one charge of mistreating detainees. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Mustafa, wearing a suit and tie, stood in silence as Presiding Judge Mappie Veldt-Foglia pronounced the verdicts and his sentence. He has 30 days to file notice that he plans to appeal.
Friday’s judgment comes at a time of tense relations between Serbia and Kosovo, its former province. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday demanded that Serb security forces be allowed to return to Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008. The West has warned the demand was unlikely to be accepted and would only stoke tensions in that part of the Balkans.
Mustafa was arrested in 2020 in Kosovo and sent to the Netherlands to stand trial at the European Union-backed Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a branch of the country’s legal system set up specifically to deal with allegations of war crimes committed as ethnic Albanian rebels united in the Kosovo Liberation Army fought a bloody conflict to break away from Serbia in 1998-99.
The head of the prosecution team welcomed the verdicts.
“With today’s verdict, the Specialist Chambers has shown that it is a court for and about victims and that there is no expiration date on accountability,” Acting Specialist Prosecutor Alex Whiting said in a statement.
The court has detained Kosovo’s former president, Hashim Thaci, and he is awaiting trial with other suspects on charges that include murder, torture and persecution. He denies all allegations.
Thaci served as a guerrilla leader during Kosovo’s war for independence before rising to political prominence in the aftermath of the conflict that killed more than 10,000 people. His trial, along with three other accused, is expected to open in March.
Judge Veldt-Foglia called Friday’s judgment a “milestone for the specialist chambers” that could lead to “further reconciliation among communities in Kosovo.”
Veldt-Foglia said the trial was focused solely on Mustafa’s individual criminal responsibility for war crimes — and stressed that the KLA and the people of Kosovo were not targeted in the case. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” she said.
She also paid tribute to witnesses who testified in the trial, saying they did so “in a pervasive climate of fear and intimidation that persists in Kosovo to this day.”
Mustafa was commander of the KLA’s BIA guerrilla unit that had its base at the Zllash compound where the crimes were committed in April 1999. The victims were accused by KLA fighters of collaborating with Serbs or not supporting the KLA.
As well as commanding the unit involved in the crimes, Mustafa personally mistreated two detainees, the court ruled.
“He subjected one of them to a mock execution. He also beat him repeatedly all over his body,”Veldt-Foglia said.
The murder victim died of a combination of severe mistreatment, denial of medical aid and gunshot wounds. While the court could not establish who shot the victim, it ruled that the abuse and lack of medical aid “are exclusively attributable to acts and omissions of Mr. Mustafa and his BIA subordinates.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-former-kosovo-rebel-commander-convicted-of-1999-murder/ | 2022-12-17 06:55:57 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-former-kosovo-rebel-commander-convicted-of-1999-murder/ |
IU WR D.J. Matthews opens up on importance of mental health: 'It starts by talking.'
BLOOMINGTON — D.J. Matthews is asked why.
He is sitting at a table in Memorial Stadium’s Henke Hall of Champions. Not far from where he is sitting, is the field. That’s where Matthews does special things. Against Illinois this season, He caught a touchdown and was later a key part of IU's game-winning drive. Against Idaho, he made a diving catch and later caught a touchdown. In the first two games this season, Matthews has 10 receptions for 160 yards and two touchdowns.
But numbers are numbers. There is more to the world than that. Matthews’ story has been told before. He played three seasons at Florida State. He sat out the 2020 season. He was a spark for IU last season, before tearing his ACL in the fourth game. After surgery, Matthews said he was “heading into a depressing stage.” But his children and family kept him out of it. He returned for another season at IU, a decision made in part because he wanted to set an example for his children.
We know this because Matthews has talked about it.
When speaking with the media, he is open and willing to share, introspective and insightful. Not just football stuff, but also life stuff. So now Matthews is sitting at a table at Memorial Stadium’s Henke Hall of Champions. He is asked a question regarding his willingness to share about his life.
The question is simple yet complicated.
Why?
“I guess I just want to deliver the message, who I am,” Matthews said. “It’s just me, just my story. And I know it’s people who go through way deeper stuff than me.... And, you know, I just want to be an outlet to people that — you can do whatever... You can be whatever that you want to be. And then (there's) a lot of people out here to help you. You're not alone. Like nobody’s alone. I just like to dish my story, what I go through. I like to put that out for people, so they just know that (there's) people out here going through it with you. And you can overcome anything.”
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There were certain principles, Matthews said, he was raised on. He said his grandmother “pretty much taught me everything I know.” Loyalty. Be humble. Be genuine. Respect how you want to be respected. Love how you want to be loved. Treat others how you want to be treated. His parents were influential, too.
“I love his heart,” IU coach Tom Allen said. “I love his passion for what he does and his family and what he's been called to do. To me, it's just trying to help him continue to grow because things are never easy and throughout life and just trying to help him maneuver through that and guide and direct him. And he's one of those that wants that. He has been great for me to be able to spend a lot of time with because he's really appreciative of that and wants it. I just love who he is as a man.”
Matthews was a highly-touted recruit in high school. He had a dream: go to the NFL and try to do so after just three college seasons. His freshman season was back in 2017. But only once in his three seasons at FSU did the Seminoles have a winning record. There was a carousel of coaches. In each of those three seasons in Tallahassee, Matthews never was the team’s leader in receiving yards. He was frustrated. It sent him into a “deep place,” he said. At times, he had doubts.
“I was thinking to myself — am I not doing the right things?”
“Am I coachable?”
“Am I not making enough plays?”
Recently, there seems to have been an increased dialogue surrounding mental health. Seemingly, too, the mental health of athletes.
“Mental health is big,” Matthews said. “I actually went through it — sophomore, junior year. And it gave me Alopecia and all. I was losing my hair and all of that. So I understand about the mental health part. You know, people just have to find different ways to cope. And then it starts by talking. You can’t hold all of that stuff in. It’s just going to build up, toxic, negative thoughts. And that’s just not something that you want inside you. You want to be able to talk to people... You just don’t want to be, you know, so crammed up with all of those thoughts and stuff and it’s not allowing you to be a good person, pursue your dreams or career.” | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2022/09/13/indiana-football-d-j-matthews-candid-about-mental-health-depression-tom-allen-fsu-iu-hoosiers/69487372007/ | 2022-09-13 16:46:05 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2022/09/13/indiana-football-d-j-matthews-candid-about-mental-health-depression-tom-allen-fsu-iu-hoosiers/69487372007/ |
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Welcome back, Neymar, at just the right time at the World Cup.
Neymar seemed healthy in training before Monday's game against South Korea in the round of 16. The forward missed the final two matches of the group stage after injuring his right ankle in the opening game win over Serbia.
Brazil easily moved into the next round without Neymar. No longer bothered by his ankle, Neymar was expected to start — and not come off the bench as a precautionary measure — if he plays against South Korea.
“I prefer to use my best player from the start,” Brazil coach Tite said. “It’s the coach who has to make that decision and take on that responsibility.”
In footage released by the Brazilian soccer federation, he appeared to be in good condition, doing drills with the ball and taking shots on goal without signs of his injury.
“Obviously we won’t say that it’s better to face Brazil when Neymar is playing, but I always prefer when the best players are there,” South Korea coach Paulo Bento said.
Bento hasn't been pleased with the three-day rest period between games from the group stage to the knockout round. Brazil advanced with a game to spare and was able to rest the team's stars in its final match, but South Korea had to claw its way into the knockout round with a win over Portugal.
“It’s not fair,” Bento said. “I think that it has to do with the new FIFA reality, which is to create worse conditions for the less-favored teams and probably better conditions for the more-favored ones.”
Even after the surprise win over Portugal, South Korea had to wait for over nine agonizing minutes of extra time for a game across Qatar to end. The outcome of Uruguay against Ghana determined if the South Korean's advanced into the round of 16.
When Uruguay failed to score the goals it needed to best South Korea for the final spot in Group H, the South Korean players who had formed a circle on the field to watch the game on phones erupted into joyous celebration.
South Korean captain Son Heung-min even began to cry.
South Korea is now trying to advance past the round of 16 for the first time since the Asian team's historic run as a co-host in 2002, when it reached the semifinals and finished fourth. South Korea was eliminated in the group stage in 2014 and 2018.
South Korea advanced by beating Portugal 2-1 with a dramatic stoppage-time goal by Hwang Hee-chan, who was a second-half substitute. He's expected to be in the starting lineup again against Brazil after missing the team’s first two games because of a hamstring injury.
“In the first match it was impossible for me to play and the pain got worse. I did a little running, but I thought I could play the second match, but they held me out," Hwang said, adding that playing against Portugal "was a little bit of a risk. But I didn’t care what happened to me personally. I just wanted to contribute.”
It will be the first official meeting between Brazil and South Korea, with the South Americans winning six of seven friendlies. South Korea was victorious in 1999.
“We can’t think it’s going to be an easy game like it was in that friendly,” Brazil captain Thiago Silva said. “Now it’s the World Cup and they’ve advanced in a very tough group. We have a lot of respect for them.”
JAPAN-CROATIA
Japan and Croatia meet for the first time in the knockout round of the World Cup after the teams squared off two previous times in group play. Croatia won in 1998 and the teams finished with a goalless draw eight years later.
This time, Japan won Group E after come-from-behind 2-1 victories over Germany and Spain and is in the knockout round for back-to-back tournaments for the first time in team history.
At stake for Japan is its first trip to the quarterfinals in four tries.
“Japan is a team that doesn't quit,” Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić said. “They conceded goals at the beginning of the match both against Germany and Spain, but they came back. They had a lot of faith in themselves, and that is a great virtue of the Japan national team.”
Croatia, the runner-up to France in the 2018 World Cup, is making its third appearance in the knockout round. Croatia beat Romania in 1998 to advance to the semifinals and defeated Denmark 3-2 on penalties in 2018 en route to the final game — a 4-2 loss to reigning World Cup champion France.
It is the first time Croatia will play an Asian team in a World Cup knockout match after eight previous games against European teams.
“For us, it will be key that we are also disciplined and patient,” Dalić said. "We cannot make mistakes because Japan has the quality to punish those mistakes. We need to be good at falling back if we lose the ball.”
Croatia advanced despite two goalless draws in group play — equaling the number of scoreless games it had in the 2006, 2014 and 2018 tournaments, a span of 13 games.
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Mobile Charging Station, Ratchet and Abrasive Systainer Sets Offer Turn-Key Solutions for Professional Craftsmen
LEBANON, Ind., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Festool, a leading manufacturer of innovative, precision-engineered and durable power tool solutions, is launching a new array of offerings on July 12, 2022, built for professional tradespeople seeking to optimize efficiency. The PHC 18 charging station, Ratchet Systainer Set and 6" Abrasive Systainer Set enable tradespeople to save time and stay organized with well-rounded systems that can help tackle any building, remodeling or painting project this summer and well beyond.
"We recognize the importance of organization and productivity when it comes to any project," said Rick Bush, Product Marketing Manager, Festool. "The turn-key solutions were developed to boost efficiency and enable professional tradespeople to have all of the solutions they need at hand. Whether combining with an existing suite of Festool products or purchasing your first tool, these new offerings include the tools needed to pick up and get started on a project."
The PHC 18 Mobile Phone Charging Station transforms every Festool 18v battery pack into a portable power bank. The clever, compact adapter can charge up to three smartphones at the same time—both via users' own charging cables and inductive charging. As a new addition to Festool's line-up of classic cordless products, the PHC 18 helps keep mobile devices charged for the entire day so tradespeople can focus on the job—not their device's battery life.
- Robust and Compact: With the dimensions of a standard battery pack, the PHC 18 can easily be stored in a Systainer or be taken on the road. Designed like the robust 18v battery packs it attaches to, the rubberized surface ensures phones are held securely.
- Long-Lasting, Inductive Charging: The built-in inductive charging top allows for wireless charging. Paired with a Festool 18v 5.2 Ah battery pack, the PHC 18 can fully charge a mobile phone up to eight times.
The first-ever Ratchet Systainer Set from Festool is comprehensive and includes ratchets, sockets and bits of all sizes to ensure a wide range of possible applications when fastening parts. Residential and commercial projects alike benefit from the Ratchet Systainer Set, which adds jobsite efficiency by employing a clearly organized and well-rounded solution. Housed in a Systainer, the set offers maximum flexibility and organization whether in the workshop or on the jobsite.
- Always Organized: The set is neatly stored in a Systainer and ensures users have what they need at their fingertips to efficiently tackle any project.
- Comprehensive and Compatible: A complete system with clearly marked sockets in metric and imperial units, so no socket size is missed. Drives range in size from 5/32" – 1" and 5mm – 22mm, and the set includes both long and short extensions as well as a universal adaptor. The set is compatible with the entire Festool Systainer system to easily connect and transport.
The 6" Abrasive Systainer Set provides users a turn-key solution to get started on any project. Users supplementing an existing Festool 6" (150mm) sander will benefit from a neatly organized set of abrasives. Those seeking their first Festool product will appreciate a set that is ready to store and transport them to the next project. The included abrasives are compatible with the Rotex 150, ETS 150 and ETS EC 150. The set includes a wide variety of six-inch abrasive grits to get users started in an organized manner:
- 20 x Abrasive GRANAT D150 P60
- 20 x Abrasive GRANAT D150 P80
- 20 x Abrasive GRANAT D150 P120
- 20 x Abrasive GRANAT D150 P150
- 20 x Abrasive GRANAT D150 P180
- 20 x Abrasive GRANAT D150 P220
Starting July 12, the PHC 18 Mobile Charging Station will be available for $49 and the Abrasive Systainer Set for $249. The Ratchet Systainer Set will be available for $249 while supplies last. Upon purchase, register for MyFestool for access to on-demand contact with Festool, an overview of Festool tools, warranty summaries, repair orders and more.
Festool USA is based in Lebanon, Indiana. For more information, visit www.festoolusa.com or www.festoolcanada.com.
Festool has been developing innovative, precision-engineered and durable power tool solutions for nearly a century. Founded in Germany in 1925, Festool is a leading manufacturer known for its systems-based approach to power tools that are designed for efficiency and high performance. Festool's mission, "Built Better To Build Better," focuses on creating products that empower professional tradespeople to elevate their skills and deliver outstanding work by helping them build cleaner, faster, smarter…better.
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Honda raised prices of the redesigned 2023 Honda CR-V at the end of February, and brought back the base LX trim as a more affordable entry point for the brand’s bestseller. The $500 price increase comes with no change in content, and a $50 increase in the destination fee brings the total increase to $550 across the board from when pricing was originally announced on Sept. 13, 2022.
The mandatory destination fee increased from $1,245 in September to $1,295 at the end of February. The EX trim increased from $32,355 to $32,905, and the $550 increase remained constant throughout the lineup to the range-topping Sport Touring grade that now costs $40,395. In September, Honda was keen to keep that number under $40,000 at $39,845. All-wheel drive is standard on the Sport Touring, but remains a $1,500 upcharge on LX, EX, Sport, and EX-L grades.
The only difference for the 2023 Honda CR-V is the return of the LX base trim. It comes with driver-assist tech such as automatic emergency braking (now with a wider field of view), adaptive cruise control that works down to a stop, active lane control, and blind-spot monitors. It’s the only CR-V to ride on 17-inch wheels, and it comes with a 7.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. It gives Honda a marketing edge with a price less than $30,000 at $29,705.
The $32,405 EX takes a relatively big price step for heated front seats and a power driver seat, as well as dual-zone climate control and more stylish 18-inch wheels, but the true value lies in the Sport trim that comes standard as a hybrid for $34,245.
A 2023 Best Car To Buy finalist, the 2023 CR-V Hybrid outperforms the 190-hp 1.5-liter turbo-4 in LX, EX, and EX-L grades. The Sport Hybrid models use a new 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine and a pair of electric motors that boost total output to 204 hp and 247 lb-ft of torque, an improvement of 3 hp and 15 lb-ft over the outgoing CR-V Hybrid.
Under 15 mph and with a light throttle foot, the 1.4-kwh battery pack feeds the motors for electric drive. Beyond that, the transfer between engine and motor power is so quiet in Eco and Normal modes that it takes a trained ear to catch it, and the simulated gear shifts drop revs after “changing” gears like a conventional automatic. It’s quicker off the line, more responsive, smoother, quieter, and has an EPA combined rating of 40 mpg, compared to 30 mpg combined for the turbo-4. All-wheel drive drops the Hybrid down to 37 mpg combined.
Price increases without any significant changes from model year to model year have become commonplace, but a mid-year increase, however small, is unusual especially now that inflation has somewhat cooled from a high in 2021.
While the annual inflation rate of 6.0% at the end of February 2023 is still historically high, it dropped since the 6.5% rate in 2022 and the 7.0% rate in 2021, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and USinflationratecalculator.com.
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LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National probate and inheritance dispute law firm, RMO LLP, announced today that CEO Scott Rahn and firm Managing Partner Sean Muntz have been recognized for their accomplishments as leading attorneys within the Los Angeles business community and named to the Los Angeles Business Journal's annual list "2022 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers." The publication notes that litigators are a "special breed of attorney" because they need to "transcend expert comprehension of the legal system."
Rahn, one of the firm's cofounders, "is regarded as a leading probate trial attorney, focusing on high stakes private wealth disputes, fiduciary litigation, and contentious trust, probate estate and conservatorship cases," states the feature. "Rahn helps guide clients – heirs, beneficiaries, trustees, executors, administrators, charities, creditors and conservators – through the emotional, legal and financial issues that arise when loved ones become compromised, taken advantage of, and after they pass, whenever theft, manipulation, fraud, abuse, and other misdeeds are revealed," the publication adds.
Recently named a "Legal Visionary" by the Los Angeles Times, Rahn "advises clients on the best ways to protect and honor the legacy their loved ones intended for them by helping clients secure rightful inheritances, avoid having inheritances taken from them, and protecting against those who seek to thwart their loved ones' intentions." Utilizing time-test strategies that swiftly and cost-effectively address client needs, Rahn regularly helps clients pursue and defend inheritance claims involving incapacity, incompetence, undue influence, breach of fiduciary duty, and other similar areas of dispute, including prevention and remediation of financial elder abuse.
Muntz, also a founding partner of the firm, is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, with litigation experience "spanning a broad range of subject matters, including banking, general commercial, employment, probate, real estate, securities, intellectual property, maritime and environmental disputes," states the feature.
Muntz, who too was named a "Legal Visionary" by the Los Angeles Times, has a practice that focuses on "representing beneficiaries, professional and corporate fiduciaries (administrators, executors, trustees, conservators, and guardians) in contested trust, estate and probate litigation." He also serves as Vice-Chair of the RMO Foundation, which is dedicated to the prevention of elder abuse and to advancing diversity, inclusion, children's, veterans' and art initiatives.
RMO LLP provides personal, cost-effective inheritance dispute services to individual and institutional clients. The firm's attorneys focus on probate litigation involving contested trust, estate, probate, and conservatorship matters. RMO has offices serving clients with probate disputes throughout California, Florida, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. For more information, please visit https://rmolawyers.com/.
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Sud Joins as Tubi Becomes the Most Watched Free TV and Movie
Streaming Service in the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tubi (www.tubi.tv), Fox Corporation's (NASDAQ: FOXA, FOX) free ad-supported streaming service, today announced the appointment of Anjali Sud as Chief Executive Officer for the company, effective September 1, 2023. Sud, who will report to Paul Cheesbrough, CEO of Tubi Media Group, joins as Tubi recently became the most watched free ad-supported TV streaming service in the U.S.
"Anjali is a highly accomplished executive in the technology and media industry with a passion and track record for strategic disruption and authentic leadership," said Paul Cheesbrough, CEO of Tubi Media Group. "As Tubi continues to scale and solidify its momentum as the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S., she is the perfect candidate to lead Tubi into a new era of creativity, growth and market leadership."
Sud has spent the last decade enabling the world to make and share high-quality content. Under Sud's leadership as CEO of Vimeo, the platform established itself as the home for video creators and professionals worldwide, building a thriving community of over 300 million users and generating scaled revenue growth and significant cash flow. Before her tenure at Vimeo, Sud held positions in finance, media and e-commerce at Time Warner and Amazon. She succeeds Farhad Massoudi, Tubi's Founder & CEO.
Tubi has already made a significant impact on the media industry as one of the first to provide free access to great entertainment for millions. Today Tubi offers the world's largest content library through a hyper-personalized platform that was purpose built for diverse stories, audiences and advertisers. Tubi reaches 64 million monthly active users and recently surpassed PlutoTV, Peacock and HBO Max in total TV viewing minutes, according to Nielsen.
"We are witnessing a seismic shift in where and how content will be consumed, and I believe that Tubi can become the destination for the next generation of audiences," said Anjali Sud. "The future of streaming TV is free, and I am excited to join the Tubi team to help shape the next wave of entertainment, by giving all people access to all the world's stories. Tubi is doing things differently in a space that is being imminently disrupted, and that is my kind of opportunity."
Tubi is at the core of FOX's digital business unit, Tubi Media Group, led by Paul Cheesbrough, which includes Tubi, AdRise, Blockchain Creative Labs and Credible, as well as the digital platforms and teams that underpin FOX's wider digital business in news, sports and entertainment.
About Tubi
Tubi is the most watched free ad-supported TV streaming service in the U.S. and is dedicated to providing all people access to all the world's stories. The company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world's largest content library of 50,000 titles, more than 200 FAST channels and a growing collection of Tubi Originals. Tubi is part of the Tubi Media Group division of Fox Corporation, which oversees the company's digital businesses.
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- Dragon Artifacts consisting of 5 types of equipment released on September 6
- Converting HYDRA into Dragonsteel to craft Dragon Artifact
- Announced the upcoming 'Domination Server' designed for level 90 or higher fighters
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade's masterpiece MMORPG MIR4 updated Dragon Artifact on September 6, a new equipment for increasing power score.
Dragon Artifact, a new equipment infused with strong power of the dragon, consists of five items including Majestic Scepter (staff), Majestic Cape (cape), Majestic Crown (crown), Majestic Seal (royal seal), and Majestic Tome (book). All players can put on the equipment regardless of their class.
To craft a Dragon Artifact, Dragon Sphere, Dragonsteel, Darksteel, Dragon Material, and Eternal Material are required as common materials. The new material, Dragonsteel, can be utilized in various ways in the game, such as crafting and strengthening Dragon Artifact or using Special Enchant.
Special Enchant is a function that can further strengthen the existing equipment by using Dragonsteel. An enchant slot is added to Epic grade or higher equipment and improved abilities are gained with a certain probability.
A newly introduced system will allow HYDRA, the game token, to be converted into Dragonsteel. In addition, if Septaria is given to Arcadia Spirit Village NPC, users can obtain a Dragonsteel box.
Meanwhile, MIR4 announced its plan to update 'Domination Server' for powerful fighters over level 90 in each server.
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global technology company vivo today announced the rollout of its Developer Preview Program based on Android 13 for its flagship vivo X80 and X80 Pro smartphones in select markets. Following the official release of Android 13, vivo is among the first smartphone brands to launch a preview version based on the latest Android, empowering developers to work on the compatibility of their apps and bring consumers an ultimate smartphone experience.
Seamless user experience with improved privacy control and personalization
The latest Android 13 brings a new user experience with improved security and privacy features and offers enhanced personalization.
These upgrades include introducing new runtime permission for sending non-exempt notifications from an app. Also, the set of requested permissions depends on the type(s) of media that your app needs to access. The new photo picker function is one more example of the enhanced level of control that users will enjoy, which allows users to select what photos or videos they grant access to, so they won't need to share the entire library with an app.
Additionally, Android 13's newly added Foreground Services (FGS) Task Manager shows a list of apps that are actively running foreground services, enabling users to easily stop foreground services from the notification drawer, regardless of the target SDK version. What's more, users can quickly change settings because Quick Settings is in the notification shade. Meanwhile, to improve the user experience further, Android 13 also brings changes to the Material You design language.
Bringing better experience to vivo consumers
vivo has been proactive in supporting developers to adapt and optimize their apps for the latest Android 13 and deliver the optimal user experience. Earlier this year, vivo was one of the first companies to launch its Android 13 Beta program, ensuring vivo developers have a head start and an early preview of the changes introduced in Android 13.
Starting from August 16, developers are invited to visit vivo's developer website at https://developer.vivo.com/ to download and test out the latest Android 13 on vivo X80 and X80 Pro.
Currently, the version is being rolled out in select markets in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, and more.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xi'an, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 400 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news
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Mr. Pabla joins Intermedia from RingCentral, where he was VP of Cloud Operations, to manage the delivery and extremely high availability of Intermedia's all-in-one, intelligent cloud communications, collaboration, and productivity platform to its growing global base of partners and customers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Intermedia Cloud Communications, a leading provider of intelligent cloud communications, collaboration, and productivity solutions to businesses and the partners that serve them, announced that Gagan Pabla has joined the company as its Executive Vice President of Operations. In this role, Mr. Pabla will leverage his extensive cloud and telecommunications background to work collaboratively across numerous teams, including Engineering, Product, Information Security, and Client Services, to help ensure that Intermedia's award-winning cloud communications platform is delivered with the reliability, availability, security, and scalability to meet the growing needs of its customers and partners.
As businesses continue to shift to more permanent hybrid and remote work models, the ability to communicate and collaborate with team members, customers, and vendors from anywhere becomes more critical and, with that, the confidence to know that the cloud communications tools that enable "anywhere work" to happen are available as expected. The appointment of Mr. Pabla to this new role to oversee operations and service availability of Intermedia's cloud solutions demonstrates the company's heightened commitment to delivering on its financially backed 99.999% uptime service level agreement (SLA) promise.
"I couldn't be more excited to join this incredible team at a time of accelerated growth," said Mr. Pabla. "Intermedia has everything it needs – the brilliant minds, the innovative spirit, the world-class products, service, and support – to further elevate its path of success. As the company expands its presence around North America and the world, I look forward to working with the team here to make sure our partners and customers have the very best experience possible utilizing our solutions."
Mr. Pabla has 20+ years of technical operating experience in both the telecommunications and cloud communications industries. Before joining Intermedia, he was the VP of Cloud Operations at RingCentral, where he led a global team of nearly 200 individuals responsible for the 24x7 operation of the company's global UCaaS product. He also managed carrier services, fraud monitoring, tooling development, and data analytics. Prior to that, Mr. Pabla spent six years at Cisco Webex, where he led a global team of several hundred individuals responsible for the operations and service delivery of the global Webex platform. He also previously held technical operations leadership roles for Comcast and AT&T, where he led large teams responsible for monitoring, incident response, repair, and remediation of multiple critical production and customer network services. Mr. Pabla earned his B.S. from the University of Southern California and his M.S. from Barry University.
Michael Gold, CEO of Intermedia, said, "We are thrilled to welcome Gagan to our team. His extensive technical operations experience and leadership skills make him an ideal fit for this role. As more and more partners and customers turn to Intermedia for their voice, video, chat, contact center, email, file management, and business productivity needs, we feel fortunate to have Gagan on the team to help make sure the availability and performance of our solutions are delivered at the highest levels."
For more information on Intermedia Cloud Communications, visit www.intermedia.com
About Intermedia
Intermedia is a cloud communications company that helps over 135,000 businesses connect better – through voice, video conferencing, chat, contact center, business email and productivity, file sharing and backup, security, archiving, and more – from wherever, whenever. We strive to eliminate the need for multiple communications service providers with a seamlessly integrated portfolio of intelligent communications and collaboration solutions, including our flagship product Intermedia Unite®, all delivered through one highly reliable and secure platform. With month-to-month contract options, one monthly bill, one intuitive point of administrative control, and, as the first cloud communications company to have been certified by J.D. Power for excellence in technical support and a six-time recipient of that prestigious recognition, Intermedia is committed to providing enterprise-grade products to businesses of all sizes through a simple, Worry-Free ExperienceTM.
As a partner-first company, Intermedia goes to work for over 7,300 channel partners by providing a comprehensive set of programs, resources, and support to help them grow their revenue and maximize their success. Programs include our Customer Ownership Reseller (CORE™) model – which enables partners to resell, package, and manage Intermedia's solutions as if they were their own, while benefiting from highly attractive economic terms and maintaining ownership of their customer relationships – as well as agent models.
Intermedia is also proud to be the exclusive cloud communications platform provider for NEC, a leader in global market share for unified communications with an estimated 80+ million business phone users worldwide.
For more information about Intermedia, visit www.intermedia.com.
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JAMES SMITH CREE FIRST NATION, Saskatchewan -- Canadian police surrounded a residence with guns drawn Tuesday on an Indigenous reserve where a stabbing rampage took place over the weekend.
An emergency alert to phones warned people to shelter in place, saying the suspect, Myles Sanderson, may have been sighted on the James Smith Cree First Nation reserve. An Associated Press reporter heard people screaming and running and saw police surround a home. Police are barricading roads heading into the reserve.
It's not clear if the fugitive is inside the house. Authorities had been saying they believed he was in a different part of the province.
His brother and fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites. Police suspect Myles Sanderson, 30, killed his brother.
Leaders of the James Smith Cree Nation, where most of the stabbing attacks took place, blamed the killings on the drug and alcohol abuse plaguing the community, which they said was a legacy of the colonization of Indigenous people.
James Smith Cree Nation resident Darryl Burns and his brother, Ivor Wayne Burns, said their sister, Gloria Lydia Burns, was a first responder who was killed while responding to a call. Burns said his 62-year-old sister was on a crisis response team.
"She went on a call to a house and she got caught up in the violence," he said. "She was there to help. She was a hero."
He blamed drugs and pointed to colonization for the rampant drug and alcohol use on reserves.
"We had a murder suicide here three years ago. My granddaughter and her boyfriend. Last year we had a double homicide. Now this year we have 10 more that have passed away and all because of drugs and alcohol," Darryl Burns said.
Ivor Wayne Burns also blamed drugs for his sister's death and said the suspect brothers should not be hated.
"We have to forgive them boys," he said. "When you are doing hard drugs, when you are doing coke, and when you are doing heroin and crystal meth and those things, you are incapable of feeling. You stab somebody and you think it's funny. You stab them again and you laugh."
Blackmore said police were still determining the motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations echoes suggestions the stabbings could be drug-related.
"This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the chiefs and councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people," said Chief Bobby Cameron.
Blackmore said the criminal record of Myles Sanderson dates back years and includes violence. . Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included him writing that he was "unlawfully at large."
Before Damien's body was found, arrest warrants were issued for the suspects and both men faced at least one count each of murder and attempted murder.
The stabbing attack was among the deadliest mass killings in Canada, where such crimes are less common than in the United States. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020, when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. In 2019, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Deadly mass stabbings are rarer than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China's southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
Police in Saskatchewan got their first call about a stabbing at 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, and within minutes heard about several more. In all, dead or wounded people were found at 13 different locations on the sparsely populated reserve and in the town, Blackmore said. James Smith Cree Nation is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Weldon.
Among the 10 killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns and the mother of their two daughters.
"It's sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives," Burns told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. "I'm hurt for all this loss."
Weldon residents have identified one of the dead as Wes Petterson, a retired widower who made he coffee every morning at the senior center. He loved gardening, picking berries, canning, and making jam and cakes, recalled William Works, 47, and his mother, Sharon Works, 64.
"He would give you the shirt off his back if he could," William Works said, describing his neighbor as a "gentle old fellow" and "community first."
Sharon Works was baffled: "I don't understand why they would target someone like him anyway, because he was just a poor, helpless little man, 100 pounds soaking wet. And he could hardly breathe because he had asthma and emphysema and everybody cared about him because that's the way he was. He cared about everybody else. And they cared about him." | https://abc7ny.com/canada-stabbing-mass-stabbings-saskatchewan-cree-nation/12204689/ | 2022-09-06 18:20:34 | 0 | https://abc7ny.com/canada-stabbing-mass-stabbings-saskatchewan-cree-nation/12204689/ |
Marshall receives awards at SAM International Business Conference
HUNTINGTON — Marshall University’s Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) Chapter received several awards at the SAM International Business Conference 2023.
A team of eight students — Jamison Lewis, Maddy Branham, Brady Doyle, Bella Schrader, Cassidy Waugh, Evan Miller, Peyton Stover and Nico Raffinengo — worked together and showcased their management and problem-solving skills, leading the chapter to receiving several awards, including first place in the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) Open Case Study Competition, according to a news release.
The SAM Open Case Study Competition attracts top-performing teams from around the world and demands comprehensive and strategic thinking, along with the ability to identify and solve complex business problems in a rapidly changing global market.
Nico Raffinengo won first place in the Undergraduate Division of the Business Pitch Competition, and three members of the Marshall University team — Jamison Lewis (national), Bella Schrader (national) and Maddy Branham (regional) — received the SAM Outstanding Student Award. The SAM Campus Chapter Performance Program also recognized the Marshall chapter as the second place winner in the Small Chapter Division.
Glen Midkiff, the chapter advisor of the Marshall SAM Chapter, received the SAM Outstanding Advisor Award for the third time as well as the Bronze Leadership Medal, and Avinandan “Avi” Mukherjee, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, received the Gold Leadership Medal and the Advancement of Management Award.
“The SAM International Business Conference 2023 focused on ‘Advancing Management: Reimagining Leadership, Innovation, & Sustainability,’ and the Marshall team’s success is a testament to their dedication and commitment to those values,” Midkiff said in the release.
Another participant representing Marshall was Kateryna Schray, who co-presented “Re-imagining Student Success Post-Pandemic and Making it Happen: Anticipating Customer Needs in Higher Education” with Mukherjee. D.B.A. student Amber Chatelain presented on “Business social responsibility and community crisis response: Perceptions of small business owners in small to midsized communities,” and Sidharth Arora, an engineering management major, assisted with conference logistics.
“SAM IBC 2023 was my third SAM conference, and easily the best one I’ve experienced so far. It offered many amazing opportunities for networking, team-building, and professional development that were very enlightening for me,” Lewis said in the release.
The Society for Advancement of Management was established in 1912 with the goal of promoting new management ideas and expertise by building connections among academics, practitioners and students from different disciplines. It benefits from hundreds of volunteers from various fields, including accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, production, and research and development.
Laboratories at Mountain Health Network awarded accreditation
HUNTINGTON — The laboratories at Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center have been awarded accreditation by the Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists.
The laboratories are two of more than 8,000 CAP-accredited facilities nationwide. The lab directors are Krista Denning, professor and chair of the Department of Pathology at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, and Dr. Thomas Dougherty.
During the CAP accreditation process, inspectors examine the laboratory’s records and quality control of procedures for the preceding two years. CAP inspectors also examine laboratory staff qualifications, equipment, facilities, safety program and record, and overall management.
Valley Health Teays Pediatrics’ QuickCare extends hours
TEAYS VALLEY, W.Va. — Valley Health Teays Pediatrics’ QuickCare has permanently extend its weekend walk-in hours.
As of April 1, the QuickCare location at located at 111 Great Teays Blvd. in Scott Depot, West Virginia, is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
Valley Health Teays Pediatrics’ QuickCare offers same-day sick appointments during business hours Monday through Friday and seasonally on Saturdays between November and March for cold and flu season. Through the end of March, Teays Pediatrics’ QuickCare will continue observing its Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. walk-in schedule, the release added.
The Teays Pediatrics’ QuickCare is staffed by pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and physician assistants from across the Valley Health system. Teays Pediatrics will be the ninth Valley Health site to offer QuickCare services, in addition to East Huntington, FoodFair Huntington, Fort Gay, Milton, Oakwood Road, Teays Valley and Wayne locations.
McDonald’s looking to hire 445 new employees
HUNTINGTON — McDonald’s restaurants in the Charleston and Huntington areas are looking to hire approximately 445 new employees immediately as restaurants gear up for summer, the company said in a press release.
“At McDonald’s restaurants, you can receive on-the-job training, schedule flexibility, a fun work environment and a host of benefits available to suit the needs of any candidate,” the release said. “New this year, participating local McDonald’s restaurants are announcing a perk that allows restaurant employees to access discounted McDonald’s food at any participating McDonald’s in the country, anytime.”
Eligible restaurant employees at participating restaurants can also earn a high school diploma, take ESL classes, get tuition assistance and receive free guidance from advisors through Archways to Opportunity, McDonald’s education and career advising program. Since the Archways to Opportunity program launched in 2015, McDonald’s restaurant employees in West Virginia have received more than $1.5 million in tuition assistance, according to the release.
“As small business owners, we take a lot of pride in providing meaningful employment in the communities that we serve,” said Whitney Cruells, McDonald’s owner and operator, in the release. “We also know how important it is for employees to like where they work, and we can’t wait to welcome more employees into our teams this spring.”
Job seekers can visit jobs.mchire.com to learn more and apply to a restaurant near them, or text “apply” to 38000 to start an application via text.
The move comes as McDonald’s restaurants across the region seek to add about 6,000 new employees, the company said.
WorkForce West Virginia hosting statewide virtual job fair
CHARLESTON — WorkForce West Virginia has set the next date in a series of statewide virtual job fairs. Both employers and job seekers are invited to participate in the virtual event on Wednesday, April 5, from noon to 3 p.m.
“We have seen amazing success with these Job Fairs since they began in October ” said Scott Adkins, acting commissioner of WorkForce West Virginia, in a news release.
Virtual job fairs allow job seekers to apply, live chat, video chat and interview virtually with employers participating in the event.
Registration is required for both interested employers and job seekers. When attending the event, job seekers are encouraged to dress professionally and have a calm, clutter-free background, as employers may request to engage in a video interview. The virtual statewide job fair portal features a job seeker training video, a list of participating employers and channels for attendees to register and log in.
After registering for the first time, new employers will create a “virtual booth” to connect with job seekers. After completion, the booth will be available during subsequent job fairs.
For more information about WorkForce West Virginia and statewide virtual job fairs, visit www.workforce wv.org or contact workforcewvvirtualjobfairevent@wv.gov.
$1 billion available to help cut energy costs
MORGANTOWN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications starting for $1 billion in grants to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses in West Virginia invest in renewable energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements.
The money is available under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), with funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Recipients may use REAP funds to install renewable energy systems or to make energy-efficiency improvements. Eligible applicants include rural small businesses and agricultural producers. USDA will hold competitions quarterly through Sept. 30, 2024. The funding will also include the creation of the first underutilized technology fund in the REAP program, with $144.5 million available in dedicated funding.
To ensure that small projects have a fair opportunity to compete for the funding, USDA will set aside at least 20% of the available funds until June 30 of each year for grant requests of $20,000 or less, including the grant portion of a combined grant and guaranteed loan request.
The maximum federal share which may be requested is up to 50% of the total project cost for all energy-efficiency projects and zero-emissions renewable energy systems. An award of up to 50% of the total project cost is also available for any project in a designated energy community and/or submitted by an eligible tribal entity. All other projects are eligible to apply for grants of up to 25% of the total project cost. The maximum grant is $1 million for renewable energy systems and $500,000 for energy-efficiency projects. | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/business/business-roundup/article_afaaabc8-0ac9-5590-b855-faf9ac562864.html | 2023-04-02 05:59:13 | 1 | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/business/business-roundup/article_afaaabc8-0ac9-5590-b855-faf9ac562864.html |
BERWYN, Pa., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triumph Group, Inc. (NYSE:TGI) ("TRIUMPH" or the "Company") today announced that Neal J. Keating has joined its Board of Directors as an independent director, effective immediately. With this addition, TRIUMPH's board will be expanded to nine directors, eight of whom are independent, and four of whom have been appointed to the Board in the last four years.
Mr. Keating served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Kaman Corporation, an aerospace and defense company, for 13 years. While at Kaman, he led the company's portfolio reshaping, overseeing a significant increase in revenues. He was previously Chief Operating Officer at Hughes Supply, an industrial distribution business, until it was acquired by Home Depot in 2006, and Chief Executive Officer of GKN Aerospace, a global aerospace supplier, and a Board member for GKN plc, its parent. He also served as Board member for AgustaWestland, a helicopter design and manufacturing company. Earlier in his career, he spent more than two decades at Rockwell Collins, an aerospace company, holding roles of increasing responsibility, including EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Commercial Systems. Mr. Keating is an experienced board member, and currently serves on the boards of Hubbell Inc., a publicly traded company, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Mr. Keating received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
"We are pleased to welcome Neal to the TRIUMPH Board and are confident that his strong corporate governance background and his deep expertise in the aerospace and defense industry will make him a valuable board member," said Daniel J. Crowley, the Company's President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman. "As we focus on profitable growth as a recently streamlined organization, the addition of Neal will serve the Board and Company well."
"As a Board, we regularly consider our composition and prioritize board refreshment. The Board welcomes Neal's fresh perspective and expects his industry experience and business acumen to complement the existing skillsets on our board as we work to enhance value for all shareholders," said William L. Mansfield, the Company's Lead Independent Director.
TRIUMPH, headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a broad portfolio of aerospace and defense systems and components. The company serves the global aviation industry, including original equipment manufacturers and the full spectrum of military and commercial aircraft operators.
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Statements in this release which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements under the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements of expectations about the Company's operations and transformation in the future. All forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which could affect the Company's actual results and could cause its actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, the Company. Further information regarding the important factors that could cause actual results to differ from projected results can be found in Triumph Group's reports filed with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020.
Widespread health developments, including the recent global coronavirus (COVID-19), and the responses thereto (such as voluntary and in some cases, mandatory quarantines as well as shut downs and other restrictions on travel and commercial, social and other activities) could adversely and materially affect, among other things, the economic and financial markets and labor resources of the countries in which we operate, our manufacturing and supply chain operations, commercial operations and sales force, administrative personnel, third-party service providers, business partners and customers and the demand for our products, which could result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial conditions and results of operations.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The prosecution and defense in the trial of a Florida sheriff’s deputy accused of not preventing some of the Parkland school shooting murders gave wildly divergent opening statements Wednesday, setting the stage for a trial that is the first of its kind in U.S. history.
Prosecutor Steven Klinger told jurors that former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson could have confronted shooter Nikolas Cruz and stopped the deaths of six of the 17 people who died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School five years ago. Instead, Klinger said, Peterson took cover rather than enter the three-story building where the shootings happened.
Peterson had undergone training in which he was told that he needed to go toward the gunshots if there’s an active shooter, because each bullet fired is potentially another death, Klinger said.
“You’ve got to get in there and you’ve got to find the shooter,” said Klinger, who spent most of his statement recounting Cruz’s actions, not Peterson’s. Cruz pleaded guilty and received a life sentence.
But defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh, in an emotional address, told the jurors that Peterson “was thrown under the bus” to preserve the career of then-Sheriff Scott Israel, who he said needed to find a scapegoat for his department’s failures leading up to the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting.
“A lot of heat was coming his (Israel’s) way,” Eiglarsh said, even after the sheriff said on national television that Peterson and his other deputies did the best they could with the information they had.
But when the political pressure rose, Israel chose to sacrifice Peterson, who was his friend, Eiglarsh said. Israel never even asked Peterson what happened before accusing him publicly about a week after the shooting of failing to act, he said.
“All he (Israel) had to do if he cared about the truth was call him (Peterson) up and say, ‘Why didn’t you go in?’” Eiglarsh said. He said there was only one reason he didn’t call him: “because anything my client said … would not have served Scott Israel.” Gov. Ron DeSantis, in one of his first acts after taking office, fired Israel 11 months after the shooting.
Peterson is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect for four students who were killed and three who were wounded on the third floor of a classroom building. Peterson arrived at the building with his gun drawn 73 seconds before Cruz reached the third floor. But instead of entering, Peterson backed away as gunfire sounded. He insists that he did not know where the shots were coming from because of echoes between the buildings.
Peterson is also charged with three counts of misdemeanor culpable negligence for the adults who were shot on the third floor, including a teacher and an adult student who died. He also faces a perjury charge; prosecutors say he lied to investigators. Peterson was not charged in connection with the 11 who were killed and 13 who were wounded before he arrived at the building.
If convicted, Peterson could get a prison sentence of nearly a century and lose his $104,000 annual pension. In a similar case, Texas authorities are investigating officers in the town of Uvalde who didn’t confront the shooter who killed 19 elementary students and two teachers last year. None have been charged, however.
To gain a conviction, prosecutors must convince jurors that Peterson knew Cruz was shooting inside the building and that his actions and inaction exposed the victims to harm.
Peterson, dressed in a blue suit and red tie, sat at the defense table, sometimes taking notes. A deputy for 32 years, he’d been at Stoneman Douglas for nine years, after 19 years at other schools. He retired shortly after the shooting, then was fired retroactively.
Security videos show that 36 seconds after the attack began, Peterson exited his office about 100 yards (92 meters) from the school’s 1200 building and jumped into a cart with two unarmed civilian security guards. They arrived at the building a minute later.
Peterson got out of the cart near the east doorway to the first-floor hallway. Cruz was at the hallway’s opposite end, firing his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle.
Peterson, who wasn’t wearing a bullet-resistant vest, didn’t open the door, standing there for 27 seconds, Klinger said. He then took cover 75 feet (23 meters) away in the alcove of a neighboring building, his gun still drawn.
The shooting “was so loud and so close,” Peterson told investigators two days after the massacre. “I thought it was probably outside.”
He said he heard “two, three” shots, which is the basis of the perjury charge. Eiglarsh said Peterson was referring to how many shots he heard when he first got to the building and the detective never asked if he heard more after that.
The security guards told investigators it was clear to them that the shots came from the building. Eiglarsh says he’ll call 22 witnesses who also thought the shots came from outside the building.
Inside, Cruz climbed to the upper floors, firing approximately 70 more shots over nearly four minutes.
Outside, Peterson radioed arriving deputies to stay clear of the building. He said he didn’t notice when bullets smashed into a second-floor window about 70 feet (21 meters) from where he stood.
Peterson didn’t leave his spot for about 40 minutes — about 35 minutes after the shooting had stopped.
For Peterson to be convicted of child neglect, prosecutors must first show he was legally a caregiver to the juvenile students. Florida law defines a caregiver as “a parent, adult household member or other person responsible for a child’s welfare.”
If jurors find Peterson was a caregiver, they then must determine whether he made a “reasonable effort” to protect the children or failed to provide the necessary care. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/prosecutor-deputy-could-have-stopped-parkland-school-shooting-but-chose-to-take-cover/ | 2023-06-08 15:19:12 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/prosecutor-deputy-could-have-stopped-parkland-school-shooting-but-chose-to-take-cover/ |
Netanyahu: Remarks to erase Palestinian town 'inappropriate'
Tel Aviv, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the remarks by a key Cabinet ally calling for a Palestinian town to be erased were inappropriate, after the United States demanded that he reject the statement.
In a Twitter thread posted in English shortly after midnight, Netanyahu did not appear to condemn the remarks outright and implied that the ally, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, misspoke.
Netanyahu thanked Smotrich for later walking the comments back and “making clear that his choice of words” was “inappropriate.” The bulk of the thread urged the international community to seek condemnations from the Palestinians over attacks against Israelis.
It appeared to be his first public response to Smotrich's remarks since they were made on Wednesday.
Netanyahu's Twitter thread underlines how the Israeli leader has had to balance the ideologies of the far-right members of his government with the expectations of Israel's chief ally, the United States. Smotrich is the head of one of several ultranationalist parties that help make up Netanyahu’s right wing government.
Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank last week rampaged through the Palestinian town of Hawara, where earlier in the day two Israeli brothers were killed in a Palestinian shooting attack. Later in the week, Smotrich said the town should be erased – by Israeli forces and not by private citizens.
Smotrich later backtracked, saying he didn’t mean for the Hawara to be erased but for Israel to operate surgically within it against Palestinian militants. Still, his earlier comments sparked an international outcry. The U.S. called them repugnant and urged Netanyahu to “publicly and clearly reject and disavow them.” The United Nations and Middle East powerhouses Egypt and Saudi Arabia also condemned Smotrich's remarks.
In a Hebrew tweet posted around the same time as his English thread, Netanyahu said even foreign diplomats make mistakes, an apparent reference to a report by Israeli Channel 12 that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides made disparaging remarks about Smotrich ahead of his visit to Washington this week, saying he would “throw him off the plane,” if he could. The U.S. Embassy denied the ambassador had made the remarks.
The White House said Smotrich would not be meeting any U.S. government officials during the upcoming trip.
Smotrich, in a tweet Saturday, said he was “convinced that he didn't mean to incite to kill me when he said I must be thrown from the plane just as I didn't mean to harm innocents when I said Hawara must be erased.”
In his tweets, Netanyahu wrote that "it is important for all of us to work to tone down the rhetoric" amid a spiraling wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
“That includes speaking out forcefully against inappropriate statements and even correcting our own statements when we misspeak or when our words are taken out of context,” he posted.
Netanyahu then slammed the Palestinian Authority for not condemning Palestinian attacks against Israelis, and the international community for not demanding condemnations from the Palestinians.
Israel has long claimed the international community has a double standard in its expectations from Israel and the Palestinians.
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(WKBN) – Rock artist Kid Rock took to Twitter this week after it was announced that Bud Light had partnered with a woman who is a transgender influencer.
In a video on Twitter, Kid Rock could be seen wearing a “MAGA” hat as he turned around and spoke to the camera:
“Grandpa’s feeling a little frisky today. Let me say something to all you and be as clear and concise as possible.”
The artist then used a rifle to fire gunshots at several cases of Bud Light beer while cursing out the company.
The video had over 32 million views on Twitter on Wednesday.
The activist that Bud Light is partnering with is transgender woman Dylan Mulvaney. According to Fox News, Mulvaney revealed Saturday that the beer company sent packs of Bud Light with the influencer’s face as a way to celebrate a full year of “girlhood.” Mulvaney posted a video on Instagram with the hashtag #budlightpartner to promote the campaign.
Anheuser-Busch responded to Fox News with the following statement:
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The Hartford and UPMC Recognized for Their Commitment to Advancing Women and Equity
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hartford and UPMC (the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) are this year's Catalyst Award winners to be honored at the Catalyst Awards Conference & Dinner on March 30, 2023.
The 2023 Catalyst Awards Conference & Dinner—the premier gender equity conference and awards event for advocates of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—will take place in person at the Hilton Midtown in New York City as well as online. This year's theme, Accelerating Equity on All Fronts—So Women Thrive, urges leaders to build more gender-equitable workplaces from the frontlines to the C-suite.
Ticket packages and individual tickets are on sale now for both the Conference and Dinner events.
Executives from top global corporations, professional firms, governments, NGOs, and educational institutions will convene at the 2023 Catalyst Awards Conference, as well as at the Dinner chaired by Zoetis CEO Kristin Peck and Northrop Grumman Corporation CEO Kathy Warden. Zoetis and Northrop Grumman are also Platinum Sponsors. Hundreds are expected to attend the in-person event—and thousands to join virtually—including the Catalyst Board of Directors and Catalyst CEO Champions For Change.
Target is the 2023 Conference Presenting Sponsor. KPMG is a Platinum Sponsor.
The organizational initiatives receiving this year's Catalyst Awards are:
- The Hartford: A Deliberate and Courageous Transformation
- UPMC: Care and Culture Starts and Ends with People: Executive Workforce Demographics
The Hartford, a Fortune 200 insurance company, has embarked on a journey of significant change born more than ten years ago when many companies were reimagining their futures in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Over the years, The Hartford has created a sustainable diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) culture by taking a whole-company approach—implementing accountability measures, addressing unconscious bias in systems that support talent management, and revising other processes and systems throughout its operations.
Its unique DEI strategy, which was accelerated and expanded in 2017, comprises board governance, CEO engagement, leadership accountability for the achievement of representation and pay data goals, and a commitment to the practices that encourage and enable all people to participate and achieve their full potential.
From the CEO to customer-facing employees and managers, The Hartford's employees are actively engaged in planning and executing programs to drive DEI results. Its innovative business unit DEI councils help to design and cascade an organization-wide DEI agenda to all employees, creating customized plans tailored to the unique needs of each business unit.
The initiative is getting results. From 2010 through 2021, women's representation among senior vice presidents (SVP) and above increased from 18.4% to 42% (23.6 percentage points); among vice presidents (VPs) and assistant vice presidents (AVPs), it increased from 31.9% to 36.1% (4.2 percentage points). For women of color during that same time period, representation among those SVP and above increased from 0% to 12% (12 percentage points) and among VPs and AVPs it increased from 1.9% to 4% (2 percentage points).
In 2016, John L. Galley, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer, and Dr. James E. Taylor, Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and Talent Management Officer, intentionally launched a two-pronged strategy of external recruitment and internal development that became the foundation of this initiative and was designed to ensure that UPMC's executive workforce is reflective of the communities it serves.
Although UPMC's US healthcare workforce is about 75% women, the company's C-suite was about 62% men in 2016. This body of work has resulted in a 19% increase in women in executive roles and a 96% increase in people of color in executive roles.
Three years after the launch, the Pittsburgh Inequality Across Gender and Race report revealed significant inequities and barriers for Black residents, particularly Black women, in the communities UPMC serves. The company redoubled its efforts to advance women from marginalized races and ethnicities. UPMC set a goal to increase the executive workforce to align more closely with labor market data.
Since the start of the initiative, opportunities for women, including women of color, at UPMC have greatly expanded, most profoundly since 2020.
From 2016 to 2021, executive women's overall representation increased from 38% to 45.5% (7.5 percentage points). Executive women of color's representation increased 0.9% to 5.1% (4.1 percentage points). Women of color also saw increases in Band 1 (Executive VP through VP, 4 percentage points, 3.8% to 7.8%) and Band 2 (Unit Chief through Director, 3.1 percentage points, 6.7% to 9.8%).
"The Catalyst Award-winning initiatives from The Hartford and UPMC are testaments to what is possible when DEI is prioritized at every level," said Lorraine Hariton, President & CEO, Catalyst. "With intentionality, commitment, and innovation, these initiatives are accelerating equity and serving as models for others to do the same."
Kristin Peck, CEO, Zoetis, said "I am thrilled to team up with Kathy Warden on March 30 as we co-chair the 2023 Catalyst Awards Dinner and celebrate the most outstanding initiatives across companies that drive representation and inclusion for women. I'm proud of the progress Zoetis and other companies are making to raise women's representation in the workplace and within our industries. When we intentionally and thoughtfully create an environment that allows women—and all our colleagues—to bring their best selves to work, everyone wins."
Kathy Warden, CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation, added that "It is an honor to co-chair the 2023 Catalyst Awards Dinner with Kristin Peck. As a former Catalyst Award recipient, Northrop Grumman is proud to support Catalyst's efforts to celebrate leaders building inclusive, dynamic, and productive work cultures that encourage employees of every background to grow and thrive. Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts foster teams who innovate and solve the world's greatest challenges. I am excited to recognize the next generation of DEI thought leaders at this important event."
Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla and Marshall Plan for Moms Founder and CEO Reshma Saujani are among this year's keynote speakers.
Since 1987, the Catalyst Award has recognized 108 DEI initiatives at 96 organizations from around the world. Catalyst Award Winners lead a community of forward-thinking organizations that are developing new and innovative ways to advance talent and strengthen their organizations.
Join the 2023 Catalyst Awards conversation by following Catalyst on social media using #CatalystAwards and #AcceleratingEquity.
Register now for the event on March 30.
Catalyst is a global nonprofit supported by many of the world's most powerful CEOs and leading companies to help build workplaces that work for women. Founded in 1962, Catalyst drives change with preeminent thought leadership, actionable solutions and a galvanized community of multinational corporations to accelerate and advance women into leadership—because progress for women is progress for everyone.
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Catalyst
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Mariners vs. Twins Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 17
The Seattle Mariners (46-46) and Minnesota Twins (48-46) square off in the first of a four-game series on Monday at T-Mobile Park, at 9:40 PM ET. The Mariners are coming off a series defeat to the Tigers, and the Twins a series win over the Athletics.
The Mariners will give the nod to Logan Gilbert (7-5) against the Twins and Sonny Gray (4-3).
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- Date: Monday, July 17, 2023
- Time: 9:40 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Venue: T-Mobile Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Gilbert - SEA (7-5, 3.66 ERA) vs Gray - MIN (4-3, 2.80 ERA)
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Mariners Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Logan Gilbert
- The Mariners' Gilbert (7-5) will make his 19th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Sunday, July 9, when he tossed seven innings while giving up one earned run on three hits in a matchup with the Houston Astros.
- The 26-year-old has an ERA of 3.66 and 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings, with a batting average against of .216 in 18 games this season.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his third consecutive quality start.
- Gilbert will look to finish five or more innings for the sixth start in a row.
- He has one appearance this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 18 chances this season.
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Twins Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Sonny Gray
- The Twins are sending Gray (4-3) out for his 19th start of the season. He is 4-3 with a 2.80 ERA and 101 strikeouts through 99 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out was on Saturday, July 8 against the Baltimore Orioles, when the righty tossed six innings, surrendering six earned runs while allowing six hits.
- The 33-year-old has amassed an ERA of 2.80, with 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings in 18 games this season. Opponents are hitting .231 against him.
- Gray enters the matchup with seven quality starts under his belt this season.
- Gray is seeking his fifth straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 innings per start.
- He has had four appearances this season that he kept his opponents to zero earned runs.
- The 33-year-old's 2.80 ERA ranks fifth, 1.264 WHIP ranks 42nd, and 9.1 K/9 ranks 27th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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PHOENIX, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Planet Group (OTC PINK: GNPG) announced today that it has inked an agreement with NEW A.G.E. Inc. of Dallas, Texas to become a distributor and manufacturer for Green Planet subsidiary, Healing the Earth (HTE) food growing systems in specific national and international territories/regions. The goal of this Agreement is to establish an additional HTE sales and marketing center, a technology demonstration and educational center, a modern manufacturing facility, a service and maintenance center and a distribution center for Healing the Earth growing systems, its proprietary barley seed and patented nutrient.
The Agreement will accelerate the manufacturing and distribution of the growing system so that together the partner companies can take full advantage of the opportunities throughout the world to help solve the incredible hunger and food security problems today and into the future. Initial Term of this Agreement will be ten (10) years with options to renew (with the consent of both parties) for three additional ten (10) terms; total term is 40 years.
As an additional incentive for Green Planet Group to enter into this distributor/manufacturer agreement, NEW A.G.E. has agreed to provide a convertible loan to HTE in the amount of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000), or to make available to HTE preferred access to a grant from a non-profit entity organized and funded by NEW A.G.E. in a like amount.
Mike Wilson, Founder/CEO of NEW A.G.E. Inc. stated, "We have the management, sales expertise, experience, and manufacturing knowledge to expand the production of the HTE food growing system and make a difference. In addition, we have a hydrogen technology that can provide clean energy to power these systems anywhere in the world. This is the 21st Century and there should not be any reason that millions die annually from hunger. Deploying this system can reduce this calamity of human suffering immediately."
Dr. Pat Choate, Green Planet Chairman/CEO noted, "Adding a major distributor and manufacturer to help us commercialize our food growing system will help the worldwide farming community adopt our technology and accelerate sales and revenues. And the $2,500,000 cash infusion into HTE will allow us to accelerate our product design and sales and marketing efforts."
About Green Planet Group, Inc.
The Company is comprised of four wholly owned subsidiaries: two operating companies and two development stage companies. The Company's Healing the Earth subsidiary has developed a new Fast Track™ growing system capable of growing vast amounts of fresh, organic food with extremely low water use. XenTx Lubricants produces lubricants and additives for gasoline and diesel engines which reduce emissions and improve fuel economy. AAQIS is developing a hydrogen generator which greatly reduces hydrocarbon emissions while improving fuel efficiency in internal combustion engines. Green Mining Technologies is developing restorative technology for placer mine tailings.
For more information see: www.greenplanetgroup.com
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The mother of a man suspected of killing a Cedar Falls couple and their daughter at an Iowa state park said her son gave no indication anything was wrong prior to the shooting.
Three Cedar Falls family members died Friday at Maquoketa Caves State Park in apparent homicides, with a fourth person dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
MAQUOKETA — A 9-year-old boy survived the attack that killed three members of his family Friday at Maquoketa Caves State Park.
Cedar Falls Public Library patrons found the doors shut Saturday after the slaying of employee Sarah Schmidt, along with her husband, Tyler, and their 6-year-old daughter, Lula.
Fester’s Pub, owned by Daniel Corbett – one of the owners of Hungry Charlie’s food truck and restaurant – is taking over what was formerly known as Anton’s Volks Haus.
The three members of a family killed at Maquoketa Caves State Park early Friday were in their tent at the time, officials confirmed Monday.
WATERLOO — The Waterloo Police Department is seeking the public’s help with locating a missing man.
WATERLOO — Police are investigating several reports of gunfire that damaged homes over the weekend and early Monday.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MetTel announced today that its Customer Innovation Labs, the research and development unit of MetTel, has deployed its Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) service using the VMware SD-WAN™ solution over SpaceX's Starlink satellite service.
These technologies far outpace the growth of the overall IT market which Gartner predicts at 5.1% year-over-year in 2023. According to the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN report, "The SD-WAN market is forecast to generate a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% in end-user spending from 2020 through 2026."
Starlink's service has expanded significantly with more than 3,000 satellites in orbit and over 500,000 customers since 2019, according to research firm Ookla, with an estimated 500% growth in supporting terminals since 2021.
Led by MetTel Chief Technology Officer, Ed Fox, MetTel Labs strives to innovate, test, and prove new technologies, services and best practices with enterprise customers. In the case of Starlink, MetTel collaborated with multiple enterprise clients to deploy SD-WAN technology over the satellite network and bring high bandwidth communications to remote locations that would otherwise lack Internet access. Among the active use cases are a large government agency and a leader in the environmental management industry.
"Deployment of earth-based SD-WAN over Starlink will bring business-grade connectivity and network management to every remote location where it's needed for our clients," said Fox. "MetTel is thrilled to upgrade the quality of space-based communication while extending the reach of our SD-WAN network to any location worldwide."
As an access technology, satellite communication has always been a challenge as signals must travel up to space and back down to earth, introducing latency and eroding performance. Many satellite communication providers use packet manipulation like queuing to provide a better consumer experience, but when using a business-oriented overlay technology like SD-WAN the packet manipulation can inhibit the performance of the network. Starlink's low-earth orbit system provides low latency, high bandwidth transmissions without heavy processing of traditional satellite, enabling the MetTel Labs team to integrate space-based access paths into its existing terrestrial SD-WAN networks.
"The promise of space-based communication is limitless," said Craig Connors, vice president and general manager of VMware's SASE business. "By deploying SD-WAN over the Starlink satellite network, MetTel is bringing the benefits of VMware SD-WAN -- cloud-delivered, resilient networking with embedded security, along with DMPO which will automatically remediate transient satellite link issues -- to anywhere on earth, without the need for terrestrial networks."
VMware SD-WAN™ and VMware SASE™ bring cloud-delivered networking, security, and AIOps together with compute to support secure, ubiquitous access to Cloud and SaaS for branch and remote workers as well modern applications at the edge. VMware's SD-WAN solution makes intelligent routing decisions based on network conditions and then steers traffic to the optimal network path to meet customers' service level requirements and provide a better user experience for applications.
Working with VMware SASE and SD-WAN solutions, MetTel has built a global cloud network with 19 data centers and points of presence (PoPs) to deliver its secure networking services as a fully managed service. A recognized leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services for 2020 and 2021, MetTel has engineered some of the largest commercial implementations of SD-WAN and cloud firewall in North America, each connecting thousands of locations with high performance and scalable bandwidth in many different verticals such as retail including the largest jewelry retailer in the world, automotive, and waste management.
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MERCED COUNTY, Calif., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Westervelt Ecological Services (WES) has received state and federal approval of the Piedra Azul Conservation Bank (PACB) located near Los Banos, California. The 2,418 acre bank conserves high-quality habitat for a variety of San Joaquin Valley species. The highly-anticipated project will provide compensatory mitigation credits to assist purchasers in meeting US fish and State and Federal Endangered Species Act permit requirements. While credits are available now, a majority of the California tiger salamander upland, San Joaquin kit fox, and Swainson's hawk foraging habitat credits have been allocated to permitted infrastructure projects.
PACB preserves critical rangeland habitat that supports California tiger salamanders, California red-legged frogs, San Joaquin Kit foxes, Swainson's Hawks, and burrowing owls, along with a number of other non-listed species that have similar habitat requirements. "WES is proud to partner with the Grissom family to conserve such a large, functioning ecosystem for a broad suite of native species," says WES Western Region Director, Hal Holland.
Environmental regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Wildlife, must approve a conservation bank in the State of California before credits can be sold. Conservation banks provide enhanced environmental benefit over smaller, piece-meal mitigation and retain inherent biological, financial and legal assurances to ensure ecological project success. Economic advantages recognized by public and private sector developers include economies of scale, reduced permitting time and costs, and severance of liability.
To learn more about the site and the credits available, contact Amanda Dwyer at (925) 783-9924 or email adwyer@westervelt.com.
About Westervelt Ecological Services: Providing conservation on a landscape scale is the mission of Westervelt Ecological Services. A division of The Westervelt Company, a 137 year-old land stewardship company based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Westervelt Ecological Services offers mitigation banking solutions for developers and businesses who need to mitigate impacts to wetlands or species across the country. To learn more visit www.wesmitigation.com.
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The Powerball jackpot soared to $1 billion for the third time in the game's history after no ticket matched all six numbers in Monday night's drawing.
The mammoth grand prize ranks as the seventh largest U.S. lottery jackpot and third largest Powerball jackpot, behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year in California, and the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016, according to the lottery.
If a lucky winner nabs the jackpot in the next drawing Wednesday night, they will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $1 billion or a lump sum payment estimated at $516.8 million, both before taxes, according to Powerball.
The Powerball jackpot rolled Monday night after no ticket matched all numbers drawn for the estimated $900 million grand prize – white balls 5, 8, 9, 17, 41 and red Powerball 21.
There have been 38 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner since its April 19 drawing, when a ticket in Ohio matched all six numbers to win a grand prize worth $252.6 million.
While no one scored the grand prize Monday night, five tickets sold in Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, New York and Pennsylvania matched all five white balls to win $1 million prizes.
Another three tickets, in Arkansas, Georgia and Texas, won $2 million by including the Power Play option for an additional $1 per play, according to Powerball.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, Powerball says on its website.
The Powerball isn't the only massive lottery prize this week. The Mega Millions jackpot winnings grew to an estimated $640 million after there were no winners Friday, according to its website.
The next Mega Millions drawing will be Tuesday at 11 p.m.
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DUBOIS — Frigid weather hit our area. We are like many others who have severe winter weather. Anyone who asked for a white Christmas around here got it!
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The snow accentuated the outdoor decorations in Dubois. The Lions Club Lighting Contest winners were announced. First place went to Marty and Conni Owen. Second place is the Alberto Ruiz family. Third place was split three ways. Winning that place are Joel and LaRee Billman, Randy and Jill Grover and Jon and Sheree Farr. Named as the “Highlighted Holiday” winner is Tom Monroe.
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Kerri Ellis of Dubois has been extra cheerful as her children have been here to visit. Zeb Knudsen of Los Angeles drove to Dubois to be with his mom Dec. 22-26. Zack and Kassi Knudsen, Kerri’s son and daughter who live in Jackson Hole, also planned a visit for that time.
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Santa Claus set up a workshop at Chicas Gathering Place in Dubois on Dec. 21. There were ornaments to decorate, desserts to devour and photos to take with the dashing man himself. The event took place on Main Street during a cold and windy day. It was warm inside with Santa and his helpers working away to make a happy Christmas Day!
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Teachers of the month for November were announced at the Clark County Schools Board of Trustees meeting on Dec. 8. They are Beth Donahoo, a paraprofessional at Lindy Ross Elementary and Lauri Burns Sperl, the social studies and history teacher at the Junior/Senior High School.
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Bobcat Basketball action begins at home again with scheduled contests of the boys and girl’s teams against Grace Lutheran on Jan. 5. Contact the school office to verify game date and start time.
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A new county sheriff has been appointed. The Clark County Sheriff is now Mark McClure. He is the son of Kevin McClure and went to school in Dubois. He was sworn into office on Dec. 19.
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Driving on Interstate 15 between Hamer and Dubois is more dangerous this time of year; not only due to wet weather. Many elk are in the area for the winter. The elk get on the road especially at night. Please use caution and heed the flashing lights that warn of elk crossing on that stretch of I-15.
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The Idaho Food Bank delivery was cancelled on Dec. 21 due to the bad weather. The December date was re-scheduled to its regularly scheduled fourth Tuesday of the month. The January food bank delivery is on the calendar for Jan. 24.
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Happy Birthday to Joe Henrie, Layton Lee Stewart, Evolette Deonate, Chad Kadel, Laura Hayes, Daisey May Hennessy and Erin Wood; Dec. 29 – Orvin Jorgensen and Emma Swenson; Dec. 30 – Holly May, Katie Jeppson, Lisa Shenton, Howard Trew, Breanna Quinn and Casey White; Dec. 31 – Hunter Egan; Happy New Year! Jan. 1 – Matt Spangler, Bryan Martinez, Maria Medel, Angel Gonzales, Kayla Binggeli, Jaquelyn Lopez and David Leonardson; Jan. 2 – Aidan Hernandez, Tiffany Stewart and David Collis; Jan. 3 – Ryan Arava Adkins, Richard Rogers, Teofilia Gomez, Colby Stoddard, Elysah Murillo-Gil and Abigail Eddins.
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Wedding Anniversary greetings to Collin and Ashley Squires, Trever and Ashley Anhler; Dec. 29 – Timmy and Kristy Thomas; Dec. 30 – Jack and Judy Hylton; Jan. 2 – Chayce and Kortni Bramwell.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Ray Guy, the first punter to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died Thursday. He was 72.
Southern Mississippi, where Guy starred before becoming the first punter ever taken in the first round of the NFL draft, said he died following a lengthy illness. He had been receiving care in a Hattiesburg-area hospice.
Guy was drafted 23rd overall by Al Davis’ Raiders in 1973 and played his entire 14-year career with the team. He was a three-time All-Pro selection. In 2014, he became the first player to make be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame exclusively for his punting.
Guy was selected to the NFL’s 75th anniversary team and the 1970’s all-decade team. He was a three-time Super Bowl champion and seven-time Pro Bowl selection.
A native of Thomson, Georgia, Guy is also a member of the College Football Football Hall of Fame and the National High School Sports Hall of Fame.
At Southern Mississippi, Guy also played defensive back, He still shares the school single-season record for most interceptions with eight in 1972.
Guy ended his NFL career in 1986 with a streak of 619 punts without having one blocked. But it took nearly three decades for him to be selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He was a finalist for induction seven times starting in 1992 without being voted in and didn’t even make it that far on other occasions.
“That kind of bothered me because they were saying that’s not a position, it doesn’t take an athlete to do that, it’s not important,” Guy said before his Hall of Fame induction in 2014.
“That’s what really got under my skin. It wasn’t so much whether I did or didn’t. I wish somebody had. It was just knowing that they didn’t care.
“That’s what kind of frosted me a little bit.”
Guy in many ways revolutionized the position.
His kicks went so high that one that hit the Superdome scoreboard 90 feet above the field in a Pro Bowl helped put “hang time” into the football vernacular. His ability to pin the opponent deep with either high kicks or well-positioned ones was a key part of the success for the great Raiders teams of the 1970s and 80s.
“It was something that was given to me. I don’t know how,” he said. “I’m really blessed in that category. It’s something I really appreciate and I advanced it and I made it into something great.”
Guy’s statistics look somewhat pedestrian compared to today’s punters. His career average of 42.4 yards per kick ranks 61st all time and his net average of 32.2 yards (excluding his first three seasons when the statistic wasn’t kept by the NFL) isn’t even in the top 100.
Yet, he still is considered by many as the best to ever play the position.
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TOKYO (AP) — The United States will make full use of its military capabilities, “including nuclear, conventional and missile defense,” to defend its allies Japan and South Korea, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday as she warned North Korea against escalating its provocations.
Sherman said North Korea’s repeated firings of ballistic missiles and artillery in recent weeks were provocative military actions. North Korea has described them as practice runs for the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
“This is deeply irresponsible, dangerous, and destabilizing,” Sherman said in talks in Tokyo with South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyungdong. The two officials met ahead of a three-way meeting with their Japanese counterpart on Wednesday.
It will be second in-person meeting of the three officials since conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol took office in May, signaling an improvement in difficult ties between Japan and South Korea. A year ago, Japanese and South Korean vice ministers declined to participate in a joint news conference after three-way talks in Washington, leaving Sherman to make a solo media appearance.
Sherman said North Korea needs to understand that the U.S. commitment to the security of South Korea and Japan is “ironclad.”
“And we will use the full range of U.S. defense capabilities to defend our allies, including nuclear, conventional and missile defense capabilities,” she said.
Cho, during his talks with Sherman, raised concern that a new North Korean nuclear weapons policy adopted in September increases the possibility of its arbitrary use of nuclear weapons.
“This is creating serious tension on the Korean Peninsula,” Cho said.
Sherman met earlier Tuesday with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori and reaffirmed the further strengthening of the Japan-U.S. alliance and other shared goals, including the complete denuclearization of North Korea and their joint response to China’s increasingly assertive actions in the region.
Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada recently said North Korea is believed to have achieved a miniaturization of nuclear warheads while significantly advancing its missile capabilities by diversifying its launch technologies, making interceptions more difficult.
Japanese officials have also warned of a possible nuclear test by North Korea in the near future.
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(ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine) — An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy was one of at least three people wounded in what emergency officials are calling the first Russian strike in a residential area of the southern city of Zaporizhzhia since Russia’s invasion began.
The city has been a crucial waypoint for tens of thousands of people fleeing the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
The rocket strike came on Thursday as parts of southern Ukraine prepared for a further onslaught by Russian forces who seek to strip the country of its coastline.
Residents said at least eight homes in the modest neighborhood were damaged or destroyed.
Glass shards cut the boy’s right leg to the bone. The injured boy’s father, Vadym Vodostoyev, said “it just takes one second and you’re left with nothing.” | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/11-year-old-latest-wounded-as-russia-troops-strike-ukraines-zaporizhzhia | 2022-04-29 02:29:42 | 0 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/11-year-old-latest-wounded-as-russia-troops-strike-ukraines-zaporizhzhia |
Speer bolsters RH&A team with nearly a decade of trial and appellate experience
HOUSTON, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP is pleased to announce it is strengthening its team of litigators with the addition of Kendall Speer, who joins the firm as a senior associate in its Houston office.
"Kendall is the full package, and we are tremendously excited to have her with us," said Mr. Hardin. "She is extremely bright, an excellent writer, and an awesome lawyer. From a client standpoint, she is the type of lawyer you want in your corner and by your side."
Ms. Speer will focus her practice on general commercial litigation, where she will use her nearly 10 years of experience in construction, employment, oil and gas, and real estate litigation. She will also handle appellate and probate issues.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Speer served as law clerk to Texas Supreme Court Justice John Phillip Devine. There she prepared opinions and recommended case disposition on a variety of appellate issues. She went on to become a partner at Houston litigation boutique Crady Jewett McCulley and Houren.
Ms. Speer is a summa cum laude graduate of South Texas College of Law, where she graduated second in her class. During law school, she interned for Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and the Galveston County District Attorney's Office. Prior to graduating, she served as a law clerk for Rusty Hardin & Associates, where she distinguished herself as a legal talent.
"We had the advantage of working with her years ago, and even then everybody loved her personality and her work. To have her back now – it is like a coming home," said Mr. Hardin.
"I could tell then that the environment and atmosphere here were different than at other firms," said Ms. Speer. "It felt like a family – a family of great lawyers who all cared about doing great work. It was always a goal to come back, and I couldn't be happier to see that goal come to fruition."
Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP has built a solid reputation for taking on the causes of its clients and obtaining favorable results in commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense, plaintiffs' personal injury, appellate matters, and general civil and criminal litigation. To learn more, visit https://www.rustyhardin.com/.
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SAN ANTONIO, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Green Beret Foundation, which provides U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers and their families with emergency, immediate and ongoing support, is pleased to announce the appointment of Charles "Charlie" Iacono as its new president and chief executive officer, effective April 17, 2023.
"As the Green Beret Foundation strategically plans to care for the needs of Green Berets whose lives have and will be touched by current and future conflicts around the globe, we continue to honor our commitment to the care and support of all who have ever worn the beret," said Lieutenant General Ken Tovo, U.S. Army, Retired, chairman of Green Beret Foundation Board of Directors. "Given the ambitious scope of this mission, it is fitting that we choose a leader with deep expertise and historic success in the leadership of charitable organizations. The Board and I feel strongly that Charles Iacono is this person."
Iacono brings a wealth of experience to the position, having served at the USO as their senior development and board relations officer. He has a deep understanding of the military and the unique needs and challenges faced by the Green Beret community and is committed to continuing the foundation's mission of providing support to these brave men and women and their families.
"I am honored to join and lead the Green Beret Foundation as its new president and CEO," said Charles Iacono. "It is a privilege to have the opportunity to advance the organization's mission and vision. Together with our outstanding teammates at GBF, I look forward to enhancing the organization's capability to support our community of Green Berets of the past, present, and future - and their families - who have committed their lives to serving our great nation. In the weeks ahead, I am excited to meet and learn more about the community, the history of the Regiment, and how we as a foundation can meet and exceed their expectations."
About the Green Beret Foundation
The Green Beret Foundation (GBF) provides all generations of U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers and their families with emergency, immediate, and ongoing support. GBF assists over 5,000 Special Forces families each year. Since its inception in 2009, GBF has invested 84%, or 84 cents of every dollar, into its programs and services, which has totaled over $16 million that has directly supported the Regiment and its families. GBF is the only nonprofit solely dedicated to supporting Green Berets and their families that has achieved a 4-Star Rating with Charity Navigator for two years consecutively. Also, GBF is the sole special operations nonprofit accredited by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of preparing, filing, and appealing disability claims. For more information visit greenberetfoundation.org and follow the Foundation on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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PARIS (AP) — French film legend and amateur race car driver Jean-Louis Trintignant, who earned acclaim for his starring role in the Oscar-winning film “A Man and a Woman” half a century ago and went on to portray the brutality of aging in his later years, has died. He was 91.
Trintignant died in his home in southern France, according to Bertrand Cortellini, who operated a vineyard with the actor and visited him Thursday before his death. He did not divulge details. French news reports said Trintignant had prostate cancer.
In a career that started when he was 19, Trintignant appeared in more than 100 films. He was one of France’s premier actors in the post-war era — and one of the last remaining performers of his generation.
Tributes poured in after his death was announced Friday. France’s national Cinematheque museum called him “one of the greatest actors in the history of French cinema.”
Born Dec. 11, 1930 in Piolenc in southern France, near where he died, Trintignant started out acting in the theater but gained broader fame in cinema, notably starring with Brigitte Bardot in “And God ... Created Woman” in 1956. The two had an unabashed, off-screen love affair that shocked many.
He described turning to acting to overcome intense shyness. An actor “is to be a blank page, starting from nothing, from silence. From there, you don’t need to make a lot of noise to be listened to,” he was quoted as saying in Le Monde.
He starred in Italian films and several films by legendary French director Claude Lelouch, most famously “A Man and a Woman” in 1966, which won the Oscar for best foreign film. Trintignant played a race car driver — a passion he pursued off-screen — in a complex romance alongside Anouk Aimee.
Trintignant stopped performing for nearly a decade after the loss of his daughter Marie, also an actor, in 2003. Her boyfriend, popular French singer Bertrand Cantat, beat her to death during a dispute in a hotel room in Lithuania, where she was making a film.
Trintignant continued acting on stage and on screen into his 80s, and earned new international attention in Michael Haneke’s 2013 Oscar-winning drama “Amour,” a raw depiction of an aging couple and the ravages of Alzheimer’s on their love.
In his final role on film, Trintignant reunited with Lelouch and Aimee in “The Best Years of a Life,” in 2019.
Among survivors are his wife Mariane Hoepfner, a former race car driver, and his son Vincent Trintignant and grandson Jules Benchetrit, also actors. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/French-film-titan-Trintignant-of-A-Man-and-a-17248988.php | 2022-06-17 18:26:35 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/French-film-titan-Trintignant-of-A-Man-and-a-17248988.php |
An audio recording of former President Trump discussing a secret government document at his New Jersey club dealt the latest blow to his evolving and growing defenses against charges over his retention of classified information.
The recording appeared to undercut a claim Trump made a week earlier, in which he suggested he may not have had a physical document he was showing to guests without security clearances. Legal experts were quick to cite the recording, which was first published by CNN, as proof of the strength of special counsel Jack Smith’s case.
And while Trump has yet to face major political consequences since he was arraigned earlier this month, the recording is the latest sign that Smith’s investigation is one the former president will have difficulty simply waving away.
“This tape is not new evidence, and there was no reason to doubt the evidence alleged in the indictment, but it is damning and visceral to hear it, and it does verify that the Donald Trump national security indictment is well supported by solid evidence,” tweeted Noah Bookbinder, a former federal prosecutor and head of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
More coverage of new Trump recording from The Hill:
- Fox News host suggests Trump may have leaked audio in classified documents case
- Former prosecutor on new Trump tape: ‘This is game over’
- Trump claims new documents recording exonerates him
CNN on Monday aired a two-minute audio clip of the conversation between Trump and others at his Bedminster, N.J., club in which he is heard saying “these are the papers” while discussing classified materials.
“I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him,” Trump says in the recording, referring to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley. “They presented me this — this is off the record but — they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”
“See as president I could have declassified it,” Trump says in the audio recording. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
“Now we have a problem,” a staffer says in the recording.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Lilac Luncheon, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Large sections of descriptions of the audio were already included in the Justice Department indictment unsealed earlier this month that detailed the case against the former president, in which prosecutors cited the 2021 conversation as an instance where Trump allegedly showed classified material to individuals without security clearances.
But the audio quickly undercut two of Trump’s defenses. He has repeatedly claimed he declassified any materials he took with him after leaving the White House, though the audio indicates he was aware he did not declassify the document in question.
The audio, which includes sounds of shuffling papers, also contradicted a recent claim Trump made to Fox News’s Bret Baier that he may not have had a physical document with him at the time.
“There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things,” Trump told Baier last week. “And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document, per se.”
Asked Tuesday in New Hampshire how the new audio squares with his comments to Baier, Trump did not repeat his claim that there was no document, but he instead maintained he did nothing wrong.
“My voice was fine. What did I say wrong on those recordings? I didn’t even see the recording. All I know is I did nothing wrong,” Trump told Fox News Digital.
The former president raged against Smith, the special counsel, on Truth Social, calling him “deranged” and accusing the Justice Department of inappropriately leaking information, though the source of the recording was unclear.
Legal experts viewed the audio recording as another significant strike against Trump’s defense.
Andrew Weissman, a former federal prosecutor who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, called the recording one piece of a “mountain” of evidence Smith’s team has against Trump.
“This is a question now of simply, will the government get a trial before the general election, will a jury actually follow the law and the facts, and will the electorate follow the facts and care? That’s really what this is about,” he said on MSNBC.
Trump earlier this month pleaded not guilty to 37 counts in a Department of Justice indictment alleging he violated the Espionage Act and obstructed justice in taking classified records from his presidency and refusing to return them. The indictment alleged Trump made false statements in a bid to conceal the classified materials from government officials.
The political ramifications have been less immediate in the wake of Trump’s second indictment of the year, with his first coming in Manhattan. In fact, there are signs Republicans have rallied around him as he faces federal charges.
A Saint Anselm poll of New Hampshire Republicans conducted last week showed Trump expanded his GOP primary lead in the Granite State, drawing the support of 47 percent of those surveyed, compared to 19 percent who backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. A March Saint Anselm poll had Trump leading DeSantis 42-29.
“We’re leading by a lot,” Trump said Tuesday in New Hampshire. “I mean, I’d have to work really hard to blow this one.”
Still, even some of Trump’s allies have acknowledged the former president has weaknesses that could drag him down in the general election if he wins the GOP nomination.
“Trump’s policies are better, straightforward, than Biden’s policies,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday on CNBC.
“Can he win that election? Yeah, he can,” McCarthy added. “The question is, is he the strongest to win the election? I don’t know that answer. But can somebody, can anybody beat Biden? Yeah, anybody can beat Biden. Can Biden beat other people? Yes, Biden can beat ‘em. It’s on any given day.” | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/audio-recording-marks-latest-blow-to-trump-in-documents-case/ | 2023-06-27 22:51:52 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/audio-recording-marks-latest-blow-to-trump-in-documents-case/ |
Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby.
Greta Gerwig, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Little Women” and “Lady Bird,” started dreaming it up at a time when she wasn’t sure movies would ever come back.
“I wanted to channel something that had that ache in it, but also something so wild and unruly and something that was so just spilling out over the edges of it that you want to be in a group and see it big,” Gerwig told The Associated Press this week. “Because I thought we’ll never make any movies again, but if they’re going to, I’d like this.”
Her “Barbie,” which releases in theaters on Friday, is a joyful, maximalist, deeply weird, insightful and defiantly pink confection starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. She co-wrote it with her partner, Noah Baumbach, with whom she shares two sons — a toddler and a five-month-old whom they welcomed into the world while getting “Barbie” out to the world.
Gerwig spoke to the AP this week about the film, the reviews, the tension between art and commerce, and the unlikely connection between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” (Hint: It’s not just the release date.)
Remarks have been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.
GERWIG: I do. I mean, of course. I’m not Emily Dickinson. I’m not above anything. I didn’t actually look last night because I just knew I would be too anxious. I was like go to sleep, wake up, caffeinate, get your kid to summer camp and then find out where we are. There’s a lot of reviewers that I really respect and have really liked. Film criticism matters to me as a person and also being in conversation with people who think about cinema matters. But it can feel very scary at the moment that you’re at the emotional pitch of releasing a movie to take it in.
What I tend to do is know which ones I’m going to go back to in a few weeks when I can take it in more. It’s too overwhelming at the moment. … All my metaphors go to giving birth because I have a five-month-old but it would be like if you just give birth and then you’re like, “What are the reviews of the baby?” But I did check the email and I’m pleased. (“Barbie”) seems to have been received in the spirit that it was meant, which is exciting.
GERWIG: He was so generous getting on the phone with me. I had this idea of making Barbie Land basically an interior soundstage world. That was that was the concept. But as big as soundstages are, they’re not the world. They’re going to be small. You can only hang the lights so high.
There’s obviously parts of his movie that are done on a stage, but then there are other parts of it that can’t possibly be on a stage because it’s too big, but it feels like it’s on a stage, you know? Why does it feel like it’s on a stage? He explained to me they did shoot a lot of it outside in this community in Florida, but that they hung big stage lighting everywhere so it would look lit even though it was outside. And then he said it made everything like 120 degrees and that he did not suggest that. He was like I wouldn’t do that. It works but you might want to avoid making a place that’s hot, hotter.
GERWIG: In my experience, directors are so generous speaking about what they’ve done and how they did it and what were the problems, because you’re only ever on your own movie AND movies are hard and they always feel completely unlikely and completely impossible but in a new way that the other one wasn’t. Whatever lessons you learned on the last one, you can apply some of them, but it’s going to be a new set of issues. And other directors want to give you the knowledge that they’ve gotten that they can’t use anymore because they’ve already made that movie.
I had the same experience when I was making “Little Women.” Steven Spielberg was incredibly generous with me because he had made “Lincoln,” which took place in the same year. He opened up all of his research, all the lighting diagrams that he did with his cinematographer. He was like here’s how we did it. He just showed me absolutely everything. Even though you’re only ever in your own in your own dream of your own movie, there’s camaraderie in the loneliness.
GERWIG: I’ve never thought of such a sharp delineation of like what’s for kids and for adults. I just don’t see it as church and state. There’s this Demetri Martin joke that’s like, saying you like kids is like saying, “I like people, for a little while.” We all have some sense of childhood and sense of moving out of it, too, which I think is something that I probably will be forever interested in. We’re not Merlin. We only live in one direction.
GERWIG: In “Remembrance of Things Past,” in “Swann’s Way,” he is literally thrown back into his childhood through the taste of the madeleine. I thought, well, that’ll be a nice Easter egg for one person.
GERWIG: So he would have loved Proust Barbie!
GERWIG: I always felt like I was just was never quite right, that I was somehow being looked at and found lacking. That’s not exclusively available for actors, I think it’s pretty universal. But it’s heightened as an actor. I did an audition once and I was wearing overalls, I think it was for a TV show, and I got into the room and the casting director looked at me and said “Well you must be very talented.” I thought, “Oh no, maybe I’m not talented enough to just be wearing overalls.” Also that this is going quite badly.
GERWIG: With any project, I’m completely in it. I can’t really connect it to other things I’ve done. But then when I step back from it, I think, “Oh, these are connected in some way.” I think I’m just interested in the gleeful messiness of life and people. And I’m interested in women. I don’t know, I like them a lot. And I’m interested in women talking to each other through generations. The unwieldy nature of living life is not something that always has to be organized. It can kind of live in its own wildness.
GERWIG: The hope of stepping into everything, was allowing it to all be equally true. I think of the character of Sasha who dismantles Barbie. I wanted everything she said to be absolutely true. And also other things that are true at the same time. That’s always the place that feels most accurate to me.
GERWIG: I haven’t read it. I’m sure they make good points, probably. There’s always some tension, obviously, between art that exists in the world to be seen and consumed. I joked at the beginning that I’m not Emily Dickinson, but I really am not Emily Dickinson. I’m not writing poems on the back of envelopes and creating and destroying worlds from the confines of my home and never letting anybody see it. I’m making art to be seen by people.
I am not comparing myself to this person at all, but one of the first things when I was a kid was (Sacramento’s) version of Shakespeare in the Park. I got to be part of it when I was 11. I had one line but I loved it, I would go backstage and just watch everyone. It was “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which was created because the fans liked the character of Falstaff. That’s true. He was a fan favorite in “Henry IV” and, like, someone said could you write a play that’s like, a spinoff. And Shakespeare was like, you got it. And it’s amazing. And it’s also a spinoff of a character. I’m not saying I’m like Shakespeare, but I do think that sort of tension is part of what I like about all of it. We all live in this mess. Except for Emily Dickinson. But she’s the only one. | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-qa-barbie-filmmaker-greta-gerwig-on-art-commerce-and-embracing-the-mess/ | 2023-07-21 01:06:22 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-qa-barbie-filmmaker-greta-gerwig-on-art-commerce-and-embracing-the-mess/ |
VOLYN REGION, Ukraine — In a thick pine forest in western Ukraine, not far from the border with the Kremlin-aligned nation of Belarus, a military engineer named Anton is supervising a vast underground construction site.
"It's a bunker," says Anton, who, like the other soldiers in this story, declined to give his last name for security reasons. "We shipped in most of the wood because we didn't want to cut the trees here. We need them for cover."
He won't say how many soldiers the bunker, which is almost finished, will house. But he does give NPR a tour, walking us through a labyrinth of small hallways connecting bedrooms, bathrooms, a kitchen and dining hall, and a large central command room lined with desks and giant TV screens.
"All these videos are from the borders," says Stanislav, a 34-year-old computer scientist who is the tech support here. "If something will start, we will see it."
Russian troops entered Ukraine through Belarus in the beginning of the war, before retreating after a failed attempt to occupy Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Since then, the border has been largely quiet, though Ukrainian authorities sometimes warn of brewing Russian offensive here. Ukrainian authorities say about 10,000 Russian troops are still in Belarus, only about 10% of the number before the Russian invasion.
But with Russian President Vladimir Putin signaling a long war ahead, Ukraine is fortifying even the quietest stretch of its border with Belarus.
"In this war," Anton says, "we can't take any chances."
On the Belarus frontier: trees, mud and swamps
The forested terrain in the northwestern Volyn district makes it difficult for tanks to cross the border. This year's unusually mild winter, as well as dams built by the local beaver population, have also made the border area especially muddy and swampy.
But that doesn't mean infantry and saboteurs can't cross on foot, says Oleksii, the gravelly voiced, middle-aged commander of a small unit deployed here.
"We walk along the border every day and watch what's happening in real time," he says. "We catch what the cameras may miss."
A gray-haired soldier using the call sign Sturman says he noticed something troubling on the Belarusian side of the border during one of his recent patrols: men in military clothes digging trenches and fortifications.
"I saw them with my own eyes," he says.
Sturman says his unit recently blew up a road leading to the border because it looked like tanks could cross there. Other parts of the border are mined.
"This war will probably last a long time," Oleksii says. "Even the safest places are not safe."
With the border calm, it's time to train
Ukraine is using this region, quiet for the moment, to train troops for the front line in the east.
Further from the border, in muddy fields past the forests, the soldiers teach each other how to use heavy artillery, including a howitzer, a large artillery piece something between a cannon and a mortar.
Vadim, a banker-turned-soldier who is among the troops training here, doesn't bother covering his ears from the explosions.
"I hope Lukashenko heard that," he says, referring to Aleksandr Lukashenko, the Kremlin-aligned autocratic president of Belarus. "Just in case he thinks we're just sitting here drinking coffee all day."
Lukashenko recently visited China's president Xi Jinping in Beijing. Xi is expected in Moscow this week. The prospect of China assisting Russia and Belarus unsettles Vadim.
"And yet, it also doesn't matter," Vadim says. "We have no choice. We will still fight."
He's wiping down some of the shells, which are rusty after being in storage for years. He takes out a marker and writes a message on one of them: "Biden, thank you for the weapons, we need more."
"If we get F-16 [jet fighters], maybe we could even win this year," he says.
"Well, most of the tanks haven't even come in," says Alex, another soldier, referring to the M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 battle tanks promised by the U.S. and European nations. "So...fight with what you have."
He sees northwestern Ukraine as "not just a training ground, it's also a support hub."
"Our military can regroup here, get new equipment, new ammunition," he says. "That's why we have to protect it. Because if the Russians cut this line of support, our guys in Donbas can't get supplies or reinforcements."
The soldiers training here will deploy to Donbas. Alex is a bomb specialist who worked security in Afghanistan. But other soldiers aren't as experienced.
Volunteers have cast aside their civilian lives and headed to war
"Before the war, I was the dad who wore a suit and tie and went to work in a bank," says Vadim.
Then, the day after Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24 last year, he enlisted. A few days after that, Vadim was fighting Russian soldiers trying to take over Kyiv.
"This is now my job," he says. "Keeping Russian soldiers out of Ukraine."
Ukraine's military relies on volunteer units to supplement the professional army. Vadim is training with carpenters, plumbers and accountants. Some men are older than the typical soldier – one is a grandfather of four.
Several soldiers in their battalion just left for Bakhmut, the ravaged city in the east where the longest and bloodiest battle of the war is taking place.
Russian forces, including mercenaries of the Wagner Group, a private army funded by a Russian oligarch, have occupied part of the city. Ukrainian forces are struggling to keep them back.
"The Russians may never come [to Volyn]," Alex says, "so we will go to them."
The soldiers fry potatoes and ham on an open fire for lunch. They raise hot mugs of instant coffee to their colleagues who have deployed out east. Then they return to the howitzers, knowing they don't have time to waste.
NPR researchers Zazil Davis-Vasquez and Barclay Walsh contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Saturday, April 22, 2023
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700 FPUS56 KPDT 231058
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Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
WAZ026-232300-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Light wind, becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of
an inch.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. Northwest
wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Rainfall amounts
less than a tenth of an inch.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the 50s. Windy. Northwest wind 20 to 30 mph. Gusts up to
30 mph increasing to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
Windy. Northwest wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Windy. Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to
lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s to upper 70s. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
$$
WAZ027-232300-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain showers in
the morning. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Light wind, becoming
southwest 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Breezy. West wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Southwest wind
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s to lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the 70s.
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WAZ028-232300-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the 60s. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in
the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then a chance of rain showers overnight. Some
thunderstorms may produce small hail in the evening. Lows in the
lower to mid 40s. Breezy. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s.
Breezy. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s to lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s to
lower 80s. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
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WAZ029-232300-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce small hail in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. South wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts
possible in thunderstorms.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then a chance of rain showers overnight. Some
thunderstorms may produce small hail in the evening. Lows in the
lower to mid 40s. Windy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of
an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers. Highs in the
mid to upper 50s. Windy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts
to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall
amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to lower
40s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s.
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WAZ030-232300-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Rain showers likely in the morning, then rain showers
and a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce small hail in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of
an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then rain and high mountain snow showers likely
overnight. Some thunderstorms may produce small hail in the
evening. Little or no high mountain snow accumulation. Snow level
5000 feet overnight. Lows in the upper 20s to upper 30s. Breezy.
Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph overnight.
Gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Rain and mountain snow showers in the morning, then
rain and mountain snow showers likely in the afternoon. Mountain
snow accumulation up to 1 inch valleys and 2 to 4 inches in the
mountains. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the upper 30s to lower
40s, except in the mid to upper 40s valleys. Windy. West wind
15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph decreasing to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
and mountain snow showers. Snow level 4500 feet. Lows in the
upper 20s to mid 30s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s.
Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s to upper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s to upper 60s.
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WAZ522-232300-
Upper Slopes of the Eastern Washington Cascades Crest-
Including the cities of Roslyn and Easton
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Rain showers in the morning, then a chance of rain
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the 40s. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent. Rainfall amounts between a tenth
and a quarter of an inch possible.
.TONIGHT...Rain and mountain snow showers likely in the evening,
then rain and mountain snow showers overnight. Mountain snow
accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow level 4500 feet. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and mountain snow
showers. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
and mountain snow showers. Snow level 4000 feet. Lows in the mid
20s to lower 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s to mid 30s. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 30s to lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 50s to
mid 60s. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
WAZ523-232300-
Lower Slopes of the Eastern Washington Cascades Crest-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s
to mid 50s, except in the 50s valleys. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of
an inch.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
high mountain snow showers. Snow level 4000 feet overnight. Lows
in the upper 20s to upper 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
mountain snow showers in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the lower 40s to lower
50s, except in the upper 40s to mid 50s valleys. Breezy. West
wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s,
except in the lower to mid 60s valleys. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
the upper 30s to upper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s
to lower 70s. Lows in the 40s.
$$
WAZ521-232300-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain showers in
the morning. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s. Windy. West
wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph in the afternoon.
Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain and high mountain snow showers
overnight. Lows in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Windy. West wind
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s. Windy. West wind 15 to
25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s
to lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A day after Sri Lanka’s president fled, Mohamed Ishad waited outside an immigration office near the capital, clutching a file of documents that he hopes will get his passport renewed so he can leave, too.
With the nation in the throes of its worst economic crisis, Ishad has no job, relies on relatives for financial help and sells vegetables to feed his wife and three children. He wants to go to Japan and find work there so he can send money back home.
Ishad is devastated to leave his family behind, but feels there is no choice — and no opportunity — in his country. “Living in Sri Lanka right now is not good — if you want a good life, you need to leave,” he said. Not only has the economy collapsed, but “there’s hardly a government functioning right now.”
Bankruptcy has forced the island nation’s government to a near standstill. Its once-beloved and now reviled former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to Singapore before resigning last week. The acting president and prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, is seen as his proxy and opposed by angry crowds.
Parliament is expected to elect a new leader Wednesday, paving the way for a fresh government, but it is unclear if that’s enough to fix a shattered economy and placate a furious nation of 22 million that has grown disillusioned with politicians of all stripes.
The political ruckus has deepened worries that solutions to the crisis, including a crucial assistance from the International Monetary Fund, may be delayed.
“Right now, the eye is off the ball,” said Dayan Jayatilleka, a former diplomat and political analyst. “It’s like in the middle of a serious surgery, everybody from the top surgeon to the anesthesiologist, ran out of the operation room to start a revolution — but they need to come back and finish the surgery before the patient is dead.”
The IMF is monitoring the situation closely, but any bailout package will be contingent on Sri Lanka’s debt-restructuring strategy and political stability. “People are probably thinking, who do we talk to? Don’t you guys care about the economy? Will the real president please stand up?” Jayatilleka said.
For months, the country has been on edge, triggered by a foreign exchange crisis that has crippled imports of essentials like fuel, food and medicine. Doctors are warning people to not get sick while families are struggling to eat three meals a day in a country that was once an inspiration across South Asia for its expanding middle class and high per capita income.
Now, the government owes $51 billion in debt and is unable to make payments on its loans. Its currency has collapsed by 80%, making imports more expensive and worsening inflation. Sri Lanka has only $25 million in usable foreign reserves and needs $6 billion to stay afloat over the next few months.
“Gotabaya resigning is one problem solved — there are so many more. They will continue if we don’t make the right choice in choosing our leaders,” said Bhasura Wickremesinghe, a 24-year-old maritime engineering student.
Among the candidates that Parliament will choose as president are Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the main opposition party; Dullas Alahapperuma, a former minister under Rajapaksa who is likely to be backed by a section of the ruling coalition; and Anura Dissanayake, a Marxist leader whose public support has grown during the crisis.
Another rumored candidate — and the most contentious — would be Wickremesinghe, who could likely count on support of the governing party if he decided to seek nomination. Protesters have rallied for weeks to kick him out of office, accusing him of protecting the Rajapaksa dynasty. If he is nominated and chosen, it will be a “powder keg,” said Jayatilleka.
The six-time prime minister, who is also the current finance minister, was appointed by Rajapaksa in May to begin difficult negotiations with lenders and financial institutions. He has also promised to overhaul the political system to clip presidential powers. But his unpopularity grew as lines for fuel got longer, food prices surged and power cuts continued.
He recently called the protesters “fascists” and imposed a state of emergency after his office was seized and his private residence torched.
Wickremesinghe is the only lawmaker from his party to hold a seat in Parliament after it suffered a humiliating defeat in 2020, limiting his public support and political heft. Many don’t see him as a legitimate leader despite his seasoned political career and expertise, said Bhavani Fonseka, a senior researcher at Colombo-based Center for Policy Alternatives.
“This political uncertainty is a killer of the economy — that has to be resolved fast and in a way that satisfies the people of the country,” said W.A. Wijewardena, a former deputy governor of the Sri Lankan central bank. An immediate roadmap is needed, focused on boosting exports, increasing revenue through new taxes and slashing expenditure, but none of this can be achieved if there is no stable government in place, he added.
Many people are aching for a tangible change in their lives right now, Fonseka said, and don’t care about the complex negotiations. “For them, it’s the basics of fuel and food — are they getting it or not?”
She said that whoever forms the government “cannot rule the way it was before, they will need to engage better with the public and protesters to show they are different.”
“But if it is someone who does not have the confidence or trust of the people, then the tumultuous protests will continue, and there won’t be any stability or solutions in near sight.”
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Flemingsburg Mayor dies
Published: Nov. 29, 2022 at 3:45 PM EST|Updated: 10 minutes ago
FLEMINGSBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - Flemingsburg Mayor Bobby Money has died.
Money was elected as mayor in 2018 and was in the middle of his first term as mayor. Money had been re-elected to a second term in November.
Congressman Barr says Money was a dedicated, selfless public servant. The Buffalo Trace Area Development District says he will be greatly missed.
Money’s cause of death is unknown at this time.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Jesica Fernández used to join seven family members every weekend for a large beef barbeque. Beef is no longer on the menu, and now they’re more likely to eat spaghetti or chicken wings.
In beef-loving Argentina, barbeques nowadays happen only on birthdays or special occasions, Fernández said.
Fernández, 31, is among millions of Argentines struggling to make ends meet as the country’s annual inflation rate clocked in at an annual rate of 102.5 percent in February, the first time it has reached triple digits since 1991.
She was shopping at a market sponsored by the Lomas de Zamora municipality, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the capital, where businesses offer basic goods at cheaper prices in exchange for the free retail space.
“We buy less beef and we buy fewer things. In reality, you can’t give yourself the luxuries that you could before,” Fernández said,
The country’s Indec statistics agency said this week that consumer prices increased 6.6% in February from the previous month, a higher number than expected, on top of years of double-digit annual inflation over the past decade. Food was among items that increased the most in February, rising 9.8% from January, in part due to a punishing drought that has pushed prices of meat and other goods higher.
“The situation is very difficult, and every day it gets worse,” said Daisy Choque Guevara, 42.
Mabel Espinosa, 37, was walking around the market with her 10-day old baby, Gael, hoping to find deals to buy enough food for herself, her husband and six children.
“The money isn’t enough for anything,” Espinosa said. “Barbeques? Forget about it.”
President Alberto Fernández has been struggling to put the brakes on the country’s soaring inflation rate that will undoubtedly be a key issue in the presidential campaign ahead of October elections.
Argentines have long suffered large bouts of rising prices, worse than elsewhere, because of the government’s penchant for printing money to finance spending. That trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic while a sharp depreciation of the local currency also pushed prices higher.
President Alberto Fernández’s center-left administration has tried to rein in the spiraling prices through price controls that have largely failed. Much of the opposition says Argentina needs a broader stabilization plan that includes a sharp decrease in spending.
“We obviously think the inflation data is bad, very bad, plus it was unexpected,” presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti said Thursday. “The government remains firmly committed to controlling prices, controlling inflation, reducing inflation, and not allowing prices to continue increasing.”
Espinosa, however, is not convinced things will improve, at least in the short term.
“I call it resignation, nothing will change … Why get angry?” she said. “Today you get something at one price and tomorrow it will be another price, but it doesn’t matter, you have to pay for it because you need it.”
People have to make cuts where they can.
“For example, if I could buy two yogurts before, now I can only buy one,” said Roxana Cabrera, 38. “It’s very difficult to buy now, you have to search for prices.”
Anything that isn’t absolutely essential is left for a later date.
“I was able to buy clothes before, for example, but not anymore,” Cabrera said. “Now I can only buy food.”
For some, the choices are even more drastic.
“We don’t eat dinner,” said Yanet Nazario, who lives with three of her children and seven grandchildren in an impoverished neighborhood in Buenos Aires. She was buying flour and soap from an improvised stand set up by a cooperative in her neighborhood that sells a few basic goods at lower prices than the stores.
“There’s a lot of sacrifice now because the money you make isn’t enough, you have to work a lot more, we have to go to soup kitchens,” Nazario said.
The children in the household get dinner from soup kitchens that now limit their food to only young people because overall demand has become so high.
“We adults only drink a cup of tea” for dinner, Nazario said. “The next day we’ll skip breakfast, and have lunch.” | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/argentines-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-amid-100-inflation/ | 2023-03-17 00:05:13 | 1 | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/argentines-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-amid-100-inflation/ |
Upgrading Outdated Cumulus Linux Deployment Allowed 2600Hz To Retain Hardware Systems With Full Support
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 2600Hz is a telecom services provider delivering cloud communications solutions to MSPs, ISPs, and telecom resellers. 2600Hz's platform KAZOO modernizes how businesses provide communications services to their customers. Whether it be voice, mobile, video, fax or SMS, 2600Hz simplifies and opens the cryptic black box of telecom.
2600Hz is privately held and is based in the San Francisco Bay area, with international offices.
2600Hz had standardized on Edgecore equipment with Cumulus Linux before NVIDIA acquired Cumulus and stopped supporting Broadcom. 2600Hz wanted to stay on an open networking platform to avoid lock-in. Upgrading to a Pica8 solution allowed 2600Hz to retain their hardware system of choice, and enabled a logical path to upgrade for future expansion.
After a short evaluation, 2600Hz initially upgraded a small cluster from Cumulus to PicOS, and over time have transitioned 3 sites to PicOS. Pica8 spine/leaf software switches are deployed using Edgecore Open Network Platform in three Data Centers: New Jersey, Chicago and Sunnyvale
2600Hz uses PicOS in both Top-of-Rack (TOR) and aggregation switches. The use cases are standard Data Center Networks where the TOR uses an MLAG configuration for high availability and the aggregation layer requires L3 routing. For the TOR layer, the MLAG must provide maximum LACP flexibility, including LACP fallback and fast mode, to enable PXE boot and fast fail over handling for various servers.
When asked about the decision process of choosing Pica8 during the evaluation stage, Tyler Kiziah, 2600Hz DevOps Manager, pointed out that support of open networking standards was crucial. PicOS is a Linux based NOS running on an unmodified Debian Linux. "Orchestration with Ansible was the decisive factor in choosing Pica8. It is very similar to Juniper Junos. Anyone with Junos experience will easily make the transition to PicOS with minimal training," said Kiziah.
Kiziah also shared his experience migrating from Cumulus Linux to PicOS. The migration itself was done easily, and usability was intuitive. He highlighted the role of Pica8 Support in the transition process: "Pica8 Support has been extremely helpful to introduce features that the network depends on. LACP Fall Back is an example. This made the transition from Cumulus to Pica8 easier," said Kiziah.
2600Hz has been running Juniper Junos, so the minimal learning curve between the two was especially important.
Additionally, "PicOS integrates with 2600Hz's product offerings such as Self Sign-up; PicOS is very easy to use," said Kiziah.
ROI will become greater over time with tighter integration of Pica8. For example, they are considering Pica8's AmpCon™ Network Controller for automation to eliminate manual changes and other mundane routine tasks.
Pica8 is the industry's open networking software alternative to Cisco, Juniper and Arista for the enterprise. Pica8's AmpCon™ Network Controller for centralized management and automation and PicOS® Software Switches for networking and security have successfully replaced Cisco DNA Center and Catalyst Switches and competing Juniper and Arista solutions for campus, data center and distributed site networks within Fortune 500 enterprises. Pica8 software is deployed at over 1,000 customers in over 40 countries. For more information, visit www.pica8.com.
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LAS VEGAS — A man was arrested and a woman described as his hostage was released unharmed Tuesday after an hourslong standoff in a room at the Caesars Palace resort on the Las Vegas Strip, police said.
No injuries were reported and police did not immediately say if the hostage-taker had been armed in a high-rise tower of the iconic Las Vegas Boulevard property. Furniture, cushions and other objects fell from a 21st floor window, frightening guests in a swimming pool area below.
“The suspect has been taken into custody. The female is currently with officers,” the department said in messages posted mid-afternoon Tuesday. Officer Aden OcampoGomez said the woman did not appear to be injured.
Las Vegas police Capt. Stephen Connell said the standoff began about 9:15 a.m. with a report from hotel security that a man and woman were arguing and that a man pulled a woman into a room “by force.”
Police SWAT officers secured the hallway outside the room, although Connell said it was not immediately clear if the man was armed.
Connell told reporters during the standoff that the woman believed to be held hostage “has been heard from,” and was believed to be “still OK."
Outside, guests heard glass break and saw curtains billow from a broken window about two-thirds up the 29-story Palace Tower, one of six towers at Caesars Palace, an iconic and historic centerpiece of the Las Vegas Strip that has nearly 4,000 rooms.
Emma Snyder, 24, said she was near a resort swimming pool on her first day of vacation from Appleton, Wisconsin, when she heard several loud bangs and saw falling glass. She said it looked like sparkles.
“People were just staring up and looking,” she said.
Beverly Blackwell, 56, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was lounging by a pool with her husband, Chris, when she heard glass break and saw curtains flutter from the broken window.
“When we saw the window shatter it was kind of a surreal feeling, it got pretty scary,” Blackwell said. “We were told to gather our stuff and rush out the back.”
Both Snyder and Blackwell told The Associated Press they thought there might be a shooter or attack. Staff yelled for guests to evacuate the pool area.
Snyder said some people hid by a staircase while items flew out the window: a coffee maker, a hair dryer, a desk bureau.
Blackwell said that after 30 minutes, people were told they could return to their rooms.
Broken glass and furniture fell intermittently for about an hour, said Associated Press writer John Marshall, who was on vacation with his family in a room on the fifth floor of the Palace Tower.
“It looks like he’s pretty much emptied the room of furniture,” Marshall said of the man police said was barricaded upstairs. Marshall saw seat cushions, a chair and other items hit a ledge outside the window of his room, and said some fell to the pool area after it had been evacuated.
Hotel employees told Marshall and his family that the incident was on the 21st floor and that guests on other floors were not evacuated or restricted from movements.
"In the casino, it's business as usual,” Marshall said, although hotel security officers and police were visible in the guest valet area.
Officer Aden OcampoGomez, a Las Vegas police spokesman, said there were no immediate reports of injuries to anyone in the pool area.
Marshall said he and his family had no initial word from the hotel about what was happening but said they remained in their room as a precaution. Hotel housekeeping staff members were still working in nearby rooms, he said.
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German police: 8 dead in Jehovah’s Witnesses hall shooting
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in the German city of Hamburg killed eight people, apparently including the perpetrator, police said Friday. An unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously.
Police gave the figure on their website. There was still no word on a possible motive for the shooting on Thursday evening that stunned Germany’s second-biggest city. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a former Hamburg mayor, described the shooting as “a brutal act of violence.”
Police said during the night that they believe that there was only one shooter, and that that this could be a person who was found dead in the building.
Investigators worked through the night to secure evidence. On Friday morning, forensic investigators in protective white suits could still be seen outside the building as a light snow fell. Officers placed yellow cones on the ground and windowsills to mark evidence.
Hamburg officials said there would be a news conference Friday afternoon to discuss details.
David Semonian, a U.S.-based spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses, said in an emailed statement early Friday that members “worldwide grieve for the victims of this traumatic event.”
“The congregation elders in the local area are providing pastoral care for those affected by the event,” he wrote. “We understand that the authorities are still investigating the details of this crime. We appreciate the courageous help provided by the police and emergency services.”
The scene of the shooting was the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, a boxy three-story building next to an auto repair shop in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers (miles) from downtown Hamburg.
Police spokesman Holger Vehren said police were alerted to the shooting about 9:15 p.m. and were on the scene quickly.
He said that after officers arrived and found people with apparent gunshot wounds on the ground floor, they heard a shot from an upper floor and found a fatally wounded person upstairs who may have been a shooter. He said police did not have to use their firearms.
Student Laura Bauch, who lives nearby, said there were around four periods of shooting, German news agency dpa reported. “There were always several shots in these periods, roughly at intervals of 20 seconds to a minute,” she said.
She said she looked out her window and saw a person running from the ground floor to the second floor of the Jehovah’s Witnesses hall.
Gregor Miesbach, who lives within sight of the building, was alerted by the sound of shots and filmed a figure entering the building through a window. Shots can then be heard from inside. The figure later apparently emerges from the hall, is seen in the courtyard and then fires more shots inside.
Miesbach told German television news agency NonstopNews that he heard at least 25 shots. After police arrived, one last shot followed about five minutes later, he said.
His video showed a person firing multiple shots into the building through a first floor window before the lights inside the room went out.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are part of an international church, founded in the United States in the 19th century and headquartered in Warwick, New York. It claims a worldwide membership of about 8.7 million, with about 170,000 in Germany.
Members are known for their evangelistic efforts that include knocking on doors and distributing literature in public squares. The denomination’s distinctive practices include a refusal to bear arms, receive blood transfusions, salute a national flag or participate in secular government. ___ Moulson reported from Berlin. Associated Press journalist David Rising contributed to this story from Bangkok.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months, a streak of hikes that are intended to curb inflation but that also carry the risk of going too far and triggering a recession.
The move lifted the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate from roughly 5.1% to 5.3% — its highest level since 2001. Coming on top of its previous rate hikes, the Fed’s latest move could lead to further increases in the costs of mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and business borrowing.
Though inflation has eased to its slowest pace in two years, Wednesday’s hike reflects the concern of Fed officials that the economy is still growing too fast for inflation to fall back to their 2% target. With consumer confidence reaching its highest level in two years, Americans keep spending — crowding airplanes, traveling overseas and flocking to concerts and movie theaters. Most crucially, businesses keep hiring, with the unemployment rate still near half-century lows.
In a statement, the Fed said the economy “has been expanding at a moderate pace,” a slight upgrade from its assessment in June.
Speaking at a news conference, Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the Fed’s staff economists no longer foresee a recession. In April, the minutes of the central bank’s March meeting had revealed that the staff economists envisioned a “mild” recession later this year.
“Given the resilience of the economy recently,” he said, “they are no longer forecasting a recession.”
A key question swirling around the Fed is whether Wednesday’s increase will be its last or whether it will hike again later this year. Speaking at a news conference after the Fed announced its latest hike, Powell said the central bank has made no decisions about any future rate increases. But he made clear that the fight against inflation isn’t over.
“The process of getting inflation down to 2% has a long way to go,” Powell said.
He stressed that the Fed’s policymakers will assess a range of incoming economic data in determining what action, if any, to take at their next policy meeting. When the officials last met in June, they signaled that they expected to raise rates twice more. By the time they meet again Sept. 19-20, Powell noted Wednesday, they will have much more data in hand: Two more inflation reports, two reports on hiring and unemployment and updated figures on consumer spending and wages.
Some economists think the Fed might decide to forgo a rate increase in September before weighing a possible hike at its meeting in November.
In recent weeks, several Fed officials have said they worry that the still-brisk pace of job growth will lead workers to demand higher pay to make up for two years of inflationary prices. Sharp wage gains can perpetuate inflation if companies respond by raising prices for their customers.
At the same time, the steady easing of inflation pressures has lifted hopes that the Fed can pull off a difficult “soft landing,” in which its rate hikes would continue to cool inflation without sending the economy tumbling into a painful recession.
Economists at Goldman Sachs have downgraded the likelihood of recession to just 20%, from 35% earlier this year. Those at Deutsche Bank, among the first large banks to forecast a recession, have also been encouraged by the economy’s direction, though they still expect a downturn later this year.
Matthew Luzzetti, Deutsche Bank’s chief U.S. economist, has pointed to durable consumer spending as a key driver of growth. Many Americans still have savings stemming from the pandemic, when the government distributed stimulus checks and people saved by spending less on travel, restaurants and entertainment.
Hiring has remained healthy, with employers having added 209,000 jobs in June, with the jobless rate reaching an ultra-low 3.6%. That’s about where it was when the Fed began raising rates in March 2022 — a sign of economic resilience that almost no one had foreseen.
Year-over-year inflation in June was 3%, according to the government, down sharply from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. One cautionary note is that a “core” inflation measure that is preferred by the Fed, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, was still up 4.6% in May from a year earlier.
“Core is still quite elevated,” Powell said at his news conference.
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Some Fed officials, including Christopher Waller, an outspoken member of its Board of Governors, and Lorie Logan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, have said they think the cumulative effects of the previous rate hikes have already been baked into the economy. With inflation still above the Fed’s target, they think additional hikes may be needed to further slow price pressures.
Powell echoed that point Wednesday. The Fed’s rate hikes, he said, have “not been restrictive enough for long enough” to exert their full effect.
“The process still has a long way to go,” he said.
Some analysts caution that the drop in year-over-year inflation from roughly 9% to 3% was the relatively easy part, Getting it down to the Fed’s 2% target will be harder and take longer.
Other experts say they think the recent mild inflation readings can be sustained. Rental cost increases, which have already fallen, should drop further as more apartment buildings are completed.
Though the Fed began tightening credit before central banks in many other developed countries did, most others are now following suit. The European Central Bank is expected to announce its own quarter-point rate hike on Thursday. Though inflation has declined in the 20 countries that use the euro, it remains higher there than in the United States.
The Bank of Japan is expected to keep its policies unchanged when it meets next week even though prices there are creeping higher after roughly two decades of declining prices. The Bank of England has been among the most aggressive in Europe, having raised its key rate last month by a half-point to a 15-year high of 5%. Year-over-year inflation in the U.K. reached a painful 8.7% in May. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/federal-reserve-key-rate-slow-inflation-20230726-djes3w4htrfwpaij7mdivoz7ea-story.html | 2023-07-26 20:29:32 | 1 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/federal-reserve-key-rate-slow-inflation-20230726-djes3w4htrfwpaij7mdivoz7ea-story.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair and not stolen, according to court filings released Tuesday in a lawsuit over Fox News’ coverage of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded election fraud claims.
In sworn questioning in January by lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, Murdoch was asked, “Do you believe that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair?”
“Yes,” he replied, according to a transcript.
“The election was not stolen,” he said later.
Dominion is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, saying the network crippled the company’s business by broadcasting false claims from Trump’s lawyers that Dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election.
Hundreds of pages of exhibits in the lawsuit, which is expected to go to trial next month, were released late Tuesday. They shed further light on internal skepticism at Fox over the fraud claims and the network’s worry about viewers angry with its own election-night declaration that Democrat Joe Biden had won Arizona. Those exhibits and earlier court filings demonstrate how Fox hosts and executives continued to promote those claims to viewers, despite strong doubts and denials behind the scenes.
Federal and state election officials, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election. Nor did they uncover any credible evidence that the vote was tainted. Trump’s allegations of fraud also have been roundly rejected by dozens of courts, including by judges he had appointed.
Fox says Dominion is inventing its claims of lost business and has cherry-picked and misrepresented remarks by Fox hosts and leaders to paint a picture of a company that threw truth aside to keep its audience.
“Dominion has been caught red-handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press,” the company said in a statement Tuesday, complaining that “to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”
The documents revealed top Fox executives discussed ways of mollifying anger from Trump’s team over the election call, including a quick dismissal of a Washington executive who was behind the Arizona decision.
“We don’t want to antagonize Trump further,” Murdoch said in a Nov. 16 memo. He explained in the deposition, “He had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of Fox, so it would have been stupid.”
In an earlier unsealed filing in the Dominion case, Murdoch acknowledged that some of the network’s hosts — Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity — at times endorsed the false claims. He also said he didn’t stop the commentators from promoting the false claims from Trump allies that the election was stolen, even though he could have.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Fox Corp. board member, said he never believed Trump’s conspiracy theories about the election.
In a Dec. 7 text to Fox executive Lachlan Murdoch, Ryan suggested that Fox broadcast a “solid pushback” against the allegations of fraud, noting that “this is a key inflection point for Fox, where the right thing and the smart business thing to do line up nicely.”
The exhibits included an extraordinary three-way text conversation on Nov. 16, 2020, among the stars of Fox’s prime-time lineup: Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. In the conversation, the three opinion stars complained bitterly — and profanely — that they were being hurt by Fox’s news division.
“We devote our lives to building an audience and they let (news anchors) Chris Wallace and Leland … Vittert wreck it,” Carlson said, using an expletive.
“I’m disgusted at this point,” Hannity said.
Ingraham said that “we should all think about how together we can force a change. The audience that exists comes for us.”
Carlson, who just this week told Fox News viewers that the election that unseated Trump “was a grave betrayal of American democracy,” spoke bluntly about the former president in text messages that were revealed as part of Dominion’s case.
On Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson told an unidentified person he was texting with that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.” He said of the outgoing president, “I hate him passionately.”
In another text exchange more than a month earlier, Carlson denigrated Trump’s business abilities: “What he’s good at is destroy things. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”
The pressure on Fox from its audience after its correct Arizona call was felt in Fox’s news ranks, too. In a memo sent two days after the election to Bill Sammon, Fox’s managing editor in Washington, Fox News anchor Bret Baier said it was getting “really uncomfortable” having to defend the decision on the air.
Baier suggested that the sooner Fox changed its decision and declared Trump the winner in Arizona, “the better we are,” even if it caused the network embarrassment.
Sammon replied, “It’s not pride that’s got us sticking to the call — it’s math. I’m confident we will be proven right.”
He was — and two months later Fox forced him out of his job.
The exhibits released Tuesday had several references to accusations against Dominion made by Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudolph Giuliani. In one email, Fox’s Dana Perino references a Powell interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo, saying “this is nuts.” Carlson says in a text message that “Sidney Powell is lying.”
An email sent Tuesday to a representative of Powell seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Four days after the election, Powell forwarded an email to Bartiromo from a woman who claimed that voting irregularities in a number of states had Dominion as “one common thread.”
Fox said the woman’s email has been misrepresented as being a key source of Fox’s reporting on Dominion. Bartiromo said in her deposition that she didn’t remember the email beyond forwarding it to her producer to check out.
Also Tuesday, another voting tech company suing Fox News argued that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch played a leading role in airing false claims that its technology helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from Trump.
Smartmatic said the Murdochs, as the ultimate authorities at the network’s corporate parent, “directed Fox News Network to embrace disinformation following the 2020 U.S. election as a business decision.”
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By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) — As television programming goes, expectations were widespread that the Jan. 6 committee hearings would essentially be reruns. Instead, they have been much more.
The five sessions have revealed a storyteller’s eye, with focus, clarity, an understanding of how news is digested in modern media, and strong character development — even if former President Donald Trump’s allies suggest there aren’t enough actors.
After initially saying the hearings would pause for a break until next month, the Jan. 6 committee on Monday announced a surprise session will be held Tuesday to present new evidence.
As seen during Trump’s impeachments, modern congressional hearings tend to produce more heat than light. That was part of why the Jan. 6 committee faced low expectations, along with the sense — 18 months after the insurrection, an event that played out on live television — that there may be little new to learn.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s decision not to participate gave the committee a gift, the chance to craft hearings as a unicorn of sorts in today’s political age.
The hearings are concise, no more than 2 ½ hours, each day with a specific theme. It goes like this: First, viewers are told at the outset what they’re going to hear. Then they hear it. Then they are told at the end what they just heard. Usually there’s a preview of what’s next — a trick that likely reflects the advice of James Goldston, a former ABC News producer hired as a consultant.
Keeping the presentations understandable with short, simple bursts of information reflects lessons learned from the impeachment, said Norm Eisen, a former lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee who worked on those hearings and is now at the Brookings Institution.
“It’s just focused on the witnesses and the evidence,” said Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the panel who also led the second Trump impeachment hearings. “We know we have a precious opportunity to get this information to the American people, and we don’t want to waste a minute of it.”
The committee uses clips from taped testimony like a journalist would include quotes in a story. Questioning of live witnesses doesn’t wander.
Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Republican Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., question witnesses alongside one other member who is in charge of each hearing.
The result is a rare sight in Congress: lawmakers staying silent.
“I’m surprised by the discipline involved in doing this effectively, because politicians love to grandstand,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a specialist in political communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “And if people were grandstanding, it wouldn’t work.”
As a result, sound bites that emerge from each hearing and are repeated online and in news reports — the way many Americans learn about these sessions — consistently reflect the narrative the committee is trying to advance, Jamieson said.
Each day’s hearing fits the overall theme — that the plot to nullify the 2020 election was multi-faceted, with the events of Jan. 6, 2021, only one part, and that many of the people surrounding Trump didn’t believe his claims of election fraud.
Witness testimony gains power because it mostly comes from Republicans, Trump’s former aides and allies, Jamieson said. It’s one thing to have Schiff declare Trump’s rigged election claims were bull, quite another to have it come from the former president’s attorney general, with an Ivanka Trump endorsement.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who defied Trump’s pleas not to certify the election, received the type of praise he’d never expect from a committee led by Democrats.
The most pointed political messages come from Cheney, who has spoken directly to Republican Trump supporters even as she knows many are furious with her.
“It can be difficult to accept that President Trump abused your trust, that he deceived you,” she said at the conclusion of Thursday’s hearing. “Many will invent excuses to ignore that fact. But that is a fact. I wish it weren’t true. But it is.”
The hearings also command the attention of journalists by consistently offering something new or unexamined, such as Thursday’s revelation of congressmen who pleaded for presidential pardons, or the extent of Trump’s fundraising off his false claims of fraud.
“Things really couldn’t have gone much better from the committee’s point of view,” said veteran television producer Chris Whipple, author of a forthcoming book on the first year of the Biden administration. “The production has been fine, but it really has been a masterpiece of casting.”
Citing the creator of “The West Wing,” Whipple added: “Aaron Sorkin couldn’t have dreamed up a character like Rusty Bowers,” the Republican Arizona House speaker who resisted Trump’s request to appoint false electors.
The committee has also created villains like John Eastman, architect of the effort to nullify the election, and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, diminishing Giuliani by reports that he was intoxicated on election night.
The testimony of Georgia elections worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss put a face on common Americans who were affected by false accusations of voter fraud.
Even an anchor on the frequently Trump-friendly Fox News Channel, Neil Cavuto, said after the hearing where Moss was featured that “this just seems to make Donald Trump look awful.”
Trump seems to have sensed it. He criticized McCarthy, who pulled all of his Republican appointees off the Jan. 6 committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of them. At the very least, having Trump allies on the panel would have hurt the committee’s ability to control its message, Jamieson said.
Tim Graham of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center said he objects to the media portraying the commission’s work as bipartisan when the only two Republicans — Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger — are longtime Trump critics.
“The fact that this is not a balanced commission is really a shame,” said Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University professor and Fox News analyst. “Having someone there to ask probing questions, rather than scripted questions, I think would have added greater authority and power to this hearing.”
Given the evidence presented, Whipple wondered how effective additional Republicans would have been.
“I’m not sure it would have helped them one iota,” he said, “and it might have hurt them.”
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/27/no-reruns-committee-tries-new-approach-to-break-through/ | 2022-06-28 18:46:37 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/27/no-reruns-committee-tries-new-approach-to-break-through/ |
Green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the night sky during the Stone Age.
Discovered on March 2, 2022, by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility’s wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the comet made its closest approach to the sun on January 12, according to NASA.
Named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), the comet has an orbit around the sun that passes through the outer reaches of the solar system, which is why it’s taken such a long route — and long time — to swing by Earth again, according to The Planetary Society.
The icy celestial object will make its closest pass by Earth between February 1 and February 2, around 26 million miles to 27 million miles (42 million kilometers to 44 million kilometers) away, according to EarthSky.
Even during its closest approach, the comet will still be more than 100 times the moon’s distance away from Earth, according to EarthSky.
As the comet nears Earth, observers will be able to spot it as a faint green smudge near the bright star Polaris, also called the North Star. Comets reflect different colors of light due to their current positions in orbit and chemical compositions.
Early morning skies, once the moon has set after midnight for those in the Northern Hemisphere, are optimal for viewing the comet. The space object will be more difficult to see for those in the Southern Hemisphere.
Depending on its brightness, C/2022 E3 (ZTF) may even be visible to the unaided eye in dark skies, but binoculars or a telescope will make the comet easier to see.
The comet can be distinguished from stars by its streaking tails of dust and energized particles, as well as the glowing green coma surrounding it.
The coma is an envelope that forms around a comet as it passes close to the sun, causing its ice to sublimate, or turn directly to gas. This causes the comet to look fuzzy when observed through telescopes.
After passing by Earth, the comet will make its closest approach of Mars on February 10, according to EarthSky.
If clouds or inclement weather get in the way of skywatching, The Virtual Telescope Project will share a livestream of the comet in the skies above Rome. And don’t miss the other celestial events to see in 2023.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — About nine years ago, Sarah Knowlton sought an abortion at a now-closed clinic in northern Indiana, where she encountered anti-abortion protestors as she approached the entrance.
Knowlton reflected on how that experience drove her in 2019 to Whole Woman’s Health, another abortion clinic in South Bend, to train workers to take patients safely to its doors, creating a resource she wished she had years ago.
But the program — and Knowlton’s work at the clinic — will end Sept. 15, when Indiana’s abortion ban comes into force, effectively closing down abortion clinics statewide.
Indiana’s Legislature became the first in the nation to approve abortion restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the ban into law Aug. 5.
The ban, which has exceptions, prohibits abortion clinics from providing any abortion care, leaving such services solely to hospitals or outpatient surgical centers owned by hospitals.
“My last shift as a clinic escort is coming up,” Knowlton said Wednesday. “And I’m not ready for it.”
At Indiana University Health, which is the state’s largest hospital system, providers have been training to continue offering abortion care in the allowed circumstances.
Under the new law, abortions will be permitted only in cases of rape and incest before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the patient; or if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
A doctor who performs an illegal abortion or who fails to file required reports must lose their medical license.
IU Health officials outlined a new 24/7 response team — which will include a clinician, an ethicist and a lawyer — that providers can contact to evaluate nuanced emergency situations.
“The law is broad,” said Dr. Caroline Rouse, medical director of maternity services at IU Health. “Patient situations are very specific and unique.”
Last year, the majority of abortions in Indiana happened in abortion clinics. Hospitals performed 133 of the state’s 8,414 abortions, according to a 2021 annual report from the state Department of Health, while the remaining 8,281 took place in abortion clinics.
The clinics in Indiana that will not be able provide abortion services on Sept. 15, include Whole Woman’s Health in South Bend, Women’s Med in Indianapolis, and Clinic for Women in Indianapolis.
The four Planned Parenthood clinics that provide abortion care in Indiana will do so no longer, but will continue to see patients for other medical services such as STI testing and treatment, contraception and cancer screenings, said Rebecca Gibron, CEO of the Planned Parenthood division that includes Indiana.
“Planned Parenthood has been a leading reproductive health care provider in Indiana since 1932. And we are not going anywhere,” Gibron told the AP in August.
Sharon Lau, Midwest Advocacy Director for Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, said that though the South Bend clinic will cease abortion care, patients can still access a program that directs patients to abortion appointments in other states.
“We will keep going until we’re forced not to,” she said.
Clinic for Women in Indianapolis declined to talk to The Associated Press.
Lau said her clinic’s plans could hinge on two lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana that seek to block the abortion ban before it takes effect.
The first lawsuit, filed Aug. 31 in a Monroe County, states the ban violates the Indiana Constitution, while the one filed Thursday in Marion County claims the ban is at odds with the state’s religious freedom law, which Republicans enacted seven years ago. The timing of both lawsuits is unclear.
Mike Fichter, Indiana Right to Life CEO, said in a statement that delaying the ban would mean “the indiscriminate killing of unborn children will continue at abortion clinics in Indiana.”
“We are confident the state will prevail and pray the new law is not blocked from going into effect,” he said.
Women’s Med will also stop providing abortions after the ban but continue referring patients to states where abortion is legal until about one month after, said Dr. Katie McHugh, an abortion provider at the clinic.
McHugh said she’s seen a shift in patient behavior since the Indiana ban was passed. While some are pursuing abortion earlier, others are choosing surgical over medication abortions to avoid complications, she said.
Other patients assume abortion is already illegal, “and yet they choose abortion anyway, if that can demonstrate the desperation that people feel,” McHugh said.
Knowlton said she worries for those patients who will put their health or lives at risk if they cannot get an abortion. She knows that feeling; it was her mindset nine years ago.
“I was going to find a way, come hell or high water, whether there was a clinic I was able to access or not,” Knowlton said.
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Associated Press Tom Davies contributed to this report. Arleigh Rodgers is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Arleigh Rodgers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/arleighrodgers | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-in-indiana-a-shifting-abortion-landscape-without-clinics/ | 2022-09-11 04:54:03 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-in-indiana-a-shifting-abortion-landscape-without-clinics/ |
For more than a century, the tragedy of the so-called "unsinkable" Titanic has captured the curiosity of history buffs, storytellers and those adventurous enough to see the wreckage up close.
Since 1912, when the luxury steamship and more than 2,200 of its passengers sank off the coast of Newfoundland, the story of the Titanic has been retold in books, TV dramas and documentaries, and feature films like James Cameron's Oscar-winning "Titanic."
"The message of 'Titanic' is of course is that if the great ship can sink, the unthinkable can happen, the future is unknowable, the only thing that we truly own is today," Cameron said while accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture.
SEE MORE: Digital scan of Titanic shipwreck reveals never-before-seen details
For filmmakers like Cameron, the Titanic was a story about hubris. And for writers like Walter Lord, who wrote the 1955 classic "A Night To Remember," the sinking "marked the end of a general feeling of confidence."
Passengers on the ship included socialites, movie stars, and the heirs to the richest families in the world.
The Titanic itself was a technical feat — promoted as the largest and fastest ship of its time. And it was those boastful origins that helped catapult the ship's eventual tragedy into the modern fascination that continues today.
"It's really incredible. Next year or the year after, we're hoping to send a small robot inside. But right now, we stay on the outside," said Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate, during an interview earlier this year with Sky News.
SEE MORE: Who are the people aboard the missing Titanic submersible?
The shipwreck was discovered in 1985, and since then, several manned expeditions have gone to survey the decaying ship — buried a dangerous two miles underwater.
"You can see inside. In fact, we dip down into where the grand staircase was. We saw some of the chandeliers that were still hanging," Rush said in February.
OceanGate Expeditions is the company at the center of the lost submersible "Titan" carrying five people, including Rush, to see the Titanic's wreckage.
The journey cost $250,000 a ticket — a quarter million-dollar trip to see with their own eyes an underwater icon that has fascinated folks for more than a century.
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(Green Car Reports) — The EV startup Arrival is dropping plans for an Uber electric car and electric buses to refocus on electric vans, the Financial Times reported.
The project to build a dedicated EV specifically for Uber’s ride-sharing service could be revived if sales of Arrival’s electric van start generating revenue, according to the report.
U.K.-based Arrival announced a business reorganization on July 12 but said that specific details wouldn’t be provided until its next financial update on August 11.
Uber revealed the car project in October 2021—in what appeared to be a well-thought-out early prototype form. Simply put, it was an inexpensive EV for Uber use, aiming for a 2023 market launch.
With the project, Arrival had said that it and Uber would “explore a strategic relationship in key markets,” including the United States, the U.K., and the E.U.
Meanwhile, a planned U.S. factory in South Carolina was supposed to focus on electric buses—which begs some questions about U.S. plans for the company. Arrival plans to use a “micro-factory” concept, based around smaller facilities tailored to regional needs, along with a localized supply chain and use of local labor pools to minimize emissions and create a regional economic boost.
California is aiming to mandate electric vehicles for ride-hailing by 2030. So it’s looking less likely that Arrival’s EV will be one of the shapes of that shift.
That just leaves Arrival’s electric van, which is slated to be manufactured at a U.K. facility. UPS has invested in Arrival—and in 2020 it ordered 10,000 of the stylish delivery vans. | https://phl17.com/automotive/arrival-is-dropping-uber-car-project-electric-bus-plans/ | 2022-08-09 22:03:06 | 1 | https://phl17.com/automotive/arrival-is-dropping-uber-car-project-electric-bus-plans/ |
HOUSTON — The 2022-23 college basketball season wrapped up on Monday evening when the UConn Huskies secured their fifth national championship in a win over the San Diego State Aztecs.
It was a surprising matchup between a four seed and a five seed, once again highlighting the unpredictability of March Madness and the college basketball game in the modern transfer portal and NIL era.
Despite those unpredictable variables, the hosts at Locked on College Basketball took a first stab at making a top ten poll for the 2023-24 season, less than 24 hours after the championship confetti fell at NRG Stadium in Houston.
Below is a look at Andy Patton and Isaac Schade's way-too-early top 10 for the upcoming season. For analysis on the selections and other teams that may be on the rise, check out the full episode below.
Andy's Top Ten:
1.Marquette Golden Eagles
2. UConn Huskies
3. Duke Blue Devils
4. Kansas Jayhawks
5. Houston Cougars
6. Creighton Blue Jays
7. Arkansas Razorbacks
8. UCLA Bruins
9. Miami Hurricanes
10. Kentucky Wildcats
Isaac's Top Ten:
1. UConn Huskies
2. Purdue Boilermakers
3. Kentucky Wildcats
4. Florida Atlantic Owls
5. Arizona Wildcats
6. Duke Blue Devils
7. Marquette Golden Eagles
8. Michigan State Spartans
9. Creighton Blue Jays
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The Company's new focus allows for additional resources to be allocated towards Eat Well Group's profitable pulse processing business and the global plant-based protein industry
VANCOUVER, BC, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Eat Well Investment Group Inc. (CSE: EWG) (US: EWGFF) (FSE: 6BC0) ("Eat Well" or the "Company"), a leading plant-based food ingredient and CPG company, is pleased to announce an enhanced focus on its global agribusiness initiative to drive debt reduction, improved profitability, and long-term success. The Company plans to achieve this through the following:
- Closing the refinancing initiative, led by the Business Development Bank of Canada, expected to be completed as soon as possible.
- Maintaining a 28% ownership stake in PataFoods, Inc. dba Amara Organic Foods ("PataFoods") resulting in a reduction of current liabilities by $7.05M.
- Prioritizing Belle Pulses, Eat Well's wholly-owned and profitable subsidiary
- Seeking M&A opportunities in: Fractionation, Pulse Processing, and global agribusiness
- Investing in Belle Pulses' Canadian and US operations to optimize efficiency and drive profitability across its three facilities, utilizing the available cash on the balance sheet.
Eat Well is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement on all commercial terms with its current lender regarding the refinancing of its $40,000,000 revolving credit facilities. Further updates on this development will be provided in due course, with closing expected as soon as possible.
Eat Well Group currently holds a 51% ownership stake in PataFoods, contingent upon fulfilling additional payments of $7,050,000 (US$5,300,000) as specified in the promissory note. However, Eat Well Group and PataFoods have recently reached an agreement to waive the requirement for the additional payments, thereby reducing Eat Well Group's ownership to 28% and reducing its existing liabilities by $7.05 million. This strategic decision fortifies the financial position of Eat Well Group.
Given the profitability of Eat Well's wholly-owned pulse producer – Belle Pulses, the Company is pleased to allocate additional resources to further strengthen Belle Pulses's global agribusinesses. Belle Pulses recently announced a record for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2022, with audited revenue of $64,572,157 and EBITDA of $7,015,435. This represents a notable 10.01% year-over-year increase in revenue compared to $58,661,758 in the prior fiscal year, as well as an impressive 61% increase in EBITDA.
While acknowledging PataFood's outstanding performance, including record achievements in 2022 and promising projections for 2023, Eat Well Group's Board of Directors has deemed it optimal to secure the Company's financial future by reducing its debt load and further improving immediate positive free cash flow. This decision takes into account the prevailing macro environment and prioritization of the Company's strategic focus on the agri-business sector.
Pat Dunn, Eat Well's CFO, commented, "In combination with the anticipated near-term closing of the Business Development Bank of Canada's refinancing, this move will position us with a much stronger foundation as we head into the 2nd half of 2023 and beyond. By reducing our debt in the near term and focusing on our highly profitable pulse production businesses, we can establish financial stability, eliminate the need to raise capital from the markets, and concentrate on substantial expansion plans in 2024."
Eat Well Group is actively pursuing additional merger and acquisition ("M&A") opportunities within the agribusiness sector, particularly focusing on fractionation, pulse processing, and global agribusiness. The Company aims to identify and capitalize on strategic prospects that align with its growth strategy in these specific areas. By exploring new M&A avenues, Eat Well Group aims to expand its presence, leverage synergies, and further strengthen its position in the agribusiness industry.
Furthermore, Eat Well Group is strategically focused on operational efficiency and profitability across Belle Pulses' three facilities. Eat Well Group plans to utilize the available cash on its balance sheet to support these investments. By optimizing efficiency and leveraging synergies, Eat Well Group aims to generate significant positive cash flow and strengthen its position in the agribusiness sector.
Eat Well Group remains committed to its core vision of delivering high-quality plant-based food ingredients and products. This strategic prioritization positions the Company for enhanced operational efficiency, sustained growth, and long-term value creation for its stakeholders.
Eat Well Group is a pioneering Canadian-based company leading the way in the future of sustainable, plant-based foods. With a rich history spanning nearly 45 years, our subsidiaries have been at the forefront of processing, distributing, and marketing premium-quality plant-based foods. Operating with IP-driven facilities across North America, we distribute to over 35 countries worldwide. With a talented team of over 80 employees, we take pride in our products consistently ranking among the top 10 globally. With our family of private label and owned brands, including Sapientia, Amara Organic Foods, Belle Pulses, and Eat Well, we are dedicated to feeding families worldwide with excellence and innovation.
To learn more, join Eat Well's mailing list for important updates.
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation (collectively "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking information are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "likely" and "intend" and statements that an event or result "may," "will," "should," "could" or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the Offering including the use of the net proceeds of the Offering, the conversion of the Debentures and the exercise of the Warrants, future developments and the business and operations of the Company. Such forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon. Forward-looking information is based on assumptions that may prove to be inaccurate. The Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable in the circumstances. However, forward-looking information is subject to business and economic risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results of operations to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking information, including the business, financial, credit and other market risks. The forward-looking statements in this news release are made as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise such information, except as required by applicable law. For more information on the Company and the risks and challenges of their businesses, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
The Canadian Securities Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will undergo surgery Friday after swelling in his injured throwing elbow subsided, a person familiar with the plans told The Associated Press.
The operation will be done in the Dallas area by Dr. Keith Meister, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Monday because the team didn't announce the plans.
Purdy was originally scheduled to have surgery on Feb. 22, but Meister delayed it because there was too much swelling in the right elbow. Meister met again with Purdy last week and cleared him for the operation.
Purdy tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow on the first drive of a 31-7 loss in the NFC title game to Philadelphia on Jan. 29.
He is expected to be able to start a throwing program about three months after the operation and should be fully recovered in about six month, putting his status for the start of the 2023 season in question.
Purdy went from the last pick of the draft to starter in the conference title game in an impressive rookie season for the 49ers. He won his first seven starts before the loss to Philadelphia in the conference title game.
Purdy’s injury will give 2021 first-round pick Trey Lance time to work with the first-team offense. Lance began this past season as the starter before a season-ending ankle injury in Week 2.
Lance needed a second operation in late December and has just started throwing recently.
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New features allow marketers to activate customer data directly from the data warehouse to power hyper-personalized digital experiences across marketing channels
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightouch, the world's leading Data Activation platform, today unveiled a suite of features to make first-party customer data activation easier than ever. Using Hightouch Audiences, non-technical users can now create dynamic user segments or "Audiences" that can be activated to any business application or marketing platform.
Hightouch empowers organizations to leverage their data warehouse as their single source of truth for customer data. From there, teams can seamlessly activate their valuable customer data to the tools marketers use every day. This warehouse-first approach, coupled with a deep expertise in customer data management systems (attributed to their founder's experience building Segment's core features), inspired the Hightouch team to build a modern data activation platform that eliminates the need for a traditional customer data platform.
As part of the new suite of features launching today, marketers can leverage Audience Insights as they define customer segments to receive feedback informing them of the makeup of each audience as they build in the UI. The new features include:
- Audience Breakdowns identifies the characteristics of each audience segment to help marketers better understand their audience composition.
- Audience Overlaps supplements these insights to ensure that marketers limit (or maximize) collisions between multiple audience segments.
Perhaps the most powerful of the features released, Audience Splits, unlocks seamless management of multivariate testing by providing end-to-end randomized audience creation. Now, using Hightouch, marketers can seamlessly create the (randomized) audiences needed to perform cross-channel multivariate testing. Advanced features like stratification variables provide an additional layer of granularity to ensure that audiences are distributed as desired.
"Our enterprise customers have shifted Hightouch into the hands of their (often less-technical) marketing teams. They now use Hightouch Audiences as a vehicle to unlock the value of their customer data, without the need of engineering resources," explains Tejas Manohar, Co-Founder and CEO of Hightouch.
The new features further solidify Hightouch as the leading warehouse-first data activation platform available today. To learn more about Hightouch's new audience features, visit Hightouch.com/cdp.
Hightouch is the world's leading Data Activation platform, syncing data from warehouses directly into SaaS tools. In November, Hightouch announced $40M in Series B financing at a $450 million valuation led by ICONIQ Capital. Hightouch's hundreds of customers range from fast-growing startups like Plaid, Betterment, Calendly, and Lucidchart, to large enterprises like AXS, Nando's, and Autotrader. For more information, visit www.hightouch.com.
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NO. 22-4-02761-7
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
RCW 11.40.030
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE
In the Matter of the Estate of
MICHAEL EDWARD LARSEN,
Deceased.
The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent that arose before the decedent’s death must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditors as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim will be forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.
Date of first publication:
January 10, 2023
Personal Representative:
MERLYN MITRA LARSEN
Attorney for the Estate:
JEFFREY M. ALLEN
Address for Mailing or Service:
102 North Meridian PO Box 217
Puyallup, WA 98371
IDX-969477
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French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have peace in Ukraine high on the agenda during a visit to China. The European leaders want to dissuade Chinese President Xi Jinping from delivering weapons to Russia. They hope Xi will instead push his ally Vladimir Putin towards the negotiating table to end the war. | https://www.dw.com/en/eu-leaders-push-china-on-ukraine-stance/video-65253939 | 2023-04-06 18:45:12 | 0 | https://www.dw.com/en/eu-leaders-push-china-on-ukraine-stance/video-65253939 |
This is an opinion column.
Last year I got myself several cashier’s checks, all written out to the Alabama Department of Corrections.
The background: At the Montgomery Advertiser, we wanted to know what happened during the first of three botched executions in the state. To get that process started, you have to pay a cover.
It’s not a charge for the cost of finding documents or labor. It’s a $25 fee to ask a question, and it has to be a cashier’s check. We knew we would ask a lot of questions. And we knew that we could easily pay $25 to hear the word “no.” And legally, neither DOC nor any other Alabama state agency is required to even say that much.
So Gov. Kay Ivey’s recent order setting minimal requirements for public access to public records is an improvement. But it also shows how far Alabama has to get to basic standards of government transparency.
State law says that every citizen “has a right to take and inspect a copy of any public writing of this state.” There are exceptions for security and infrastructure matters, and you can’t ask to see what your neighbor checked out of the library. Beyond that, it’s pretty broad.
But neither that statute nor any other law on the books says how people can get those writings, or how state agencies should respond. Most states require a public body to acknowledge open records requests and answer — with good news or bad — in a certain timeframe.
In Alabama, a public body doesn’t have to answer your request. They don’t have to acknowledge it. And there’s nothing stopping them throwing a public records request in the trash or turning it into an origami swan. (In that case, you can hire a lawyer, if you can spend $250 an hour.) Agencies that do respond can charge limitless fees to produce documents.
The Alabama Supreme Court hasn’t helped matters with readings of the law that always seem to favor secrecy. This is a body that once ruled that the Alabama Legislature did not have to conduct its meetings in public, even though the state constitution specifically requires the doors of the chambers to be open. (The Alabama Legislature passed a law in 2015 saying that, in fact, it did have to operate in public.)
In 2021, the court ruled that Lagniappe, a weekly news outlet in Mobile, didn’t have the right to dash and body cam footage of a fatal shooting because the recordings were “investigative” in nature, even though the investigation had been closed.
The effect of all this is that documents that are routinely available in other states get hidden from the public. Florida, for instance, posts its lethal injection protocol on its state corrections website. What we know of Alabama’s method of putting people to death has only emerged because the state got sued.
In short, Alabama’s open records laws do as much to get public info to Alabamians as screaming the phrase “open records” in the middle of the street. The intent is there; the path is not.
Ivey’s executive order addresses some of these problems. It requires state agencies to acknowledge requests within two days. It also requires agencies to make a formal response to requests within 15 days. The order also caps copying charges (always a potential wallet drainer) to 50 cents a page and makes it clear that there will be no fee for electronic documents.
So far, so good. But agencies can still charge applicants looking for records. And while the order limits charges for labor finding documents to $20 an hour, it creates two standards of requests, with the key dividing line being whether the agency spent more or less than eight hours finding the documents. So you could still owe an agency $160, or more, to get a public document.
Critically, the order does not lay out an appeals process. Other states give people denied a public record a chance at a second hearing. In Mississippi, for example, one can appeal a rejection to the state’s ethics commission. But if an Alabama agency turns down your request, and you don’t like the reasoning – well, hope you can hire an attorney.
The biggest weakness of the order is that it’s an executive order. Ivey’s authority only extends to state agencies. Local governments and agencies aren’t covered. And Ivey — or more likely, a future governor — can revoke it at any time.
What the state really needs is a new statute that will give the public access to documents that are ours by right. There was a promising bill on these lines in 2021, but it got wiped out with stunning speed in a Senate committee after government groups objected to it.
Until a law is on the books protecting the public’s right to its own information, Ivey’s order cracks the door open only a little to the workings of our government and elected leaders. As long as Alabama law favors agencies over access, we really don’t have open records in this state.
Brian Lyman is the editor of Alabama Reflector. He has covered Alabama politics since 2006, and worked at the Montgomery Advertiser, the Press-Register and The Anniston Star. His work has won awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Alabama Press Association and Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. He lives in Auburn with his wife, Julie, and their three children. | https://www.al.com/opinion/2023/02/alabama-has-no-real-open-record-law-iveys-order-does-little-to-fix-that.html | 2023-02-13 17:07:25 | 1 | https://www.al.com/opinion/2023/02/alabama-has-no-real-open-record-law-iveys-order-does-little-to-fix-that.html |
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