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AUSTIN, Texas and LONDON, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Job.com, the AI-enabled technology recruitment platform, has secured an undisclosed investment from two New York and California-based financial institutions, Serengeti Asset Management and Ghost Tree Partners. The investment will accelerate the delivery and development of Job.com's technology and fund further acquisitions in the recruitment and staffing sector.
"We are delighted to have Serengeti and Ghost Tree as capital partners," said Paul Sloyan, Job.com CEO and Chairman. "Their support will allow us to accelerate our revenue growth by leveraging further development of our technology and additional acquisitions to complement the eight staffing and technology businesses we have previously acquired."
The financing investment, provided by Serengeti and Ghost Tree, builds upon previous investment and financing rounds with New York-based SOJA Ventures and Serengeti, which provided financing for Job.com's M&A strategy, including its June 2022 acquisition of recruitment processing outsource (RPO) firm, Princeton One.
"Serengeti has already proven to be a supportive partner to Job.com, enabling us to close our most recent acquisition without any delays in the summer," explained Sloyan. "They recognize and understand our vision in terms of our disruptive technology as well as our strategy to acquire successful and established recruitment businesses with unique and vital data to train our AI while adding revenue and positive EBITDA. Now that Serengeti and Ghost Tree are strategic financial partners, we are in a great position to continue growing Job.com through technology and acquisitions."
Job.com has made a total of six acquisitions since the summer of 2020, a strategy the company intends to continue.
"We are delighted to grow our investment in Job.com," said Jody LaNasa, Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Serengeti Asset Management. "We firmly believe that Job.com's industry-transforming technology dramatically improves the recruitment process for its clients, and that its roll-up strategy of acquiring firms, and then applying its technology to them, will result in significant value accretion while compiling large databases to mine."
Job.com is a digital recruitment innovator with a unique perspective: Delivering technology and capabilities that shake up the market by bringing together a data-driven approach based in AI and machine learning with high-level, human-capital-delivered solutions, designed to efficiently attract and retain the right talent and provide consumer-level user experiences throughout the hiring process. This combination provides true value and control to jobseekers, companies, and recruiting teams resulting in more effective talent acquisition, better-fit career moves, and a more human hiring experience. Job.com's solutions are growing and evolving rapidly to serve multiple segments of the market and will come to represent the place where individual jobseekers manage their career path and employers find their next hire.
Job.com's mission is to transform talent acquisition with smart technology and a human-first approach.
To learn more about Job.com visit www.job.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Founded in 2007 by Jody LaNasa, Serengeti is an opportunistic, value-driven investment firm focused on providing flexible capital solutions for innovative private companies and their shareholders. Our capital solutions seek to address complex situations through structure and creativity. Serengeti manages capital for institutional investors, including pensions, endowments and large family offices.
For more information visit: www.serengeti-am.com
Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Ghost Tree Partners is an alternative asset manager focused on providing private credit financing solutions to small- and middle-market borrowers in the US, Europe and Asia. Founded in 2021, the firm is led by Mark Fox, Scott Warner, Jeff Willardson and David Byrne, who combine for over 85 years of investment experience with Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Credit, Fidelity and PAAMCO Prisma (KKR affiliate). The team has invested billions of dollars on behalf of the world's most sophisticated investors throughout their careers. Ghost Tree's private credit financing solutions include corporate cash flow loans, specialty finance, asset-backed lending and real estate bridge loans.
For more information visit: https://gt-gp.com/
New York-based SOJA Ventures is a private Family Office and alternative investment firm investing venture debt and equity in technology-focused growth companies. SOJA Ventures is an extension of the Swig Family Office, Swig Equities, and a unique combination of a private Family Office organization with experienced growth advisors who specialize in less dilutive and structured debt, alternative financing credit, and equity investments in lower middle market companies.
For more information visit: www.sojaventures.com
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House Republican Conference Vice Chairman Mike Johnson (LA-04) today commended bipartisan legislation introduced by House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders to repeal the Biden Administration’s military COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“The Biden Administration’s military vaccine mandate has been an abject disaster—creating the worst recruitment and retention period in the history of our all-volunteer force,” said Johnson. “And now, after the Pentagon has tried, and failed, to make up the difference by reducing recruitment standards, Congress will step in to protect military readiness and the nearly 100,000 servicemembers currently facing discharge. This is a watershed victory for national security, individual liberty, and common sense, over COVID tyranny.”
The provision repealing the Biden Administration’s military COVID-19 vaccine mandate was included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 released last night, which Congress is expected to consider this week.
Background:
Since the Biden Administration began enforcing the military COVID-19 vaccine mandate in November 2021, Congressman Johnson and House Republicans have fought for its repeal.
In June 2022, Johnson introduced legislation to protect servicemembers seeking religious exemptions from the mandate.
Later that month, Johnson introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which would require Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to repeal the mandate or lose his waiver to serve as Secretary. The amendment was rejected by House Democrats.
In December 2021, Johnson led 38 House Republicans alongside Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 9 Senate Republicans in filing an Amicus Brief in federal court in support of 35 Navy service members seeking religious accommodations from the mandate. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Biden Administration cannot punish service members seeking religious exemptions.
In September 2022, Johnson, along with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and 47 Republican Members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary Austin demanding further answers from the Pentagon regarding the effect of the mandate on military readiness. The Secretary did not respond to Congress.
Later that month, Johnson, Roy, and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), and 48 of their Congressional colleagues demanded the Army stop unfairly restricting unvaccinated soldiers from official travel and denying them vital career opportunities.
Recently, Johnson joined House Armed Services Committee Republicans in seeking further answers from Secretary Austin on the mandate following President Biden’s declaration that the “pandemic is over” and a DOD Inspector General report on denials of religious accommodation requests.
Congressman Johnson is the Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference, a member of the House Judiciary and Armed Services Committees, and a former constitutional law litigator. | https://bossierpress.com/congressman-johnson-commends-introduction-of-bipartisan-bicameral-legislation-to-repeal-biden-administrations-military-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/ | 2022-12-07 20:32:03 | 0 | https://bossierpress.com/congressman-johnson-commends-introduction-of-bipartisan-bicameral-legislation-to-repeal-biden-administrations-military-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/ |
Mercury Matures
Ten people witness a scene and have ten different reactions. To realize that reactions are a choice is a signifier of maturity. We get angry not because of people, but because of our thoughts about them. Mercury’s cross into the sign of personal responsibility is encouragement to choose empowering thoughts.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Peace is widely considered better than other alternatives, but every state has something to offer. Turmoil is a teacher, a trainer who helps you find your strength and grow your heart. Whatever state you’re in, use it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Is it wrong to manipulate someone to do what you want them to do if your aim is what’s best for them and everyone else involved? You’ve benevolent reasons for testing the boundaries of control today.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Today you’ll tend to experience things more deeply than those around you seem to. It may feel like a weakness, but it’s actually a strength. Your range of feeling goes wider on both ends of the spectrum.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Among the saddest words are, “if only.” The antidote to that woeful phrase is equally succinct: “I accept.” While not exactly happy, they are the basis from which happiness and fulfillment will spring.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You take personal responsibility seriously. You’ll pitch in and clean up a mess you didn’t create. None are blameless for the state of things, and you resolve to leave it better than it was when you arrived.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). What happens to you is always far less important than what you take from the experience. However you feel, tell yourself it’s an acceptable feeling. You won’t be able to move through the feelings until you first accept them.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The goal is to become experienced, smooth and able to produce results quickly. Mistakes are inevitable. Since you can’t avoid them, try not to fear them either. You’ll develop the resilience to recover quickly and keep going.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll be in a position to change the price of your offerings. There’s more value to what you give than a dollar amount could suggest. Consider it all. Can you think of yourself outside of your current definitions?
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Let nothing stand between you and your love. Whether it’s a person, a subject, an endeavor or a god, there is no expert who knows more about your feelings than you do. Be guided by your own curiosity and attraction.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be met with support and disagreement. Both are a gift, the bigger gift being disagreement. In this world, it is not similarities that take us forward but blunt opposition. You’ll grow sharp from it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Will you get yours? Will they get theirs? You needn’t worry. The core of the earth is a churning ball of reciprocity. It’s how this world is erected and balanced. Kindness, evil and everything in between can’t help but be reciprocated.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You want to get the timing right, but you only have control over one small part of the clock. Rushing, pushing or worrying is not going to make a tick of difference. You may as well relax and trust the larger mechanics.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 3). Life’s timing, however far off from your own, won’t disappoint. You’ll be so impressed at how things click and whir in a design that’s better than you dreamed. You’ll get an education that helps you enjoy a thing more. You’ll win fans and money as you take pleasure seriously and take serious things with pleasure. Pisces and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 22, 1, 18 and 45.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Martha Stewart was born when the moon was in Sagittarius, the sign of sophistication and worldly influence, and Mercury, the planet of communication and day-to-day events, was in Cancer, the sign of domesticity. Stewart’s natal stars are beautifully reflected in her life mission to bring beauty, new ideas, a fresh eye and abundant creativity into the homes of people everywhere.
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Travelers are getting hit with delays at U.S. airports again Wednesday, an ominous sign heading into the long July 4 holiday weekend, which is shaping up as the biggest test yet for airlines that are struggling to keep up with surging numbers of passengers.
By late afternoon on the East Coast, about 4,800 U.S. flights had been delayed and more than 950 were canceled, according to FlightAware.
The worst disruptions continued to be along the East Coast, which has been pummeled by thunderstorms this week. The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily held up Boston-bound flights on Wednesday. It stopped flights to all three major airports in the New York City area for a time Tuesday night.
Huge crowds, bad weather, inability of some airline crews to reach their scheduling offices — even a Delta jet that made a belly landing in Charlotte, North Carolina — all contributed to the mess.
And it could be just the storm before the storm: The FAA predicted that Thursday would be the heaviest travel day over the July 4 holiday period. On top of that, some airline planes may be unable to fly in bad weather starting this weekend because of possible interference with 5G wireless service.
United Airlines, which has a major hub operation in Newark, New Jersey, was again faring the worst early Wednesday. It canceled about 500 flights or 17% of its schedule by late afternoon. New York’s JetBlue canceled 9% of its flights.
Travel has picked up steadily every year since bottoming out during the pandemic. For the past week, about 2.6 million people a day on average have been flying in the United States, about 2% more than in the same period during pre-pandemic 2019, according to Transportation Security Administration figures.
The number of air travelers could set a pandemic-era record over the holiday weekend. The FAA expects Thursday to be the busiest, with more than 52,500 total flights.
People whose travel plans were disrupted took to social media to vent against the airlines. Some swore they would never fly again on whichever airline had done them wrong.
Tia Hudson was back at Newark Liberty International Airport for the fourth straight day, trying to catch a United Airlines flight home to Louisiana.
“My flight has been canceled like five times now. I slept at the airport two nights, I booked two hotels, I spent over $700 since I’ve been here and they said they’re not going to reimburse me because it’s weather-related,” she said. “It’s not weather-related. It’s a shortage of pilots and attendants.”
Hudson missed her mother’s wedding and caused her mother to skip her own honeymoon to pick up Tia at the airport near Dallas – only for the flight to be canceled.
Also, Hudson’s bags were lost.
“I just want to get away from this airport, but they say nobody is leaving until Saturday,” she said.
At Logan Airport in Boston, pharmaceutical company manager Rui Loureiro had to scrap plans to spend the rest of the week meeting clients on the West Coast when his flight to San Francisco was canceled. United told him the soonest he could get on another flight was Friday, and didn’t offer to pay for a hotel room. He plans to fly home to Portugal instead – or at least give it a try.
“I am a little bit stressed, disappointed,” Loureiro said. “People were waiting for me. We had things arranged to do. Now I have to go back and rebook everything and come again another time.”
If large numbers of passengers are stranded or delayed this weekend, expect federal officials and the airlines to blame each other for the mess.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose department includes the FAA, has been beating up on the airlines for more than a year. He has accused them of failing to live up to reasonable standards of customer service and suggested that they are scheduling more flights than they can handle.
The airlines are punching back.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby blamed a shortage of federal air traffic controllers for massive disruptions last weekend at its Newark hub.
“We estimate that over 150,000 customers on United alone were impacted this weekend because of FAA staffing issues and their ability to manage traffic,” Kirby wrote in a memo to employees.
The Association of Flight Attendants, which represents United’s cabin crews, said United was contributing to the situation. The union said employees were waiting three hours or longer when calling a crew-scheduling center for assignments because of “limited telephone lines and personnel.”
However, the FAA signaled earlier this year that it could struggle to keep flights moving in New York, the busiest airspace in the nation. Facing a severe shortage of air traffic controllers at a key facility on Long Island, the FAA persuaded airlines to trim their summer schedules to avoid overloading the system.
Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, where American and Southwest are based, took the airlines’ side in a series of tweets about delays at the New York City area’s three big airports.
“Staffing at FAA’s air traffic facilities in NY is at 54%,” Cruz tweeted. “Yet (the Transportation Department) is blaming weather for delays. Nonsense.”
A Transportation Department spokesperson said the agency is working with airlines to fix things, but the combination of high traffic and bad weather reduces the rate at which planes can take off and land safely, leading to delays and canceled flights.
The FAA is training about 3,000 new air traffic controllers, but most of them won’t be ready anytime soon. Last week, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said in a report that the FAA has made only “limited efforts” to adequately staff critical air traffic control centers and lacks a plan to tackle the problem.
Last week, Buttigieg issued a new warning to airlines, telling them that planes that aren’t outfitted with new radio altimeters — devices that measure the height of a plane above the ground — won’t be allowed to operate in limited visibility after Saturday because of potential interference from new 5G wireless service.
American, United, Southwest, Alaska and Frontier say all of their planes have been retrofitted, but Delta Air Lines still has about 190 planes waiting to be updated because its supplier doesn’t have enough altimeters. Delta said it will schedule those planes to avoid landing where the weather might be bad to limit disruptions.
Smaller airlines that operate regional flights could also be affected by the radio interference issue, as could flights operated to the United States by foreign carriers.
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Robert Bumsted in Newark and Michael Casey in Boston contributed. Koenig reported from Dallas. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/if-youre-traveling-over-july-4-weekend-be-ready-for-flight-delays-as-airlines-face-a-major-test/ | 2023-06-28 21:58:30 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/if-youre-traveling-over-july-4-weekend-be-ready-for-flight-delays-as-airlines-face-a-major-test/ |
MIAMI, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthy Together, a leading government software provider, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) after being approved to join the AWS Partner Network (APN).
As a member of the APN, Healthy Together will have access to a wide range of tools and resources to help them optimize their cloud solutions and improve the delivery of their services to customers. This partnership will also enable Healthy Together to expand their reach and capabilities, leveraging the scalability and reliability of AWS to drive innovation in the healthcare industry.
"We're thrilled to be joining the AWS Partner Network and to have the opportunity to work with such a trusted and respected leader in cloud computing," said Jayson Ahlstrom, Chief Product Officer at Healthy Together. "With AWS, we'll be able to enhance our offerings and bring new solutions to market faster, ultimately delivering better outcomes for patients."
Through this partnership, Healthy Together will leverage AWS's advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence capabilities to further improve their software, and deliver more effective solutions to government workers and residents.
"We're excited to welcome Healthy Together to the AWS Partner Network," said Betsy Baker, Public Health Transformation Leader at AWS. "We believe their innovative solutions and expertise will be a valuable addition to the ecosystem of partners on AWS, especially as they work to put constituents at the center of their health journey. We look forward to collaborating with them to drive progress in the government healthcare and public health industries."
Healthy Together looks forward to a successful partnership with AWS, and to delivering even more impactful solutions to customers in the years ahead.
About Healthy Together
Healthy Together is a health technology company that builds SaaS technology for government, education and enterprise. Their technology aids in areas such as disease surveillance, behavioral health management and benefit enrollment for programs like Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and WIC. Healthy Together's mobile application has reached #1 in the App Store Health & Fitness category and has over 225k reviews on the App Store and Play Store with a 4.9/5 star rating.
To learn more about Healthy Together's solutions, visit www.healthytogether.co
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WASHINGTON — Communications between a spacecraft heading to the moon and NASA were reestablished after the space agency lost contact with it earlier this week.
The satellite, which launched from New Zealand last week, is heading to test out a lopsided lunar orbit.
On Monday, it left Earth's orbit, but by Tuesday, NASA had lost contact with the spacecraft.
"Following successful deployment and [the] start of spacecraft commissioning on July 4, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft experienced communications issues while in contact with the Deep Space Network," NASA said. "The spacecraft team currently is working to understand the cause and re-establish contact. The team has good trajectory data for the spacecraft based on the first full and second partial ground station pass with the Deep Space Network."
On Wednesday, the space agency said contact was restored with Capstone.
NASA did not immediately release information about what caused the loss of communications, nor how they did re-establish them.
The mission of the trip is for the spacecraft to test an oval orbit around the moon because, eventually, the space agency wants to put a mini space station called Gateway.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Daily Journal Corp. (DJCO) on Monday reported net income of $9.4 million in its fiscal second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Los Angeles-based company said it had profit of $6.85. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $2.49 per share.
The newspaper publisher posted revenue of $16.2 million in the period.
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CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Saturday, May 21, 2022
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342 AM PDT Sun May 22 2022
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Including the cities of Somes Bar, Happy Camp, Callahan, Etna,
Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
342 AM PDT Sun May 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early this morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast 5 to 10 mph well
after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s
to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers. Cooler. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the
lower 60s to lower 70s.
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of showers. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s
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342 AM PDT Sun May 22 2022
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winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph after
midnight.
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10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. North
winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
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5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows
around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
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Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
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Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
342 AM PDT Sun May 22 2022
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then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. North winds
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
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Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
342 AM PDT Sun May 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy then becoming sunny early this afternoon
then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower to mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
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midnight.
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mid 40s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
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evening. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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IN THIS ARTICLE:
- SodaStream Art Sparkling Water Maker
- Nespresso Vertuo Next Espresso Machine By Breville
- OXO Good Grips 32-Ounce Cold Brew Coffee Maker
For some, a cup of coffee is the only way to start the day, but when temperatures rise, a hot beverage doesn’t always cut it. Luckily, there are numerous ways to enjoy coffee cold.
Learning to make cold coffee at home is more economical than buying it from a coffee shop every morning. Knowing which products are best for making it is helpful if you want to make top-notch cold coffee at home.
Sparkling Americano
Americano is a mixture of espresso and water served hot or with ice. Substituting the water with sparkling water gives it a carbonated twist you don’t usually find in a coffee beverage. The drink was trending on TikTok earlier this year, and for good reason — it’s delicious.
Although you may not associate coffee with citrus, sparkling Americano pairs well with orange zest. Many also serve the drink with a basil leaf.
Sparkling Americano is best when you brew fresh espresso. Making your own seltzer water at home is another excellent way to ensure your sparkling drink is made just the way you like it.
Pour-over iced coffee
Drip coffee makers are convenient but don’t always produce the best brew. Many swear by pour-over coffee makers due to their simplicity and the robust flavor of the coffee. Most only cost around $30 and include sleek glass carafes you can place in your fridge.
Pour-over coffee makers have a slight learning curve, as you must pour the water just right to get a consistent flavor. Still, the tradeoff of having more control over your brew can be worth it.
When deciding which one to buy, it’s essential to consider its size and the type of filter it uses. Larger models let you brew between two and eight cups at a time. Those with paper filters are generally the easiest to clean, but they create more waste, and the coffee isn’t as flavorful. Metal filters are typically preferred since they’re easy to clean and allow the delicious oils of the grounds to pass through.
Cold brew coffee
Cold brew’s distinctive flavor sets it apart from other cold coffee drinks. Rather than brewing the coffee hot, cold brew is made by steeping coffee grounds for 12 to 24 hours. The brewing process may take a while, but the reward is coffee that’s less bitter and acidic.
Cold brew generally has a sweet taste, as the cold brew process brings out more of the slight chocolate flavor found in coffee beans. Additionally, cold brew has more caffeine than traditional coffee. Cold brew coffee makers produce a coffee concentrate you need to combine with water before drinking.
When choosing a cold brew coffee maker, consider its size and material. Some cold brew makers resemble small pitchers and don’t take up much fridge space, while others require a considerable amount of space.
Some are plastic, and others are glass. Plastic is generally more durable, but some prefer the attractive look of a glass pitcher. Cleanup can be cumbersome, so buying a dishwasher-safe model is a good idea.
What you need to make cold brew at home
SodaStream Art Sparkling Water Maker
This lets you make sparkling water at home quickly and easily. It’s compatible with all SodaStream flavors and most SodaStream bottles. Many say the fizziness of their drinks is more impressive than La Croix and other canned options. It features a modern design.
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Nespresso Vertuo Next Espresso Machine By Breville
This machine has an internal barcode scanner that recognizes your coffee pod and adjusts its parameters accordingly. It features a stylish, space-saving design. It’s controlled by a single button, making it easier to use than most espresso machines. It brews espresso quickly and is 54% recycled plastic.
This affordable coffee maker features a low-profile design. It’s available in numerous sizes and colors. It’s compact, and the mesh filter does an excellent job of filtering grounds without impacting the flavor. It’s dishwasher-safe.
Sold by Amazon
OXO Good Grips 32-Ounce Cold Brew Coffee Maker
Unlike other cold brew coffee makers, this evenly distributes the water over the grounds. The stand is sturdy, and the valve lets you dispense coffee without a mess. It’s easy to set up, dishwasher-safe and brews excellent coffee.
Sold by Amazon
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A Delaware State trooper, and three other people, are recovering from injuries following a crash Wednesday afternoon, July 19, 2023, on northbound I-95 in Churchmans Marsh.
According to state police, a trooper in a fully marked SUV with its flashing lights on, had pulled over a BMW sedan on the right shoulder of the interstate for a traffic violation.
The trooper was in his vehicle when a Ford Taurus plowed into the back of the SUV, which then shot forward and hit the BMW.
The driver of the BMW, a 26-year old man, the trooper, the driver of the Taurus, a 31-year old woman, and her 34-year old male passenger, were all taken to Christiana Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Crash investigators said traffic in the right lane of the interstate had slowed due to the police activity on the shoulder, and the driver of the Taurus possibly moved to the shoulder in an attempt to pass slower traffic.
She now faces multiple traffic charges. | https://www.wdel.com/news/trooper-and-three-others-injured-in-95-crash/article_bc1c054a-26e4-11ee-9472-df098bf3da8a.html | 2023-07-21 22:03:19 | 1 | https://www.wdel.com/news/trooper-and-three-others-injured-in-95-crash/article_bc1c054a-26e4-11ee-9472-df098bf3da8a.html |
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Here in Arkansas, someone could have to pay as much as 10 percent of sales tax on tampons or pads, but CVS Pharmacy has been paving the way for cheaper costs.
CVS has started paying the sales tax on store-brand feminine hygiene products in 12 states, which includes Arkansas.
On top of that, the pharmacy chain has also made the decision to cut prices by 25% for their store-brand tampons, menstrual pads, liners, and cups.
"It's amazing for them to be doing something like that," said Janai Harris, creator of More Chances Period. "That's really going to help a lot of people out more than you could ever imagine."
More Chances Period is an organization that gets period products to people across the state of Arkansas.
"A lot of times people don't understand how much not having period supplies can play into someone's self-esteem or the fact that sometimes [girls] miss school," Harris explained.
The group has worked with local school districts, churches, and community centers to make sure that they have feminine hygiene products on-site.
And recently, they have also been distributing at free pantries and free little libraries to get more period products to people who may not have access to them.
"We go around once a week on Sundays and put period supplies in there because we are thinking, hey, if someone needs food, you know, they may need period supplies too," said Harris.
In 2021, the Arkansas House of Representatives introduced a bill to exempt feminine hygiene products from sales tax. It died in the House Committee. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/money/cvs-pharmacy-makes-feminine-hygiene-products-more-affordable-arkansas/91-941338df-c7f3-414c-9069-c379f5698361 | 2022-10-13 11:54:14 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/money/cvs-pharmacy-makes-feminine-hygiene-products-more-affordable-arkansas/91-941338df-c7f3-414c-9069-c379f5698361 |
one of the officers, J alexander King was sentenced to three years in prison and his colleague, former officer Tou thao was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for both of these men. The sentences were below what federal guidelines would have recommended. King was the officer who was holding down George Floyd's back and he was *** rookie and his training officer was actually Derek Chauvin, and Tou thao was the officer who was standing up. He had no physical contact with Floyd during the arrest, but he was holding the bystanders back and not letting them intervene. As the bystanders were becoming increasingly concerned about Floyd's condition in the federal case, all four officers were charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights and there were *** host of charges in King and Towers case. They were charged specifically with violating his rights because they failed to intervene when Derek chauvin was using force and they also deprived Floyd of his right to receive medical care. They took no action to help him medically when he was in need of care
Ex-Minneapolis officer gets 3 years in plea deal for aiding George Floyd death
Updated: 9:25 AM CDT Sep 21, 2022
A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. When it comes to the state’s case, prosecutors and Lane’s attorneys had agreed to a recommended sentence of three years, and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that penalty at the same time as his federal sentence, and in a federal prison.Wednesday’s sentencing hearing was held remotely. Lane appeared via video from the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, the low-security federal prison camp in Littleton, Colorado.Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd’s neck as the Black man repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. Lane, who is white, held down Floyd’s legs. J. Alexander Kueng, who is Black, knelt on Floyd’s back, and Tou Thao, who is Hmong American, kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and was given a 22 1/2-year state sentence in 2021. He also pleaded guilty to a federal count of violating Floyd’s civil rights. His state and federal sentences are being served at the same time.Kueng and Thao were also convicted on federal civil rights charges and were sentenced to three and 3 1/2 years, respectively. They have not yet reported to federal prison, and are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter in October.
MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.
Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. When it comes to the state’s case, prosecutors and Lane’s attorneys had agreed to a recommended sentence of three years, and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that penalty at the same time as his federal sentence, and in a federal prison.
Wednesday’s sentencing hearing was held remotely. Lane appeared via video from the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, the low-security federal prison camp in Littleton, Colorado.
Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd’s neck as the Black man repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. Lane, who is white, held down Floyd’s legs. J. Alexander Kueng, who is Black, knelt on Floyd’s back, and Tou Thao, who is Hmong American, kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and was given a 22 1/2-year state sentence in 2021. He also pleaded guilty to a federal count of violating Floyd’s civil rights. His state and federal sentences are being served at the same time.
Kueng and Thao were also convicted on federal civil rights charges and were sentenced to three and 3 1/2 years, respectively. They have not yet reported to federal prison, and are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter in October. | https://www.wisn.com/article/minneapolis-officer-sentencing-george-floyd-killing/41312488 | 2022-09-21 14:39:42 | 0 | https://www.wisn.com/article/minneapolis-officer-sentencing-george-floyd-killing/41312488 |
Bishop William Barber, NAACP and Rainbow PUSH Coalition to join forces with attorneys and Christopher Shaw in fight for justice
BEAUMONT, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys and advocates for Christopher Shaw, the Black man paralyzed by a Beaumont police officer while in custody last year for public intoxication, will make an important announcement at two news conferences this week.
Religious and civil rights leader and Repairers of the Breach president Bishop William Barber will join Shaw's attorneys as well as local NAACP leaders and representatives from Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition for a virtual news conference tomorrow (August 17) as well as a live news conference on Thursday (August 18) at The Church of I Am (2204 Blanchette St. Beaumont, TX) to announce new efforts to bring accountability in the incident that left Shaw paralyzed at the hands of Beaumont Police Officer James Gillen.
Body camera video of the assault shows that Shaw was handcuffed and restrained by deputies at the Jefferson County jail when Gillen "body slammed" him onto the jail's concrete floor. Shaw, who posed no physical threat to Gillen or any of the officers present, broke his neck when he landed on his head. Attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against Gillen, the City of Beaumont, deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Corrhealth last month. The lawsuit can be viewed HERE.
Shaw, 41, is represented by renowned civil rights attorneys Harry Daniels (The Law Offices of Harry Daniels), Chimeaka White (The White Law Firm) and Chance Lynch (Lynch Law).
Wednesday, August 17
3 PM CT/4 PM ET Virtual News Conference
Click HERE to participate via ZOOM
Participants will include Bishop William Barber, Shaw's attorneys Harry Daniels, Chimeaka White and Chance Lynch as well as local NAACP leaders and Rainbow PUSH Coalition representatives.
Thursday, August 18
10 AM CT/11 AM ET In-person News Conference
The Church of I AM, 2204 Blanchette St. Beaumont, TX
Participants will include Bishop William Barber, Christopher Shaw and attorneys Harry Daniels, Chimeaka White and Chance Lynch as well as local NAACP leaders and Rainbow PUSH Coalition representatives.
The in-person news conference will be livestreamed here.
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Maison Close Montauk and Talya Will Revive Renowned Hamptons Properties Starting Memorial Day Weekend
NEW YORK, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The team behind Maison Close SoHo is excited to announce the upcoming grand opening of Maison Close Montauk and Talya, two unique restaurant concepts in Montauk, NY this Memorial Day Weekend. Inspired by the beaches of Montauk, the French Riviera and the Mediterranean, Maison Close Montauk and Talya will offer distinctive dining experiences through thoughtful cuisine, elevated beverages, and chic vibes that breathe new life into the storied properties they occupy.
Maison Close Montauk
Maison Close Montauk transports the incomparable experience that guests have come to expect from the restaurant's lively flagship SoHo location to Montauk, maintaining its mission to replicate the distinct dining culture and celebration of shared spaces known in France. An extension of its home in NYC, Maison Close Montauk was created with the interest of the surrounding town and residents in mind. Whether a guest is a Montauk local or traveler searching for a taste of home, Maison Close Montauk boasts an open yet intimate space that features the same elevated Parisian bistro cuisine with a beachside setting that's befitting to its new outpost.
Developed in collaboration with DMDesign, Maison Close Montauk's aesthetic concept evokes the utterly French experience of gathering around a table to connect over food. The interior dining room features the famous Moulin Rouge-inspired tulip banquettes, fabricated with bright corals and light blues along with gold and brass hardware and mirrored accents that complement its al fresco atmosphere. The spacious property elicits the sensory experience of summertime in Saint-Tropez, taking full advantage of its prime waterfront location with 22 dock and dine slips for guests arriving by boat and a luxurious outdoor area offering immaculate sunset vibes on the water.
Under the direction of Executive Chef Geoffrey Lechantoux, the Maison Close Montauk brunch and dinner menus feature a variety of sophisticated yet accessible French dishes ranging from elegant apéritifs to indulgent desserts, including:
- Croissant au Homard du Maine lobster roll croissant
- Pêche du Jour Montauk Market fish of the day, served tableside
- Sole Meuniere Dover Sole Meuniere, fileted tableside
- Tartare de Saumon salmon tartare
The bar program features specialty craft cocktails as well as a selection of curated wines and champagnes. Featured cocktails include La Maison Rose with tequila, elderflower liqueur, papaya, lime juice, and rosé wine, La Prunette spritz with Ume plum liqueur, ginger ale, and champagne, garnished with red plum and candied ginger, and Madame Claude with vodka la poire, ginger, lemon and cucumber juice, and rose seltzer.
Talya
Talya, also under the direction of Chef Lechantoux, is an entirely new Mediterranean restaurant concept infused with Greek provenance and bearing delicate nuances of coastal-French whimsy. Occupying space in Ruschmeyers Hotel, the menu is inspired by the team's travels, resulting in a unique and artfully crafted selection of dishes composed with fresh and locally sourced ingredients. Paying homage to the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean, Talya puts particular emphasis on the vibrant flavors of Greek cuisine. The space will offer a full dining room as well as a lounge experience within.
Talya's alluring and lively atmosphere transports guests to the Greek islands for a magical evening getaway also conceptualized by DMDesign. Deep forest greens, vibrant magenta hues, and inviting floral patterns paired with adorning greenery and disco balls give the interior a sultry jungle feel while the woven fabrics, hanging lanterns, and firepits of the outdoor lounge area incorporate a distinct Montauk energy into the space. Jungle house beats and dim lighting enhance the late-night feel of the bar and lounge, encouraging guests to come together for an evening of relation and revelry.
The menu features a variety of fresh and floral coastal Greek and Mediterranean dishes, including:
- Heirloom Cauliflower Salad shaved macadamia nuts, za'atar spice
- Grilled Octopus Salad tarragon pesto, Greek marinade
- Crispy Zucchini Flower and Eggplant Chips with gomashio
- Lamb Lollipops Greek potatoes
The bar program will feature an extensive wine list and expertly crafted cocktails including Katsikísio Gála with mezcal, ouzo liqueur, fresh goat cheese, raw local honey, thyme infusion, and lemon juice, Kafés Martini with vodka, Turkish coffee, ouzo liqueur, and green olive syrup, and Áspro Sangria with ouzo liqueur, white wine, apricot brandy, mint leaves, citrus and cherries.
Chef Geoffrey Lechantoux brings his extensive culinary experience to Talya and Maison Close Montauk following success at Maison Close SoHo and several years working alongside renowned Chefs Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay at multiple Michelin-star and globally recognized restaurants including Louis XV (Monaco), Trianon Palace (Versailles), Plaza Athénée (Paris), Le Jules Verne (Paris), and Benoit (New York).
Maison Close Montauk is located at 435 East Lake Drive, Montauk, NY 11954. The restaurant will be open for dinner Wednesday – Friday from 5PM–2AM and Saturday – Sunday from 7PM–2AM. Brunch service will be on the weekends from 1PM–6PM. For more information or reservations, please visit maisoncloserestaurant.com or email montauk@maisoncloserestaurant.com. Guests can follow the restaurant @maisoncloserestaurant on Instagram.
Tayla is located in the Ruschmeyers Hotel at 161 2nd House Road, Montauk, NY 11954. The restaurant will be open for dinner Wednesday – Friday from 5PM–2AM and Saturday – Sunday from 7PM–2AM, with lounge availability from 9PM–2AM. Weekend brunch will be available from 1PM–6PM. For more information or reservations, please visit talyarestaurant.com or email montauk@talyarestaurant.com. Guests can follow the restaurant @talyarestaurant on Instagram.
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Quinta Brunson used to be an outspoken advocate when it came to politics, but that all changed when ABC green-lit Abbott Elementary.
As the series creator, Quinta understands that a lot rides on the show's success. "I used to be really vocal online and I've stopped because I just don't want to be right now," she said in the Hollywood Reporter comedy actress roundtable. "I want to take care of my show and my show is not just me, it's like 300 people under me, and I want to protect them."
On the other hand, Quinta gets that Abbott Elementary seems like a commentary on underfunded schools. Although the actress didn't set out to create a show with a political message, she said, "That's what got attached to it once it was out into the world."
And it's natural for people to discuss their takeaways from the show, but Quinta doesn't want to take an active role in those conversations. "I feel like the best thing I can do right now is preserve that and listen," she explained, adding, "But then, as a Black woman, people are like, 'Come on, give me your activist opinion.' And I don't really have one right now."
It's a sentiment that Tracee Ellis Ross totally gets, having been in the public eye for most of her life. As the Black-ish star told Quinta, "Well, I think as a Black woman, societally, we know that we are often utilized and not centered. So, the act of being, and being safe, and being free, makes people think that you're going to have a point of view. Like your being-ness in and of itself is an act of revolution."
Tracee added that she tries to be mindful of how she approaches political issues, noting that she doesn't "know everything."
Nonetheless, Tracee tries to use her position to help others the best she can. "It's not about publicly sharing my point of view but advocating for those you're working with," she explained. "Like, 'Hey, I know you guys haven't noticed because it seems like everything's working fine, but there are no Black people here. So, we're going to do something about that, right? Because I'm not going to be able to stay here if we don't.'"
Amy Schumer chimed in to remind Quinta that no one is perfect and "you're going to f--k up."
Amy knows this all too well, who revealed that her own sense of humor has evolved since entering the industry. Per the Life & Beth creator, she's "educating myself and seeing the harm in joking around about things that are harmful and taking more responsibility and having it not just be about trying to sneak into this boys' club."
One person who doesn't seem quite as concerned about speaking out? Selena Gomez.
The Only Murders in the Building star said that she has a different perspective on being an influential figure because "it was ingrained in me to understand that I had a responsibility." Selena said, "I want to be remembered for the things that I'm doing."
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-5-9-4
(seven, five, nine, four)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-5-9-4
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- Recent data reinforce the anti-fibrotic activity of Aramchol previously observed in a wide range of pre-clinical models, in addition to the known effects in liver fibrosis
- The Open-Label Part of the ARMOR study met its objectives demonstrating consistent anti-fibrotic effects at 48 weeks in NASH patients and will be discontinued
- Cost reduction will allow rapid transition to anti-fibrotic indications with high unmet need and faster development pathways
- Company evaluating strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLMD) ("Galmed" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company for liver, metabolic, fibrosis and inflammatory diseases announced today the Company's clinical development strategy will expand into new anti-fibrotic indications to maximize the potential of its lead compound, Aramchol while at the same time discontinuing the Open Label Part of the Armor Study having reached its objectives.
Expansion of Aramchol's clinical development to additional indications provide a potentially faster development pathway for regulatory approval based on three important factors: positive results from the first part of the ARMOR study showing a consistent antifibrotic effect, the timing of the initiation of the Double-Blind Part with the improved formulation of Aramchol Meglumine, and the pre-clinical data supporting the anti-fibrotic activity of Aramchol in other fibrotic and pro-fibrotic indications. The change aims to maximize the potential of Aramchol with better use of Company resources.
The Company believes that the positive results obtained from the Open Label Part already provide sufficient data with regards to treatment duration, magnitude and consistency of effect, and taking into consideration biopsy reading challenges and potential new biopsy reading modalities, the Company concluded that the Open-Label Part has met its objective. At this stage continuing the Open Label Part as a standalone study is not expected to provide additional data to justify its continuation.
In connection with the shift in development strategy, the Company is initiating a comprehensive plan which includes a cost reduction effort which will enable Galmed to develop Aramchol for new fibrotic indications with high unmet need and faster development pathways, while preparing for the registrational part of the ARMOR study which is expected to commence in the second half of 2023. To date, only limited anti-fibrotic drugs are approved or are in development, most of which have restricting side effects. The distinctive, direct anti-fibrotic mechanism of action of Aramchol and long-term safety profile demonstrated so far in advanced clinical studies make Aramchol a promising candidate for such indications. Galmed expects to be able to leverage in part the current clinical data to rapidly progress Aramchol into Phase 2 and 3 studies in new indications for use as monotherapy and in-combination.
Allen Baharaff, Co-founder, President and CEO of Galmed commented "Over the last year we have seen highly encouraging data of Aramchol's anti-fibrotic effects. Together with the extended patent for Aramchol meglumine to 2038, I am excited to prioritize anti fibrotic indications for Aramchol. Galmed remains optimistic that future years will see a breakthrough in the treatment of NASH and that Aramchol will be among the leading future NASH drug candidates. Simultaneously, Galmed is evaluating its strategic alternatives and its structuring to best enhance shareholder value and achieve its goals".
The Company has not stated a definitive timeline for completion of the evaluation process and there can be no assurance that the evaluation process will result in Galmed pursuing any strategic alternative, or that a strategic alternative, if any, would be completed successfully or at all. There can be no assurance that the review will result in any transaction or other strategic change or outcome. The Company does not intend to comment further until it determines that further disclosure is appropriate or necessary.
About Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a clinical stage drug development biopharmaceutical company for liver, metabolic and inflammatory diseases. Galmed's lead compound, Aramchol™, a backbone drug candidate for the treatment of NASH and fibrosis is currently in a Phase 3 registrational study. Galmed is also collaborating with the Hebrew University in the development of Amilo-5MER, a 5 amino acid synthetic peptide.
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PHILADELPHIA -- A girls rugby team in Philadelphia is making an impact in a short amount of time - from a winless first season to being state champions one year later.
"I love them. They're kind of the most impressive group of girls that I've ever met," Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School Girls Rugby Coach Nick Hunter said.
Last year, Hunter started the girls rugby team.
"I'm a health and PE teacher. So in classes with my kids, I introduced them to the game and when they said they wanted to play, we got a club together," Hunter said.
Even though the team lost every single game in their first season, the girls came back this year, recruiting their friends to join too.
"We came into our first tournament expecting to lose every game and to learn as much as possible," Hunter said.
But they won 10 of their 11 games - making them the Division II state champs!
"If you would have said last year that we were going to win all these games this year, I wouldn't have ever thought that," rugby player Aniya Skinner said.
Skinner, a co-captain, played many different sports growing up - but rugby is now her favorite.
"On a scale of 1 to 10? Like an 11. I love it," Skinner said.
"She's ferocious. Aniya gets the loose ball, makes the pass, sacrifices her body and makes somebody else better. She's a very selfless athlete," Hunter said.
Nationally, there are around 500 girls rugby programs and registrations are up 20% this year.
Rugby is also an emerging sport in higher education with 30 colleges having NCAA-level programs.
"It's necessary that they are able to look at the sport and the culture as it is and see themselves in it. We did an HBCU trip to Howard University this year where they got to meet the Howard women's team, the University of Maine Farmington team," Hunter said.
It's no surprise that Skinner wants to continue playing after graduation next year. She was the only Division II player to be selected for Pennsylvania's All-State team.
"I don't want to stop when I leave high school. I only got one more year left. I want to keep playing," Skinner said.
Rugby is one of the only sports in the world where the rules are exactly the same for boys and girls. It's a full-contact sport - where the players don't wear any padding.
One of the positives for Skinner and her teammates is that the sport is an outlet to release any tensions they're feeling.
Another benefit for the girls? A family.
"It's like a group of sisters. Just like even if we're not bonded by blood, but we're just kind of bonded through this team. We all love each other," Skinner said, adding, "We all take care of each other on and off the field. And it's just it's just like you can go to anybody on a team and just know they're going to be there for you. It's just a family - one big family, you know?" | https://6abc.com/philadelphia-girls-rugby-team-pennsylvania-state-champs-pa-champs-cristo-rey-high-school-sports/13444860/ | 2023-06-30 14:41:36 | 0 | https://6abc.com/philadelphia-girls-rugby-team-pennsylvania-state-champs-pa-champs-cristo-rey-high-school-sports/13444860/ |
- Proactive actions will optimize Dow's cost structure in response to near-term macroeconomic uncertainty, while maintaining long-term value creation focus
- Company continues its Decarbonize and Grow strategy as well as its disciplined and balanced approach to capital allocation
MIDLAND, Mich., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW) today outlined a series of targeted actions aligned to its previously stated plan to achieve $1 billion in cost savings in 2023. The proactive actions will further optimize the Company's cost structure in response to near-term macroeconomic uncertainty, while maintaining its long-term competitiveness across the economic cycle.
Specifically, Dow expects to realize $1 billion in cost savings in 2023 through:
- Structural improvements of $500 million, maintaining a low cost-to-serve operating model:
- Operating expense reductions of $500 million, focused on near-term cash flow:
"We are taking these actions to further optimize our cost structure and prioritize business operations toward our most competitive, cost-advantaged and growth-oriented markets, while also navigating macro uncertainties and challenging energy markets, particularly in Europe," said Jim Fitterling, Dow chairman and CEO. "We remain committed to capitalizing on our long-term growth opportunities in a disciplined and balanced manner, and these actions further position us to advance our Decarbonize and Grow strategy and strengthen our competitive position."
The Company will record a charge of $550 million to $725 million in the first quarter of 2023 for costs associated with these activities, which primarily include severance and related benefit costs; costs associated with exit and disposal activities; and asset write-downs and write-offs.
Longer-term, Dow remains on track to grow its underlying EBITDA by greater than $3 billion by 2030 while reducing its carbon emissions by 30 percent versus its 2005 baseline as it progresses on its path to carbon neutrality by 2050.
As Dow implements the actions announced today, the Company will engage local stakeholders in each region and in compliance with local regulations and consultation processes.
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Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth; asset integration and scale; focused innovation and materials science expertise; leading business positions; and environmental, social and governance leadership to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated, science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Dow operates manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 37,800 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $57 billion in 2022. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett, the eminent stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96.
Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in New York. There was no specific cause, but Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016.
Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records,” which he accomplished through more than 70 albums, garnering 19 Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s. If his singing and public life lacked the emotional drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable tenor that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number.
“I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told the AP in 2006. “I think people … are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. … I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”
Bennett received many accolades from fellow singers, but none so meaningful than when his friend and mentor Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”
In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his collaboration with Lady Gaga. Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary pop stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood, and Amy Winehouse in her last studio recording.
For Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose young audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook.
“No country has given the world such great music,” Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. “Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern. Those songs will never die.”
Ironically, it was two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who provided Bennett with his signature song when his career was in a lull. They gave Bennett’s musical director, pianist Ralph Sharon, some sheet music he forgot about until he was packing for a tour that included a stop in San Francisco.
“Ralph saw some sheet music in his shirt drawer … and on top of the pile was a song called ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco.’ Ralph thought it would be good material for San Francisco,” Bennett said. “We were rehearsing and the bartender in the club in Little Rock, Arkansas, said, ‘If you record that song, I’m going to be the first to buy it.’”
Released in 1962 as a B-side, it became a grassroots phenomenon, staying on the charts for more than two years and earning Bennett his first two Grammys, including record of the year.
At times, Bennett struggled with recording companies for the right to sing the music he loved, but he refused to compromise by singing “cheap songs” that pandered to the latest musical fad. That approach served him well in a career that saw him become one of the only artists to have albums chart for seven decades.
After turning 60, Bennett could have accepted lucrative offers for extended runs performing old hit for older fans. Instead, his son and manager, Danny, found creative ways to market the singer to the MTV Generation without compromising his musical integrity.
“I wanted to be able to bring my music to as many people as possible, regardless of their age,” the singer wrote in his 1998 autobiography “The Good Life.” “I wanted to be one of the keepers of the flame when it came to great music. I knew that if I brought the best songs and the best orchestrations to people, they’d respond to it, because great music transcends generations.”
He appeared on “Late Night With David Letterman” and was a celebrity guest artist on “The Simpsons.” He wore a black T-shirt and sun glasses as a presenter with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, and his own video of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” ended up on MTV’s hip “Buzz Bin.”
That led to an offer in 1994 to do an episode of “MTV Unplugged” with special guests Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. The resulting album that won two Grammys, including album of the year.
Bennett would go on to win Grammys for his tributes to great female vocalists (“Here’s to the Ladies”), Billie Holiday (“Tony Bennett on Holiday”), and Duke Ellington (“Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool”). He also won Grammys for his collaborations with other singers: “Playin’ With My Friends — Bennett Sings the Blues,” and his Louis Armstrong tribute, “A Wonderful World” with lang, the first full album he had ever recorded with another singer.
It culminated with “Duets: An American Classic” in 2006 celebrating his 80th birthday. Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder were among those who recorded with him in his preferred manner — face-to-face in the studio.
“They’re all giants in the industry, and all of a sudden they’re saying to me you’re the master,” Bennett told the AP in 2006.
Bennett may have sung about San Francisco, but he his heart belonged to Astoria, the working-class community in the New York borough of Queens, where he grew up as Anthony Dominick Benedetto during the Great Depression. The singer chose his old neighborhood as the site for the “Fame”-style public high school, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, that he and his third wife, Susan Crow Benedetto, helped found in 2001.
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The owners of the healthy-food-focused cafe and juice bar located inside Easton’s Public Market could expand their operation as early as the end of February.
Jackie and Wilson Rueda, owners of Green Vida Co., bought the building at 104-06 N. Fourth St. in Downtown Easton in December. It’s set to become their new production headquarters, they said.
“This purchase allows us to grow our juicing operations even more,” Jackie said. “I’m hoping in the next month or so we’ll be able to move our juice operations there.”
They don’t have plans to close any of their other locations.
The stone-facade home and storefront is just three blocks north of their existing vending stand at public market on Northampton Street. The couple bought the property through a commercial loan arranged by Jeff Barber of Lehigh Financial Group LLC.
The North Fourth Street location is the couple’s second brick-and-mortar location since initially launching back in 2018 in Bangor. The Bangor operation was relocated in 2019 to the Park Plaza in Forks Township where it remains the couple’s flagship site.
They opened their stand inside the Easton Public Market in 2021.
It typically takes about two pounds of produce to make one bottle of Green Vida Co. juice. Throughout the summer and in months like January, which is popular among juice-cleansing enthusiasts, production tends to get pushed beyond the space allotted in their Forks Township location, Jackie said.
“This’ll give us room to grow and hopefully open a third location in the Lehigh Valley and hopefully open a subscription-based service,” she said.
Green Vida Co. is known for its preservative-free, never pasteurized, cold-pressed juices and and “power” bowls.
A bit about Green Vida Co.
Before opening Green Vida Co., Wilson and Jackie ran an auto parts exporting company headquartered in Bangor with locations in Venezuela, Columbia and Mexico.
The couple ran the business with Jackie’s father for more than 10 years before launching Green Vida Co. inside a gas station, also owned by Jackie’s father.
“My dad wanted a gas station but didn’t want to open up a deli or serve food or anything,” Jackie said. “I convinced him to let me use the space and so — that’s right — Green Vida was born in the back of a gas station.”
Jackie and Wilson got the idea to start Green Vida Co. after working with their son, Santi, who was diagnosed with autism at 2 years old. He was nonverbal, at the time, and making minimal progress while undergoing speech therapy, according to the company’s website.
They introduced him to a clean diet that was gluten-free, preservative-free and dairy-free diet, hoping it would help with his development, and say he began to speak soon after.
The experience changed their lives and it started them on a path creating wholesome, healthy meals for the community.
“It was something I’d always wanted to do with my son being autistic, and I’d gotten into healthy eating,” Jackie said. “I wanted to share that with the community.”
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XI'AN, China, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LONGi has announced that, as of mid-December, global shipments of its Hi-MO 5 module have exceeded 50GW, cumulative shipments now approaching 100 million panels.
The Hi-MO 5, based on 182mm cells, was officially released in June 2020 and is adaptable to an extensive range of application scenarios, being easy to handle, transfer, store and install, with a very low breakage rate.
Based on gallium-doped, half-cell, crackless smart soldering technology, Hi-MO 5 modules have received wide industry recognition, including awards from Intersolar and TÜV Rheinland for Energy Yield Simulation at its 'All Quality Matters' congress, while end-user consumers have endorsed the product for exceeding expectations in terms of power generation performance.
According to industry sources, the market share for 182 modules has seen a rapid increase during 2022, moving from 27% in 2021 to a current high of 70%.
Moving forward, LONGi will add more products to its Hi-MO range and will continue to deliver green energy on a global scale as part of the transformation and upgrading of energy structures.
About LONGi
Founded in 2000, LONGi is committed to being the world's leading solar technology company, focusing on customer-driven value creation for full scenario energy transformation.
Under its mission of 'making the best of solar energy to build a green world', LONGi has dedicated itself to technology innovation and established five business sectors, covering mono silicon wafers cells and modules, commercial & industrial distributed solar solutions, green energy solutions and hydrogen equipment. The company has honed its capabilities to provide green energy and has more recently, also embraced green hydrogen products and solutions to support global zero carbon development. www.longi.com/en
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The latest Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa leaves 1 dead, many hurt and a cathedral badly damaged
ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, keeping up a barrage of attacks that has damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine in the past week. At least one person was killed and 22 others wounded in the attack in the early hours, officials said.
Regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said that four children were among those wounded in the blasts, which severely damaged 25 landmarks across the city. They included the historic Transfiguration Cathedral.
After the fires were put out, volunteers donned hard hats, shovels and brooms at the cathedral to begin removing rubble, combing through to salvage any artifacts — under the watchful gaze of the saints whose paintings remained intact. Local officials said that the icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble.
“The destruction is enormous, half of the cathedral is now roofless,” said Archdeacon Andrii Palchuk, as cathedral workers brought documents and valuable items out of the building, the floor of which was inundated with water used by firefighters to extinguish the fire.
Palchuk said the damage was caused by a direct hit from a Russian missile that penetrated the building down to the basement. Two people who were inside at the time of the strike were wounded.
“But with God’s help, we will restore it,” he said, bursting into tears.
One of the women who came to help with the cleanup said she loved it “for its tranquility and grace.”
“When you enter this church, you feel like you’re beyond the world,” said Liudmyla, who only gave her first name. “I have a feeling that God, to protect apartments, took this pain, this explosion upon himself.”
Anna Fetchenko, who came to Odesa for a volunteer meeting, also pitched in to clear the debris. “I wanted to go to the seaside, but last night was so frightening that I cried for the first time in 2023,” she said.
“This is our Ukrainian heritage, and now it’s taken away from us.”
Later Sunday, Palchuk urged people to gather in front of the destroyed part of the cathedral for an outdoor service and to pray in front of a sacred icon that “miraculously survived.”
“We will pray that it protects us from the Russians,” he said.
The cathedral belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has been accused of links to Russia. The church has insisted that it’s loyal to Ukraine, has denounced the Russian invasion from the start and has even declared its independence from Moscow.
But Ukrainian security agencies have claimed that some in the Ukrainian church have maintained close ties with Moscow. They’ve raided numerous holy sites of the church and later posted photos of rubles, Russian passports and leaflets with messages from the Moscow patriarch as proof that some church officials have been loyal to Russia.
Odesa’s historic center was designated an endangered World Heritage Site by UNESCO earlier this year despite Russian opposition.
Kiper said that six residential buildings were destroyed by the strikes.
Some people became trapped in their apartments following the attack, which left rubble strewn in the street and partly blocking the road.
Svitlana Molcharova, 85, was rescued by emergency workers. But after she received first aid, she refused to leave her destroyed apartment.
“I will stay here,” she said to the worker who advised her to leave.
“I woke up when the ceiling started to fall on me. I rushed into the corridor,” said Ivan Kovalenko, 19, another resident of the building. “That’s how I lost my home in Mykolaiv, and here, I lost my rented apartment.”
His unit revealed a partially collapsed ceiling and the balcony that came off the side of the building. All the windows were blown out.
Ukraine’s air force reported on the Telegram messaging app that Russia had launched 19 missiles in the Odesa region, including five high-precision winged Onyx missiles and four sea-to-shore Kalibr cruise missiles. It said that Ukrainian air defenses shot down nine
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday its forces attacked sites in Odesa “where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared.”
In a later statement, the ministry denied that its attacks struck the Transfiguration Cathedral, claiming that the destruction of the cathedral was likely due to “the fall of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft guided missile.”
Russia has been launching persistent attacks on Odesa, a key hub for exporting grain, since Moscow canceled a landmark grain deal on Monday amid Kyiv’s grinding efforts to retake its occupied territories.
Earlier Russian attacks this week crippled significant parts of export facilities in Odesa and nearby Chornomorsk and destroyed 60,000 tons of grain, according to Ukraine’s Agriculture Ministry.
The attacks come days after President Vladimir Putin pulled Russia out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a wartime deal that enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
Putin vowed to retaliate against Kyiv for an attack Monday on the crucial Kerch Bridge linking Russia with the Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin illegally annexed in 2014.
In other developments:
– Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko were meeting on Sunday in St. Petersburg, two days after Moscow warned Poland that any aggression against its neighbor and ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Russia.
– Putin announced at the start of the meeting that talks would also take place on Monday, and declared that Kyiv’s counteroffensive had failed.
– Lukashenko said that Wagner troops, who launched joint drills with the Belarusian military on Thursday, almost a month after their short-lived rebellion against Moscow, wanted to go west “on an excursion to Warsaw, to Rzeszow” in Poland, but that Belarus would not allow them to relocate.
– Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov reported Sunday morning that two people were killed in Russian strikes on the northeastern province on Saturday, when Russia attacked populated areas of the Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Kupiansk and Izium districts.
– Donetsk regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said Sunday that four residents of the eastern region were killed and 11 wounded in attacks the previous day.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindbody, the leading experience technology platform for the wellness industry, today announced the winners of the fourth annual BOLD Partner Awards, which honor Mindbody's partners for their excellence across several distinct categories, including emerging partners, growth, and overall success in Mindbody's partner ecosystem. Past winners include APIANT, ADP and LiveEdit.
"Our Mindbody partners are a core of our company and allow us to better serve our customers at every step of their business," said Fritz Lanman, Mindbody and ClassPass CEO. "The Partner Awards are an exciting moment that allows us to recognize just some of the amazing work our partners are doing."
The fourth annual BOLD Partner Awards recognize four categories: the Emerging Partner Award, the Growth Leadership Award, the Top Innovator Award, and Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award. The MVP award is given to a partner who not only encompasses the criteria for the Growth Leadership and Innovation award but is also highly engaged in the Mindbody Partner Program and provided exceptional experiences to customers.
This year, Mindbody is proud to announce Loyalsnap as the winner of the 2022 MVP award. Loyalsnap's powerful marketing and sales automation tools have proven to be a game changer for Mindbody customers with a wide range of features including client management dashboards, two-way testing, email blasts, email and text automations, revenue reporting, and more. With a 35% year-over-year growth, Loyalsnap has proven to be an amazing asset for Mindbody customers.
Winners in the various BOLD Partner Award categories include:
The BOLD Partner Awards are presented annually at BOLD, the Mindbody Conference, the premier event in wellness bringing together business owners, enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs for one of a kind educational sessions and experiences. This year's event was held September 12–14 in Los Angeles, California and saw more than 1000 attendees.
To learn more about Mindbody's valued partners visit: https://partnerstore.mindbodyonline.com/en-US/home .
Mindbody is the leading experience technology platform for the fitness, wellness, and beauty industries. With the addition of ClassPass, the leading global fitness and wellness membership, to the Mindbody portfolio, consumers and wellness businesses around the world are easily connected through a rich wellness community. Fitness studios, salons, spas, and integrative health centers—from the newest entrepreneurs to the largest franchises—use Mindbody's integrated software and payments platform to run, market, and grow their businesses. Consumers use Mindbody and ClassPass to choose from a broad range of wellness experiences across thousands of gyms, exercise studios, and wellness providers around the globe. For more information on how Mindbody is helping people lead healthier, happier lives by connecting the world to wellness, visit mindbodyonline.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. — A Richmond mother whose daughter disappeared six years ago hosted her annual Missing Person’s Day event on Saturday in Abner Clay Park.
Toni Jacobs has not lost hope, but the mounting days since her daughter, Keeshae, was last seen on Sept. 26, 2016, weigh heavily on her heart.
"When a loved one goes missing, you feel like you're alone, because people don't know what you're going through,” Jacobs explained. “So I try to be there and be that friendly face. ‘I know what you're going through. It’s not easy, but this is what you need to do.’ I try and point them in the right direction. And let them know this is your child and you can fight for your child."
Jacobs said she that she has felt her daughter's case was at times an uphill battle over the more than six years Keeshae has been missing.
Jacobs has been critical of the Richmond Commonwealth Attorney's Office saying she believes they have enough evidence to move forward in her daughter's case.
“A lot of this could've been prevented if they would've jumped on it the way they were supposed to do instead of just putting it back on the back burner," Jacobs said.
Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Collette McEachin made an appearance at Saturday's event. It was the first time that she and Jacobs met.
McEachin said more evidence is needed in Keeshae's case
"There's no one thing that will amount to probable cause without there being a smoking gun or a confession,” McEachin explained. “You always need corroborating evidence and I know the Richmond Police Department, their detectives are working on gathering all of that corroborating evidence.”
Since Keeshae's disappearance, police have said that foul play is suspected.
Otis Tucker, who was the last person seen with Keeshae, is a person of interest, according to police.
He served time in Virginia for several charges unrelated to her case, but he was released on probation to Florida.
Then in November 2022 he was charged with first-degree murder for allegledy killing a Jacksonville woman.
Florida's district attorney in Jacksonville is seeking the death penalty.
"We are certainly in communication with the district attorney in Florida, but I can't comment beyond that," McEachin said.
Keeshae's case was on the minds of many that gathered at Abner Clay Park, including Richmond Police Detective Clarence Key, who is working several missing persons mysteries.
“We haven't forgotten, we are still working on it,” Key said. “And not just us, we are collaborating with state and federal agencies and working with organizations like Reopen the Case organization. We applaud what you're doing in keeping these families out there in the community."
Jacobs has established a foundation in her daughter’s name to educate people about missing persons cases while “serving as a beacon of light” for families experiencing the unimaginable.
“We are here to be the backbone and pillar of strength for the families of missing persons,” reads the mission statement of the Keeshae Jacobs Foundation.
Click here to learn more and find out how you can help.
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OAKLAND – More than 20,000 of the 27,759 fans that attended a grassroots-organized ‘reverse boycott’ on Tuesday did not return for the ensuing game of the Oakland A’s home series against the Tampa Bay Rays.
But that once-familiar drum beat emanating from the Oakland Coliseum’s right field bleachers – one that’s wholly unique to Major League Baseball — was back.
A handful of drummers, part of the Oakland 68s fan group that has provided the backbeat to A’s home games for years, were eager to cheer on an Oakland team that was attempting to extend its season-long winning streak to eight games.
Then came the buzzkill. About an hour before Wednesday’s game began, the Nevada state assembly voted to pass a bill that would funnel up to $380 million in public money toward the construction of a new ballpark next to the Strip in Las Vegas.
The bill now goes to Gov. Joe Lombardo’s desk for his signature.
Some of the 7,055 in attendance Wednesday started to boo after the A’s released a statement on the bill’s passage by the assembly.
Carlos Soria, one of the right field drummers and a member of the Oakland 68s A’s fan club, said the small and hearty group in right field had already heard the news.
“It’s not over until the shovels hit the dirt, but it just doesn’t feel good,” Soria said. “I can give you tons of analogies of it, but it just sucks.
“It’s like knowing your girlfriend’s cheating on you, but they’re still hanging around and somehow you hope to god it works out.”
The drummers are back in right field tonight. Small but hearty group. Yes, they’ve all heard about #SB1’s passage in Nevada pic.twitter.com/pvhsuAhFpN
— Curtis Pashelka (@CurtisPashelka) June 15, 2023
The Oakland 68s announced on April 20 via Twitter that they had emailed the A’s to get their drums out of storage at the Coliseum, and that the group’s drumming in right field would stop that day. The night before, the A’s announced that they had a binding agreement to purchase land just west of the Strip.
Tuesday was the drummers’ first game back, and their beats were part of an unforgettable atmosphere inside the Coliseum that felt both like a family reunion and an outlet for people to rage toward team owner John Fisher.
“It was a great sound tonight. It was a great sound to my ears,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said after Tuesday’s game, a 2-1 Oakland win, of the drums. “I truly enjoy the drums at this stadium and to have them back tonight. It was just a welcome reminder that their support, even if they’re not here, is ongoing.
“That’s how it felt, especially for me.”
Kotsay’s words led Soria and others to bring back the drums for at least another night.
“Hearing Kotsay and the players react to the drums and how much they love the sound of it, how it motivates them,” Soria said. “Plus we’re on a winning streak, man. Seven games, so let’s go with what works. Just bringing that energy back for the players and for the fans.”
A’s players on Wednesday pointed to the eighth inning of Tuesday’s game as an example of what kind of difference a loud home crowd can make.
After Ramón Laureano singled to reach first base to lead off the eighth, infielder Jonah Bride squared around to bunt to try and move Laureano into scoring position. The bunt wasn’t the best, as it popped up into the air. But Rays pitcher Colin Poche, who fielded the bunt, couldn’t hear his teammates, who told him to go to second base with the throw. Instead, Poche threw to first, and Laureano safely advanced.
“The ball was in the air for a second and Ramon had to freeze, so if we don’t have the atmosphere and the noise, (Poche) probably goes (to second), and that changes the game for sure,” Bride said. “So that just shows you all you need to know about what it was like last night.”
“That’s just what home-field advantage is,” A’s veteran Tony Kemp said. “It just goes to show you what it can do for a home team.”
Laureano said the crowd noise — and the adrenaline he felt — influenced his decision to try and steal third base with one out. With pinch-hitter Carlos Pérez at the plate, Laureano took off for third base and beat a throw from catcher Francisco Mejia on a head-first slide, although his hand was banged up in the process.
“I was a little faster because of that, the adrenaline of the game, and you use that,” Laureano said. “You’re faster than normal whenever you have adrenaline like that.”
Laureano played right field Tuesday and relished being a part of that atmosphere once again.
“It was so good to have those fans,” Laureano said. “Having (27,000 fans) here is like 40,000 somewhere else, noise-wise. People have no idea how much energy they give the home team.”
Told Tuesday that A’s players missed hearing the drums, Oakland 68s member Jorge Leon said he, too, was looking forward to having the drums back in the Coliseum.
“As much as they miss us, just imagine how much we miss it and how much we want to show our passion,” Leon said. “I have respect for all of the players, but unfortunately, those guys are only going to be here for four, maybe five years. While they’re gone, we will always be here.”
WHERE’S FISHER?: Fisher, pilloried by those in attendance Tuesday, is in Manhattan for Major League Baseball’s owners meeting. Per Newsday’s Laura Albanese, Fisher declined to comment when approached by reporters at MLB’s midtown headquarters, saying there was “something he had to do” and could not speak before he left the building. Albanese tweeted that minutes later, Fisher came back with a drink and returned upstairs.
A’S STATEMENT: The A’s released a statement early Wednesday evening after SB 1 was passed by the Nevada State Legislature 25-15.
“Tonight, we thank the members of the Nevada State Legislature and their staff for their hard work, due diligence, and attention to detail as we work to bring the Athletics to Las Vegas,” the statement said. “We are especially grateful for the legislators’ time and dedication to shepherding this bill through the process, including the special session. We look forward to Governor Lombardo’s signature as our next step.” | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/06/14/oakland-as-back-at-coliseum-drummers-react-to-nevada-news-wheres-fisher/ | 2023-06-15 03:58:58 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/06/14/oakland-as-back-at-coliseum-drummers-react-to-nevada-news-wheres-fisher/ |
Top 25 Residential Real Estate Transactions in Central Ohio for October 2022
Here are the highest-price housing market deals that closed in the month.
Columbus Monthly gathers home sales data from county auditor offices in Franklin County and its six contiguous counties. These are the highest reported sales for Oct. 1-31, 2022.
1. $4,500,000; 5000 Deer Run Dr., Dublin; Kathleen M. Bainbridge, trustee, from Petrichor Lane LLC
2. $2,400,000; 1711 Strathshire Hall Place, Powell; Jace S. Stickdorn and Vicki Lee Eickelberger from David A. and Brenda J. Frecka, trustees
3. $2,240,000; 2252 Tremont Rd., Upper Arlington; Jennifer and Kevin Schoedinger from Capital Trading Co., trustee
4. $2,125,000; 95 N. Riverview St., Unit 611, Dublin; Thomas H. Mallory Jr., trustee, from Michael and Linda Huhn
5. $2,096,727; 3955 Ebrington Rd., New Albany; Mark and Nicole Stetson from Joss Construction Group LLC
6. $1,975,000; 1985 Woodland Hall Dr., Delaware; James E. Brooks Jr. from Periclis V. and Linda S. Pericleous
7. $1,885,000; 7593 Fenway Rd., New Albany; Erin C. and David J. Fallon from Jeffrey J. Eaton and Kristen S. Paradis
8. $1,850,000; 4545 North Gate, New Albany; Thomas J. and Barbara J. Piehowicz, trustees, from Kevin and Robin Hake
9. $1,780,000; 5480 Dublin Rd., Dublin; Nhan T. and Hien M. Luu from Lewis D. and Donna J. Shore
10. $1,597,795; 2981 Leeds Rd., Upper Arlington; Sarah and Brendan Anthony from Tuckerman Home Group Inc.
11. $1,525,000; 1760 Upper Chelsea Rd., Upper Arlington; Philip and Charlotte Larger from Glenn A. Johnson and Julia R. White
12. $1,520,000; 8298 Harlem Rd., Westerville; Michael E. Scherl and Jackie L. Savel from Martha and James Farrell Frye
13. $1,420,000; 1736 White Oak Dr., Delaware; John A. and Sharon C. McNab from Taylor Roof Klinger
14. $1,355,000; 7938 Tartan Fields Dr., Dublin; Mark Allen Robinson II and Katherine Penna from Matthew R. and Stacy M. Hartman
15. $1,325,000; 4260 Dublin Rd., Columbus; Jeremy Jones from Philip and Deneen Sisia
16. $1,250,000; 1243 Neil Ave., Columbus; Jay M. and Melissa Anderson from Paul D. Hixon and Robert Dean
17. $1,200,000; 1833 Lake Shore Dr., Columbus; John R. Herbert from Alan J. Block, trustee
18. $1,160,000; 12986 N. Old 3C Highway, Sunbury; Michael S. Grenke from Paul S. and Elisabeth Rosen
19. $1,115,000; 4578 Speranza Loop, Galena; Adam J. and Tabitha R. Pusateri from A&R Restaurant Holdings LLC
20. $1,100,000; 851 Neil Ave., Columbus; Laurel Investments LLC from Ben Cowley
21. $1,100,000; 7757 Bridlespur Lane, Delaware; Jessica Rian Fischer and Robert Moyer from David and Allyson Dusza Co., trustees
22. $1,090,000; 3901 Tarrington Lane, Upper Arlington; Kelvin Lim-Sum Chan and Yiting Liu from Jeremy and Jane H. Jones
23. $1,075,000; 2507 Dauer Court, Powell; Aaron Scott Brown and Lauren Brown from Jodi L. Scherner
24. $985,000; 481 N. Parkview Ave., Bexley; Thomas W. Cory and Bridget T. Hermann from Daniel A. and Samantha W. Sharpe, trustees
25. $949,000; 1865 Baldridge Rd., Upper Arlington; Stephanie A. and Connor M. McGrath from Kevin D. and Jennifer Schoedinger
This story is from the January 2023 issue of Columbus Monthly. | https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/lifestyle/home-garden/home-decor/2023/02/06/top-25-columbus-ohio-residential-real-estate-transactions-october-2022/69879006007/ | 2023-02-07 10:56:33 | 0 | https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/lifestyle/home-garden/home-decor/2023/02/06/top-25-columbus-ohio-residential-real-estate-transactions-october-2022/69879006007/ |
Elmore heading to NBA G League
Published: Oct. 8, 2022 at 8:30 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Former George Washington high school and Marshall University basketball star Jon Elmore is taking another step closer to the NBA as he tweeted Saturday evening that he will be playing for the Sioux Falls Skyforce this upcoming season. Ever since he left Marshall after the 2018 season, Elmore had been playing pro basketball in Europe.
The Skyforce are affiliated with the Miami Heat where Elmore worked out with the team last month. The regular season begins Saturday November 5th at the Iowa Wolves and the closest he’ll come to our area is when Sioux Falls plays at the Cleveland Charge November 29th and 30th.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avanos Medical, Inc. (NYSE: AVNS) will webcast its conference call discussing financial results and business highlights for the second quarter 2022 on Tuesday, August 9 at 9 a.m., ET. The company will issue a news release detailing its results before the market opens that same day.
The conference call will be hosted by Joe Woody, chief executive officer, and Michael Greiner, senior vice president and chief financial officer.
To join the live conference call, dial 877-240-5772 in the United States. A simultaneous webcast of the call and a related presentation will be accessible via the Investors section of the Avanos Medical website, https://avanos.investorroom.com/.
A replay of the conference call will be available August 10 at noon ET by dialing 877-344-7529 in the United States and entering passcode 8164434. It will be available for one week. A replay of the webcast also will be accessible in the Investors section of the website, approximately one hour following the completion of the conference call.
About Avanos Medical, Inc.
Avanos Medical (NYSE: AVNS) is a medical device company focused on delivering clinically superior breakthrough solutions that will help patients get back to the things that matter. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Avanos is committed to addressing some of today's most important healthcare needs, such as reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. Avanos develops, manufactures and markets its recognized brands in more than 90 countries. For more information, visit www.avanos.com and follow Avanos Medical on Twitter (@AvanosMedical), LinkedIn and Facebook.
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NEW MORGAN, Pa. – New Morgan Borough Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve amendments to its zoning ordinance to accommodate a proposed 5.5 million-square-foot industrial park.
Council conducted a public zoning hearing on the amendments prior to the vote.
No one attending the hearing made any public comments.
The amendments include creating an overlay district in the Planned Residential Development zone to allow for the industrial park on about 1,200 acres located between Route 10 and Interstate 176.
Changes to the ordinance also include specific rules within the PRD zoning district, which will give the developer of the proposed park some flexibility.
What makes the industrial park development unique is that it will take up about 31.9% of the entire borough, which consists of a total of 3,761 acres.
The borough was created in 1988 from property that had been formerly owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company. At the time, the steel mines were located in Caernarvon and Robeson townships.
The current population of the borough, based on the 2020 census, is estimated at 50 residents.
The land identified for development is owned by Panattoni Development Company LLC, a company specializing in industrial development.
Jeffrey Esch McCombie, a Harrisburg attorney representing the applicant, reminded councilmembers that the changes only included text amendments to the ordinance and are not classified as spot zoning.
"The text amendments to the PRD portion of the zoning ordinance rely on the concepts of the borough's comprehensive plan," McCombie said. "Incorporating these concepts into the ordinance will allow for sufficient and flexible development in the borough."
McCombie also said the proposed development would be a boon to the tax revenue and bring millions of dollars into the borough over the next 10 to 15 years.
New Morgan Borough has a tax rate of 18.60 mills, which is the highest municipal tax rate in Berks County.
"This is a well-located growth center which will create jobs for Berks County residents," McCombie added. "This will enhance industrial development and regulate industrial uses relative to logistics."
Ian McDonald, a partner with Panattoni, said he wanted to paint a bigger picture of what was before borough council.
"The PRD amendment gives us flexibility so that we can develop the type of park to benefit the community," McDonald said. "And it will create a lot of tax revenue to give you the flexibility to allocate tax dollars to make your lives better."
McDonald explained the industrial park will consist of nine buildings to be constructed over the next decade.
The first phase will involve four buildings, for a total of 2.2 million square feet of construction, McDonald said.
McDonald said the development would feature warehouse distribution and logistics.
"Logistics is a big part of the country, and this will be a Class A industrial warehouse park that will endure the test of time," McDonald added. "We build the highest caliber facilities to attract the best tenants which will be the economic driver of tax revenue to the borough."
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The Department of Homeland Security said more migrants may be released into the United States to pursue immigration cases when Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week in one of its most detailed assessments ahead of the major policy shift.
The department reported faster processing for migrants in custody on the border, more temporary detention tents, staffing surges and increased criminal prosecutions of smugglers, noting progress on a plan announced in April.
But the seven-page document dated Tuesday included no major structural changes amid unusually large numbers of migrants entering the country. More are expected with the end of Title 42 authority, under which migrants have been denied rights to seek asylum more than 2.5 million times on grounds of preventing spread of COVID-19.
A federal judge in Washington ordered Title 42 to end Dec. 21 but Republican-led states asked an appeals court to keep it in place. The Biden administration has also challenged some aspects of the ruling, though it doesn’t oppose letting the rule lapse next week. The legal back-and-forth could go down to the wire.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas traveled this week to El Paso, Texas, which witnessed a large influx Sunday after becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in October. El Paso has been a magnet for Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans, Colombians, Ecuadoreans and other nationalities.
The geographic shift to Texas’ westernmost reaches was likely a result of smugglers’ calculations on the best route, said Nicolas Palazzo, an attorney at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso.
Like other advocacy groups that work directly with directly with Homeland Security, Palazzo said he has had no conversations with the department about post-Title 42 planning. One key question: How will authorities process migrants who have long been waiting to seek asylum?
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said Customs and Border Protection officials told him Wednesday that about 50,000 migrants are believed to be waiting to cross once Title 42 is lifted.
Authorities plan to admit those seeking asylum who go through ports of entry but return to Mexico those who cross illegally between official crossings, Cuellar said in an interview. It was unclear how they will return nationalities that Mexico won’t accept — like Cubans and Nicaraguans — and are difficult to send home due to strained diplomatic relations and other challenges.
Administration officials are developing additional measures, which Cuellar said they would not disclose.
“I think the first week is going to be a little bit of chaos,” he said.
U.S. officials in El Paso are currently exempting 70 migrants daily from Title 42, said Palazzo, who questioned how officials will handle more people.
Unless they raise processing capacity significantly, migrants who go through official crossings may be told to wait a year or so for an appointment, said Palazzo. “Realistically can they tell me with a straight face that they expect people to wait that long?”
In its latest assessment, CBP said government agencies “have been managing levels well beyond the capacity for which their infrastructure was designed and resourced, meaning additional increases will create further pressure and potential overcrowding in specific locations along the border.”
More single adults and families with young children may be released into communities with instructions to appear in immigration court without help of nongovernmental groups or financial sponsors, the department said.
The department didn’t indicate how many migrants may cross the border when Title 42 ends. Earlier this year, they expected as many as 18,000 a day, a staggering number. In May, migrants were stopped an average of 7,800 times a day, the peak month of Joe Biden’s presidency.
In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, migrants were stopped 2.38 million times, up 37% from 1.73 million times the year before. The annual total surpassed 2 million for the first time.
The numbers reflect deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries, relative strength of the U.S. economy and uneven enforcement of Trump-era asylum restrictions. | https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2022-12-15/u-s-plans-for-more-migrant-releases-when-asylum-limits-end | 2022-12-15 19:28:33 | 1 | https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2022-12-15/u-s-plans-for-more-migrant-releases-when-asylum-limits-end |
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs’ campaign headquarters burglarized
By Kyung Lah, CNN
The campaign headquarters of Arizona‘s Democratic candidate for governor and current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was broken into this week, a campaign official and law enforcement told CNN on Wednesday.
Phoenix police responded to a burglary report Tuesday afternoon and “learned that items were taken from the property sometime during the night,” the department said in a statement.
“This is still an active investigation with detectives checking all security cameras in attempts to identify and locate the subject involved,” the statement said. No suspects have been identified in the burglary.
A source within the Hobbs campaign told CNN that CCTV video shows the man they say broke into the campaign headquarters. The Hobbs campaign hasn’t been able to get a full inventory of what was taken, the source added.
Nicole DeMont, who manages Hobbs’ gubernatorial campaign, told CNN in a statement that “Secretary Hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of death threats and threats of violence over the course of this campaign. Throughout this race, we have been clear that the safety of our staff and of the Secretary is our number one priority.”
“Let’s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit,” DeMont continued. “The threats against Arizonans attempting to exercise their constitutional rights and their attacks on elected officials are the direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation.”
Hobbs is running for governor against Republican Kari Lake in the November midterm election.
DeMont said that intimidation “won’t work,” and expressed thanks to the Phoenix Police Department for keeping Hobbs and her team safe.
It was not immediately clear what items were taken from the office.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — A JetBlue flight from Las Vegas was evacuated after landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after reports of a suspicious package on board.
At around 2 p.m., authorities said a disgruntled passenger who missed his flight made a statement saying his luggage “contained a possible bomb” aboard the aircraft.
The JetBlue plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport and was moved to an isolated area. Passengers and crew aboard the plane were evacuated and taken back to the terminal on shuttle busses as police inspected the aircraft.
Las Vegas Police “took enforcement action” against the disgruntled passenger and notified LAPD.
“LAXPD is currently conducting their investigation to ensure that the luggage is clear of any threat to the passengers and aircraft,” officials said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/passenger-who-missed-flight-makes-bomb-threat-forces-evacuation-at-lax/ | 2023-05-05 02:15:33 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/passenger-who-missed-flight-makes-bomb-threat-forces-evacuation-at-lax/ |
Domingo Morales grew up in a public housing complex in the Bronx, New York. On the streets, he was called "Reckless," but his new nickname is "Restless."
"I have this, like, this energy that never goes away," Morales said. "I can't sit still. I constantly have to be doing something."
Instead of fighting to live, Morales is directing his energy into the soil. He's the CEO of Compost Power, and his mission is to build compost sites in underserved communities.
"Let me create a separate entity that actually trains Black and Brown adults in these communities on how to be those experts to increase diversity," Morales said.
Morales says people in these communities didn't have food scrap drop-offs nearby. Now, he's built compost sites in six places across New York City with plans for more.
"I'm like, well, they're not ever going to be able to compost if we don't teach them, if we don't give them the infrastructure and the training to then change their behavior, we can't expect a whole community to change their culture," Morales said.
He says his grassroots model is necessary all over the U.S. if we are to meet zero waste goals. Eric Goldstein works for Natural Resources Defense Council. It's a nonprofit that deals with natural resource protection issues throughout the country and across the planet.
"Across the country, probably less than 5% of the food scraps and yard waste that we generate is sustainably composted," Goldstein said.
Goldstein says not everyone has access to curbside programs.
"What we need to do is have universal curbside collection of food scraps and yard waste, just like we do for recycling and for regular trash," Goldstein said. "There are probably less than 10 million Americans today who are served by curbside compost collection operations."
He says some cities like San Francisco, Seattle and Portland have been leading the way.
"When you have curbside composting and you've implemented it successfully, you can even save money for taxpayers because it costs less to drop off food scraps and yard waste at a composting site than it does at many landfills and incinerators," Goldstein said.
It also cuts down on methane, a harmful gas that is released from decaying food in a landfill. He says he loves to see grassroots-level composting like Compost Power, and he thinks they complement curbside programs well.
"People are seeing firsthand their food scraps, a yard waste transformed into finished compost," Goldstein said.
Morales says he wants to challenge people all over the country to build community compost sites like this.
"This is replicable," Morales said. "You can make micro-scale compost sites throughout the city. I feel like every community district in the world should have something that small-scale educational like this. And it's not hard." | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/entrepreneur-builds-model-to-give-underserved-communities-access-to-composting | 2022-06-13 20:21:49 | 0 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/entrepreneur-builds-model-to-give-underserved-communities-access-to-composting |
TEMPE, Ariz., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Although unemployment rates remain at record low, Federal Reserve anti-inflation policies are expected to bring slower growth in the second half of this year, according to Arizona State University economists.
Will a dip in the national business cycle affect the Arizona boom in manufacturing job growth? How does declining housing affordability impact the inflow of new residents and businesses to the Phoenix area? If a recession is on the horizon, is it expected to be mild or severe?
Join us for lunch, where top experts will answer these questions about the state and nation at the Annual Economic Outlook, presented by the Economic Club of Phoenix.
Featured speakers
Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W. P. Carey School of Business and director of ASU's Office of the University Economist, will examine recent national trends and discuss the factors that will influence those trends.
Lee McPheters, research professor of economics and director of the JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center, will offer a first look at the year ahead for Arizona and the Phoenix metro area, along with an update on year-to-date performance in 2023.
Mark Stapp, Fred E. Taylor Professor in Real Estate and executive director of Arizona State University's Master of Real Estate Development program, will explain the concerns over affordable housing amid the rapid growth in home prices.
When:
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
11:30 a.m. check-in opens
Noon to 1:30 p.m. program
Where:
This paid event takes place in person at the Camelback Golf Club. Tickets are $100 per person.
7847 North Mockingbird Lane
Scottsdale
Register: wpcarey.asu.edu/economic-club/events
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Man sets state record with 8-pound brook trout catch: ‘It’s a special fish’
LAKE CITY, Colo. (Gray News) - A Colorado man set a new state record by catching a massive brook trout in Waterdog Lake near Lake City.
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Lake City resident Matt Smiley caught an 8-pound, 9-ounce brook trout on Oct. 8. The fish measured 26.25 inches in length and had a girth of 16 inches.
“The experience of this catch has been surreal. It took a few days to soak in. It’s a special fish,” Smiley said.
Wildlife officials said Smiley sells tackle for a fishing company and has chased large brook trout in lakes across Colorado for a decade.
Smiley said he battled the massive fish and waded into the water to get it in his net that afternoon.
“The fish stayed hooked, and I brought her in a second time. It was a wild, crazy deal,” Smith said.
Wildlife officials said before this year, the record stood for 75 years. In 1947, a 7.63-pound brook trout was caught out of Upper Cataract Lake in Summit County.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In the past few years, Slutty Vegan, an Atlanta-based eatery, has attracted a cult-like following with its raunchy approach to veganism.
Celebrities often pop in for a visit. And customers routinely wait through long lines to order from the chain’s cheekily-named menu, which includes the “One Night Stand” burger and the slutty fries.
Owner Pinky Cole opened up the first brick-and-mortar location in 2018 in Atlanta, where the acclaimed burger joint attracted a largely Black customer base. Since then, Cole has added new locations in other parts of Georgia as well as Birmingham, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York.
This month, she will begin a five-city tour to promote her new cookbook, “Eat Plants, B(asterisk)tch: 91 Vegan Recipes That Will Blow Your Meat-Loving Mind.” The Associated Press recently spoke with Cole about her business, her new cookbook and how she’s preparing for a potential economic downturn. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
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Q: How did you start your business? And why did you decide to go with a raunchy name?
A: So I started my concept in my two-bedroom apartment while working full-time as a casting director. The idea hit me out of nowhere. I didn't know a side hustle would turn into a $100 million brand. I thought I was doing something personally for myself. But I was really doing something for people who want to reimagine food in a different way. The name was a catchy way to get people to pay attention. I knew ‘slutty’ and ‘vegan’ didn’t go together. They’re so oddly different that if you put them together, it would make people ask questions.
Q: Speaking of your prior career, how did you transition your broadcast skills to the restaurant business?
A: I know what people pay attention to. I know what gets them bored. I know what gets them to tune in. I learned that working in TV as a producer for the Maury show. I also worked on more therapeutic shows, so I know what pulls on people’s emotions. Our marketing is racy, raunchy and its in-your-face. I’m just producing TV every day.
Q: The chain limits customers to two burgers per order. Have you dealt with any complaints regarding that?
A: No. It’s funny. People don’t even complain standing in line. We do the limit because there's something in the art of scarcity that people have fallen in love with. If you make it available to them sometimes, but not all the time, it’ll make them come back. Another reason we implemented the limit was because we want to make sure the experience was efficient for customers. We're still a small business. So the policy might change in the future as we grow.
Q: Many are worried that we might have a recession soon. Are you preparing your business for one?
A: Yes, we are actually in the process of doing that now. You know, it’s a very scary thing. Even for somebody who just raised $25 million, you’d be surprised how fast you can lose it if you’re not conscious about how you spend the money. We are strategically coming up with a game plan. Once upon a time, we were just focused on brick-and-mortar locations. But it takes almost $1 million to build one brick-and-mortar site. Now we are focusing our energy on buying food trucks.
Q: Do you have plans to go global?
A: We’ve already gotten some trademarks internationally. So we are preparing. But I can’t say just yet what we’re preparing for.
Q: Who’s the audience for the new cookbook?
A: This is for the meat eater. The vegans already got it figured out. No limitations - really good food. It just happens to be plant-based. | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/slutty-vegan-ceo-talks-new-cookbook-plans-to-go-global/article_afd819b4-6aa2-5779-a1cb-469772fd8bde.html | 2022-11-14 18:47:42 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/slutty-vegan-ceo-talks-new-cookbook-plans-to-go-global/article_afd819b4-6aa2-5779-a1cb-469772fd8bde.html |
Mariners third. Tom Murphy doubles to deep left field. Jose Caballero flies out to right center field to Adolis Garcia. Sam Haggerty singles to right center field, advances to 2nd. Tom Murphy to third. Julio Rodriguez flies out to right field to Adolis Garcia. Ty France singles to shallow center field. Sam Haggerty scores. Tom Murphy scores. Jarred Kelenic grounds out to second base, Marcus Semien to Nathaniel Lowe.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Mariners 2, Rangers 0.
Mariners seventh. AJ Pollock reaches on error. Throwing error by Josh Jung. Tom Murphy homers to center field. AJ Pollock scores. Jose Caballero grounds out to shortstop, Ezequiel Duran to Nathaniel Lowe. Sam Haggerty grounds out to shortstop, Josh Jung to Nathaniel Lowe. Julio Rodriguez called out on strikes.
2 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 0 left on. Mariners 4, Rangers 0.
Mariners eighth. Ty France singles to center field. Jarred Kelenic doubles to right field. Ty France to third. Eugenio Suarez grounds out to shortstop, Ezequiel Duran to Nathaniel Lowe. Teoscar Hernandez walks. AJ Pollock out on a sacrifice fly to deep right field to Adolis Garcia. Jarred Kelenic to third. Ty France scores. Tom Murphy called out on strikes.
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ALBLASSERDAM, Netherlands, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the first day of the Dubai International Boat Show, Oceanco revealed a revolutionary yacht design: Aeolus. Fully aligned with Oceanco's NXT initiative, Aeolus is in tune with evolving perspectives on the environment as well as lifestyle. With exterior design from Giles Taylor complemented by interior design from Njord by Bergman Design House, she heralds a new era for dwellings on water, demonstrating that authentic sustainability of the future is beautiful and stylish – both in terms of technical capability as well as materials used onboard.
Named after the Greek god of the wind, Aeolus reflects how we relax, connect and work in the modern world, seamlessly transitioning between destinations and modes of living. She is a great fit for those who consider their floating home to be like a natural, private retreat and sea-borne sanctuary, accommodating just enough cabins for family and favored guests. The owner's private oasis, which delivers the best views in the house, is where she truly resonates with those onboard like no other; the purest of sanctuaries.
Her interior has a strong language of introducing fully sustainable and traceable materials, including biomaterials, at her core.
"Organic nature, sensual being and playfulness played a big part of Aeolus's design. Every element has been considered, including sourcing and traceability of materials and working with some of the world's most innovative artisans in biomaterials and sustainable development," explains Sarah Colbon, Co-founder of Njord.
Together with Aeolus's technical partners ABB & MTU, Oceanco and Lateral have developed the Energy Transition Platform (ETP), an adaptable architecture to enable a future-proofed pathway to net zero.
"Any yacht built today, will have to span the energy transition, a period of significant change in available fuel types and associated technologies. This demands an adaptable technical architecture that can accommodate the alterations to layout, configuration and specifications needed to integrate future technologies and alternative fuels in the least invasive way possible. Lateral and Oceanco have developed the ETP to ensure multiple technical pathways can be pursued as technologies mature during the energy transition timeline," comments James Roy of Lateral.
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DOHA, Qatar — Now it’s Ronald Koeman’s turn to hop on the Netherlands’ coaching merry-go-round.
Dutch coaches often return to the national team job. Over the past half-century, Rinus Michels has served four terms, Dick Advocaat three, and Leo Beenhakker and Guus Hiddink two each.
EXPECTATION VS. PERFORMANCE
Dutch media and some fans reviewed Van Gaal’s team as if they were ballet critics, souring on the lack of pleasing aesthetics and hoping for free-flowing offensive beauty of an earlier era.
“Football is evolving, and it is much more difficult than it was 20 years ago to play as offensively as Ajax used to play,” Van Gaal said through a translator. “And if you fail to see that or fail to understand, then it’s very difficult to understand that this is the way things go. And when in 2014 I started developing the more defensive system, people criticized me. But now half the world is playing that kind of football.”
The Dutch have lost the most World Cup finals of any nation, in 1974, 1978 and 2010, and they were eliminated by Argentina on penalty kicks in 2014 and this year, while failing to qualify for 2018.
WHO’S OUT?
No players appear to be aging out ahead of the Euros, which start in 18 months. Defenders Daley Blind (32) and Virgil van Dijk (31) are the oldest among the regular starters.
WHO’S NEXT?
Midfielders Xavi Simons (19) and Jenneth Taylor (20) and defenders Jeremie Frimpong (22) and Tyrell Malacia (23) are among the young players at the World Cup who didn’t see much playing time and could have upcoming opportunities.
Van Gaal said he was forced to play a different system because of lack of true wingers.
“What I’m leaving behind is an excellent group,” Van Gaal said. “This is a team which was very close, is very close, team spirit, and a lot of football skill.”
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Dutch open European Championship qualifying at France on March 24 and host Gibraltar three days later, part of a group that includes Ireland and Greece. The Netherlands plays Spain, Italy or Croatia in the Nations League semifinals in June 14, followed four days later by the championship or third-place game.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism, where Democrats are easily elected and a Republican hasn't served as governor since the early 1980s.
But with an unusually competitive three-way contest for governor, the Democratic candidate's success is hardly a guarantee this year. As mail-in ballots become available to voters next week, Oregon is becoming the unlikely site of one of the most competitive governor's races in the country.
The main reason for the race's unpredictability is Betsy Johnson, a longtime former Democratic lawmaker with a fondness for salty language who is aiming to become the first unaffiliated governor elected in Oregon in almost a century.
Polls show Johnson with double-digit support, and Democrats have called her a spoiler who is taking votes from their nominee, Tina Kotek — and could lead to a GOP victory. Her bid has been aided by GOP donor and Nike co-founder Phil Knight, who donated at least $3.75 million to Johnson's campaign before giving $1 million in recent weeks to Republican candidate Christine Drazan.
The tight contest between Kotek and Drazan, with Johnson trailing, has caught the attention of the White House. On Friday, President Joe Biden will visit Portland to campaign with Democrats and urge voters to back Kotek.
It's an unexpected bright spot for the GOP, with the Republican Governors Association last week sinking another $1.5 million into the state in hopes of replacing Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, who is term-limited. Oregon is considered a toss-up race, alongside contests in the traditional swing state of Wisconsin and in Kansas, where Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is seeking reelection in a conservative state where she beat a flawed candidate four years ago and now faces Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt.
Kotek emphasized that a lot is riding on this election.
“The race for Oregon’s governor this year is more consequential than ever,” Kotek, a former state House speaker, said this week. “Roe v. Wade was overturned. Abortion rights are on the ballot. Gun violence prevention is on the ballot.”
Republicans say Oregon voters are frustrated by issues like homelessness and crime and are ready for a change. Drazan, Kotek and Johnson — who all served in the Oregon Legislature — each say curtailing homelessness will be their priority if elected governor.
“We must move people from chronic homelessness to stability and restore safe streets and neighborhoods again,” Drazan said in an email Tuesday.
Republicans argue that Democrats have moved too far to the left, backing policies such as curtailing greenhouse gas emissions which conservatives say will harm working-class Oregonians.
Efforts to pass a cap-and-trade bill spawned a resistance group called Timber Unity, which staged protests around the state Capitol in Salem in 2019 with horn-blaring big rigs. Timber Unity has endorsed Drazan.
But the group’s rallies have attracted backers of QAnon and right-wing militia. Timber Unity’s spokeswoman was present at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Kotek responded to the Drazan endorsement by tweeting: “The last thing Oregon needs is a governor who shares ties with election deniers, Capitol rioters, and white supremacists.”
Drazan shot back that Kotek was “slandering the very Oregonians you’re running to represent as governor.”
In 2020, Oregon voters approved a ballot measure to decriminalize hard drugs and dedicate millions of dollars to addiction treatment. The program has had a rocky start, with addiction rates among the country's highest and delays in channeling funds to treatment programs.
Drazan supports asking voters to repeal it. Johnson said she would also work to repeal what she called a “failed experiment.” A spokeswoman for Kotek said "Oregonians do not want to go backward.”
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said Democrats are facing voter dissatisfaction with sometimes violent civil unrest in Portland and what he described as “very zealous” lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kotek and the Democratic Governors Association have noted that both Drazan and Johnson have “A” ratings from the National Rifle Association. Johnson proudly talks about being a gun owner — she even owns a submachine gun — and supports the Second Amendment.
The Democrats also criticized Drazan, a former minority leader in the Oregon House, for helping lead a walkout of GOP lawmakers to block the Democrats' climate change bill. Drazan “sided with the far-right by shutting the door and walking away from her taxpayer-funded job,” DGA spokesman Sam Newton said.
Democrats warn voters that a Drazan victory could threaten abortion rights, environmental protections and democratically-run elections in the state. They are hopeful that voters who consider supporting Johnson, who is for abortion rights, will opt instead to back their candidate.
“Oregon is in real danger of electing an anti-choice Republican as our next governor," said An Do, executive director of Planned Parenthood PAC of Oregon, adding that a vote for Johnson would only help Drazan win.
Johnson dismisses that kind of talk.
“I am not the spoiler candidate,” Johnson told members of the Oregon Coalition of Police and Sheriffs at a campaign appearance in Salem on Tuesday. “I am in this to win.”
Johnson, who was in the statehouse for 20 years, quit the Democratic Party in 2021 to run as an unaffiliated candidate for governor. If successful she would be the first female unaffiliated governor ever in the U.S.
Johnson got on the ballot by delivering some 48,000 voters’ signatures to elections officials, with the help of a signature-gathering company that was paid almost $900,000. Johnson led Kotek and Drazan early in fundraising, with help from Knight.
Clatsop County sheriff's detective Ryan Humphrey was among the several dozen law enforcement officers who listened to Johnson's appeal for votes Tuesday.
“I won't defund or demonize the police, but will demand professionalism from anyone in a uniform,” Johnson told them.
Humphrey, who lives in Johnson's old state senate district, said he was already in Johnson's corner because she's “no nonsense” and gets things done, like facilitating the building of a new county jail.
“Betsy Johnson, when she was running as a Democrat, is the only Democrat I’ve ever voted for in 28 years of voting,” Humphrey said.
Johnson is hoping to woo centrist Republican and Democratic voters and the biggest slice of Oregon's electorate: the 1 million unaffiliated voters whose numbers slightly edge registered Democrats and are 40% greater than the number of registered Republicans.
Democrats are worried about that.
“The presence of Betsy in the race really shifted the votes so there’s sort of a group of Democrats and some Republicans that are supporting Betsy Johnson," said former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, a Democrat supporting Kotek. "And that obviously creates quite a problem.”
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jim Harbaugh is staying at Michigan, a decision he personally gave the school president to end another round of speculation that he would return to the NFL.
“I just got off the phone with coach Harbaugh and Jim shared with me the great news that he is going to remain as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines," University of Michigan President Santa Ono shared on social media Monday. “That is fantastic news that I have communicated with our athletic director Warde Manuel."
One minute later, Michigan football shared a statement from Harbaugh on Twitter.
“My heart is at the University of Michigan," Harbaugh's statement read in the post. “I once heard a wise man say, `Don't try to out-happy, happy.'"
Harbaugh and the school have not reached an agreement on a contract extension, but both sides plan to work on a new deal this week, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of the negotiations were not announced.
The Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers spoke with Harbaugh about their head coaching vacancies this month and he was mentioned as a potential candidate for the Indianapolis Colts, one of four teams he played quarterback for in the league from 1987 to 2000 after being a star for the Wolverines.
On Signing Day last year, Harbaugh interviewed with the Minnesota Vikings before they targeted Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell for the job opening instead.
Harbaugh has been linked to many other NFL jobs in most of the offseasons since he returned to his alma mater to lead the football team in 2015.
After failing to beat rival Ohio State for years, he has helped Michigan beat the Buckeyes and win the Big Ten title in two straight years.
The Wolverines have fallen short of winning their first national championship since 1997, though, with College Football Playoff semifinal losses to TCU and Georgia.
Harbaugh seems set up for more success, at least in the conference, with All-America running back Blake Corum returning to a backfield with running back Donovan Edwards and quarterback J.J. McCarthy.
Harbaugh, the AP NFL coach of the year in 2011 and AP college coach of the year a decade later, seemed to be intrigued by the lure of the league again this winter.
He coached the San Francisco 49ers from 2011-2014, winning two NFC West titles and reaching the NFC championship game three times in four seasons. He was 44-19-1 during that span and helped the 49ers get to the Super Bowl a decade ago, where they lost by three points to the Baltimore Ravens, led by his brother, John.
Jim Harbaugh left the 49ers after going 8-8 in 2014 — the only season the 49ers didn’t make the postseason under him — to turn around Michigan.
The 59-year-old Harbaugh has a 74-25 record in eight seasons with the Wolverines, who were 13-0 this season before getting beat in a sloppy game by the Horned Frogs. Harbaugh also spent four seasons as head coach of Stanford and three more at San Diego.
Entering his ninth year at Michigan, it appears he will have to deal with an NCAA investigation regarding potential rules infractions.
The investigation is believed to involve impermissible texts and calls — including some by Harbaugh — to high school prospects during part of a pandemic-related dead period for contact with potential recruits, a person with knowledge of the situation told the AP.
The NCAA was also looking at whether a member of Michigan’s off-field football staff violated rules by doing on-the-field coaching during practice and whether Harbaugh was forthcoming about it, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because Michigan officials were not making details of the investigation public. | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/ncaa/ncaaf/jim-harbaugh-calls-university-of-michigan-president-to-say-hes-staying/531-0f6884db-41a2-4163-af8e-dba46ae7c1a4 | 2023-01-17 02:58:13 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/ncaa/ncaaf/jim-harbaugh-calls-university-of-michigan-president-to-say-hes-staying/531-0f6884db-41a2-4163-af8e-dba46ae7c1a4 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Recent Portland summers have brought an increasingly familiar parade of heat waves, wildfires and smoggy air. In a city historically known for its sunny-yet-benign summer weather, it's enough to make residents start to speculate or even declare it outright: Hotter is the new normal.
But is that literally true? Individual Portlanders certainly feel that way whenever the mercury climbs above 90, but is Portland actually experiencing more frequent hot temperatures?
To arrive at a more scientific answer, we turned to KGW meteorologist Chris McGinness and Larry O'Neill, Oregon's State Climatologist and an associate professor at Oregon State University.
THE QUESTION
Are Portland summers getting hotter?
THE SOURCES
- Larry O'Neill, Oregon State Climatologist
- Portland International Airport temperature data
THE ANSWER
Yes, hotter summers have become the new normal in Portland — literally.
People often use the word "normal" to describe the general kind of weather they expect based on their personal experiences, but the term also refers to specific measurements in meteorology and climatology.
WHAT WE FOUND
In climate data terms, "normal" is a moving 30-year average of temperature, precipitation and other weather conditions. The averages are recalculated every decade based on the preceding three decades of weather data.
"We often use the '30-year normal' (measurement) because it's most indicative of the weather we remember, and that we’ve experienced in recent past," O'Neill said.
It's a long enough time period to smooth out short term swings in the data caused by recurring weather phenomena like El Niño, La Niña and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in order to figure out the clear long term trends. And when it comes to temperatures, the long term trend is very clear.
"Underlying all those trends is a very, definite, systematic rise in temperatures and other variables as well," O'Neill said.
Daily temperature records have been kept at Portland International Airport since 1941. The upward trend in the average number of days with 90-degree or hotter temperatures in Portland over the past 81 years is impossible to miss.
From 1941 to 1970 the average was 9 days per year, then 10, then 12. In the most recent tabulation ending with 2020, the 30-year average for 90-degree heat in Portland was up 15 days.
Narrowing the scope to look at individual years shows that five of the hottest summers on record at PDX, in terms of number of 90-degree days, have all occurred in the last 14 years. And 2022 is well on its way to earning its own spot near the top of the chart.
The hotter summers are driven by the steadily rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2), in the Earth's atmosphere, which warms the surface.
"We know the correlation from many decades work studying exactly how CO2 affects the climate system, the radiation, the warmth of the planet," O'Neill said.
The annual peak of CO2, measured in parts-per-billion, is increasing. And while the greenhouse gas warms the lower atmosphere, it's also having the opposite effect — cooling — in the upper atmosphere.
"It's something we call a climate change fingerprint," O'Neill said. "We can actually measure that from weather balloons and satellites. It’s a very strong piece of evidence."
CO2-driven warming contributes to everything from increased wildfire frequency and toxic algae blooms in our waterways to the heat waves and other severe weather outbreaks that have hit across Oregon this summer.
Oregonians are probably directly paying more for it too, in the form of higher electricity bills for summer air conditioning.
One potential way to save is to sign up for PGE's Smart Thermostat Program, which provides incentives for PGE customers who allow the utility access and control of their thermostats to help manage the grid during peak demand. PGE has xx-customers already enrolled.
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(The Hill) – House Democrats passed their sweeping tax, climate and health care bill on Friday, sending the $740 billion legislation to President Biden’s desk and securing a significant victory for Democrats less than three months before the midterm elections.
The bill, titled the Inflation Reduction Act, passed the House in a 220-207 party-line vote. Four Republicans did not vote.
House passage came four days after the Senate approved the bill in a party-line vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting a tie-breaking vote.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) touted the bill on the House floor during debate on Friday, arguing that it “saves the planet while keeping more money in your pockets.”
“This bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, a package for the people, increases the leverage of the public interest over the special interests, and expands health and financial security now and for generations to come,” she added.
Passage through Congress marks the culmination of more than a year of negotiations among Senate Democrats on a spending package.
The legislation will increase taxes on corporations, address climate change and bring down the prices of prescription drugs, all while lowering the deficit.
The package specifically includes $369 billion in energy security and climate investments and $64 billion to expand Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years.
The bill offers incentives to businesses and consumers to make cleaner energy choices, including utilizing lower-carbon and carbon-free energy, and it creates new programs that will bolster investments in climate.
On the health care end, the measure will allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for 10 high-cost drugs starting in 2026. By 2029, that number is expected to grow to 20 drugs. Additionally, the measure allows caps to be placed on some drug costs, but mainly for Medicare.
To pay for the legislation, Democrats have written in a 15 percent minimum tax on income that large corporations report to their shareholders. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, only about 150 firms would be affected.
The bill also allocates $80 billion to increase enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service and ensure that wealthy individuals and corporations are not evading taxes. Additionally, a one percent excise tax on stock buybacks is included in the bill.
Passage of the bill caps off more than a year of negotiations among Senate Democrats, who had been working to come to a consensus on a spending package but failed on a number of occasions due to intra-party disagreements.
The Senate, however, finally hit a breakthrough late last month when Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a deal for the tax-and-spending package. The Senate ultimately approved that bill on Monday through budget reconciliation, a process that allowed Democrats to pass the measure with a simple majority, bypassing what would have likely been a Republican filibuster.
Every Democrat backed the bill, including Rep. Jared Golden (Maine), the only Democrat to oppose an earlier, larger measure approved by the House that was blocked by Manchin in the Senate.
He called it “common-sense legislation” and “fiscally responsible” in a statement prior to the vote.
Some progressive lawmakers had grumbled about the bill not being as expansive as they had hoped, but the entire caucus ultimately came together to support the measure.
House lawmakers interrupted their summer break to return to Washington to complete work on the bill and send it to Biden.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) started whipping against the bill on Tuesday, slamming the bill — which his office described as “the Inflation, Recession, and IRS Army Act — in a memo to House GOP offices.
In a roughly 50-minute speech on the House floor Friday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the legislation a “misguided, tone-dead bill,” slamming it for inflationary concerns and bringing attention to elevated prices in the U.S.
Republicans during debate also took issue with the provision that allocates $80 billion to the IRS to bolster enforcement.
“Democrats more than any other majority in history are addicted to spending other people’s money, regardless of what we as a country can afford,” McCarthy said on the House floor.
“Today, now they are choosing to end the session by spending half-a-trillion dollars more of your money, raising taxes on the middle class, and giving handouts to their liberal allies,” he added. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/house-approves-sweeping-climate-tax-health-care-package/ | 2022-08-12 23:37:52 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/house-approves-sweeping-climate-tax-health-care-package/ |
-- Second Avenue to Use Proprietary Investment Platform to Manage Additional 500 SFR Homes and Deploy Capital for the real estate business of Sculptor Capital Management --
TAMPA, Fla., June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Avenue ("Second Avenue"), a full-service, institutional quality single-family rental platform ("SFR"), today announced a strategic joint venture (the "JV") and property management agreement with Sculptor Real Estate ("Sculptor"), the real estate business of Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: SCU), a leading global alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, credit, and multi-strategy investment products.
Sculptor will contribute approximately 500 SFR homes to the JV and commit up to $100 million of additional capital to grow the JV's SFR portfolio. Sculptor's existing SFR portfolio covers eight of the eighteen major markets where Second Avenue currently owns SFR homes.
"Sculptor is the fifth multi-billion dollar fund since early 2022 to partner with Second Avenue to acquire homes, and they join an esteemed group of legacy investors including Monroe Capital, Waterton, BLG Capital Advisors and others," said Second Avenue CEO and Founder Mike Rothman. "Today's news further demonstrates investor demand for our platform which is purpose-built for the SFR industry – and clearly signals how much growth potential still remains for investors in the broader SFR space."
"The Sculptor joint venture will enable Second Avenue to expand into an additional five markets by strategically deploying capital over the coming years," Rothman added.
Sculptor's real estate business invests in both opportunistic real estate private equity and real estate credit. Since 2003, Sculptor has raised approximately $8.1 billion of committed real estate capital and has completed 195 transactions across 28 diverse real estate asset classes, including within the SFR segment.
"Second Avenue has an experienced, uniquely qualified team and a tremendous SFR platform with an end-to-end proprietary technology that effectively manages both maintenance and capital decisions," said Steven Orbuch, Founder and President of Sculptor Real Estate. "Second Avenue not only understands how these tech-enabled systems can help generate superior returns for investors, but also they know how to add value to SFR homes. We are excited to partner with Second Avenue on this new venture."
Despite facing headwinds from COVID-19, inflation, and an exponential rise in interest rates, Second Avenue has consistently delivered superior risk-adjusted returns to its investors, because of its capability in multi-acquisitional channels, since starting SFR management in 2019. As a result, Second Avenue has had a compound annual growth rate of acquiring homes of an impressive 139 percent since 2019.
The Second Avenue team now totals 175 employees, which includes senior executive leadership deep in SFR experience, and an additional 70 dedicated technology experts focused on technology development for the platform which is unparalleled to any other SFR platform of its size. Second Avenue has its national headquarters in Tampa, along with operational offices across the markets.
JLL Capital Markets represented Second Avenue in this transaction.
About Second Avenue
Second Avenue provides high quality professionally managed rental homes for today's families. A full-service single-family rental platform, founded in 2017, Second Avenue offers proprietary, technology based solutions to home buyers, sellers, renters, and investors. The firm's unified, end-to-end institutional quality asset management platform aggregates and enhances all aspects of single family rental investment and operations. With over $1 billion under management, Second Avenue is privately held and headquartered in Tampa with regional teams throughout the United States.
For more information about Second Avenue, visit: www.secondavenue.com
About Sculptor
Sculptor is a leading global alternative asset management firm with approximately $35 billion in assets under management specializing in real estate, credit, and multi-strategy investment products. Sculptor's real estate business was founded in 2003 and has invested in over $20.3 billion of real estate assets across 28 different real estate related asset classes including direct equity investments, preferred equity structures, ground leases, senior loan, mezzanine loans, among other real estate investments. For more information, visit www.sculptor.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers (AWPPW) workers went on strike at 12:30 a.m. Sunday on July 17th, 2022, over unfair labor practices (ULPs) at Graphics Packaging International in Portland, Oregon. AWPPW Local 78 members have overwhelmingly authorized a strike in response to the company's pattern of allegedly violating federal labor laws.
AWPPW Local members have spoken loud and clear. "Graphics alleged illegal activity is unacceptable." The union membership is striking over the company's alleged unlawful conduct.
The local bargaining team and Local 78 members remain united in their efforts to get GPI to respect their workers. The union has filed numerous unfair labor practice charges against Graphics in response to alleged unlawful activity. Other ULP charges remain under investigation.
AWPPW & GPI have been in collective bargaining negotiations seeking a new labor agreement. Prior to the COVID pandemic GPI has been, and continues to, have a grim time hiring new workers.
GPI's solution to attracting new workers is to pay temporary workers $2.00 less than current starting wage, pay zero benefits, have the temporary workers be employed by someone other than GPI, and not allow new workers to join or be represented by the AWPPW union.
GPI cancelled an agreed to bargain date stating GPI was unable to meet at the bargaining table due to the unexpected strike. The next bargaining date is set for July 28th.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Evacuation notices have been issued as the Fly Creek Fire continues to grow near Lake Billy Chinook, US Forest officials tweeted Sunday night.
The Jefferson County Sheriff issued a Level 3 “GO NOW” fire evacuation for the Perry South Campground and Monty Campground. A Level 2 “GET SET” fire evacuation was issued for the Three Rivers area.
The fire is burning near Balancing Rocks on Lake Billy Chinook and is growing quickly, according to officials. As of 11:30 p.m. Sunday, the fire had consumed more than 30 acres and was 0% contained.
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According to Central Oregon Interagency, several loads of retardant was dropped on the wildfire Sunday night. Crews worked to create containment lines and were to stay on the fire.
Officials said a passing lightning storm started multiple fires near the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest on Sunday. The National Weather Service issued A Red Flag Warning across central Oregon for lightning on Monday. | https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/fly-creek-fire-lake-billy-chinook-oregon-evacuations-ordered-08012022/ | 2022-08-01 15:27:15 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/fly-creek-fire-lake-billy-chinook-oregon-evacuations-ordered-08012022/ |
CDC: Possible norovirus outbreak affected numerous Grand Canyon National Park visitors
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released details about a possible norovirus outbreak affecting Grand Canyon National Park visitors earlier this year.
Previously, Arizona’s Family reported that the virus hit dozens of river rafters and backcountry campers who said they had “explosive” gastrointestinal illnesses after a rafting group reported the first case on April 6.
According to the CDC, 11 of 28 rafters got sick on that trip while initially reporting having norovirus-like symptoms, with some samples testing positive for the virus.
As weeks passed, more reports of illnesses came in as hiking groups and summer vacationers visited the park. As a result, the CDC launched an investigation with researchers arriving at the park by the end of May.
Three months later, the CDC released its findings, which indicated that the norovirus outbreak could have come from multiple sources.
According to CDC researchers, five people reported becoming ill before their trips, indicating a “potential for multisource introduction” of norovirus into the park.
In addition, investigations into portable toilets from rafting trips revealed that, while they each tested positive for norovirus, they had two distinct genotypes -- different genetic materials -- meaning they came from other places. Park officials reported the last case of gastroenteritis on June 17.
In all, Arizona’s Family reports that researchers looked into the possibility of 222 people reportedly getting sick within those three months and found more than 80% were visitors.
“We haven’t seen something like this kind of outbreak in about 10 years,” Jan Balsom, a spokesperson for the park, told The Daily Beast in June.
The CDC warns that as norovirus cases increase nationwide, the virus could resurge at the park as visitation levels return to near pre-pandemic levels. Therefore, travelers should practice extra hygiene and ensure they use and consume clean water.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — All the hand-wringing over a potential government default if Congress doesn’t increase the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling has conjured up images of past government shutdowns. In shutdowns, “essential” workers — TSA agents and such — showed up, but most federal employees stayed home. Work piled up in offices, and litter piled up in untended national parks.
However, there’s a big difference between a government shutdown and a default on the nation’s debts.
America very well knows what happens in a shutdown — it’s had four of them in the past 30 years. There’s a lot more uncertainty about a default, which could well have more wide-ranging and devastating impacts, at home and around the world. There’s never been a default, and negotiators are trying to find a way to avoid one now.
A look at what is known — and not — about both:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
A shutdown occurs when Congress doesn’t approve funding legislation so that the government can keep spending money to remain open.
When Congress hasn’t authorized or extended government funding, there is no authority to spend money. Essential work continues — the military remains on guard — but most federal workers are sent home, and activities cease until Congress acts.
It’s harmful to the economy, and can disrupt many lives, but it’s is far from catastrophic.
The U.S. has experienced four true government shutdowns where operations were impacted by more than one business day, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. That usually includes limitations on government services — like park maintenance and benefit checks — and non-essential federal employees are sent home.
“We know what a government shutdown looks like,” said Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center. “And everyone knows on which date that will occur.”
The White House keeps a long list of agency contingency plans in the event of a government shutdown. The country narrowly avoided one last December.
GOVERNMENT DEFAULT
A default would occur if the government exceeds its legal borrowing limit and can no longer pay all its creditors or pay for existing programs.
The uncertainty about a default starts with when it actually occurs and in what order the government would pay its bills with whatever money it still has coming in.
A default “would be a very different situation” from a shutdown, said Akabas. “We don’t know what the effects would look like because it’s never happened in the history of our country.”
He added that there is “massive uncertainty” about when the U.S. would reach its X-date, the moment when it no longer can borrow money to pay bills.
Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute focusing on tax issues, said “there is no blueprint for how the government can manage a debt limit default,” and much of it would come down to how Treasury would pay or put off paying its bills.
President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and countless economists have warned darkly about the “catastrophic” impacts of a default.
Yellen this week said it would destroy jobs and businesses, and leave millions of families who rely on federal government payments to “likely go unpaid,” including Social Security beneficiaries, veterans and military families.
“A default could cause widespread suffering as Americans lose the income that they need to get by,” she said. Disruptions to federal government operations would impact “air traffic control and law enforcement, border security and national defense, and food safety.”
WHO GETS PAID — AND WHO DOESN’T
Wendy Edelberg, an economist at the Brookings Institution, said that in the event of a default “it is widely assumed that Treasury would figure out how to make principle and interest payments until they had money to pay all non-interest payments.”
That means many programs could be up in the air until the U.S. raised enough money to pay for them, while debt holders like China would receive payments — in a scheme called “debt payment prioritization.”
So while Social Security recipients, for instance, continued to receive automated payments and scheduled checks during a shutdown, Akabas said, it’s not so clear that they would get paid in a default.
“Maybe workers will come into work,” maybe they won’t, Riedl said. “There is an assumption that federal workers would come into work and get paid eventually.”
“There’s no specific blueprint. It comes down to whether their agency gets funding,” he said. “If we do hit the debt limit, there’s going to be a lot of new court cases on who determines who gets paid and how.”
WHERE NEGOTATIONS STAND
Democratic and Republican leaders have said that a default will not occur, despite their standoff on raising the debt limit.
Before leaving Wednesday for a Group of Seven summit meeting in Japan, Biden said he was “confident” that the U.S. will be able to raise the debt ceiling.
Republicans are asking for steep spending cuts before they agree to raise the debt limit, and most recently the president has shown a willingness to discuss possible budget changes.
Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have named top negotiators to discuss the contours of a deal. | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-why-a-government-default-could-be-worse-than-a-government-shutdown/ | 2023-05-19 07:05:22 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-why-a-government-default-could-be-worse-than-a-government-shutdown/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The next round of COVID-19 vaccines will target one of the latest versions of the coronavirus, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
FDA’s decision came one day after an agency panel of outside advisers supported the recipe change. The agency told vaccine makers to provide protection against just one omicron strain, known as XBB.1.5.
Today’s shots include the original coronavirus and an earlier version of omicron. They do still help prevent severe disease and death even as XBB variants have taken over. But protection gradually wanes over time and was short-lived against milder infection even before the virus, inevitably, evolved again.
The three U.S. companies that make COVID-19 shots said this week they had geared up to make the formula change, in anticipation of making many millions of doses available for the fall. One company, Pfizer, said it could have at least some doses ready as early as next month.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will eventually decide whether to recommend the shot for nearly all Americans or just for certain high-risk groups.
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- New partnership underscores need for low-cost residential EV chargers to support mainstream EV adoption
SAN CARLOS, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Enel X Way announced the company has been selected by Florida Power & Light (FPL) to support the FPL EVolution Home program. Through the program, FPL utility customers can receive an Enel X Way JuiceBox Level 2 smart electric vehicle (EV) charger for a $31 fixed monthly fee, if a customer already has a permitted 240-volt circuit or a $38 fixed monthly fee if a customer needs a 240-volt circuit. Included in that fee is unlimited off-peak renewable electricity for charging as well as the cost of the charger, plus all installation, engineering and permitting costs.
To be eligible for the program, FPL residential customers must own or lease an EV, own and live in a single-family home with an attached garage, and have access to Wi-Fi in the charging location. In addition to the convenience of charging at home, the FPL EVolution Home program also provides customers with:
- Increased range confidence & faster charge times: Up to 60 miles of range per hour and only 4 to 7 hours to fully charge most EVs.
- Lower charging costs: Unlimited off-peak renewable electricity on weeknights and weekends and up to $579 in annual fuel cost savings compared to conventional vehicles.
- Reduced emissions: 8,000 pounds less CO2 per year compared to conventional vehicles.
Recognized by CNET and Car and Driver as "Best EV Charger Overall for 2022," the Enel X Way JuiceBox Level 2 EV charger is grid-connected, meaning it utilizes off-peak charging to help balance the grid, delivering energy cost savings that allow EV owners to maximize their investments. The award-winning JuiceBox chargers are also compact, weatherproof and recharge EVs up to 12 times faster than other charging equipment, providing owners with a best-in-class charging experience.
"As an experienced partner that's helped dozens of utilities, thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of consumers take advantage of smart EV charging solutions, Enel X Way is honored to partner with Florida Power & Light and scale affordable residential EV smart charging to their customers across the state," said Chris Baker, Head of Enel X Way North America. "If there's one takeaway we can gather from the rapid growth of the EV market, it's the United States is approaching an EV tipping point, meaning now is the time to explore what consumer EV incentive options are available to you."
Through the FPL EVolution Home program, the JuiceBox chargers will be programmed to charge automatically whenever low-cost renewable electricity is available. These smart charging stations will also capture data to provide FPL with valuable learnings and insights around customers' charging behaviors and preferences, including:
- Scalability: Reliable and extensible EV charging network to accommodate the growth of electric transportation in the service territory
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- Equipment performance and materials longevity: Effects of accumulating charging sessions and exposure to Florida environmental conditions
- Customer satisfaction: Feedback on charger placement, availability, segment/type and billing mechanism
- Pilot program insights: Opportunities to expand the EV charging program, enhance service and reduce costs
- Open network protocol: Lower risk of assets stranded due to proprietary hardware, software or communication protocols
- Branding and data ownership: Co-branding (or white label) and full data ownership
To participate, FPL customers must complete a three-step enrollment and installation process, starting with confirming eligibility through a brief questionnaire. For more information about the new program and Enel X Way's EV chargers, visit fpl.com and evcharging.enelx.com/products.
Enel X Way is a global leader in smart electric vehicle charging solutions with over 320,000 charging ports worldwide, including roaming agreements. As a subsidiary of Fortune 200 renewable energy leader, the Enel Group, Enel X Way is committed to providing smart mobility solutions for drivers, businesses and partners to make driving electric simple. Enel X Way's flagship home charging station, the JuiceBox, has been named the "best EV charger overall" in 2022 by CNET Roadshow. For more information, please visit our Enel X Way North American website here and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @enelxwayna.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A young boy and his father in Marion County are reliving some scary moments when the boy saved another child from drowning. Now, the county is honoring the boy for his bravery.
Floyd Karrer, 10, had been practicing holding his breath, swimming to the bottom of the deep end to pick up bricks, stones and other items this summer. However, he never could have known how much that practice would pay off.
It was like any other hot day. Earlier this summer, Floyd visited a neighborhood pool near Holliday Park to cool off with his dad, Paul Karrer.
"Through the middle is just where it slopes down, and there's been other kids, and you see them go down, and you've given them a boost back to the shallow end," Paul said.
That day, however, they were taking a break from the water when Floyd happened to spot another boy who was a few years older.
"I saw him cannonball over there, and then a few minutes later, there were kids over here, they were saying, 'Hey, there's a ball at the bottom of the pool,'" Floyd said. "Then, the kids said, 'No, not a ball, a boy.'"
Floyd didn't hesitate, jumping in and swimming to the bottom of the deep end. The boy was slumped over, nine feet down.
"He was unconscious," Floyd said.
"When he did come up and had the boy, I was in shock," Paul said. "There was no 'there' in his eyes. He was gone."
Floyd got him out, pulling him on the ground next to the pool. His dad ran over, giving the boy CPR while others called 911.
"Once he took those first few gargled breaths, I was like, 'Wow,'" Paul said.
Paramedics arrived and rushed him to the hospital.
"That's the last I saw of him," Floyd said.
They don't like thinking about that day and what would have happened had Floyd not been there to jump in.
"If he's starting at 10 years old, I can't imagine how many other people he'll help," Paul said.
The family called the hospital the next day and was told the boy was going to be OK.
Floyd would like to find the boy and be able to see him again. However, so far, they haven't been able to connect.
In the meantime, the city heard about this story and sent Floyd a proclamation, thanking him and honoring him for his bravery. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/marion-county-honors-10-year-old-rescuing-child-from-pool/531-40060ad9-95fb-46c9-ba07-aa80ad0ec14c | 2022-08-13 00:37:31 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/marion-county-honors-10-year-old-rescuing-child-from-pool/531-40060ad9-95fb-46c9-ba07-aa80ad0ec14c |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — It appears Major League Baseball just lost one of its biggest attractions at the All-Star Game: Shohei Ohtani on the mound.
Ohtani said he doesn’t expect to pitch in next week’s showcase after leaving the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-5 loss to the San Diego Padres with a blister on the middle finger of his right hand Tuesday.
“It’s going to be pretty tough. As of now I’m planning on not pitching,” Ohtani said through an interpreter.
The two-way superstar could still play a significant role if he’s healthy enough to remain the starting designated hitter for the American League next Tuesday in Seattle.
Ohtani exited on the mound against the Padres in the sixth inning. When his spot in the lineup at DH came up in the ninth, he was replaced by a pinch-hitter.
“When I came out of the game I was kind of in the moment, so we will see about going forward the next few days,” Ohtani said. “On the pitching side, I have like nine, 10 days until the next start so hopefully I will heal in time.”
Ohtani was pulled after giving up consecutive home runs to Xander Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth with none out in the sixth.
The right-hander’s start had been pushed back a day due to a cracked fingernail. His velocity was down Tuesday, and he left trailing 5-1.
“It was hard for me to put full pressure on it,” Ohtani said.
He left his previous start as a pitcher but remained in the game as the DH and homered, giving him 10 strikeouts and two home runs in a 4-2 win against the Chicago White Sox.
“It’s my understanding they put an acrylic nail on there because of where it was cracked and it might have just irritated the skin on the side of the finger,” Angels manager Phil Nevin said. “It felt like he just didn’t have command of his pitches going into the sixth and we talked about it and he felt good and warmed up and he gave me a thumbs up.”
Asked if the blister would hamper Ohtani’s ability to bat, Nevin said: “I don’t think so. It’s just the tip of the middle finger and I think he’s going to be OK.”
Ohtani’s exit came several hours after the Angels learned they’ll be without fellow All-Star slugger Mike Trout for several weeks because of a broken left wrist.
Ohtani became a two-way All-Star for the third straight year when he was picked for the AL pitching staff by players on Sunday, 10 days after fans voted him to start at designated hitter. Also on Sunday, Ohtani and Trout homered in the same game for the 30th time, helping the Angels beat Arizona 5-2.
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No matter how you look at it — the tape or via advanced analytics — Zach Frazier is among the best offensive linemen in the Big 12 Conference and the country. According to data from Pro Football Focus, no offensive lineman in the conference can top him.
Frazier headlines the list of the highest-graded returning offensive linemen in the Big 12. Frazier tops the league with a grade of 80.8 and is one of just three of the league’s O-linemen with a PFF grade of 77 or better.
The Fairmont, West Virginia native was named to the Athlon Sports Preseason All-America First Team last month. It was Frazier’s latest All-America honor after being named to the Walter Camp Football Foundation’s Preseason All-America Second Team in March.
Also among the Big 12’s ten highest-graded returning offensive linemen is fellow Mountain State native Wyatt Milum. The Spring Valley High School product was recently selected as a preseason All-Big 12 second team offensive lineman by Athlon Sports. Pro Football Focus gave him a grade of 74.8, which ranks seventh in the Big 12 Conference.
The PFF list, released Tuesday on social media, includes players from the 10 existing conference members and the four added members.
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRO) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: October 28, 2021 to May 2, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 25, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Spero Therapeutics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the data submitted in support of the New Drug Application ("NDA") for the Company's product candidate, Tebipenem HBr, were insufficient to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"); (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (iii) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Spero you have until July 25, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Spero securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
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Bobby Ritterbeck Named President, Andrew Deringer Named Chief Financial Officer as Part of Leadership Transition
WILMINGTON, Del., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Best Egg, Inc. today announced the appointment of Paul Ricci as the company's new Chief Executive Officer, following the resignation of Jeffrey Meiler. Ricci, who was the founding Chief Financial Officer for the company, brings a wealth of experience, a deep understanding of the organization, and a proven track record of leadership and strategic vision.
As the company's new CEO, Ricci will lead Best Egg into an exciting new chapter, leading strategic growth and innovation. He has an intimate knowledge of Best Egg's operations, having been one of the earliest leaders of the business and an integral contributor to the company's growth and the establishment of its award-winning company culture. The Board and management team are fully supportive of Ricci's ability to build upon the foundation laid by his predecessor and drive the company's strategic plans forward.
Jack Klinck, Executive Chair of Best Egg's Board of Directors, expressed his utmost support for the appointment, stating, "With his deep understanding of the Best Egg business cultivated through his tenure as CFO, Paul has proven himself to be an exceptional leader. He has played a vital role in the company's success, driving continued growth and fostering its award-winning culture. The Board is confident that Paul will seamlessly transition into his new role and lead Best Egg to a future filled with success."
"I am honored and excited to be appointed Chief Executive Officer for Best Egg," said Ricci. "Together, with our exceptional team, we will capitalize on opportunities, exceed customer expectations, and drive sustained growth for the company."
As part of Best Egg's leadership transition, Bobby Ritterbeck has been named President and Andrew Deringer has been named Chief Financial Officer. Ritterbeck and Deringer bring significant leadership experience to their respective roles and will continue to contribute to the company's financial growth and stability in their new positions.
These important management changes reflect Best Egg's commitment to maintaining its trajectory of growth and success. The company's performance remains strong and stable, and no anticipated material changes will result from these appointments.
Klinck added, "The Board appreciates Jeffrey Meiler's exceptional leadership in building a high-performing company and fostering a strong organizational culture. His decision to resign was difficult, but ultimately driven by his belief that it was in his and the company's best interest to hand over the reins to the leadership team to guide Best Egg into its next phase of growth."
About Paul Ricci
Paul Ricci joined Best Egg in 2014 and has served as the company's Chief Financial Officer twice, from 2014 to 2017 and since 2020. He has more than 20 years of experience in financial services and direct-to-consumer marketing, and he has held a variety of finance and leadership positions at growth companies in the financial industry. Paul holds a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Accounting from Drexel University.
About Best Egg
Best Egg is the leading financial confidence platform that provides flexible solutions to help people with limited savings confidently navigate their everyday financial lives. Best Egg supports customers through a growing suite of personal loan, credit card, flexible rent, and financial health tools. Leveraging real-time customer insights and data engineering, Best Egg gives more people access to the resources they need to be money confident. For more information, visit www.bestegg.com.
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The cast of Dancing With the Stars is in mourning after learning of Stephen 'tWitch' Boss' death. ET spoke to the show's pro dancers as they rehearsed for the upcoming DWTS tour, and they all expressed disbelief over the tragic loss. Boss, who was married to and shared three kids with former DWTS pro Allison Holker, died by suicide earlier this week. He was 40.
"I think it's just disbelief," Alan Bersten said. "I think anyone who's ever met tWitch will say that he's the nicest, most caring, most present person, really wants to make everyone feel better. It's so devastating. I didn't believe it."
"When I first started dancing in this entertainment business it was on So You Think You Can Dance. He was the poster child, the pinnacle, the guy that never gave up and just kept going," he continued of Boss, who was a runner-up on the show and later served as a judge. "He made it on the show and became such an inspiration to so many dancers, including myself. It's so hard to believe."
One of the dancers that Boss had a great impact on was Alexis Warr, who won season 17 of So You Think You Can Dance, on which Boss was a judge.
"He was my judge when I did So You Think You Can Dance and he's, like, the reason we stayed sane in a way," she told ET. "He provided so much support and so much guidance to us all. He really made an individual connection with each one of us and just made sure that we were loved and supported. He was like a proud dad to us. We always knew that he had our backs. He really taught us a lot of life lessons on the show, but also just in life in general."
As for her favorite memory of Boss, Warr thought back to the moment after her audition for the competition.
"I remember after my audition, the look in his eyes, I just saw how proud he was. He didn't even have to say anything. I just saw it. I couldn't help but choke up on stage," she said. "He made a comment... 'This is your moment'... He basically gave me the confidence that I needed throughout that season."
Now that Boss is gone, Warr said she feels like there's "a huge chunk of our hearts that's missing."
"I was in complete disbelief and just shock and I feel like I still am. It's just so unimaginable and it's such a tragic thing to happen," she said. "... It's so heartbreaking. I feel almost numb."
Meanwhile, Emma Slater told ET that there aren't "enough good words to say about tWitch, just the positive impact he had on people."
"For me, I was in complete shock and I think just the sheer sadness of how this happened really made people understand worldwide just how fragile life is and to tell each other you love each other and to really check in," she added. "I know he has had definitely a profound impact on me."
"I just thought he was an angel. I really did," she continued. "...I can't believe that something like this has happened to somebody who was just so good and so pure."
Sasha Farber concurred, calling Boss "the nicest guy ever," and noting that the late Ellen DeGeneres Show DJ "would always come and make sure to go out of his way to help someone, to give you information."
"tWitch was such a significant part of the dance community, but then he had this amazing ability to go beyond that," Britt Stewart noted. "He just lit up every room. He was so positive no matter where he was. I know, personally, I really want to send a lot of love and light to his wife, Allison, who I've know since I was a teenager and his kids, of course."
Next, Ezra Sosa revealed that he learned the tragic news from his good friend, JoJo Siwa, who served as a judge on So You Think You Can Dance alongside Boss.
"The day of his passing, I woke up to my friend JoJo calling me. I know every single time she calls me I have to answer 'cause I know it's important," he told ET. "She was hysterically crying. Nothing was coming out, I was just trying to get her to speak, and when I figured out what she was saying... I don't know, it's still hard to process."
"It's still something really hard for us all to process, because he wasn't just close to one of us, we all felt very close and connected to him as well," Sosa added. "It's really hard."
Kateryna Klishyna agreed, admitting that the reality of the situation "just doesn't fit in my head," while Brandon Armstrong spoke about the lessons he hopes people can take away from this tragedy.
"We're just praying for the family, praying for Allison and the kids, and hoping that people can use this as an opportunity to reach out to the people that they love, reach out to the people that may be struggling," he said. "If you are struggling, reach out to the people that love you. Know that you always have a family around you, you always have support."
Ahead of the interviews, a source told ET that the DWTS cast was "confused, and feeling so many emotions while trying to be there for Allison and each other" in the wake of Boss' death.
"They are all texting and calling each other and trying to make sense of this," the source shared. "tWitch was such a genuine and good-hearted person, and his loved ones are feeling his tremendous loss."
The Dancing With the Stars tour will kick off Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C. Visit DWTSTour.com for tickets.
If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.
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MIAMI, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrington Capital, a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and web3 since 2017, today named Keli Callaghan as a new partner to the organization. Keli most recently led marketing and communications at Algorand as their chief marketing officer. Keli is a seasoned entrepreneur and blockchain operator who joined Algorand in 2018 and was responsible for all aspects of their marketing since inception to what it is today - a thriving community of millions of users, thousands of applications and billions of dollars of value.
In her role at Arrington Capital, she will help grow the overall fund through increased brand awareness, community engagement, and supporting the long list of web3 companies that are part of the Arrington portfolio.
"We met Keli in 2019 when we first invested in Algorand. We have grown closer to Algorand over the years, including the launch of the Arrington ALGO Growth Fund about a year ago to invest even more heavily into that ecosystem. We've worked with Keli countless times on events and product launches, and she's one of the most intelligent, charismatic and energetic entrepreneurs I've ever met. We are extremely happy that she's joined us," said Michael Arrington of Arrington Capital. "Like many before her, Keli is taking the path from successful entrepreneur to investor. It's the same path that I took, and I'm pretty sure she's going to be great at it. She will be a particularly valuable resource for the companies that we invest in."
"I am thrilled to be joining a powerhouse of defi that I have found in the Arrington Capital team," said Keli Callaghan. "I look forward to working with a portfolio of leading web3 companies, continuing to support Algorand, and also diving in on new innovations and ecosystems."
Keli previously held leadership roles at the intersection of marketing and customer engagement with several global technology companies including Avid, Sprint, Zmags, and Rez1. Her roles have included the management of channel sales & marketing, developing marketing strategies and tactical execution plans to drive business awareness and growth, building go-to-market positioning and strategy, and leading cross functional teams.
Keli holds a degree in marketing comms and business ethics from Fairfield University and a MBA from Boston College. Keli can be found on Twitter at @KeliCallaghan.
Arrington Capital is a digital asset management firm primarily focused on blockchain-based capital markets. The firm, founded in 2017 by TechCrunch and CrunchBase founder Michael Arrington and TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, has over $1 billion under management and has invested in hundreds of startups across the world. Arrington Capital is a seasoned, international team composed of Silicon Valley veterans and operators with deep venture capital experience and crypto native roots. Arrington Capital's first fund was Arrington XRP Capital, and has expanded to multiple funds over time, including the Arrington Algo Growth Fund and the recently launched Arrington Moonbeam Growth Fund. For more information on Arrington Capital, visit https://www.arringtoncapital.com/.
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Which Samsung side-by-side refrigerator is best?
Side-by-side refrigerators are designed with two tall, narrow compartments, both extending the full height of the refrigerator. One side is for the refrigerator and the other is for the freezer. In most cases, the refrigerator compartment is larger than the freezer.
Samsung is a well-regarded maker of appliances and electronics of all kinds. If you are looking for a Samsung smart appliance with Alexa and Wi-Fi built right in, take a look at the Samsung 26.7-Cubic-Foot Side-by-Side Refrigerator With Touch Screen Controls.
What to know before you buy a Samsung side-by-side refrigerator
Size
Because side-by-side refrigerators have narrower doors than traditional freezer-over and freezer-under models, they need less clearance than refrigerators with full-width doors. Open doors on side-by-sides don’t extend as far into your kitchen, either, so they leave you more space to move around.
Is a side-by-side refrigerator right for you?
Pros
- More storage: In general, side-by-side refrigerators have more storage space than other styles.
- Narrower doors: They take up less room and are a great choice in smaller kitchens.
- Easy organization: You can put your most-used refrigerated and frozen foods on the top shelves, where they’re at eye level and easy to get at.
- Kid control: You can set items for small kids on lower shelves and items you don’t want them handling on higher shelves.
- Findable frozens: Side-by-side refrigerators’ freezers have more shelves, so frozen foods are less likely to get lost.
Cons
- Space gobblers: In general, side-by-side refrigerators take up more space.
- Narrow compartments: Some side-by-side refrigerators have freezer compartments narrower than the width of a pizza box, so storing larger items could be a problem.
- Higher prices: Side-by-sides cost more than traditional freezer-over and freezer-under models.
Measure first
- Depth: Measure from the wall to the front of the counter. Side-by-side refrigerators are anywhere from 32 to 40 inches wide.
- Width: Measure from cabinet to cabinet or from cabinet to wall. Side-by-side refrigerators are anywhere from 29 to 32 inches deep. If you plan on placing your refrigerator next to a wall, leave three inches between the wall and the hinged side of the door so it can open fully and freely.
What to look for in a quality Samsung side-by-side refrigerator
Capacity
Choose a Samsung side-by-side big enough for your household’s food storage needs. Samsung makes side-by-sides with capacities from 22 to 28 cubic feet.
Organization
Look for adjustable shelves and bins that open and close easily. Special racks let you save space by storing bottles on their sides. Also, look for LED interior lighting and space in the refrigerator for tall items.
Samsung’s Family Hub
Family Hub refrigerators keep you connected by letting you control your Samsung smart appliances, stream music while you cook, share family photos on the on-door screen, see who’s at the door and more, all from your refrigerator door. With Wi-Fi connectivity, Alexa built in and the power to connect anytime from anywhere, a Family Hub makes your refrigerator the hub of your kitchen activities.
Family Hub food features
- Quick view inside: Tap or swipe to see what’s inside.
- Smart recipes: Instant access to recipes and videos with just a touch.
- Shopping lists: Create lists and share them with others.
- Same-day pickup or delivery: Send your shopping list to Fresh Direct and Instacart.
- Meal planner: Plan your meals based on the food that’s inside your refrigerator.
Other Family Hub features
- Display digital photos and videos.
- Draw on the whiteboard and write notes, memos and to-do lists.
- Sync calendars and events.
- Search and browse the internet.
How much you can expect to spend on a Samsung side-by-side refrigerator
Samsung makes side-by-sides from $1,350-$2,400, depending on their size and features.
Samsung side-by-side refrigerator FAQ
Are side-by-side refrigerators the same thing as french door refrigerators?
A. One is oriented vertically and the other horizontally. Both have doors that open outward, but side-by-side models have one tall side that is exclusively refrigerator while the opposite side is all freezer space. French door models are designed so the refrigerator compartment takes up the entire top and the bottom freezer pulls out like a large drawer.
What are dual evaporators?
A. Evaporators make the inside of refrigerators and freezers cold by removing moisture from the air. Fruits and vegetables need high humidity to stay fresh while freezer air should be dry. Having two separate evaporators prevents air from the refrigerator from mingling with air from the freezer, maintaining their separate humidities.
What’s the best Samsung side-by-side refrigerator to buy?
Top Samsung side-by-side refrigerator
Samsung 26.7-Cubic-Foot Counter Depth Side-by-Side Refrigerator With Touch Screen Controls
What you need to know: Alexa and Wi-Fi are built into this smart appliance.
What you’ll love: You can see inside your refrigerator from anywhere and search recipes using what you have on hand. The touch screen hub lets you shop, send notes and sync schedules. You can organize your fresh and frozen foods on 16 shelves and in four pull-out drawers.
What you should consider: The shelves are not adjustable.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top Samsung side-by-side refrigerator for the money
Samsung 27.4-Cubic-Foot Large-Capacity Stainless Steel Side-by-Side Refrigerator
What you need to know: This large refrigerator has an integrated dispenser with a touch display for easy access to water, cubed or crushed ice.
What you’ll love: The in-door ice maker has a spacious bin and the stainless steel exterior is fingerprint-resistant. Multi-vent technology cools every shelf evenly. The no-handle doors give it a sleek appearance while letting it fit in a 36-by-33-inch space.
What you should consider: Some reviewers say it should make ice more quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Samsung 22-Cubic-Foot Counter Depth Side-by-Side Refrigerator
What you need to know: This is a great choice for those who prefer white appliances to the look of stainless steel.
What you’ll love: Samsung’s twin cooling feature keeps perishable produce fresher longer with high humidity on the refrigerator side and protects against freezer burn with dry air on the freezer side. LED lighting brightens every corner and the automatic in-door ice dispenser saves space while producing 5.5 pounds of ice per day.
What you should consider: Some users have complained the ice maker is too noisy.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Trump calls for ‘immediate’ release of Mar-a-Lago warrant
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents ... I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.” He continued to assail the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago as “unAmerican, unwarranted and unnecessary.”
“Release the documents now!” he wrote.
The Justice Department request earlier Thursday is striking because such documents traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, and that the public was entitled to the FBI’s side about what prompted Monday’s action at the former president’s home.
“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” said a motion filed in federal court in Florida on Thursday.
Should the warrant be released — the request is now with the judge — it could disclose unflattering information about the former president and about FBI scrutiny of his handling of sensitive government documents right as he prepares for another run for the White House. During his successful 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information.
It’s unclear at this point how much information would be included in the documents, if made public, or if they would encompass an FBI affidavit that would presumably lay out a detailed factual basis for the search. The department specifically requested the unsealing of the warrant as well as a property receipt listing the items that were seized, along with two unspecified attachments.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must prove to a judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime was committed. Garland said he personally approved the warrant, a decision he said the department did not take lightly given that standard practice where possible is to select less intrusive tactics than a search of one’s home.
In this case, according to a person familiar with the matter, there was substantial engagement with Trump and his representatives prior to the search warrant, including a subpoena for records and a visit to Mar-a-Lago a couple of months ago by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the documents were stored. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neither Trump nor the FBI has said anything about what documents the FBI might have recovered, or what precisely agents were looking for. But the former president complained anew Thursday about the search.
Trump, who for years has lambasted the FBI and sought to sow distrust among his supporters in its decisions, said the warrant was served and the search conducted despite his cooperation with the Justice Department over the search.
In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said that his “attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully” prior to the search, and that government officials “could have had whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, if we had it.”
The Justice Department has until Friday afternoon to alert the judge about whether Trump will object to the release.
FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of probes and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds.
In this case, though, Garland cited the fact that Trump himself had provided the first public confirmation of the FBI search, “as is his right.” The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court’s functions.
Even so, Garland, in a hastily scheduled public statement delivered from the Justice Department podium, appeared to acknowledge the unusual nature of the department’s request as he declined to take questions or provide any substantive details about the FBI’s investigation.
“Much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. We do that to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations,” he said. “Federal law, longstanding department rules and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time.”
The Justice Department under Garland has been leery of public statements about politically charged investigations, or of confirming to what extent it might be investigating Trump as part of a broader probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The department has tried to avoid being seen as injecting itself into presidential politics, as happened in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey made an unusual public statement announcing that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Clinton regarding her handling of email — and when he spoke up again just over a week before the election to notify Congress that the probe was being effectively reopened because of the discovery of new emails.
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant served Monday was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year. The National Archives had asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records. Multiple federal laws govern the handling of classified information.
The attorney general also condemned verbal attacks on FBI and Justice Department personnel over the search. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. Large numbers of Trump supporters have called for the warrant to be released hoping they it will show that Trump was unfairly targeted.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said of federal law enforcement agents, calling them “dedicated, patriotic public servants.”
Earlier Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio, then fled and was later killed after a standoff with law enforcement. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified the man as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on the day it took place.
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BOSTON (AP) — Growing up in New England, Leah Ofsevit’s most cherished childhood memories were blanketed in snow. She remembers running barefoot outside with her brother at the first sign of it, building snowmen and ice castles most winters, strapping on skis as a toddler.
Ofsevit and her husband, Jeremy Garczynski, want to pass those traditions onto their children, 3-year-old Lewis and 8-month-old Asher. They were hoping this would be the year: Tiny skis were purchased for Lewis, and they planned to ski their favorite Massachusetts ski trails while dragging Asher behind them in a sled.
But three months into winter, with March arriving, their skis and sleds are mostly gathering dust. She doesn’t like it one bit.
“It’s not what I envisioned for my kids,” says Ofsevit, who was on her high school cross-country ski team and lives in Melrose, just outside Boston. “Its such a big part of being a kid in New England.”
For much of the eastern United States, from Massachusetts all the way down to parts of West Virginia and into Ohio, winter has been a bust. While parts of the Midwest have been hit with repeated snow storms, much of California including Los Angeles got blanketed of late and even parts of the Southwest saw near-blizzard conditions, many East Coast cities have missed out.
Boston, known for nasty nor’easters and a blizzard last year that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the city, had seen just over 11 inches as of last week compared to an average of 38.6, according to data from the National Weather Service. Philadelphia has gotten only 0.3 inches compared to an average of 19.2. New York, which typically gets over two feet by now, has seen only 2.2 inches. Similar shortfalls have been seen in Providence, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C. and parts of West Virginia.
There have been exceptions like Buffalo, which in November got walloped thanks to lake-effect storm, caused by cold air picking up moisture from warmer lakes. Yet, says David Robinson, a Rutgers University geography professor and the New Jersey state climatologist: “For the most part, it’s been a winterless winter.”
THE WHYS
A big reason for the lack of snow has been the warmer conditions, Robinson says — conditions driven in part by human-induced climate change. The northeast is among the fastest warming regions in the country.
The region has seen plenty of precipitation, but often it has been too warm to snow. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont all had their warmest January on record, while Indiana, New York and Pennsylvania their second warmest, according to the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But other factors are at play.
La Niña, which involves a large-scale cooling of ocean surface temperatures, has led to unusual cool conditions in the eastern Pacific Ocean. As a result, the jet stream, which would bring colder conditions to the region, has kept that air closer to the Canadian border rather than dropping down into the northeast.
The polar vortex, which spins like a whirling top above the North Pole, also remained strong through mid-January, which kept the colder air bottled up in Canada, according to Judah Cohen, who studies the relationship between the polar vortex and the weather and is the director of seasonal forecasting for Verisk AER.
This could become the new normal. The weather service analyzed snowfall totals back to 2019 in the contiguous United States and found the states whose totals are furthest off their average as of mid-February were on the East Coast.
For many who pride themselves on thriving in New England winters, the unusually warm conditions have been disorienting and downright depressing. Gone are the four seasons and the scenes many have long associated with winter — snow blanketing backyards, covering trees and piling up in mounds on street corners and in parking lots.
Instead, the landscape offers brown grass, muddy backyards and spring flowers blooming early.
“When I retired, I thought winter would be my joyful time because I will be able to ski when I want, be outdoors …. enjoy everything having to do with winter,” Leah Ofsevit’s mother, Nancy Mazonson. “It’s not beautiful outside … It’s not mysterious. It’s just the same old same old without the magic of snow.”
Caroline Nagy moved from New York City to Troy in upstate New York with her husband in hopes of catching colder and snowier winters. It hasn’t turned out as she expected. “A warm month is one thing,” says Nagy, “but a warm winter is scary.”
UNDERMINING ACTIVITIES
The warmer conditions have been especially hard on traditional winter sports.
Cross-country ski trails have not opened in many locations. Ice skaters have abandoned backyard ponds. Some ski resorts, especially those that rely on natural snow, have struggled to remain open. In Pennsylvania, Whitetail Resort has already closed for the season; in Cherry Creek, New York, Cockaigne Resort announced on its webpage that it was closing due to the warm temperatures and rain. And a popular 216-mile sled dog race in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was cancelled due to unfavorable weather for the first time in its 33-year-history.
“Wherever it was already thin, now it was turning to ice,” says Darlene Walch, president of the Upper Peninsula Sled Dog Association. “When the snow pack gets saturated, it will turn to concrete when it freezes. It’s not good for the dogs, and it’s hard for the mushers to control their sleds.”
Many lakes and ponds have not frozen over, including the Great Lakes, where less than 12% of the surface area was covered with ice as of early March, according to NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The historical average for this time of year is closer to 40%.
As a result, ice fishing tournaments from Maine to Pennsylvania have been scrapped. Several people have fallen through the ice, including three fishermen who died in a week on Lake Champlain in Vermont.
The lack of winter’s symptoms has not been all bad. Spring-like conditions have been a boon to bicycle commuters. Golfers have been spotted on courses that, this time of year, typically host skiers. Tennis courts are bustling on warm days, and playgrounds are filled with children.
Cities like Boston, Philadelphia and New York are expected to save millions of dollars budgeted for snow removal. Connecticut’s 169 cities and towns traditionally use their entire snow budgets by the end of winter, but Kevin Maloney, spokesperson for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, says that this year, “the budgets have been virtually untouched.”
Robinson, the New Jersey climatologist, says snow isn’t going away anytime soon. “There’s no sign of any decline in the large events,” he says. “There’s beginning to be some evidence that we’re having fewer of the smaller events.”
Yet for the small businesses that plow parking lots and salt roads, it has been tough.
“I have never personally been through a winter like this,” says Jordan Kenyon, who is the co-owner of two snow management businesses in Mystic, Connecticut. Typically, they plan for 10 storms along the southeastern Connecticut shoreline and 15 inland events. This year, he says, his crews have been out only a handful of times to spread salt and plowed just once.
Despite this year’s snow-challenged winter, Kenyon says he’s not counting out the snow-removal part of his business.
“There’s always going to be snow at some point. And so, we don’t see changing the business model,” he says. “But we may have to make operational adjustments if we see this pattern continuing.” | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/snow-a-no-show-for-traditionally-wintry-cities/ | 2023-03-06 14:20:24 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/snow-a-no-show-for-traditionally-wintry-cities/ |
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian police officer will face charges for shocking a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun and leaving her with critical head injuries as she approached him using a walker and carrying a steak knife in a nursing home, officials said on Wednesday.
Clare Nowland, who has dementia, is receiving palliative care in a hospital in Cooma, New South Wales state. She fractured her skull in a fall on Wednesday last week after Constable Kristian White shot her with a stun gun in her retirement home.
The violence against an elderly and incapacitated woman has sparked national debate about the police use of stun guns in such circumstances and the competence of aged care staff. Police are allowed to use stun guns when lives are in danger.
White was ordered on Wednesday to appear in court on July 5 on charges of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault, a police statement said.
The charges are likely to upgraded when she is expected to die of her brain injuries.
White has been under police internal investigation since the incident and has been suspended from duty with pay since Tuesday. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/australian-police-officer-faces-charges-after-18116240.php | 2023-05-24 10:45:00 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/australian-police-officer-faces-charges-after-18116240.php |
WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 4, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Spokane has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
The Cub Creek Burn Scar in...
North Central Okanogan County in north central Washington...
* Until 830 PM PDT.
* At 640 PM PDT, local law enforcement reported flash flooding on
Andrews Creek near the Cub Creek burn scar. West Chewuch Road was
washed out with mud and debris on the roadway from storms that
occurred earlier. More showers and storms are moving through the
area and will likely exacerbate flooding. Move away from the burn
scar and to higher ground now.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain in and around the
Cub Creek Burn Scar.
SOURCE...Law enforcement reported.
IMPACT...Flooding of areas in and around the Cub Creek Burn
Scar.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Chewuch Campground, Camp Four Campground, Falls Creek Campground,
Nice Campground, Flat Campground, Ruffed Grouse Campground,
Honeymoon Campground, Memorial Campground, Andrews Creek
Campground, and Thirtymile Campground.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
The affected areas are in and below the Cub Creek burn scar north of
Winthrop, including West Chewuch Road. Some drainage basins impacted
include Chewuch River, Falls Creek, LeRoy Creek, Junior Creek, Butte
Creek, Boulder Creek and Cub Creek. Moderate to high intensity
rainfall on the burned area may cause flash flooding, mud slides and
rock slides. Campers, hikers and motorists in and below the Cub
Creek burned area should take immediate precautions to protect life
and property.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 645 PM PDT this evening for
southeastern Chelan County in north central Washington.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki flew Tuesday to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense cooperation of the two nations.
Morawiecki is due to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday at the White House. He is also scheduled to have meetings with the representatives of American defense companies during his three-day visit.
“I am flying to the United States to strengthen the alliance with our most powerful ally, with a country that guarantees security in Europe, that especially guarantees security in our part of Europe,” Morawiecki said.
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the United States increased its military presence in Poland — a nation on NATO’s eastern flank that borders Ukraine — and has used Poland as a transit country for military and humanitarian aid going into Ukraine.
Poland is also a major donor of aid to Ukraine, and has been ordering tanks and other modern military equipment, mostly from U.S. and South Korean producers, to strengthen its own forces and replace some older equipment sent to Ukraine.
As Europe seeks to gain energy independence, Poland is also planning to build nuclear power plants, and has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse as its partners for its first plant.
Before departing Warsaw early Tuesday, Morawiecki told reporters at the airport that Polish-American relations “have not been so good for a long time, and perhaps they have never been so strong.”
Morawiecki’s visit follows two visits to Poland by U.S. President Joe Biden since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The prime minister said Poland’s alliance with the U.S. is “an absolute foundation of our security.”
“It is based on two pillars: economic and defense cooperation. I am going to the U.S. to strengthen both of these pillars,” he said. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/polish-leader-heads-to-us-to-further-strengthen-defense-ties/ | 2023-04-11 07:40:05 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/polish-leader-heads-to-us-to-further-strengthen-defense-ties/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating potential civil rights violations in Texas’ multibillion-dollar border security mission that has given the National Guard arrest powers and seen state authorities bus migrants to Washington, D.C., according to public records.
A lawyer for the state police agency acknowledged the federal probe of Gov. Greg Abbott’s initiative to curb people crossing from Mexico in a May email, records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune show. The state prison system also cited a “formal investigation” in a letter seeking to withhold public records related to Operation Lone Star.
The investigation comes to light as a human smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer highlights the limits of state and federal border controls. Crossings along the entire southern border are at or near their highest point in about two decades.
Last year, Abbott, a Republican seeking reelection, rolled out a massive law enforcement apparatus on the border, alleging inaction by President Joe Biden’s administration. The surge in officers has driven arrests — including for trespassing, low-level amounts of marijuana and other minor crimes that appear to have little to do with border security. Some of those detained have spent weeks in state jails.
The emails from Texas Department of Public Safety officials indicate federal authorities are looking at whether the operation may have broken a law against discrimination based on race, color or national origin by organizations receiving federal funds.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice’s civil right’s division declined to comment. A Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman did not respond to a request for comment
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice provided information about Operation Lone Star to Department of Justice officials after they requested it in March, according to spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said the state prison system “has and continues to follow all state, and federal laws as the state of Texas responds to the ongoing crisis at the border.”
Since April, Abbott has also offered migrants bus rides to Washington, D.C., saying he was taking the immigration issue to Congress’ doorstep. So far, about 3,000 migrants have taken the trip at a cost of more than $5 million.
The efforts have not stopped a recent increase in crossings at the southern border. Authorities stopped migrants from crossing illegally 523,000 times between January and May, up from 417,000 over the same span a year ago. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/report-justice-department-probing-texas-border-mission/ | 2022-07-07 15:00:23 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/report-justice-department-probing-texas-border-mission/ |
New LTO Summer Sangarita will have guests sipping their way through summer
ORLANDO, Fla., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Lobster® is turning up the heat and bringing guests the hottest summer celebration of seafood with the launch of Seafood Summerfest. Starting today, and for a limited time, guests are invited to live it up during Seafood Summerfest and satisfy their seafood cravings with a variety of sizzling Red Lobster dishes and exciting new beverage offerings that are fire!
Joining the Seafood Summerfest lineup is NEW! BBQ Bacon Grilled Shrimp, which can be enjoyed as an entrée as part of 3 Courses for $18.99*, when paired with a soup or salad and individual-sized starter. Guests can also sink their teeth into the hottest summer duo, Steak and Lobster, or treat their tastebuds to a grilled trio of seafood with Grilled Lobster, Shrimp and Salmon.
The Seafood Summerfest lineup features a selection of new and classic seafood dishes to choose from – all of course served with warm, Cheddar Bay Biscuits® – including:
- NEW! BBQ Bacon Grilled Shrimp (available as 3 Course entrée choice) – Two fire-grilled shrimp skewers, glazed with sweet and smoky BBQ sauce and topped with crispy bacon and green onions. Served over orzo rice with a choice of one side.
- Grilled Lobster, Shrimp and Salmon – A tender Maine lobster tail, grilled jumbo shrimp skewer, and fresh Atlantic salmon finished with a brown butter sauce. Served with a choice of two sides.
- Steak & Lobster – A wishbone Maine lobster tail and a NY strip grilled with Red Lobster's signature seasoning. Served with a choice of two sides.
- Red Argentinian Shrimp Skewers – Skewered Red Argentinian shrimp, fire-grilled and served over orzo rice and a choice of two sides.
- Live Maine Lobster – 1¼ lb., wild-caught, and fresh from the Atlantic, available steamed or stuffed. Served with a choice of two sides.
Guests can beat the heat while sipping a refreshing summer-inspired cocktail like the NEW! Summer Sangarita, a blend of summer's most popular cocktails – a sangria and margarita – or cheers with a glass of NEW! Sea Sun California Chardonnay and NEW! Sea Sun California Pinot Noir, both wines by the family that brought you Caymus Vineyards.
And, because nothing says summer like lobster, Red Lobster is getting the party started by releasing a "how to" Lobster Cracking Video with step-by-step instructions that'll have guests cracking into the delectable shellfish like a pro all summer long.
Red Lobster's Seafood Summerfest dishes are available to enjoy in-restaurant or from the comfort of home by ordering To Go or touchless delivery directly from RedLobster.com/order.
To earn points for dining, including through To Go and delivery orders, and redeem tasty rewards, guests can sign up for Red Lobster's free loyalty program, My Red Lobster Rewards℠. To view the complete Red Lobster menu or find a restaurant location, visit Red Lobster's website.
*Offer available for a limited time at participating locations in the U.S. and Canada; not available in Puerto Rico or Guam. Prices higher in New York Times Square, Hawaii, and Canada. Pricing indicated excludes beverages (and alcohol), applicable taxes and gratuities. Available for Dine-in or To Go; third party delivery excluded. Offer not combinable with any other offer or coupon relating specifically to the soups, salads, starters, or entrées included in this offer. See RedLobster.com for full terms.
"Summerfest" is a registered trademark of Milwaukee World Festival, Inc.
About Red Lobster Seafood Co.
Red Lobster is the world's largest and most-loved seafood restaurant company, headquartered in Orlando, Fla. With a proud heritage and an even brighter future, Red Lobster is focused on serving the highest quality, freshly prepared seafood that is traceable, sustainable and responsibly-sourced. To learn more about Red Lobster's sourcing standards and where the seafood we serve comes from, please visit www.redlobster.com/seafoodwithstandards. Red Lobster is also proud to be an employer of choice, including being named to Forbes magazine's 2022 lists of America's Best Large Employers and Best Employers for Diversity. To learn more about Red Lobster, including locations and menu options, please visit http://www.redlobster.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. ("Amicus" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FOLD). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Amicus and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 28, 2022, Amicus issued a press release "announc[ing] that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deferred action on the Biologics License Application (BLA) for cipaglucosidase alfa, the biologic component of AT-GAA." Amicus stated that "[d]ue to restrictions on travel related to COVID-19, the FDA was unable to conduct the required inspection of the WuXi Biologics manufacturing site in China during the review cycle. As a result, the FDA is deferring action on the application until the manufacturing site inspection is complete."
On this news, Amicus's stock price fell $0.75 per share, or 6.98%, to close at $10.00 per share on October 31, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased Freshworks common stock pursuant to and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until January 3, 2023 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to the complaint, the documents used to effectuate Freshworks' initial public offering were false and misleading and omitted to state that, at the time of the initial public offering, the Company's business had encountered obstacles. As a result of these obstacles, Freshworks' net dollar retention rate was plateauing, and its revenue growth rate and billings were decelerating.
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Girl, 6, shot in road rage incident may never walk again, family says
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - A 6-year-old Kentucky girl’s life has changed forever after she was shot in the back during a road rage incident while riding in a car with her family.
Chyna Sands, the mother of 6-year-old Onyx, is praying for her daughter’s recovery. The bullet that struck the girl during a road rage incident severed her spine, and she now needs around-the-clock care.
The family planned to go to Florida the weekend of July 23, but now, they’re just hoping for the day when Onyx makes it out of the hospital.
Sands says she can’t stop reliving that tragic day and what she saw when she got to the emergency room at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville.
“It was just very chaotic,” Sands said. “My baby was laying on the table. She was bleeding. They were about to intubate her, and I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t know what had happened. I just was concerned about my baby.”
Sands told WAVE that Onyx’s stepmother was driving her father, two stepbrothers and Onyx from football practice at the park last Monday. She said the car was trying to avoid three motorcyclists weaving through traffic along Interstate 65 when the riders got frustrated and started shooting at the car.
One of the bullets struck Onyx, severing her spine.
Sands says her daughter still remembers the trauma from the encounter.
“She remembered going to the park, and she told me when they got in the car, she remembered hearing ‘boom boom,’” she said. “Then, she saw something bright like a firework, and then, there was blood on her seat. Then, she recalls her brother saying he didn’t want to die.”
Sands says doctors aren’t sure if Onyx will be able to walk again. She says her daughter has a spicy personality and loves to dance, so it’s been hard for her to find the words to tell her what may be her new reality.
“She’s starting to get frustrated,” Sands said. “I haven’t told her yet. I’m telling her that her legs are resting because I don’t know how to tell her that. I don’t want to say the wrong thing.”
Onyx’s grandmother, Chastity Reynolds, whom she affectionately calls “Chi Chi,” isn’t ready to give up hope just yet.
“I’m not claiming it. I’m not claiming that she won’t walk again,” Reynolds said. “I’m believing and trusting in God that she will.”
The tragic circumstances have left both Reynolds and Sands feeling helpless and in despair, as they believe Onyx’s pain and suffering could have been prevented if not for the senseless gun violence.
“She’s perfect,” Sands said. “She’s a perfect little kid, and these people have robbed my baby of the simple things we all get to enjoy.”
For now, Sands says they are going to take things one day at a time, and with the help of her amazing support system, she says she will do everything she can to make sure Onyx can have as normal a life as possible.
Onyx celebrated her 6th birthday with friends and family just two days before she was shot, her mother says.
A GoFundMe has been created to help the family with medical bills.
Police say all the people involved in the road rage incident have been identified. Only one arrest has been made.
Jonathan Rivera, 33, of Louisville, is charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun. He has not been charged with the shooting itself.
An arrest report says police found several shell casings at the scene which matched a gun seized from Rivera.
Jaret Hill, Rivera’s attorney, says his client was just riding his motorcycle when a car hit him from behind. According to Hill, Rivera was only defending himself.
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Have you ever wondered what you would do if faced with a post-apocalyptic Earth scenario?
Dark Age Defense is a guide that will give you survival lessons to help you survive almost any situation like wars, famine, power grid failures, and more.
According to the official website, the program can tell you about a revolutionary technology that will help you and your loved ones.
If you look at the world around you, it’s pretty clear that wars and disasters could occur at any minute. Knowing how to survive and take care of your loved ones is very important.
Without wasting time, let’s get right into it.
Dark Age Defense – What Is It?
In simple terms, Dark Age Defense is a guide that will teach you how to generate and keep the power going on during an emergency crisis.
This guide talks about something known as the “Infinity Coil” also this coil is partly based on the studies of Nikola Tesla.
What’s impressive is that this technology may not be available to the public for the next decade. But you can harness this technology to help yourself and your family through critical emergencies.
If you thought you had everything figured out with generators or solar panels, you’re sadly mistaken. The official website states generators meant for backup power will not last long as it requires humongous amounts of fuel and will last only for a short period. On the other hand, solar panels tend to break down during disasters.
But with the help of this guide, you can build an infinity coil by yourself, and it supposedly lasts forever and can be used to power everything in your house.
Dark Age Defense – What Will This Guide Teach You?
The main goal of Dark Age Defense is to teach you how to build your very own infinity coil to help you power your house and every electrical appliance. This infinity coil can provide electricity for an undue amount of time.
As per the guide, the first thing you should know is that the first action after a blackout should be taken within the first 30 seconds of power failure.
It will also tell you how to create a force field around your home. All of this to help you keep your family safe.
Furthermore, the technology you will use is 100% legal and long-lasting. It is also the most efficient way of powering your house and electrical appliances.
This technology is so advanced that it will also help you jumpstart dead vehicles.
Dark Age Defense will tell you how to build the perfect infinity coil for your house, and it will also tell you how to use it effectively.
Infinity coil works by gathering electricity from sir and uses that to power your house. Information about this technology dates back to the 1920s.
The”pencil trick” mentioned is one of the simplest. It will help you through the darkest times by being a beacon of light.
Dark Age Defense – Where Can You Purchase This Guide?
You can buy this guide from their official website. Right now, it is available for a discounted price of $67.
But the price may go up in the coming days. Moreover, the creator offers their customers a total 60-day cash back guarantee. If you don’t find this guide helpful, you can always contact their customer care and request a full refund, but you should do this within 60 days of purchase.
You will also get bonus gifts with this purchase:
Produce Oasis
This guide will teach you how to grow your food during critical emergencies. With the help of practical techniques, you can grow nutritious food.
Bulletproof Bugout
This guide will tell you all you need to know about survival in different terrains. It will teach you how to navigate through landscapes, how to forage food, and also how to make a defense kit.
Water On Demand
This guide will show you how to store water and search for water. Furthermore, it will tell you the best way to clean your water.
Off Grid Escape
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COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man already facing a charge of misleading investigators in the search for his missing wife has now been charged with murder in her disappearance, a top prosecutor said Tuesday.
Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said in a video statement that Brian Walshe, 47, who is being held on $500,000 bail after pleading not guilty to the misleading charge, will be arraigned on the more serious charge on Wednesday.
He did not say what additional evidence led to the murder charge.
“Additional details of the investigation and the evidence that supported those charges are likely to be presented at arraignment, but will not be disclosed at this time," Morrissey said.
A person who answered the phone at the office of Walshe's attorney, Tracy Miner, said Miner would have no comment. An email seeking comment was left with Miner. She has previously said that her client has cooperated with the investigation.
Walshe's wife, Ana Walshe, 39, was reportedly last seen leaving their home in the affluent coastal community of Cohasset south of Boston in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, purportedly to take a ride-hailing vehicle to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, police and prosecutors said.
But police have found no indication that she either took a vehicle or boarded any flight out of Logan recently.
Ana Walshe was reported missing several days later by her employer in Washington, where the couple has a home and to which she often commutes during the week for work at a real estate company, authorities said.
Her cellphone has not been used and there has been no activity on her credit or debit cards, police have said.
Authorities have searched the family's home as well as a wooded area near the home. The couple has three young children.
Prosecutors said in court that Brian Walshe was seen on surveillance video buying $450 worth of cleaning supplies at a home improvement store the day after his wife was last seen. Police also found a broken knife and blood in the basement of the couple’s home, prosecutors said, although they did not say whose blood it was.
Investigators also spent time last week searching a trash processing facility and a condo complex north of Boston where Brian Walshe's mother lives where they found items that may be related to the investigation.
Brian Walshe had been on home confinement while awaiting sentencing in a fraud case involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings, according to federal court records. Cohasset police said Ana Walshe’s disappearance and her husband’s case appear to be unrelated. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Husband-of-missing-Massachusetts-woman-faces-17723627.php | 2023-01-17 22:06:24 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Husband-of-missing-Massachusetts-woman-faces-17723627.php |
LONDON (AP) — Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is stepping down at the end of 2022 after nine years in charge, the energy giant said Thursday, a change that comes as oil and natural gas companies are under pressure to shift away from fossil fuels even as they see soaring profits from energy prices driven up by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Taking over Jan. 1 is Wael Sawan, a Lebanese-Canadian who has worked for Shell for 25 years and is now director of integrated gas, renewables and energy solutions. The choice signals the focus of the London-based company to take what it calls a leading role in the energy transition despite facing criticism that it’s been slow to reduce climate-changing emissions.
“I’m looking forward to channeling the pioneering spirit and passion of our incredible people to rise to the immense challenges, and grasp the opportunities presented by the energy transition,” said Sawan, who has been a member of Shell’s executive committee for three years.
He takes over at a tumultuous time for Shell and other oil and gas giants. While the world is looking to transition to renewable sources like wind and solar, the war in Ukraine has created volatility that has driven up energy prices and fueled inflation.
Natural gas prices have soared as Russia has curbed supplies to Europe, where an energy crisis is forcing governments to institute conservation measures and go back to coal and oil despite climate goals to ensure the lights stay on this winter.
Volatile oil prices soared above $120 per barrel in June, pushing gasoline prices at the pump to record highs in the United States. Crude has since fallen below $90.
That has translated to record profits for energy companies at a time when households and businesses are getting stung by rising costs. Some European governments have approved taxes on excess profits of energy companies to help households and businesses, and the European Union’s executive Commission proposed Wednesday a similar levy on electricity producers across the 27-nation bloc.
In late July, Shell posted record profits of $11.5 billion for a second straight quarter. That was up from $5.5 billion in the same three-month period last year, despite a hit worth billions from pulling out of Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.
Ellen Wald, the founder of energy consulting firm Transversal Consulting, notes that prior to heading natural gas and renewables, the incoming CEO was involved in the company’s upstream operations. Despite efforts by Shell to shift toward more renewables, the company still makes most of its money selling and trading crude oil, Wald said.
“It’s not like he’s just a renewable guy,” Wald said. “He’s still an oil and gas person, but I do think the fact that he was in this (renewables) division before moving to CEO shows how integral they see this to the future of the company.”
Shell Chairman, Sir Andrew Mackenzie, called Sawan “an exceptional leader, with all the qualities needed to drive Shell safely and profitably through its next phase of transition and growth.”
Sophie Lund-Yates, a lead equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, an investment services firm, called Sawan’s appointment “a clear marker” that Shell intends to make its renewable strategy clearer, even if “change won’t happen overnight.” He “won’t be ignorant to the fact oil prices can collapse at short notice” and that is “all but guaranteed to be something he’ll have to navigate,” Lund-Yates added.
Formerly known as Dutch Royal Shell, the company late last year left the Netherlands and consolidated its headquarters in London as it simplified its archaic corporate structure. Shell has resisted pressure to break itself up, with one company focused on renewable energy and the other on legacy fossil fuels, as other firms have done.
It has a goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 by investing in renewable energy, restoring forests and taking other steps but has been accused of moving too slowly.
Last year, the Hague District Court ordered Shell to cut carbon emissions 45% by 2030, saying the company’s net-zero target “is not concrete, has many caveats and is based on monitoring social developments rather than the company’s own responsibility for achieving a CO2 reduction.”
“It’s a tricky position for these European legacy energy companies because they face an immense amount of pressure to basically get out of their core business, and yet there’s still demand for their core products—a lot of demand for it,” Wald said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-shell-ceo-ben-van-beurden-to-step-down-at-years-end/ | 2022-09-15 21:55:36 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-shell-ceo-ben-van-beurden-to-step-down-at-years-end/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday over its refusal to regulate some older coal ash dumps, claiming they are polluting air and groundwater.
A lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington D.C. seeks to compel the agency to review and revise regulations it says are “inadequate to protect human health and the environment” from the solid waste produced by coal-burning power plants.
The EPA first began regulating coal ash disposal in 2015, prompted by the 2008 collapse of a six-story earthen dam outside a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. The disaster released more than a billion gallons of coal ash sludge onto 300 surrounding acres (about 121 hectares), knocking homes off their foundations and fouling the Emory River.
When EPA was crafting its coal ash regulations, many of those concerned about the possible health effects of the ash hoped the agency would declare it to be hazardous waste. That didn’t happen, but EPA did create special rules for its disposal. They included location restrictions, liner requirements to prevent groundwater contamination and groundwater monitoring to detect leaks.
Not all coal ash disposal sites were included in the new regulations, however. EPA specifically exempted landfills that stopped receiving new waste before the rule went into effect. Since then, many of the regulated landfills that require groundwater monitoring have subsequently reported unsafe levels of arsenic and other chemicals in nearby groundwater. The lawsuit posits that older, unregulated landfills must also be polluting and should be regulated.
In addition, the contamination from the older landfills could be masking problems at newer landfills that are often on the same property, the lawsuit states. That’s because the operators of the regulated landfills don’t have to address groundwater contamination if they can show that it is coming from another source.
Neither the TVA nor the EPA responded to a request for comment on Thursday morning.
The lawsuit spotlights Bull Run power plant in Clinton, Tennessee, which is also run by TVA, the nation’s largest public utility.
The site contains three separate but adjacent coal ash landfills. One closed in 1992. The second closed in 2015 — just before the EPA regulations took effect. The third opened in 2015 and is an active landfill. Even though the groundwater at the new landfill shows significantly high levels of boron, sulfate and other chemicals, TVA does not have to take action because an engineering report attributes the contamination to “pre-existing groundwater conditions.”
One of the plaintiff groups is Tennessee-based Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment. Member Todd Waterman said in a telephone interview that he has seen friends who helped clean up the Kingston coal ash spill sicken and die. Now he is worried about what the ash at the Bull Run plant could be doing to his drinking water.
“I’m deeply concerned for my community,” he said in a phone interview about the plant scheduled to shut down next year. “I don’t want TVA to just walk away from that plant and leave all that contamination in place.”
Other plaintiffs include the Hoosier Environmental Council in Indiana, the Indiana State Conference and the LaPorte County Branch of the NAACP, Clean Power Lake County in Illinois, and several national groups including the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, which filed the suit.
The EPA is required to review and, if necessary revise, regulations like those for coal ash disposal every three years, something it has failed to do, according to the lawsuit. Plaintiffs are asking the judge to order a review of the regulations, especially the exemption for older coal ash landfills. They estimate there are close to 300 landfills exempt from regulation in 38 states.
“Regulations addressing these landfills would prevent exposure to deadly coal ash constituents, protect drinking water sources and aquatic ecosystems, and lead to much needed cleanups nationwide,” the lawsuit states. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/business/ap-groups-sue-environmental-protection-agency-over-coal-ash/ | 2022-08-26 14:34:34 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/business/ap-groups-sue-environmental-protection-agency-over-coal-ash/ |
It's the most wonderful time of the year to adorn your lawn with sparkly, iridescent and glimmering Christmas decor
DALLAS, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For over the top Christmas glam, décor from Gemmy Industries at The Home Depot has you covered this holiday season. Stunning iridescent ribbon figures and a showstopping ornament archway set the stage for an exquisite holiday display.
Luxurious yard sculptures made with a unique iridescent ribbon style twinkle with gorgeous SPARKLE® technology and dozens of white lights. Accented with perfectly placed metallic red accents, each piece makes a magnificent addition to indoor or outdoor Christmas decorations. The SPARKLE® Ribbons collection is available in three styles: the Iridescent Buck ($99.00) with 100 sparkling LEDs, the Iridescent Snowman with 90 sparkling LEDs ($99.00) and the Iridescent Angel with 100 sparkling LEDs ($99.00).
Holiday decorators will fall in love with the Glimmer™ Ornament Archway ($249.00). Made with beautiful Crystal Lattice material and glimmering with 300 two-tone white LED lights, the Ornament Archway looks spectacular on lawns or as a dazzling entrance to parties and celebrations. The archway breaks down for easy off-season storage. Measuring 8.6-ft tall x 9.75-ft wide, Glimmer™ Ornament Archway delivers the ultimate in holiday elegance.
"Gemmy's iridescent yard decor offers lustrous figures that look fantastic in both traditional and modern Christmas displays. Silver and golden hues gleam with pearlescent tones to create a dynamic effect that varies when viewed from different angles," said Steven Harris, Vice President of product development at Gemmy. "We've seen consumers react strongly to large statement pieces that anchor their display and create a grand visual statement."
Shop these glamorous Christmas decorations from Gemmy Industries online or in-store at The Home Depot (MSRP $99.00-$249.00).
About Gemmy Industries
Gemmy Industries is a leading seasonal lighting and decor innovator that has changed the way America decorates for the holidays. As the originator of Airblown® Inflatable and LightShow® lighting, Gemmy is a trendsetter in making homes festive for every special occasion. For more information on product lines and retails, go to www.gemmy.com.
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. (KRQE) – PNM is helping customers in Las Vegas pay past-due bills. They are asking people to go to Samaritan House on 7th St., June 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
To qualify for assistance:
A PNM bill, proof of income, and ID’s for everyone who lives in the home are required. A copy of the 2021-2022 Low-Income Energy Assistance Program approval letter is also needed if available. There will also be help for people having trouble paying rent. People are asked to bring a lease, past-due rent, and eviction notice, if applicable.
Anyone who is not able to make the event can PNM’s website or call 855-364-2950 to apply for assistance. | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/pnm-helping-las-vegas-customers-pay-past-due-bills/ | 2022-06-10 01:21:55 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/pnm-helping-las-vegas-customers-pay-past-due-bills/ |
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 6 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Madison Street Capital, an international investment banking firm, has acted as a co-advisor in the sale of Therachem Research Medilab ("TRM") and Solaris Pharmachem by PI Health Sciences, ("PIHS"), a wholly owned subsidiary of PI Industries ("PI"). Along with Madison Street Capital, That's Nice LLC was a co-advisor in the $75 million deal. Charles Botchway, CEO of Madison Street Capital, announced that Barry Petersen, Sr. Managing Director, led the Madison Street Capital team.
Therachem Research Medilab is a chemistry-driven global service provider for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. Solaris Pharmachem is a leading specialty pharmaceutical company committed to the identifying, developing, and marketing of high-quality, complex, generic and specialty pharmaceutical products.
Barry Petersen, Sr. Managing Director at Madison Street Capital, stated: "We are pleased to have assisted Therachem Research Medilab in achieving a successful result from this M&A process. The combination of PI Health Sciences and TRM is highly synergistic and will be beneficial to the entire Pharma value chain. We wish Dr. Chand continued success moving forward."
About Madison Street Capital
Madison Street Capital is an international investment banking firm committed to integrity, excellence, leadership and service in delivering corporate financial advisory services, merger and acquisition expertise, financial opinions, and valuation services to publicly and privately held businesses. These services position our clients to succeed in the global marketplace. In undertaking each new project, the client's goals and objectives become ours, ranging from financial advisory and successful capital raises to M&A transactions to transfers of ownership. Madison Street Capital views emerging markets as the core component driving the global growth of our clients and will continue to focus significant assets on these markets. Our firm has earned the trust of clients around the world through our unwavering dedication to the highest levels of professional standards. For additional information, please visit www.madisonstreetcapital.com.
About That's Nice LLC
That's Nice is a science agency with a research-driven philosophy that supports informed strategies, targeted campaigns and memorable brands. With 20 years of knowledge in life sciences, we drive success through a process of Research, Strategy, and Results. For more information, visit: www.thatsnice.com.
About Therachem Research Medilab
TRM is an innovative, chemistry-driven solution provider in medicinal chemistry research and process R&D, specializing in rare diseases. It provides services and products to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies in preclinical and clinical stages. It has manufacturing facilities in India and R&D facilities in India and US. TRM's R&D team works closely with marquee publicly listed US biotech companies and big pharma companies based in Asia-Pacific in developing their product pipeline. For more information, please visit www.therachem.net.
About PI Health Sciences
PI Health Sciences Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of PI Industries Ltd. ("PI"). Incorporated in 1947, PI Industries (BSE: 523642, NSE: PIIND, ISIN ID: INE603J01030) envisions to be at the forefront of science-led opportunities by delivering innovative solutions. PI Industries' core values of trust, adaptability, speed, and innovation enable them to deliver the highest value to its customers and respect IP of its partners. With a strength of over 3,500 employees, the Company currently operates a strong infrastructure set-up consisting of 3 formulation facilities as well as 15 multi-product plants under its 4 manufacturing locations in India. PI is among the Top 100 listed companies in India with a market capitalization of over €5.0 billion. It is a Zero-debt company with 9-month revenue for year-till-date 31-Dec-22 of ~€550 million and net worth as of 31-Dec-22 of ~€770 million.
PI aims to create a differentiated position in the pharmaceuticals sector by leveraging its core competencies in complex chemistry, process development, operational excellence, technology platforms and global reach through partnerships with prominent innovators.
This acquisition marks a significant milestone in PI's company growth strategy and is a testament to PI's commitment to delivering innovative solutions to clients across the world. To learn more, visit www.pihealthsciences.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.
It took just minutes to free the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill from its base before a crane using yellow straps looped under the statue’s arms lifted it onto a bed of tires on a flatbed truck. After the statue was removed, the crew got to work removing the base. Several dozen people, including neighbors and some of Hill’s indirect descendants as well as supporters and opponents of the removal, stood in the closed intersection watching the crew work.
Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the Hill statue, which sat in the middle of a busy intersection near a school, were more complicated because the general’s remains were interred beneath it about 25 years after his death at the end of the Civil War.
Crews removed several large stones from the base of the monument but had not located Hill’s remains before ending work for the day. A city official said the crews plan to return Tuesday.
Many Confederate statues in Virginia were erected decades after the Civil War, during the Jim Crow era, when states imposed new segregation laws, and during the “Lost Cause” movement, when historians and others tried to depict the South’s rebellion as a fight to defend states’ rights, not slavery. Some Confederate tributes remain in Richmond, but they’re on state land, including on Capitol Square surrounding the Virginia State Capitol building.
Ambrose Powell Hill died days before the war’s end in 1865, according to a timeline provided in court documents during a legal battle over the removal. His remains were interred in a family cemetery in Chesterfield County, according to a city petition to move the remains. The remains were moved in 1867 to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, where they remained until 1891, when they were moved to the spot where the monument was unveiled the following year.
Attorneys for Hill’s indirect descendants agreed his remains would be moved to a cemetery in Culpeper, near where Hill was born. But the plaintiffs wanted ownership to be transferred to them in hopes of moving the statue to a battlefield or some other location, said John Hill, one of Hill’s descendants who drove eight hours from his home in Ohio to watch the statue be removed.
Hill, 33, said he is a distant cousin of Hill’s and his closest living indirect descendant. He said the family considers the statue Hill’s headstone and wanted the statue and Hill’s remains to stay together.
“It’s his headstone. I just feel like anybody else’s headstone with their family name on it, you don’t want to see that come down,” he said.
Hill said he was opposed to the removal of all the Richmond-owned Confederate statues because he sees them as a part of history. He also said that although many of the statues are seen as symbols of slavery and oppression, his ancestor did not own slaves.
“All of his census documents show he never owned a slave and he did not believe in slavery,” he said.
In October, a judge ruled that city officials — not the descendants — would get to decide where the statue went next.
City officials said the removed statue will be stored in an undisclosed location and later given to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. John Hill indicated that Hill’s descendants will continue to fight that plan in court.
The removal of the Hill statue makes about a dozen city-owned Confederate statues that have been removed.
“Richmond had more Confederate monuments than any other city in the United States of America, and we were the former capital of the Confederacy,” Mayor Levar Stoney said. “And so this wasn’t just two years of work, this was a hundred years of difficult work.”
“I’m proud of my city,” Stoney said. “We’ve done something that a lot of communities have struggled with, and I think a ton of people are ready to turn the page.”
Amanda Lynch stopped by to watch the statue being taken down after dropping her kids off at school. Her daughter, Ava Holloway, was one of two teenage Black ballerinas whose photo dancing on the state-owned Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond — with their fists raised in the air — caused a sensation on social media during racial protests in 2020. That statue was removed in September 2021.
“So much of the fabric of Richmond is woven with pieces of the Civil War and slavery and racism … removing this will just be a good step forward, a symbolic step forward,” Lynch said.
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This story has been updated to correct the year Lee statue was removed to 2021.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has settled with Walgreens for $500 million over the pharmacy chain’s role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers.
The agreement was signed in March, and state officials confirmed that a confidentiality provision on the agreement was lifted Friday.
The settlement is in addition to $274 million in settlements obtained in the case last fall from Albertsons, CVS, Kroger and Walmart. Attorneys representing the state say that, in all, New Mexico’s opioid litigation has brought in more than $1 billion.
They argued at trial last year that Walgreens failed to recognize suspicious prescriptions and refuse to fill them.
“I’m optimistic this will help in the fight against the opioid crisis and provide the treatment New Mexicans so desperately need,” Luis Robles, one of the attorneys who worked on the case, told the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Over the past few years, drug manufacturers, distribution companies, pharmacies and other companies with roles in the opioid business have reached settlements totaling more than $50 billion with local, state and tribal governments.
In May, West Virginia announced its settlement with Kroger, bringing that state’s total opioid litigation dollars to more than $1 billion. West Virginia state has lost more lives to opioid overdoses per capita than any other.
Most of the settlement money from the opioid litigation is required to be used to fight the crisis, which has been linked to more than 560,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades, including more than 70,000 a year recently.
In recent years, most of the deaths have been connected to fentanyl and other illicit synthetic opioids, not prescription painkillers, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2605523/new-mexico-reaches-500m-settlement-with-walgreens-in-opioid-case.html | 2023-06-11 02:30:31 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/2605523/new-mexico-reaches-500m-settlement-with-walgreens-in-opioid-case.html |
ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Immanuel Allen scored 17 points as Abilene Christian beat North American 93-46 on Wednesday night.
Allen also added six rebounds for the Wildcats (4-4). Ja'Sean Jackson was 4-of-9 shooting (3 for 7 from distance) to add 11 points. Leonardo Bettiol recorded 11 points and shot 4 of 5 from the field and 3 for 4 from the line.
Kiante Kizzie led the way for the Stallions (0-2) with 10 points. Andre Brown added three points for North American. Carlos Flores also had two points.
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TORONTO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Toronto-based global cyber insurance specialist BOXX Insurance today announced the appointment of Eric Newman as its Chief Operating Officer, and Steve Penney as Chief Technology Officer.
BOXX is modernizing cyber insurance and uses advanced technology to identify and address cyber threats proactively.
Newman will support the development of BOXX's strategic growth agenda leading strategic planning, governance, legal and compliance functions. He will further strengthen BOXX's leadership team as the company continues to scale globally.
"I am delighted to be joining the team at BOXX and am thrilled about the growth agenda ahead of us," said Newman. "This is an incredibly exciting time for BOXX."
Based in Palo Alto, Newman brings deep expertise in building and scaling innovative security and fraud prevention technologies. Prior to joining BOXX, Newman held leadership roles at both publicly held and private companies, including PayPal, Simility, RiskIQ, Pindrop, RSA Security, and Silvertail Systems.
As Chief Technology Officer, Penney will lead BOXX's technology and data strategy, championing BOXX's product-led growth and market expansion.
"The challenge to develop BOXX's technology organization from the ground up, sitting at the junction between insurance, technology and data, delivering ground-breaking innovation is a fabulous opportunity one rarely gets," said Penney.
Penney joins BOXX from Deloitte, where he led digital technology, commerce and transformation initiatives for many leading organizations. Prior to this, Penney led the Digital Transformation team at TELUS Communications, where he was responsible for the delivery, management and governance of TELUS' digital consumer applications products and platforms.
"I am delighted to further strengthen our leadership team," BOXX's Co-founder and CEO, Vishal Kundi said. "As we gear up for the next phase of growth, I am excited to welcome Eric and Steve. They bring deep expertise and experience and their appointments underline our ability to attract talented individuals to our team."
BOXX Insurance Inc. helps businesses, individuals and families insure and defend against cyber threats. BOXX Insurance Inc. is privately-held with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. BOXX's vision is to help businesses, individuals and families stay ahead of, respond to and recover from cyber threats, putting their digital safety first. For further information, please visit www.boxxinsurance.com
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The Biden administration on Monday afternoon asked an appeals court to put on hold a ruling that could rescind the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling from Friday, which found the FDA violated federal standards when it first approved mifepristone 23 years ago, until the administration can bring its appeal of his decision in full.
“Rather than preserving the status quo, as preliminary relief is meant to do, the district court upended decades of reliance by blocking FDA’s approval of mifepristone and depriving patients of access to this safe and effective treatment, based on the court’s own misguided assessment of the drug’s safety,” DOJ wrote in court filings.
Kacsmaryk’s ruling gave the administration a weeklong window before it went into effect. The administration is asking the 5th Circuit to extend that pause, and to do so by Thursday at noon, “to enable the government to seek relief in the Supreme Court if necessary.”
The emergency motion included a searing criticism of Kacsmaryk’s decision, arguing that the challengers did not have standing to bring the suit and that their claims challenging the drug’s safety lack merit and would be unlikely to ultimately succeed.
“The district court’s extraordinary and unprecedented order should be stayed pending appeal. Plaintiffs lack standing to challenge FDA’s approval of a drug they neither take nor prescribe; their challenge to FDA actions dating back to 2000 is manifestly untimely; and they have provided no basis for second-guessing FDA’s scientific judgment. Those defects foreclose plaintiffs’ claims, and the court flouted fundamental principles of Article III and administrative law in holding otherwise,” the Justice Department wrote.
Minutes after Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Trump, issued his ruling, however, a separate federal judge who sits in Washington state blocked the FDA from “altering the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone” in 17 states and Washington, D.C., which filed a joint lawsuit contending the drug was too tightly regulated.
DOJ said on Friday it was reviewing that ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice, an appointee of former President Obama.
The dueling decisions increase the likelihood the dispute ultimately reaches the Supreme Court one way or another, with far-reaching implications for access to abortion nationwide as well as the authority of the entire FDA.
—Updated at 3:03 p.m. | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/doj-issues-asks-appeals-court-to-pause-extraordinary-texas-abortion-pill-ruling/ | 2023-04-10 20:23:27 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/doj-issues-asks-appeals-court-to-pause-extraordinary-texas-abortion-pill-ruling/ |
Uvalde killer earned ominous nickname: 'school shooter'
The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence and notoriety in the months leading up to the attack that teens who knew him began calling him “school shooter.”
He was once bullied as a fourth-grader in one of the same classrooms where he killed 19 children and two teachers. And in the planning for the May 24 massacre, he collected articles about the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting and played video games with a young student while quizzing him about the school schedule.
A state investigative report that highlighted law enforcement’s bungled response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School has also provided the most in-depth account to date about missed red flags and possible motivations surrounding 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. Despite many warning signs, he still managed to legally amass more than $5,000 in guns, ammunition and gear in the weeks leading up to the killings.
Just days before the attack, Ramos spoke out on social media of his plans to do something that would “put him all over the news.” He wrote of a desire to kill himself, shared online videos of beheadings and violent sex, and sent footage of himself driving around with “someone he met on the internet” holding a plastic bag containing a dead cat and pointing BB guns at people out the window.
“The attacker became focused on achieving notoriety,” according the interim report released Sunday by an investigative panel of the Texas House of Representatives. “He believed his TikTok and YouTube channels would be successful. The small number of views he received led him to tell those with whom he interacted that he was ‘famous,’ that they were mere ‘randoms’ by comparison.”
The 77-page report – based on interviews with family members, testimony and data from Ramos’ phone – lays out a long trail of missed signals prior to the massacre but notes these clues were known only to “private individuals” and not reported to authorities. It also found Ramos had no known ideological or political views that would have made his rantings more widely known.
The report traces the descent of a shy, quiet boy once thought by a teacher as a “wonderful student” with a “positive attitude” into a mass murderer who gave plenty of signs online and to family members that he was prone to violence as he amassed an arsenal of rifles, body armor and ammunition.
A former girlfriend told the FBI that she believed Ramos had been sexually assaulted by one of his mother’s boyfriends at an early age, the report said, but when Ramos told his mother at the time, she didn’t believe him.
Without assigning a specific motive, the report noted that Ramos talked about painful fourth-grade memories to an acquaintance weeks before the shooting.
Family members told investigators how Ramos had been bullied as a fourth-grader in one of the same linked classrooms where he carried out the attack. They said he faced ridicule over his stutter, short hair and for wearing the same clothing nearly every day.
At one point, the report said, a fellow student tied his shoelaces together and Ramos fell on his face, injuring himself. The report noted that Ramos was flagged by school officials as “at risk,” but never received any special education services.
Failing grades soon were accompanied by frequent absences – more than 100 a year beginning in 2018. The report noted it was unclear if a school resource officer ever visited Ramos’ home. Uvalde High School officials involuntarily withdrew him last fall, when he had only completed the ninth grade. That was about the same time he moved out of his mother’s house and began living with his grandmother, just blocks from the elementary school.
Months before the shooting, Ramos began contacting acquaintances with “vague but ominous messages” about doing something soon.
In March 2022, two months before the shooting, a student on Instagram told him that “people at school talk (expletive) about you and call you school shooter.”
The next month Ramos asked in a direct message on Instagram, “Are you still gonna remember me in 50 something days?” After the answer – “probably not” – Ramos replied, “Hmm alright we’ll see in may.“
Crystal Foutz, who attended school with Ramos, told The Associated Press he was frequently angry and gave off “vibes” like he could shoot up the place, though it was taken more as joke than serious.
“You heard people joke and say, ‘He looks like a school shooter,’” said Foutz, though she quickly added, “I’ve heard it said about other people.”
Ramos took jobs at two fast-food restaurants to save money for what he told acquaintances was “something big,” which family members assumed was his own apartment or car. Instead it was guns and bullets, which he tried to get two people to buy for him while he was 17 and unable to obtain legally.
But on May 16, the gunman turned 18, and began purchasing firearms and ammunition, persuading an uncle to drive him to a gun store. He eventually spent more than $5,000 on two AR-style rifles, ammunition and other gear. And with no criminal history or even arrest, Ramos passed all background checks.
He had earlier written online “10 more days,” eliciting speculation from readers that he was planning to “shoot up a school or something” or commit “mass murder.” A friend told him that an acquaintance was “telling everyone u shooting up the school.”
He also spent time playing the children’s videogame Roblox with his cousin’s son, a student at the Robb Elementary, and “elicited from him details about his schedule and how lunch periods worked at the school.”
“I got a lil secret,” Ramos wrote on Snapchat to a German teenager he had befriended days before the May 24 shooting, adding that first he was waiting for something “being delivered” on Monday. His order of 1,740 hollow-point bullets that expand in bodies upon impact, more easily killing, arrived later that day.
“None of his online behavior was ever reported to law enforcement,” the report said, “and if it was reported by other users to any social media platform, it does not appear that actions were taken to restrict his access or to report him to authorities as a threat.”
Shortly before entering Robb Elementary, the gunman reached out to the German teenager he had befriended earlier, posting a message that he had just shot his grandmother in the face and was about to “shoot up” an elementary school.
Not sure he was serious, the German teenager replied: “Cool.” | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/18/uvalde-texas-school-shooter-nickname/50503049/ | 2022-07-19 00:26:16 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/18/uvalde-texas-school-shooter-nickname/50503049/ |
Kershaw deals, and the Dodgers get 2 big breaks in a 2-0 win over the Angels
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Miguel Rojas doubled and scored on Michael Busch’s high-bouncing single in the eighth after Clayton Kershaw and Reid Detmers dueled through seven scoreless innings, and the Los Angeles Dodgers opened the Freeway Series with a 2-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
Will Smith added an RBI single in the eighth for the Dodgers, who snapped their three-game skid with two fortunate breaks for a team that hasn’t had many lately.
Four innings after the Angels’ Brandon Drury was ruled out at the plate on a call overturned by video review, Busch’s chopper off Chris Devenski (3-2) inexplicably bounded high over new Angels first baseman Kevin Padlo.
“Sometimes you’re going to need the lucky hop, and we got that,” Kershaw said. “Between that and the call in the fourth, for some reason it was our night tonight.”
Kershaw (9-4) had another memorable night at Angel Stadium, where he has thrown 22 consecutive scoreless innings. The 35-year-old lefty yielded five hits, but escaped every jam and finished with five strikeouts.
Kershaw and his high-mileage arm still fill a vital role for the Dodgers, who have one of the majors’ worst bullpens combined with injuries to key starters Walker Buehler, Dustin May, Julio Urías and Noah Syndergaard.
“I just don’t see a better competitor out there than Clayton Kershaw,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Right now, he’s the only one standing from (the rotation on) opening day. For him to realize that, but not put any added pressure on yourself, it’s a skill.”
The Dodgers’ beleaguered bullpen then came through. Caleb Ferguson struck out Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout in the eighth, and Evan Phillips pitched the ninth for his eighth save.
Hunter Renfroe had two doubles for the Angels, who lost for only the fourth time in 15 games and were shut out for just the second time all season. The Halos have lost seven straight to the Dodgers in this rivalry series.
Ohtani’s 15-game hitting streak ended with an 0-for-4 performance that included two flyouts that left his bat at 102 mph. Trout also went 0 for 4.
Fans of both teams sold out Angel Stadium to watch the latest meeting of the clubs separated by 30 miles on the I-5 freeway. The Angels had a better record than the Dodgers at the start of the Freeway Series for the first time since 2014, but the rivalry went right back to its recent form.
Detmers yielded two hits and struck out eight in his third straight outstanding start for the Angels. Among the many highlights, he fanned Mookie Betts three times for the Dodgers star’s first three-strikeout game since April 15.
“Detmers threw the ball really well,” Kershaw said. “He’s got good stuff. Really, he pitched better than I did.”
Kershaw retired the Angels’ first eight batters, but gave up back-to-back hits in the fourth. Drury singled and was initially ruled safe when he attempted to score from first on Renfroe’s double with a headfirst slide, but the call was overturned by a lengthy review.
“I don’t get it,” Angels manager Phil Nevin said. “Maybe he touched his eyelash? We’ve had a couple like that that are just baffling to me. I’m just really confused on how this replay system works. Just get rid of it. … Just let (the umpires) work the game.”
Freddie Freeman said every player on the field thought the call would stand.
The Angels then got two more runners in scoring position in the seventh with leadoff hits by Drury and Renfroe, but Kershaw escaped a bases-loaded jam on a grounder by Andrew Velazquez.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: Chris Taylor flied out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth after having a cortisone injection in his right knee last weekend and missing two games. … Urías (hamstring) threw a three-inning simulated game. He will make a minor league rehab start this week, and if it goes well, he will return June 30 at Kansas City. Urías has been out since May 18. … LA slugger Max Muncy participated in Urías’ simulated game and felt no discomfort in his injured hamstring. He is expected to return Friday at Dodger Stadium against Houston.
Angels: INF Gio Urshela is still in significant pain after fracturing his pelvis last week, Nevin said. Urshela will see a second specialist Wednesday. … Anthony Rendon went on the 10-day injured list Monday with a bruised left wrist that remained sore longer than he expected. The club initially thought its $245 million third baseman wouldn’t need yet another stint on the IL. Rendon is eligible to return Monday.
UP NEXT
For the first time in his six major league seasons, Ohtani (6-2, 3.29 ERA) pitches against the Dodgers, who are likely to be one of his top suitors in free agency. Michael Grove (0-2, 8.10) is expected to fill the latest hole in the Dodgers’ rotation.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Two federal agencies agreed Friday which one will lead investigations of accidents in the nascent commercial space business that includes launching tourists far above the Earth.
The National Transportation Safety Board will take the lead investigating accidents that involve death or serious injury or that create potentially deadly debris. The Federal Aviation Administration will handle other investigations.
The NTSB is currently the primary investigator of crashes involving airplanes and other modes of transportation but has no authority to write regulations. The FAA is the chief safety regulator for the aviation industry.
The two agencies are frequently at odds, usually when the safety board believes its recommendations are being ignored by the FAA.
The agreement announced at NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston is the first to be signed by the agencies’ leaders in 22 years — before manned commercial space flights began. It also details how they will share information after an accident.
“This agreement is proof that the federal government can keep pace with the exciting advances taking place in the private sector while also prioritizing safety as we enter a new space age,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a statement.
Licensed space launches have increased in recent years, with operators including SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. They have launched civilians into sub-orbital flights and put satellites into orbit. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/space-accidents-ntsb-faa-agree-on-leading-investigations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-09-10 00:42:06 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/space-accidents-ntsb-faa-agree-on-leading-investigations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Denver district attorney claims blaming liberal prosecutors for rising crime has 'no basis in reality'
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon faces a recall for rising crime rates
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann criticized efforts to recall progressive district attorneys in an opinion piece to The Denver Post on Tuesday.
McCann specifically targeted an article by columnist George Brauchler, who argued liberal policies are leading to higher crime rates in major cities like San Francisco and Denver. Although several recall efforts have been made against progressive prosecutors as a result, McCann argued that there is "zero evidence" that they have anything to do with crime.
"It is an election year after all and nationwide, Republicans are staying on message and accusing Democrats of causing the national spike in crime. Their intention is to scare voters into electing their candidates. To be clear, there is zero evidence that progressive policies are what’s driving the nation’s crime increase, zero," McCann wrote.
Instead, McCann attacked Brauchler for refusing to reference the "gun problem" as a reason behind rising crime levels.
POLICE ORGANIZATION WARNS PROFESSION IS ‘DYING’ AMID LEFT’S RHETORIC: ‘WE’RE LIVING IN THE ASHES’
"Those who study crime have various theories as to why crime rates are climbing nationwide — the effects of the pandemic, economic decline, anger, the impacts of social media, woeful lack of adequate resources for mental health and substance misuse treatment — yet they all agree on one thing: America has a gun problem," McCann argued.
McCann also undermined claims that liberal cities are unique in rising crime rates, remarking that crime is up "just about everywhere."
"The unfortunate truth is that crime is up just about everywhere in this country. Rather than engage in a blame game, I am focused on doing the work," she wrote.
Earlier this month, San Francisco voters successfully recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin after the city saw a rise in crime over the past two years. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon currently faces recall efforts against him following a shooting that killed two police officers.
McCann concluded, "While prosecuting criminal behavior, we are also advancing community-oriented and prevention approaches to promote a smarter and more equitable system of justice for all Denver residents."
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DERRY – “Are my toes still attached?”
A wet Bob Francis asked that as he scurried to his vehicle after he and 60 others dipped more than their toes into the freezing water of Beaver Lake on Saturday.
A large group from the Pinkerton girls basketball team and the leadership council of athletics head for the water during the annual First Baptist Church Pantry Plunge at Beaver Lake in Derry.
DERRY – “Are my toes still attached?”
A wet Bob Francis asked that as he scurried to his vehicle after he and 60 others dipped more than their toes into the freezing water of Beaver Lake on Saturday.
Francis, his wife and their adult son, Sam, chose a charity polar plunge to make their family photo – complete with Santa hats – for this year’s Christmas card, an annual tradition dating to 1996.
“This one will probably rise to the top of interesting cards,” said his wife, Nancy, who organized the annual “pantry plunge” to benefit the First Baptist Church Food Pantry.
Last year’s plunge raised $24,000. This year’s total should be known by Christmas.
The community need has grown this year with inflation walloping many family budgets.
The food pantry provided enough food to make 3,780 meals in October, nearly 14% ahead of last year. It helped 315 people, a similar percentage increase.
“Prices are so high they can’t afford to buy the food they need, so they come here,” said pantry director Margaret Isbell.
Before the plunge, Sam Francis removed a thin layer of ice near the shore but couldn’t do anything to warm the water.
Jenny Hiscox said her body felt a “shock” when she dove in with her Pinkerton Academy classmates.
“It was worse getting out,” Hiscox said after a couple minutes in freezing water and sub-freezing wind chills. “My toes are freezing.”
“It was way worse last year” in the rain, said Pinkerton’s Maddy Moore, 17 of Chester.
Another year featured six inches of ice on the lake that had to be broken up to produce a plunge area.
Eileen Dusek, 67, of Derry came dressed Saturday in a white tutu with a crown adorning her head – the crown’s points representing glaciers.
This was her fourth state doing a polar plunge.
“I have visited 'em all, but I’m not going to plunge in ‘em all,” Dusek said of the 50 states. “But you never know.”
Afterward, she called the plunge “fantastic. I’ll do it again.”
She said an ice fisherman tasked her with looking for fish in the lake.
“I didn’t find any,” she said.
Logan Hill, 22, joined about a half-dozen co-workers at the local Blue Seal feed store, including the event’s organizer.
After coming up from the water for air, “it took my breath away,” Hill said.
The Manchester resident saw Dusek decked out in a crown.
How was he planning to celebrate completing the plunge?
“With a different crown,” Hill said, confirming Crown Royal whiskey.
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A Syrian American is suing the Syrian government for torture he says he suffered in custody there to raise awareness of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who still suffer in prisons.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyfebulb, a digital healthcare platform that bridges patients with industry to support user-driven innovation, education and connectivity, announced today the launch of RareCancerLyfe (www.rarecancerlyfe.com). RareCancerLyfe is an online community for patients and support partners to connect on a personal level under the shared topic of disease, to learn from and inspire one another. Lyfebulb's mission in building the platform is to help the rare cancer community help feel less alone through sharing experiences, accessing curated resources, and providing both 1:1 and community support.
"There is an incredibly significant unmet need in the rare cancer community in terms of patient support and education," said Karin Hehenberger, MD, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Lyfebulb. "Most types of cancer are considered rare, and although new treatments are being developed, many people continue to struggle to find the right diagnosis and importantly others with similar diagnoses. RareCancerLyfe does not provide any medical advice; it instead provides curated access to resources, peer support, and is a place where individuals can find that one person to connect with to not feel so alone."
With the support of Helsinn, global biopharma leader in oncology and rare diseases, RareCancerLyfe was developed with insights and contributions from patients, care partners, and industry leaders alike. It currently offers four features:
- Find-A-Friend for one-on-one matching with peers;
- Discussion Forum for posing questions and receiving answers from the community at large;
- Journal for logging metrics and daily thoughts; and
- Resources for educational materials, inspirational stories, and external links to organizations that share the same mission.
"Through my own cancer journey and related advocacy, I have met so many individuals who did not have a community because their cancer was so rare," said AnnMarie Giannino, Cancer Survivor and Director of Community at Lyfebulb. "It is exciting to be part of the team launching RareCancerLyfe and finally offering a platform that those living with a rare cancer can call home!"
There are a total of 17 rare cancers currently featured on the site, and that figure is growing. In the future, Lyfebulb plans to expand the educational offerings to feature webinars with key opinion leaders, 'ask me anything' sessions with patient experts, blog-style articles, and education about and access to clinical trials. For more information on RareCancerLyfe or to register as a member, please visit https://www.rarecancerlyfe.com/.
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Lyfebulb empowers people living with chronic illnesses to thrive through education, innovation and connectivity. The company bridges the gap between patient communities and the healthcare industry by working directly with patients and care partners to generate insights and build new solutions to reduce the burden of living with chronic disease. The company operates three digital patient communities, TransplantLyfe, IBDLyfe, and RareCancerLyfe. For more information, visit Lyfebulb.com, TransplantLyfe.com, IBDLyfe.com, RareCancerLyfe.com, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Karin Hehenberger's personal LinkedIn.
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By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply limited the federal government’s authority to police water pollution into certain wetlands, the second decision in as many years in which a conservative majority narrowed the reach of environmental regulations.
The outcome could threaten efforts to control flooding on the Mississippi River and protect the Chesapeake Bay, among many projects, wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh, breaking with the other five conservatives. Environmental advocates said the decision would strip protections from tens of millions of acres of wetlands.
The justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water in a ruling in favor of an Idaho couple who sought to build a house near Priest Lake in the state’s panhandle. Chantell and Michael Sackett objected when federal officials identified a soggy portion of the property as a wetlands that required them to get a permit before filling it with rocks and soil.
By a 5-4 vote, the court said in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that wetlands can only be regulated under the Clean Water Act if they have a “continuous surface connection” to larger, regulated bodies of water. There is no such connection on the Sacketts’ property.
President Joe Biden said the court’s decision defies science and undermines a law that has been used for a half-century to make American waters cleaner.
“The Supreme Court’s disappointing decision in Sackett v. EPA will take our country backwards. It puts our Nation’s wetlands – and the rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them – at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on,” Biden said in a statement.
The court jettisoned the 17-year-old opinion by their former colleague, Anthony Kennedy, allowing regulation of what can be discharged into wetlands that could affect the health of the larger waterways.
Kennedy’s opinion covering wetlands that have a “significant nexus” to larger bodies of water had been the standard for evaluating whether permits were required for discharges under the 1972 landmark environmental law. Opponents had objected that the standard was vague and unworkable.
Reacting to the decision, Manish Bapna, the chief executive of the Natural Resources Defense Council, called on Congress to amend the Clean Water Act to restore wetlands protections and on states to strengthen their own laws.
“The Supreme Court ripped the heart out of the law we depend on to protect American waters and wetlands. The majority chose to protect polluters at the expense of healthy wetlands and waterways. This decision will cause incalculable harm. Communities across the country will pay the price,” Bapna said in a statement.
The outcome almost certainly will affect ongoing court battles over new water regulations, including for wetlands, that the Biden administration put in place in December. Two federal judges have temporarily blocked those rules from being enforced in 26 states.
Congress voted in March to overturn the administration’s new water rule and, even though President Joe Biden vetoed the measure, the prospect of legislative action to restore wetlands protections anytime soon is remote.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Michael S. Regan, credited the Clean Water Act with leading to “transformational progress” in cleaning up the nation’s waterways. “I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court decision that erodes longstanding clean water protections,” Regan said in a statement.
Damien Schiff, who represented the Sacketts at the Supreme Court, said the decision appropriately narrowed the reach of the law. “Courts now have a clear measuring stick for fairness and consistency by federal regulators. Today’s ruling is a profound win for property rights and the constitutional separation of powers,” Schiff said in a statement issued by the property rights-focused Pacific Legal Foundation.
In Thursday’s ruling, all nine justices agreed that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property are not covered by the act.
But only five justices joined in the opinion that imposed a new test for evaluating when wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas and Alito would have adopted the narrower standard in 2006, in the last big wetlands case at the Supreme Court. They were joined Thursday by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.
Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal justices charged that their colleagues had rewritten that law.
Kavanaugh wrote that the court’s “new and overly narrow test may leave long-regulated and long-accepted-to-be regulable wetlands suddenly beyond the scope of the agencies’ regulatory authority.”
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the majority’s rewriting of the act was “an effort to cabin the anti-pollution actions Congress thought appropriate.” Kagan referenced last year’s decision limiting the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
In both cases, she noted, the court had appointed “itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy.” Kagan was joined in what she wrote by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Sacketts paid $23,000 for a 0.63-acre lot near Priest Lake in 2005 and started building a three-bedroom home two years later.
They had filled part of the property, described in an appellate ruling as a “soggy residential lot,” with rocks and soil in preparation for construction, when officials with the EPA showed up and ordered a halt in the work.
They also won an earlier round in their legal fight at the Supreme Court.
The federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the EPA’s determination in 2021, finding that part of the property, 300 feet from the lake and 30 feet from an unnamed waterway that flows into the lake, was wetlands.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee the governance of Walt Disney World said Wednesday that their Disney-controlled predecessors pulled a fast one on them by passing restrictive covenants that strip the new board of many of its powers.
The current supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said at a meeting that their predecessors last month signed a development agreement with the company that gave Disney maximum developmental power over the theme park resort's 27,000 acres in central Florida.
The five supervisors were appointed by the Republican governor to the board after the Florida Legislature overhauled Disney's government in retaliation for the entertainment giant publicly opposing so-called "Don't Say Gay" legislation that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, as well as lessons deemed not age-appropriate.
In taking on Disney, DeSantis furthered his reputation as a culture warrior willing to battle perceived political enemies and wield the power of state government to accomplish political goals, a strategy that is expected to continue ahead of his potential White House run.
The new supervisors replaced a board that had been controlled by Disney during the previous 55 years that the government operated as the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The new board members held their first meeting earlier this month and said they found out about the agreement after their appointments.
"We're going to have to deal with it and correct it," board member Brian Aungst said Wednesday. "It's a subversion of the will of the voters and the Legislature and the governor. It completely circumvents the authority of this board to govern."
In a statement, Disney said all agreements were above board and took place in public.
"All agreements signed between Disney and the District were appropriate, and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida's Government in the Sunshine law," the statement said.
Separately, Disney World service workers on Wednesday were voting on whether to accept a union contract offer that would raise the starting minimum wage to $18 an hour by the end of the year.
The agreement covers around 45,000 service workers at the Disney theme park resort, including costumed performers who perform as Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, bus drivers, culinary workers, lifeguards, theatrical workers and hotel housekeepers.
Workers could see their hourly wages rise between $5.50 and $8.60 an hour by the end of the five-year contract if it's approved, according to union leaders.
A contract approved five years ago made Disney the first major employer in central Florida to agree to a minimum hourly wage of $15, setting the trend for other workers in the region dominated by hospitality jobs.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — If Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is to have any hope of securing a second term, he needs more female support – and fast. Yet a man famed for macho bravado hasn’t shown any concerted strategy to do so.
With the election just three months off, some polls show only one in five women will vote for the tough-talking, pro-gun, motorcycle-riding former Army captain. If that holds true Oct. 2, Bolsonaro could lose outright to his nemesis, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, without need for a runoff. Almost half of Brazilian women say they will vote for the president’s opponent.
More than half of women polled say they would never vote for the far-right leader, regardless of social class, which has been a traditional indicator for voting preferences.
Polling expert Antonio Lavareda said Bolsonaro has no chance of winning unless he can win over more women. “There is huge rejection among them. Even among those who are yet to make their choice, he is less likely to be their pick,” he said on a phone interview.
It’s a far cry from 2018. Days before the one-time fringe lawmaker’s victory four years ago, polls showed women roughly evenly split between Bolsonaro and his leftist adversary, a former mayor of Sao Paulo. That despite Bolsonaro’s quip that he had fathered a daughter in a moment of weakness and his remark to a fellow lawmaker she was too ugly to be raped. Many women, especially those from higher social classes, backed his campaign.
Since then, Bolsonaro has hemorrhaged female support. That’s in part due to his handling of the pandemic and insistence upon sowing doubt about the efficacy of vaccines, even stringently opposing their use among children, said Esther Solano, a sociologist at the Federal University of Sao Paulo. The president remains unvaccinated against COVID-19 and a country with a proud tradition of successful vaccine campaigns saw the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll.
“Women are always impacted by idea of care, because it is the woman who gives care. Bolsonaro not taking care of people during the pandemic had a much more negative impact among the female population,” said Solano, who has conducted polling of potential Bolsonaro voters.
More generally, she said, four years of Bolsonaro’s “aggressive tone” have diminished his support.
“He shows a kind of masculinity that’s very toxic, very strong, very violent. Just as there are men who have been fascinated by this sort of masculinity, of the aggressive man who speaks in a way that’s politically incorrect, who is intolerant, who demonstrates a certain strength, many women feel assaulted by this,” she added.
Bolsonaro also has received blame for the fastest inflation in almost two decades, just like other incumbents across the globe.
Geisa Rodrigues dos Santos lives in a low-income community of Rio de Janeiro and depends heavily on social programs to feed her three kids. Brazil’s generous pandemic welfare program was slashed, and the house cleaner now finds herself longing for da Silva’s administration, which produced an emergent middle class from 2003 to 2010. She didn’t vote in 2018, but now intends to vote for da Silva, known universally in Brazil as Lula.
“Back then in the pandemic the handouts worked. They saved a lot of mothers,” said dos Santos, 35. “Now, I spend these 400 reais ($77) at the supermarket and inflation eats a large part of it. During the Lula days, we ate.”
There is recognition within Bolsonaro’s camp of his disadvantage among women, as well as hope he can win over many of the roughly one-third of women who, according to polls, remain undecided. What doesn’t exist is agreement on how to adjust course.
Analysts have speculated the Bolsonaro campaign could deploy his wife Michelle, 40, in public appearances and television spots. A nearly dressed evangelical Christian, she speaks fluent sign language and personifies the caregiving housewife who can smooth Bolsonaro’s rough edges and appeal to potential female voters, said Solano.
The first lady had been set to record TV spots earlier this month, but it didn’t happen, according to two of Bolsonaro’s ministers and two senators who are close advisers to the president. They told The Associated Press the spots were scrapped because the president’s lawmaker sons are divided over the tack he should take: double down on his 2018 strategy of inflammatory language or tone down his brashness as a means of outreach. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk publicly about campaign strategy.
Allies also have urged Bolsonaro to choose a female running mate, such as Tereza Cristina, his former agriculture minister, according to the same four officials. Instead, he has said he will choose a fellow military man, Gen. Walter Braga Netto, an adviser to the president. He could still change his mind before an August deadline, though that appears increasingly unlikely, his allies told the AP.
Cristina was one of just three female Cabinet ministers during Bolsonaro’s first three years in office, compared to more than 20 men. After she and other ministers stepped down this year so they can run for other offices, Bolsonaro’s picks for replacements left only one woman in the Cabinet.
Bolsonaro, meanwhile, has repeatedly said he doesn’t believe polls, arguing his voters don’t respond to the surveys.
His direct attempts to reach out to female voters have been halting. He said on International Women’s Day in March that women “are basically integrated to society” and on April 12 said his administration has done 63 things for them, without specifying what they were. The presidential palace didn’t reply to repeated AP emails asking for details of those actions.
Meantime, some women who were once potential Bolsonaro voters are now actively working to unseat him.
Rosângela Lyra, a former Christian Dior executive in Brazil, shocked friends when she started rallying support for da Silva after earlier backing the prosecutors whose corruption investigations had put him in prison. Brazil’s top court ruled last year that the judge had been biased, and annulled da Silva’s convictions.
“The main reason for my campaign is President Jair Bolsonaro. He shouldn’t continue,” Lyra told the AP in the lobby of her apartment in a posh district of Sao Paulo. She leads Politica Viva, an activist group with nearly 3,000 members, most of them women. While she said she didn’t vote for Bolsonaro in 2018, she had believed he could grow in office.
“I hoped he would think better, have some access to other information, become more human. But that didn’t happen,” Lyra said. “People can see now he is incompetent and inhumane. His management of the pandemic, the corruption in his administration, the vigilantism he supports. We can’t keep t his institutional risk for another four years and become a right-wing dictatorship.”
Lavareda said few things have hurt Bolsonaro among women more than his crusade to loosen gun restrictions. When he campaigned in 2018, widespread access to firearms for civilians was part of his pitch to help rein in homicides that reached a 10-year-high the year before.
Claudianne Silva, a cashier at a Sao Paulo supermarket, had just lost a nephew to gun violence, believed the new president should be hard on crime and corruption.
This time around, though, she feels Bolsonaro has failed to deliver and will cast her ballot for da Silva.
“I voted for Bolsonaro because I was angry with everyone, but now I’m so angry with him that I’ll vote for the person he hates the most,” said Silva, 47. “Not that I think Lula will do much better. Times are different now. But I want Bolsonaro out.”
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VERIFY has been answering election questions and monitoring social media for claims ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms.
According to Google search trends, people were recently asking if a church is allowed to endorse a political candidate, after ProPublica published a report on church endorsements. A tweet with more than 16,000 likes says: “Report every church to the IRS that is backing a political candidate. This is a violation. They will lose their tax exempt status.”
This reporting is part of a series of stories ahead of the midterm elections. If you have any questions about the elections, email us at questions@verifythis.com or message us on social media @verifythis.
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THE QUESTION
Can the IRS revoke tax-exempt status for churches that endorse political candidates?
THE SOURCES
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Clergy Financial Resources, a financial group for religious organizations
- United Church of Christ, a U.S.-based group of churches
- Grace Communion International, a group of churches across 70 countries
- California Catholic Conference, the public voice of Catholic churches across California
THE ANSWER
Yes, the IRS can revoke tax-exempt status for churches that endorse political candidates. However, it has only happened one time.
WHAT WE FOUND
Churches and religious organizations are generally exempt from paying federal income tax, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). To qualify for those benefits, churches are granted a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and have to follow certain rules under the Internal Revenue Code, which is a comprehensive set of tax laws.
In 1954, Congress passed the Johnson Amendment, an addition to the Internal Revenue Code, that prohibited most tax-exempt organizations, including charities and churches, from engaging in certain political campaign activities.
According to the Internal Revenue Service, any organization, including churches, that qualifies as a 501(c)(3) must “not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” Most charities are also classified as 501(c)(3) organizations.
Violating this rule means a church could lose its tax-exempt status.
However, there has only been one church that has ever lost that status since the Johnson Amendment was enacted. Branch Ministries lost its tax-exempt status after it took out a full-page newspaper ad urging Christians to not vote for Bill Clinton in 1992. The church later fought the IRS, saying it was violating the church’s freedom of speech. The court ruled the church’s right to speech was not violated and if they want to continue to be political, they would have to create a separate organization under a different tax status.
If the IRS gets a complaint that a tax-exempt organization might be violating the law, the referral gets sent to analysts to determine whether a violation occurred, the IRS says. The person making the complaint will get a letter confirming it was received, but the IRS cannot disclose whether it has initiated an examination or the results of an examination. The IRS is responsible for investigating and enforcing internal revenue laws and violations of tax law.
While they can’t endorse candidates, churches and other 501(c)(3) organizations can engage in a limited amount of lobbying – including on ballot measures – and advocate for or against issues that are in the political arena, the IRS says.
Clergy Financial Resources, a financial service for religious organizations and clergy, advises religious leaders are allowed to “speak their mind” and endorse candidates as long as they aren’t doing it as an official representative of the church.
“When speaking/writing their opinions on political issues outside of the church, church leaders are urged to indicate that these are their personal viewpoints and not the views of the religious organization they represent,” Clergy Financial says.
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Several church organizations also provide guidance that supports the IRS laws.
Grace Communion International, a global Christian church group, instructed its church officials to not engage in political endorsements.
“Don’t support or oppose a candidate directly or indirectly, whether in a sermon, church newsletter, sample ballot or by financial means. Avoid pejorative labels when mentioning a candidate by name,” the warning said. “Don’t provide volunteers, mailing lists, publicity, nor distribute or display campaign literature on church premises or provide free use of facilities unless made available equally to all parties and candidates.”
The United Church of Christ policy says its churches are allowed to take positions on policy issues during an election cycle “so long as the church’s support remains focused on issues, and not candidates.”
The California Catholic Conference policy says: “While many may believe that our Catholic Faith impels us to vote for a particular candidate, it is a rare occasion that a political candidate stands for everything that the Church teaches both in positions and track record. By not endorsing candidates which to greater or lesser degree may be at variance with Church teaching, the Church avoids projecting confusion about Catholic truth. Similarly, the Church avoids the possibility of future scandal by not endorsing candidates who may, after being elected, change their positions or fail to fulfill their promises.”
The IRS gives several examples of when a church official is or isn’t violating the rules. For example, if a church official endorses a candidate but doesn’t do it on behalf of the church, then it’s OK. If a church official invites a candidate to speak during a church service, and the candidate asks for a vote, that is a violation.
For more information on filing a complaint to the IRS, follow this link to the IRS website.
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LONDON, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the launch of the 17th edition of the Global Peace Index from international think-tank, the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP).
Key results
- Deaths from global conflict increased by 96% to 238,000
- New data shows higher number of conflict deaths in Ethiopia than Ukraine, eclipsing the previous global peak during the Syrian war
- 79 countries witnessed increased levels of conflict including Ethiopia, Myanmar, Ukraine, Israel, and South Africa
- The global economic impact of violence increased by 17% or $1 trillion, to $17.5 trillion in 2022, equivalent to 13% of global GDP
- A Chinese blockade of Taiwan would cause a drop in global economic output of $2.7 trillion, almost double the loss that occurred due to the 2008 global financial crisis
- Despite the conflict in Ukraine, 92 countries improved on military expenditure and 110 decreased their military personnel
- Conflicts are becoming more internationalised with 91 countries now involved in some form of external conflict, up from 58 in 2008
Impact of the War in Ukraine on Peacefulness
- Ukraine recorded the largest deterioration, falling 14 places to 157th
- The economic impact of violence has increased by 479% or $449 billion, equivalent to 64% of Ukraine's GDP
- Despite the conflict, Russia's incarceration rate, violent demonstrations, terrorism impact and homicide rates have improved over the past year, with the homicide rate at its lowest since 2008
- 65% of men in Ukraine aged 20 to 24 years have fled the country, or died in the conflict
The 17th edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI), the world's leading measure of peacefulness, reveals the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated for the ninth consecutive year, with 84 countries recording an improvement and 79 a deterioration. This demonstrates that the deteriorations were larger than the improvements, as the post-COVID rises of civil unrest and political instability remain high while regional and global conflicts accelerate.
Iceland remains the most peaceful country, a position it has held since 2008, followed by Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand and Austria. For the sixth consecutive year, Afghanistan is the least peaceful country, followed by Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Highlighting the shifting dynamics of conflict, both Afghanistan and Syria recorded improvements in peacefulness.
Ukraine's overall score recorded a decline of 13%, the largest deterioration in the 2023 GPI, and is now 157th on the Index. Libya experienced the largest improvement in overall peacefulness, improving by 7% and rising 14 places to 137th.
The shift in the global distribution of conflict continued as major conflicts in the MENA region and South Asia declined, while conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Asia-Pacific intensified. The Russia and Eurasia region recorded the largest deterioration in peacefulness in the world.
Ten of the 23 GPI indicators improved, 11 deteriorated, and two had no change. The largest deteriorations were in External Conflicts Fought and Deaths from Internal Conflict. Other notable deteriorations included Neighbouring Country Relations and Political Instability, where 59 countries deteriorated.
The impact of violence on the global economy increased by $1 trillion to a record $17.5 trillion. This is equivalent to 13% of global GDP, approximately $2,200 per person. This was due to increased military expenditure owing to the Ukraine war. The disparity in the economic impact of violence is stark: the ten countries most affected averaged 34% of GDP, compared to just 3% for the ten least affected.
Steve Killelea, Founder & Executive Chairman of IEP, said: "The 2023 Global Peace Index highlights the contrasting dynamics of militarisation and conflict. On the one hand, the majority of countries are decreasing their reliance on the military, while on the other hand an increasing number of conflicts are becoming internationalised. Conflict deaths are the highest since the Rwandan genocide which had over 800,000 deaths and sparked a wave of global action.
"After the Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syrian wars and now the Ukraine war it is obvious that the most powerful armies cannot prevail against a well-resourced local population. War has become mostly unwinnable, and an increasingly heavy economic burden. This is highlighted by the impact of a potential economic blockade on Taiwan, which would result in a global economic recession twice as impactful as the global financial crisis of 2008."
The rise in conflicts
79 countries deteriorated in the Ongoing Conflict domain, with conflict related deaths increasing by 96% compared to the prior year. Conflict deaths are now at the highest level this century. The Ethiopian conflict claimed the most lives in 2022 with new data finding that battlefield deaths were over 100,000, while disease and famine related deaths were conservatively estimated at over 200,000. This conflict has been largely hidden from the media because of domestic media restrictions and internet blackouts. This has coincided with US and UN aid organisations stopping food shipments because of corruption in the food supply chains.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Mali recorded the largest deterioration with conflict-related deaths increasing by 154%, while violence against civilians rose by 570%. Eswatini experienced the next largest drop in peacefulness in the region.
The Ukraine war has seen the total number of Ukrainians who were either refugees or internally displaced jump from 1.7% before the conflict, to over 30% and is likely to continue increasing. Recent data has found that up to 65% of men in Ukraine aged 20 to 24 years have fled the country or died in the conflict[1]. The report estimates 83,000 deaths are related to the conflict so far.
In contrast to the devastating effects of the war on the Russian population, other internal factors have improved including the incarceration rate, a decrease in violent demonstrations, and the impact of terrorism. The homicide rate within Russia is now at its lowest level since the inception of the GPI in 2008. If not for the Ukraine conflict, Russia would have been one of the largest improvers in peace in this year's Index.
The global number of refugees and internally displaced people continues to rise; there are now 15 countries with over 5% of their population displaced.
Taiwan Blockade
While China is not currently directly involved in any external conflicts, it has become more assertive in the South China Sea and has intensified aerial operations near Taiwan. The Index indicates that if a Chinese blockade of Taiwan were to materialise, it would lead to a drop in global economic output of $2.7 trillion, or 3% of global GDP in the first year alone.
Almost 60% of this loss would occur in China and Taiwan. The Chinese economy would shrink by an estimated 7%, and Taiwan's by almost 40%. China's five largest trading partners are established democracies that are militarily aligned – the US, Japan, South Korea, Germany, and Australia.
Militarisation and Technology
Although conflict is increasing, more countries are directing military expenditure toward other priorities including healthcare, education, infrastructure, and pandemic recovery. The improvements in militarisation were widespread with every region improving. However, the total military spending increased by 17% since 2008 with the largest increases coming from China ($180 billion), the US ($70 billion), and India ($40 billion).
Drones are being increasingly used in conflicts, including in Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. The total number of drone attacks increased by 41% in 2022, with the number of different groups using drones increasing by 24%.
Regional Highlights
- The largest regional improvements occurred in MENA and North America. North America's improvement was driven by Canada, but the United States deteriorated slightly where homicide rates have risen to levels six times higher than Western Europe.
- Since 2016 MENA has seen the largest improvements in peace globally, however it is still the least peaceful region. The epicentre of terrorism has shifted from the MENA region into sub-Saharan Africa, especially the Sahel.
- Central America, the Caribbean and South America have recorded substantial deteriorations, falling mainly on measures of repression, violence, and conflict.
- Coastal West Africa is at its most peaceful since reporting began in 2008, with countries in the region recording an average improvement of 5% in the past 14 years. The coastal region between Morocco and Ghana recorded no deaths from terrorism in 2022, in contrast to the neighbouring countries in the Sahel.
- Europe is still the most peaceful region in the world, despite military expenditure and Neighbouring Country Relations deteriorating because of the Ukraine war. The region is still home to seven of the ten most peaceful countries, with the level of violent demonstrations, protests and riots remaining high. The other three most peaceful countries are in the Asia-Pacific region.
NOTES TO EDITORS
For more information and to download the Global Peace Index 2023, visit visionofhumanity.org and economicsandpeace.org. The full GPI report, articles and interactive maps are available at: visionofhumanity.org
Twitter: @globpeaceindex
Facebook: facebook.com/globalpeaceindex
Instagram: instagram.com/globalpeaceindex
About the Global Peace Index (GPI)
Produced by the international think-tank the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), the GPI report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to date on peace, its economic value, trends, and how to develop peaceful societies. The report covers 99.7% of the world's population and uses 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources to compile the Index. These indicators are grouped into three key domains: Ongoing Conflict, Safety and Security, and Militarisation.
About the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
IEP is an international and independent think tank dedicated to shifting the world's focus to peace as a positive, achievable and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. It has offices in Sydney, Brussels, New York, The Hague, Mexico City and Harare.
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(Motor Authority) — Toyota is set to reveal a redesigned version of its Crown sedan on July 15, and the automaker has released the first teaser shot.
The teaser shot shows a design similar to what we saw in patent drawings depicting a high-riding Toyota sedan (or possibly hatchback), which surfaced in June.
On a microsite for the redesigned Crown, Toyota poses the questions, “Sedan?” and “SUV?” and then ends with the statement, “Discover your Crown.” This suggests there will be more than one body style to choose from.
Further confusing the matter, Reuters reported in April that Toyota will unveil a redesigned Crown this summer, followed by a Crown SUV a year later. The SUV will reportedly include hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions that will be exported to the U.S. and China beginning in mid-2023. An electric version of the Crown SUV is also reportedly planned, but it may not be sold in the U.S.
Toyota introduced the Crown nameplate in 1955, on its first passenger car developed and built entirely in Japan. The nameplate is currently into its 15th generation and features on a large sedan closely related to the Toyota Mirai and Lexus LS. The Crown is currently not offered in the U.S., but elsewhere it serves as Toyota’s mainstream flagship (the automaker also has the exclusive Century sedan that sells for Bentley money). | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/new-toyota-crown-to-debut-july-15/ | 2022-07-09 18:10:27 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/new-toyota-crown-to-debut-july-15/ |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, November 5, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Seattle WA
948 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in
Washington...
Nisqually River Near National affecting Pierce and Lewis Counties.
.Heavy rain over the area has ended early Saturday morning. The
Nisqually has crested early this morning and has receded below flood
stage. The river will continue to recede.
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Nisqually River Near National.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 9:00 AM PDT Saturday the flow was 3,120.0 cfs.
- Forecast...The river fell below flood stage early this
morning and will continue to fall through the weekend.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ busiest airport is reining in flight departures over its busy summer period because shortages of security staff mean it cannot cope with the high demand as many families take to the skies for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic has eased.
The decision is likely to affect the vacation plans of thousands of travelers each day, the airport’s CEO said Thursday.
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest, said in a statement that on average, from July 7 until the end of the month, there are about 13,500 seats per day above the capacity that the airport’s security staff can handle. A decision on August flights will be taken later.
The airport, which saw lengthy delays and flight cancellations during school vacations last month, did not say how many flights a day it would have to cancel, saying some of the seats have not yet been sold and passengers may be able to depart from different airports.
“It is, of course, frustrating,” CEO Dick Benschop told reporters. “Frustrating for the people concerned, families who have looked forward (to traveling); frustrating for airlines, the first real summer after COVID; frustrating for travel organizations and frustrating for us.”
Schiphol is not the only European airport struggling to cope with staff shortages and skyrocketing demand for flights after two pandemic-hit years.
Travelers in Britain suffered days of airport delays during the Easter school holidays, with British Airways and easyJet canceling hundreds of flights because of coronavirus-related staff absences. Hours-long lines built up at British airport check-in, security and baggage points.
Benschop said Schiphol had no choice but to act now.
“It is not responsible to go into the summer hoping for the best,” he said. “We are responsible for our passengers and staff and for their security and health.”
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PHOENIX (AP) _ Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of $404 million.
The Phoenix-based company said it had net income of 28 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 26 cents per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 34 cents per share.
The mining company posted revenue of $5 billion in the period, also missing Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $5.2 billion.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Services have been announced for Rev. Vincent Dial, who died Monday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
A visitation service will take place Friday beginning at 2 p.m. at Topper Palace at Science Hill High School.
A celebration of life will follow at 4 p.m.
Dial, a Johnson City icon, was the senior pastor at Bethel Christian Church and chaplain for the East Tennessee State University football team. He served for years as a band teacher at Liberty Bell Middle School before becoming North Side Elementary’s principal in 2001. Described by others as a pillar in the community, Dial remained active in schools and the church up until his death. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/services-announced-for-rev-vincent-dial/ | 2022-05-25 23:36:45 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/services-announced-for-rev-vincent-dial/ |
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