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ROME (AP) — With a message that blends Christianity, motherhood and patriotism, Giorgia Meloni is riding a wave of popularity that next month could see her become Italy’s first female prime minister and its first far-right leader since World War II.
Even though her Brothers of Italy party has neo-fascist roots, Meloni has sought to dispel concerns about its legacy, saying voters have grown tired of such discussions.
Still, there are nagging signs that such a legacy can’t be shaken off so easily: Her party’s symbol includes an image of a tricolored flame, borrowed from a neo-fascist party formed shortly after the end of the war.
If Brothers of Italy prevails at the polls on Sept. 25 and the 45-year-old Meloni becomes premier, it will come almost 100 years to the month after Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, came to power in October 1922.
In 2019, Meloni proudly introduced Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, a great-grandson of the dictator, as one of her candidates for the European Parliament, although he eventually lost.
For most Italian voters, questions about anti-fascism and neo-fascism aren’t “a key driver of whom to vote for,” said Lorenzo Pregliasco, head of the YouTrend polling company. ”They don’t see that as part of the present. They see that as part of the past.”
Still, Meloni is sensitive to international scrutiny about her possible premiership and prefers the term conservative instead of far right to describe her party.
She recently recorded video messages in English, French and Spanish that said the Italian right “has handed fascism over to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the ignominious anti-Jewish laws.”
That was a reference to the 1938 laws banning Italy’s small Jewish community from participating in business, education and other facets of everyday life. The laws paved the way for the deportation of many Italian Jews to Nazi death camps during the German occupation of Rome in the waning years of World War II.
Yet by keeping the tri-colored flame in her party’s logo, “she is symbolically playing on that heritage,” said David Art, a Tufts University political science professor who studies Europe’s far right. “But then she wants to say, ‘We’re not racist.’”
Unlike Germany, which worked to come to terms with its devastating Nazi legacy, the fascist period is little scrutinized in Italian schools and universities, says Gastone Malaguti. Now 96, he fought as a teenager against Mussolini’s forces. In his decades of visiting classrooms to talk about Italy’s anti-fascist Resistance, he found many students “ignorant” of that history.
Only five years ago, Brothers of Italy — its name is inspired by the opening words of the national anthem — was viewed as a fringe force, winning 4.4% of the vote. Now, opinion polls indicate it could come in first place in September and capture as much as 24% support, just ahead of the center-left Democrat Party led by former Premier Enrico Letta.
Under Italy’s complex, partially proportional electoral system, campaign coalitions are what propels party leaders into the premiership, not just votes. Right-wing politicians have done a far better job this year than the Democrats of forging wide-ranging electoral partnerships.
Meloni has allied with the right-wing League party led by Matteo Salvini, who, like her, favors crackdowns on illegal migration. Her other electoral ally is the center-right Forza Italia party of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Last year, her party was the only major one to refuse to join Italy’s national pandemic unity coalition led by Premier Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank chief. Draghi’s government collapsed last month, abruptly abandoned by Salvini, Berlusconi and 5-Star leader Giuseppe Conte, who are all preoccupied with their parties’ slipping fortunes in opinion polls and local elections.
In opinion surveys, Meloni is “credited with a consistent and coherent approach to politics. She didn’t compromise,” Pregliasco said, adding that she also is perceived as “a leader who has clear ideas — not everyone agrees with those ideas, of course.”
She has apologized for the “tone” but not the content of a blistering speech she delivered in June in Spain to drum up support for far-right party Vox.
“They will say we are dangerous, extremists, racists, fascists, deniers and homophobes,” Meloni thundered, in an apparent reference to Holocaust deniers. She ended with a crescendo of shouted slogans: “Yes to natural families! No to LGBT lobbies! Yes to sexual identity! No to gender ideology!”
Meloni slammed ”bureaucrats in Brussels” and “climate fundamentalism.” Meloni, who has a young daughter, claimed that “the most censured” phrase is “woman and motherhood.”
Abortion hasn’t emerged as a campaign issue in Italy, where it’s legal. But Meloni has decried Italy’s shrinking birth rate, which would be even lower without immigrant women having babies.
At a rally of right-wing supporters in Rome in 2019, Meloni drew roars of approval when she yelled in a staccato pace: “I am Giorgia! I am a woman. I am a mother. I am Italian, and I am Christian. And you cannot take that away from me!”
Within days, her proclamation became fodder for a rap song’s lyrics. While some saw that as a parody, Meloni loved it and even sang a few bars on a state radio program.
According to her 2021 memoir “I am Giorgia,” much of her identity was forged by growing up in Rome’s working-class Garbatella neighborhood. At 15, she joined a youth branch of the Italian Social Movement, the neo-fascist party with the flame symbol, and plastered political posters in the capital.
When she was 31, Berlusconi made her the minister of youth in his third and last government. But she soon blazed her own path, co-founding Brothers of Italy in 2012.
Both Salvini and Meloni say they are safeguarding what they call Europe’s Christian identity. Salvini kisses dangling rosaries and wears a large cross on his often-bared chest, while Meloni’s tiny cross sometimes peeks out from her loose-fitting blouses.
Her party staunchly backed Draghi’s moves to send weapons to Ukraine, even as Salvini and Berlusconi, open admirers of Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued only tepid support. Meloni also defends the NATO alliance anchored by the United States, a fellow Group of Seven country. But she often views European Union rules as an infringement on Italy’s sovereignty.
If Meloni’s far-right forces dominate Italy’s next government, there’s concern about the support Italy will give to right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland “for their deeply conservative agendas” amid fears about a ”democratic backsliding” in the EU, Art said.
For her part, Meloni says she will “fiercely oppose any anti-democratic drift.” | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/far-right-italian-leader-meloni-rides-popular-wave-in-polls/ | 2022-08-16 21:07:00 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/far-right-italian-leader-meloni-rides-popular-wave-in-polls/ |
Five persons are dead following a shooting at a house in Texas, police have mentioned.
Four other folks had been pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting and the 5th died at a health facility in Cleveland, the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office mentioned early Saturday.
The shooting, which used to be reported at round 10.30pm, came about in the 100 block of Walters Road in the Trails End house in the group about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Houston.
A rifle used to be used in the shooting and no arrests were made, ABC News reported.
The youngest sufferer of the shooting used to be 8-years-old, and two feminine sufferers had been discovered in the bed room mendacity on best of 2 kids who survived the ordeal, the document added.
Authorities are nonetheless searching for the suspect who seems to be a Mexican male armed with an AR-15 taste rifle.
They mentioned they’re searching for a Hispanic male who’s roughly 5’8” tall, remaining noticed dressed in blue denims with a black blouse and paintings boots and is described as having brief black hair, as reported through ABC.
The San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office additionally mentioned that the suspect “has been known to shoot his 223 out in his front yard, which is evident by the shell casings that are laying in the front yard”.
The age vary of those that had been shot are between 8 and 40-years-old.
The sufferers are believed to be from the Honduras, even though their names don’t seem to be but identified.
Night shift deputies had been dispatched to a place of dwelling after a harassment criticism used to be referred to as in. However, as they had been en course, a couple of 911 calls had been made to the communique centre mentioning an lively shooter. | https://blackchronicle.com/five-dead-in-texas-shooting-as-armed-suspect-on-the-loose/ | 2023-04-29 12:59:51 | 1 | https://blackchronicle.com/five-dead-in-texas-shooting-as-armed-suspect-on-the-loose/ |
Residents in a Jackson, Miss., neighborhood say they’ve been fearful of Debra Ann Bell’s dogs for years. This week, their worst fears were realized.
A 37-year-old woman suffered what witnesses described as life-threatening injuries Tuesday when police say at least two of the pit bulls owned by Bell attacked the woman on Clairmont Street, according to a report by WLBT.
“I don’t know what hospital she is in right now. I hope she’s still living, but it didn’t look like she was going to make it. She lost so much blood, and all of her insides were laying out on the ground,” one witness told the TV station, asking to not be identified out of fear of retaliation by Bell. “I had never seen anything like that. Every time I think about it, I’m almost about to throw up.”
Bell was arrested following the attack and charged with aggravated assault. If the victim does not survive, that charge could be upgraded to manslaughter, according to the report. Her condition was not immediately known as of Thursday.
All six of the adult pit bulls reportedly owned by Bell were captured, taken to the Mississippi Animal Rescue League (MARL) and euthanized.
“I was advised when they came in that the two dogs that evidently were the perpetrators of the attack were covered in blood, a good bit of blood. They were aggressive. This wasn’t a bite. this was an attack,” MARL Communications Director Deborah Boswell said, according to the report. Boswell said euthanizing the dogs is standard procedure, as housing them would put MARL staff at risk.
Another Clairmont Street resident, Nancy Singleton, told WLBT she had been calling city officials and talking directly to Bell about the dogs. Although the dogs are gone, Singleton said the issue should have been dealt with much sooner.
“It’s bitter because it shouldn’t have happened,” she said. “It shouldn’t have taken someone to be fighting for their life for something to be done.” | https://www.al.com/crime/2023/06/mississippi-woman-reportedly-charged-after-pit-bulls-maul-37-year-old-woman.html | 2023-06-08 16:10:07 | 0 | https://www.al.com/crime/2023/06/mississippi-woman-reportedly-charged-after-pit-bulls-maul-37-year-old-woman.html |
Marshall County Deputies capture wanted fugitive
MARSHALL COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) - Marshall County Deputies have captured a wanted fugitive accused of kidnaping and assault.
On Tuesday night, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office received information about a wanted fugitive from Grayson County named Clay Lee Jones.
Jones was wanted for Kidnapping and beating a woman in Grayson County.
Marshall County Deputies said as they approached Jones, he rammed two patrol vehicles without causing damage to the units because he struck the push bars. They said Jones then left in a stolen car from Kingston. They added a short pursuit ensued, and Jones abandoned the stolen car and fled on foot.
According to officials, the Marshall County Sherriff’s Office, Madill P.D., Kingston P.D., Light Horse P.D. and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol responded and began looking for Jones.
Officials said the victim of the stolen car had his vehicle returned.
The Marshall County Sherriff’s Office went on to thank citizens who called the office at day light who seen Jones moving through fields working his way back to Highway 377.
Deputies said they were able to be in the area and set a perimeter to contain fugitive Jones.
According to deputies, as fugitive Jones was moving through the fields, he made entry into at least two houses and quickly exited trying to avoid capture.
They claimed Jones made his way to a briar patch and attempted to hide, and deputies quickly caught up to him. Officials added that Jones actively resisted being taken into custody and had to be drug through the briar patch.
Jones was treated by the Marshall County Ambulance Service and was then transported to the Marshall County Detention Center where he will face justice on his charges in Marshall County, and then be extradited to Grayson County to face justice on his charges there.
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BUTLER, Ind. (WANE) – With three consecutive seasons of double-digit wins, Todd Mason and the Blazers have caught fire at Eastside.
Coming off their first-ever regional title, the Blazers are in prime position to win the NECC small division title here in 2022 thanks, in part, to last week’s 54-12 win over Prairie Heights.
No better time than now to go behind the scenes in Butler for your latest Highlight Zone “2 Minute Drill.” | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2-minute-drill-eastsides-todd-mason/ | 2022-09-28 14:34:18 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2-minute-drill-eastsides-todd-mason/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Election Commission said Wednesday it has concluded there is evidence that the top candidate to become the country’s next prime minister, a reformist with strong backing among progressive young voters, violated election law and referred his case to the Constitutional Court for a ruling.
The commission’s decision included a request that the court order Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat suspended as a member of Parliament until the ruling is issued.
The alleged violation involves undeclared ownership of media company shares, which are banned for lawmakers. Separately, the court also said it would review a complaint that Pita and his party may have violated the law by proposing to amendThailand’s strict legal provision against defaming the monarchy. Thai media said the court would not make any ruling on Wednesday and that it might need some to consider the issues.
Pita can still be nominated on Thursday when Parliament meets to vote for a new prime minister. But the commission’s move raises new doubts about whether he can muster enough votes to get the post, already a struggle because of Thailand’s deep political divisions.
The Move Forward Party, with a progressive reformist platform, swept to a surprise first-place finish in May’s general election, capturing 151 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives and the most popular votes. Move Forward has assembled an eight-party, 311-seat coalition with which it had planned to take power.
But Pita’s path to power is difficult because he must win 376 votes of a joint session of the House and the conservative, 250-seat, non-elected Senate. The Senate largely represents Thailand’s traditional ruling establishment, which suspects Move Forward’s proposals for minor reforms of the monarchy endanger the royal institution, which they consider to be the center of Thais’ national identity.
Pita’s party responded to the Election Commission’s decision by questioning its fairness and even its legality. It said its decision was unnecessarily hurried and violated its own procedures by failing to call Pita to give a statement.
The commission had earlier said it acted correctly but Move Forward alleges its members may have engaged in malfeasance, or carrying out duties in a wrongful manner, a crime punishable by 10 years imprisonment and a fine.
The election law complaint against Pita, lodged by a member of a rival party, alleges he ran for office in 2019 while failing to declare his shares in a media company.
The case the commission referred to the court accuses Pita of running for office with awareness that he was ineligible, a criminal violation punishable by maximum imprisonment of three years and/or a fine of up to 60,000 baht ($1,720). The party faces a fine of up to 100,000 baht ($2,865).
Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, the government’s top legal advisor, has been quoted as saying that a ruling against Pita could be grounds for nullifying the May election results and holding a new election.
There have been fears since the election that Thailand’s conservative ruling establishment would use what its political opponents consider to be dirty tricks to hold on to power. For a decade-and-a-half, it has repeatedly used the courts and supposedly independent state agencies such as the Election Commission to issue controversial rulings to cripple or sink political opponents.
The dissolution in 2019 of the Future Forward party, a forerunner of Move Forward, triggered vigorous street protests by pro-democracy activists that trailed off only when the coronavirus pandemic took hold.
Hours after the Election Commission announced its referral of the shareholding case, the Constitutional Court said it had has accepted a separate petition against Move Forward and Pita concerning their campaign promise to amend Thailand’s harsh lese majeste law,.
The law, also known as Article 112, mandates a three to 15 year prison term for defaming the king, his immediate family, or the regent. Critics of the law say it is abused for political purposes, and Move Forward wants changes to rein in such abuses, which it claims actually do damage to the monarchy’s reputation.
Royalists soundly reject all efforts to amend the law, and courts have sometimes treated such proposals themselves as tantamount to violating the law. The military and the courts consider themselves stalwart defenders of the monarchy, and the Senate members overwhelmingly share their viewpoint.
If the court agrees that the accused’s actions constitute trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy —a separate provision from Article 112 — they will not be subject to punishment but can be ordered to cease all activities related to their proposed amendment, subject to prosecution if they continue. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-thailands-election-commission-says-top-candidate-for-prime-minister-may-have-broken-election-law/ | 2023-07-13 02:22:47 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-thailands-election-commission-says-top-candidate-for-prime-minister-may-have-broken-election-law/ |
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called for the Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton to step down or be removed by President Biden, adding to bipartisan outrage over an inspector general report that found he misused a government vehicle and allegedly impersonated a law enforcement officer, among other ethics issues.
“The Architect of the Capitol, Brett Blanton, no longer has my confidence to continue in his job. He should resign or President Biden should remove him immediately,” McCarthy said in a tweet on Monday.
McCarthy joins House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) and ranking member Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.) in calling for the resignation of the Architect of the Capitol, who oversees the Capitol complex’s building maintenance, preservation and development.
“The Inspector General’s report was highly concerning, which is, in part, why our first hearing was dedicated to providing oversight over the AOC. His refusal to be transparent and truthful has made clear that he can no longer lead the organization and must resign immediately. I look forward to continuing to conduct robust oversight to ensure our government is accountable to the American people,” Steil said in a statement on Monday.
Morelle called for Blanton’s resignation last week.
An inspector general report released in October found that Blanton and his family had misused Architect of the Capitol vehicles intended for home-to-work use as personal vehicles, resulting in nearly $14,000 worth of inappropriate costs.
The report also found that Blanton had been improperly identified as an off-duty police officer during an incident when he chased down a hit-and-run that happened outside his residence. Blanton denied misrepresenting himself as law enforcement, saying that it was a mistake on the part of Fairfax County Police after Blanton identified himself a “Capitol Police Board Member.”
House lawmakers grilled Blanton over the report in a House Administration hearing last week, where Blanton pushed back on the report.
Blanton said in the hearing that he used the vehicle during an out-of-state family vacation because he was “under the impression that I had to use that vehicle” so he could have quick communication with the Capitol Police Board in case of any emergency.
“I wholeheartedly reject any assertion that I engaged in unethical behavior during my service to this country,” Blanton said in the hearing.
Asked about the report earlier this month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the White House is “taking this very seriously” and will “take any advice that the members of Congress or any action that they want to take very seriously.”
Blanton was nominated by former President Trump to a 10-year term as Architect of the Capitol and was confirmed by the Senate in December 2019.
The Architect of the Capitol is one of three members of the board that oversees the Capitol Police, along with the House and Senate Sergeants at Arms. The board and its structure, as well as its ability to quickly authorize outside assistance during emergencies, came under scrutiny after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Blanton said in last week’s hearing that his vehicle served as the Architect of the Capitol’s “mobile command post” during Jan. 6, 2021, during the Capitol attack, and did not go to the Capitol during the attack because “there would have been next to no way to get onto this campus.”
His explanation of being off campus during the day of Jan. 6 enraged some lawmakers.
“I am outraged to hear that you were be in a comfortable place, sir, while the rest of us were thinking about dying that day and how we were going to come out alive that day,” Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) said during the hearing, saying that a police officer could not close or lock a door because he did not have the keys. “Outrageous that you were not here.”
Torres called for Blanton’s resignation shortly after the hearing.
Rep. Gregory Murphy (R-N.C.) took issue with the Architect of the Capitol’s office having a telework policy, though Blanton said he is now going to the Capitol “effectively every day of the week.”
“It absolutely blows me away,” Murphy said, why Blanton “as Architect of the Capitol — Architect of the Capitol — why you are not here physically every day, all day.” | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/mccarthy-calls-for-resignation-of-architect-of-capitol/ | 2023-02-13 20:07:16 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/mccarthy-calls-for-resignation-of-architect-of-capitol/ |
Biden, S. African leader to discuss Ukraine, trade, climate
U.S. President Joe Biden and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are set to meet Friday at the White House for talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate issues, trade and more.
Ramaphosa is among African leaders who have maintained a neutral stance in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with South Africa abstaining from a United Nations vote condemning Russia’s actions and calling for a mediated settlement.
South Africa’s international relations minister, Naledi Pandor, said Ramaphosa would emphasize the need for dialogue to find an end to the conflict during his meeting with Biden and in separate talks with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Pandor added that the issue will be South Africa’s focus when it participates in the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly next week.
“We would want a process of diplomacy to be initiated between the two parties and we believe the U.N. must lead, the U.N secretary-general in particular,” Pandor said.
The White House meeting comes on the heels of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to South Africa last month, in which he said the Biden administration sees Africa’s 54 nations as “equal partners” in tackling global problems.
But the administration has been disappointed that South Africa and much of the continent have declined to follow the U.S. in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During the Blinken visit, Pandor accused the U.S. and other Western powers of focusing on the Ukraine conflict to the detriment of crises around the globe.
“We should be equally concerned at what is happening to the people of Palestine, as we are with what is happening to the people of Ukraine,” she said.
The Biden administration, meanwhile, has sought to underscore that Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has led to scarcities in grain, cooking oil and fertilizer — resulting in disproportionate impact on Africans.
South Africa’s neutral position is largely because of the support the Soviet Union gave during the Cold War era to Ramaphosa’s African National Congress in its fight to end apartheid, South Africa’s regime of repression against the Black majority that ended in 1994. South Africa is seen as a leader of the several African countries that will not side against Russia.
Despite the differences on the war in Ukraine, the Biden administration recognizes the importance of strengthening relations in Africa as China has spent decades entrenching itself in the continent’s natural resources markets. Improving relations with South Africa — one of the continent’s biggest economies — is central to the U.S. effort.
John Stremlau, an international relations expert at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the talks underscore that the U.S. sees South Africa as having the “potential to lead Africa in a constructive way” on trade and other issues.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the two leaders would also discuss climate change and opportunities to increase trade and investment. Harris and Ramaphosa will discuss global health security, space cooperation and other matters, when they meet over breakfast at the vice president’s residence, Jean-Pierre said.
South Africa’s ambitious efforts to transition from coal to cleaner energy are expected to be discussed during the leaders’ talks. The U.S., Britain, France and Germany announced a plan last year to provid e $8.5 billion in loans and grants over five years to help South Africa phase out coal.
Ramaphosa could also raise with Biden the failure of the United States and other wealthier nations to make good on a more than decades-old pledge — first made in 2009 and reaffirmed at the 2015 Paris climate talks — to spend $100 billion to help developing nations deal with climate change.
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Magome reported from Johannesburg.
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Hall must pounce on opportunity to provide value
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Darick Hall is back with the Phillies, but he must contribute immediately to have a shot at being a viable fantasy candidate before Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber move to first base and DH, respectively. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/mlb/wertheim-saudi-sportswashing-messaging-is-mixed | 2023-07-05 22:38:58 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/mlb/wertheim-saudi-sportswashing-messaging-is-mixed |
Bebe Rexha is on the mend.
The "Meant to Be" singer suffered a nasty injury during her June 18 concert at NYC's The Rooftop at Pier 17 after a man in the audience threw a phone on stage striking her in the face mid-show. In videos of the incident shared to social media, Bebe can be seen crouched over in pain as crew members rush to her aid.
As for the who is possibly responsible, E! News confirmed via the NYPD that a 27-year-old male was arrested and charged with assault just before 11 p.m.
As for how the pop star is doing today? Bebe broke her silence on the shocking matter the next morning to let fans know she's not seriously injured. The 33-year-old wrote "Im good" in a June 19 Instagram post along with two photos of her bruised left eyelid, which had several bandages over a small wound.
The star's fans immediately filled the comment section with support messages.
"We love you. People don't know how to f--king act," one user wrote, while influencer Bella Poarch added, "Sending love your way Feel better soon!"
Bebe has been enjoying major success with her recent David Guetta hit "I'm Good (Blue)," which samples Eiffel 65's nostalgic 1999 ear-worm "Blue (Da Ba Dee)."
"Never did I think in a million years that it would be so big," she told Billboard in October. "I guess people want to feel that 2000s nostalgia, especially after the three years of a pandemic and being cooped in their houses. It brings back that feeling of nostalgia, and it makes you feel kind of warm. I will put my hands up on this one and say I get it, but I'm also confused and shocked, but also very grateful." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1377563/bebe-rexha-breaks-silence-after-concertgoer-is-arrested-for-throwing-phone-at-her-in-nyc?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-06-19 17:39:23 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1377563/bebe-rexha-breaks-silence-after-concertgoer-is-arrested-for-throwing-phone-at-her-in-nyc?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NeueHealth Partners Community ACO, a partnership between NeueHealth and Medical Home Network, has been provisionally accepted to participate in the ACO REACH model starting January 1, 2023. The NeueHealth Partners Community ACO expands on two NeueHealth owned and managed Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs) that are transitioning to the ACO REACH model next year, which served approximately 47,000 Medicare beneficiaries as of the Second Quarter 2022.
NeueHealth, the care delivery and provider enablement business of Bright Health Group (NYSE: BHG), formed the ACO in partnership with Medical Home Network (MHN) to support Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) transition to value-based care. MHN will serve as the new ACO's care enablement partner and brings its nationally recognized, practice-based care management model and technology solutions. The ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) model builds on CMS's Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC) Model. It is designed to make it easier for providers to work together to improve care coordination and health outcomes for aligned traditional Medicare (Medicare Fee for Service) patients. An integral part of the new model is advancing health equity to bring the benefits of accountable care to underserved communities.
The NeueHealth Partners Community ACO is partnering with 20 FQHCs in Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana serving almost 20,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
"NeueHealth is eager to continue our work helping providers transition from volume to value and reduce health inequities for beneficiaries," said Megan North, President of NeueHealth Solutions.
Since 2009, MHN has been a pioneer in transforming care and building healthier communities in the safety net. MHN has deep experience partnering with FQHCs in Chicago, Illinois and other states to significantly improve outcomes and quality of care and reduce health disparities.
"MHN is thrilled to partner with NeueHealth in the new ACO REACH model, which we were pleased to see encourages participation from safety net providers and has many elements that relate to health equity," said Melanie Tan, VP, Strategy and Growth, MHN. "Leveraging MHN's proven care model, it's a great opportunity for FQHCs to enhance their care management capabilities."
About NeueHealth
NeueHealth is developing the next generation, integrated healthcare system aimed at significantly reducing the friction and current lack of coordination between payors and providers to enable a truly consumer-centric healthcare experience. NeueHealth delivers high-quality virtual and in-person clinical care to approximately 500,000 value-based patients through its owned and affiliated providers.
About Medical Home Network
Medical Home Network (MHN) is a nationally recognized not-for-profit focused on transforming care in the safety net and building healthier communities. Based in Chicago, MHN powers the future of healthcare delivery by creating clinically integrated, digitally connected and community-based systems of care that focus on the whole person. MHN's innovative approach consistently delivers leading health outcomes, savings, and quality results under value-based arrangements. For the second year in a row, Modern Healthcare named MHN one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Learn more at medicalhomenetwork.org and on LinkedIn.
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TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) announced today that management will host a conference call on Monday, November 14, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to review 2022 third quarter results.
To listen to the audio webcast online, visit ir.axdx.com. A replay of the audio webcast will be available for 30 days.
To listen by phone, dial +1.877.883.0383 and enter the Elite Entry Number: 5844198. International participants may dial +1.412.902.6506. Please dial in 10-15 minutes prior to the start of the conference.
A replay of the call will be available by telephone at +1.877.344.7529 (U.S.) or +1.412.317.0088 (International) using the replay code 7894082 until December 5, 2022.
About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antimicrobial resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system is designed to reduce the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for bacteremic patients. These diagnostic systems are designed to serve clinical laboratories with automated solutions to expedite time to identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results directly from positive blood culture samples. Multiple external studies have proven that Accelerate solutions deliver results 1 to 2 days faster than existing methods, enabling clinicians to optimize antibiotic selection and dosage specific to the individual patient's infection, days earlier.
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JENNIE-O® team members and Carla Hall visit Blue Grass Elementary School today
WILLMAR, Minn., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of the Jennie-O® turkey brand – category leader and trusted brand for turkey products – announced a partnership with esteemed chef, cookbook author and beloved TV personality Carla Hall. The team will honor school cafeteria staff of Blue Grass Elementary School in Knoxville, Tenn. As part of this partnership, Jennie-O® and Hall will visit schools across the nation to honor these unsung heroes by hosting School Cafeteria Takeovers.
"This partnership with the Jennie-O® brand is very special to me and really hits close to home because we are recognizing some of the hardest working people in school districts – those who prepare school breakfasts, lunches and after-school meals for kids and are an essential part of the school day. I know how incredibly hard they work and I'm excited to let them kick up their feet for once, as we cook for them and provide a time of rest and relaxation," Hall said. "Our children need proper nutrition to focus, learn and play, and I'm so grateful that school cafeteria staff and Jennie-O® turkey products provide the protein and nourishment that kids need to succeed."
Hall and the Jennie-O® brand team worked together to develop a delicious menu featuring Jennie-O® turkey for the school cafeteria staff. During the School Cafeteria Takeovers, Hall will lead a baking tutorial of her famous biscuits with school cafeteria staff and treat them to a fabulous meal. Additionally, the brand will bring in local businesses to offer refreshments and other relaxing amenities for school cafeteria heroes, and finally, staff will receive heartfelt notes of gratitude from the student body.
"Our school nutrition staff are tireless workers and are truly irreplaceable members at Blue Grass. They love our students deeply and serve them with a smile daily," said Dr. Casey Cutter, principal of Blue Grass Elementary. "We rarely get to celebrate them the way they deserve to be celebrated and we are so thankful to Carla Hall and Jennie-O® brand for providing us with an opportunity to do just that!"
"We are so thankful to work with Carla Hall to celebrate the unsung heroes of every school — the school cafeteria staff," said Renee Cool, brand manager at Jennie-O Turkey Store. "They work tirelessly and take such amazing care of children, so, for one day, we want to pamper them and show our appreciation for all they do with a delicious Jennie-O® turkey meal and relaxation."
In addition to Blue Grass Elementary School in Knoxville, the Jennie-O® brand team and Hall will also visit:
- Nov. 17, 2022: Los Angeles
- Feb. 2023: Houston
- May 2023: Detroit
As part of the School Cafeteria Takeovers program with Hall, the makers of the Jennie-O® brand will provide $25,000 to four additional schools throughout the year to help fulfill wish lists for cafeterias in need of new equipment and supplies.
Jennie-O® is the leading turkey provider to school districts in the United States.
- Jennie-O is the leading turkey provider in 9 of the top 10 school districts in the nation.
- Jennie-O serves more than 5,000 school districts in the U.S.
- Jennie-O has the largest variety of K-12 turkey products in America.
- The Jennie-O sales team has more than 100 years of combined experience in servicing K-12.
- 90 percent of USDA-donated turkey is processed by Jennie-O.
For more information about Jennie-O® turkey products, including recipes, nutritional information and where to buy, visit JennieO.com or follow the brand on social media at Facebook.com/JennieOTurkey, Instagram.com/JennieO, TikTok.com/@jennieobrand and Twitter.com/JennieO.
ABOUT JENNIE-O TURKEY STORE
For over 80 years, the Jennie-O® brand has been helping consumers live well by eating well. As the category leader, Jennie-O® turkey is the trusted brand for quality turkey and a source of expertise. We provide a full portfolio of delicious, nutritious turkey proteins and inspiration for everyday meals or special occasions. Known for our bright green awning evoking the nostalgia of a local farmer stand, our round logo with a touch of yellow and our distinct name from our founders' daughter Jennifer, the Jennie-O® turkey brand has the right amount of small-town friendliness paired with leading company expertise and quality. For more information, visit JennieO.com.
ABOUT HORMEL FOODS – INSPIRED PEOPLE. INSPIRED FOOD.™
Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $11 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food. ™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit https://www.hormelfoods.com/and https://csr.hormelfoods.com/.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) – A Bronx man was almost one of the people trapped on a malfunctioning ride at Playland Park in Rye, New York on Sunday night.
Giovanni Martinez said he and his family were at the Westchester County amusement park when the Music Express ride appeared to suddenly lose control. There were about 20 people on the ride when it went haywire at around 8:30 p.m., he said.
“I had some family members on the ride and they were panicking,” Martinez told Nexstar’s WPIX Thursday. “Thank God I skipped it.”
The operators were unable to stop the ride from spinning for about five minutes, causing several riders to get dizzy, he said.
“It was out of control. It was going faster than it should have been,” Martinez said. “Kids were crying. They didn’t know when it was going to stop.”
The park’s maintenance crew was eventually able to stop the Music Express before it was shut down for the rest of the evening, according to a Playland Park spokesperson. The spokesperson said an electrical issue caused the incident.
There were no injuries and the ride will remain closed, the spokesperson said.
“Playland takes incidents like this very seriously … our operators appropriately followed those protocols which led to our maintenance team ultimately shutting down power to the ride,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Martinez captured the ordeal in a TikTok video showing the ride spinning backward while kids are heard screaming.
“It’s stuck,” someone in the background in the video is heard saying. “This is why you don’t get on these rides.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/out-of-control-video-shows-ride-at-new-york-park-malfunctioning/ | 2023-07-27 23:17:00 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/out-of-control-video-shows-ride-at-new-york-park-malfunctioning/ |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In 1909, Arizona Mandated all school children to be segregated by race for the first 8 years of school.
In 1912, Tucson created a segregated school that later grew into the Paul Lawrence Dunbar School in 1918, a building that still stands today.
Through a time of segregation and racial inequality, 85-year-old Barbara Lewis stood side by side with her classmates.
“You knew where you could go and where you couldn't go. You just didn't,” said Lewis.
She attended the school from 1942 to 1950.
“I left before desegregation. It was desegregated in ’51,” said Lewis.
The school was built in a predominately Black neighborhood adding a second building in the ‘40s.
“It's not just a school, it's a whole Dunbar Spring community-- Sugar Hill that were historically black communities around the Dunbar,” said Bryan Haver, the Executive Director of the Dunbar Pavilion.
Lewis said she’ll never forget the teachers who made her learning experience special.
“Even though we were deprived and always underfunded and had their use books after they used them and everything like that-- we had so much, I guess encouragement and comfort,” Lewis said.
At first, the school didn’t have a cafeteria, library, gym or auditorium.
“I think truly, you need to remember what has happened in the past and this is the only brick-and-mortar place in Tucson that has that tie to Black culture,” said Haver.
Under a hallway arch is where the students would perform plays or listen to announcements.
Lewis said her principal had to advocate for the students to have a swamp cooler during the hot summer months.
She remembers being in the school’s choir and performing at different places in Tucson, places the students weren’t always treated fairly.
“The Pioneer hotel-- and they wouldn't- we walked in and they didn't want to let us in the front, so they told us we had to go to the back,” said Lewis.
One of Lewis’ teachers stuck up for the students and refused to walk in through the back.
“This, I always will admire him for. He said no. We won't. We'll go home. We will not stay if we have to do that,” said Lewis. “We walked proudly into the front,” Lewis added.
The school eventually shut down and was later purchased by the Dunbar Pavilion in the ‘90s.
“I'd like for people to know what it was and who was here,” said Lewis.
They’re working on digitizing pictures and writings and creating an artifact museum in the building.
A historical preservation organization is also converting old classrooms into educational Airbnb’s.
The school has stood for more than 100 years and Lewis said she has one goal.
“I would love to see it stand another 100 or more,” Lewis said.
The Dunbar Pavilion will host a Harambee Festival on February 25 and they invite the community to join.
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Faith Abercrombie is a reporter for KGUN 9. Before coming to KGUN, Faith worked as a videographer for the Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation and as a reporter and producer on the youth suicide documentary, "Life is..." on Arizona PBS.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the Oder River, which runs along the border with Germany, after 10 tons of dead fish surfaced from the waterway in what one official described as an “ecological catastrophe.”
An association of fishers in Zielona Gora, a city in Western Poland, said Friday that it was suspending fishing in the river due to still-unconfirmed reports in the German media saying the river could be contaminated with mercury.
Investigations are underway to determine the cause of the mass die-off of fish. Huge numbers of dead fish were first spotted near the southwestern Polish town of Olawa in late July, along with animals such as beavers.
“We are most likely dealing with a crime where a substance was introduced into the water that causes the death of fish and other organisms. This is currently being verified,” Jacek Ozdoba, Poland’s deputy climate and environment minister, said.
Poland’s political opposition and local residents have accused the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of being too slow to confront the problem.
Przemyslaw Daca, the head of Polish Waters, the national water management authority, said Thursday that 10 tons of dead fish already were removed from the river.
“This shows that we are dealing with a gigantic and outrageous ecological catastrophe,” he said at a news conference held near the river, where officials faced angry local residents.
Environmental protection authorities in the southwestern city of Wroclaw had earlier notified local prosecutors that the country’s second-longest river appeared to have been poisoned.
Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak announced Thursday that both regular soldiers and reservists were being deployed to help remove pollutants from the river, which is known as the Oder in German and the Odra in Polish and Czech. It flows northward for hundreds of miles from the Oder Mountains of Czechia and empties in the Baltic Sea.
German officials have complained that Poland failed to honor an international treaty by not notifying them immediately about the possible contamination of the river. A boat captain first alerted German authorities about the dead fish in the river on Aug. 9.
“We know that the chain of reporting that’s envisaged for such cases didn’t work,” Christopher Stolzenberg, a spokesperson for Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry, said.
“We finally got the message yesterday that should have come from the Polish side,” he told reporters in Berlin. “But in fact, the pollution on the German side was already known about by then.”
Stolzenberg said German authorities were in contact with their Polish counterparts to get further information about the situation, including about substances found in the water, and to provide any assistance requested. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/poland-investigates-ecological-catastrophe-of-fish-die-off/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2022-08-12 11:49:12 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/poland-investigates-ecological-catastrophe-of-fish-die-off/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
NEW YORK, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ARound, a next-generation fan engagement platform designed to enhance gameday fun with live, real-world augmented reality (AR) experiences, has hired Dana Ware as its first chief creative officer, overseeing creative strategy and interactive storytelling for ARound's stadium-level shared AR experiences as it expands to new venues and partners. ARound – part of the Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) Marketing Cloud – also tapped Lauren Fisher as an advisor on creative direction and live-action content.
"ARound is getting a powerhouse creative duo in Dana and Lauren, and I'm excited to welcome them to the team as we continue to drive this emerging technology forward with pioneering experiences and immersive storytelling," said ARound Founder and CEO Josh Beatty. "Combining their extensive backgrounds, wealth of knowledge and unique perspectives, they'll create captivating and transformative location-based entertainment and fan engagement experiences that seamlessly merge the virtual and physical worlds for fans looking to what's next."
Ware will develop new, innovative AR experiences and stories that blend virtual and physical realities in novel ways. She joins from The VOID, where she served as creative director for projects in the rapidly expanding field of location-based virtual reality (VR). An internationally acclaimed Chicana director, she is also passionate about advancing the AR/VR industry through the inclusion of underrepresented voices, serving as co-chair for the Women in Games special interest group of the IGDA, and as a Future Realities Summit Advisor for the Game Developers Conference.
"ARound has been blazing trails in AR and I'm excited to embark on this new adventure with the team to unlock the full potential of what this technology can do," said Ware. "As a leading Chicana in the games industry, I'm also eager to intertwine my creative expertise and dedication to diversity to create more equitable, more connected experiences that explore groundbreaking creative horizons for fans."
Fisher, a designer, animator and director with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment and sports industries, will advise on creative direction and storytelling, and collaborate and support the development of new mixed-reality techniques and other engaging fan experiences. She currently serves as VP, ECD at ROS Labs, a department within Religion Of Sports specializing in design and innovation, and was previously chief creative officer at The Famous Group, known for its mixed-reality Carolina Panther and other virtual experiences.
To date, ARound has launched AR experiences with sports teams across the MLB, NFL and NBA, including the Cleveland Cavaliers (Cavs ARcade), the Kansas City Royals (Crown Vision AR), the Los Angeles Rams (Rams House AR), and the Minnesota Twins (Twiniverse).
About ARound
ARound is a first-of-its-kind stadium-level shared augmented reality platform and is part of the Stagwell Marketing Cloud, a proprietary suite of SaaS solutions built for the modern marketer. ARound keeps audiences engaged by capturing their attention through immersive, interactive and shared experiences with fellow fans across the venue. Where other AR products offer isolating, singular experiences, ARound's massive multi-user AR – which uses 3D spatial computing to localize content – redefines what it means to be part of a connected fan experience. It was the winner of Stagwell's annual innovation competition which invests in new product ideas proposed by the network's 13,000+ employees. ARound and the Stagwell Marketing Cloud are a part of Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network build to transform marketing.
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — A Pennsylvania school has canceled its 2022 football season due to widespread hazing among its football team.
According to a letter from Middletown Area School District Superintendent Chelton Hunter, the school district recently obtained video from a hazing incident involving students in a heat acclimation room. That video came on the heels of an investigation already underway due to a separate hazing incident.
“Unfortunately, this video demonstrates that this hazing was much more widespread, and involved many more students than we had previously known,” Hunter said in the statement.
The original video from August 11th showed students pinning down two players and poking them in the buttocks with two different objects on school property during a team practice.
The school has shared the video of the additional incident with law enforcement officials and will continue its own investigation as well. The students who have participated in the incident will be disciplined in accordance with the student code of conduct and hazing policy, according to the school district.
Hunter’s statement also explains that any staff member who was found to have ignored the hazing will also face discipline.
“The kind of hazing that occurred in our facilities with this team is reprehensible. It simply cannot and will not be tolerated,” Hunter said. “We know we must work to address the culture of this team, educate our student body about hazing, and put programs in place to help us ensure that this kind of atmosphere is never allowed to exist in our school facilities.”
Middletown Area School District says it will work to find other opportunities this fall for the cheerleading team and marching band, who are both impacted by this season’s cancellation.
“I know this decision will be met with many different opinions and emotions and will impact many students and families,” Hunter said.
In response to the Middletown news, a nearby school has already offered opportunities for the band and cheerleading teams to perform.
Middletown was set to kick off the 2022 football season on the road against Lower Dauphin School District. That team was unable to find an alternate opponent. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/school-district-cancels-football-season-due-to-widespread-hazing/ | 2022-08-25 18:42:23 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/school-district-cancels-football-season-due-to-widespread-hazing/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc ("AWH," "Ascend," or the "Company") (CSE: AAWH.U) (OTCQX: AAWH), a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis operator focused on bettering lives through cannabis, today announced its participation in the following upcoming conferences:
- Wolfe Virtual Conference: Daniel Neville, CFO and Interim Co-CEO, will participate in a cannabis Multi-State Operator panel on Monday, December 5, 2022, at 3:20 pm ET. Mr. Neville and Rebecca Koar, SVP of Investor Relations, will be available for one-on-one meetings. Contact your Wolfe representative to participate.
- Cowen 5th Annual Cannabis Conference: Mr. Neville will participate in an MSO group panel, moderated by Vivien Azer (Managing Director at Cowen), on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 1:20 pm ET. The team will also be available for one-on-one meetings. Contact your Cowen representative to participate.
- ATB 11th Annual Institutional Conference: Mr. Neville and Ms. Koar will participate in the conference's Virtual Life Sciences Day, being held on Thursday, January 12, 2023, and will be available for one-on-one meetings. Contact your ATB representative to participate.
About AWH:
AWH is a vertically integrated multistate cannabis operator with licenses and assets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. AWH owns and operates state-of-the-art cultivation facilities, growing award-winning strains and producing a curated selection of products for retail and wholesale customers. AWH produces and distributes its in-house Simply Herb, Ozone, and Ozone Reserve branded products. For more information, visit www.awholdings.com.
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KENDALLVILLE — Many Americans are wrestling with mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression, and Noble County residents are experiencing the same struggles. Knowing what to do if you suspect a friend, loved one, co-worker or neighbor is considering suicide can empower you to help them get the support they need.
That’s why Parkview Noble Hospital is offering free suicide prevention training to the community on Thursday, March 9, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. at the Community Learning Center, 401 Diamond St., Kendallville.
Trainers from the hospital teach QPR, which stands for “question, persuade and refer.” The goal of QPR classes is to save lives by providing innovative, practical and proven suicide prevention training. Just as training in CPR or the Heimlich Maneuver equips the learner to provide an emergency response to someone experiencing a physical health crisis, QPR equips an individual to act in a mental health crisis.
Training for this course will be provided by certified QPR instructors Mary Lehman, president of Noble County Suicide Prevention, and Taylor Yoder, Community Health Improvement manager for Parkview Noble Hospital.
Anyone 18 and older can learn QPR in one short session and be prepared to recognize the signs of someone at risk of suicide, offer the person hope and connect them to expert, compassionate care.
The class is free, but registration in advance is required. Call 260-347-8125 to register. | https://www.kpcnews.com/features/article_58e66372-95c4-552a-8750-74e823d7640f.html | 2023-03-04 19:55:05 | 0 | https://www.kpcnews.com/features/article_58e66372-95c4-552a-8750-74e823d7640f.html |
A 49-year-old Lincoln man is in jail after he drove through a red light early Saturday morning and crashed his Mercedes sedan into two vehicles before fleeing the area on foot, police alleged.
Peirce Williams had been driving east on O Street just after 1 a.m. Saturday when he ran a red light at 70th Street, Lincoln Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said.
As Williams entered the intersection, he crashed the Mercedes into a Ford 150, which then struck a Cadillac XLR, Vollmer said. Both the Ford and Cadillac were turning west onto O Street from the northbound lane of 70th Street, Vollmer said.
At least four occupants involved in the crash reported minor injuries.
Police found the 49-year-old nearby after he fled the crash scene on foot, Vollmer said. Officers breathalyzed Williams, whose BAC was .101, according to police.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-man-arrested-after-injuring-4-in-crash-at-70th-and-o-streets-police-allege/article_cc57f1f8-2855-5c2a-934e-807892cd736c.html | 2023-02-13 17:06:06 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-man-arrested-after-injuring-4-in-crash-at-70th-and-o-streets-police-allege/article_cc57f1f8-2855-5c2a-934e-807892cd736c.html |
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BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — From a distance, the small group lying on the sidewalk outside the city market could be confused with hundreds of homeless people spread through Boa Vista.
But they are Yanomami, an Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest who traditionally live in relative isolation. Years of neglect during the previous government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro led to a health crisis that got worse while illegal gold miners swarmed into their territory. Dozens of Yanomami ended up roaming in the region’s largest city.
The eldest ones in a group living in Boa Vista’s food market are a couple — Oma Yanomami, 46, and Bonita Yanomami, 35. Both are from the Koroasipiitheri community, only accessible by air. In September, they were medivaced to Boa Vista to accompany their 3-year-old son, who was ill with malaria.
Initially, they stayed in the Indigenous Health House known as Casai, a federal facility on the outskirts of Boa Vista, a sprawling city of 440,000 people and capital of Roraima state. But in the first few days, the family left the facility and began living on the streets.
“It was too crowded,” Oma Yanomami told The Associated Press Thursday in broken Portuguese while sitting on the dirty sidewalk. Beside him, his wife was asleep despite the heavy car traffic nearby. Both had sustained bruises and appeared in poor health.
A report published this week by the Ministry of Health paints a grim picture of Casai, which was built to host Yanomami under treatment and their relatives. Its capacity is 200 people, but it harbors many as 700, representing 2% of the Yanomami population. The figure doesn’t include those hospitalized, including several children with severe malnutrition.
“The bathrooms are unhealthy, and the dining areas are insufficient and unpleasant. In addition, the food was insufficient until a few months ago,” the report says. “The Yanomami lack space to prepare their food and other activities, so at night, there are several drunken people and reports of violence and car hit-and-runs.”
According to the report, 150 Yanomami are eligible to return to their villages, but the wait for a place on a return flight can be very long — 10 years in one extreme case.
An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the northwest corner of Brazil’s Amazon.
Life in the streets took its toll on Oma and Bonita Yanomami. Their son soon contracted pneumonia, while his parents fell into drinking sprees. Health workers found out about the situation and took the baby to a local hospital. There, he was admitted as “indigent,” which put him on the adoption path without the parents’ consent.
For four months, the couple did not see their child. Then social workers affiliated with the Indigenous movement intervened to get them inside to visit. The future of the child now hinges on a judicial order.
It is not uncommon to meet Yanomami in the streets of Boa Vista, most with drinking problems. Some go back to Casai during the night, while others end up under viaducts.
Their life is rough. Two weeks ago, a Yanomami woman gave birth on a sidewalk. On Thursday, a Yanomami man died several days after being injured in a fight inside a prison, according to the State Secretary of Justice. There are 269 Indigenous inmates in Roraima of various peoples.
In January, the federal government, led by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people. Since then, military doctors treated over 1,000 people in a field hospital in Boa Vista, and 4,000 food baskets were distributed in the vast territory.
In parallel, security forces started to destroy equipment and control entry of illegal gold miners, estimated at 20,000 people. As a result, dozens have decided to leave the Indigenous territory, while many others keep mining gold.
The Indigenous organizations now want the Yanomami child, now four years old, to be returned to his parents so they can board a plane and go back to Koroasipiitheri, where six siblings are waiting for them.
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LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heating and furniture specialist MAD Design USA, whose brands include EcoSmart Fire, HEATSCOPE®, and Blinde Design, has announced an exciting Patio Giveaway. And one lucky winner will receive a complete patio set valued at $15,000!
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Coors Light unveils color-changing nail polish letting you know your beer is cold
Published: Nov. 15, 2022 at 9:02 PM EST|Updated: 34 minutes ago
(CNN) - If you appreciate a beer as cold as the Rockies, then you might like a new nail polish from Coors Light.
Coors is offering a silver-colored polish called Chill Polish that can be applied to your nails as a new way to check the temperature of your brew.
When you tap your nails against your beer glass, they should turn blue if your beer is cold enough.
If nail polish isn’t your thing, Coors Light already has color-changing beer cans that switch from white to blue to signal when a beer reaches optimal drinking temperature. Which, by the way, Coors Light says is 42 degrees Fahrenheit.
Chill Polish costs about $7.
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By REBECCA REYNOLDS
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of rainstorms hit flooded Kentucky mountain communities Monday as more bodies emerged from the sodden landscape, and the governor warned that high winds could bring another threat — falling trees and utility poles.
Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll rose to 35, and hundreds of people remained unaccounted for five days after one of the nation’s poorest regions was swamped by nearly a foot of rain. The water poured down hillsides and into valleys and hollows, engulfing entire towns. Mudslides marooned some people on steep slopes.
Radar indicated that up to 4 more inches (10.2 centimeters) of rain fell Sunday, and the National Weather Service warned that slow-moving showers and thunderstorms could provoke more flash flooding through Tuesday morning.
“If things weren’t hard enough on the people of this region, they’re getting rain right now,” Beshear said Monday at the Capitol in Frankfort. “Just as concerning is high winds — think about how saturated the ground has been — it could knock over poles, it could knock over trees. So people need to be careful.”
An approaching heat wave means “it’s even going to get tougher when the rain stops,” the governor said. “It’s going to get really hot, and we need to make sure people are ultimately stable by that point.”
More than 12,000 customers remained without power, many because their homes and businesses have been destroyed or are unfit for habitation. At least 300 people were staying in shelters.
The floods were unleashed last week when 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours in parts of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia and western Virginia.
The disaster was the latest in a string of catastrophic deluges that have pounded parts of the U.S. this summer, including St. Louis. Scientists warn that climate change is making such events more common.
The floodwaters also swept away some of the region’s irreplaceable history. Appalshop, a cultural center known for chronicling Appalachian life, was assessing extensive damage at its repository, where historic documents and artifacts were flushed out of the building.
While touring the disaster area Sunday, Beshear said he saw how people have been helping their neighbors.
“These are amazing folks. They’re hurting, but they’re strong. And it’s amazing to see them helping each other, even when they’ve got nothing left,” he said.
About 400 people have been rescued by helicopter, according to Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the U.S. National Guard Bureau.
“In light of the devastation, the response is going pretty well,” he said Sunday.
The governor canceled a trip to Israel that was scheduled for later this week, saying he could not travel overseas “while the people of eastern Kentucky are suffering.”
Meanwhile, nighttime curfews were declared in response to reports of looting in two of the devastated communities — Breathitt County and the nearby city of Hindman in Knott County.
Breathitt County declared a countywide curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., County Attorney Brendon Miller said Sunday evening in a Facebook post. The only exceptions were for emergency vehicles, first responders, and people traveling for work.
“I hate to have to impose a curfew, but looting will absolutely not be tolerated. Our friends and neighbors have lost so much. We cannot stand by and allow them to lose what they have left,” the post said.
Breathitt County Sheriff John Hollan said the curfew decision came after 18 reports of looting.
He said people were stealing from private property where homes were damaged. No arrest have been made.
Hindman Mayor Tracy Neice also announced a sunset-to-sunrise curfew because of looting, television station WYMT reported. Both curfews will remain in place until further notice, officials said.
Last week’s flooding extended to West Virginia, where Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six southern counties, and to Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin made a similar declaration aimed at mobilizing resources across the southwest portion of the state.
President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to flooded counties, and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials were helping with the recovery efforts.
Another relief effort came from the University of Kentucky’s men basketball team, which planned an open practice Tuesday at Rupp Arena and a charity telethon.
Coach John Calipari said players approached him about the idea.
“The team and I are looking forward to doing what we can,” Calipari said.
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Associated Press reporters Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Mike Pesoli airborne with the National Guard, Gary B. Graves in Lexington and Julie Walker in New York City contributed to this report.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Casinos, Inc. (Nasdaq Capital Market®: CNTY) ("Century Casinos" or the "Company"), announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the operations of Rocky Gap Casino Resort ("Rocky Gap"), from Lakes Maryland Development, LLC for approximately $56 million, subject to certain adjustments. The Company will fund the acquisition using cash from its balance sheet.
Simultaneous with the closing of the transaction, an affiliate of VICI Properties Inc. (NYSE: VICI) ("VICI") will acquire the real estate assets for approximately $204 million and the Company will amend its triple net lease agreement with VICI to add the Rocky Gap property. The amendment to the lease will include initial annual rent for the Rocky Gap casino of approximately $15.5 million.
The purchase price for the casino operations represents an implied 2021 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") multiple of 4.9x. The multiple excludes any potential cost synergies and operational improvements and deducts annual rent from the VICI lease from EBITDA. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to the Company's earnings.
"The addition of Rocky Gap is another important milestone in our pursuit to acquire prime US assets. With this acquisition and our pending acquisition of the Nugget Casino Resort in Nevada, we will oversee a US portfolio that reaches from east to west," Erwin Haitzmann and Peter Hoetzinger, Co-Chief Executive Officers of Century Casinos remarked. "We are looking forward to working with the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to obtain gaming approvals and with the casino leadership and team members to effect a smooth transition and great future for Rocky Gap," they concluded.
Rocky Gap is located in Flintstone, Maryland in Rocky Gap State Park, which attracts over half a million visitors annually. The full-service resort sits on approximately 270 acres and includes an 18-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus, a 5,000 square-foot events center, several meeting spaces, a spa, and several outdoor activities. The property consists of over 25,000 square feet of gaming floor, 630 slot machines, 16 table games, 198 hotel rooms and five food and beverage venues. Rocky Gap Casino Resort had net operating revenue of $78 million and Adjusted EBITDA* of $27 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
The property has recently invested $10 million in improvements to its hotel, slot machines, restaurants, and sports lounge. There is potential to expand the casino and hotel and capture more customers from adjacent markets. Additionally, Century will have the opportunity to partner with a sports betting operator in Maryland to bring sports betting to Rocky Gap.
Upon closing of the Rocky Gap acquisition and the pending acquisition of Nugget Sparks, LLC ("Nugget") which operates the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, NV, the Company's North American portfolio will increase to 11 casinos that include 7,140 gaming machines and 158 table games. On a pro-forma basis after giving effect to the two acquisitions, the Company expects to generate 94% of its Adjusted EBITDA* from its North American casinos.
The transaction is expected to close mid-2023, subject to regulatory and governmental approvals and customary closing conditions.
Stifel acted as exclusive financial advisor and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP acted as legal counsel to the Company in connection with the acquisition.
Supplemental Information:
The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net earnings (loss) attributable to Century Casinos, Inc. shareholders before interest expense (income), net, income taxes (benefit), depreciation and amortization, non-controlling interests net earnings (loss) and transactions, pre-opening expenses, acquisition costs, non-cash stock-based compensation charges, asset impairment costs, (gain) loss on disposition of fixed assets, discontinued operations, (gain) loss on foreign currency transactions, cost recovery income and other, gain on business combination and certain other one-time transactions. Expense related to the Company's master lease with VICI and the Century Downs Racetrack and Casino land lease is included in the interest expense (income), net line item. Intercompany transactions consisting primarily of management and royalty fees and interest, along with their related tax effects, are excluded from the presentation of net earnings (loss) attributable to Century Casinos, Inc. shareholders and Adjusted EBITDA reported for each segment. Non-cash stock-based compensation expense is presented under Corporate and Other as the expense is not allocated to reportable segments when reviewed by the Company's chief operating decision makers. Not all of the aforementioned items occur in each reporting period, but have been included in the definition based on historical activity. These adjustments have no effect on the consolidated results as reported under US GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA is not considered a measure of performance recognized under US GAAP. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a valuable measure of the relative performance of the Company and its properties. The gaming industry commonly uses Adjusted EBITDA as a method of arriving at the economic value of a casino operation. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA to compare the relative operating performance of separate operating units by eliminating the above-mentioned items associated with the varying levels of capital expenditures for infrastructure required to generate revenue and the often high cost of acquiring existing operations. Adjusted EBITDA is used by the Company to gauge operating performance. The Company's computation of Adjusted EBITDA may be different from, and therefore may not be comparable to, similar measures used by other companies within the gaming industry.
The table below provides a reconciliation of Rocky Gap Adjusted EBITDA to net earnings.
Century Casinos, Inc. is a casino entertainment company. The Company owns and operates Century Casino & Hotels in Cripple Creek and Central City, Colorado, and in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; the Century Casino in Cape Girardeau and Caruthersville, Missouri, and in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada; Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in New Cumberland, West Virginia; and the Century Mile Racetrack and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Through its Austrian subsidiary, Century Resorts Management GmbH, the Company holds a 66.6% ownership interest in Casinos Poland Ltd., the owner and operator of eight casinos throughout Poland; a 75% ownership interest in Century Downs Racetrack and Casino in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Through its United States subsidiary, Century Nevada Acquisition, Inc., the Company owns a 50% membership interest in Smooth Bourbon, LLC, which owns the land and building of the Nugget. The Company has an agreement to purchase 100% membership interests in the Nugget and an agreement to purchase 100% of the equity interest in the Rocky Gap operations. The Company also has an agreement to operate one ship-based casino. The Company continues to pursue other projects in various stages of development.
Century Casinos' common stock trades on The Nasdaq Capital Market® under the symbol CNTY. For more information about Century Casinos, visit our website at www.cnty.com.
This release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "estimate," "plan," "target," "goal," or similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "may," "might," "should," "would," "could," or similar variations. These statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of the management of Century Casinos based on information currently available to management. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. While there is no assurance that any list of risks and uncertainties or risk factors is complete, below are certain factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained or implied in the forward-looking statements including: risks related to the acquisition of the Rocky Gap casino and the integration of the business and assets acquired; the financial performance of the casino; the possibility that the transaction does not close when expected or at all because required regulatory or other approvals are not received or other conditions to closing are not satisfied on a timely basis or at all; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships, including those resulting from the completion of the transaction; the possibility that the anticipated operating results and other benefits of the transaction are not realized when expected or at all; local risks including proximate competition, potential competition, legislative risks, and local relationships; risks associated with increased leverage from the transaction; and other risks described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" under Item 1A in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in subsequent periodic and current SEC filings the Company may make. Century Casinos disclaims any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by it or on its behalf.
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Russia military range shooting leaves 11 dead, 15 wounded
Two men on Saturday fired at troops at a Russian military firing range near Ukraine, killing 11 and wounding 15 others, before getting killed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement that the shooting took place in the Belgorod region in southwestern Russia that borders Ukraine. It said that the two men from an unnamed ex-Soviet nation fired on soldiers during target practice and were killed by return fire.
The ministry called the incident a terrorist attack.
The shooting comes amid a hasty mobilization ordered by President Vladimir Putin to beef up Russian forces in Ukraine — a move that triggered protests and caused hundreds of thousands to flee Russia.
Putin said on Friday that over 220,000 reservists already had been called up as part of an effort to recruit 300,000.
Even though the Russian leader declared that only people who had recently served in the military will be subject to the call-up, activists and rights groups reported military conscription offices rounding up people without any army experience — some of whom were also unfit for service for medical reasons.
Some of the freshly called-up reservists posted videos of them being forced to sleep on the floor or even outside and given rusty weapons before being sent to the front lines.
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Petra Kvitova 2023 Bett1open Odds
As play in the Bett1open approaches an end, a quarterfinal is up next for Petra Kvitova versus Caroline Garcia. Kvitova has the fourth-best odds to win (+650) at LTTC Rot-Weiss.
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Kvitova at the 2023 Bett1open
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 16-25
- Venue: LTTC Rot-Weiss
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Court Surface: Grass
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Kvitova's Next Match
After getting past Nadia Podoroska 6-1, 6-1, Kvitova will play Garcia in the quarterfinals on Friday, June 23 at 5:00 AM ET.
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- Bett1open odds to win: +650
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- Kvitova is coming off a 6-1, 6-1 win over No. 86-ranked Podoroska in the Round of 16 on Wednesday.
- Kvitova is 34-13 over the past 12 months, with two tournament titles.
- Kvitova has won one tournament over the past year on grass, with a match record of 8-1 on that surface.
- Kvitova has played 21.6 games per match in her 47 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her nine matches on a grass surface over the past year, Kvitova has averaged 21.4 games.
- Kvitova, over the past year, has won 77.0% of her service games and 32.0% of her return games.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is weakening Wednesday on worries about corporate profits following a mixed set of earnings reports and forecasts from Microsoft and others.
The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower in afternoon trading after falling as much as 1.7% in the morning. It’s on pace for a second step down after reaching its highest level in seven weeks on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 56 points, or 0.2%, at 33,677, as of 2:43 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% lower.
Microsoft fell 0.3% after giving a forecast for upcoming results that fell short of some analysts’ expectations. They pointed in particular to expectations for slowing growth in its Azure cloud business.
Microsoft is one of Wall Street’s dominant stocks because it’s one of the largest, which gives its stock movements more sway over the S&P 500 than others. Not only that, analysts say Microsoft offers one of the best windows into the strength of corporate spending because of how many businesses use its software and services.
Other stocks in the cloud-computing industry also fell following Microsoft’s forecast. Snowflake lost 1.4%.
Worries are rising that corporate profits are set to shrink broadly because of an economy bending under the weight of hikes to interest rates and still-high inflation. Analysts are forecasting S&P 500 companies over the next couple weeks will report their first drop in quarterly earnings per share since 2020, when the pandemic was crushing the economy.
Intuitive Surgical fell 5.8%, and Nasdaq Inc., the company behind the Nasdaq Stock Market, fell 6.8% after both reported weaker results than analysts expected.
Texas Instruments fell 1.5% despite reporting stronger profit and revenue than expected. Markets were more interested in the company’s forecast for the first three months of 2023. Company officials said they’re expecting continued weakening in demand across all its markets outside of automotive.
On the winning side was AT&T, which rose 5.6% after reporting stronger profit than forecast.
Other big tech-oriented companies are scheduled to report their results after trading closes for the day, including Tesla and IBM.
The level of cash and profit that companies produce is one of the main levers that set stock prices on Wall Street. The other big one depends largely on interest rates, and there’s still a wide disconnect between what investors and the Federal Reserve see as coming later this year.
Nearly everyone is expecting the Fed to raise its key overnight interest rate by 0.25 percentage points on Feb. 1. That would be another downshift in the size of the Fed’s rate hikes, down from 0.50 points last month and four straight increases of 0.75 points earlier. A slowdown in inflation since a summertime peak is raising hopes for the Fed to apply less additional pressure on the economy.
Many investors expect inflation to keep cooling, and they’re betting on the Fed to actually begin cutting interest rates toward the end of this year. The Federal Reserve, meanwhile, says it wants to keep rates high at least through the end of the year to ensure high inflation is truly stamped out.
Higher rates hurt the economy by making it more expensive for businesses and households to borrow. They also hurt prices for stocks and other investments.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other economy-dictating loans, rose to 3.47% from 3.46% late Tuesday. The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, fell to 4.14% from 4.21%.
European stocks closed modestly lower. Japanese and South Korean stocks rose, while Chinese markets remained closed in observance of holidays.
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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise, Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-asia-shares-trading-mixed-china-markets-closed-for-holidays/ | 2023-01-25 20:05:12 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-asia-shares-trading-mixed-china-markets-closed-for-holidays/ |
(NEXSTAR) – After weeks of holiday treats, feasts and libations, some swear off alcohol entirely to start the year, a military march into 31 days of sobriety known as dry January. But what is a “damp” January?
“Well, damp January just means it’s a little less severe of an approach,” Shara Turner, an addiction expert and clinical director of Sabina Recovery in Tucson, Ariz., told Nexstar’s WOWK. “Maybe just cutting back a little bit, maybe just drinking on the weekends, just not completely going dry.”
While experts say cutting back on alcohol can have a number of health benefits, Turner adds that it’s important to look at one’s motivations when it comes to the monthlong challenge.
“If you’re considering leaving alcohol behind there might be a deeper issue or problem, and I always like to think that if you can’t go a whole month without an alcoholic drink there just might be another issue you need to look at,” Turner said. “I would certainly give it a shot, if it doesn’t work out and you’re having a hard time even cutting down, again that’s just a really big opportunity for you to look at some of your habits and maybe seek out help.”
Heavy drinkers should reach out to their physician before embarking on a dry or damp January, according to Alan Berki, a drug and alcohol rehab counselor with Cleveland Clinic, as withdrawal symptoms can be uncomfortable and even deadly.
For others, however, there can be a number of physical, mental and emotional benefits.
“The condition of your skin, the increased amount of energy that you have, if you’re not replacing the alcohol with candy or sweets because you may start to crave those a little more if you stop drinking, you’ll definitely experience weight loss,” said Berki.
Dr. Klayton Barrows, D.O., a family medicine physician with Seale Harris Clinic in Birmingham, has seen more people drinking heavily over the last few years, according to Nexstar’s WIAT.
“Any amount [of alcohol] less is better than any amount more, but there are amounts of alcohol that are considered harmful,” Barrows said. The CDC and National Cancer Institute have tied alcohol use to an elevated risk of several types of cancer, including mouth and throat, larynx, esophagus, colon, liver and breast.
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Zoom Video Communications Inc. declined about 6% in extended trading after reporting its slowest quarterly sales growth on record and slightly reduced its full-year revenue forecast.
The full-year sales guidance issued Monday assumes that Zoom’s enterprise business will grow more than 20% while revenue from online consumer and small business customers will decline about 8%, Chief Financial Officer Kelly Steckelberg said on a conference call with analysts. In a sign the enterprise business remains steady, Zoom reported quarterly profit that exceeded Wall Street estimates and raised its full-year earnings forecast.
Zoom, which burst into public consciousness during the height of the pandemic, is fighting to reverse a slowdown in growth for its video communications service by expanding its tools for business. At its annual user conference earlier this month, it unveiled email and calendar services, which it hopes will keep more workers on the platform.
“We drove revenue above guidance with continued momentum in enterprise,” Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan said in a statement, highlighting better-than-expected profit. But the company continues to be affected by currency fluctuations and “heightened deal scrutiny for new business,” he said on the call.
Tyler Radke, an analyst at Citigroup Inc., was skeptical the company’s growth would return anytime soon. “Despite some modest revenue upside, the leading indicators suggested signs of incremental deterioration,” he wrote after the results were released.
Zoom shares, which have been hovering close to pre-pandemic prices, declined to a low of $74.73 in extended trading after closing at $80.26 in New York. The stock has dropped 56% this year.
In the period ended Oct. 31, the company said it had 209,300 enterprise customers, an increase of 14% from a year earlier. Analysts, on average, projected Zoom would report 210,105. Large businesses make up a growing share of Zoom’s revenue as it loses consumers and small businesses.
Churn among consumers and small businesses has begun to stabilize in the quarter. Average monthly churn among those online customers was 3.1% in the fiscal third quarter, down from 3.7% in the same period last year.
The online business is still having “a dampening affect on the overall growth rate of the company,” Steckelberg said on the call.
As for potential acquisitions, Zoom is looking “every day,” Steckelberg said. “The compression in valuations is not lost on us.”
Zoom said it had 3,286 customers contributing more than $100,000 in trailing 12 month revenue, an increase of 31% from the period a year earlier. Sales in the Americas region grew 11% while Europe, the Mideast and Africa sank 9% due to currency fluctuations and the impact of the war in Ukraine. Revenue in the Asia-Pacific region declined 3%, Steckelberg said.
Fiscal third-quarter profit, excluding some items, was $1.07 a share, the San Jose, California-based company said in a statement. Analysts, on average, projected 83 cents a share. Full-year earnings will be as much as $3.94 a share, the company said, an increase from Zoom’s August forecast of as much as $3.69 a share.
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LONDON (AP)Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been charged by the English Football Association with 30 more breaches of betting rules.
Toney, who is third in the Premier League with 10 goals this season, was charged in November with with 232 alleged breaches between 2017 to 2021.
The west London club said it was informed by the governing body of the additional alleged breaches.
”Our private discussions with Ivan and his legal representatives on this matter continue,” the club said in a brief statement on Tuesday.
Toney has until Jan. 4 to provide a response. The additional charges stem from alleged breaches between March 2017 and February 2019.
Toney said last month that he was assisting the FA with its investigation.
The FA has strict betting rules and if a player is found guilty it can impose ”financial penalties, suspensions, and in some instances, lifetime bans.”
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 31, 2022
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National Weather Service San Diego CA
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...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Elevated surf of 5 to 8 feet expected, along with a high
risk of dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...San Diego County Coastal Areas and Orange County
Coastal Areas.
* WHEN...From Sunday afternoon through Tuesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Surf and strong rip currents will create dangerous
swimming conditions.
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Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The outgoing director of the Bureau of Prisons has been subpoenaed to testify before a Senate committee examining abuse and corruption in the beleaguered federal agency.
Michael Carvajal was served a subpoena to appear at a hearing later this month. The subpoena was announced Monday by Sen. Jon Ossoff, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
The committee’s subpoena follows an investigation by The Associated Press exposing systemic issues in the agency, including widespread criminal activity by staff and rampant sexual assault at a women’s prison in California.
The Justice Department announced last week it was replacing Carvajal with Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system. That announcement came about seven months after Carvajal submitted his resignation amid mounting pressure from Congress after the AP’s investigation.
Though Carvajal is a holdover from the Trump administration, the issuance of the subpoena to compel him to appear before the Senate panel is rare, in part because Democrats have control of both the Senate and the White House. The decision to issue a subpoena exemplifies the lengths members of Congress and congressional investigators are going to bring additional oversight to the embattled agency that has long skirted intense public attention.
Ossoff and Sen. Ron Johnson, the committee’s top Republican, said the subpoena was issued after the Justice Department refused to make Carvajal available to testify voluntarily.
In a statement, the Justice Department said it was disappointed that Ossoff issued the subpoena and said officials had cooperated extensively with the subcommittee’s work and had offered to provide a lower-level official in Carvajal’s place.
The department said it was “committed to focusing” Carvajal’s last days on preparing for Peters to take over and said having him prepare for a congressional hearing days before Peters takes control of the agency would be distracting.
“As the Department has previously explained to the Subcommittee, we believe that preparation for testimony just five business days before this critical leadership transition may distract Director Carvajal’s time and attention away from this goal,” the Justice Department’s statement said. “Nevertheless, we continue to work with the Subcommittee to find an agreeable solution.”
Carvajal has been at the center of myriad crises within the federal prison system. His tumultuous tenure included the rampant spread of coronavirus inside federal prisons, a failed response to the pandemic, dozens of escapes, deaths and critically low staffing levels that have hampered responses to emergencies.
The committee’s investigation has included examination of abuse, misconduct and corruption both at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta — Osoff’s home state — and more broadly in the federal prison system.
“To date, the Subcommittee has been provided no legal basis that would prevent Director Carvajal’s testimony before the Subcommittee, and the Department of Justice continues to refuse to make him available to testify,” Ossoff and Johnson said in a joint statement.
The Biden administration had faced increasing pressure to remove Carvajal and do more to fix the federal prison system after President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to push criminal justice reforms. The Bureau of Prisons is one of the largest Justice Department agencies, budgeted for around 37,500 employees and over 150,000 federal prisoners. It has an annual budget of around $8 billion.
Peters is set to take over the agency in August.
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Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons. The University of Mississippi has introduced college-level classes to offer inmates some education, and teach them about the Blues.
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Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons. The University of Mississippi has introduced college-level classes to offer inmates some education, and teach them about the Blues.
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How is the writers' strike, entering its second month, affecting content on broadcast and streaming platforms? NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Lesley Goldberg of The Hollywood Reporter.
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How is the writers' strike, entering its second month, affecting content on broadcast and streaming platforms? NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Lesley Goldberg of The Hollywood Reporter.
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U.S. congresswoman demands late-term abortionist have his medical license revoked: 'Ignored for a year'
Pro-life activists say Cesare Santangelo might have been in violation of the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003
A U.S. congresswoman demanded that an infamous late-term abortionist operating out of Washington, D.C. have his medical license revoked amid a year of inaction following reports that he was performing late-term and potential partial birth abortions.
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called on officials to rescind late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo's medical license during a House Oversight Committee Hearing on D.C. Crime Wednesday, because officials have taken no action in the year since five dead babies, victims of late-term abortions and potential victims of illegal partial birth abortions were linked to the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic.
During the House hearing, Rep. Luna displayed images of the babies known as "the Five" and began tearing up as she explained that on March 25, 2022, a pro-life group received a box containing bodies of 115 babies, five of which were full term that Luna said were "born alive," from a worker that was taking the fetal remains from the Washington Surgi-Clinic to be incinerated at a medical waste facility.
Rep. Luna told Fox News Digital that when she asked D.C. council members if they agreed Dr. Santangelo’s medical license should be revoked, "they said yes," adding that many in the audience could not even look at the photo evidence.
"The five babies are: Christopher X, a full-term baby boy whose body was almost fully intact," Luna told officials during the meeting. "Harriet, a baby girl that was born with one eye open. Phoenix, a baby born en caul (still in the amniotic sac). And Holly and Angel, two babies that were dismembered and mutilated to the point that they were in pieces."
NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOLS REQUIRED TO SHOW HIGH-QUALITY FETUS DEVELOPMENT VIDEO TO DETER ABORTIONS
"Some of my Democrat colleagues repeatedly say that they care about the safety of children and yet they have turned a blind eye to this awful situation," she added. "They can’t even look at these pictures or address it because they know what they are supporting is horrific. This is also known as late term abortion."
"After viewing these images, can you explain how this is not homicide under D.C. law?" she asked.
"When confronted face to face with the pictures of these children that were left to die and the facts that this monster had killed a woman during a botched abortion, even they couldn’t avoid the truth and that speaks volumes," Luna said in her statement. "Santangelo needs to be brought to justice for his crimes against children and their mothers – and getting the council to admit this is a step closer."
Authorities have also not addressed if the five babies were alive when they were extracted, but pro-life doctors and activists believe that Santangelo might have performed illegal partial birth abortions in violation of the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003.
DOJ CHARGES TWO MORE PEOPLE FOR ATTACKS AGAINST FLORIDA PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER
"There appears to be an incision at the base of the skull, and the head has been decompressed by removing the brain," Former abortionist Kathi Aultman and current scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute previously told the Daily Wire. "This is consistent with an Intact [dilation and evacuation] or [dilation and extraction]. If the baby was alive at the start of this procedure, it would be considered a Partial Birth Abortion and would be illegal."
Emily Erin Osmet, VP of Communications at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement that the group applauded Luna for demanding answers from D.C. authorities about where the investigation stands.
"Today marks one year and still no justice has been served for the ‘D.C. Five’ – five late-term babies (potentially born alive) were aborted, placed in a bag and headed to an incinerator when a whistleblower intervened and their bodies were turned over to D.C. police," Osmet said in her statement.
PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN LEGISLATORS EYE MEDICAID EXPANSION FOR NEW MOMS
"One year later we have no answers, no convictions and no accountability, not even autopsies. D.C. police directed by D.C. politicians – have shown more interest in arresting pro-life advocates for writing on the sidewalk with chalk than in holding abortionists accountable for horrific born-alive abortions," she added. "We call for justice, transparency and accountability for our nation’s most vulnerable children."
One of the two medical malpractice lawsuits filed against Santangelo in 2020 alleged that a mother was victim to Santangelo's practices after a miscarriage. The woman, Rebecca Carey Charland, was referred to Santangelo for removal of the deceased fetus, but later died after "fetal debris" entered her bloodstream and reached her lungs following a procedure performed by Santangelo.
He has not faced any repercussions as a result of the allegations and has stated on video that he would allow babies to die if they were born alive after a botched abortion. The clinic performs abortions up to 27 weeks, according to its website.
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"It is deeply disturbing that allegations related to the legal practices and safety protections in this abortion clinic have gone ignored for a year; giving abortion clinics and practitioners a pass," March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement. "We only need consider Kermit Gosnell to see that similar allegations unchecked caused massive harm not only to the babies taken by abortion but to the many women who suffered grievous consequences from the lack of oversight and accountability." | https://www.foxnews.com/media/us-congresswoman-demands-late-term-abortionist-medical-license-revoked-ignored-year | 2023-03-30 22:22:41 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/us-congresswoman-demands-late-term-abortionist-medical-license-revoked-ignored-year |
SaaS Search Solutions Provider is Leading the Charge in Driving Momentum into the Resurgence of Search
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SearchStax, a leading cloud search platform enabling web teams to deliver better search in an easy, fast and cost-effective way, announced today its ranking as Momentum Leader for Enterprise Search on the G2 Winter 2023 Momentum GridⓇ.
G2 Report Highlights Importance of Search Trends
The G2 Momentum Grid Report highlights trending enterprise search software. It is based on G2's Satisfaction and Momentum algorithms driven by reviews gathered from the authentic voice of real software buyers, plus data aggregated from online sources and social networks.
SearchStax's placement within the grid highlights how search, which has always been important, is increasingly critical to the success of digital experiences, which are getting more complex in organizations of all sizes and industries. SearchStax was founded on the principle that the ability to deliver high-quality search experiences should be straightforward for all web teams, regardless of budget or staff limitations. Download our Resurgence of Search White Paper to see what's driving the momentum for search.
SearchStax Continues Winning Streak for Other G2 Accolades
In addition, SearchStax was recognized by G2 as a High Performer for Enterprise Search Software for the fourth quarter in a row. SearchStax has the highest Satisfaction Rating in the Leader category.
SearchStax also came out as the top company in the Enterprise Search Software Relationship IndexⓇ. This rating is based on ease of doing business, quality of support and likelihood to recommend.
For the Enterprise Search Usability Index, SearchStax was recognized as the number 1 company, earning badges for Best Usability, Best Meets Requirements and Easiest Admin.
100% of G2 Reviews are Rated as 4- and 5-Stars
SearchStax has an over average rating of 4.7 out of 5 Stars on G2. Learn more about what real users have to say or leave your own review:
- "Quick and easy search implementation"
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SearchStax is the easiest and fastest way for marketers and developers to deliver the most powerful, relevant and robust search experiences. SearchStax offers end-to-end search solutions for better search – with SearchStax Cloud making it easier to deploy and manage highly-available and scalable Solr infrastructure on the backend and SearchStax Studio delivering advanced, modern and personalized site search on the front end.
With over 600 customers and integrations into the Sitecore, Drupal/Acquia and Adobe ecosystems, companies around the globe trust SearchStax to make powerful search easy. Key brands that trust SearchStax for their search needs include Samsung, Black & Decker, and Toyota. More information can be found at www.searchstax.com.
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POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) – A man has been arrested in connection with a double stabbing at an assisted living facility.
Gebru Berihun, 66, is being charged with two counts of felonious assault after he allegedly stabbed a married couple at the Abbington of Powell Assisted Living facility on Bradford Court. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in Delaware County Common Pleas Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, witnesses reported seeing Berihun leave his room with a knife and wearing a facemask. Witnesses said he walked up to the couple in the common area, stabbing the man and wife in the back.
Shortly after the stabbings, witnesses reported seeing smoke coming from Berihun’s room. Staff discovered a fire in the microwave that firefighters later extinguished.
An employee called police, the affidavit stated, and the victims were taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital. The man was in critical condition and the woman was stable, according to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.
No additional injuries were reported, though Berihun, who police found still holding the knife outside the building, was taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/crime/ohio-man-arrested-after-stabbing-at-assisted-living-facility/ | 2022-10-27 21:50:45 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/crime/ohio-man-arrested-after-stabbing-at-assisted-living-facility/ |
Former President Trump is expected to face what could be more than two dozen counts across different charges as he makes his first appearance in court Tuesday, following an indictment in connection with concealing hush money payments to an adult film star.
The charges will be revealed when Trump is arraigned in Manhattan. In the brief courtroom exchange, Judge Juan Merchan will read aloud the laws the former president is alleged to have violated, while Trump is expected to plead not guilty.
The criminal charges stem from a $130,000 payment made to Stormy Daniels by Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Though hush money payments are not illegal, the manner in which Trump and Cohen concealed the payments could be, casting the reimbursements as legal expenses.
Reports indicate Trump could face charges on more than 30 counts from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).
The potential for dozens of charges likely reflect Trump’s lengthy payment history with Cohen – spread out over about a year – as well as the track prosecutors take in tying the misdemeanor records falsification to a felony that could include both tax fraud and campaign finance violations.
Trump or his trust wrote 11 checks to Cohen, and each could trigger separate charges, even if prosecutors focus only on the checks the former president directly signed.
“If Trump signed six checks, those are six events that can each trigger multiple crimes. For example, each could be charged as a misdemeanor falsification of business records as well as multiple felony versions of the same offense, with multiple other crimes serving as the predicates to bump that charge up to a felony,” Josh Stanton, an attorney with Perry Guha who has written analyses of the case, told The Hill.
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The total number of counts could also mean serious work for the eventual jurors chosen in the case.
“Thirty counts is a lot,” said Catherine Christian, who spent more than 20 years in the Manhattan district attorney’s office and now is in private practice.
“Every single count has to be found sufficient. Now it could be that means 10 counts are found insufficient then you still have 20 counts, but my point is every they’re looking at every single count.”
It also depends on how Bragg prosecutes the case.
Legal observers suggest an indictment of Trump would likely focus on charges of falsifying business records, but bumping that up from the misdemeanor to a felony may prove difficult.
A felony charge requires a connection to a second crime and would augment the maximum jail time from one year to four years.
Prosecutors are likely to weigh two possible pathways to achieve that end.
If he pursues an approach based on tax issues, Bragg would likely look to see if Trump took a tax deduction on the reimbursements by deeming them a legal expense.
The potentially more complex path is to upgrade to felony charges by using various campaign laws.
Likely to be in dispute is whether Trump violated campaign laws by failing to disclose the payments.
Cohen served jail time for what was deemed an excessive campaign contribution, with federal prosecutors arguing that the hush money payments should have been disclosed in campaign finance reports as it was spending that could have influenced the 2016 election.
Trump’s legal team has said he would have made the payment regardless of the race, in an effort to stop false information from hurting his marriage. Daniels alleged the two had a sexual relationship, an affair Trump denies.
But Trump’s attorneys have also said Bragg would be in the wrong to bring such a charge because as a presidential candidate, Trump’s conduct was governed by federal campaign law, something they argue is out of reach for the state prosecutor to use in bumping up to a felony.
Some argue that point doesn’t entirely prohibit Bragg from bringing charges that are tied to federal campaign law violations.
Norm Eisen, counsel for Democrats in Trump’s first impeachment and an author on both impeachment reports, told The Hill that New York law doesn’t expressly rule out the option.
“I absolutely believe having studied New York law that Bragg can charge state and federal campaign finance crimes in the alternative. The statute doesn’t limit ‘other crimes’ or ‘unlawful’ behavior to only state offenses,” Eisen said.
He added such a point would likely be challenged in court, but that Bragg would be wise to pursue all possible options.
“If he chooses to go with one or the other, that’s also understandable and legitimate, but if it were me, I would do both state and federal,” he said.
Pursuing a felony through state campaign laws could present other complications. State campaign finance laws are preempted when federal campaign finance provisions apply.
While state law bars any evasion of campaign contribution limits, using those statutes is not straightforward, as another campaign finance statute deems that they “shall not apply to any candidate” when they are also required to file statements at the federal level.
That leaves a statute barring “conspiracy to promote or prevent election” — something experts say Trump may have violated — as well as a catch-all statute in New York code for election violations “not specifically covered” elsewhere.
Trump has arrived in New York City for the arraignment, and his legal team has said he will plead not guilty to the charges.
The former president has repeatedly dismissed the entire probe and its conclusion as politically motivated.
“The Corrupt D.A. has no case,” Trump wrote on his social media site Sunday night.
“What he does have is a venue where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a Fair Trial (it must be changed!), and a Trump Hating Judge.”
Zach Schonfeld contributed. | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/trump-arraignment-may-reveal-dozens-of-charges-over-daniels-payments/ | 2023-04-04 12:54:27 | 1 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/trump-arraignment-may-reveal-dozens-of-charges-over-daniels-payments/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Starting wages for lifeguards in New York City will be $19.46 an hour this summer under an agreement reached with the lifeguard union, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.
Under the deal, a retention bonus will be awarded in September for those lifeguards who work every week through the summer season. Also, a new training program will be developed to fully staff 17 mini pools throughout the city.
Adams said in a statement that with an influx of lifeguards, the city will be able to “very quickly open all of our mini pools, an essential cooling center for young New Yorkers." But he warned the agreement reached with the union won't entirely solve the city's challenge of fully guarding public swim areas.
“While these changes are a step in the right direction, our ability to safely open beaches and pools has been impacted by a national lifeguard shortage, and has also been held back by inefficient practices that are in dire need of further reform,” he said.
The mayor last month said he didn't believe a pay raise would help the city attract more lifeguards, noting how lifeguards do the job for the “love of swimming” and “love of protecting people."
State and local communities across the country have been grappling with the lack of available lifeguards this year, with many offering higher pay. While summer shortages aren’t unusual, many U.S. pools are also dealing with the fallout from earlier in the pandemic, when they closed and lifeguard certification stopped, according to the American Lifeguard Association. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/NYC-to-boost-starting-pay-for-lifeguards-to-17288885.php | 2022-07-07 01:20:59 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/NYC-to-boost-starting-pay-for-lifeguards-to-17288885.php |
TX Brownsville TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, October 5, 2022
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357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
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5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 70. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
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357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
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.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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Coastal Cameron-
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357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
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357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
upper 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Near steady temperature around 80. East winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ252-062100-
Starr-
Including the cities of Rio Grande City and Roma
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 70. East winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.COLUMBUS DAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ254-062100-
Inland Willacy-
Including the city of Raymondville
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ354-062100-
Coastal Willacy-
Including the city of Port Mansfield
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ248-062100-
Zapata-
Including the city of Zapata
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs around 90. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 90.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ249-062100-
Jim Hogg-
Including the city of Hebbronville
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.COLUMBUS DAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ250-062100-
Brooks-
Including the city of Falfurrias
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ353-062100-
Northern Hidalgo-
Including the city of San Manuel
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ251-062100-
Inland Kenedy-
Including the city of Sarita
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ351-062100-
Coastal Kenedy-
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ454-062100-
Willacy Island-
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ451-062100-
Kenedy Island-
357 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 15, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
559 PM CDT Sat Apr 15 2023
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern Kenedy
and northeastern Brooks Counties through 645 PM CDT...
At 559 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles west of Sarita to 7 miles north of U S
77 Border Patrol Station. Movement was southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Armstrong, Sarita, U S 77 Border Patrol Station, Kenedy County
Sheriffs Office and Armstrong Ranch Airport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2726 9773 2727 9771 2728 9765 2724 9763
2723 9756 2691 9756 2691 9799 2721 9799
2721 9797 2723 9795 2724 9792 2724 9789
2725 9785 2724 9784 2725 9782 2727 9782
2728 9779 2728 9776
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 331DEG 7KT 2721 9791 2711 9780
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — After nearly two years of construction, the world’s largest convenience store will soon open in East Tennessee. Enjoy the record while you can, because soon another behemoth is set to take the top spot.
Boasting 74,000 square feet with 120 gas pumps and a 250-foot car wash, The Buc-ee’s Travel Center in Sevierville will temporarily hold the title of the world’s largest convenience store. It will open on Monday, June 26.
This new location will dwarf Tennessee’s first Buc-ee’s location. The Crossville Buc-ee’s, which opened last year, spans approximately 53,400 square feet and does not feature a car wash.
The Sevierville location will take the title from the store in New Braunfels, Texas. Click here to take a tour of the 68,000-square-foot store before taking a trip to Sevier County.
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and they’re right. Sevierville’s reign at the top will be short-lived with a 75,000-square-foot store in Luling, Texas set to reclaim the superlative for the Lone Star State.
Luling was home to the brand’s first family travel center in 2003.
The Sevierville Buc-ee’s will be the first business to open at Exit 407: Gateway to Adventure, a 200-acre development owned and operated by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians aiming to attract some of the millions of visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Hiker dies falling 300 feet off cliff while taking pictures with wife
HARTS LOCATION, N.H. (Gray News) – A hiker fell to his death Saturday while taking photos with his wife on Mount Willard in Crawford Notch.
According to a news release from New Hampshire Fish and Game, the hiker’s wife heard her husband yell and looked over to see him falling over the edge of the mountain.
The hiker fell down a steep cliff that extended to the bottom about 800 feet.
Due to the icy conditions and steepness of the terrain, the hiker’s wife called 911 for help.
New Hampshire Fish and Game officials said Mountain Rescue Service technicians were able to rappel down the cliff and found the hiker about 300 feet below the summit of Mount Willard.
Team members were able to recover the hiker’s body and bring him back to the trailhead parking area.
State officials didn’t immediately release the name of the victim or spouse.
With an elevation of about 2,865 feet, Mount Willard is in the center of Crawford Notch, and its summit provides a commanding view of the region, according to the Associated Press.
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Police: Man suspected in explosion before killing wife, himself
DENVER (AP) — A man who put three failed explosive devices inside a worship hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in suburban Denver before killing his wife and himself there on Christmas morning is suspected of causing an explosion at a union building, police said Wednesday.
Shortly before Sunday’s murder-suicide, Enoch Apodaca, 46, entered the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 68 building with a bucket and there was a “large explosion” shortly after he left, Thornton police said. The building, which police described as Apodaca’s “place of business,” was closed and no one was hurt. The bucket was similar to one used at the worship hall, police said.
Just over a year before the explosion and shootings, a representative of Apodaca’s former employer, Sturgeon Electric Company Inc., said Apodaca told a Local 68 representative that he would shoot his wife and the union representative, and then “will come after the people responsible” after he and his wife lost their jobs. The accusation came in an application for a protection order, first reported by The Denver Post. The document noted that Apodaca had been fired in June 2021 but did not say why.
According to police, Apodaca and his wife, identified by the coroner as 44-year-old Melissa Martinez, arrived at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Thornton at around 9 a.m., about a half hour before the first meeting of the day was scheduled. The couple had previously been members but were no longer welcome there, police said.
Apodaca directed his wife to back up a truck to a window before breaking the window with a hammer and putting the explosive devices inside, police said. Apodaca then shot her before shooting himself, they said.
One of the devices appeared to start a fire while two church members were inside the hall, police said. One of them used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. None of the devices detonated but a bomb technician found that one of them nearly did before malfunctioning or being extinguished, police said.
No explosives were found in the couple’s home, police said. Instead, investigators found personal belongings that had been apparently set out and marked to be given to specific family members.
The Post also reported Wednesday that police in nearby Westminster had received seven calls to respond to Apodaca’s home since September 2021, including one on Sept. 13, 2021, in which a person warned police that Apodaca was threatening violence, using drugs and withdrawing from his family after he and his wife lost their jobs. In the service records provided to the newspaper for three of those calls, there was no record that the cases progressed past the initial call, it said.
An officer responded to Apodaca’s home in response to the Sept. 13, 2021, call, which was made by a cousin. But no report was written because the officer did not find any crime had been committed, Westminster police spokesperson Sgt. Ray Esslinger told The Associated Press.
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HAMILTON, ON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Adapsyn Bioscience Inc., a chemical bioinformatics company that discovers novel drug-like small molecules, today announced a strategic collaboration with Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809; NASDAQ: EVO). Under the collaboration, Evotec will have the opportunity to evaluate small molecules developed by Adapsyn as potential therapeutic candidates in proprietary and partnered drug discovery projects.
The Adapsyn platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and isolate novel drug-like metabolites from microbes for downstream assay and development. Evotec has extensive biochemical, cellular, and phenotypic screening capabilities, and particular expertise in natural product drug discovery and development. The multi-year collaboration will provide Evotec with libraries of bioactive small molecules to screen against high value targets of interest to Evotec and its partners. Adapsyn will be responsible for library generation and compound production efforts.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Dr Dirk Ullmann, Global Head of Drug Discovery Services at Evotec, said: "Combining Adapsyn's libraries of drug-like molecules from microorganisms with Evotec's extensive hit identification capabilities provides an exciting opportunity to broaden the scope of natural products as a source for drug discovery. We look forward to working closely with the highly specialised team at Adapsyn to leverage their compound libraries for the benefit of patients across many different therapeutic indications."
Dr Andrew (Andy) Haigh, President and CEO of Adapsyn Bioscience, said: "This exciting collaboration will allow Adapsyn to benefit from the breadth and depth of Evotec's natural product development expertise and provides a mechanism to evaluate our chemistry against an expanded range of targets and screening modalities. We are thrilled to partner with Evotec and we look forward to a productive relationship that builds on our collective strengths."
Adapsyn Bioscience is a chemical bioinformatics company that can consistently and rapidly identify novel and known small molecules produced by microbes. The platform is being used to find novel therapies in oncology, inflammation, and infectious disease, and can characterize microbes from the microbiome relevant to human health. Adapsyn can identify microbes that produce small molecules that target specific proteins and can evaluate a molecule's potential to be developed as a therapeutic based on genomic and metabolomic analysis alone. The company also partners with leaders in agriculture and food & nutrition. For additional information please go to www.adapsyn.com or email info@adapsyn.com.
Evotec is a life science company with a unique business model that delivers on its mission to discover and develop highly effective therapeutics and make them available to the patients. The Company's multimodality platform comprises a unique combination of innovative technologies, data and science for the discovery, development, and production of first-in-class and best-in-class pharmaceutical products. Evotec leverages this "Data-driven R&D Autobahn to Cures" for proprietary projects and within a network of partners including all Top 20 Pharma and over 800 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, as well as other healthcare stakeholders. Evotec has strategic activities in a broad range of currently underserved therapeutic areas, including e.g. neurology, oncology, as well as metabolic and infectious diseases. Within these areas of expertise, Evotec aims to create the world-leading co-owned pipeline for innovative therapeutics and has to-date established a portfolio of more than 200 proprietary and co-owned R&D projects from early discovery to clinical development. Evotec operates globally with more than 4,500 highly qualified people. The Company's 16 sites offer highly synergistic technologies and services and operate as complementary clusters of excellence. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com and follow us on Twitter @Evotec and LinkedIn.
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As the generative artificial intelligence (AI) industry booms, the 2024 election cycle is shaping up to be a watershed moment for the technology’s role in political campaigns.
The proliferation of AI — a technology that can create text, image and video — raises concerns about the spread of misinformation and how voters will react to artificially generated content in the politically polarized environment.
Already, the presidential campaigns for former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) have produced high-profile videos with AI.
Paul Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, said the proliferation of the AI systems available to the public, awareness of how simple it is to use them and the “erosion of the sense that creating things like deepfakes is something that good, honest people would never do” will make 2024 a “significant turning point” for how AI is used in campaigns.
“I think now, increasingly, there’s an attitude that, ‘Well, it’s just the way it goes, you can’t tell what’s true anymore,’” Barrett said.
The use of AI-generated campaign videos is already becoming more normalized in the Republican primary.
After DeSantis announced his campaign during a Twitter Spaces conversation with company CEO Elon Musk, Trump posted a deepfake video — which is a digital representation made from AI that fabricates realistic-looking images and sounds — parodying the announcement on Truth Social. Donald Trump Jr. posted a deepfake video of DeSantis edited into a scene from the television show “The Office,” and the former president has shared AI images of himself.
Last week, DeSantis’s campaign released an ad that used seemingly AI-produced images of Trump embracing Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“If you proposed that 10 years ago, I think people would have said, ‘That’s crazy, that will just backfire,’” Barrett said. “But today, it just happens as if it’s normal.”
Critics noted that DeSantis’s use of the generated photo of Trump and Fauci was deceptive because the video does not disclose the use of AI technology.
“Using AI to create an ominous background or strange pictures, that’s not categorically different than what advertising has long been,” said Robert Weissman, president of the progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen. “It doesn’t involve any deception of voters.”
“[The DeSantis ad] is fundamentally deceptive,” he said. “That’s the big worry that voters will be tricked into believing things are true that are not.”
Someone familiar with DeSantis’s operation noted that the governor’s presidential campaign was not the only campaign using AI in videos.
“This was not an ad, it was a social media post,” the person familiar with the operation said. “If the Trump team is upset about this, I’d ask them why they have been continuously posting fake images and false talking points to smear the governor.”
While proponents of AI acknowledge the risks of the technology, they argue it will eventually play a consequential role in campaigning.
“I believe there’s going to be new tools that streamline content creation and deployment, and likely tools that help with data-intensive tasks like understanding voter sentiment,” said Mike Nellis, founder and CEO of the progressive agency Authentic.
Nellis has teamed up with Higher Ground Labs to establish Quiller.ai, which is an AI tool that has the ability to write and send campaign fundraising emails.
“At the end of the day, Quiller is going to help us write better content faster,” Nellis told The Hill. “What happens on a lot of campaigns is they hire young people, teach them to write fundraising emails, and then ask them to write hundreds more, and it’s not sustainable. Tools like Quiller get us to a better place and it improves the efficiency of our campaigns.”
As generative AI text and video become more common — and increasingly difficult to discern as the generated content appears more plausible — there’s also a concern that voters will become more skeptical about all content AI generates.
Sarah Kreps, director of the Cornell Tech Policy Institute, said people may start to either “assume that nothing is true” or “just believe their partisan cues.”
“Neither one of those is really helpful for democracy. If you don’t believe anything, this whole pillar of trust we really on for democracy is eroded,” Kreps said.
ChatGPT, which is OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, burst onto the scene with an exponential rise in use since its November launch, along with rival products like Google’s Bard chatbot and image and video-based tools. These products have the administration and Congress scrambling to consider how to address the industry while staying competitive on a global scale.
But as Congress mulls regulation, between scheduled Senate briefings and a series of hearings, the industry has been largely left to create the rules of the road. On the campaign front, the rise of AI-generated content is magnifying the already prevalent concerns of election misinformation spreading on social media.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, released a blog post in January 2020 stating it would remove “misleading manipulated media” that meets certain criteria, including content that is the “product of artificial intelligence or machine learning” that “replaces or superimposes content onto a video, making it appear to be authentic.”
Ultimately, though, Barrett said the burden of deciphering what is AI-generated or not will fall on voters.
“This kind of stuff will be disseminated, even if it is restricted in some way; it’ll probably be out in the world for a while before it is restricted or labeled, and people have to be wary,” he said.
Others point out that it’s still too difficult to predict how AI will be integrated into campaigns and other organizations.
“I think the real story is that new technologies should integrate into business at a deliberate and careful pace, and that the inappropriate/almost immoral uses are the ones that are going to get all the attention in the first inning, but it’s a long game and most of the productive useful integrations will evolve more slowly and hardly even be noticed,” said Nick Everhart, a Republican political consultant in Ohio and president of Content Creative Media.
Weissman noted that Public Citizen has asked the Federal Election Commission to issue a rule to the extent of its authority to prohibit the use of deceptive deepfakes.
“We think that the agency has authority as it regards candidates but not political committees or others,” Weissman said. “That would be good, but it’s not enough.”
However, it remains unclear how quickly campaigns will adopt AI technology this cycle.
“A lot of people are saying this is going to be the AI election,” Nellis said. “I’m not entirely sure that’s true. The smart and innovative campaigns will embrace AI, but a lot of campaigns are often slow to adopt new and emerging technology. I think 2026 will be the real AI election.” | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/how-ai-is-changing-the-2024-election/ | 2023-06-19 23:33:15 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/how-ai-is-changing-the-2024-election/ |
As part of the PPA agreement, Ashtrom will sell to CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned electric and natural gas utility in the U.S. , which has a credit rating of Aa2, about 60% of the generated electricity for a period of 20 years at a fixed price.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A significant milestone for Ashtrom Group (TASE: ASHG) in the renewable energy sector. The Group announces today the signing of the first PPA agreement for a long-term sale of electricity in the U.S. market. As part of the agreement, a dedicated project company, jointly owned by the Ashtrom Group and Kenlov Renewable Energy, will sell electricity generated by the Tierra Bonita project in the U.S., in the total capacity of about 235 MWdc (about 60% of the total capacity of the project) and the green certificates for it. The electricity will be sold to CPS Energy, the municipally owned electric and natural gas utility of the City of San Antonio, Texas – which is rated at Aa2 by Moody's - and will be supplied to the utility at a fixed price for a period of 20 years. The remaining project-generated electricity and its green certificates will be sold on the open electricity market in Texas.
Tierra Bonita project is a large-scale solar project in Texas, USA, covering an area of approximately 9,000 dunams, and already achieved major development milestones, including the securing of its main land rights and signing of a grid connection agreement. According to the company's assessment, completion of the project development processes, and the start of construction should take place in the second quarter of 2023, and its commercial operation is expected at the end of 2024.
It should also be noted that CPS Energy is the municipally owned energy company of the City of San Antonio, the seventh-largest city in the U.S., with about 1.5 million residents, serving more than 900,000 customers in the electricity and natural gas sector. The PPA and the high credit rating of CPS Energy as a long-term electricity buyer, are expected to enhance the project financial fundamentals.
Yitsik Marmelshtein, CEO of Ashtrom Renewable Energy: "This agreement signifies a major milestone in our investment activity in the U.S., and reflects the continued progress of our renewable energy activity in this market for the long term. We are currently working on advancing other PPA agreements for additional projects that we are developing in the U.S. At present, our renewable energy development pipeline in the US includes projects in various development stages in the U.S., with total planned capacity of ~1.5 Gigawatts. We are aiming to expand our investments in the renewable energy sector, mainly in the U.S and in Europe".
Ashtrom Renewable Energy operates in various geographic markets worldwide, with an emphasis on the U.S. and Europe. This project is part of several projects the company holds, together with a partner, Kenlov Renewable Energy, in Texas and Idaho, USA. These projects, developed by our development partner OnPeak Power which include the current project, are in various development stages, with a total capacity of c. 1,500 MW.
Ashtrom Group is one of Israel's leading construction and real estate companies in Israel, and its shares are traded on the Tel Aviv 35 Index. The group operates in several major activity segments: construction and infrastructure contracting work – which, among other things, includes construction works on contracting projects in the residential construction and infrastructure sectors; concessions – an activity including participation in tenders as well as planning, operation and financing of large-scale national projects in the infrastructure and residential sectors; Residential construction development in Israel through the subsidiary Ashdar, one of the long-standing and leading companies in its field; investment and development real estate through the subsidiary Ashtrom Properties, which operates in Israel, Germany and the UK and holds and manages malls and commercial centers, office and employment buildings, industrial buildings, et cetera; industries –consisting principally of the production, marketing and sale of raw materials for the construction industry, as well as the import and marketing of finishing products for that industry; Construction and infrastructure contracting work abroad, alongside residential real estate development in the U.S. and Europe – an activity carried out by Ashtrom International; renewable energy – including investment in wind- and solar-based energy projects and in energy storage projects, et cetera, both in Israel and abroad. The chairman of Ashtrom Group is Rami Nussbaum and the group's CEO is Mr. Gil Gueron.
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Yitsik Marmelshtein, CEO, Ashtrom Renewable Energy
yitsikm@ashtrom.co.il
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brandon Drury hit a go-ahead, two-run single during a five-run rally in the fifth inning and the San Diego Padres stunned Aaron Nola and the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5 on Wednesday to tie their all-wild card NL Championship Series at one game apiece.
The outburst started with Padres catcher Austin Nola hitting an RBI single off his younger brother that brought the sellout, rally towel-twirling crowd of 44,607 at Petco Park to life. Three innings earlier, the Phillies had taken a 4-0 lead with a rally that included bloop hits, a sun-aided double on a gorgeous, 92-degree afternoon and some shoddy Padres defense.
But just as they did Saturday night in eliminating the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers, the Padres were spurred by the bottom of their lineup in a big comeback.
Drury and Josh Bell hit back-to-back homers for the Padres, and Manny Machado went deep late.
The series shifts to Philadelphia for three games starting with Game 3 on Friday night. The Phillies, trying to reach their first World Series since 2009, outscored Atlanta 17-4 in two home Division Series games last weekend to eliminate the defending World Series champion Braves.
Blake Snell got the win and Josh Hader the save after striking out the side in the ninth to send the crowd into a frenzy. Aaron Nola, in the playoffs for the first time in his career and off to a brilliant start, took the loss.
The Padres, playing in their first NLCS since 1998, appeared to be in deep trouble after Snell threw 37 pitches in the Phillies' four-run second.
San Diego began its comeback with homers on consecutive pitches by Drury and Bell to open the bottom of the inning. Drury lined a shot to left field and Bell lifted a fly ball deep to right that stayed just fair.
Bell and Juan Soto, who had an RBI double in the fifth, were obtained in a blockbuster trade with Washington on Aug. 2, the same day the Padres got Drury from Cincinnati.
When Austin Nola grounded out in the second inning, it was the first pitcher-batter matchup between siblings in postseason history. Big brother came up again in the fifth with one out and Kim Ha-seong on first base. Aaron Nola threw to first several times before Austin singled to center to bring in the speedy Kim, whose helmet flew off between second and third before he scored with a headfirst slide.
Jurickson Profar singled, Soto hit an RBI double to tie the game at 4 and Machado struck out before Aaron Nola was pulled for former Padres closer Brad Hand.
Jake Cronenworth was hit by a pitch to load the bases. With the fans on their feet and waving yellow rally towels, Drury singled to put the Padres ahead. Bell capped the really with a single to right. The Padres sent 11 batters to the plate, collecting six hits, a walk and a hit batter.
Aaron Nola hadn’t allowed an earned run in picking up a win in each of the first two playoff rounds.
After winning 2-0 Tuesday night on Kyle Schwarber’s jaw-dropping, 488-foot homer and another homer by Bryce Harper, the Phillies went ahead with small ball in the second inning Wednesday.
Snell needed only six pitches to get through a 1-2-3 first but wasn’t as lucky in the second.
Harper and Nick Castellanos opened the inning with bloop singles before Alec Bohm hit a sharp single to right to bring in Harper. After Jean Segura struck out, Soto, the right fielder, lost Matt Vierling’s fly ball in the sun and it dropped behind him for an RBI double.
Edmundo Sosa golfed an RBI single that landed just in front of left fielder Profar. Schwarber hit a weak grounder that first baseman Drury bobbled before stepping on the bag as Vierling scored.
Snell allowed four runs and five hits in five innings, struck out six and walked one.
Aaron Nola was tagged for six runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out six and walked none.
Machado homered leading off the seventh and Philly’s Rhys Hoskins homered on the first pitch from Robert Suarez in the eighth, ending the reliever’s scoreless streak of 19 1/3 innings.
NOLA VS. NOLA
On June 24, Austin Nola hit an RBI single off his brother in a 1-0 Padres victory that was their only win in a four-game series against the Phillies.
UP NEXT
Padres RHP Joe Musgrove (10-7, 2.93 ERA regular season; 1-0, 1.38 postseason) and Phillies LHP Ranger Suarez (10-7, 3.65 ERA regular season; 0-0, 2.70 postseason) are scheduled to start in Game 3 on Friday night in Philadelphia.
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WASHINGTON – Squeezed by painfully high prices for two years, Americans have gained some much-needed relief with inflation reaching its lowest point since early 2021 — 3% in June compared with a year earlier — thanks in part to easing prices for gasoline, airline fares, used cars and groceries.
The inflation figure the government reported Wednesday was down sharply from a 4% annual rate in May, though still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. From May to June, overall prices rose 0.2%, up from just 0.1% in the previous month but still comparatively mild.
Even with Wednesday's better-than-expected inflation data, the Fed is considered all but sure to raise its benchmark rate when it meets in two weeks. But with price increases slowing — or even falling outright — across a range of goods and services, many economists say they think the central bank could hold off on what had been expected to be another rate hike in September, should inflation continue to cool.
“It takes the second hike off the table, if that trend continues," said Laura Rosner-Warburton, senior economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives. “They're probably on hold for the rest of the year.”
On Wall Street, investors cheered the encouraging news, sending stock and bond prices higher. Investors have been eagerly anticipating the eventual end of the central bank's rate increases.
The Fed has raised its benchmark rate by a substantial 5 percentage points since March 2022, the steepest pace of increases in four decades. Its expected hike this month will follow the central bank’s decision to pause its rate increases last month after 10 consecutive hikes.
Wednesday's inflation data may lift hopes that the Fed will achieve a difficult “soft landing,” in which price increases fall back to 2% without causing a spike in unemployment or a deep recession. Last week, the government reported solid hiring in June, though it slowed compared with earlier this year. The unemployment rate ticked lower, from 3.7% to 3.6%, near a half-century low.
When the Fed began raising its key rate a year ago, many economists expected that unemployment would have to rise significantly to curb inflation. Though inflation isn’t yet fully tamed, some economists say they think it can fall to a level near the Fed’s 2% target earlier than they had expected.
Excluding the volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation was lower last month than economists had expected, rising just 0.2% from May to June, the smallest monthly increase in nearly two years. Compared with a year ago, core inflation does remain relatively high, at 4.8%, but down from a 5.3% annual rate in May.
In just the past two months, overall inflation, measured year over year, has slowed from nearly 5% in April to just 3% now. Much of that progress reflects the fading of spikes in food and energy prices that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring. Inflation is now significantly below its peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
Gas prices have fallen to about $3.54 a gallon on average, nationally, down from a $5 peak last year. Grocery prices have leveled off in the past three months and were unchanged from May to June. Milk prices, having dropped for a third straight month, are down 1.9% from last year.
Eggs, which had skyrocketed last year after an outbreak of avian flu decimated chicken flocks, have dropped to $2.22 a dozen — down more than 7% just in the past month. Egg prices had peaked at $4.82 in January, according to government data. Still, they remain above the average pre-pandemic price of about $1.60 a dozen.
Economists say inflation isn't likely to keep falling at such a rapid pace. On a 12-month basis, inflation could even tick up in the coming months now that big drops in gas prices — they're down 27% in the past year — have been achieved..
In particular, airfares plunged 8.1% just from May to June, hotel costs 2% and car rental prices 1.4% — sharp drops that aren't likely to be replicated.
And the cost of some services are still rising and likely to stay high this year, potentially keeping core prices elevated. Auto insurance costs, for instance, have soared, and are up 16.9% from a year ago. Americans are driving more than during the pandemic and causing more accidents. Insurance is also costlier because vehicle prices are much higher than before the pandemic, and cars are therefore more valuable.
Restaurant prices are still moving up, having risen 0.4% from May to June and nearly 8% from a year earlier. Restaurant owners have had to keep raising wages to find and retain workers, and many of them are passing their higher labor costs on to their customers by raising prices.
Chrishon Lampley, owner of the wine brand Love Cork Screw, says more expensive restaurant prices have led her to cut back on taking prospective customers out for meals. Instead, she gives potential wine buyers small gifts.
The cost of printing labels for her wine bottles has nearly doubled in the past year, Lampley said, mostly because of higher labor costs. She's reduced her travel costs as a result. Lampley now chooses extended-stay hotels with kitchens rather than regular hotels, and she rents smaller cars even though she often carts around cases of wine.
“Everything has just become way more frugal,” she said. “I've got to pull back.”
Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have focused their attention, in particular, on chronically high inflation for restaurant meals, auto insurance and other items in the economy's sprawling service sector. It's a big reason why several Fed policymakers were still talking earlier this week about the likelihood of two more rate hikes.
"We’re likely to need a couple more rate hikes over the course of this year to really bring inflation back into ... a sustainable 2% path,” Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said on Monday.
At the same time, Daly said she was “holding myself to ... extreme data dependence” and could shift her thinking based on incoming reports. There will be two more inflation reports — for July and August — before the Fed meets in September.
Some drivers of higher prices are likely to keep fading and pull down inflation in the coming months. Used car prices sank 0.5% from May to June, after two months of big spikes. New-car prices, too, have begun to ease as a result, and were unchanged from May to June.
In June, used vehicle prices paid by dealers were down 5.6% from a year earlier, helping to cool inflation, according to data gathered by Black Book, which monitors prices. But used vehicles are still comparatively pricey: Dealers are paying almost 70% more for them than in June 2019, before the pandemic began. The average list price offered by dealers to consumers was $28,850 last month.
Alex Yurchenko, chief data officer for Black Book, said he expects prices paid by consumers to keep falling through year's end, contributing to declining inflation. But they aren't expected to drop dramatically. Typically, prices fall in the second half of the year, then rise in the spring as the car-buying season begins.
“We expect a return to some kind of normality,” Yurchenko said.
Supplies of new vehicles are rising, and prices are dropping slightly. As a global shortage of computer chips wanes, automakers have accelerated production. New-vehicle prices peaked in December but fell 3% to $45,978 last month, according to estimates from J.D. Power.
And rental costs, a huge driver of inflation, are expected to keep declining, as builders continue to complete the most new apartment units in decades. Rising housing costs have driven more than two-thirds of the increase in core inflation in the past year, the government said, so as that increase fade it should steadily lower overall inflation.
Prices first spiked two years ago as consumers ramped up their spending on items like exercise bikes, standing desks and new patio furniture, fueled by three rounds of stimulus checks. The jump in consumer demand overwhelmed supply chains and ignited inflation.
Many economists have suggested that President Joe Biden’s stimulus package in March 2021 intensified the inflation surge. At the same time, though, inflation also jumped overseas, even in countries where much less stimulus was put in place.
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AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed to this report from Detroit. | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/07/12/us-inflation-is-believed-to-have-slowed-sharply-in-june-in-a-further-sign-of-easing-price-pressures/ | 2023-07-12 19:58:18 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/07/12/us-inflation-is-believed-to-have-slowed-sharply-in-june-in-a-further-sign-of-easing-price-pressures/ |
The past few months have been rough on former president Donald Trump, and the road ahead for him looks similarly rutted. He may be the favorite to become the Republican nominee in 2024, but in venturing out this weekend to New Hampshire and South Carolina, he was confronted with some of the obstacles that lie in his path.
His campaign for president, which he announced in November, has been lackluster — lacking in energy, lacking in a fresh or coherent message, lacking in an outpouring of support from top officials. He has been roundly criticized for saddling the party with weak candidates in the midterm elections, which probably cost the GOP control of the Senate and some key governorships. Some leaders have long seen him as a loser. What’s different now is that some, including former House speaker Paul D. Ryan, are saying it out loud.
This nomination contest is unfolding in sharp contrast to the race in 2016, most notably in the slow pace of activity. Although Trump waited until June 2015 to announce for president in the 2016 election, at this moment eight years ago, the GOP contest was underway. Candidates had appeared at a forum in Iowa, and many were jockeying for staffers, endorsements, pledges of money and media attention.
This year Trump is the lone announced candidate. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, after a big reelection victory, is drawing outsize interest from donors and many rank-and-file Republicans. Other Republicans are looking at running but are in no hurry to get into the race.
Eight years ago, the 2016 race began as an apparent free-for-all with an enormous field of well-experienced candidates. Today, the 2024 nomination campaign looks like a contest dominated by Trump and DeSantis. If there is an analogy, it could be the 2008 Democratic race, where the competition between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton suffocated other qualified candidates.
Trump is weaker than he once was; DeSantis is untested nationally. That gives other prospective candidates hope that there will be an opening for someone else.
Those others will be counting on stumbles by Trump and DeSantis. Absent that, they could struggle to find enough oxygen to sustain themselves long enough to prove they are viable contenders.
The biggest problem is that Trump still could dominate a divided field of challengers, piling up delegates under winner-take-all rules with only a plurality of the vote — as he did in 2016. He won the nomination although a majority of Republican primary voters were backing others.
Republican strategists who oppose Trump as their nominee recognize that a big and divided field is the former president’s best friend as he tries for a comeback, but they are not certain there will be any way to coalesce around a single rival. Some polls now show DeSantis ahead of Trump in a head-to-head matchup, should it devolve quickly into a two-person race, but that’s before any campaigning.
The state of play in the early states highlights Trump’s challenges. The Washington Post reported Jan. 22 that the former president is having trouble getting endorsements from elected officials and other prominent Republicans in South Carolina, a state where he had once enjoyed deep support after winning the crowded 2016 primary with 33 percent of the vote.
Trump still has the backing of Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who famously said after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that he was done with Trump. “Count me out,” Graham said, only to quickly scramble back into the Trump camp. Trump also has the support of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who was elevated to his current post when Trump named then-Gov. Nikki Haley to the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the start of his presidency.
Haley appears on the cusp of announcing her own candidacy for president, after awkwardly seesawing on the question of whether she would ever challenge her former boss. She is assembling a campaign team and told Fox News recently, “I’ve never lost a race.”
The state’s other senator, Sen. Tim Scott (R), is actively weighing a candidacy, one that probably would have as a core message presenting a contrast to the harshness of Trump’s years in office as well as to the culture-war focus of DeSantis.
In New Hampshire, Trump’s appearance Saturday came just days after a poll by the University of New Hampshire that showed DeSantis the plurality favorite among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. In the new poll, 42 percent say they favor DeSantis to 30 percent for Trump. The trend line for Trump has been steadily declining since the summer of 2021, when he was favored by 47 percent. DeSantis also was the second choice of 30 percent of New Hampshire Republicans, to 14 percent for Trump.
Trump’s victory in New Hampshire in 2016, after he finished second in Iowa (He claimed that election was stolen by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas) provided the springboard that, with a victory in South Carolina, put him on the path to the nomination. Today, a majority of Granite State Republicans say they hope he doesn’t even run — and a bigger majority say they hope DeSantis does.
“There is a growing desire for people, even those who have been with him in the past, to see who else is out there,” said Jim Merrill, a Republican strategist in the state.
Iowa could offer its own challenges for Trump. Evangelical Christians have played a significant role in past caucuses. Before 2020, the three previous GOP caucus winners — Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, in 2008; Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania, in 2012; and Cruz in 2016 — had deep connections to Christian conservatives.
As president, Trump won significant support from the evangelical community in large part because of his nomination of three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s not clear today whether he can count on those kinds of conservative voters in next year’s caucus voting.
Leading elected and former elected officials in Iowa are remaining neutral for now. That number includes some who have been Trump supporters. Around the time of his announcement in November, Trump’s team put pressure on elected officials to endorse him, without success, according to a Republican strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be able to comment freely.
Beyond Trump and DeSantis, the list of possible candidates is lengthy and includes Mike Pence, who under normal circumstances would have potentially strong standing as a former vice president. His ties to the evangelical community would give him a base from which to start building support. But as a former vice president who has broken with the former president, his prospects appear far more challenging.
There are other Republicans who will try to find a way to appeal to Trump loyalists as well as to those hungering to move on from the Trump era. Among them is Mike Pompeo, Trump’s former secretary of state, who has offered hints of a potential candidacy while promoting a new, take-no-prisoners book this month. The prospective field also includes never-Trumpers like Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland, Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.
The DeSantis timetable is influenced by Florida’s legislative session, which will not end until later in the spring. DeSantis, like George W. Bush in 1999, will use the session both as an excuse to delay any formal announcement and to highlight his governing priorities and put together a record that he can use to present a contrast with Trump, who has done nothing of substance since leaving the presidency.
But he will not spend all his time in Florida. His forthcoming book, “The Courage to Be Free,” is due out at the end of February. He will do a promotional tour that is likely to put him in some of the early states in March. A campaign announcement, if there is one, isn’t likely until early summer, at which point he will experience the difference between running for governor in a big state and running for president.
There’s one other aspect of the Republican contest that could present the party with problems, although that will come only after what could be a bruising campaign for the nomination. That is the prospect that someone other than Trump wins the nomination and the question of how the former president will react. He has shown he’s a sore loser, and few think he would go quietly. Can anyone imagine Trump with arms raised, clasping hands with the person who beat him on the stage at the national convention in the summer of 2024?
For all the potential problems facing Trump, political allies of President Biden’s and some leading Republicans still see him as the most likely Republican nominee in 2024 and as a formidable general election candidate. His influence on the Republican Party remains sizable; his core supporters remain loyal.
But the fascination and excitement that greeted him in the summer of 2015 have diminished. Whether someone can take advantage of that is the biggest question about the Republican race. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/28/trump-lackluster-campaign/ | 2023-01-28 18:56:42 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/28/trump-lackluster-campaign/ |
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Padraig Harrington finally knows what it’s like to overpower a golf course, and it has the Irishman on the verge of a U.S. Senior Open title.
Harrington reached both par 5s in two, hitting 5-wood to 7 feet on the 608-yard 12th hole at Saucon Valley, and his 5-under 66 enabled him to open a five-shot lead Saturday going into the final round of the Senior Open.
Starting the third round with a one-shot lead over Steve Stricker, his Ryder Cup captain foe from Whistling Straits, Harrington birdied the opening two holes and was on his way.
He was at 12-under 201, five shots clear of former U.S. Senior Open champion Gene Sauers, who birdied the last two holes for a 68; and PGA Tour Champions rookie Rob Labritz (69).
“When you’ve got a lead like this — in not even a perfect world, but in dreamland — you think you’re going to go out there and play well and run away with it, which is a possibility,” Harrington said. “I could play good tomorrow and have a nice comfortable day. I could play average tomorrow, and someone will have to come at me. Or I could play badly tomorrow, and I’ll still have a chance.
“I’ve basically given myself a lot of hands to win this.”
Stricker couldn’t keep up after an opening birdie, and the par 5s is where the winning U.S. Ryder Cup captain really lost ground.
Harrington drilled a fairway metal into 25 feet on the 568-yard sixth hole, while Stricker hit a tree and had to flight a chip under the branches. he came up short of the green and made bogey. It was a two-shot swing when Harrington two-putted or birdie, for a four-shot margin.
And then on the 12th, Harrington blasted his 5-wood over the corner of the rough to a pin tucked on the left side. Stricker’s wedge went just through the green, his chip down the hill was too strong and he made another bogey. This turned out to be a three-shot swing when Harrington holed the eagle putt.
Harrington, who turned 50 last August and is playing his first U.S. Senior Open, stretched his lead to as many as nine shots. He had two bogeys over the last four holes, his first dropped shots since the opening round.
Otherwise, it was a pure power show, even for the 50-and-older set. The way he swung with force during rehearsal swings, reminiscent of Bryson DeChambeau, showed how much Harrington has emphasized speed in his swing to get more distance.
“Padraig is tearing it up,” Sauers said. “He’s playing a 6,500-yard golf course and I’m playing a 7,500-yard golf course.”
Harrington was never like that in his prime, relying on a clean strike and plenty of grit to capture the British Open in successive years (2007-08) and the 2008 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.
Two-time U.S. Open champion Ernie Els had a 67 and was seven shots behind.
“He’s got a lot of length out here,” Els said of Harrington. “He’s got a lot of length out here. He’s probably the longest off the tee on the Champions Tour. When he has it under control, like he has this week, you’ve got to watch out. It’s good to see. He’s playing with a lot of freedom.”
Stricker never found his putting stroke all day and shot 73, leaving him eight shots behind along with Steven Alker and 68-year-old Jay Haas, who each had a 71.
“It wasn’t really what I had in mind today,” Stricker said. “No. 6 kind of jumped up and got me again today. I hit a beautiful 3-wood. I thought I could cover that tree that’s on the corner, and rattled in there and kicked it over into the woods and ended up making a bogey there when you’re trying to get a birdie opportunity there.
“And just some sloppy play at times,” he said. “I didn’t make any putts, didn’t get it up and down. I thought I hit it a little bit more solid today and just made too many mistakes.”
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Twitter back to 'normal' after glitch causes broken web links
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches for over an hour Monday as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.
The company, which has experienced an uptick of instability and bugs in recent months after Elon Musk cut its staff sharply, said "Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences."
Trying to visit Twitter’s help page Monday led to an error message that says "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint" and displays a link to a software developer page that also doesn’t work.
Musk tweeted Monday: "This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly."
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The company tweeted shortly after 10 a.m. Pacific time on Monday that it had addressed the issue.
According to Downdetector, users began reporting the outages shortly before noon U.S. Eastern time. Internet access watchdog NetBlocks said "Twitter is currently experiencing international slowdowns and outages affecting many users," and noted that it was also affecting image and video content. Some users were not able to see the images that other users were posting.
Twitter engineers and experts have warned that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running. Last month, a bug left users unable to send tweets.
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In November, engineers who left Twitter described for The Associated Press why they expect a bumpy road for Twitter’s more than 230 million users now that well over two-thirds of the San Francisco company’s pre-Musk core services engineers are gone.
While they don’t anticipate near-term collapse, the engineers said Twitter could become very rough at the edges — especially if Musk makes major changes without much off-platform testing. | https://www.fox29.com/news/twitter-blames-broken-web-links-on-internal-change | 2023-03-06 19:46:07 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/news/twitter-blames-broken-web-links-on-internal-change |
SAN ANTONIO — The discovery of at least 62 people believed to be migrants in a sweltering semitruck in southeast San Antonio Monday night – 46 of them found dead – has launched a federal investigation.
Leaders from across Texas are reacting to the news, many of them calling for action.
Speaking from the scene Monday night, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg called the incident "a horrific human tragedy."
"I would urge you all to think compassionately, and pray for the deceased, the ailing the families," Nirenberg added. "We hope that those responsible for putting these people in such inhumane conditions are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Three people were arrested at the scene, but SAPD officials said it remained to be seen if they were definitively connected to what could have been a smuggling operation.
Governor Greg Abbott, whose Operation Lone Star mission of fortifying the border is stretching into its second summer, said the deaths resulted from President Joe Biden's "deadly open border policies."
Beto O'Rourke, Abbott's opponent in the 2022 gubernatorial race, called the news "devastation" while calling for making legal immigration more accessible.
Other Texas Republicans blasted their Democratic colleagues for what they said was inaction when it came to the border. Among them, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Tony Gonzalez.
"Deadliest border crisis in our nations history. You won’t hear one peep from Democrats. #TX23." -Rep. Gonzalez.
Gustavo García-Siller, head of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, called for unity and prayer in a statement posted online Monday night.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, who represents the area as part of District 20, used the news to call for an end to Title 42, the ongoing Trump-era protocol that allowed Texas authorities to more quickly expel emigrants while citing COVID-19.
A federal judge in May ruled for the policy to stay in place. On Monday night, Castro alleged it's helped provide "repeat business for human smugglers."
Other politicians, including State Sen. Jose Menendez and Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, lamented the news and called for accountability.
"I’m heartbroken at the estimated 46 lives lost, & 16 people including 4 children at hospitals tonight. Seeking asylum & chance at a better life shouldn’t lead to death. Texas has made it near impossible to seek asylum, leading to desperation & unthinkable tragedies like this one." -Sen. Menendez.
"This is an absolute tragedy. 47 are now dead after driving through the Laredo checkpoint. We must bring an end to these senseless deaths and hold those responsible accountable. Let us pray for the families of the deceased. May they Rest In Peace." -Rep. Cuellar.
On the federal level, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pledged the government would "continue to take action to disrupt smuggling networks."
Meanwhile, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Domingo García, said both sides of the aisle need to come together for immigration reform. His full statement is below:
"The politics of President Trump and Governor Abbott to build the wall, deport them all, and Operation Lone Star have all been abysmal failures. Both Democrats and Republicans need to work together on a new bipartisan immigration bill. The reforms must allow us to bring in legal guest workers and open legal avenues for people to come in to help our economy.
"These steps will prevent these refugees and immigrants from being thrown into the hands of human smugglers and coyotes who are willing to risk the lives of others for a dollar, as well as American employers who want cheap labor that can be exploited. It's time for politicians in Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reforms to address these issues and avoid other tragedies.
"It's also time for the politicians in Austin to stop using immigrants as political piñatas and start treating them as people in this humanitarian crisis, not a police enforcement issue."
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Eighteen tornadoes were reported in the southern U.S. on Tuesday as a large storm system sweeps across the country.
According to the Caddo County Sheriff’s Office, two people were killed in a tornado near Keithville, Louisiana. Authorities said a young boy was found dead in a wooded area where his home was destroyed. Overnight, the body of his mother was found one street over.
Another person was injured in the Keithville tornado.
Responders used K-9 teams and volunteers to search the area for victims.
Earlier on Tuesday, a tornado touched down near Grapevine, Texas, injuring five. Tornadoes were also reported late Tuesday in Mississippi.
The tornadic activity was expected to continue in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Wednesday. The Storm Prediction Center said some of the tornadoes could be strong.
The large storm system, which also caused blizzard-like conditions in the upper Plains, is expected to move to the north and east. An ice storm warning was issued for parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Ice of up to a half inch could cause traffic difficulties and power outages in the area. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/mother-son-killed-amid-southern-tornado-outbreak | 2022-12-14 14:35:43 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/mother-son-killed-amid-southern-tornado-outbreak |
By JEFF AMY and AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group is expected to announce next week that it’s building a massive electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia, according to a U.S. official familiar with the anticipated announcement.
Hyundai is finalizing those plans as President Joe Biden is set to travel to South Korea next week as part of his first visit to Asia during his presidency.
The White House and Hyundai have been in discussions about the project, which is expected to bring thousands of new jobs to Georgia, and the formal announcement is likely during Biden’s scheduled May 20-21 visit to Seoul, according to the official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The official stressed though that details of the formal announcement are still being worked out.
The plant could grow to include 8,500 employees and would be built on a 2,200-acre (890-hectare) site that state and local governments own near the hamlet of Ellabell, Georgia, said two people familiar with Georgia’s talks with Hyundai. The location’s about 25 miles (40 kilometers) inland from Savannah. The second person said Hyundai would invest more than $7 billion and could also build some cars powered by gasoline engines at the site, with an announcement in Georgia set for May 20. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential talks.
It would be the second huge electric vehicle plant announced in Georgia in less than a year. Rivian Automotive in December announced it would build a $5 billion, 7,500-job electric truck plant about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of Atlanta.
“Hyundai Motor Group is committed to accelerating electrification in the U.S.,” said spokesperson Michelle Tinson. “We will announce the location of our new US EV plant soon.”
Biden is heading to South Korea and Japan for talks with those two countries’ leaders. He also will meet during that trip with leaders from the Indo-Pacific strategic alliance with the U.S. known as the Quad: Australia, India and Japan.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office earlier this week, pledged during his campaign to strengthen U.S.-South Korea ties.
U.S. Sen Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, met with Kia officials Tuesday. “I tell business leaders regularly: Georgia is open for business,” Warnock said, not mentioning the possibility of the plant.
Hyundai’s interest in Georgia was first reported by Reuters, while The Atlanta Journal-Constitution initially reported the announcement plan. The company sells cars under the Hyundai and Kia brands.
The announcement would come in the closing days before Georgia’s May 24 primary elections and could be a last-minute boost to Gov. Brian Kemp. The Republican incumbent leads in polls in his effort to hold off a challenge from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue and others in the GOP primary. Perdue has repeatedly attacked the Rivian deal, in which Georgia and local governments have pledged $1.5 billion of incentives and tax breaks, saying the state is transferring money to liberal financiers and should have consulted with local residents who oppose the plant because it threatens their rural quality of life.
The South Korean automaker would add a third American assembly plant to the Hyundai factory in Montgomery, Alabama, and a Kia factory in West Point, Georgia. It’s unclear what models would be assembled at the new Georgia plant. Hyundai announced plans to invest $7.4 billion in the United States by 2025 to produce electric vehicles, upgrade plants and develop technology. The company plans to start building hybrid and electric vehicles at its Montgomery plant by this fall, investing $300 million.
Kemp has cultivated ties to the Korean automaker, part of a push to deliver jobs to parts of Georgia outside Atlanta and to build Georgia’s position in the electric vehicle industry. South Korean conglomerate SK Group is building a $2.6 billion complex to make batteries for electric vehicles in Commerce, northeast of Atlanta.
“There was a reason I made my first economic development trip to South Korea and visited with great companies like Kia and Hyundai and a lot of others. We’ve got a great partnership with them and a lot of other South Korean companies, and we have for a long time,” Kemp said Monday.
The deal would solidify Georgia’s efforts to capture a big piece of the electric vehicle industry. Pat Wilson, Georgia’s economic development commissioner, said in December after Georgia landed Rivian that the industry transition is a “seed field of opportunity” for Georgia.
“Looking forward, I just see a huge amount of opportunity for us,” Wilson said,
Georgia bought the site, which includes more than 2,200 acres (890) hectares) for $61 million last July, with Bryan and Chatham counties each kicking in $9 million.
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Madhani reported from Washington. Associated Press auto writer Tom Krisher contributed from Detroit and writer Russ Bynum contributed from Savannah, Georgia.
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Guns, shopping carts and bottle caps, lots of bottle caps: These are among the discoveries made this summer by people who have taken up magnet fishing, a hobby that works exactly as its name suggests.
Magnet fishing became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this summer, enthusiasts have been fined for pulling rockets out of a river on a military base in Georgia and been given an award for removing more than 20,000 pounds of metal from a river in Maine.
YouTube and TikTok are filled with videos of people using high-powered magnets attached to synthetic rope to haul vintage bicycles and antique firearms from water, but Ben Demchak, who has been magnet fishing for five or six years, said the most common finds are more mundane.
“What you’re not really seeing is all the scrap in between,” said Demchak, who in August 2020 founded Kratos Magnetics, a company that sells magnets and magnet fishing kits.
He was immediately flooded with orders and emails from people who were intrigued by a hobby that would take them outdoors, is inexpensive — the most basic kits can be found online for $20 — and is easy to start. He said he had not been able to keep up with the demand for magnets, even the most basic of which are stronger than a refrigerator magnet.
Demchak, an archaeologist, became interested in the hobby after he stumbled across a magnet fishing video on YouTube uploaded by someone who had found a gun.
“It’s a little different from the historical stuff I find,” he said. “It was the thrill of the hunt and the mystery of how it got there.”
In the United States, where there are more guns than people, it is not uncommon to find a firearm lurking in a local river or stream. People have also found knives, grenades and ammunition.
In late June, a magnet fisherman with 410,000 YouTube subscribers and two people who were with him were fined after finding 86 rockets and ammunition in a river at Fort Stewart, an Army base in Georgia where magnet fishing is banned. In July, two friends pulled an unexploded military shell out of the Passaic River in northern New Jersey. In May 2021, a man found a grenade in the Clarks River in Kentucky.
Magnet fishers are more likely to find scrap metal, which some enthusiasts sell for cash. Demchak said the most important thing is that magnet fishers are cleaning up waterways.
“People have been throwing stuff in the water for ages, ages,” he said. “I just pulled up an electric scooter, so it’s good to get that out of the water.”
Angel Lynn Carbone, who started magnet fishing a year ago and documents her experiences on TikTok, said people have started swimming in a lake near her home again because the lake bed is no longer covered with fishing hooks. She estimated that she pulled about 1,000 hooks out of the water in July alone.
Carbone, 50, who lives in Noblesville, Indiana, said her hobby was like therapy.
“I am a person whose mind races — like, every thought in the world,” Carbone said, speaking by phone from her garage, which she noted had 400 to 500 pounds of metal in it. “When I go magnet fishing and I throw that magnet in, the only thing I am thinking about is a plethora of things that could come up out of the water.”
Carbone said her most treasured find was a flashlight she was able to restore and put to use again. Overall, she estimates that she has pulled up more than 6,000 pounds of metal from waterways in about five states. Each month, a man comes by to collect most of the finds for recycling.
“It serves a purpose because, unfortunately, the waterways have gotten dirty, and in my mind, it doesn’t really matter how the waterways got dirty,” she said. “What matters is, there is actually something I can do to help.”
Timothy Hoellein, an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago, also spends a lot of time cleaning up bodies of water because he is an aquatic ecologist who studies pollution. He said there is no way of knowing exactly how much garbage is in the nation’s ponds, rivers and streams, but it is a problem likely as old as human history.
People have long used rivers to get rid of things, he said.
“They were dumping grounds for food waste and other waste, and it kind of goes away. It disappears. It will move downstream,” he said.
In his work, which currently involves removing garbage from urban streams and rivers in Chicago, Toronto and Massachusetts, he mostly finds trash related to single-use consumption, such as plastic bags, plastic bottles and aluminum cans. He said he has found a bow and arrow and bullets but no guns.
Plastic waste is a bigger concern than metal waste because it has a greater biological impact on humans and wildlife. Floating plastics are consumed by wildlife, can entangle or trap organisms, contain potentially toxic chemicals and can absorb additional pollutants as they drift.
Although removing metals from bodies of water might not be the most pressing need for the environment, Hoellein said he supported activities, including magnet fishing, that help people become more connected to their local rivers.
“These are bodies of water that are so long neglected but have so much potential to offer,” he said. “And if we change our system of valuing these ecosystems and think of them as an asset rather than as a place to dump trash, maybe they can be a real place to build community, well-being and education.”
Casey Deyoe, 32, has always had a close connection with water. She grew up in Mississippi, where her father was a river boat captain, and was a free diver before she took up magnet fishing a year ago.
The magnet fishing waters she explores in Northern California are murkier and often smellier than the clear waters she once dived in, but she said her new hobby has strengthened her relationship with the water. Crucially, it has allowed her to share that relationship with others through her YouTube videos and in conversations with curious strangers.
Deyoe said that when she goes magnet fishing, at least 10 to 15 people ask her about what she is doing. She often encourages them to try it for themselves, handing over her equipment. The last time she made that offer, the man she was speaking with insisted he could not do it.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Dover (NYSE: DOV) today increased its quarterly cash dividend to $0.505 (fifty and one-half cents) per share, from the previous $0.50 (fifty cents) per share, an increase of $0.005 (one-half cent). This is the 67th consecutive year in which the Company has increased its annual cash dividend, demonstrating Dover's longstanding commitment to returning capital to shareholders.
This increased dividend will be paid on September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record as of August 31, 2022.
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The Parkway Lady Panthers and Bossier Bearkats advanced to the quarterfinals of the playoffs with shutout victories Thursday.
In Division II girls, No. 8 seed Parkway defeated No. 9 David Thibodaux 2-0 at Bobby Marlow Field at Preston Crownover Stadium.
The Lady Panthers (14-7-1) will travel to Lafayette to play No. 1 St. Thomas More (28-0-2). St. Thomas More, the defending state champion, defeated No. 16 North DeSoto 9-0 in the second round.
Parkway is in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2019, which was the last time the Lady Panthers were in Division II.
In Division III boys, No. 2 seed Bossier defeated No. 15 Tara 3-0 at Memorial Stadium.
Bossier will host No. 10 Belaire (16-6-2), which defeated No. 7 DeRidder 4-3 in the second round.
This is the fourth straight year Bossier has reached at least the quarterfinals.
At Preston Crownover, the first 30 minutes was pretty even.
But with about eight minutes to play in the first half, Parkway’s Marie Smith sent a corner kick to about six yards in front of the goal. Cameron Dunn and Emilie Morton were side-by-side surrounded by Lady Bulldogs, but Morton was able to kick the ball past the outstretched right hand of the Thibodaux goalkeeper.
A few minutes later, Smith scored on a long shot from the right wing.
Parkway’s defenders, including Hallie Worthy, Sierra Leins and Kennedi Lee, kept the Lady Bulldogs from getting many good looks at the goal. When the Lady Bulldogs were able to get a shot off, goal keeper Aubri Dupre was there to stop it.
Thibodaux closed its season 11-10-3.
At Memorial Stadium, Yoany Reyes, Alexander Tomo and David Rojas scored goals for the Bearkats.
Reyes and and Rojas had one assist each.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — Telesurgery, where, for example, surgeons in urban areas remotely perform surgery on patients in rural areas, is heading toward practical use in Japan.
Behind this is the further advancement of telecommunications technology, which has made it safer to manipulate surgical robots from a distance.
The innovative medical procedure is particularly promising for rural residents because it will allow advanced surgeries to be performed even in areas with few surgeons.
There remain, however, issues on ensuring patients’ safety, so the Japan Surgical Society aims to publish guidelines for performing telesurgery by the end of this year.
In March, Kyushu University conducted a telesurgery demonstration by connecting its affiliated hospital in Fukuoka with another affiliated hospital in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, about 100 kilometers away.
At Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, a monitor displayed an animal placed on an operating table at the hospital in Fukuoka. The animal was used to create a situation similar to human surgery.
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“I will make the incision in this area,” a surgeon in Beppu said as he gripped both hands to manipulate a surgical robot in Fukuoka.
On the operating table, the scalpel attached to the end of the robotic arm moved delicately as the surgeon in Beppu moved his hands. A surgeon in Fukuoka also took turns operating the robot, and a kidney was removed from the animal in about an hour.
Manipulating the robot was university associate professor Junichi Inokuchi, who said: “It did not feel distant. It was smooth.”
Last year, Kyushu University conducted a test to control a medical robot remotely by connecting with Hokkaido University and Sapporo Medical University. Hirosaki University in Aomori Prefecture is also engaged in similar tests for telesurgery.
Universities started to focus research on telesurgery after The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare revised guidelines for online medical care in 2019. The guidelines set forth a policy to put telesurgery into practical use.
The current situation was prompted by the development of communications technology.
Although research on the technology has been conducted for about 20 years, concerns about communication delays had not been completely resolved because vast amounts of data need to be exchanged.
Communication delays could cause life-or-death problems. For example, in the case of sudden bleeding, if there is a large time lag between the surgeon’s manipulation and the robot’s movements, it could lead to massive blood loss.
Kyushu University received the cooperation of NTT West Corp. to provide a high-speed communications line for its tests, confirming that the time lag between the surgery room and the robot console was about five milliseconds, even over a distance of about 100 kilometers.
Surgical robots are becoming popular particularly in laparoscopic surgery for cancer.
Besides the da Vinci surgical systems made in the U.S., domestically produced surgical robots have also appeared in recent years.
Kyushu University used in its March test a robot under development by Riverfield Inc., a startup launched by the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
In the case of problems such as communications being interrupted, the surgery can be continued locally.
“There is always a primary doctor next to the patient,” said Eiji Oki, an associate professor at Kyushu University. “The experienced specialist surgeon remotely assists the primary doctor in performing the surgery.”
He said even telesurgery requires a primary doctor and other medical staff onsite who have the skills to carry out the surgery.
The Japan Surgical Society is working with telecommunications carriers and lawyers to create guidelines on telesurgery, which will specify requirements for the telecommunications environment, careful explanations of the benefits and risks to patients and how to deal with problems that may arise.
After the society releases the guidelines, telesurgery will enter the phase of clinical use for human patients mainly at university hospitals.
“It is important that staff at the location of the surgery and remote surgeons communicate with each other and prepare for various problems that may occur,” said Satoshi Hirano, a professor at Hokkaido University involved in compiling the guidelines.
“Telesurgery will also provide an opportunity for surgeons in rural areas to learn advanced techniques from their mentors at university hospitals and other institutions.” | https://richmond.com/telesurgery-may-soon-be-practical-option-in-rural-areas-in-japan/article_f7f12930-c246-5a7e-8048-0916ce7b205d.html | 2022-06-05 21:05:03 | 0 | https://richmond.com/telesurgery-may-soon-be-practical-option-in-rural-areas-in-japan/article_f7f12930-c246-5a7e-8048-0916ce7b205d.html |
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) informs that its Board of Directors, in session on April 11th 2023, appointed Ricardo Roa Barragán as CEO of Ecopetrol S.A., who will take office no later than April 30th 2023.
The evaluation and selection process of candidates was carried out with the support of the Compensation, Nomination and Culture Committee of the Board of Directors of Ecopetrol S.A. and was accompanied by an international Headhunting firm specialized in recruitment of senior executives. The appointment took place after a rigorous analysis of the proposed candidates, in accordance with the Ecopetrol S.A. Chairman's Succession Policy and other applicable regulations.
The process of selecting and appointing the new president took place in several stages. In the first instance, the Headhunting firm identified a number of candidates who met the conditions defined in the profile of the position; subsequently, the firm presented a reduced number of candidates who were interviewed by the Board of Directors. Finally, after extensive deliberations, the Board appointed Mr. Roa by consensus.
The new President of Ecopetrol S.A., Ricardo Roa Barragán, is a mechanical engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a specialist in engineering management systems from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with more than 30 years of experience, leader in strategic transformations in companies of the energy sector. He has held prominent positions such as CEO of Grupo Energía de Bogotá S.A. E.S.P., Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI) and the General Management of Empresa Energía de Honduras EEH.
Bogotá D.C., April 11, 2023
Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia and one of the main integrated energy companies in the American continent, with more than 18,000 employees. In Colombia, it is responsible for more than 60% of the hydrocarbon production of most transportation, logistics, and hydrocarbon refining systems, and it holds leading positions in the petrochemicals and gas distribution segments. With the acquisition of 51.4% of ISA's shares, the company participates in energy transmission, the management of real-time systems (XM), and the Barranquilla - Cartagena coastal highway concession. At the international level, Ecopetrol has a stake in strategic basins in the American continent, with Drilling and Exploration operations in the United States (Permian basin and the Gulf of Mexico), Brazil, and Mexico, and, through ISA and its subsidiaries, Ecopetrol holds leading positions in the power transmission business in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, road concessions in Chile, and the telecommunications sector. This press release contains business prospect statements, operating and financial result estimates, and statements related to Ecopetrol's growth prospects. These are all projections and, as such, they are based solely on the expectations of the managers regarding the future of the company and their continued access to capital to finance the company's business plan. The realization of said estimates in the future depends on the behavior of market conditions, regulations, competition, and the performance of the Colombian economy and the industry, among other factors, and are consequently subject to change without prior notice.
This release contains statements that may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All forward-looking statements, whether made in this release or in future filings or press releases, or orally, address matters that involve risks and uncertainties, including in respect of the Company's prospects for growth and its ongoing access to capital to fund the Company's business plan, among others. Consequently, changes in the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements: market prices of oil & gas, our exploration, and production activities, reserves, market conditions, applicable regulations, the exchange rate, the Company's competitiveness and the performance of Colombia's economy and industry, to mention a few. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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Head of Capital Markets (a)
Carolina Tovar Aragón
Email: investors@ecopetrol.com.co
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Protests over cash shortage as Nigeria banknote switch looms
By CHINEDU ASADU
Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — New clashes between protesters and security forces in southern Nigeria have left at least one person injured, amid demonstrations against a cash shortage. That was caused by the West African nation’s push to rapidly phase out its old currency notes. People on Tuesday attacked banks accused of not dispensing the newly designed currency notes, meant to replace the old ones before a Feb. 10 deadline. Nigeria’s antigraft agency, meanwhile, arrested a bank manager it said refused to dispense the new banknotes despite having plenty in the vaults. Other bank officials have been arrested in similar circumstances and the latest “indicates sabotage of the government’s monetary policy by some banks,” Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said in a statement. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/02/07/protests-over-cash-shortage-as-nigeria-banknote-switch-looms/ | 2023-02-07 21:24:12 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/02/07/protests-over-cash-shortage-as-nigeria-banknote-switch-looms/ |
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Thank you, Sen. Susan Collins, for introducing the Respect for Marriage Act in the U.S. Senate.
This act would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, and it would provide federal protections to interracial and same-sex couples.
In sponsoring the Respect for Marriage Act, Collins is bucking Maine’s Republican Party, which voted only a few months ago to keep explicit opposition to same-sex marriage in its official party platform.
Every decade has marked progress toward marriage equality for my partner and me. In 1993, our first “wedding” was a protest in Washington, D.C. In 2003, we were officially married in Canada. In 2013, our marriage was federally recognized in the United States.
2023 is the next decade marker for us. Will it be another step forward for marriage equality? Or a step backward?
Kelley McDaniel
Portland | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/opinion/letters/letter-marriage-equality-progress/ | 2022-07-26 22:00:59 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/opinion/letters/letter-marriage-equality-progress/ |
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with UCLA, and the New York Genome Center to create the BD² Genetics Platform
The CommonMind Consortium (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of Pittsburgh, and California Institute of Technology) to launch the BD² Brain Omics Platform
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder today announced its first grants, totaling $15 million, to advance scientific understanding of the genetic and biological foundations of bipolar disorder. These first-of-their-kind efforts aim to accelerate discovery and improve diagnosis and care for the more than 40 million people with bipolar disorder.
The BD² Brain Omics Platform is a groundbreaking effort that will develop a brain atlas for bipolar disorder, a resource researchers will use to accelerate the understanding of how certain molecules contribute to bipolar disorder. The CommonMind Consortium will analyze the cells of pertinent regions in human brain tissue from people who lived with bipolar disorder and those who didn't have the disorder.
"The organizations being awarded today are at the forefront of research in genetics and molecular psychiatry," said Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, and chair of the scientific steering committee overseeing BD². "BD² is the driving force bringing together foundational and hypothesis-driven research in bipolar disorder. The discoveries from this research will over time enable long-sought advances in clinical care."
These Omics and Genetics teams, identified through rigorous external peer review, will work closely with the scientific advisory committees, other funded teams, and the philanthropic investors to ensure their work transforms the field for people with bipolar disorder.
"We are excited to see the vision for BD² coming to life," said Cara Altimus, PhD, managing director for BD² and senior director at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy. "We have supported new research and created scale and infrastructure that makes it possible to coordinate clinicians, researchers, and the lived experience community to create progress. This is just the beginning."
About BD²
Through an integrated, collaborative approach, BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder will address knowledge gaps in the basic disease mechanisms of bipolar disorder as well as factors influencing clinical approaches and outcomes. This initial $150 million effort provides an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of people with bipolar disorder and those yet to be diagnosed.
About the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy
The Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy advises individuals and foundations seeking to develop and implement transformational giving strategies. In addition, we provide resources and leadership to make the philanthropic landscape more effective. Our vision is for a more effective philanthropic ecosystem where dollars are spent strategically, donors realize the impact they seek, and people and the planet thrive.
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An Amber Alert was issued Friday afternoon for a 7-month-old boy and a 12-year-old girl last seen Wednesday in Midlothian, authorities say.
Tristan Welch, 7 months old, and Jada Welch, 12 years old, were last seen at 12:05 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Further details on the case were not immediately available.
Jada is a white female, about 5-foot, 3-inches tall, weighs about 100 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair. Tristan is a white baby male with blue eyes and weighing in at about 18 pounds.
Police are looking for Scott Welch and Alethia Tyson in connection with their disappearance.
Welch is a white, 43-year-old male with brown hair and blue eyes, standing at about 5-feet, 9-inches tall and weighing about 200 pounds.
Tyson is a 35-year-old female with blond hair and blue eyes, standing at about 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds.
Anyone with information that can help find the two children is urged to contact the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office at 972-937-6060 or call 911.
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Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list
(AP) - The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military.
It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.
The data raises fresh concerns about the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military who are tasked with enforcing laws and protecting the U.S. It’s especially problematic for public servants to be associated with extremists at a time when lies about the 2020 election are fueling threats of violence against lawmakers and institutions.
“Even for those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up,” the report says.
Appearing in the Oath Keepers’ database doesn’t prove that a person was ever an active member of the group or shares its ideology. Some people on the list contacted by The Associated Press said they were briefly members years ago and are no longer affiliated with the group. Some said they were never dues-paying members.
“Their views are far too extreme for me,” said Shawn Mobley, sheriff of Otero County, Colorado. Mobley told the AP in an email that he distanced himself from the Oath Keepers years ago over concerns about its involvement in the standoff against the federal government at Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, among other things.
The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, is a loosely organized conspiracy theory-fueled group that recruits current and former military, police and first responders. It asks its members to vow to defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” promotes the belief that the federal government is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties and paints its followers as defenders against tyranny.
More than two dozen people associated with the Oath Keepers — including Rhodes — have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Rhodes and four other Oath Keeper members or associates are heading to trial this month on seditious conspiracy charges for what prosecutors have described as a weekslong plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power. Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers say that they are innocent and that there was no plan to attack the Capitol.
The Oath Keepers has grown quickly along with the wider anti-government movement and used the tools of the internet to spread their message during Barack Obama’s presidency, said Rachel Carroll Rivas, interim deputy director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. But since Jan. 6 and Rhodes’ arrest, the group has struggled to keep members, she said.
That’s partly because Oath Keepers had been associated so strongly with Rhodes that the removal of the central figure had an outsized impact, and partly because many associated with the group were often those who wanted to be considered respectable in their communities, she said.
“The image of being associated with Jan. 6 was too much for many of those folks,” she said.
Among the elected officials whose name appears on the membership lists is South Dakota state Rep. Phil Jensen, who won a June Republican primary in his bid for reelection. Jensen told the AP he paid for a one-year membership in 2014 but never received any Oath Keepers’ literature, attended any meetings or renewed his membership.
Jensen said he felt compelled to join because he “believed in the oath that we took to support the US Constitution and to defend it against enemies foreign and domestic.” He wouldn’t say whether he now disavows the Oath Keepers, saying he doesn’t have enough information about the group today.
“Back in 2014, they appeared to be a pretty solid conservative group, I can’t speak to them now,” he said.
ADL said it found the names of at least 10 people who now work as police chiefs and 11 sheriffs. All of the police chiefs and sheriffs who responded to the AP said they no longer have any ties to the group.
“I don’t even know what they’re posting. I never get any updates,” said Mike Hollinshead, sheriff of Idaho’s Elmore County. “I’m not paying dues or membership fees or anything.”
Hollinshead, a Republican, said he was campaigning for sheriff several years ago when voters asked him if he was familiar with the Oath Keepers. Hollinshead said he wanted to learn about the group and recalls paying for access to content on the Oath Keepers’ website, but that was the extent of his involvement.
Benjamin Boeke, police chief in Oskaloosa, Iowa, recalled getting emails from the group years ago and said he believes a friend may have signed him up. But he said he never paid to become a member and doesn’t know anything about the group.
Eric Williams, police chief in Idalou, Texas, also said in an email that he hasn’t been a member or had any interaction with the Oath Keepers in over 10 years. He called the storming of the Capitol “terrible in every way.”
“I pray this country finds its way back to civility and peace in discourse with one another,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Avaya Holdings Corp. ("Avaya" or the "Company") (NYSE: AVYA) and reminds investors of the March 6, 2023 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
If you suffered losses exceeding $100,000 investing in Avaya stock or options between November 22, 2021 and November 29, 2022 and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/AVYA.
There is no cost or obligation to you.
Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading minority and Woman-owned national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
As detailed below, the lawsuit focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by making false and/or misleading statements and/or failing to disclose that: (1) the Company's internal control over financial reporting ("ICFR") was deficient in several areas; (2) as a result of these deficiencies, the Company had failed to design and maintain effective controls over its whistleblower policies and its ethics and compliance program; (3) the Company's deteriorating financial condition was likely to raise substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On July 28, 2022, Avaya announced the termination of its Chief Executive Officer James M. Chirico, Jr.. The Company also announced preliminary Q3 2022 financial results that included expected revenues and adjusted EBITDA well below previously given guidance and an unquantified but "significant" impairment charge. In addition, Avaya withdrew its 2022 guidance.
On this news, Avaya's stock price fell $1.19 per share, or 56.99%, to close at $0.90 per share on July 29, 2022.
Then, on August 9, 2022, Avaya announced that: (1) it determined there was substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern; (2) it would not timely file its financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2022; (3) its Audit Committee commenced internal investigations into circumstances surrounding the Company's financial results for the quarter; and (4) the Audit Committee also commenced an investigation into matters raised by a whistleblower.
On this news, Avaya's stock price fell $0.51 per share, or 45.54%, to close at $0.61 per share on August 9, 2022.
Finally, before the market opened on November 30, 2022, Avaya disclosed in a Current Report filed on Form 8-K with the SEC that "control deficiencies management had been reviewing represent material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial reporting" and that "management's assessment of ICFR included in Item 9A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year 2021 ended September 30, 2021, filed with the [SEC] on November 22, 2021 should no longer be relied upon." Specifically, the Form 8-K stated that the Company "did not design and maintain effective controls related to the information and communication component of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission framework," "did not design and maintain effective controls to ensure appropriate communication between certain functions within the Company," and "did not design and maintain effective controls over the ethics and compliance program."
On this news, Avaya's stock price fell $0.16 per share, or 14.28%, to close at $0.96 per share on November 30, 2022.
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Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP also encourages anyone with information regarding Avaya's conduct to contact the firm, including whistleblowers, former employees, shareholders and others.
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The Company names Jason McClelland as the new Chief Marketing Officer, and Christopher 'Skip' Wilson as the new Vice President, Brand Marketing
NEW YORK, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the "Company"), the leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies, today announced Jason McClelland is joining the Company's leadership team and Executive Committee as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Christopher 'Skip' Wilson is joining as the Company's Vice President of Brand Marketing.
As CMO, Jason brings over two decades of experience, including leadership roles at SaaS leaders Adobe and Salesforce, as well as serving as Chief Marketing Officer at hyper-growth startups Algolia, Domino Data Lab, and Heroku. At Adobe, Jason held leadership roles that helped Adobe's transformations: first with building their Marketing Cloud business, the industry's first end to end marketing platform for CMOs; and then second with building Adobe's Creative Cloud SaaS transformation.
Skip comes to Shutterstock from Peloton, where Skip led Peloton's Global Brand and Communications for their Commercial business.
Bringing on Jason and Skip continues Shutterstock's investment into broadening its software, content, and custom creative capabilities that uniquely position Shutterstock in the industry to own the end to end creative flow for companies.
Jason McClelland, Chief Marketing Officer at Shutterstock commented, "I'm thrilled to be joining Shutterstock at this juncture. The company has made significant investments over the last year in both people and acquisitions to enable Shutterstock to uniquely own the end to end creative and brand processes for companies. We're already winning multi-million dollar deals and becoming the agency of record for many of the world's most transformative brands. My job is to help tell that story so more people know about it."
As Vice President of Brand Marketing, Skip Wilson will be responsible for Shutterstock's global brand strategy by overseeing the strategic positioning and growth of the Shutterstock brand. He will lead the communication of the Company's unique value proposition through powerful go-to-market campaigns, and thought leadership to drive revenue growth and attract top-tier talent to Shutterstock.
"At its core, brand building is about connection and understanding. These are two traits that all successful brand teams internalize. The opportunity to create a strong brand that drives a deeper connection to the Shutterstock audience is what excites me," comments Skip Wilson, VP of Brand Marketing at Shutterstock. "I view brand development as a team sport – one that requires guts, sound strategy, top talent, and an openness towards doing things differently to reach new audiences. I am looking forward to showing the world's creatives what we're made of."
"With these two appointments, Shutterstock is revolutionizing our marketing efforts. Throughout their careers, Jason and Skip have demonstrated the ability to lead and scale global business expansion, develop and implement growth strategies and drive the execution needed for hyperscale," said Stan Pavlovsky, Chief Executive Officer at Shutterstock. "They are passionate about building strong, high-performing teams, setting impactful strategies, and implementing a success-driven direction for the long-term, while exceeding short-term results. We are thrilled to have them join the Shutterstock family, and we look forward to their contributions as we take Shutterstock into the next era."
About Shutterstock, Inc.
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is the leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies. Directly and through its group subsidiaries, Shutterstock's comprehensive collection includes high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, 3D models, videos and music. Working with its growing community of over 2 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 400 million images and more than 24 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The Company also owns PicMonkey, a leading online graphic design and image editing platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; Shutterstock Studios, an end-to-end custom creative shop; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images and videos for the world's media; TurboSquid, a leading 3D content marketplace; Amper Music, an AI-driven music platform; and Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering.
For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.
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showers. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ243-192245-
Inland Nueces-
Including the cities of Robstown, Tuloso, and Bishop
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, breezy. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. North winds 20 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 50. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ234-192245-
Victoria-
Including the cities of Victoria and Bloomington
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ239-192245-
Webb-
Including the cities of Laredo, Bruni, and Orvil
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
Highs in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ242-192245-
Inland Kleberg-
Including the cities of Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Ricardo,
and Riviera
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Showers, mainly this morning. Breezy. Near
steady temperature in the upper 40s. North winds 20 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows in
the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 50. North winds around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 50. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ342-192245-
Coastal Kleberg-
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT...
.TODAY...Cloudy. Showers, mainly this morning. Windy with highs
in the mid 50s. Temperature falling to around 50 this afternoon.
North winds 20 to 30 mph, becoming 25 to 30 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 20 to 25 mph,
diminishing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds
15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ442-192245-
Kleberg Islands-
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SUNDAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING
THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Cloudy. Showers, mainly this morning. Windy with highs
in the upper 50s. North winds 30 to 35 mph with gusts up to
45 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Windy. Near
steady temperature around 50. North winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts
up to 45 mph, becoming 25 to 30 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Breezy with highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Breezy with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers, breezy with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
20 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ344-192245-
Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT...
.TODAY...Showers, windy. Near steady temperature around 50. North
winds 25 to 30 mph, becoming 20 to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Breezy. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 20 to
30 mph, becoming 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50
percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ244-192245-
Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, breezy. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. North winds 20 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s. North winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ245-192245-
Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT...
.TODAY...Showers, windy with highs in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds 25 to 30 mph, becoming north 20 to 30 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Breezy.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 20 to 30 mph,
becoming 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ345-192245-
Aransas Islands-
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SUNDAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING
THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Cloudy. Showers, mainly this morning. Windy. Near steady
temperature in the lower 50s. North winds 30 to 35 mph with gusts
up to 45 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Windy. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. North winds
25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph, diminishing to 20 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the mid 50s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with lows in the upper 40s. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers, breezy with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ346-192245-
Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, breezy with highs in the lower 50s. North winds
20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Breezy.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to
25 mph, becoming 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ246-192245-
Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, breezy. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming north 15 to 20 mph
this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 50. North winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ247-192245-
Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, breezy. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. North winds 20 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 50. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 50. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ347-192245-
Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT...
.TODAY...Showers, windy. Near steady temperature in the upper
40s. Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph, increasing to north 25 to
30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Breezy.
Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 20 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph, becoming 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30
mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to
20 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ447-192245-
Calhoun Islands-
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SUNDAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING
THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Showers, windy. Near steady temperature in the lower
50s. Northeast winds 30 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Windy.
Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. North winds 25 to
30 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph in the evening. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the mid 50s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming 15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Showers, breezy with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature around 50. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ233-192245-
Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Near
steady temperature in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ232-192245-
Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
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TXZ241-192245-
Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
North winds around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ231-192245-
Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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TXZ240-192245-
Duval-
Including the cities of Freer, Benavides, and San Diego
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ229-192245-
La Salle-
Including the cities of Cotulla and Encinal
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
Highs in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ230-192245-
McMullen-
Including the cities of Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, and Tilden
300 AM CST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Showers, cooler with highs in the upper 40s. Temperature
falling into the lower 40s this afternoon. North winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in
the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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ALLIANCE, Ohio (WJW) — Eight-year-old Asa Baker has spent this year’s hot summer days running a lemonade stand, mostly from in front of her family’s home just outside the city limits of Alliance, Ohio.
“It’s fun and you get lots of people,” said Asa, adding that where she lives a lot of truckers stop to buy some lemonade or treats from her stand, many times leaving more than the $1 per glass she charges.
But during the City of Alliance’s Rib and Food Festival this past weekend, Asa asked her father if she could set up her stand outside of the downtown business where he works, in an alley about half a block from the festival. With the permission of the business owner, Asa set up her stand.
Later, she says, a police officer approached and asked her to shut it down.
“Well, they were really sad they had to shut me down but they gave me $20 to try and pay for it,” said Asa. The girl said the $20 given was intended to pay for a permit she needed to be selling refreshments.
“We looked it up and it was pretty much anywhere in Ohio. You have to have a license and I’ve never heard of that,” said dad Kyle Clark.
And he’s right. There are only 14 states where a permit or license is not required to sell lemonade at a lemonade stand.
Although police rarely enforce these laws, Ohio isn’t one of those states.
Alliance Police Lieutenant Don Wensel says the city is not out targeting kids running lemonade stands, but in this case, there was a complaint from festival organizers. Once the complaint was filed, the police department is obligated to enforce city ordinances.
In the codified ordinances of the City of Alliance, it’s stated that any vendor must obtain a license before opening — with no exceptions, not even for children’s lemonade stands.
“Later that day, I made a [social media] post in appreciation for the officer that gave her the money for shutting it down,” said mom Katrina Moore. “You know, as unfortunate as it was, I still was very grateful that he was at least able to give her $20.”
The post caught the attention of numerous people, including local business owner Eric Strata.
He made space in front of his business, Black Sales Liquidation, where Asa could sell her lemonade and treats. He even used his own tip jar to collect money so Asa could buy her permit.
Strata says in just a few hours he collected about $250.
But some of the adults say they still don’t understand which permit is appropriate for a child to get to sell lemonade.
“In order to get a food vendor’s license, it only lasts for five days and it’s $40 for five days,” said Moore. “So that’s kind of out of the picture. If she wants to sell on the street, she has to get a street permit. If she sells in front of a business, we have to get a solicitor’s permit.”
On Friday, Baker’s lemonade stand was back up in front of Strata’s business where police say they were not going to bother her. Several customers were stopped to buy lemonade and snacks or to just make contributions.
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Builds and sustains strategic approach to John Hancock Group of Funds Board looking toward the future of fund management
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BOSTON, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - John Hancock Investment Management, a company of Manulife Investment Management, announced today the appointment of four new trustees to the Board of Trustees of the John Hancock Group of Funds, including three new independent trustees. The new trustees have extensive combined experience in financial services, regulatory and compliance management, technology, and evolving investor markets, while collectively bringing a strategic focus on the future of fund management. The new trustees are:
Noni L. Ellison — Ms. Ellison currently serves as senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary at Tractor Supply Company and has more than 25 years of executive leadership, legal and compliance experience. In addition to managing Tractor Supply's legal department, she also oversees the company's risk management, government relations, licensing, and quality assurance/customs compliance, as well as the company's environmental, social and governance efforts. Ms. Ellison received her bachelor of arts degree from Howard University, magna cum laude. She earned her law degree and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Dean Garfield — Mr. Garfield is currently vice president of public policy and a member of the executive leadership team at Netflix, where he oversees global public policy and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Netflix in 2019, he served in multiple executive roles at information technology and entertainment companies providing significant global operational, governance, regulatory, and leadership experience. He was appointed by President Obama and then re-appointed by President Trump to the President's Trade Advisory Council and was recently appointed to the Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Automation. Mr. Garfield received a joint Juris Doctor and master's degree from New York University School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration and International Affairs at Princeton University. He earned his undergraduate degree in English language and literature at Middlebury College.
Patricia Lizarraga — Ms. Lizarraga is currently the managing partner of Hypatia Capital Group, an asset management firm that focuses on sponsoring women CEOs and investors. She has more than 25 years of global and merchant banking experience and has founded several successful companies. Ms. Lizarraga has expertise in financial services and investment matters, as well as operational and risk oversight. Ms. Lizarraga also has strong corporate governance and regulatory experience in the investment management industry. She earned a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Paul Lorentz — Mr. Lorentz is a member of Manulife's executive leadership team and is president and CEO at Manulife Investment Management. He has direct oversight over the global wealth and asset management business, including retirement, retail, and asset management solutions for investors worldwide. Prior to his current role, Mr. Lorentz served as general manager of individual wealth management and insurance for Manulife's Canadian division and has held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility throughout the firm's Canadian operations. Mr. Lorentz is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at University of Waterloo.
"We're very excited to onboard these new trustees at this pivotal time for the asset management industry," said Dr. Hassell McClellan, chairperson of the board of trustees of the John Hancock Group of Funds. "The John Hancock Funds Board is a highly strategic asset for the funds and shareholders and the new trustees will enhance and strengthen the board. The new trustees are exceptional individuals, accomplished professionals, and experts in their respective fields, with diverse backgrounds and personal experiences that will provide the board with additional leadership resources, expertise, and viewpoints."
"A strong board is and will remain a key to the success of fund shareholders," said Andrew G. Arnott, CEO, John Hancock Investment Management and head of U.S. and Europe, Manulife Investment Management and president, John Hancock Funds Board. "We're pleased to share the approach taken to recruit such an exemplary group of new trustees. Their expertise and deep backgrounds in such important subject areas will bring continued success to our shareholders."
"Evolution in the investment landscape requires fund boards to be even more strategic with their board composition and structure," added Dr. McClellan. "We are committed to ensuring that the John Hancock Group of Funds Board is composed of individuals with complementary skills to assist investors with their investment and savings goals. Our objective is to prepare and 'future proof' the board for an increasingly competitive, global, regulatory-impacted, and technology-driven investment environment."
With this announcement, the John Hancock Group of Funds Board now comprises 12 independent trustees and three interested trustees with a broad skillset and knowledge. In selecting the new additions, the John Hancock Group of Funds Board reviewed a broad and extensive pool of candidates to select the additive and complementary skills needed to build a thoughtful and strategically composed board to meet the challenges, and take advantage of the opportunities, that the asset management industry will see over the next decade and beyond.
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When a former student at Colonia High School in Woodbridge, New Jersey, realized that he, his wife and his sister all had brain tumors, he wondered if something about their high school could have caused them. After doing some research, Al Lupiano told TODAY that he discovered 107 former students and teachers with brain tumors. (TODAY did not independently verify the cases.)
When Woodbridge Township Mayor John McCormac learned about Lupiano’s efforts, he reached to him and the township subsequently hired an environmental engineering firm to investigate possible contaminants at the school that could contribute to development of brain tumors. McCormac shared the findings of the environmental assessment in a press conference Thursday.
“We are very happy to announce that our extensive testing for both radon and radiation in the interior and exterior of the school building produced no evidence of any cancer causing hazards that warrant further investigation,” McCormac said. “This is terrific news for the current students of Colonial High School and their parents who are worried about their safety along with current staff members. And it is also great news for all former students who attended and staff that worked at Colonia High School since it opened back in 1968.”
McCormac was joined by Joseph Massimino, superintendent of Woodbridge schools, Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental protection, Judith Persichilli, commissioner of New Jersey’s department of health, and Kate McGreevy, an epidemiologist from the New Jersey Department of Health. The township worked closely with state and federal agencies in the investigation, according to McCormac.
“We sympathize with anyone who has experienced brain tumors and brain cancers, especially those who lost loved ones to this terrible disease,” McCormac said. “But there is no cause and effect relationship between those illnesses and the building or grounds at Colonia High School.”
LaTourette added: “It’s our conclusion at the Department of Environmental Protection that the radiological status of this building and the grounds of this high school are consistent with typical background levels of radiation that are found in New Jersey. In fact, it is at the lower end of those background levels of radioactive materials.”
Risk factors for brain tumors include a family history and possibly exposure to ionizing radiation, Persichilli explained at the press conference, stressing that much is unknown about the risk factors for developing brain and central nervous system tumors.
The health department also looked at brain cancer rates for Colonia High School and compared them to rates of brain cancer throughout New Jersey and the United States.
“The rates are actually consistent in New Jersey with the United States,” McGreevy said. “This approach of calculating the expected number was done to provide context to the community.”
McCormac added that calling it a cancer cluster was “wrong.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define a cancer cluster as "a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time."
Cancer clusters are difficult to prove “because cancer is a relatively common disease, (and) cases of cancer can appear to cluster even when there is no connection among them. That is, clusters of cancer can arise by chance,” according to the National Cancer Institute.
“Whoever started calling this a cancer cluster, to use that phrase, it was ill informed,” McCormac said.
TODAY reached out to Lupiano for comment on the press conference but did not hear back.
In April, he told TODAY was determined to figure out why he, his wife and sister all experienced brain tumors. Lupiano and his wife both had an acoustic neuroma — a benign brain tumor that grows on a nerve from the brain to the inner ear — but his sister had a fatal, cancerous brain tumor. After the press conference he shared a post on Facebook, which reads, in part:
“My heart aches for my friends, family and fellow CHS alumni, teachers, and staff. I don’t know about you … but I’m not giving up so easy … without or without the help of others, the truth will be uncovered.”
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This includes the analogous nature of articular cartilage, muscle fascia, and intervertebral disc confirmed by way of comparative Scanning Electron Microscope analysis
PENSACOLA, Fla., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regenative Labs, a leading HCT/P manufacturer, has co-authored a pioneering paper together with experts from The Institute of Regenative Medicine and the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine.
"This paper is a market disruptor and will be our most significant paper released to date. This is the first literature that we are aware of to utilize Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images of actual tissue samples to objectively demonstrate on a qualitative and quantitative basis that collagen structural tissue matrices in our post-processed Wharton's Jelly allografts and those in articular cartilage, muscle fascia, and intervertebral discs are analogous," said Regenative Labs CEO, Tyler Barrett.
This research highlights our commitment to the Regenerative Medicine community. We believe the combination of our IRB-approved observational studies, peer-reviewed publications, ISO-certified laboratory processes, and our commitment to compliance with FDA and American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) standards, sets the standard for HCT/P manufacturers. Regenative Labs has pioneered the use of perinatal tissue allografts and is pleased that this paper supports our current homologous use practices, consistent with our 361 status.
Currently, the treatments for the Intervertebral Disc (DDD) range in cost and effectiveness from an $8 bottle of Ibuprofen to $150,000 for spinal fusion (1). Neither of these treatment options target the foundational issue of ECM cartilage breakdown in the intervertebral discs. By age 35, 30% of people show signs of DDD; by age 60, this increases to 90% (2). That we are aware of, this is the first perinatal tissue allograft in the medical marketplace that may be applied in a homologous fashion per FDA 361 guidelines to replace or supplement missing or damaged connective tissue. All other non-surgical paradigms focus on symptom management and do not address the disc's collagen structural degeneration. In collaboration with medical providers across the country, we are actively investigating additional homologous use applications for this technology in tissue defects associated with the load-bearing joints of the knee, hip, shoulder, spine, ankle, and foot.
Billions of dollars are spent annually on the surgical care and treatment of patients suffering from degeneration of load-bearing joints and intravertebral discs. We are honored to offer patients evidence-based and structural tissue defect-specific non-surgical applications on a global scale.
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- How much does degenerative disc treatment cost? CostHelper. (n.d.). Retrieved August 10, 2022, from https://health.costhelper.com/degenerative-disc.html
- Degenerative disc disease. Columbia Neurosurgery in New York City. (2021, July 21). Retrieved August 10, 2022, from https://www.neurosurgery.columbia.edu/patient-care/conditions/degenerative-disc-disease#:~:text=Most%20people's%20spinal%20discs%20degenerate,does%20not%20necessarily%20cause%20pain.
About Regenative Labs: Regenative Labs produces regenerative medicine products to address the root cause of a patient's conditions using Wharton's Jelly innovations rather than masking the pain with other treatments. Regenative Labs works closely with scientists, physicians, hospitals, and surgery centers to constantly monitor and improve patient progress and outcomes for new product development. Formed by veteran industry professionals familiar with daily challenges of innovations in healthcare, the company provides non-addictive, non-invasive options for patients. Regenative Labs's expert product research and development team complies FDA guidelines of minimal manipulation for homologous use. The company adheres to AATB and FDA guidelines. Learn more at Regenative's website: www.regenativelabs.com
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Yes, the electric vehicle price war has likely begun.
Last month’s Tesla price cuts slashed up to 20% of the cost to buy the EV maker’s vehicles. Then in a rare move, Ford dropped prices on its Mustang Mach-E lineup last week by up to 9%.
Those first dramatic shots over the bow are almost certainly not the end of it. Recent financial updates from Ford, Tesla, and others suggest that there’s growing pressure to cut prices on EVs—or at least to stop raising them.
Automaker executives and industry analysts have made some more sobering remarks about what that means. Among them: It will take cost cuts for parts, better manufacturing efficiency, and, in some cases, ramped-up production of gasoline trucks to get there.
In a U.S. market report released last week, S&P Global Mobility underscored an important point—effectively, that legacy automakers, particularly the U.S. Big Three, need cash-cow profits from full-size pickups to support their investments in EVs.
Putting the EV ramp on ICE
“GM is the only one of the three that has incremental capacity to produce more full-size pickups—whether they’re ICE or BEV,” said S&P Global Mobility. “Ford is capacity-constrained until Blue Oval City comes online in the second half of 2025, and Stellantis has their own limitations in the short term.”
S&P also underscored a different reason, in addition to higher interest rates and weakening demand in general that will pressure prices to drop: Many owners of vehicles bought over the past couple of years owe more than the vehicle will be worth on trade.
“These vehicles are all underwater,” said Dave Mondragon, S&P Global Mobility’s VP of product development. “They were sold at record-high prices with no discounts, and there will be little to no equity to roll into a new vehicle.”
The pressure to be more competitive on EV prices in turn adds pressure on companies to ramp up EV production to answer demand, and reach profitability on EV models sooner.
Automotive supplier companies are bracing for added pressure from automakers to reduce costs after remarks made during financial calls over the past couple of weeks. Tesla CEO Zachary Kirkhorn said that it was “attacking every other area of cost,” pointing to suppliers specifically.
Lingering production issues
Companies are still dealing with a range of issues preventing them from selling EVs in the numbers intended. Nissan will reportedly deliver fewer of its Ariya electric vehicles over the next few months than U.S. dealers had expected, due to the after-effects of chip shortages.
GM appears to be held back somewhat by the ramp up of its own battery production, through its Ultium Cells LLC joint venture with LG. CEO Mary Barra confirmed this past week that its target of 400,000 cumulative EVs for North America had been pushed back to mid-2024, rather than the end of 2023 as it had said previously.
Barra pointed to issues with staffing at the Ohio battery plant, which is the first of three North American battery plants dedicated to producing the same large-format pouch cells developed with LG. A fourth battery plant hasn’t yet been detailed, and the company underscored that it’s flexible on battery cell format despite its investments.
GM, amid that update, pointed to the planned launch, in the second half of this year, of its Blazer EV and Equinox EV models, the latter of which is due to start around $30,000.
As Automotive News reported last week, Volkswagen has no plans to counter these recent price drops. That’s somewhat in conflict with what VW has said in the past, as price flexibility was always one of the purported advantages of its MEB platform for millions of EVs.
Volkswagen Group cousin Porsche is considering an EV price drop, however, according to the AN report, while Renault’s brand boss expressed concern that cutting sales by 10% or more within a week affects residual (resale) values and hurts existing customers.
Tesla is once again pushing for huge production gains in 2023, and it continues to rejigger pricing faster than the industry typically reacts. For instance, it introduced a $1,000 price hike on the Model Y this past week, just after an EV tax credit clarification from the Treasury Department that made the whole Model Y range eligible.
Prices drop a little bit, EV demand goes way up
Big-picture, EV interest and demand is showing no signs of abating. But as Tesla has recently illustrated with the surge of demand accompanying its price drop, it’s closely tethered to price and there’s tremendous pent-up demand for a wider range of affordable EVs.
Outside of Tesla, each of the full-line automakers will need novel solutions to hold or lower prices, as well as ramp up production of their existing EVs, many of which simply weren’t originally conceived to be sold in such high volumes.
The latter was represented perhaps most pointedly by Ford, which propped up EV production with extraordinary measures like air-shipping parts to chase demand. The company admitted disappointment in dismal financial results, but deflected by saying that this builds market share.
Next-generation EV platforms, like BMW’s Neue Klasse models and Ford’s next-gen electric trucks, are being conceived for products to be built at an order of magnitude greater than today’s EVs. But in the meantime, more “no pain, no gain” moments may be in store for full-line automakers.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry veteran John Finn today announced the formation and launch of Boldwater Partners LLC ("Boldwater" or "Boldwater Partners"). Boldwater is distinguished as an independent alternative asset placement agent and advisory firm specializing in providing capital formation, strategic development, and liquidity solutions to premiere asset managers across all alternative asset classes.
With deep expertise that spans private equity, hedge funds, private credit, real assets, and commodities, Boldwater Partners will seek to identify and source exceptional investment opportunities and simultaneously provide partner clients with guidance and execution in all aspects of capital formation and strategic direction. Specific expertise includes primary capital placement, sponsor-led direct transactions, general partner solutions, secondaries, and coinvestments. Client alignment will be paramount for Boldwater Partners, with intentions to invest alongside its clients, both directly and as a significant portion of the firm's fees.
Mr. Finn brings decades of substantial industry experience as Boldwater begins its operations.
Prior to launching Boldwater, he was Global Head of Hedge Fund & Alternative Credit Distribution at Eaton Partners ("Eaton"), a wholly owned subsidiary and affiliate of Stifel Financial Corp. In that role he guided Eaton's industry-leading hedge fund practice as trusted advisor to both fund sponsors and institutional investors. During his tenure, Eaton's hedge fund business represented more than 25 different fund managers, raising over $5 billion in assets.
Serving in roles of increasing seniority over the course of nearly a decade, he was tasked with leading a global team responsible for originating funds, managing sponsor relationships, and distributing funds across North America, Europe, and Asia. As part of his brief, he was a member of the firm's Liquid Funds Investment Committee and was most recently also responsible for private equity fund distribution in the Mid-Atlantic US.
Said John Finn, Boldwater Partners LLC CEO: "Truly differentiated and exceptional investment opportunities are most often the direct result of a disciplined investment philosophy or process combined with very specific and incredible areas of expertise. Boldwater will provide counsel and execution not solely in seeking these opportunities, but in strategy - with the goal of uniting those opportunities with sophisticated and aligned long-term capital partners."
Boldwater Partners is an independent placement agent and alternative asset advisory firm specializing in capital formation, strategic development, and liquidity solutions for premiere asset managers across all alternative asset classes. With deep expertise that spans private equity, hedge funds, private credit, real assets, and commodities, Boldwater Partners strives to identify and source exceptional investment opportunities and simultaneously provide partner clients with guidance and execution across primary capital placement, sponsor-led direct transactions, general partner solutions, secondaries, and co-investments. Client alignment is paramount for Boldwater Partners, with a significant portion of the firm's fees invested with, and alongside, our clients.
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CT Boston/Norton MA Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 2, 2022
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.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs around 60. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s.
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400 AM EDT Mon Oct 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Highs around 60. North winds around 10 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
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400 AM EDT Mon Oct 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Lows in
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25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - Construction issues will keep a major Med City road closed until later this summer.
Crews have been repairing structural problems with the Elton Hill Bridge for months on end. It's work that was supposed to be completed by the end of this month, freeing up Elton Hills Drive from the road work that's seen it blocked off.
But now, we're learning construction on the bridge will last until the end of July or the first week of August. That's according to the City of Rochester, which says it's seeking monetary damages from the project's contractor for the delay.
The news comes with disappointment for some local businesses who have been impacted by construction dragging on. Dennis Wong, co-owner of Dunn Brothers Coffee and Blue Plate Diner on Elton Hills Drive, tells KIMT sales have slowed down significantly since work on the project started.
He shares Dunn Brothers and Blue Plate are the only tenants left in their building, and employees have been laid off because of a drop in customers coming in. Wong says he understands the need to repair the Elton Hills Bridge, but just wants business to be back to usual so he can re-hire some employees and resume normal operating hours, which have been cut since construction started.
The City of Rochester says it's working with the contractor to identify an updated completion date for the project, and a separate date when the bridge will be opened to the traveling public. In the meantime, the contractor is continuing to meet with businesses and property owners to update them on the project's progress. | https://www.kimt.com/news/top-stories/local-businesses-disappointed-by-delay-in-elton-hills-bridge-construction/article_c224804c-e3b6-11ec-93f3-43f6cd0e1e2b.html | 2022-06-04 06:12:42 | 0 | https://www.kimt.com/news/top-stories/local-businesses-disappointed-by-delay-in-elton-hills-bridge-construction/article_c224804c-e3b6-11ec-93f3-43f6cd0e1e2b.html |
There’s one last way to score a few extra dollars before Prime Day begins
Prime Day is less than 24 hours away. In fact, it starts tonight and runs through July 12. However, even with mere hours to go before the big event, you can still score a few extra bucks to use on your shopping spree. Whether you want to buy wireless earbuds or nasal strips, it doesn’t matter. This credit can be used on whatever you’d like to get from Amazon, even if the item is already on sale.
How to get your $5 credit from Amazon
The secret to getting your Amazon credit is to buy an Amazon e-gift card before Prime Day starts. That’s right, you get rewarded for simply being a giving person. While it is super simple to earn your credit, there are five things you need to know.
- To get the $5 credit, you must be an Amazon Prime member. If you aren’t, you can sign up for free right now. When you sign up, you immediately receive all the benefits of being a Prime Member, including being eligible to participate in Prime Day.
- To earn your $5 credit, you must activate the offer before adding at least $50 to a single e-gift card and make the purchase. To activate the offer, click the blue square on Amazon’s e-gift card page.
- In order to qualify for this credit, you must complete your purchase before 11:59 p.m. PT on July 10, 2023. However, this is a limited offer with limited availability. If supplies run out, even if it is still July 10, you may not receive your credit. For this reason, it is crucial to act fast.
- If you have successfully met the first three criteria, you will immediately receive a $5 credit. This promotional credit is valid until 11:59 p.m. PT on August 25, 2023.
- There is a strict limit of one promotional credit per Amazon Prime account.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus on Thursday sentenced yet another independent journalist to three years in prison, a second prison sentence handed to a journalist in the European county this week in a sweeping, years-long crackdown on independent media.
According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Aliaksandr Liubianchuk was convicted on the charges of participating in an extremist group. Liubianchuk had worked with a number of independent media, including the Poland-based Belsat TV channel, which was outlawed as extremist in Belarus.
He extensively covered mass protests that erupted in Belarus after its authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was handed a sixth term after the August presidential 2020 that the opposition and the West denounced as rigged. Lukashenko’s government responded to the demonstrations with a brutal crackdown, in which more than 35,000 people were arrested and thousands were beaten violently by police.
Liubianchuk was arrested in May and spent six months behind bars. Letters that Liubianchuk wrote to his family and colleagues from prison revealed that his health has declined significantly in detention. Human rights groups declared him a political prisoner — one of over 1,300 in Belarus.
On Wednesday, a prominent investigative journalist, Siarhei Satsuk, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Independent journalists were the first to face the government’s crackdown. Many were either arrested by the security service or fled the country. A total of 32 reporters are currently behind bars, either awaiting trial or serving their sentences, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists. | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-belarus-sends-one-more-independent-journalist-to-prison/ | 2022-10-27 19:28:35 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-belarus-sends-one-more-independent-journalist-to-prison/ |
Roberts asked to testify on court ethics amid Thomas reports
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary chairman has invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify next month on ethical standards at the court, a hearing that would undoubtedly focus on business transactions and travel involving Justice Clarence Thomas.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said there has been a “steady stream of revelations” regarding Supreme Court justices “falling short of ethical standards expected of other federal judges.”
“The time has come for a new public conversation on ways to restore confidence in the Court’s ethical standards. I invite you to join it, and I look forward to your response,” Durbin wrote in a letter Thursday to the chief justice.
Court officials did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
In recent weeks, news reports have focused on the purchase by a conservative donor of three properties belonging to Thomas and his family in a transaction worth more than $100,000 that Thomas never reported, according to the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.
ProPublica also previously revealed that Thomas and his wife Ginni were gifted with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of annual vacations and trips by donor Harlan Crow for decades — including international cruises on his mega-yacht, private jet flights and stays at Crow’s invitation-only resort in the Adirondacks. But the 2014 real estate deal is the first public evidence of a direct financial transaction between the pair.
The letter from Durbin asked Roberts — or another justice he chooses to testify instead — to appear before the committee on May 2. He told Roberts that the scope of his testimony would be limited to the ethics rules governing justices of the Supreme Court and potential changes to those rules.
Some Senate Republicans are skeptical of the Democratic majority’s intentions and see the hearing as mainly an effort to put a critical spotlight on Thomas.
“If we were engaged in an objective discussion about the appropriate standards for judicial ethics, that would be perfectly appropriate. I don’t believe that Democrats have any interest in an objective or fair discussion,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a member of the Judiciary panel. “This is all about a political smear job directed at Justice Thomas.”
Supreme Court justices, like other federal judges, are required to file an annual financial disclosure report which asks them to list gifts they have received, but provides exemptions for hospitality from friends.
Ethics experts have offered conflicting views about whether Thomas was required to disclose the luxury trips funded by Crow. Thomas said in a statement that he was advised by colleagues that “this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable.” Thomas did not name the other justices or those in the judiciary with whom he had consulted.
Last month, the federal judiciary bolstered disclosure requirements for all judges, including the high court justices, although overnight stays at personal vacation homes owned by friends remain exempt from disclosure.
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Distracted driving is dangerous and often deadly. Law enforcement across the state will have extra patrols the month of September to enforce the law on distracted driving for the U Drive. U Text. U Pay. enforcement period.
151 citations were issued for distracted driving during April’s enforcement period. Distracted driving takes on many forms; however, texting is one of the most common across the nation and is illegal in North Dakota.
In April, Vision Zero launched the story of Ramsey County Deputy Sheriff Bill Earl, who lost his son Joe, from a distracted driving crash. In the story, Deputy Earl stresses how much Joe’s choice to drive distracted still affects his family and friends.
“Your family is more important than that text. Why would you want to put your friends and family through the torment of losing you?”
Local law enforcement encourages all drivers to take personal responsibility behind the wheel, if not for you, for your friends and family.
“It’s time to put the phone down and drive,” said McKenzie County Sheriff Matt Johansen. “A distracted driver is six-times more likely to crash than a drunk driver. It will take a conscious effort from all to drive distraction-free and help us reach the goal of Vision Zero.”
This campaign is part of the Vision Zero strategy to eliminate motor vehicle crash fatalities and serious injuries on North Dakota roads.
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If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve heard about the #NoMowMay movement that’s been gaining steam on social media and in eco-conscious circles these past few years.
Started in 2019 by citizen scientists in the United Kingdom, the call for homeowners to abstain from mowing their lawns during the month has spread to other countries, including the U.S.
The intention is admirable: Let your grass and weeds grow and bloom to provide food and shelter for essential pollinators like bees and butterflies early in the season, when such necessities may be scarce.
Frankly, I think it’s a terrible idea.
Some of those pollinators you set out to protect will likely get shredded up with the first mow of the season. Grass will no doubt get shaded by tall weeds, which can lead to fungal diseases. And weeds and invasive plants that take hold during the month won’t simply disappear once the mowing commences. That might lead people to apply chemical pesticides they wouldn’t otherwise use.
And what about rodents, snakes and other undesirables that also will likely avail themselves of the shelter?
Perplexed by the seemingly runaway-train popularity of the now-annual event, I called Tamson Yeh, turf specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County in New York. “Is it me?” I asked.
“I think it’s a terrible idea, too,” she said. “It’s such a nice slogan, but letting the grass grow high and allowing it to do its thing, and then suddenly mowing it back is really counterproductive.”
Yeh sees the movement as a “feel-good, stop-gap measure, because if you want to have an impact, you need to establish a permanent cover for insects,” not merely temporary housing.
“Bees tell each other where the food is, and pollinators (when they discover an unmown lawn) will remember to come back to it again and again,” Yeh said. “Then on June 1st, when the food disappears, it’s not good for them.”
Hibernating insects have memories that span not only from day to day but from year to year, Yeh said. So she recommends planting early blooming shrubs, trees and plants to establish a permanent food source they can remember and rely on as adults when they emerge from dormancy.
Other problems with the practice, Yeh noted, include “confusing insects when the grass is suddenly low again. That gives predators the opportunity to take advantage of them.”
There’s also the potential to disturb a nest of bunnies when mowing, she said, calling the discovery “the most horrible experience you can have.”
An all-or-nothing approach would be better. If you really want to make a difference, consider replacing the entire lawn, or part of it, with native plants or planting a wildflower meadow. Both will provide permanency for birds and pollinators while shrinking or eliminating the lawn, which frankly, has no redeeming value aside from subjective aesthetics, anyway.
When planting for beneficial insects, Yeh advises creating a corridor or path of pollen- and nectar-rich plants for migratory pollinators to travel along instead of spacing plants far apart.
Postponing fall cleanup until spring, which spawned another movement called #LeaveTheLeaves, will create safe havens for pollinators to lay their eggs and hibernate within. To allow time for them to emerge from dormancy, wait until after spring temperatures have remained above 50 degrees for an entire week before clearing away last season’s plant debris.
For those set on letting their lawns go wild this month, Yeh cautions that “allowing grass to go to seed will kill it,” so remove seedheads if they form.
It’s also important to reintroduce mowing gradually.
“The best height for grass is 3 inches tall, but if you’re mowing it down from 5 or 6 inches, do it over several sessions,” she advised, adding that cutting grass by more than one-third of its height at one time can cause it to go into shock.
The gradual approach “also will give insects a chance to realize it’s not a good place for them anymore,” she said. Hopefully, they’ll take the hint and move on to safer spaces.
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Victoria Bennett Named Executive Director, Production
Tan Erginay and Curtis Caja Named Associate Creative Directors
NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIG, an independent creative agency, today announced three new hires to FIG's creative team. These additions signal FIG's continued growth, new client wins and ongoing commitment to broadening its capabilities to build brand salience for clients.
"These latest hires add to FIG's creative momentum which has been considerable this year thanks to our strong organic growth," said Mark Figliulo, Founder and Creative Chairman. "Adding Victoria, Tan and Curtis along with the two ECDs we recently hired brings an extra jolt of enthusiasm, expertise and gravitas that will be essential in helping us define our next 'creative' chapter."
Victoria Bennett has been named Executive Director of Production. She will partner with FIG's Executive Creative Directors, Asan Aslam and Omid Amidi, to bring the work to life and is the crucial hire that will complete our creative offering.
Prior to FIG, Bennett was a freelance executive producer for Meta, Wieden + Kennedy, Vayner Media, and Johannes Leonardo where she worked on the 2022 Budweiser Super Bowl commercial with Chloé Zhao. Most Notably, Bennett's work with Volkswagon won awards at Cannes Lions, One Show, and AWARD Awards.
Tan Erginay has been named Associate Creative Director, where he will continue to expand the agency's creative experience across categories like QSR, CPG, and alcohol. Erginay joins FIG from Pereira O'Dell where he was a senior copywriter and worked to redefine brands and launched national campaigns for brands like Pringles, Gillette, National Parks, Stella Artois, Budweiser, Febreze, and Applebee's. Most notably, Erginay's work has won awards at Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, ANDY Awards, and Webby Awards.
Curtis Caja has been named Associate Creative Director, where he will work alongside Erginay. Caja joins FIG from DAVID The Agency where he was an associate creative director and led multiple national and global creative campaigns for brands like Burger King, Budweiser and Kraft Heinz. Most notably, Caja's work has won awards at Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Clio Awards, Ojo, and ANDY Awards.
FIG is an independent creative agency focused on helping brands tell their story through a creative-first, data-powered approach in today's information age. Since its founding in 2013, FIG has remained agile to adapt to an ever-changing industry and steadfast in its vision to push the boundaries of creativity, and ultimately enact change. Key clients include Benjamin Moore, SeatGeek, Viator, Waze. FIG has been named to Ad Age's Agency A-List, AdWeek's Fastest Growing Agencies, LinkedIn's Top Startups, Ad Age's Best Places to Work, and more. For more information, visit www.figagency.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
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NEW YORK — Even when regular workers win their biggest raises in decades, they look minuscule compared with what CEOs are getting.
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies soared 17.1% last year, to a median $14.5 million, according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by Equilar.
The gain towers over the 4.4% increase in wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers through 2021, which was the fastest on record going back to 2001. The raises for many rank-and-file workers also failed to keep up with inflation, which reached 7% at the end of last year.
CEO pay took off as stock prices and profits rebounded sharply as the economy roared out of its brief 2020 recession. Because much of a CEO’s compensation is tied to such performance, their pay packages ballooned after years of mostly moderating growth.
In many of the most eye-popping packages, such as Expedia Group’s, valued at $296.2 million and JPMorgan Chase’s $84.4 million, boards gave particularly big grants of stock or stock options to recently appointed CEOs navigating their companies through the pandemic or to established leaders they wanted to convince to hang around.
The CEOs often can’t cash in on such stock or options for years, or possibly ever, unless the company meets performance targets. But companies still must disclose estimates for how much they’re worth. Only about a quarter of the typical pay package for all S&P 500 CEOs last year came as actual cash they could pocket.
Whatever its composition, the chasm in pay between CEOs and the rank-and-file workers they oversee keeps widening. At half the companies in this year’s pay survey, it would take the worker at the middle of the company’s pay scale at least 186 years to make what their CEO did last year. That’s up from 166 a year earlier.
At Walmart, for example, the company said its median associate made $25,335 in compensation last year. That means half its workers made more, and half made less.
That’s up 21% from $20,942 a year earlier and came as the company’s average hourly wage for U.S. associates rose from $14.50 in January 2021 to more than $17 currently. That increase was bigger than the raise CEO Doug McMillon got, on a percentage basis. But his 13.7% raise netted him a total package valued at $25.7 million.
Anger is growing over such an imbalance. Surveys suggest Americans across political parties see CEO pay as too high, and some investors are pushing back.
Workers are trying to organize unions across the country, and the “Great Resignation” has emboldened millions to quit to find better jobs elsewhere. The U.S. government counted more than 4 million quits during April 2021 alone, the first time that happened. The monthly number has since topped 4.5 million twice.
“That is going to add a huge cost to corporate bottom lines, to have these kind of turnover rates,” said Sarah Anderson, director of the global economy project at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies.
“They should be thinking about what kind of message they’re sending to those people, about whether they’re really valued in their jobs,” Anderson said. “When the guy in the corner office is making several hundred if not thousands of times more, that’s sending a really demoralizing message.”
Gains for CEO pay had been slowing in recent years, with the median rise easing from 8.5% in 2017 to 4.1% in 2019. It ticked back up to 5% in 2020, which was a complicated year because the pandemic shut down the economy and profits at many companies tanked.
For 2020, many companies rejiggered the intricate formulas they created to determine their CEOs’ pay. The tweaks made up for losses caused by the pandemic, something many boards said was an extraordinary event outside the CEO’s control.
Then came 2021. Thanks to a reopened economy, super-low interest rates from the Federal Reserve and other factors, stock prices soared and the S&P 500 jumped nearly 27%, setting records through the year. Earnings per share soared roughly 50%.
Throughout the year, CEOs had to navigate snarled supply chains and shortages of chips and other key materials that impacted businesses across industries, said Dan Laddin, a partner at Compensation Advisory Partners, a consulting firm that works with boards.
“All this led to a desire to really reward” executives, said Kelly Malafis, also a partner at Compensation Advisory Partners, “because the financial performance was there, and the view was that management teams were exceptional in navigating the situation and delivering results.”
Last year’s 17.1% leap for median pay of S&P 500 CEOs was the biggest since a 23.9% surge for 2010 compensation packages, according to the data analyzed by Equilar.
Consider Marry Barra, CEO of General Motors. Her industry was particularly hard hit by the shortage of computer chips, which snarled auto production.
Even so, GM’s board highlighted how the company still delivered record earnings before interest, taxes and some other items. The automaker also accelerated development of its electric vehicles. Those are two of the factors that influence Barra’s pay, and her compensation climbed 25.4% to $29.1 million.
“I would hope that the corporation making record profits would recognize that the workers doing the work are the ones generating the revenue,” said Dave Green, a hot metal driver at a GM facility in Bedford, Indiana. “We’re just trying to get by.”
He cited in particular temporary workers making roughly $16 hourly, who have to work years before coming on as full-time employees and don’t get many opportunities for days off in the meantime.
“The new people coming in, their kids are not going to be able to have the opportunities my kids had,” said Green, who has two daughters and started at GM as a summer helper in 1989.
Closer to the top of the rankings for CEO pay last year was JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, whose compensation package valued at $84.4 million was the fifth-highest in the AP survey. That was up 166.7% from a year earlier, and most of it came from an award of stock options valued at $52.6 million.
The board said it provided the options because of its desire for Dimon, who is 66, to keep leading the company for significantly more years and a “unique inflection point in Mr. Dimon’s tenure.” It also said the options weren’t a part of his regular annual compensation and that he must wait at least five years to begin exercising them.
Even so, only 31% of investors at JPMorgan Chase’s annual meeting of shareholders recently gave a thumbs up on Dimon’s pay package. The vote is only advisory, though, and doesn’t force the company to make changes.
Last year, a median of 92.6% of shareholders approved what’s called their “Say On Pay” vote in the AP’s survey. That was down just a bit from 93.4% the year before.
The AP’s and Equilar’s compensation study included pay data for 340 CEOs at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two fiscal years at their companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April 30. Some high-profile CEOs are not included because they don’t fit the criteria, such as Amazon’s Andy Jassy and Twitter’s Parag Agrawal. The survey does not count changes in the value of CEOs’ pension benefits and some other items in its totals for compensation.
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CARY, N.C., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fathom Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FTHM), a national, technology-driven, end-to-end real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings for brokerages and agents, today announced it has established a new veteran division that will provide specialized resources, support and opportunities for Fathom's current and former military service members, as well as resources for veteran home buyers and sellers, and those still on active duty.
"Service to home and country is more than a saying, it is a calling," said Josh Harley, CEO of Fathom, and veteran service member of the U.S. Marine Corps. "As we approach Memorial Day, we think about the men and women who offered their lives as the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms in this country and across the world. At Fathom, we recognize and honor the sacrifice of our fallen service members and the service of all military members who were prepared to make that sacrifice should they be called. It is with that dedication and devotion to service that Fathom launched this new division to better serve our veteran community, both within each of our companies and across the veteran clients we serve. Our new veteran division is designed to better equip our veteran real estate agents and loan officers through specialized resources, referral networks, and branding. We will also be providing resources and information for the veteran community at large as we help guide them to available programs and support at the federal, state, and local levels."
Guided by an advisory committee of active and retired U.S. military service members and company executives, Fathom's new veteran division will provide current and former military service members with a comprehensive range of resources and programs, such as targeted lead generation, tuition reimbursement, mentoring, and a referral network. With distinct recognition at all Fathom events, veterans also will be provided with specially designed marketing materials to identify their military service, which include branded logos and graphics for use in social media, videos, website promotion, yard signage, and more. The division will also aggregate and educate veteran home buyers and sellers on special programs available at the federal, state, and local levels to encourage greater homeownership.
"We will continue to add and refine services as our veteran division evolves," added Harley, who also sits on the new division's advisory committee. "We are excited and honored to be able to support our veteran community in this way and believe the division's resources, along with the special distinction of service, will help our agents and loan officers generate more business while providing a better experience and more opportunities for our veteran clients."
About Fathom Holdings Inc.
Fathom Holdings Inc. is a national, technology-driven, real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings to brokerages and agents by leveraging its proprietary cloud-based software, intelliAgent. The Company's brands include Fathom Realty, Dagley Insurance, Encompass Lending, intelliAgent, LiveBy, Real Results, and Verus Title. For more information, visit www.FathomInc.com.
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The data center operator has forecast 30% revenue growth this year, but says there's potential for upside as its customers roll out new data-hungry AI applications
Key Takeaways:
- Chindata has forecast its business will grow about 30% this year, with potential for upside fueled by the explosion in AI applications
- The data center operator is the most highly valued among its Chinese peers, but trails global rivals due to geopolitical factors
BEIJING, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Go with the flow, and do business with the heavyweights.
Those are two key takeaways in the latest earnings from data center operator Chindata Group Holdings Ltd. (CD.US), which continued to power past its local rivals in the final quarter of last year, in no small part by syncing with Beijing priorities and focusing on a small group of big-name internet customers. At the same time, the company gave out relatively conservative guidance for 2023, at least compared to its breakneck 60% revenue growth last year.
But CFO Nick Wang told Bamboo Works there's potential for upside to that forecast, as many of the company's clients jump on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon that burst into global headlines late last year with OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT. That growing movement, which requires large volumes of data storage and computing power, is likely to create additional demand for Chindata's services operating a regional network of data centers in China and Southeast Asia.
Chindata, whose largest shareholder is U.S. private equity giant Bain, forecast it would post revenue of 5.88 billion yuan ($854 million) to 6.03 billion yuan in 2023, which would represent 31.4% growth at the midpoint from last year's 4.55 billion yuan.
The company's second-largest customer is the world's biggest software maker, which recently rolled out a new version of its search engine that incorporates ChatGPT capabilities in its U.S. edition. It hasn't made any similar announcements for its China edition yet. But if and when that happens, the U.S. software giant's needs in China could rise significantly.
"This forecast in 2023 growth does not capture anything ChatGPT AI-related in terms of the volume increase," Wang said. "I will say from that perspective, (the forecast) is probably conservative."
Chindata's two-pronged strategy of focusing on a small group of high-powered customers and following government policy has made it an investor favorite. Syncing with government priorities is important in China by helping to grease the wheels of business for everything from getting permits to securing land rights for new facilities.
Chindata's leading status among its peers is apparent throughout its operating metrics, which included a profit last year, even as its two main domestic peers lost money.
The company's latest results released in late March show its revenue rose 78% in last year's fourth quarter to 1.4 billion yuan, far outpacing the high single-digit gains for its main rivals. Its gross margin of 41% was also more than double that of its two rivals, and its utilization rate of 86% by year end was well ahead of them.
The company keeps down its sales and marketing costs by focusing on a small number of customers, which is every company's ideal. It doesn't name its customers, but the largest - using 75% of Chindata's capacity - is reportedly one of China's largest unlisted tech companies that is also the parent of a highly successful global short video-sharing platform.
In addition, the company reportedly counts another major U.S. search giant as one of its top five clients, and is in the process of signing on China's leading game operator as another.
"We don't necessarily chase the largest number of customers. We're chasing whoever can produce the biggest data volume," Wang said. "Essentially, our customers' business is really strong, growing faster than anybody else. Their growth rate in the past three years is much faster than their peers."
Aligning with national priorities
In the data center business, Chindata's other core strategy of following government priorities means setting up its data centers in China's less developed but energy abundant areas. Following the government opens the doors for the kinds of benefits we've previously mentioned, including low-cost land and, perhaps most importantly, low-cost power that is one of the top expenses for data center operators.
In the latest move on that front, Chindata is currently developing a new facility in Gansu province, in the country's northwest. Beijing wants to develop areas like Gansu as part of a strategy to steer investment to China's less developed areas, while also taking some of the pressure off overtaxed power and other infrastructure in its more developed East Coast cities.
The company's general policy of setting up new data centers in places with abundant supplies of sustainable electricity, especially from renewables, with a special focus on less-developed interior regions aligns with Beijing's recent "Eastern Data, Western Computing" plan for data centers. The company currently has two main hubs in China based on that strategy, one in Hebei province's Zhangjiakou not far from Beijing and the other in Northwestern Shanxi province.
Wang said Chindata recently completed a framework agreement with the local government in Gansu for a facility that will eventually include up to 150 MW of capacity, roughly equal to about 17% more capacity on top of Chindata's 871 MW of capacity at the end of 2022. But a number of things must happen before any building begins, most notably the laying of fiber cable that would provide the high-speed transmission capabilities to make the facility attractive to Chindata's clients. Accordingly, any actual new capacity on the site is still at least a few years away.
Despite its best-in-class status among its Chinese peers, Chindata is still quite undervalued compared with global peers.
The big gap may owe at least partly to geopolitical factors associated with the company's base in China. Those factors were at the forefront with the company's recent decision to put its expansion into India on hold, as relations remain tense between the world's two most populous countries. Chindata currently has a relatively modest 20 MW of capacity in the country.
The company continues to expand in its other major global destination of Southeast Asia, which is currently home to about 140 MW of capacity in Malaysia, or about 16% of Chindata's total. Wang said the company is also actively exploring setting up new data centers in Indonesia, and could use a recent small acquisition in Thailand as a base for eventually adding more capacity in that country.
Chindata's high-tech nature also puts it at potential risk of suffering from fallout if the U.S. decides to limit its access to some of the high-tech chips and other components used in its data centers. But Wang said the company has already considered such outcomes, and should be able to mitigate associated risk, for example by supplying more power to offset using lower-power computing chips by its customer if it loses access to the fastest high-power chips, if the U.S. ever takes such steps.
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(The Hill) — The monkeypox virus has reached all 50 states.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, Wyoming reported a single case of the virus on Monday, becoming the final state in the country to do so.
In a news release, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said the lone virus case is from a male resident in Laramie County, adding that state public health representatives have followed up with the infected individual to see if other residents had direct contact with him.
“Because monkeypox spreads through close, intimate contact we do not believe the risk for the virus is now a higher concern for the local community or for most people in Wyoming,” WDH state health officer and state epidemiologist Alexia Harrist. “Monkeypox does not spread easily like familiar viruses such as influenza or COVID-19.”
Harrist also recommended that getting vaccinated is the best possible way to “prevent further spread” of the virus.
“While anyone can become ill with monkeypox, vaccine eligibility is currently limited to people who are at highest risk in connection with this outbreak and how its spreading,” she said. “The goal is to put available vaccine supplies to the best possible use.”
As of Monday, there are 15,433 reported cases of monkeypox in the U.S with New York leading the way with nearly 3,000 reported cases, followed by California, Florida, Texas and Georgia, CDC data showed.
Recently, the Department of Human and Health Services officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency in the U.S.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BetMGM, a leading iGaming and sports betting operator, has been named Casino Operator of the Year at EGR North America Awards 2023. The EGR North America Awards celebrate excellence in online gaming and are considered the industry's premier gaming awards. BetMGM also earned this recognition in 2022.
"BetMGM is honored to once again be presented with this prestigious award," said Adam Greenblatt, Chief Executive Officer, BetMGM. "As the industry evolves, we look forward to providing new and innovative products for our customers."
Casino Operator of the Year is awarded to the online operator that has dominated the sector through their reach and the quality of their product, based on EGR's criteria and judging process. Nominees were judged on the originality of their product, strength of brand and product, and advancements helping to set their offering apart from competitors.
Angus Nisbet, Vice President of Gaming, BetMGM, said, "We are proud of our accomplishments and thank EGR for this recognition. Our team remains committed to offering players a truly unique, best-in-class experience."
BetMGM was recognized for offering the nation's largest exclusive state-by-state in-house progressive jackpot network, a large variety of games, first class partnerships and an omnichannel focus. As the market leading iGaming operator in the U.S., BetMGM has an estimated 29% national online casino market share in its four states of operation: New Jersey, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
In 2022, BetMGM awarded over $104 million in progressive jackpot payouts to online casino players. BetMGM's jackpot network currently features more than 20 game titles including MGM Riches, MGM Grand Millions, Bison Fury, Mirage Mega Magma, Loot'En Khamun and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
As BetMGM expands to new jurisdictions, responsible gaming education remains a key focus. BetMGM is proud to provide resources to help customers play responsibly including GameSense, an industry leading program, developed and licensed to MGM Resorts by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. Through the integration within BetMGM's mobile and desktop platforms, customers can receive the same GameSense experience they have grown to count on at MGM Resorts properties nationwide. This complements BetMGM's already existing responsible gaming tools which serve to provide customers with an entertaining and safe digital experience.
The BetMGM Sportsbook and Casino apps are accessible on both iOS and Android, as well as via desktop. For more information on BetMGM, follow @BetMGM on Twitter.
About BetMGM
BetMGM is a market-leading sports betting and gaming entertainment company, pioneering the online gaming industry. Born out of a partnership between MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) and Entain Plc (LSE: ENT), BetMGM has exclusive access to all of MGM's U.S. land-based and online sports betting, major tournament poker, and online gaming businesses. Utilizing Entain's US-licensed, state of the art technology, BetMGM offers sports betting and online gaming via market-leading brands including BetMGM, Borgata Casino, Party Casino and Party Poker. Founded in 2018, BetMGM is headquartered in New Jersey. For more information, visit http://www.betmgminc.com/.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NCSolutions (NCS), a leading company for improving advertising effectiveness, announced today that Linda Dupree, chief executive officer, NCSolutions, will be retiring later this year. Alan Miles, who has served as chair of the NCS Board of Directors, is replacing her as chief executive officer, effective immediately. The coming months will serve as a transition period with Dupree remaining on as his advisor.
Dan Malmed, managing director of agency sales at Nielsen, will join NCS as chief revenue officer. Malmed replaces Lance Brothers, who recently announced his departure. In related changes, Jamie Moldafsky, chief marketing and communications officer at Nielsen, will replace Miles as chair of the NCS Board while retaining her responsibilities at Nielsen.
Dupree, a nearly 30-year veteran of the advertising, research and marketing industries, joined NCS as CEO in April 2019 as the company's first female CEO. With her hands-on leadership style, she is credited with providing stability and direction to the organization. She helped her teams to launch several significant product initiatives and expand the use of machine learning – all while scaling and building out the company's top-notch product, sales, consulting and marketing teams. The organization flourished under her watch to add significant client relationships, win marketing awards and drive growth, even in the height of the pandemic.
Previously, Dupree worked for seven years at Nielsen where she served as senior vice president, Client Solutions, during which she managed relationships across the largest U.S. media companies. Dupree also has served as executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at both Innerscope Research and Arbitron (both now part of Nielsen). During her 19+ year tenure at Arbitron, she became an early proponent of advanced audience targeting through her leadership of Project Apollo, an influential joint venture that served as the backbone of return on advertising spend (ROAS) solutions. Dupree has also held management positions with Grey Advertising and Stroh Brewery Company.
"My time at NCS has been among the most rewarding in my career," said Dupree. "I'm in awe of my astute colleagues throughout the NCS organization who have given their heart, spirit, and hard work to build one of the most premier and accomplished organizations I have had the pleasure to work with. I can't wait to watch how the brand continues to define the next chapter of advertising effectiveness."
NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM
Miles, who spent nearly 30 years in the media and marketing industries, has worked at Nielsen for 11 years and has been executive vice president of Commercial Operations and Strategic Partnerships, where he worked with some of Nielsen's largest media client relationships delivering audience measurement, advertising effectiveness and social media solutions across TV and digital platforms. He has been an NCS board member since December 2019 and the board chair since January 2021.
His background includes serving as a principal of IBB Consulting Group, where he led strategy consulting engagements focused on new product development and business transformation; senior analyst, Equity Research, Media Sector for Barclays Capital; vice president, strategy at Time Warner; and associate principal for McKinsey & Company. His responsibilities at Nielsen will be transitioned in the coming weeks.
"As chair of the NCS board over the past several years, I have witnessed firsthand the strength of the NCS brand in the marketplace and admired the passion of the NCS team to deliver on its mission of next-level advertising effectiveness solutions," said Miles. "I've been a strong admirer of Linda's can-do approach and am genuinely humbled to succeed her as CEO, support the NCS team and continue to build out the company's proud tradition and culture of excellence she has helped to instill."
Dan Malmed has worked at Nielsen for more than two decades. As a senior leader within Nielsen's agency division, he has been responsible for strategy, sales and go-to-market planning for Nielsen's full suite of solutions including local/national television, audio and digital measurement services. Additionally, he has actively worked with the Nielsen Incubator to evaluate the market viability of products and bring new digital solutions to fruition.
Jamie Moldafsky is a three-decade marketing veteran who joined Nielsen in November 2020 from Wells Fargo & Co. where, for nine years, she was responsible for the full scope of marketing, including global brand strategy and management, product marketing, media, research and analytics, meetings, events and sponsorships and reputation. Before Wells Fargo, she held a series of senior marketing, communications and general management roles at American Express, Charles Schwab and Whirlpool Corp. Moldafsky serves and has served on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards, including RRDonnelly (before it was taken private earlier this year), No Barriers USA, Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, Wharton Executive MBA and Wharton Customer Analytics, where she serves as chairperson of the advisory board.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.
Vyvianna Quinonez was also ordered Tuesday by the federal judge in San Diego to pay nearly $26,000 in restitution and a $7,500 fine for the assault on a May 23, 2021, Southwest flight between Sacramento and San Diego.
The 29-year-old Sacramento woman is prohibited from flying for three years while she is on supervised release and must participate in anger management classes or counseling.
Quinonez last year pleaded guilty to one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants, admitting she punched the flight attendant in the face and head with a closed fist and grabbed her hair. Neither she nor her attorney could be reached for comment Tuesday.
During the flight’s final descent, the attendant had asked Quinonez to buckle her seat belt, stow her tray table, and put on her facemask properly.
Instead, Quinonez began recording the attendant on her cellphone, pushed her, then stood up and punched the woman in the face and grabbed her hair before other passengers intervened, authorities said.
The assault was recorded on another passenger’s cellphone.
The plea agreement said that the flight attendant suffered three chipped teeth, two of which needed crowns, along with bruises and a cut under her left eye that needed stitches.
“Attacks on flight crew members, who perform vital jobs to ensure passenger safety, will not be tolerated," U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in a statement after the sentencing.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Stacey Moy said the sentence should “send a very strong message to air travelers — the FBI will vigorously pursue anyone who assaults or interferes with flight crews.”
The incident was part of an escalation in unruly behavior by airline passengers amid the coronavirus pandemic and led the president of the flight attendants’ union to ask for more federal air marshals on planes.
Airlines in 2021 reported more than 5,000 incidents of unruly passengers to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Most were passengers refusing to follow the federal requirement for passengers to wear face masks while on planes, but nearly 300 involved intoxicated passengers, the FAA said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/california/article/Woman-gets-15-months-in-prison-for-punching-17204268.php | 2022-05-28 16:36:39 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/california/article/Woman-gets-15-months-in-prison-for-punching-17204268.php |
INDIANAPOLIS — Many people in rural Indiana face barriers to accessing mental health resources. However, organizations such as Indiana University are working with communities to assist more people in getting help.
Across Indiana, there are more than 200 facilitates that offer outpatient mental health services. However, for many counties, there is only one facility that offers these services.
How the facilities are spread out throughout the state means some residents, even in central Indiana, would have to take more than a 20-minute drive to get help.
While the majority of Indiana residents are within 20 minutes of a mental health outpatient facility, there are pockets of the state that are not covered, even in central Indiana. This includes the rural Hendricks County town of North Salem and the outskirts of Sheridan in Hamilton County.
A 2016 report by the mental health advocacy organization Mental Health America ranked Indiana among the lowest ranking states for several categories related to mental health.
- Access to mental health care (all ages): 37th
- Prevalence of mental illness (all ages): 43rd
- Adults (prevalence of mental illness and access to care): 47th
- Adolescents (prevalence of mental illness and access to care): 34th
“Mental health is a concern universally across our nation, but what we find in rural communities is their access to care is much more limited than those in urban areas where you have a single provider that could be serving one to many thousands of people in the population area,” said Kerry Thomson.
Kerry Thompson is the executive director for Indiana University’s Center for Rural Engagement. Among the services the center provides, they examine the state of rural healthcare to create a health needs assessment. They look at the statistics and ask residents what they think their health needs are.
“We really look at comprehensively at how to improve community health, and the community gets to decide based on their local health data, what factors they really want to drive, and how to, how to write an actionable plan to improve the health of their community,” said Thomson.
An analysis of the most recent community needs assessments across rural Indiana identified mental health needs are among the top community needs in rural Indiana. In rural Indiana counties, 76 percent reported mental health among top community needs. The only category that more counties reported as a top need was substance use.
Thompson said the lack of readily available mental health services means it is difficult for people to get on the calendar to get regular care without having to drive an hour to see a provider. She says they are working to develop a pipeline to make it easier to make mental health providers available for communities.
If people are in crisis situations, the majority of services are frequently located in hospitals. The center gets involved when people need ongoing mental health care.
“Mental health is really critical to all of us and we all have different needs and different ways of maintaining our mental health,” said Thomson. “When our mental health becomes an issue, it’s important to access care early and really to build it.”
In Central Indiana, IU is working with Decatur County and Owen County to address their needs.
Decatur County
Decatur County is home to 26,600 people, with a median age of 39.2, slightly older than the state’s median age. Its residents are split equally between rural and urban areas.
People living on the southern edge and northeastern tip of the county are more than 20 minutes away from an outpatient mental health facility. The IU assessment identifies mental health as the top need for the county. There are more than 2,300 behavioral health patients per provider in the county.
To address mental health and substance use, members of a committee developed a goal to expand access to prevention, intervention and treatment resources and services. They planned to do this by:
- Determine the target populations to receive mental health and substance use training
- Conduct a baseline survey
- Create a resource card to provide to people seeking support for mental health services and substance use services in Decatur County
- Create a directory of trauma-informed care trainings
- Promote prevention education to Decatur County residents
- Conduct mental health and substance use trainings
- Provide education to the public about mental health and substance use
- Monitor and evaluate activities of county-wide mental health and substance use prevention training
- Develop emotional support resources for organizations and community at large
- Increase presence of mental health professionals within school setting
- Increase mental health resources available for students in Greensburg
- Community Schools and Decatur County Schools
- Assess the need for a larger regional resource guide for mental health services and substance use prevention and treatment options in Franklin, Ripley, Jennings, Bartholomew, Shelby, and Rush counties
They also developed a goal to develop a recovery system of care network in Decatur County to provide support to individuals living with an active addiction and their family members by Dec. 31, 2021. They planned to accomplish this by:
- Establish a baseline in the county for the current number of referrals for services
- Identify a centralized resource for all agencies to utilize that will help increase knowledge of potential referrals and services
- Create an inter-organizational communication protocol/process to ensure a “warm handoff” or referral
- Inform community leaders about Choices (the local Crisis Emergency Response Team) and discuss opportunities for inter-organizational collaboration
- Develop a transportation fund to assist individuals to get to treatment and recovery programs
- Conduct a feasibility study exploring the expansion of behavioral health services in Decatur County
- Explore the feasibility of adoption of peer recovery coaches and if deemed appropriate, begin identifying and training peer recovery coaches
Owen County
Owen County is home to just over 20,000 residents. The median age of the residents is 45.2, older than the median age for the state. Residents have a median household income of $49,500, lower than the state’s average of $56,300.
Behavioral care providers have 5,700 patients per provider, nearly five times the average for the state. A Community Health Needs Assessment for Bloomington Hospital, which includes Owen Monroe, and Lawrence County identified mental health among the top needs. There was no reported county-specific assessment.
People living in the southwest and northwest corner of the county live more than 20 minutes away from an outpatient mental health treatment facility. The state identifies Centerstone and the Hamilton Center, both in Spencer Indiana, as the closest mental health outpatient facilities.
The County is currently in the initiation phase of creating a Community Health Improvement Plan to prepare to address the needs that they identified.
Improving access to mental health
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) encourages people to use the Be Well Crisis Hotline if they are in need of mental health counseling and resources. This line is available through Indiana 211 and lets Indiana residents talk with trained counselors 24/7.
In December 2021, the FSSA reported the helpline surpassed 25,000 calls. Around 59% of the callers got a referral for additional mental health or substance use services or asked for additional crisis counseling.
“FSSA is proud of the important and continuing role our crisis counselors have played to connect with Hoosiers and provide them with the resources they need to support their mental health,” said Dan Rusyniak, M.D., FSSA secretary. “We remain committed to providing free, confidential, and easy access to this resource for Hoosiers in any time of need.”
Indiana residents can speak with a trained mental health counselor by dialing 2-1-1 or the toll-free number, 866-211-9966, entering their ZIP code, and selecting the option for the Be Well Crisis Helpline. In addition, Be Well Indiana’s website contains supplemental resources including blog posts and videos offering tips for maintaining mental health as well as self-screening tools.
Additionally, Thomson said the IU Center for Rural Engagement is working with public libraries in Pike, Sullivan and Lawrence Counties to increase access to mental health resources while reducing the stigma of reaching out for help.
“Everybody goes to the library,” said Thomson. “All of this stigma of parking your car in front of the only mental health provider in the county is removed. Nobody knows what you’re doing. If you’re borrowing books or going in to just have some computer time. You get to have your mental health appointment in private and with no stigma attached.”
Thomson said libraries have been eager to engage with them for Telemental health, finding private spaces within the libraries that can be set up for the program. She says this helps address the issue of people in rural parts of the state that may not have broadband access to connect with other mental health services.
“We need to provide the Telemental health in places that do have broadband access, and so we’re starting with libraries, We may be partnering with faith communities or schools in the future looking at those places where the infrastructure is already in place to serve the people who need it.”
Thomson encourages people to connect with their primary care provider to tailor recommendations for mental health care. They can also visit their website to see other initiatives they are involved in. | https://fox59.com/news/how-rural-indiana-communities-are-working-to-address-mental-health-needs/ | 2022-05-25 21:29:37 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/how-rural-indiana-communities-are-working-to-address-mental-health-needs/ |
Family says speeding officer veered into yard, nearly hitting 5 kids
SUNRISE, Fla. (WSVN) - A Florida grandmother, her child and her four grandchildren are still shocked after they say they were nearly hit by a police SUV that veered into the front yard.
A Coral Springs Police cruiser was reportedly speeding through a neighborhood in Sunrise, Florida, as children were outside waiting for the school bus Wednesday morning. Home security video shows a car stop quickly for a school bus that’s just out of frame.
To avoid hitting the stopped car, the cruiser then swerves into a front yard full of people. It allegedly almost hit Donna Banner, her teenage child and her four grandchildren.
“I grabbed the kids because I was so shook,” Banner said. “And it’s like the police officer wasn’t paying attention.”
In the video, Banner can be heard screaming, and the bus driver can be heard blowing the horn in warning.
“He almost hit me. I froze, but then, I realized I had to jump out of the way,” said Za’Kayla Ford, one of the children who was involved in the incident.
The children’s mother, Denise Ford, wasn’t there during the incident. But she says she was stunned by the dangerous situation, especially since the family says the officer just drove off and never stopped.
“I was shocked. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ Anything could have happened. I could have lost four of my kids,” Denise Ford said. “What if you would have hit my kids? You didn’t stop to say, ‘Hey, is they okay?’ I was traumatized. I was like, ‘Lord, have mercy.’ Like what if?”
She says her kids are still shaken up, and her 11-year-old, who has pain in her neck and leg, hasn’t been to school since the incident.
Coral Springs Police Chief Bradley McKeone released a statement that said the officer driving the vehicle was identified and issued “formal discipline.”
The family says they are hoping more action will be taken against the officer, but they are grateful the children were not seriously hurt and that the incident was captured on video.
“Without the video, nothing would have been done. It would have been my word against the police word,” Denise Ford said.
The incident was not reported to Sunrise Police, so no charges or traffic citations are expected in the city. It’s unclear if there will be charges brought in Coral Springs.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mintel, the experts in what consumers want and why, has today announced five trends set to impact global consumer markets in 2023, over the next five years and beyond. Centred around seven core drivers of consumer behaviour—Identity, Rights, Surroundings, Experiences, Technology, Wellbeing and Value—the trends are:
- Me Mentality: Consumers will be eager to re-focus on themselves and brands can help them take centre stage.
- Power to the People: Brands have to make room for a new 'c' in their c-suite as, consumers are investing, co-creating and voting for change alongside brands.
- Hyper Fatigue: Consumers will try to cut through the noise and connect with what matters to them.
- International Localism: Buying local will be a way consumers can protect themselves financially, environmentally and psychologically, and feel that they are giving back.
- Intentional Spending: Factors like flexibility, durability and sustainability will play increasingly important roles in consumers' value equation.
Simon Moriarty, Director of Mintel Trends, EMEA, comments on how the trends will impact markets, brands, and consumers in 2023 and beyond:
"In recent years, consumers have had a community mindset, putting their own needs on the back burner to prioritise public health and safety. People are now emerging from the pandemic eager to re-focus on themselves."
"As consumers look to build up new parts of their identity, brands can help fill in the gaps with offerings that help them grow their skills and gain mastery in new areas. Brands should know that demand for mental health and wellness-focused products will grow as consumers look to understand their blind spots. Looking further down the road, consumers will use the metaverse to develop unique identities that match their digital surroundings. This will result in fragmented identities online. With this, there will be a stronger movement toward data privacy and consumer protection as consumers' digital footprint becomes more robust and layered."
"Brands have to make room for a new 'c' in their c-suite: consumers. Consumers are shaping brands with their dollars and their voices. Beyond conceding that 'the customer is always right', this will be an evolution where consumers are investing, co-creating and voting for change alongside brands. Responding to this demand requires brands to listen and react while keeping market innovation a priority."
"NFTs and Web3 communities are opening up new channels for consumers to invest, giving them a way to own a piece of a brand and directly connect with a brand's overall success and growth. In the future, brands will increasingly cater to the niche identities of loyal consumer investors, fragmenting large, legacy brands into smaller, more targeted business units."
"Moving from crisis to crisis, consumers are being stretched in many directions while being bombarded with media stories and digital content. The pandemic, rising cost of living, energy crisis, geopolitical unrest, and climate crisis are taking their toll, leaving consumers feeling overwhelmed."
Simon continued. "Consumers will find meaning and solace in reconnecting with their surroundings, their communities and themselves. Charitable and community initiatives born out of inspiring brand collaborations will play an intrinsic part in countering fatigue levels, empowering people to take control, and helping them build a positive outlook amid financial adversity. In the next five years, expect brands to establish boundaries to bring order to the influx of information and initiatives to enable consumers to form healthy connections with resources in the technology, wellness and leisure spaces."
"With so much global uncertainty there will be a greater movement to protect local resources and boost local business. This is a hangover from the pandemic, but also a reflection of consumers' changing attitudes towards what's important to them—a reconnection with 'local' is also a way for consumers to protect themselves financially, environmentally and psychologically, and feel that they are giving back in some way."
"Consumers will respond instinctively to home-grown innovators and brands that stamp their authenticity on the items they produce and sell. 'Localism' will come to mean supporting communities where the product is manufactured rather than where the consumer is located. Over the next few years, consumers will demand the traceability of raw materials and more transparency around how brands are conserving local resources."
"Consumers are refocusing on what value means to them and spending more intentionally as a result. In a tough economic environment, consumers want to make smart financial choices without sacrificing their quality of life."
"Expect a stronger focus on durability, flexibility and timelessness as consumers seek to buy less and own products that last longer and serve multiple purposes. As the market becomes further saturated with added-value claims, consumers will grow more sceptical and discerning. In the next five years, expect to see purpose-driven brands emerge with innovations that address long-term challenges faced by the industries, nations, and communities in which they are a part". Concluded Simon.
Interviews with the Mintel Trends global analyst team are available on request from the Mintel Press Office. Mintel's 2023 Global Consumer Trends are available for free download here.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Wells Fargo & Company.
Shareholders who purchased shares of WFC during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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Kadri leads way, Avs nearing 1st conference final since ’02
By PAT GRAHAM
AP Sports Writer
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche take a 3-1 lead over St. Louis into Game 5 in Denver on Wednesday night. The Avalanche are looking to advance to their first Western Conference Final since 2002, when Hall of Famers Joe Sakic, Rob Blake, Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy played starring roles. Blues coach Craig Berube says his team needs to do a lot of things better, starting with skating. St. Louis lost Games 3 and 4 at home, giving up a hat trick to Nazem Kadri on Monday night. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/24/kadri-leads-way-avs-nearing-1st-conference-final-since-02/ | 2022-05-24 20:59:55 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/24/kadri-leads-way-avs-nearing-1st-conference-final-since-02/ |
Intel released chips with its delayed server design that are key to regaining control of one of the most lucrative markets in computing.
Xeon processors based on the new Sapphire Rapids design are already in cloud-computing systems run by Google and Amazon Web Services and are going on general sale in machines offered by Hewlett-Packard and Dell, Intel said Tuesday.
For Intel, the largest maker of computer processors, the new product is a chance to stem market share losses and prove that it is back to delivering competitive chips needed in machines that are the backbone of the internet and corporate networks. The debut of Sapphire Rapids is the first step in rebuilding confidence that Intel is once again leading the computer industry forward, according to Sandra Rivera, the head of Intel’s Data Center & Artificial Intelligence division.
“We’ve been on this journey to regain customer trust, after several missteps, to demonstrate that our ‘do-say ratio’ is improving and we’re getting back to execution excellence,” Rivera said in an interview. “We’re feeling like we have been through a lot of the learning from the perhaps overly ambitious plans that we had on Sapphire Rapids and then the subsequent delays.”
Intel’s data center business has been treading water as the industry has exploded. Its Xeon range once held more than 99% of the market in machines needed to make sense of the growing flood of data created by smartphones and the internet. Rival Advanced Micro Devices and homegrown efforts by some of Intel’s largest customers have eaten into that dominant position. The company’s ability to fight back has been eroded by delays in production technology and bringing new chips to the market. Sapphire Rapids was first announced in 2019 and its availability has been postponed at least twice.
Third-quarter sales for Intel’s data-center division — which typically contributes an outsized portion of profit — dropped 27% to $4.2 billion. AMD’s data center unit reported a revenue increase of 45% in the same period. That divergent performance helped shift 3.6 percentage points of server market share to AMD but still left Intel with a formidable 83% share, according to Mercury Research.
Intel sees the new server products as part of Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger’s ambitious plan to return the chipmaker to the forefront of the industry. Investors have balked at the cost and amount of time it will take, sending shares down 49% last year.
Intel’s executives said the new Xeon with the Sapphire Rapids design include advancements in technology that will make it more flexible for customers. The processors can work in the current environment where server buyers want to combine multiple types of chips from multiple chipmakers.
At least one of its competitors agrees. Nvidia has chosen the new Intel design as the processor for its DGX artificial intelligence acceleration server systems, moving away from the AMD chips it used in the previous generation.
Intel was willing to work with Nvidia early, sharing test chips that helped Nvidia fine-tune the software for its own chips that go into machines that are used to train AI software.
“Intel has been a great partner getting us the technology when we needed it, working with our engineering team very deeply,” said Charlie Boyle an Nvidia vice president.
In addition to playing a role in high-end AI machinery such as Nvidia’s DGX, Sapphire Rapids is designed with several accelerators built in. Those allow users of less-powerful servers, such as the owners of in-house corporate data centers, to tap into the benefits of AI to analyze their data, according to Intel Vice President Lisa Spelman.
Overall, the new design will help data center owners save energy by allowing some to cut down on the use of separate chips and by enabling servers to do their work more quickly.
AMD made some similar claims about increased efficiency when it released its latest server design in November. And analysts such as Hans Mosesmann at Rosenblatt Securities and Stacy Rasgon of Sanford C. Bernstein said Intel’s competitive position will remain challenging this year. Even CEO Gelsinger has said server competition will be a “knife fight” for a while.
For Rivera, Sapphire Rapids and its successors are the beginning of reversing any perception that Intel is in permanent decline.
“Revenue and market share are sort of trailing indicators of the things that we did or didn’t do several years ago,” she said. “All of the leading indicators in terms of the health of the products, the ramp of the products, the introduction on time, on schedule of the coming products, I think these are all the ways that we turn probably our biggest critics into believers that we’ve got our mojo back.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/intel-rolls-out-design-aimed-at-winning-back-server-market-share/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-01-16 15:03:28 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/intel-rolls-out-design-aimed-at-winning-back-server-market-share/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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