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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)Andrew Funk scored 23 points, Seth Lundy added 16 points and Penn State defeated Nebraska 76-65 on Saturday.
A layup by Camren Wynter gave Penn State a 72-59 lead with 3:05 remaining. Six straight interior points got Nebraska within 72-65 with 1:25 to go but the Cornhuskers would not score again.
Penn State made 16 of its last 21 shots and finished at 68% in the second half, 49% for the game.
Jalen Pickett had 12 points and 13 rebounds for Penn State (13-6, 4-4 Big Ten) but also had seven turnovers of the Nittany Lions’ 10 turnovers. Funk made 5 of 10 3-pointers and 8 of 13 shots overall.
Nebraska went on a 7-0 run early in the second half and tied the score at 33 with 16:45 remaining. Lundy halted that threat with a 3-pointer and a couple of free throws. A few minutes later, Lundy drained another 3-pointer and Penn State led by nine, 50-41 with 12:22 remaining.
A jumper by Jalen Pickett extended the lead to 11, but Nebraska kept within striking distance.
Derrick Walker had 20 points, six rebounds and six assists for Nebraska (10-10, 3-6) and Keisei Tominaga added 13 points. Sam Griesel and C.J. Wilcher scored 11 each.
Funk was hot early, personally outscoring Nebraska 10-8 in the first 7 1/12 minutes as Penn State took a 13-8 lead. He made four of his first six 3-pointers and capped the half with a 3-point play as Penn State took a 29-23 lead at the break. Funk finished with 16 first-half points.
Penn State plays at No. 23 Rutgers on Tuesday and Nebraska hosts Northwestern, also on Tuesday.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — CLEVELAND (AP) — Applied Industrial Technologies Inc. (AIT) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $97.2 million.
The Cleveland-based company said it had profit of $2.47 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were $2.38 per share.
The industrial products company posted revenue of $1.13 billion in the period.
Applied Industrial Technologies expects full-year earnings in the range of $8.47 to $8.60 per share.
Applied Industrial Technologies shares have increased slightly more than 4% since the beginning of the year. The stock has risen 37% in the last 12 months.
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I wanted to create a convenient way to access paper towels when needed, while keeping the paper towels dry and sanitary" said an inventor, from Lanham, Md., "so I invented the HAND TOWEL CABINET DISPENSER. My design would help to keep the roll of paper towels clean and sanitary and it could add a fashionable flair to any room."
The invention provides an improved way to store and dispense paper towels. In doing so, it offers an alternative to dispensing paper towels on a roller. As a result, it could increase sanitation and convenience and it could help to save space. The invention features a decorative and functional design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households and offices. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Washington D.C. sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DCD-192, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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COLUMBIA, Md., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Tomohiro Oda, Senior Scientist at Universities Space Research Association's (USRA) Earth from Space Institute, was recently appointed to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Consensus Study Committee on the "Development of a Framework for Evaluating Global Greenhouse Emissions Information for Decision Making."
This ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Chaired by Dr. Donald J. Wuebble; Staff officer, Dr. Rachel Silvern) will develop a framework to evaluate global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) information to support decision making.
"This Consensus Study will allow us to identify the key challenges in monitoring GHG in support of climate monitoring, mitigation, and decision making," said Dr. Oda, who oversees USRA's GHG emissions modeling and monitoring activities. He added, "I am excited about joining the Consensus Study committee and working with the experts."
The objectives of the Consensus Study are to:
- Describe approaches used to develop global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
- Discuss the potential uses and limitations of these approaches.
- Provide a framework to evaluate emissions information and inventories, including guidance for policy makers about their use in decision making.
- Present several case studies to demonstrate how the framework could be applied to evaluate emissions information and inventory approaches and identify strengths and opportunities for improvement for each case study.
- To the extent possible, identify ways to improve methodological transparency, sustainability and continuity of relevant observations, and product confidence in global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
This "Fast-track" Consensus Study is being conducted on an accelerated timeline in order to inform discussions at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Last year at COP26 in Glasgow, UK, USRA was formally accepted by UNFCCC as an Observer, and Dr. Oda led USRA's very first delegation to COP. "I am excited to go back to the COP meeting this year and am honored to represent USRA again in impactful discussions," said Dr. Oda.
The Consensus Study Committee was formed in late May, and the first workshop for information gathering was held early this month. The second workshop is underway. The Consensus Study will result in a framework for evaluating emissions inventories and information and include several case studies for how such a framework could be applied in practice to specific sector- or country-based emissions inventories.
Members of the committee include:
Donald J. Wuebbles (Chair), Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Illinois, and Director of Climate Science for Earth Knowledge
Kamaljit S. Bawa, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Founder-President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru, India
Gabrielle B. Freyfus, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD), Washington, DC and Paris, and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University
Annemarie Elderling, Project Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (retired)
Fiji C. George, Senior Director, Climate and Sustainability, at Cheniere Energy
Heather Dawn Graven, a Reader in the Department of Physics and the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, UK
Kevin Gurney, Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University
Angel Hsu, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and the Environment, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tomohiro Oda, Senior Scientist, Universities Space Research Association
Irène-Xueref-Remy, a Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille (AMU) and she directs research programs at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and marine and continental Ecology (IMBE) at Aix-en-Provence.
Rachel Silvern—Staff Officer
Founded in 1969, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. USRA operates scientific institutes and facilities, and conducts other major research and educational programs. USRA engages the university community and employs in-house scientific leadership, innovative research and development, and project management expertise. More information about USRA is available at www.usra.edu.
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300,000 SF Spec Building Marks the First Industrial Development in Park's Northern Phase
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broe Real Estate Group (BREG), the multi-billion-dollar, Colorado based developer, has begun its first industrial development project within Southern Indiana's world-class industrial park, the River Ridge Commerce Center. BREG's 19.5-acre site will be anchored by a 300,000 square foot Class A industrial facility within the 6,000-acre global business park.
"Demand for high quality industrial space in the Louisville, Kentucky market is at an all-time high while vacancy rates within Southern Indiana and Kentucky remain at historic low levels," said Broe Real Estate Group's Executive Vice President Reagan Shanley. "This spec project brings critical supply online to serve the sustained market demand and the need for modern logistics space."
BREG's project will feature rear load access, 36-foot clearance, and generous trailer parking space to support the highly sought needs of logistics, manufacturing, research, and technology tenants. The park's rail infrastructure enhancements, provided by The Broe Group's transportation affiliate OmniTRAX, continues to expand with park development to unlock rail access, shipping efficiency and low-cost transportation for new tenants.
River Ridge's centralized location, with strategic access to the Louisville, Kentucky metro region and central US markets, continues to attract industry leading companies – including GE, Amazon, Bose, and Medline – in sectors that span aerospace, automotive, food and beverage, information technology, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals. The park's economic impact is as powerful as its strategic location, with an employee pool that exceeds 10,000 people and regional economic output of nearly $2.5B. Local Ford Motors and UPS facilities continue to expand and have a major influence on the region.
River Ridge Development Authority Executive Director Jerry Acy said of the project, "the River Ridge Commerce Center continues to be a magnet for growth thanks to our unparalleled logistics efficiencies and multimodal access to central US Markets. Broe Real Estate's debut industrial project in the north end of the Commerce Center is a major development milestone and will build upon our growing reputation as a world class location for business."
The new BREG project, planned to accommodate single or dual tenant occupancy, forecasts a summer 2023 construction commencement. Commercial Kentucky's Robert Walker and Greg Charmoli will lead leasing activity. The project design team includes architect Ware Malcomb and the engineering services of American Structure Point.
Broe Real Estate Group, an affiliate of The Broe Group, acquires, develops and manages commercial real estate assets. Affiliated companies own and manage office and industrial properties, medical office buildings and multi-family communities across the country, including premier assets in many of the most desirable markets. The Broe Group has a 50-year history of value-add real estate investing in Colorado and across the United States. We improve value though the implementation of focused business plans that increase cash flow and create stable income streams. Additional information is available at broerealestate.com
Founded in 1972, The Broe Group is a private, multi-billion-dollar investment group with diversified holdings in real estate, rail, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, water, healthcare and technology throughout 37 North American states and provinces. Its deep operational knowledge derived from owning and operating multi-billion-dollar businesses and the global economic insights gleaned from serving its vast Fortune 500 clientele are strategic differentiators. The Broe Group's entrepreneurial focus enables it to find true value wherever it resides. For more information, visit broe.com.
As one of North America's largest and fastest growing private railroad and transportation management companies, OmniTRAX's core capabilities range from providing transportation and supply chain management services to railroad and port companies, to providing intermodal and industrial switching operations to railroads, ports and a diverse group of industrial companies. Through its affiliation with The Broe Group and its portfolio of managed companies, OmniTRAX also has the unique capability of offering specialized industrial development and real estate solutions, both on and off the rail network managed by OmniTRAX. For more information visit omnitrax.com.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency's SpaceX Crew-5 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.
The launch is targeted for noon EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 5, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, is scheduled to dock to the space station at 4:57 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6. Crew arrival, launch, the postlaunch news conference, and mission coverage through docking will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website. NASA also will host an audio only prelaunch news teleconference. Follow all live events at:
The Crew-5 launch will carry two NASA astronauts Mission Commander Nicole Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, who will serve as mission specialists to the space station for a science expedition mission.
This is the fifth crew rotation mission with astronauts using the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the orbiting laboratory as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
The deadline has passed for media accreditation for in-person coverage of this launch. More information about media accreditation is available by emailing: ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov.
All media participation in the following news conferences will be remote except where specifically listed below.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):
Saturday, Oct. 1
12:30 p.m. (approximately) – Crew arrival media event at Kennedy on NASA Television
- Bob Cabana, associate administrator, NASA
- Janet Petro, director, NASA Kennedy
- Junichi Sakai, manager, International Space Station, JAXA
- NASA astronaut Nicole Mann
- NASA astronaut Josh Cassada
- JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata
- Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina
The event is limited to in-person media only. Follow Commercial Crew and Kennedy Space Center for the latest arrival updates.
Monday, Oct. 3
7:30 p.m. (approximately) – Prelaunch News Teleconference at Kennedy (no earlier than one hour after completion of the Launch Readiness Review) with the following participants:
- Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy
- Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, Johnson
- Emily Nelson, chief flight director, Johnson
- Kirt Costello, chief scientist, NASA's International Space Station Program
- Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX
- Junichi Sakai, manager, International Space Station, JAXA
- Sergei Krikalev, executive director, Human Space Flight Programs, Roscosmos
- Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, U.S. Space Force 45th Weather Squadron
Media may ask questions via phone only. For the dial-in number and passcode, please contact the Kennedy newsroom no later than 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3 at: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Wednesday, Oct. 5
8:30 a.m. – NASA TV launch coverage begins. NASA Television will have continuous mission coverage to docking and coverage of hatch open and the welcome ceremony.
1:30 p.m. (approximately) – Postlaunch News Conference on NASA TV
- Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy
- Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, Johnson
- Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX
- Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA's Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
- Sergei Krikalev, executive director, Human Space Flight Programs, Roscosmos
Media may ask questions in-person and via phone. Limited auditorium space will be available for in-person participation. For the dial-in number and passcode, please contact the Kennedy newsroom no later than 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Thursday, Oct. 6
4:57 p.m. – Docking to the International Space Station
6:42 p.m. – Hatch Opening
8:15 p.m. – Welcome Ceremony
NASA TV Launch Coverage
NASA TV live coverage will begin at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5. For NASA TV downlink information, schedules, and links to streaming video, visit:
Audio only of the news conferences and launch coverage will be carried on the NASA "V" circuits, which may be accessed by dialing 321-867-1220, -1240, -1260 or -7135. On launch day, "mission audio," countdown activities without NASA TV launch commentary, will be carried on 321-867-7135.
NASA Website Launch Coverage
Launch day coverage of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission will be available on the agency's website. Coverage will include live streaming and blog updates beginning no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, as the countdown milestones occur. On-demand streaming video and photos of the launch will be available shortly after liftoff. For questions about countdown coverage, contact the Kennedy newsroom at 321-867-2468. Follow countdown coverage on our launch blog at:
Launch also will be available on local amateur VHF radio frequency 146.940 MHz and UHF radio frequency 444.925 MHz, FM mode, heard within Brevard County on the Space Coast.
Attend the launch virtually
Members of the public can register to attend this launch virtually. NASA's virtual guest program for this mission also includes curated launch resources, notifications about related opportunities or changes, and a stamp for the NASA virtual guest passport following a successful launch.
Watch and engage on social media
Let people know you're following the mission on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram by using the hashtags #Crew5 and #NASASocial. You can also stay connected by following and tagging these accounts:
Twitter: @NASA, @NASAKennedy, @NASASocial, @Space_Station, @ISS_Research, @ISS National Lab, @SpaceX, @Commercial_Crew
Facebook: NASA, NASAKennedy, ISS, ISS National Lab
Instagram: @NASA, @NASAKennedy, @ISS, @ISSNationalLab, @SpaceX
Did you know NASA has a Spanish section called NASA en Espanol? Make sure to check out NASA en Espanol on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube for more coverage on Crew-5.
Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con Antonia Jaramillo 321-501-8425 antonia.jaramillobotero@nasa.gov.
NASA will provide a live video feed of Launch Complex 39A approximately 48 hours prior to the planned liftoff of the Crew-5 mission. Pending unlikely technical issues, the feed will be uninterrupted until the prelaunch broadcast begins on NASA TV, approximately four hours prior to launch.
Once the feed is live, you will find it here:
NASA's Commercial Crew Program has delivered on its goal of safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station from the United States through a partnership with American private industry. This partnership is changing the arc of human spaceflight history by opening access to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station to more people, more science, and more commercial opportunities. The space station remains the springboard to NASA's next great leap in space exploration, including future missions to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars.
For NASA's launch blog and more information about the mission, visit:
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Tessa Rider, 29, was a few days past her due date, and while swimming at the Y of Northern Colorado, her wait was suddenly over. Lifeguard Natalie Lucas, 18, helped deliver the baby on the pool deck.
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Aaron Rodgers hits the beach and has even hosted a TV game show. Alvin Kamara has snowboarded in the mountains of Montana.
Quinton Jefferson takes his kids to school and runs errands. Sheldon Rankins catches up on cooking and traveling.
Game plans and practices are replaced in the NFL offseason by all the activities — exciting and mundane — players couldn’t do the last several months. It’s also a chance to rejuvenate their bodies and minds from the tolls of playing such a violent, competitive game.
Playoff teams can play deep into January, and even into February if they make it to the Super Bowl. But for players on the 18 teams that failed to make the postseason, the offseason begins when the clock hits zero in the regular-season finale.
“You want to get to that ultimate goal of the Super Bowl and all that,” said Kamara, whose Saints have missed the playoffs the past two seasons. “But if you don’t make it, you fall short, it’s still like, ‘All right, we lost,’ but now you’ve got some time to decompress and really just get your body right, get your mind right. Because it’s demanding every week.
“You can’t do this job halfway. So, I just kind of disconnect from everything. I go on a hiatus, really.”
Rodgers, who has surfed the shores of California to unwind and guest-hosted 10 episodes of “Jeopardy!” during the 2021 offseason, knows the feeling.
“I think we all take a deep breath once the season is over, and for me it’s not that hard to get into that offseason mode and enjoy my time away from it,” the Green Bay quarterback said. “I think it’s important to actually take time. When you’re younger, you want to jump back into workouts. When you’re older, you give yourself a little bit more time.
“But it’s more just having that balance, being able to shut that off when you get out away from here.”
This offseason will be a bit more intriguing than most, though, for the 39-year-old Rodgers. He’s under contract for next season but is uncertain about his playing future.
“I want to take the emotion out of it and have the conversation and see where the organization’s at and see how I feel after some time has passed,” Rodgers said after the Packers were eliminated from playoff contention with a 20-16 loss to Detroit last Sunday night.
Reflection and recovery — mentally and physically — are part of the offseason routine for every player, youngster or vet.
“It is a mental strain,” said Jefferson, whose Seahawks will play at San Francisco on Saturday in the NFC wild-card round. “I’ve seen this game break down a lot of strong dudes, strong men.”
Several Bills players acknowledged the duress they experienced after witnessing teammate Damar Hamlin being resuscitated on the field in Cincinnati last week — and then playing and beating New England in the regular-season finale last Sunday.
“Honestly, I don’t know how some of us did it,” cornerback Tre’Davious White said.
NFL players often mention being able to compartmentalize and separate their lives on and off the field. That’s why most use the first several weeks of their “vacation” to clear their minds. Some eventually explore new business ventures or work on earning academic degrees.
“At least early in the offseason before I get back training, I’m not doing nothing,” said Kamara, who spent part of his 2021 offseason learning how to snowboard in southwestern Montana. “I’m just chillin’, kind of flowing with the wind.”
The disappointment of not making the playoffs — or losing during them — gradually gives way to relief during the offseason, but the grind takes its toll. So does the overwhelming desire to win.
Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill acknowledged he had a “deep scar” and was in a “dark place” after Tennessee’s 19-16 loss to Cincinnati in the AFC divisional round last year. He needed therapy to get him through “a lot of sleepless nights” after blaming himself for the defeat.
Tannehill isn’t alone in seeking help for mental health during and after the season.
“I go see a therapist weekly, definitely making sure I even go see them in person now,” Jefferson said. “I do a Zoom in season, but make sure I spend that time to see my person. Just really taking time to get your mental and your body right.”
The focus for NFL players from some time in late-February or early March, when many start getting in training mode with light workouts and reviewing game film, through the next 10 months is performing at a high enough level to help their team reach the playoffs — and hopefully the Super Bowl.
When that goal no longer exists, players recognize the need to flip a mental switch before gradually restarting the process.
“Allow your mind to shift to other things you like and enjoy doing,” said Rankins, whose Jets have the NFL’s longest postseason drought at 12 years. “Because just like with anything, you stay too locked in, you’ll burn yourself out.”
Jefferson, who’s married with four kids, takes the time away to, well, reintroduce himself to his family.
“That’s the most important thing, making sure I’m being engaged with my children and making sure I’m being present,” he said. “This is strenuous on a lot of our wives. They don’t get us during the season. It’s hard.”
Players also use the time off to heal from all the bumps, bruises, breaks and muscle tears they’ve subjected themselves to the past several months. Medical procedures to fix nagging injuries aren’t uncommon.
“It’s nice to have your body not hurt for a little bit,” said offensive lineman Nick Gates, whose Giants play at Minnesota on Sunday. “But after a couple of months, you get bored and you want to get back into the swing there.”
And it comes soon enough.
NFL players will find themselves back at team facilities in April, followed by organized team activities in May, minicamp in June — and then training camp in late-July as they prepare for a new season.
Hopefully, physically and mentally refreshed.
“You allow that love, allow that thirst for the game to truly come back,” Rankins said. “Allow your mind to be free and be able to look forward to it again. And then you’re itchin’. You’re ready to go all over again.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Teresa M. Walker and AP Sports Writers Tim Booth, Tom Canavan, Brett Martel, Steve Megargee and John Wawrow contributed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite dual setbacks in recent weeks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power.
The Supreme Court last month limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Then late Thursday, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he wants to delay sweeping environmental legislation that Democrats have pushed as central to achieving Biden’s ambitious climate goals.
Biden, who has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, said Friday that “action on climate change and clean energy remains more urgent than ever.”
If the Senate will not act to address climate change and boost clean energy, “I will take strong executive action to meet this moment,” Biden said in a statement from Saudi Arabia, where he met Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Biden did not specify what actions he will take on climate, but said they will create jobs, improve energy security, bolster domestic manufacturing and protect consumers from oil and gas price increases. “I will not back down,” he promised.
Some advocates urged Biden to use the moment to declare a national climate emergency and reinstate a ban on crude oil exports, among other steps. Declaring a climate emergency would allow Biden to redirect spending to accelerate renewable energy such as wind and solar and speed the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.
Climate advocates, including some of Manchin’s Democratic colleagues in the Senate, slammed his opposition — noting that it was the second time he has torpedoed climate change legislation.
“It’s infuriating and nothing short of tragic that Sen. Manchin is walking away, again, from taking essential action on climate and clean energy,” said Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. “The world is literally burning up while he joins every single Republican to stop strong action to cut emissions and speed the transition to clean energy.”
Other Democrats said Manchin’s announcement that he cannot back the climate provisions in the Senate bill — at least for now — frees Biden of the obligation to cater to a powerful, coal-state senator eager to protect his energy-producing home state. Manchin’s vote is decisive in the evenly divided Senate, where Republicans unanimously oppose climate action.
“Free at last. Let’s roll. Do it all and start it now,” tweeted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. who has long pushed stronger action on climate. “With legislative climate options now closed, it’s now time for executive Beast Mode,” Whitehouse wrote.
Whitehouse suggested a series of actions Biden could take, including “a robust social cost of carbon rule″ that would force energy producers to account for greenhouse gas emissions as a cost of doing business. The senator also urged Biden to require major polluters to use technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions and impose stronger pollution controls on cars, light trucks and heavy-duty vehicles.
Advocates also urged Biden to reject all onshore and offshore drilling on federal lands and in federal waters — a step he promised during the 2020 campaign but has not enacted — and restrict approval of natural gas pipelines and other fossil fuel projects.
“For too long, we’ve been waiting on a single legislative package to save us and a single legislator to determine our fate,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. “Now that it’s clear legislation to address our climate crisis is dead, President Biden needs to put us on an emergency footing to address this disaster.”
Citing Biden’s campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands and waters, Merkley said, “Now is the time to show the American people he’s serious by saying ‘no’ to expanding our addiction to fossil fuels.”
Even before Manchin’s apparent rejection of the climate measures, Democrats had slimmed their down their plan from about $555 billion in climate spending to just over $300 billion in a bid to secure his support. Proposed tax credits for wind, solar and nuclear energy, along with still-unproven carbon-capture technology, could reduce emissions by up to 40% by 2030, advocates said.
Manchin had already forced Democrats to drop two tax provisions he opposes: direct payments of clean energy credits and tax credits for drivers who purchase electric vehicles. Manchin forced other concessions last year, including killing a proposal that would have paid utilities that increase clean energy while penalizing those that do not.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he still hopes to salvage the clean energy tax provisions and said failure “really is not an option here.”
Manchin’s request to postpone action on the climate measure follows a June 30 ruling by the Supreme Court, which said in a 6-3 vote that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The ruling by the court’s conservative majority likely complicates the Biden administration’s plan to manage power plant pollution, but does not eliminate its authority to regulate greenhouse gases. EPA Administrator Michael Regan has said the agency is moving forward with proposed rules for power plants in the coming months.
Ann Clancy, associate climate policy director for Indivisible, a progressive advocacy group, said it was time for Biden to “stop waiting for corporate-backed Democrats and their bad faith negotiations and deliver real wins for the American people on climate.”
“We don’t have any more time to waste,” Clancy said.
Manchin, in a radio interview Friday, said climate activists want an immediate end to U.S. use of oil, coal and gas. “That’s crazy,” he told West Virginia talk show host Hoppy Kercheval. “I’m not throwing caution to the wind. I think we need an energy policy that works for our country.” | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/biden-vowing-strong-climate-action-despite-dual-setbacks/ | 2022-07-17 03:53:28 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/biden-vowing-strong-climate-action-despite-dual-setbacks/ |
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Terranea Resort, Southern California's ultimate oceanfront luxury destination, has created a wide range of bucket list summer celebrations offerings for guests and the community to partake in. Whether seeking a local staycation or a coastal vacation destination to feel far removed from the ordinary, Terranea offers and a wide variety of one-of-a-kind experiences leading up to the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Luxury Accommodations:
Ocean Oasis: With 102-acres of oceanfront oasis to explore and unwind, the possibilities are as endless as the sprawling ocean views. Terranea's wide variety of luxury accommodations provide ample amounts of oceanfront space and comfort for an enhanced experience. Guests that stay three nights or more in the Bungalows, Casitas, or Villas, receive a $500 resort credit and daily complimentary parking. Promo Code: OASIS
Lobby Bar & Terrace: Wine and Chocolate Pairing Station: Guests may discover the perfect pairing at the scenic Lobby Terrace as they indulge in a curated selection of California wine varietals accompanied by artisan chocolates. Wednesdays & Thursdays | 4 – 8p. Smoke Show: Handcrafted Cocktail Selection: Savor the smoky flavors of handcrafted smoked cocktail menu – featuring notes of hickory, apple, mesquite, and cherry wood – and expertly prepared along the Lobby Terrace. Mondays & Tuesdays | 4 – 8p.
mar'sel: Caviar & Bubbly Brunch: Guests may experience the ultimate in epicurean luxury with a four-course menu featuring curated selections of the finest caviar, paired exquisitely with the effervescent notes of sparkling wine from Schramsberg. Sundays | 10a – 2p. Vintner's Dinner featuring Cakebread Cellars: From vine to table – guests are invited to an intimate and exclusive dining event featuring a five-course seasonal menu paired with fine wine varietals, and special guest Bruce Cakebread, co-owner of Cakebread Cellars. Reservations required. September 29 | 5pm.
bashi: Sushi Shibumi: Celebrate life's simple pleasures, and the best of everything. Experience bashi's weekly drink menus and by-the-piece sushi specials. Wednesdays | 5 – 9p. Social Grilling Tables: Life is better together. Guests may dine with friends and family as they gather 'round bashi's social grilling tables and enjoy an elevated, interactive meal al fresco.
catalina kitchen: Friday Night Seafood Buffet: Experience a bountiful buffet of coastal cuisine, featuring an opulent sea-to-table variety of fresh seafood offerings, including raw bar, chef-specialty creations, entertaining cocktail offerings courtesy of flair bartenders, and more. 5–9p. Cork & Catch: Explore a delicious selection of fresh seafood paired with curated Chardonnay varietals. Sunday - Thursday | 5-9p. Sunday Brunch Buffet: A plate for every palate. Every Sunday, guests may enjoy a stellar selection of brunch offerings, featuring a variety of cuisines and stations – including Bloody Mary and Mimosa creations. Sundays 9am-2pm.
Nelson's: Sunset Hour: Epic panoramic views of the Pacific, photo-worthy sunsets along the Peninsula, and specialty menu offerings that make warm, summer nights even more memorable. Guests may join Nelson's for a take on a truly, happy hour. Monday – Thursday | 3 – 5p. Pork & Pinot: Savor a specialty pulled pork sandwich paired with the choice of Jackson Estate Nielson Pinot Noir or Alois Pinot Grigio. Daily | 11am-9pm.
Summer Sea Harvest Tasting: Join award-winning chefs for an intimate sea salt and kelp tasting, paired with farm-fresh produce, signature crafted bites and sparkling ONEHOPE Wine, all while learning about the resort's sea harvesting process. Terranea's Sea Salt Conservatory is used to produce Terranea's own signature sea salt using local seawater from the Pacific Ocean and to cure locally grown and foraged kelp. Book at Terranea.com/experiences. August 6, September 3| 10am | $80 | Sea Salt Conservatory
Coastal Family Fun:
Terranea's Kids Club has relaunched to make family vacations memorable for its younger guests. On the beach, under a microscope and on top of the bluffs, adventure leaders take kids on a journey through Terranea's history using creative activities, science experiments and locally inspired art projects. While the kids are away for the day enjoying the club, parents may use the time to relax poolside, unwind at The Spa, enjoy a quiet meal at one of the eight on-property restaurants, set off on an adventure through the Experience Center or play a round of golf at The Links. Additional new offerings for families include Magic at the Resort Pool with a renowned magician to dazzle resort guests each Saturday through September 25, Poolside Movies under the stars at the Resort Pool, complete with light refreshments and snacks, available for purchase for resort guests each Saturday through September 25. Favorites also include S'more Family Fun with Friday evening s'mores around the Resort Pool fire pits.
Oceanfront Adventure:
Terranea has added a new Guided Kayak Tide Pool Adventure to experience tide pooling in a whole new way. Guests begin and end the tour with a robust paddle to Sacred Cove, an outstanding tide pool located approximately two miles to the east of the resort. Spend an hour investigating the wildlife and natural formations before paddling back to Terranea's Beach Cove. The tour covers the normal paddling distance of our traditional guided tour, so guests may expect to see wildlife along the way. The new Guided Kayak Fishing Adventure allows guests to enjoy fishing the kelp forest located in the middle of two Marine Protected Areas. Begin and end the tour by paddling to reach the fishing area. The experienced fishing guide will bring all of the necessary fishing gear, provide any necessary instruction and supervision. Additional adventures include lessons in painting, the art of falconry, archery, guided nature hikes, tide pooling, paddle boarding, kayaking and more.
Wellness:
Full Moon Yoga has returned and yoga enthusiasts of all levels are invited to practice yoga under the warm summer night sky while the bright full moon shines above each month on August 11, September 10, and October 9. Guests are encouraged to bring a yoga mat and $20 charitable donation to support a community nonprofit partner. The Spa has also relaunched Day Passes for guests to enjoy the amenities, signature treatments including Honey Body Bliss, and Spa Membership opportunities are also available.
Live Entertainment:
Nelson's Sound Series combines live music and epic sunsets with local craft beers, gourmet creations, and cool ocean breezes each weekend from 6-10p. The Lobby Lounge features live entertainment nightly from 7 – 11p with handcrafted cocktails along the Pacific. Karaoke Night at bashi: Saturdays guests may grab the mic at bashi's weekly karaoke night, featuring specialty cocktails worthy of applause. Saturdays | 10p – 1a. cielo point: Lounge poolside with sweeping views of the Pacific and enjoy a refreshing beverage from the Tanteo margarita cart, accompanied by DJ-selected sounds of summer. Exclusively available to resort guests on Friday – Sunday through September 25.
For more information about Terranea and to make reservations, please visit terranea.com or call (866) 261-5873.
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Feb. 9, 1990 - Jan. 25, 2023
PHOENIX, Arizona — Paige Olegra La'Tressa Manns, 32, of Phoenix, AZ, passed away at 5:40 a.m. on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at Carle Foundation Hospital of Champaign, IL.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2023, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness 1213 E. Emerson Street, Bloomington, IL, 61701. Service will be from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | https://pantagraph.com/obituaries/paige-olegra-la-tressa-manns/article_38afe26b-34c1-57e2-ac18-88bf7feabbb2.html | 2023-02-01 19:36:34 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/obituaries/paige-olegra-la-tressa-manns/article_38afe26b-34c1-57e2-ac18-88bf7feabbb2.html |
FISCAL 2023 Q2 HIGHLIGHTS
- Net sales of $961.6 million increased 11.5% YoY, 11 percentage points above the Industrial Production (IP) Index
- Operating income of $114.3 million, or $117.2 million adjusted to exclude acquisition-related costs, share reclassification proposal costs and restructuring and other costs1
- Operating margin of 11.9%, or 12.2% excluding the adjustments described above1
- Diluted EPS of $1.41 vs. $1.25 in the prior fiscal year quarter
- Adjusted diluted EPS of $1.45 vs. $1.29 in the prior fiscal year quarter1
- Repurchased over 150,000 shares during the quarter at an average purchase price per share of $81.76
MELVILLE, N.Y. and DAVIDSON, N.C., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MSC INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CO. (NYSE: MSM), "MSC," "MSC Industrial" or the "Company," a leading North American distributor of a broad range of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services, today reported financial results for its fiscal 2023 second quarter ended March 4, 2023.
Erik Gershwind, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We delivered a strong second quarter as successful execution across our initiatives continues to produce results. We delivered average daily sales growth approximately 11 percentage points higher than the IP Index and double-digit average daily sales growth for the fourth consecutive quarter. Looking ahead, we expect our outperformance against the IP Index to continue as we execute across our five growth drivers and take share by leveraging technical expertise to create operational benefits across our customer base."
Kristen Actis-Grande, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, added, "Our performance this quarter was bolstered by the changes we are making to leverage company specific growth. Productivity was strong once again, which led to operating margin expansion as benefits from our Mission Critical initiatives continue to mitigate ongoing headwinds. Looking to the future, we have reoriented our category management focus to improve product and supplier assortment and streamline our cost position. We expect to begin seeing early benefits in late fiscal 2023 with most of the benefits materializing in fiscal 2024."
Gershwind concluded, "As we move into the back half of our fiscal 2023, there is growing momentum inside MSC which has us all excited about our future. The marketplace in which we operate has attractive dynamics and a significant total addressable market to support continued expansion. Our primary growth drivers and strong balance sheet highlight our competitive advantages to remain flexible in any operating environment with a long-term focus."
Mission Critical Update
We continued to make progress on each of our Mission Critical growth initiatives during the fiscal 2023 second quarter.
Solidify Metalworking
a. Over 150 metalworking and specialty sales experts driving customer productivity
b. Technical expertise fueled new customer wins in high growth end markets like Aerospace and Medical
Leverage Portfolio Strength
a. Class C consumable product category net sales grew low teens year over year in FY23 Q2
Expand Solutions (Vending, In-Plant and Vendor Managed Inventory)
a. Vending signings strong; vending machine net sales grew mid-teens and represent 15% of total Company net sales
b. In-Plant signings strong; In-Plant net sales grew nearly 20% and represent over 12% of total Company net sales
c. Total Solutions net sales represent over 56% of total Company net sales
Grow E-Commerce
a. E-Commerce net sales grew low teens year over year in FY23 Q2 and reached 62% of total Company net sales
Diversify Customers and End Markets
a. Public Sector, driven by both federal and state government contract wins, grew 20% year over year in FY23 Q2
Balance Sheet, Liquidity and Capital Allocation
a. Floating/fixed rate debt ratio now at 45/55
b. Top two priorities remain investing in the business and returning cash to shareholders through ordinary dividends
c. Next two priorities are tuck-in acquisitions and share buybacks
d. Share buybacks on hold pending share reclassification proposal
- Current net sales growth tracking to middle to high end of range
- Recently acquired companies expected to dilute gross margins by 40 to 50 bps and operating margins by ~30 bps
- Overall, gross margins expected to be higher in back half of fiscal year
- Adjusted operating expense as a percentage of net sales expected to improve in the back half of the year
- Adjusted operating margin tracking to middle of range
Conference Call Information
MSC will host a conference call today at 8:30 a.m. EDT to review the Company's fiscal 2023 second quarter results. The call, accompanying slides, and other operational statistics may be accessed at: https://investor.mscdirect.com. The conference call may also be accessed at 1-877-443-5575 (U.S.), 1-855-669-9657 (Canada) or 1-412-902-6618 (international).
An online archive of the broadcast will be available until May 4, 2023. The Company's reporting date for fiscal 2023 third quarter results is scheduled for June 29, 2023.
About MSC Industrial Supply Co.
MSC Industrial Supply Co. (NYSE:MSM) is a leading North American distributor of a broad range of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services. We help our customers drive greater productivity, profitability and growth with approximately 2.3 million products, inventory management and other supply chain solutions, and deep expertise from more than 80 years of working with customers across industries. Our experienced team of approximately 7,000 associates works with our customers to help drive results for their businesses - from keeping operations running efficiently today to continuously rethinking, retooling and optimizing for a more productive tomorrow. For more information on MSC Industrial, please visit mscdirect.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
Statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that we expect, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future, including statements about the future impact of COVID-19 on our business operations, results of operations and financial condition, expected future results, expected benefits from our investment and strategic plans and other initiatives, and expected future growth, profitability and return on invested capital, are forward-looking statements. The words "will," "may," "believes," "anticipates," "thinks," "expects," "estimates," "plans," "intends," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements which refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, statements involving a discussion of strategy, plans or intentions, statements about management's assumptions, projections or predictions of future events or market outlook and any other statement other than a statement of present or historical fact are forward-looking statements. The inclusion of any statement in this press release does not constitute an admission by MSC or any other person that the events or circumstances described in such statement are material. In addition, new risks may emerge from time to time and it is not possible for management to predict such risks or to assess the impact of such risks on our business or financial results. Accordingly, future results may differ materially from historical results or from those discussed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Given these risks and uncertainties, the reader should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: general economic conditions in the markets in which we operate; changing customer and product mixes; volatility in commodity and energy prices, the impact of prolonged periods of low, high and rapid inflation, and fluctuations in interest rates; competition, including the adoption by competitors of aggressive pricing strategies and sales methods; industry consolidation and other changes in the industrial distribution sector; our ability to realize the expected benefits from our investment and strategic plans, including our transition from being a spot-buy supplier to a mission-critical partner to our customers; our ability to realize the expected cost savings and benefits from our restructuring activities and structural cost reductions; the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our sales, operations and supply chain; the retention of key personnel; the credit risk of our customers, higher inflation and fluctuations in interest rates; the risk of customer cancellation or rescheduling of orders; difficulties in calibrating customer demand for our products, which could cause an inability to sell excess products ordered from manufacturers resulting in inventory write-downs or could conversely cause inventory shortages of such products; work stoppages, labor shortages or other business interruptions (including those due to extreme weather conditions) at transportation centers, shipping ports, our headquarters or our customer fulfillment centers; disruptions or breaches of our information technology systems, or violations of data privacy laws; the retention of qualified sales and customer service personnel and metalworking specialists; the risk of loss of key suppliers or contractors or key brands or supply chain disruptions, including due to import restrictions or global geopolitical conditions; changes to governmental trade or sanctions policies, including the impact from significant import restrictions or tariffs or moratoriums on economic activity with certain countries or regions; risks related to opening or expanding our customer fulfillment centers; our ability to estimate the cost of healthcare claims incurred under our self-insurance plan; litigation risk due to the nature of our business; risks associated with the integration of acquired businesses or other strategic transactions; financial restrictions on outstanding borrowings; our ability to maintain our credit facilities or incur additional borrowings on terms we deem attractive; the interest rate uncertainty due to the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) reform; the failure to comply with applicable environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, and other laws applicable to our business; the outcome of government or regulatory proceedings or future litigation; goodwill and intangible assets recorded resulting from our acquisitions could be impaired; our common stock price may be volatile due to factors outside of our control; and the significant control that our principal shareholders exercise over us, which may result in our taking actions or failing to take actions which our other shareholders do not prefer. Additional information concerning these and other risks is described under "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual and Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, respectively, and in the other reports and documents that we file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement MSC's unaudited selected financial data presented consistent with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"), the Company discloses certain non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP incremental margin, non-GAAP provision for income taxes, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share, that exclude acquisition-related costs, share reclassification proposal costs, restructuring and other costs and tax effects.
These non-GAAP financial measures are not presented in accordance with GAAP or an alternative for GAAP financial measures and may be different from similar non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and should only be used to evaluate MSC's results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP financial measures.
This press release also includes certain forward-looking information that is not presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company believes that a quantitative reconciliation of such forward-looking information to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP cannot be made available without unreasonable efforts because a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures would require the Company to predict the timing and likelihood of potential future events such as restructurings, M&A activity and other infrequent or unusual gains and losses. Neither the timing or likelihood of these events, nor their probable significance, can be quantified with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Accordingly, a reconciliation of such forward-looking information to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is not provided.
- Results Excluding Acquisition-Related Costs, Share Reclassification Proposal Costs and Restructuring and Other Costs
In calculating non-GAAP financial measures, we exclude acquisition-related costs, share reclassification proposal costs, restructuring and other costs, and tax effects. Management makes these adjustments to facilitate a review of the Company's operating performance on a comparable basis between periods, for comparison with forecasts and strategic plans, for identifying and analyzing trends in the Company's underlying business and for benchmarking performance externally against competitors. We believe that investors benefit from seeing results from the perspective of management in addition to seeing results presented in accordance with GAAP for the same reasons and purposes for which management uses such non-GAAP financial measures.
- Incremental Operating Margin
The Company defines Incremental Operating Margin as the change in year-over-year Income from Operations as a percentage of the change in year-over-year Net Sales and Adjusted Incremental Operating Margin as Incremental Operating Margin adjusted to exclude acquisition-related costs, share reclassification proposal costs and restructuring and other costs by excluding such items from Income from Operations. The Company's management believes that Incremental Operating Margin is useful because it shows the direction that operating profit margins are moving as a result of changes in net sales between periods, and that, by excluding the aforementioned items, Adjusted Incremental Operating Margin helps to more clearly show, on a comparable basis between periods, trends in the Company's underlying business and results of operations. The Company believes that investors benefit from seeing results from the perspective of management in addition to seeing results presented in accordance with GAAP for the same reasons and purposes for which management uses such non-GAAP financial measures
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Charles Barkley will not be leaving TNT or the “Inside the NBA” crew for the foreseeable future.
Barkley has signed a 10-year extension with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, which owns TNT. Barkley's agreement coincides with contract renewals for host Ernie Johnson and analysts Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal.
Barkley has been with TNT since retiring as a player in 2000. He had floated the idea of doing commentary for Saudi-funded LIV Golf this past summer.
“We’re all a big family — Ernie, Kenny and Shaquille are brothers to me — and I wouldn’t still be here if it wasn’t for them and all the amazing people who work on our show,” Barkley said in a statement. “I’m not gonna lie, though, this is a life-altering deal ... and I’m blessed to be able to do live television for a living.”
“Inside the NBA” begins its 34th season on Tuesday. Johnson has been with the show since the beginning while Smith became a studio analyst in 1998. O'Neal joined the quartet in 2011.
The deals with Johnson, Smith and O'Neal are “long term,” but last well beyond the end of Turner's current deal with the NBA in 2024-25. The league is expected to begin rights negotiations soon. Turner has been carrying games since 1984 while ESPN/ABC replaced NBC in 2002.
The other major sports leagues have recently negotiated new rights deals. Amazon is in its first season carrying the NFL, with the rest of the league's renewed contracts with other networks kicking in next season. Major League Baseball's new contracts with Fox, ESPN and Turner began this year while the NHL's with Turner and ESPN are in its second season.
Major League Soccer's deal with Apple TV+ begins next season. Besides the traditional networks, the NBA should see increased competition from streaming services trying to get a package of games.
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MASON CITY – He is anonymous as a man who has mentored and coached more than 25 National Hockey League players, 15 of them still active, can be.
And P.K. O’Handley is perfectly fine with being the anonymous new guy coaching the Mason City High School hockey team.
“I don’t know if they know or not,” O’Handley says. “I think some of them know. I don’t know if they care or not, either. That is okay. I like kind of being under the radar. I’ve got a whistle. I got a pair of skates. … That is all I need.”
On a recent Tuesday afternoon at the sparkling new Mason City Ice Arena, O’Handley blows his whistle and players jump into action.
“Drive the middle, Zach,” yells O’Handley. “Dominic, drive the middle! Do you see how things open up when you drive the middle! Dylan drive the middle, drive the middle!”
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The whistle blows again and action stops, “No, Brayden that is not it. You got to drive the middle!”
Just more than 17 months away from a self-imposed step back from coaching, O’Handley is back in his familiar, comfortable place on the ice as the interim head coach of the Mohawks.
He's back to where it all started for him.
Nearly 32 years ago, O’Handley accepted his first head coaching job with the North Iowa Huskies. He built a winner and then left for the ECHL and the Florida Everblades as an assistant before being lured back to the United States Hockey League in 2002 where he lead the Waterloo Black Hawks to the USHL playoffs in 16 of his 19 seasons, won a Clark Cup and three Anderson Cups while winning more than 700 games and becoming the all-time coaching wins leader in the USHL.
Along the way names like Joe Pavelski, Craig Smith, Brock Boeser, Zach Sanford, Vinnie Hinostroza, Brandon Montour, Cal Petersen and Mikey Anderson passed through, to name just a few future NHLers.
“It is for the short team,” O’Handley says. “I have my skates back on more for the short term. There was a situation where the high school team needed a coach at the last minute. I helped last year a little bit and … I was happy to do it. Happy to give back to the game that has given me so much.”
Since he announced he was stepping away from coaching in June 2021, O’Handley has stayed in the business. He remains the Black Hawks’ president of hockey operations and is in daily meetings with the staff, including general manager Brynn Chyzyk.
After leaving coaching, he and his wife, Maria, moved back to Mason City where Maria helps run her family business.
With much more free time on his plate over this past year and a half, O’Handley has been saddened by the loss of his beloved lab, Arnie, and amused by Arnie’s younger brother Norman, who is a bit more rambunctious.
“Arnie would be so ashamed of him,” O’Handley smiles.
He’s also reintroduced himself to the Mason City area and has been amazed by the revitalization of downtown Mason City, and equally impressed by the massive crowds for this year’s music festival.
O’Handley has also been blown away by the new ice arena that opened just three years ago, although he admits the temperature inside is a bit low for his taste.
His phone is ringing with new opportunities in hockey, but none have been attractive enough to pull him back, although he continues to say he will coach beyond this stint with the Mohawks, an 11th-hour offer he couldn’t refuse.
“I didn’t know I was the head coach until three weeks ago,” O’Handley says with a laugh. “It has been quite an adjustment from what I’m used to. The skill level, speed and size. The maturity level is the same. The ability level is not what I’m used to, but we are getting there.
“The competiveness is also still there, but certainly it has been an adjustment period.
“The messaging is the same. Inherently every kid, whatever level he or she is at, he or she wants to do the best they can and we are trying to get them to that.”
O’Handley calls it a one-year deal, saying the Mason City Youth Hockey organization is prepared to make a significant investment in hiring a new high school coach and a new youth hockey director.
He is enjoying every moment of his time with the Mohawks. He gets to coach his grandson, Kellen Kantaris, and his stepson, Zane Kantaris, is one of his assistant coaches.
“I won’t lie; that part has something to do with it,” O’Handley said. “He has a chance to (play at a higher level). … There are three or four other kids that have college potential on this team, and if I can help them and inspire some younger ones to get to that point, mission accomplished.”
O’Handley is certainly in comfortable territory behind the bench. Mason City’s varsity team is off to a 3-3-1 start and is firmly in the middle of the pack in the Midwest High School Hockey League standings.
“It has been fun working with Zane,” O’Handley says. “I like these kids. I know these kids. They are Kellen’s friends. I’ve known a lot of them since they were little.
“I say this begrudgingly … because it has been fun, but it is not like I’m going to the rock pile 12 hours every day and grinding it out."
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ChenMed ranked as #8 among 100 U.S. companies recognized for outstanding employee sentiment and satisfaction; as #1 in healthcare
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsweek today announced its annual rankings of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces®, and ChenMed was ranked #8 overall and first in healthcare. The 2022 Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® list is the result of a collaboration with the Best Practice Institute (BPI), a leadership development and benchmark research company.
The results were determined after surveying more than 1.4 million employees from businesses with workforces varying in size from 50 to more than 10,000. The list recognizes companies that put respect, caring, and appreciation for their employees at the center of their business model and, in doing so, have earned the loyalty and respect of the people who work for them.
"We consider it a great honor to repeat as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace," says Christopher Chen, M.D., CEO of ChenMed, a privately-owned national leader in primary care. "The love and respect, camaraderie and collaboration demonstrated by our employees every day is what fuels our company's rapid growth and unrivaled value to patients' health and well-being."
How positive workers feel about their future at the company, career achievement, how much employer values align with employee values, respect at all levels, and the level of collaboration at the company they work at were the five critical areas measured to gauge employee sentiment. Plus, at ChenMed, employees surveyed expressed pride in how visionary their medical practice is, earning ChenMed extra recognition as one of 10 "Most Visionary" companies on the just released Newsweek list.
"We're transforming healthcare for the neediest populations and we can't do that successfully if we're not leading with love," says Stephanie Chen, chief legal and culture officer. "We put love first when it comes to our team members, our patients and the communities we serve. When you show care, respect and appreciation, you receive trust, passion and hard work in return."
In addition, areas such as inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging, and company response and adaptability to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as return-to-office rules, were identified and analyzed in relation to the five critical areas measured by Newsweek/BPI.
"As a result of 'The Great Resignation,' more companies recognize the importance of focusing on employee satisfaction to not only attract but retain top talent," said Nancy Cooper, Global Editor in Chief, Newsweek. "The businesses on this year's list clearly demonstrated that commitment."
"We empower doctors and care teams to do whatever it takes to transform care for the underserved seniors we are blessed to serve," explains Susan Schayes, M.D., MPH, FAAFP, ChenMed chief transformation officer. "Plus, we offer amazing opportunities for career advancement in every part and every level of our hyper-growth business." For example, the physician-led practice offers the nation's first Fellowship in Transformative Care (FIT), that's specifically designed to elevate primary care and train ChenMed physician leaders of the future.
"The companies on this list represent the best at placing love at the center of their employee's experience," said Louis Carter, CEO, Best Practice Institute. "The number of applications this year and analysis of survey data reinforces our original findings that love is the strongest predictor of the strength of a company's culture, employee engagement, and satisfaction."
For the full Newsweek list of 2022's Most Loved Workplaces, please visit: https://mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/chenmed/
To identify the top 100 companies for the Newsweek ranking, companies were evaluated and scored as follows: 35 percent of the initial score was based on employee survey responses; 25 percent was derived from analysis of external public ratings from sites such as Comparably, Careerbliss, Glassdoor, Indeed and Google; and 40 percent came from direct interviews with and written responses from company officials. Newsweek then conducted additional research into every company on the list, as well as the top runners-up, to determine the final list of 100 companies and their ranking. (The list includes both U.S. firms and companies with a strong U.S. presence that are based overseas.)
ChenMed, headquartered in Miami, is a privately owned medical, management and technology company that delivers the high-touch and personalized primary care Medicare-eligible seniors need to enjoy better health. The company operates more than 100 senior medical centers in 15 states. Twice named a "Most Loved Workplace" by Newsweek Magazine (October 6, 2022 and 2021), while also named one of Fortune 2020 "Change the World" companies, and a certified Great Place to Work® by the Great Place to Work Institute, ChenMed brings concierge-style medicine and better health outcomes to the neediest populations. ChenMed brands include Chen Senior Medical Center, Dedicated Senior Medical Center, JenCare Senior Medical Center, and IntuneHealthTM. Thanks to its leading healthcare technology organization, Curity™, ChenMed was recently named a "Best Place to Work in IT" by IDG's Insider Pro and ComputerWorld.
Newsweek is the modern global digital news organization built around the iconic, over 85-year-old American magazine. Newsweek reaches 100 million people each month with its thought-provoking news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek also publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.
Best Practice Institute is an award-winning leadership and organization development center, benchmark research company, think tank, and solutions provider. BPI is the certifying body for Most Loved Workplace® and conducted the original research to create the model and criteria for becoming a Most Loved Workplace®. BPI's research proves that Most Loved Workplaces® produce 3-4 times better customer service, employee performance, and retention than companies not loved by their employees.
For more information on how to apply to become a certified Most Loved Workplace in 2023, go to: http://www.mostlovedworkplace.com
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SEAN HANNITY: Democrats are now playing the blame game
Hannity highlights how Dems are now blaming Republicans for all our 'troubles'
Sean Hannity pressed each voter to turn out at on election day otherwise the "Democrats Party machine" will win again on "Hannity."
SEAN HANNITY: EVERY VOTER NEEDS TO DO THEIR PART AND ‘TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED’
SEAN HANNITY: Now, as you might have noticed, with a few notable exceptions, most polls in the last decade have been utter garbage. In other words, your vote is what matters. Your vote is the main poll. If you don't turn out, the Democratic Party machine will win. And that would be a disaster for you, our country, our kids, our grandkids. We can't afford another two years of one party democratic socialist rule. Anyone with a pulse knows this country is now suffering. Joe Biden and the Democratic Socialist Party's policies have done irreparable harm to our economy, to our borders, and even your daily safety and security. Now, in the shadow of the election, Democrats are now playing the blame game.
Now, according to them, they played no role in any of the crises they themselves caused, not the border crisis, not the fentanyl and opioid crisis or the violent crime crisis or the inflation crisis, or the high gas price crisis or the supply chain crisis, or even the crisis of confidence at our schools. And according to Joe Biden, while these evil subhuman mega MAGA Republicans are to blame for all of our troubles, all of your woes, the dog bites, the bee stings if you're feeling sad blame mega MAGA republicans and they have a top secret plan.
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BELTON, Texas — Two people were injured, one critically, Sunday night by a sign that was blown over by strong winds at the Central Texas State Fair, according to a Bell County spokesperson.
James Stafford said the entrance sign was secured by multiple 55-gallon drums filled with water. It collapsed on two people, Stafford said.
Emergency crews on the scene were able to quickly provide medical aid.
Both people were taken to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple. Stafford said one was in critical condition as of Monday morning.
"Bell County staff have been left reeling by this tragedy," Stafford wrote in a news release. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families."
Stafford did not provide any other details about the injuries.
The fair was canceled because of the storms. Fans who purchased tickets to see musician Charley Crockett will get a refund, according to the fair. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/two-injured-severe-storms-cause-sign-collapse-central-texas-state-fair/500-4e1429a8-5ef3-40ed-983f-a444aa46e117 | 2022-09-05 20:49:26 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/two-injured-severe-storms-cause-sign-collapse-central-texas-state-fair/500-4e1429a8-5ef3-40ed-983f-a444aa46e117 |
MIAMI, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A global brand name for a new pharmaceutical product is generally accepted as a desirable marketing strategy. Global names allow for greater brand recognition and streamline brand marketing. Brand names that are global may also be safer for patients by potentially helping to prevent medication errors for international travelers and by promoting consistency in product information from online resources.
But what exactly does "global" mean? Alisa Umanskaya, Ph.D., Vice President of Brand Development, at Brand Institute explains, "A global brand name is one that is the same across all regions in which a pharmaceutical product is marketed." Various factors are considered when pharmaceutical manufacturers choose the countries in which to market their products, such as licensing agreements, country-specific pharmaceutical reimbursement policies, and even a company's resources.
In the early stages of drug development, when the product naming process usually begins, pharmaceutical companies don't always know the exact markets and regions of the world in which they will ultimately sell their products. Therefore, it may be helpful to consider the markets with the most pronounced regulatory challenges. "From a regulatory perspective, the markets with the most robust regulatory name review processes are the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan. These markets are typically a great starting point when considering global brand name development," Dr. Umanskaya continued.
Given appropriate resources, it may be preferable to take an exhaustive approach when selecting markets for a global brand name. "At a minimum, it is advisable to perform global trademark screens and a linguistic analysis of the proposed names, but a regulatory analysis is necessary prior to submitting your brand name to regulatory agencies."
About Brand Institute and our wholly owned regulatory subsidiary, Drug Safety Institute
Brand Institute is the global leader in pharmaceutical and healthcare-related name development, with a portfolio of over 4,000 marketed healthcare brand names, 1,300 USAN/INN nonproprietary names for 1,200 clients. The company partners on over 75% of pharmaceutical brand and nonproprietary name approvals globally every year with healthcare manufacturers. Drug Safety Institute is composed of former naming regulatory officials from global government health agencies, including Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), Health Canada (HC), American Medical Association (AMA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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(AP) — The head of the private military contractor Wagner called Friday for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defense minister. Russian security services reacted immediately by opening a criminal investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin.
He has previously bashed the country’s military leadership for failures in the war in Ukraine, and is known for his long-running feud with the Defense Ministry.
A look at the 62-year-old Prigozhin and Wagner’s role in the war:
WHAT DID PRIGOZHIN SAY?
Prigozhin posted a series of angry video and audio recordings in which he accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering a rocket strike Friday on Wagner’s field camps in Ukraine, where his troops are fighting on behalf of Russia.
Prigozhin said his troops would now punish Shoigu in an armed rebellion and urged the army not to offer resistance.
“This is not a military coup, but a march of justice,” Prigozhin declared.
The Defense Ministry denied carrying out the rocket attack.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee, which is part of the Federal Security Services, or FSB, said he would be investigated on charges of calling for an armed rebellion.
The FSB urged Wagner’s contract soldiers to arrest Prigozhin and refuse to follow his “criminal and treacherous orders.” It called his statements a “stab in the back to Russian troops” and said they amounted to fomenting an armed conflict in Russia.
Riot police and the National Guard have been scrambled to tighten security at key facilities in Moscow, including government agencies and transport infrastructure, Tass reported.
WHAT’S PRIGOZHIN’S BACKGROUND?
Prigozhin was convicted of robbery and assault in 1981, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Following his release, he opened a restaurant business in St. Petersburg in the 1990s. It was in this capacity that he got to know now-President Vladimir Putin, then the city’s deputy mayor.
Prigozhin used that connection to develop a catering business and won lucrative Russian government contracts that earned him the nickname “Putin’s chef.” He later expanded into other areas, including media and an infamous internet “troll factory” that led to his indictment in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In January, Prigozhin acknowledged founding, leading and financing the shadowy Wagner company.
WHERE HAS WAGNER OPERATED?
Wagner was first seen in action in eastern Ukraine soon after a separatist conflict erupted there in April 2014, in the weeks following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
While backing the separatist insurgency in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, Russia denied sending its own weapons and troops there despite ample evidence to the contrary. Engaging private contractors in the fighting allowed Moscow to maintain a degree of deniability.
Prigozhin’s company was called Wagner after the nickname of its first commander, Dmitry Utkin, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian military’s special forces. It soon established a reputation for brutality and ruthlessness.
Wagner personnel also deployed to Syria, where Russia supported President Bashar Assad’s government in a civil war. In Libya, they fought alongside forces of commander Khalifa Hifter. The group has also operated in the Central African Republic and Mali.
Prigozhin has reportedly used Wagner’s deployment to Syria and African countries to secure lucrative mining contracts. U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said in January the company was using its access to gold and other resources in Africa to fund operations in Ukraine.
Some Russian media alleged that Wagner was involved in the 2018 killings of three Russian journalists in Central African Republic who were investigating the group’s activities. The slayings remain unsolved.
WHAT IS WAGNER’S REPUTATION?
Western countries and U.N. experts have accused Wagner mercenaries of human rights abuses throughout Africa, including in Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.
In 2021, the European Union accused the group of “serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings,” and of carrying out “destabilizing activities” in Central African Republic, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.
Video has surfaced purporting to show some of the activities that have contributed to Wagner’s fearsome reputation.
A 2017 online video showed a group of armed people, reportedly Wagner contractors, torturing a Syrian and beating him to death with a sledgehammer before mutilating and burning his body. Russian authorities ignored requests by the media and rights activists to investigate.
In 2022, another video showed a former Wagner contractor beaten to death with a sledgehammer after he allegedly fled to the Ukrainian side and was repatriated. Despite public outrage and demands for an investigation, the Kremlin turned a blind eye.
WHAT’S WAGNER’S ROLE IN UKRAINE?
Wagner took an increasingly visible role in the war as regular Russian troops suffered heavy attrition and lost territory in humiliating setbacks.
Prigozhin toured Russian prisons to recruit fighters, promising pardons if they survived a half-year tour of front-line duty with Wagner.
In the interview in May, he said he had recruited 50,000 convicts, about 10,000 of whom where killed in Bakhmut; a similar number of his own fighters have died there.
He said he had 50,000 men at his disposal “in the best times,” with about 35,000 on the front lines at all times. He didn’t say whether these numbers included convicts.
The U.S. has estimated Wagner had about 50,000 personnel fighting in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts. A U.S. official says nearly half of the 20,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine since December have been Wagner’s troops in Bakhmut.
The U.S. assesses that Wagner is spending about $100 million a month in the fight. In December, Washington accused North Korea of supplying weapons, including rockets and missiles, to the Russian company in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Both Wagner and North Korea denied the reports.
HOW HAS PRIGOZHIN CRITICIZED RUSSIA’S MILITARY?
If the U.S. accusation is true, Wagner’s reach for North Korean weapons may reflect its long-running dispute with the Russian military leadership, which dates to the company’s creation.
Prigozhin claimed full credit in January for capturing the Donetsk region salt-mining town of Soledar in Ukraine and accused the Russian Defense Ministry of trying to steal Wagner’s glory. He has repeatedly complained the Russian military failed to supply Wagner with sufficient ammunition to capture Bakhmut and threatened to pull out his men.
Troops purported to be Wagner contractors in Ukraine recorded a video in which they showered the chief of the Russian military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, with curses and accusations of failing to provide ammunition.
Prigozhin also has singled out Shoigu for withering criticism while accusing Russian military leaders of incompetence. His frequent complaints are unprecedented for Russia’s tightly controlled political system, in which only Putin could air such criticism.
John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said last month that Prigozhin’s remarks critical of the war “could be a sort of morbid way of him … claiming credit for whatever they’ve been able to achieve in Bakhmut, but also trying to publicly embarrass the Ministry of Defense further that the cost was borne in blood and treasure by Wagner, and not by the Russian military.”
Once a shadowy figure, Prigozhin has increasingly raised his public profile, boasting almost daily about Wagner’s purported victories, sardonically mocking his enemies and complaining about the military brass.
Asked recently about a media comparison of him with Grigory Rasputin, a mystic who gained fatal influence over Russia’s last czar by claiming to have the power to cure his son’s hemophilia, Prigozhin snapped, “I don’t stop blood, but I spill blood of the enemies of our Motherland.” | https://www.wane.com/news/who-is-the-head-of-the-mercenary-group-calling-for-an-armed-rebellion-in-russia/ | 2023-06-24 01:47:32 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/who-is-the-head-of-the-mercenary-group-calling-for-an-armed-rebellion-in-russia/ |
Woman celebrates 107th birthday with special ukulele performance
Published: Apr. 18, 2023 at 11:47 AM CDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
SUN CITY, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) – A woman in Arizona celebrated her 107th birthday with a very special performance Friday.
Members of the Sun City Ukulele Club gathered in Rowena Zenk’s front yard to play some of her favorite songs.
A former ukulele player herself, Zenk grew up on a farm in Ohio with 10 siblings. She also played the organ and volunteered with Girl Scouts for many years.
Zenk remembers her mother becoming famous as she was the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail in one trip in 1955.
The birthday girl moved to Arizona in 1985 and still lives in the same home.
She credits her long life to the homegrown food that nourished her.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican Nikki Haley plans to formally announce her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, betting that her boundary-breaking career as a woman and person of color who governed in the heart of the South before representing the U.S. on the world stage can overcome entrenched support for her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump.
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Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador, released a video on Tuesday declaring her candidacy. The Wednesday event in the historic coastal city of Charleston marks the first time she'll appear in public as a declared White House hopeful. It could also amount to a show of strength in her home state, which holds a critical early primary that influences the fate of the GOP nomination.
The announcement makes Haley the first major Republican to officially challenge Trump, but she will hardly be the last. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among those expected to launch campaigns in the coming months. Haley’s fellow South Carolinian Sen. Tim Scott is also weighing a White House bid.
As the presidential primary season comes into focus, the biggest question is whether anyone in the field will be able to replace Trump at the top of a party that he transformed with his first campaign in 2016. He remains popular with a wide swath of voters who will have significant sway in the primary, though some party officials have blamed him for the GOP's lackluster performance in last year's midterms. As it did in 2016, a crowded field could work to Trump's advantage, allowing him to march to the nomination while his opponents divide support among themselves.
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In her announcement video, the 51-year-old Haley made no direct reference to the 76-year-old former president, instead saying it's “time for a new generation of leadership.”
There appears to be openness among Republicans for fresh faces, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In an open-ended question asking Republicans to choose who they want to lead their party, a majority of Republicans didn’t choose either Trump or DeSantis, considered the former president’s top rival. But they also didn’t have a clear alternative in mind.
Eleven other politicians, including Haley, were named by just 1% of Republicans as their preferred leader.
Haley is likely to distinguish herself in the GOP field in part by emphasizing her biography. In the video released on Tuesday, she spoke of growing up in a small South Carolina town as the daughter of Indian immigrants who experienced racist taunts. Despite growing up feeling “different,” Haley insisted that America is not a racist country.
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That argument could resonate among Republican voters as many in the party push efforts to block or change the way the subject of systemic racism is taught in schools and universities.
Haley also addressed Republicans with some tough talk, saying in the video that the party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections and that should prompt a new approach. She highlighted her two successful elections as South Carolina governor, starting with the 2010 victory that made her the state’s first female and minority governor — along with the nation’s youngest, at 38.
She noted — at least in part — the defining moment of her governorship: the 2015 murders of nine Black parishioners in a Charleston church by a self-avowed white supremacist who had been pictured holding Confederate flags.
For years, Haley had resisted calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds, even casting a rival’s push for its removal as a desperate stunt. But after the massacre and with the support of other leading Republicans, Haley advocated for legislation to remove the flag. It came down less than a month after the murders.
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The video showed Haley appearing at the church but made no reference to her work to remove the flag.
And in the aftermath of the U.S. shooting down multiple aerial objects in recent weeks, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast, Haley is likely to position herself as well versed in foreign policy. Her video included imagery of her serving as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N. with the warning that “China and Russia are on the march” and that they think America can be “bullied” and “kicked around.”
“You should know this about me," Haley said. “I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”
Haley’s campaign is a reversal from two years ago, when she said she wouldn’t challenge Trump for president in 2024. But she changed her mind in recent months, citing the country’s economic troubles, among other things.
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In a statement, Trump said he wished her “luck.”
“Even though Nikki Haley said, ‘I would never run against my President, he was a great President, the best President in my lifetime,’ I told her she should follow her heart and do what she wants to do," Trump said. "I wish her luck!”
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Though sometimes considered a liability for Democratic candidates, President Biden is making trips to Oregon and Pennsylvania to support local campaigns. Plus, who will control the House and Senate.
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Chesterfield, Virginia family is mourning the sudden loss of their 13-year-old son after he choked in his school’s cafeteria and passed away.
Nexstar’s WRIC spoke to the family of 13-year-old Josue Nolasco, who described the teenager as a good kid that was always wanting to help out.
“He was too good for this world,” said Lee Harvey, his father. “He was always kind. He was always polite. Happy.”
On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Josue’s parents received a frantic call from Providence Middle School, saying the seventh-grader had choked on his lunch in the cafeteria and was being rushed to the hospital.
Harvey said he left work and raced to the hospital to be by his son’s side. He described what he saw when he arrived as a nightmare.
“I saw my kid unconscious. Artificial respiration… surrounded by doctors and paramedics,” Harvey recounted. “A lot of people around him.”
Despite the doctors’ efforts, at that point, Josue had gone for more than 40 minutes without breathing. Harvey said the doctors told him his son was already brain-dead. Josue passed away three days later.
“We’re having a really hard time right now,” Harvey said. “We lost our child.”
Principal M.J. Rodney of Providence Middle School sent an alert to families on the night of Tuesday, Feb. 21.
“We will keep the family in our thoughts during this difficult time,” Rodney’s statement reads. “If this is a discussion that you would like to have with your child in your home tonight, we want to be supportive of the conversation as you talk with your child to reassure and support them as part of the grieving process.”
The family told WRIC that it is the memories of Josue that are keeping them strong.
“I will always love you,” said Karina Nalusco, Josue’s mother. “I feel so empty without you.”
Community members have taken to posting notes on the family’s front door with messages of compassion and encouragement. The community has also donated over $8,000 to go toward Josue’s memorial.
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STATEWIDE STAT LEADERS, DEC. 14
NOTE: Stats are gathered from information submitted by coaches and school officials. If a player’s stats are incorrect, please ask your coach to log onto njschoolsports and fix them. Stats are through games played and reported through Dec. 13. | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/12/girls-ice-hockey-statewide-stat-leaders-for-dec-14.html | 2022-12-14 23:15:47 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/12/girls-ice-hockey-statewide-stat-leaders-for-dec-14.html |
Sussmann trial: ‘Elaborate conspiracy’ to undermine electoral process clear despite verdict, Hemingway says
Michael Sussmann was acquitted of lying to the FBI in probe investigating origins of Russiagate
The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway isn’t surprised that a jury on Tuesday found Michael Sussmann not guilty of making a false statement to the FBI after a two-week trial that was largely ignored by the mainstream media that she blasted as "coconspirators" for looking the other way.
"I think many people anticipated that the D.C. jury would not convict Sussmann," Hemingway told Fox News Digital shortly after the verdict was announced. The veteran journalist is a longtime critic of the sprawling Russia investigation, which concluded in 2019 and found no evidence of coordination or conspiracy between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia after years of feverish media speculation.
Sussmann was charged with making false statements to the FBI in September 2016 when he said he was not working on behalf of any client, when he brought information alleging a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. The jury found that Special Counsel John Durham’s team had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Sussmann’s statement was a lie, and that he was, in fact, working on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and technology executive Rodney Joffe when he brought two thumb drives and a white paper alleging a Trump-Russia connection.
MICHAEL SUSSMANN FOUND NOT GUILTY OF CHARGES BROUGHT BY SPECIAL PROSECUTOR JOHN DURHAM
The jury included one federal government employee who told the judge they donated to Democrats in 2016 and another government employee who told the judge they "strongly" dislike former President Trump. Both of those jurors told the judge they could be impartial throughout the trial. One juror had a child who was on the same high school sports team as Sussmann's child.
Despite the not guilty verdict, Hemingway feels the trial was essential to helping the American people understand the importance of what the Durham probe has uncovered.
"The evidence that came out in testimony and documentation confirms an elaborate conspiracy to undermine the American electoral process and system of government," Hemingway said. "Regardless of what the verdict is, this is a really important thing for the country as we begin to get to the place where people may someday be held accountable for what was done."
Hemingway believes that testimony confirmed that "the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, along with their allies in the corporate media and also with unethical bureaucrats, ran a hoax against the American people."
"It is the greatest political scandal, perhaps in the entire history of the country," she said. "It was a massive undertaking and getting to know some of these facts is really important for the American people."
The trial was downplayed or flatly ignored by many of the mainstream media organizations that pushed the since-debunked Russian collusion narrative at every turn. MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News and CBS News even ignored bombshell testimony in which former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Clinton approved the dissemination of materials to the media alleging a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and the Russian bank, despite campaign officials not being "totally confident" in the legitimacy of the data.
MICHAEL SUSSMANN TRIAL: ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC IGNORE CASE AT CENTER OF TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE
"The media hid this story after promulgating the Russiagate hoax because they are coconspirators in this operation," Hemingway said, noting that she doesn’t expect liberal news outlets to suddenly take notice even after the not guilty verdict.
"Nothing has exposed the corruption of our corporate media as much as the entire Russiagate scandal from their participation in it, to their cover-up of it now," Hemingway added. "The facts in the trial were so bad for them, and for their coconspirators, that they will probably either hide it or just continue to lie about the basic facts of this situation."
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CNN and MSNBC both covered the acquittal on Tuesday in its immediate aftermath, with a CNN chyron framing it as a significant setback to the Durham investigation. On MSNBC, legal analyst Joyce Vance said the Durhan investigation smacks of "sour grapes."
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s culture minister on Wednesday rejected speculation that a rare book given to Pope Francis earlier this week by French President Emmanuel Macron might have been looted from Poland during World War II.
The minister, Piotr Glinski, said the book “is not a Polish war loss,” and that “contrary to the claims of some media ... this work was not stolen from Poland.”
Concerns had risen in Poland after a photo was published of a stamp in the old book from a library in Lviv, a city that is now part of Ukraine but was the Polish city of Lwow until WWII.
The volume is the first French edition of German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s work “On Eternal Peace,” dating from 1796.
Poland saw much of its cultural patrimony destroyed or looted during the country’s wartime occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and about 500,000 artifacts remain missing.
The country has been making efforts to recover as much as possible. The Culture Ministry has a Division for Looted Art that keeps a database of missing objects and scours foreign collections and auctions.
When they locate a looted Polish painting, book or other object, they inform law enforcement officials of the country it's found in. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/poland-says-book-given-to-pope-by-macron-wasnt-wwii-plunder/WDWJPVQHYNAOFHN7LTJTLETN74/ | 2022-10-26 12:52:02 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/poland-says-book-given-to-pope-by-macron-wasnt-wwii-plunder/WDWJPVQHYNAOFHN7LTJTLETN74/ |
Highlights
- World Vision's Every Last One campaign concludes, having raised more than $1 billion to equip people with tools to lift themselves out of poverty
- Nearly 71 million people's lives impacted across seven key initiatives, including water, health, economic empowerment, child protection, education, Christian discipleship and emergency response
SEATTLE, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Christian humanitarian organization World Vision and its dedicated donors and partners are celebrating the completion of the largest capital campaign in the organization's history, the Every Last One campaign. After launching in late 2015 with a goal of raising $1 billion to reach 60 million of the world's most vulnerable people in more than 50 countries, World Vision reports having raised over $1 billion to equip 70 million people with resources and tools to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
"I'm amazed by what happens when people of faith come together around a God-sized goal," said Edgar Sandoval Sr., World Vision's president and CEO. "The results are nothing less than miraculous, and they were achieved at a time when the world was in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic and economic uncertainty. Every last one of the 70,860,366 people we reached are precious to God and deserving of life, hope and a future."
More than 2,400 philanthropic donor partners across the United States gave at a record-breaking level, enabling World Vision to make unprecedented investments in progress against poverty and injustice. This includes accomplishments in the following key areas of development:
Water and health: More than 25 million people gained access to clean water, and nearly 1.7 million women and children under 5 received essential healthcare and nutrition support.
Economic empowerment: Nearly 6 million people were empowered to build improved and resilient livelihoods through access to savings groups, loans, agricultural and market training, and technology.
Child protection and education: More than 5 million people — including youth, parents, caregivers, faith leaders and government officials — were reached through our child protection programs, which help communities address the root causes of violence against children, including child labor, female genital mutilation and child marriage. And more than 1 million people, including children, youth, parents, caregivers and teachers, have received books and training and participated in educational programs.
Christian discipleship: More than 10 million people, including Christian leaders, teachers, parents, children and youth, were equipped with training and resources for young people to learn Bible-based life skills and to explore or deepen their faith in Jesus Christ.
Emergency response: More than 16 million people worldwide facing humanitarian emergencies — including COVID-19, natural disasters, hunger crises and refugee crises — have received essential resources and care.
Women and girls: More than 30 million women and girls have been equipped to overcome the barriers that keep them from productive and fulfilled lives through access to clean water, improved healthcare, economic opportunities, quality education, emergency support services and protection from gender-based violence.
Capital campaigns including Every Last One and its predecessor, For Every Child, have been significant catalysts to World Vision's goal of helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. As the leading nongovernmental provider of clean water in the developing world and the largest implementing partner of the World Food Programme, the organization is a proven partner in the effort to end extreme poverty worldwide.
While this campaign has concluded, the organization is continuing its strong work with ambitious plans to further scale impact by 2030.
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About World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. For more information, please visit worldvisionphilanthropy.org or follow on Twitter @WorldVisionUSA.
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- Discovered the effects of the essential amino acid, threonine, on promoting both life and healthspans.
- Research findings will be applied to product development of its brand, VITAL BEAUTIE.
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amorepacific discovered a mechanism of dietary restriction for lifespan extension in the essential amino acid, threonine. Dr. Kim Juewon at Amorepacific R&I Center together with Prof. Ryu Dongryeol at Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine and his team revealed the mechanism and effect of threonine on healthspan extension, using big data and molecular biological technology, with findings from the research being published in internationally renowned journal, Nature Communications, on November 2. (Title: L-threonine promotes healthspan by expediting ferritin-dependent ferroptosis inhibition in C. elegans/2022.11.2 online release)
Research into extending a healthy lifespan has always been an international endeavor. Dietary restrictions, being increasingly associated with intermittent fasting in recent years, are said to increase metabolism and thereby extend the healthy lifespan, but there has not been enough in-depth research into the metabolites that are involved in the process.
Dr. Kim Juewon at Amorepacific R&I Center, Prof. Ryu Dongryeol at Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine and his team have looked into an unusual increase of specific metabolites that occurs with dietary restrictions, and found that the essential amino acid, threonine, can help delay the aging process and extend the healthy lifespan. The research team gave threonine to C. elegans, which have a 65% genetic similarity to humans, and as a result, the test group fed with threonine experienced a 15-18% extended lifespan compared to the control group. The test group also showed improved speed, increased antioxidant enzyme activity and a decrease in triglyceride.
"The correct understanding and use of metabolites involved in aging can help extend the healthy lifespan and increase metabolic efficiency," said Research Director, Dr. Kim Juewon at Amorepacific. "For that, further studies are required," he added.
This is the first research of its kind to discover the relation between metabolites, which increase with dietary restrictions, and aging. These findings uncovered the role of a distinct amino acid in aging, its effect on metabolism and its importance. It also demonstrated that threonine-mediated longevity depends on oxidative stress-response transcription factors, and particularly with the specific amino acid used in the research, it can slow down cellular aging, which gives a scientific basis for the beneficial effect of threonine to extend the healthspan.
Based on the results of this study, Amorepacific plans to develop threonine, which is not synthesized in the body, as a health functional food material and use it for product development of its brand, VITAL BEAUTIE. Amorepacific R&I Center will continue with its research to discover what takes place within the skin and body to provide better health & beauty solutions to customers around the world.
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Michael Scott's landscape paintings are featured in a new book, PRETERNATURAL, published by the Museum of New Mexico Press. The book includes 117 full-color paintings and essays by art historians and curators illuminating the artist's process and situating Scott within the broader history of the American landscape tradition. The book coincides with an exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center featuring Scott's landscape paintings—"America's Epic Treasures featuring Preternatural by Michael Scott" will be on display through January 8, 2023. The immersive art exhibition showcases the beauty of natural landscapes and the destructive and rejuvenating nature of the elements. Scott's onsite field studies included in the exhibition provide a look into the artist's process.
SANTA FE, N.M., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Michael Scott's landscapes embody the primacy of place. They draw from memory, archetypes, and iconic works of the American canon. His paintings aim not to capture a landscape's particularity, as such, but to infuse it with the regenerative spirit of nature itself. He brings to the work his own sense of wonder, enabling viewers to engage with it from their own points of view. They are rewarded with a portal into America's wild places, where the elements take center stage.
As MaLin Wilson-Powell writes, "Scott's paintings offer a place where the natural world, the human world, and the world of the spirit or the soul can commingle. Together they comprise an arena that oscillates between what is there and what is not there, what the artist brings to it and what the viewer brings to it."
In addition to 117 full-color paintings, Preternatural features essays by art historians and curators illuminating the artist's process and the ways in which his current series, Preternatural, situates him within the broader history of the American landscape tradition.
Preternatural coincides with an exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center featuring Scott's landscape paintings—"America's Epic Treasures featuring Preternatural by Michael Scott" on display through January 8, 2023. The immersive art exhibition showcases the beauty of natural landscapes and the destructive and rejuvenating nature of the elements. Scott's onsite field studies included in the exhibition provide a look into the artist's process. For more information on the exhibition, visit cincymuseum.org.
AUTHOR & CONTRIBUTOR BIOS
Michael Scott was born in Lawrence, Kansas. He studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received his BFA. He was a recipient of the Skowhegan painting fellowship in Skowhegan, Maine, and received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. His paintings of the American landscape and the American West are in numerous private and corporate collections, as well as the permanent collections of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi; Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Tia Collection in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles; Tyson Collection of Contemporary Art in Springdale, Arkansas; Southern Ohio Museum of Art in Portsmouth; Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center for the West in Cody, Wyoming; and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. He lives in Santa Fe.
MaLin Wilson-Powell is an art historian, author, and independent curator who has written, taught, and lectured widely on American Modernism and contemporary art. She is contributor to numerous publications including Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory and is the co-author of Mabel Dodge Luhan and Company.
Laura F. Fry is a Senior Curator and Curator of Art at the Gilcrease Museum and an American art and design specialist.
Amy Scott is Executive Vice President, Research and Interpretation, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry Museum of the American West.
Elizabeth Wiecher Pierce is President & CEO of the Cincinnati Art Center.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Museum of New Mexico Press is an award-winning publisher of finely designed and crafted books that explore cultures of the Southwest and beyond. For more information, please visit http://www.mnmpress.org.
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Lisa Neal, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1 (505)476-1155, lisa.neal@state.nm.us
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming hunter faces up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine if convicted of killing a protected grizzly bear he allegedly claims he mistook for a legal-to-hunt black bear outside Yellowstone National Park.
The male grizzly weighing about 530 pounds (240 kilograms) drew a lot of attention from drivers after its death May 1 near U.S. 14-16-20, the eastern approach into Yellowstone.
Patrick M. Gogerty, of Cody, turned himself in early the next morning, Wyoming Game and Fish Department game warden Travis Crane wrote in an affidavit filed in Park County Circuit Court.
By then, rumors about the dead bear were circulating far and wide.
“Gogerty should have turned himself in immediately,” Crane wrote.
Grizzlies in the Yellowstone region of southern Montana, eastern Idaho and northwestern Wyoming are a federally protected species. Killing one without a good reason, such as self defense, can bring tough penalties under state and federal law.
Gogerty is charged under Wyoming law with killing a grizzly bear without a license, a misdemeanor. Along with the jail time and hefty fine, he would face having to pay as much as $25,000 in restitution if convicted.
Gogerty, who is scheduled for an arraignment Friday in Park County Circuit Court, couldn't be reached for comment. He had no listed phone number and no attorney in court records who might comment on his behalf.
Black bears are typically smaller and darker than grizzly bears. Large black bears with brownish coloring, and small grizzly bears with darker coloring, sometimes get mistaken for the other species, however.
Gogerty went hunting on the day the regular black bear hunting season opened in areas west of Cody. He first saw the grizzly about 100 yards (90 meters) off the highway, according to the affidavit filed Thursday in Circuit Court.
At first, he was confident that the bear he shot at seven times was a black bear because the animal didn't have a grizzly's characteristically humped back, he allegedly told Crane, the game warden.
“When Gogerty went up to the bear and saw the bear's claws, the pads and the head of the bear, he realized it was a grizzly bear,” Crane wrote in the affidavit.
The bear had been shot at least four times, the affidavit alleges.
Hunters and others on Yellowstone's outskirts kill grizzlies in self-defense or in cases of mistaken identity fairly often — about six times per year, on average, from 2015 to 2020, according to researchers.
Such encounters typically occur on private land or remote areas, far from the public eye.
As many as 50,000 grizzlies once roamed the western U.S., far more than today. Still, they are considered a conservation success story with rebounding numbers in Yellowstone and other pockets in the lower 48 states.
Grizzly-human encounters have increased as the Yellowstone region's grizzly population has grown as much as tenfold, to as many as 1,000 animals, since the 1970s. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/wyoming-black-bear-hunter-accused-of-killing-18100972.php | 2023-05-15 23:12:28 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/wyoming-black-bear-hunter-accused-of-killing-18100972.php |
- Genesis takes top rank overall and in premium segment for second consecutive year
- Study measures how well carmakers integrate advanced technology in user-friendly ways
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, J.D. Power designated Genesis as its highest-ranked overall brand in the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Tech Experience Index Study. Genesis earned the top Innovation Index score of 643, offering a significant number of advanced technologies across its product lineup. This is the brand's second consecutive year at the top of the list.
"Genesis is pleased to deliver the latest technologies to our customers with our award-winning lineup of vehicles," said Claudia Marquez, chief operating officer of Genesis Motor North America. "We are glad that the study's results recognize our commitment to implementing technologies focused on improving our customers' driving experience."
The J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Tech Experience Index (TXI) Study measures how effectively each automotive brand brings technologies to market, measured on a 1,000-point scale. The index combines the level of adoption of new technologies for each brand with excellence in execution. The execution measurement examines how much owners like the technologies and how many problems they experience while using them.
The TXI Study analyzes 35 technologies, which are divided into four categories: convenience; emerging automation; energy and sustainability; and infotainment and connectivity. Only technologies classified as advanced are award eligible.
The 2022 U.S. TXI Study is based on responses from 84,165 owners of new 2022 model-year vehicles who were surveyed after 90 days of ownership. The study was fielded from February through May 2022. The TXI Study complements the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS)SM and the J.D. Power Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) StudySM by measuring how effectively each automotive brand brings new technologies to market.
At Genesis, we put the customer at the center of every decision we make. Genesis is a global automotive brand that delivers the highest standards of performance, design, safety, and innovation while looking towards a more sustainable future. Genesis designs customer experiences that go beyond products, embodying audacious, forward-thinking, and distinctly Korean characteristics within its unique Athletic Elegance design identity. With a growing range of award-winning models — including G70, G80, and G90 sedans, along with GV60, GV70, and GV80 SUVs — Genesis aims to lead the age of electrification, starting with its Electrified G80 and GV60 electric models. Genesis has stated its commitment to becoming an all-electric vehicle brand by 2030 and to pursuing carbon neutrality by 2035.
Please visit our media site for the latest news at www.genesisnewsusa.com (United States) and www.genesisnews.ca (Canada).
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TORONTO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ: ELBM) (TSX-V: ELBM) ("Electra") today announced that it has signed a Benefits Agreement with the Métis Nation of Ontario ("MNO") solidifying a relationship between the two parties and providing employment, training, procurement, and business opportunities related to the construction and expansion of the Company's battery materials refinery north of Toronto Temiskaming Shores.
"Signing our first Benefits Agreement marks an important milestone for Electra as we advance with the commissioning of our refinery," said Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials. "It demonstrates our commitment to operations that are environmentally, culturally, and socially responsible, and also reflects our commitment to working with Indigenous communities in respectful and mutually beneficial ways."
"We welcome the signing of the Benefits Agreement and Electra's commitment to support economic, cultural, and educational activities in the region," said Lorette McKnight, President of the Métis Nation of Ontario Temiskaming Métis Council. "The construction of a battery materials plant in Ontario on the James Bay and Abitibi/Temiscamingue Métis Traditional Territories represents an exciting development that will create many opportunities while also supporting environmental sustainability through reducing carbon emissions as a result of the adoption of electric vehicles."
In connection with the Benefits Agreement, Electra has agreed to issue 20,000 common shares of the Company to the MNO as a means of providing a measure of economic participation in the success of Electra's low-carbon battery materials visions. The issuance of the common shares remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Once issued, the common shares will be subject to a statutory hold period of four-months-and-one-day in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Electra is advancing with the commissioning of a battery materials refinery in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario with a plant capacity of 5,100 tonnes of cobalt in sulfate. In concert with its effort to commission the refinery, Electra intends to launch a battery materials recycling demonstration plant in the fall of 2022.
Awards 2022 Electra Excellence Bursaries
Electra also announced that as part of its commitment to supporting local communities near its refinery, it awarded its 2022 Electra Excellence Bursaries to a deserving student from the graduating class of each of the following schools: Englehart High School, Timiskaming District Secondary School, Kirkland Lake District Composite School, and École Secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie. Electra granted each deserving student a $1,000 bursary based on their commitment to learning and an intention to pursue a post-secondary education.
About Electra Battery Materials
Electra is a processor of low-carbon, ethically-sourced battery materials. Currently commissioning North America's only cobalt sulfate refinery, Electra is executing a multipronged strategy focused on onshoring the electric vehicle supply chain. Keys to its strategy are integrating black mass recycling and nickel sulfate production at Electra's refinery located north of Toronto, advancing Iron Creek, its cobalt-copper exploration-stage project in the Idaho Cobalt Belt, and expanding cobalt sulfate processing into Bécancour, Quebec. For more information visit www.ElectraBMC.com.
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TikTok Account Predicts What Last Day on Earth Will Look Like Using Grim AI-Generated Photos
A mind-blowing new TikTok account claims to predict what the end of the world will look like.
Using AI technology, @robotoverloards shows off a series of frightening images in one video that claims to reveal what doomsday will look like according to the "last selfie ever taken."
From the hollow eye sockets of AI-generated, zombie-like humans, to the thick plumes of billowing smoke covering what may have once been civilization, the images purport to give a glimpse into our potential future — and boy, is it grisly.
Millions of views can't be wrong — it seems we are all fascinated to see how the world ends. Take a look:
"Me when I take selfies in the dark with flash on," one viewer joked in the comments.
"Well, I will just continue not sleeping," another person wrote, while someone else implored, "What about sharing the best day or something positive?"
While the freaky scenes supposedly predict what the end of the world might look like, fear not: the frightening content is 100 percent fabricated.
The account first shared content on July 7 and aims to share "daily interesting AI generated images," according to its bio.
In just a few short months on the platform, @robotoverloards has already amassed over 252,000 followers.
According to The Mirror, the account uses an AI image generator named DALL-E 2 (named after the Disney-Pixar robot WALL-E) to animate and generate its far-fetched doomsday visuals. | https://newstalk1290.com/tiktok-account-predicts-what-last-day-earth-grim-ai-generated-photos/ | 2022-08-19 20:41:27 | 1 | https://newstalk1290.com/tiktok-account-predicts-what-last-day-earth-grim-ai-generated-photos/ |
In the wake of Damar Hamlin’s sudden and shocking collapse during Monday Night Football, many Americans are wondering how a seemingly routine tackle led a 24-year-old athlete to collapse.
Cardiologists across the country believe he may have suffered from commotio cordis, the condition is a rare phenomenon.
The American Heart Association states the majority of deaths from the ‘sudden blunt impact to the chest’ happen in sports, mostly baseball, and overwhelmingly young men.
Hayden Walton, unfortunately, fit all the criteria for the conditions most likely victims.
"Hayden was the most loving, caring 13-year-old little boy that anybody could come across," said Mom, Carleen. "He always had a smile on his face."
The 13-year-old from Winslow loved drag racing, boy scouts and baseball.
He was playing his favorite sport on June 1, 2011 when, seconds after being hit in the chest with a pitch, he collapsed and passed away.
Doctors told his family, the healthy teenager died of commotio cordis.
When Carleen heard about Hamlin's collapse and watched the video online, she feared it was exactly what happened to her son.
“All I could see was my son Hayden falling to the ground,” said Carleen. “And my heart immediately went out to his mom and immediately re-lived everything in those split seconds.”
“It just opens everything back up from 11 years ago,” said Hayden’s Dad, Doug, who said he still can’t bring himself to watch the video.
The parents say they have been praying for the NFL safety and his family ever since they learned of Hamlin’s collapse.
“2:50 We have firsthand knowledge of what his family is going through. And it's horrible,” said Doug.
“And me as a mom, I just want to reach out and hold her,” added Carleen.
Ever since the tragedy rocked their family and robbed them of their precious son, the family has been working to ensure no other child dies the same way in their community or Arizona.
“At the time, we didn't know anything about Commotio Cordis, we had never heard of it until it actually happened to Hayden,” said Carleen. “So that was our biggest goal – to make parents and everyone in the world know these AED devices that could potentially save a life.”
There is now a defibrillator in every dugout at Hayden Walton Sports Complex.
“The Waltons, through the Arizona Diamondbacks, and a couple of organizations within Winslow, were able to secure some AED's that we keep on our field,” said Jimmy Curnutte, President of the Winslow Little League.
“There's also one readily available for every bus when the sports teams go out of town,” said Carleen, who also mentioned chest guards are available and used by players in Winslow.
As for Hayden, he is still wearing his Angels jersey, just playing with different teammates.
“So watching his life be taken, doing something he absolutely had passion for was very, very difficult. But that's what he loved to do,” said Carleen.
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If you haven’t been able to get your hands on the beloved 12-foot skeleton from Home Depot the past few years, we have some exciting news: Skelly the giant skeleton is officially back in stock for Halloween 2023!
Priced at $299, the larger-than-life Giant Skeleton with LifeEyes LCD Eyes from Home Accents Holiday lights up and has LCD eyes that move and blink, plus a timer, so you don’t need to worry about turning it on every night.
This product sells out quickly every year, despite the fact that it hits Home Depot’s website four months before Halloween. Last year, Home Depot brought it back a second time in August, but the retailer isn’t saying whether we can expect to see it multiple times again until Halloween or if this first stock is all we’ll get.
MORE: Halloween candles you can get on Amazon for setting a spooky mood
While there’s no rule you have to put the skeleton outside, at around the same height as an African elephant, it’s probably best kept outdoors — unless you have tall ceilings and, of course, don’t mind a giant skeleton in your house glowing throughout the evening hours.
There is a limit of one per order, with the skeleton shipping between July 28-Aug. 3, so you’ll have it in plenty of time for Halloween.
Home Depot has a handful of other new over-the-top Halloween decorations from Home Accents Holiday as well, like this 5.5-foot animated Marie the Maid for $149 and this 7.5-foot animated marsh monster that costs $199.
You can also buy a 13-feet-tall animated Jack Skellington from Disney. Taller than Skelly the Skeleton, the “The Nightmare Before Christmas” decoration is priced at $399. Dressed in his classic pinstripe suit and bowtie, Jack’s head and mouth both move while he sings.
Looking for even more giant Halloween decorations? Lowe’s has a few new items already for sale from the brand Haunted Living, including a 12-foot animatronic scarecrow for $398 and a 9-foot “ground-breaking” zombie, an exclusive for $598. You could also choose an 8-foot animatronic witch for $279 or the 12-foot mummy, a past favorite that will set you back $398.
All three new additions light up and are animated. The scarecrow has red glowing eyes and an LED flame effect emanating from his rib cage. The zombie’s eyes and skeletal chest glow and he has a lighted lantern and tombstone. The witch turns left to right at the waist. She also says scary phrases and has a spooky laugh. Her eyes flash white, too.
Are you getting excited for Halloween?
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‘I was crying’: Woman’s quick stop at store turns into $777,777 lottery jackpot
Published: Sep. 9, 2022 at 10:01 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (KAIT/Gray News) - A woman in Missouri will certainly not forget her recent stop at a convenience store.
KAIT says the woman, who was not immediately identified, was on her way to a friend’s house when she stopped at a Munch-N-Pump store on Highway 53.
According to the Missouri Lottery, she bought several lottery tickets. One of those tickets was a Hot 7s scratchers ticket that returned a top prize of $777,777.
“I called my husband, and I was crying,” she said. “I was like, ‘This is not real! It can’t be real.’”
According to Friday’s news release, the woman said she plans to invest the winnings.
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QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress.
The official government reaction came as Francis arrived in Quebec City for meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon at her Quebec residence, the hilltop Citadelle fortress, on the second leg of Francis’ week-long visit to Canada.
The government’s criticisms echo those of some survivors and concern Francis’ omission of any reference to the sexual abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the schools, as well as his original reluctance to name the Catholic Church as an institution bearing responsibility.
Francis has said he is on a “penitential pilgrimage” to atone for the church’s role in the residential school system, in which generations of Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their homes and forced to attend church-run, government-funded boarding schools t o assimilate them into Christian, Canadian society. The Canadian government has said physical and sexual abuse were rampant at the schools, with students beaten for speaking their native languages.
Francis on Monday apologized for the “evil” of church personnel who worked in the schools and the “catastrophic” effect of the school system on Indigenous families. In a speech before government authorities Wednesday, Francis apologized anew and blasted the school system as “deplorable.”
Francis noted that the school system was “promoted by the governmental authorities at the time” as part of a policy of assimilation and enfranchisement. But responding to criticism, he added that “local Catholic institutions had a part” in implementing that policy.
Indigenous peoples have long demanded that the pope assume responsibility not just for abuses committed by individual Catholic priests and religious orders, but for the Catholic Church’s institutional support of the assimilation policy and the papacy’s 15th century religious justification for European colonial expansion to spread Christianity.
More than 150,000 Native children in Canada were taken from their homes from the 19th century until the 1970s and placed in the schools in an effort to isolate them from the influence of their families and culture.
Trudeau, a Catholic whose father, Pierre Trudeau, was prime minister while the last residential schools were in operation, insisted that the Catholic Church as an institution bore blame and needed to do more to atone.
Speaking before Francis, he noted that Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 had called for a papal apology to be delivered on Canadian soil, but that Francis’ visit “would not have been possible without the courage and perseverance” of survivors of First Nations, Inuit and Metis who travelled to the Vatican last spring to press their case for an apology.
“Apologies for the role that the Roman Catholic Church, as an institution, played in the mistreatment on the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical and sexual abuse that Indigenous children suffered in residential schools run by the church,” Trudeau said.
The Canadian government has apologized for its role in the school legacy. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology over the residential schools in Parliament in 2008, calling them a sad chapter in Canadian history and saying the policy of forced assimilation caused great harm.
As part of a settlement of a lawsuit involving the government, churches and the approximately 90,000 surviving students, Canada paid reparations that amounted to billions of dollars being transferred to Indigenous communities. The Catholic Church, for its part, has paid over $50 million and intends to add $30 million more over the next five years.
Trudeau implied that much more needed to be done by the church, and that while Francis’ visit had “an enormous impact” on survivors, it was but a first step.
Aside from the content of his speech, Trudeau’s remarks broke customary protocol for papal trips. According to diplomatic protocol, only Simon was supposed to address the pope in her capacity as the representative head of state. Simon, an Inuk who is the first Indigenous person to hold the largely ceremonial position governor general, did address Francis.
But the Vatican said Trudeau’s office requested the prime minister be allowed to offer some introductory remarks, a request that arrived in the days before Francis left Rome but after the pope’s itinerary had been finalized and printed.
A senior Canadian government official said Trudeau typically delivers remarks during visits by foreign leaders and that it was important for him to address Canadians during Francis’ visit “particularly given the importance of the matter.” It was, however, added in at the last minute.
Before Francis arrived in Quebec City, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said the “gaps” in Francis’ apology could not be ignored.
Echoing criticism from some school survivors, Miller noted that Francis didn’t mention sexual abuse in his list of abuses endured by Indigenous children in the schools. Francis on Monday listed instead physical, verbal, psychological and spiritual abuse. In addition, Miller noted that Francis on Monday spoke of “evil” committed by individual Christians “but not the Catholic Church as an institution.”
Phil Fontaine, a survivor of sexual abuse at the schools and former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said the additional reference Wednesday to “local Catholic institutions” went beyond Francis’ original apology and was significant and the closest he could get to apologizing for the entire Church in Canada.
“It reflects the reality that the Catholic Church in Canada is not one institution. It is made up of about 73 different legal institutions, all of which were defendants in the lawsuits,” Fontaine said in a statement.
Francis’ visit has stirred mixed emotions among survivors and their relatives, as well as Indigenous leaders and community members. Some have welcomed his apology as genuine and useful in helping them heal. Others have said it was merely the first step in a long process of reconciliation. Still others have said it didn’t go far enough in assuming responsibility for institutional wrongs dating back centuries.
Francis himself has acknowledged that the wounds will take time to heal and that his visit and apology were but first steps. On Wednesday he committed himself and the local Canadian church to “move forward on a fraternal and patient journey with all Canadians, in accordance with truth and justice, working for healing and reconciliation, and constantly inspired by hope.”
“It is our desire to renew the relationship between the Church and the indigenous peoples of Canada, a relationship marked both by a love that has borne outstanding fruit and, tragically, deep wounds that we are committed to understanding and healing,” he said.
But he didn’t list any specific actions the Holy See was prepared to take.
Trudeau, too, said the visit was a beginning and that reconciliation was the duty of everyone. “It’s our responsibility to see our differences not as an obstacle but as an occasion to learn, to better understand one another and to move to action.”
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SHANGHAI, China, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) ("Daqo New Energy," the "Company" or "we"), a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry, today announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, which contains the Company's audited consolidated financial statements, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 27, 2023.
The annual report on Form 20-F can be accessed and downloaded from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or through the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://ir.xjdqsolar.com/. Holders of the Company's securities may request a hard copy of the Company's annual report free of charge by contacting the Company by mail at:
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Pudong District, Shanghai, China, 200122
About Daqo New Energy Corp.
Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) ("Daqo" or the "Company") is a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry. Founded in 2007, the Company manufactures and sells high-purity polysilicon to photovoltaic product manufactures, who further process the polysilicon into ingots, wafers, cells and modules for solar power solutions. The Company has a total polysilicon nameplate capacity of 205,000 metric tons and is one of the world's lowest cost producers of high-purity polysilicon.
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The United Way of Central New Mexico’s Hispano Philanthropic Society is kicking off its Executive Speakers Series beginning at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth SW, according to a release.
This free event aims to “educate, inspire and inform the audience about the possibilities, pitfalls, and principles they should know as leaders in our contemporary world,” the release said.
The presentation will emphasize the success of small businesses.
The series will feature keynote speakers John and Kathleen Avila of Avila Retail Development and Management, LLC. The Avilas are award-winning airport retailers with 25 enterprises across four international airports including: Albuquerque, Phoenix, Denver and San Francisco.
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Trump team, Justice Dept. to make new Mar-a-Lago filing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team are to stake out positions Friday on the precise role to be played by an independent arbiter who will review documents seized during an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had given both sides until Friday to submit potential candidates for the role of a “special master,” as well as proposals for the scope of the person’s duties and the schedule for his or her work.
The back-and-forth over the special master is playing out amid an FBI investigation into the retention of several hundred classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago within the past year. Though the legal wrangling is unlikely to have long-term effects on the investigation, it will almost certainly delay the criminal probe and has already caused the intelligence community to temporarily pause a national risk assessment it was doing.
Over the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, Cannon on Monday granted the Trump team’s request for the special master and directed the department to temporarily halt its review of records for investigative purposes.
She said the person would be responsible for sifting through the records recovered during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and filter out from the criminal investigation any documents potentially covered by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege.
Roughly 11,000 documents — including more than 100 with classified markings, some at the top-secret level — were recovered during the search. That’s on top of classified documents contained in 15 boxes retrieved in January by the National Archives and Records Administration, and additional secret records the department took back during a June visit to Mar-a-Lago.
The Justice Department had objected to the Trump team’s request for a special master, saying it had already done its own review and identified a limited subset of records that possibly involve attorney-client privilege. It said that executive privilege does not apply in this investigation because Trump, no longer president, had no right to claim the documents as his.
The department on Thursday filed a notice of appeal indicating it would contest the judge’s order to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Officials asked the judge to lift her hold on their investigative work pending their appeal, as well as her requirement that the department share with a special master the classified records that were recovered.
It is not clear whether Trump or anyone else will be charged.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself.
He had so much left to say.
“There's always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview from his apartment in Modena, Italy, where he is currently working on “Ferrari," starring Adam Driver as the race car driver-auto magnate. “I love doing the research and building these characters out very, very completely, and rooting the actor into a whole life. ... The movie is a splinter, it's just a very narrow slice of a complete life."
Mann has finally rounded out the story from his 1995 movie. He has brought back the lethal, calculating criminal Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro; the swaggering detective Vincent Hanna, played by Al Pacino; and such supporting characters as Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Tom Sizemore) and Nate (Jon Voight).
He does hope to make another “Heat” movie, but he has chosen to introduce his new narrative through words only, the novel “Heat 2."
Written with the award-winning crime novelist Meg Gardiner and scheduled to come out Aug. 9, the 480-page “Heat 2” is a sequel and prequel, looking back to the late 1980s and ahead to the 21st century, expanding the world of McCauley and Hanna and Shiherlis among others, adding new characters and moving the action everywhere from Los Angeles to Paraguay and Asia.
Mann had never attempted a novel before and finally tried in part for a similar reason he takes on a given film: To see if he can. In some ways, he approached the book as if planning a movie production. He began with a basic story — he likes to know in advance how the plot turns out — and built the narrative outward, over time and space. For his novel, he speaks of creating “momentum that is almost cinematic,” a symphony driving to a closing clash.
“Heat 2” permitted him to explore and digress in ways he wouldn't attempt on screen. He makes a point of knowing everyone's inner and outer lives. McCauley, for instance, he sees as a longtime outsider, institutionalized in his early teens. He sees him as “very intelligent,” with a “really strong ego and very little self esteem.” An ideal criminal.
“He goes to violence, immediately, zero to 60,” Mann explains.
“Heat,” among the most celebrated movies never to receive an Oscar nomination, has a base of obsessive admirers. After a special screening in June at the Tribeca Film Festival, audience members shouted lines from the movie during a panel discussion with Pacino and De Niro. Mann say fans often come up to him and quote from the famous coffee shop conversation between McCauley and Hanna, the first time Pacino and De Niro had ever shared screen time (They had previously appeared in separate time periods in “The Godfather, Part II”).
“Heat 2” is a departure for Mann, and from novels in recent years by other filmmakers, among them Werner Herzog, Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg. While Herzog’s “The Twilight World” and De Palma’s “Are Snakes Necessary?” are original stories, Mann is doing a kind of reversal, taking characters created for the screen and adapting them to the page. Instead of finding it a distraction to think of Pacino when he’s describing Hanna, he welcomes the merger of actor and character.
“They're fused. It's a fusion. They're one and the same,” he says. “Vincent Hanna is Al Pacino and Al Pacino is Vincent Hanna. Neil McCauley in 1988 is Bobby (De Niro) seven years younger. ... Since I made the movie and sought Al Pacino and De Niro and Val Kilmer, you bet that's who these people are.”
Gardiner joined Mann at the suggestion of their mutual literary agent, Shane Salerno. Known for her Evan Delaney novels, she is a “Heat” fan and a partisan for Mann’s film in the many discussions she has had with fellow writers over whether “Goodfellas,” “The Godfather” or “Heat” is their favorite crime movie. For “Heat 2,” she helped Mann with the book’s structure and otherwise proved a sounding board and close collaborator, the two eventually writing alternating chapters. Their time together — she lives in Austin, Texas, he is based in Los Angeles — in some ways mirrored the belated face-off between Pacino and De Niro, who despite being co-stars only meet midway in the 170 minute picture.
“We began working together in the depths of Covid,” she says. “We didn't get a chance to meet for a year. It was all long phone calls, and long emails back and forth.”
Mann, 79, has been working in film and television since the 1970s, whether writing episodes for “Starsky and Hutch,” serving as executive producer of the show “Miami Vice” or directing “The Insider," “Manhunter” and “Public Enemies.” He is a Chicago native who says his take on the world — “a certain kind of cynical worldview, I guess” — was shaped by his experiences as the son of grocers in the inner city. Citing “The French Connection” and its director, William Friedkin, as favorites, he jokes that filmmakers like himself and Friedkin who grew up in Chicago itself end up making crime stories, while those from the suburbs (such as the late John Hughes) prefer comedies.
“Heat 2” is the first of three planned novels (one of which may be related to “Heat”), and an ambitious literary beginning for a man who had never attempted a work of fiction before. He majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with thoughts of becoming a teacher, but decided that would be “really immensely boring.” Asked to cite literary influences, he mentions John le Carre, but otherwise says he doesn't read crime fiction. Instead, he looks to “primary sources,” the various killers, crooks, law enforcers and government agents he has met and befriended and whose stories he adapted for “Heat,” “Thief” and other films.
Critics and fellow directors have praised him for his complex narratives and gifts for pacing and atmosphere: Christopher Nolan has cited “Heat” as inspiration for his acclaimed Batman movie “The Dark Knight.” But some of Mann's favorite feedback has come from those “primary sources.” He smiles when asked what some of the real-life models for his characters have said upon seeing his films.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK) ("Newmark" or "the Company"), a leading adviser and service provider to large institutional investors, global corporations and other owners and occupiers of commercial real estate, announces the addition of Norm Taylor as Country Head and President for Canada. A top-performing industry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience in sales, leasing, finance and executive leadership, Taylor will be based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and report to Kevin McCabe, President, Western Region.
"Norm's name is synonymous with success in Canadian real estate," said Barry Gosin, Newmark Chief Executive Officer. "His industry expertise solidifies our commitment to our presence in Canada and our goal of further increasing Newmark's non-US revenues."
In this newly created position, Taylor is responsible for Newmark's day-to-day brokerage operation in Canada, including strategic direction, business development, delivery of client service and recruitment, mentorship and retention of professionals.
"Norm has distinguished himself amongst his peers, cultivating a well-deserved reputation as an influential market leader in Vancouver and across Canada," said McCabe. "He will play an invaluable role in continuing Newmark's regional and global growth trajectory."
Before joining Newmark, Taylor worked as Vice President of National Advisory and as Vice President & Managing Director of Real Estate Finance for the British Columbia Region at CMLS Financial. Taylor also previously served as Executive Vice President & Managing Director for the British Columbia Region at CBRE, Senior Vice President at JLL and Vice President at Colliers International.
"Newmark has firmly established itself as a global leader in commercial real estate services, with an already growing Canadian platform," said Taylor. "The opportunity to create, collaborate and innovate with the firm's deep roster of leading professionals, furthering Newmark's commitment to expand in this key market and provide unparalleled client service, made my decision to join Newmark an easy one."
About Newmark
Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries ("Newmark"), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark's comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform's global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the year ending December 31, 2022, Newmark generated revenues of approximately $2.7 billion. As of March 31, 2023, Newmark's company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operate from over 170 offices with approximately 7,300 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on the 21st anniversary of the attacks of 9/11:
"On this September 11, it is important to note that the Biden administration has forgotten nearly every lesson learned on that tragic day. By loosening immigration inspections, border controls, document security, interior enforcement, and screening standards, America is no longer secure.
"The threat of state-sponsored radical Islamic terrorism is still a very clear and present danger, as we have been reminded in just the last few months. The stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the plot to kidnap former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and the attempted assassination of an Iranian dissident in Brooklyn remind us that our enemies understand our vulnerabilities and are prepared exploit them.
"As we remember the lives of the 2,977 people who were slaughtered 21 years ago, in part due to lax immigration enforcement policies, we must also recognize the even more massive loss of life going on right now as a result of the Biden administration's deliberate sabotage of border enforcement. Last year, under President Biden's watch, 36 times as many Americans, 107,622, died of drug overdoses – including 71,238 from the fentanyl that is pouring across a wide-open border.
"If we owe anything to those who died on this day 21 years ago, their families, first responders who rushed to the scenes of devastation at the Pentagon and World Trade Center, as well as the men and women who fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is to make sure that such events are never repeated on U.S. soil. Sadly, on September 11, 2022, it seems that many of the lessons of 9/11 are being forgotten."
ABOUT FAIR
Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.
Contact: Ron Kovach, Email: rkovach@fairus.org
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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DUST STORM ADVISORY
Dust Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
532 PM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Dust Advisory for...
Riverside County in southern California...
* Until 630 PM PDT.
* At 532 PM PDT, a dust channel was near Desert Center, and is nearly
stationary.
HAZARD...Less than one mile visibility with strong wind in excess
of 40 mph.
SOURCE...CHP Webcam.
IMPACT...Hazardous travel.
* This includes the following highways...
CA Interstate 10 between mile markers 103 and 122.
CA Route 177 between mile markers 1 and 7.
Locations impacted include...
Desert Center.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust brings reduced visibility, leading to dangerous driving
conditions. If driving, avoid blowing dust if possible. If caught in
dense blowing dust, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep
your foot off the brake.
Motorists should not drive into an area of blowing dust. PULL ASIDE
STAY ALIVE!
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Riverside County
through 615 PM PDT...
At 534 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 15
miles northeast of Desert Center, moving northeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of Riverside County.
This includes CA Route 177 between mile markers 7 and 27.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3371 11510 3379 11535 3407 11525 3401 11483
TIME...MOT...LOC 0034Z 204DEG 8KT 3382 11517
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR) ("Univar Solutions" or "the Company"), a leading global solutions provider to users of specialty ingredients and chemicals, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
First Quarter 2023 Highlights
- Net income of $83.1 million compared to $180.8 million in the prior-year first quarter. Adjusted net income(1) of $100.9 million compared to $183.4 million in the prior-year first quarter.
- Earnings per diluted share of $0.52 compared to $1.06 per diluted share in the prior-year first quarter. Adjusted earnings per diluted share(1) of $0.63 compared to $1.07 in the prior-year first quarter.
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $215.4 million compared to $319.3 million in the prior-year first quarter. Adjusted EBITDA margin(1) of 8.0 percent compared to 11.1 percent in the prior-year first quarter.
- Net cash used by operating activities decreased to $2.9 million from $134.4 million in the prior-year first quarter.
"Over the past three years, we have successfully executed and delivered on our strategic plan, which has enabled us to successfully navigate the dynamic macroeconomic environment," said David Jukes, president, and chief executive officer. "We have continued to put the customer at the centre of all we do whilst solidifying our market leadership in North America. This gives us confidence in our ability to navigate uncertain market conditions, while fulfilling our purpose and commitments to our people and communities. We remain focused on delivering our business strategy and leveraging our global strengths in Ingredients and Specialties."
Company Performance
Univar Solutions' operating performance results are described below and, unless otherwise indicated, compare first quarter 2023 results with first quarter 2022 results.
Consolidated Results
Univar Solutions reported net sales of $2.7 billion, a decrease of 6.9 percent on a reported basis and 5.5 percent on a constant currency basis(1) compared to the prior-year first quarter. Lower sales were attributable to lower demand, partially offset by pricing discipline.
Gross profit (exclusive of depreciation), which represents net sales less cost of goods sold (exclusive of depreciation), of $639.3 million decreased 12.4 percent on a reported basis and 11.1 percent on a constant currency basis(1) compared to the prior-year first quarter. Lower gross profit was driven primarily by lower demand and higher input cost inflation, partially offset by pricing discipline. Gross margin decreased 150 basis points to 23.8 percent compared to the prior-year first quarter, primarily due to higher input cost inflation, partially offset by pricing discipline.
Net income was $83.1 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, compared to net income of $180.8 million, or $1.06 per diluted share, in the prior-year first quarter. Lower net income was driven primarily by lower gross profit (exclusive of depreciation) and higher Warehousing, Selling, and Administrative costs (WS&A), operating expenses, and interest expense. The decrease in net income was partially offset by lower income tax expense.
Adjusted earnings per diluted share(1) of $0.63 in the quarter decreased from $1.07 in the prior-year first quarter primarily due to lower net income.
Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $215.4 million decreased $103.9 million, or 32.5 percent, compared to the prior-year first quarter, or a decrease of 31.2 percent on a constant currency basis(1). The decrease was driven primarily by lower gross profit and higher WS&A and operating costs.
Net cash used by operating activities decreased to $2.9 million from $134.4 million in the prior-year first quarter, primarily driven by lower net working capital use and partially offset by lower net income.
Liquidity was $1,147.6 million as of March 31, 2023, inclusive of $377.7 million of cash on hand and availability under committed, asset-based credit facilities.
Our leverage ratio(1) was 2.3x at March 31, 2023, compared to 2.0x at December 31, 2022. We define leverage ratio(1) as net debt(1) divided by last twelve months ("LTM") Adjusted EBITDA(1). Net debt(1) of $2,155 million at March 31, 2023 reflects total short-term and long-term debt of $2,531 million less cash and cash equivalents of $378 million. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2023, LTM net income was $448 million and LTM Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $946 million, as discussed in more detail in the schedules to this press release.
Proposed Acquisition of Univar Solutions
On March 14, 2023, Univar Solutions announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement with affiliates of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., an alternative asset manager, that provides for the acquisition of Univar Solutions in an all-cash transaction that values Univar Solutions at an enterprise value of approximately $8.1 billion. The transaction includes a minority investment from an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The merger agreement provides that Univar Solutions shareholders will receive $36.15 in cash for each share of common stock they own. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by Univar Solutions shareholders and receipt of regulatory approvals. Due to the pending merger transaction, Univar Solutions will not provide updated guidance or host a conference call or webcast to review the first quarter 2023 financial results.
About Univar Solutions
Univar Solutions (NYSE: UNVR) is a leading global specialty chemical and ingredient distributor representing a premier portfolio from the world's leading producers. With the industry's largest private transportation fleet and technical sales force, unparalleled logistics know-how, deep market and regulatory knowledge, formulation and recipe development, and leading digital tools, the Company is well-positioned to offer tailored solutions and value-added services to a wide range of markets, industries, and applications. While fulfilling its purpose to help keep communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe, Univar Solutions is committed to helping customers and suppliers innovate and focus on Growing Together. Learn more at www.univarsolutions.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
In this press release, the Company's financial results are provided both in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) and using certain Non-GAAP financial measures. In particular, the Company presents the Non-GAAP financial measures of gross profit (exclusive of depreciation), gross margin (defined as gross profit (exclusive of depreciation) divided by net sales on a consolidated basis and by external sales on a segment level, as applicable), Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin (defined as Adjusted EBITDA divided by net sales on a consolidated basis and by external sales on a segment level, as applicable), Adjusted net income, Adjusted earnings per diluted share, leverage ratio, and results on a constant currency basis. The Non-GAAP financial measures are included as a complement to results provided in accordance with GAAP because management believes these Non-GAAP financial measures help investors' ability to analyze underlying trends in the Company's business, evaluate its performance relative to other companies in its industry, and provide useful information to both management and investors by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of the Company's core operating results. Additionally, the Company has used, and may continue to use, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted earnings per diluted share in setting performance incentive targets to more closely align management compensation with operational performance.
The Company evaluates its results of operations on both an as reported and a constant currency basis. The constant currency presentation is a Non-GAAP financial measure, which excludes the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. The Company believes providing information on a constant currency basis provides valuable supplemental information regarding its results of operations, consistent with how it evaluates its performance. The Company calculates constant currency percentages and other information by converting its financial results in local currency for a period using the average exchange rate for the prior period to which it is comparing.
The Non-GAAP financial measures noted above are not calculated in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP. Additionally, other companies may calculate Adjusted EBITDA and other such metrics differently than the Company does, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures. For further information related to the Company's use of Non-GAAP financial measures, and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, see the schedules attached hereto.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements relating to future events and our intentions, beliefs, expectations, and outlook for the future, which are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including, without limitation, statements regarding, the Company's market opportunities, strategic plan, business objectives, and other initiatives, as well as statements regarding the expected timing of the completion of the proposed acquisition of Univar Solutions referred to in this press release and the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed transaction. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which may be beyond the Company's control. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions. Potential factors that could affect such forward-looking statements include, among others: that a condition to the closing of the proposed transaction may not be satisfied; the occurrence of any event that can give rise to termination of the proposed transaction; the failure to obtain approval of the proposed transaction by the Company's shareholders; the failure to obtain certain required regulatory approvals or the failure to satisfy any of the other closing conditions to the completion of the proposed transaction within the expected timeframes or at all; management's time and attention being diverted to issues related to the proposed transaction; the Company's ability to meet expectations regarding the timing and completion of the proposed transaction; disruption from the proposed transaction making it more difficult to maintain business, contractual and operational relationships; the institution of legal proceedings against the Company or the other parties to the proposed transaction and their affiliates related to the proposed transaction; the Company becoming unable to retain or hire key personnel due to the proposed transaction; the announcement of the proposed transaction having a negative effect on the market price of the Company's common stock or operating results; certain restrictions during the pendency of the proposed transaction that may impact the Company's ability to pursue certain business opportunities or strategic transactions; the Company's ability to meet expectations regarding the accounting and tax treatments of the proposed transaction; economic conditions, particularly fluctuations in industrial production and consumption and the timing and extent of economic downturns; significant changes in the business strategies of producers or in the operations of our customers; delivery failures or hazards and risks related to our operations and the hazardous materials we handle; potential inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; increased competitive pressures, including as a result of competitor consolidation; potential supply chain disruptions; significant changes in the pricing, demand and availability of chemicals; potential cybersecurity incidents, including security breaches; our indebtedness, the restrictions imposed by, and costs associated with, our debt instruments, and our ability to obtain additional financing; the broad spectrum of laws and regulations that we are subject to, including extensive environmental, health and safety laws and regulations and changes in tax laws; an inability to generate sufficient working capital; transportation related challenges, including increases in transportation and fuel costs, changes in our relationship with third party transportation providers, and ability to attract and retain qualified drivers; accidents, safety failures, environmental damage, and product quality issues; ongoing litigation, potential product liability claims and recalls, and other environmental, legal and regulatory risks; challenges associated with international operations; exposure to interest rate and currency fluctuations; an inability to integrate the business and systems of companies we acquire, including failure to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; possible impairment of goodwill and intangible assets; our ability to attract or retain a qualified and diverse workforce; negative developments affecting our pension plans and multi-employer pensions; labor disruptions associated with the unionized portion of our workforce; our ability to execute on our initiatives and goals related to environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") matters and the increasing legal and regulatory focus on ESG; the impacts resulting from the conflict in Ukraine or related geopolitical tensions; the ability of the Company to successfully recover from a disaster or other business continuity problem due to a hurricane, flood, earthquake, terrorist attack, war, conflict, pandemic, security breach, cyber-attack, power loss, telecommunications failure, or other natural or man-made event, including the ability to function remotely during long-term disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic; the impact of public health crises, such as pandemics (including the COVID-19 pandemic) and epidemics and any related Company or governmental policies and actions to protect the health and safety of individuals or governmental policies or actions to maintain the functioning of national or global economies and markets, including any quarantine, "shelter in place," "stay at home," workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, or similar actions and policies; actions by third parties, including government agencies; and the other factors described in the Company's filings with the SEC. For additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those projected herein, please refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, as well as other documents filed by the Company with the SEC, including subsequent Current Reports on Form 8-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. In addition, the Company discusses certain of these risks in greater detail, and other risks associated with the proposed transaction, in the definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on May 2, 2023. We caution you that the forward-looking information presented in this press release is not a guarantee of future events or results, and that actual events or results may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking information contained in this press release. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "plan," "seek, "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe" or "continue" or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. Any forward-looking information presented herein is made only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Hurricanes pitcher Alex McFarlane has another shot at starting his professional career.
The Philadelphia Phillies picked McFarlane in the fourth round of the 2022 MLB draft with the 112th pick on Monday. McFarlane is the second Hurricane selected in this year’s draft, following the Colorado Rockies picking Carson Palmquist in the third round.
The 112th pick has a value of $492,800, according to MLB.com. Teams can go above or below that dollar amount to sign a player.
McFarlane, who was picked by the Cardinals in the 25th round in 2019, started the season in Miami’s rotation and had solid outings against Towson and Boston College, but after struggling against Clemson, he moved to the bullpen. He had a 2.50 ERA in 25 2/3 innings after moving to there.
McFarlane finished the season with a 4.00 ERA and struck out 68 batters in 45 innings.
“McFarlane succeeds largely with two very good pitches: his fastball and slider,” McFarlane’s MLB Pipeline scouting report says. “His fastball has averaged over 95 mph this season, topping out at 99, and there’s good run on the pitch. His slider, which he’s run up to 89-90 mph, flashes plus and misses bats at a very impressive rate. He does have some feel for his mid-80s changeup as well.
“With that kind of potential in a three-pitch mix and an ideal durable pitcher’s frame, it might be tempting to give McFarlane another chance to start at the next level. But his long arm action in back is very tough to repeat, which has led to issues with command. Perhaps a team could try to retool his mechanics, but it might be wiser to keep him in the pen and let that fastball-slider combination carry him to the big leagues.” | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-um-mcfarlane-drafted-20220718-j2m5dztwrrfktb5sj4a3vraa2a-story.html | 2022-07-18 19:02:49 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-um-mcfarlane-drafted-20220718-j2m5dztwrrfktb5sj4a3vraa2a-story.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk is defending his massive cost-cutting at Twitter as necessary for the social media platform to survive next year, due in part to debt payments tied to his $44 billion takeover of the company.
“This company is like, basically, you’re in a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don’t work,” Musk told a late-night audience on a Twitter Spaces call Tuesday.
That's after Elon Musk said earlier on Tuesday that he plans on remaining as Twitter’s CEO until he can find someone willing to replace him in the job.
Musk’s announcement came after millions of Twitter users asked him to step down in an online poll the billionaire himself created and promised to abide by.
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Musk tweeted. “After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.”
Since taking over the San Francisco social media platform in late October, Musk’s run as CEO has been marked by quickly issued rules and policies that have often been withdrawn or changed soon after being made public.
Musk said Tuesday night that he “spent the last five weeks cutting costs like crazy” and trying to build a stronger paid subscription service because otherwise Twitter might be at a roughly $3 billion loss next year. He in part blamed the $12.5 billion in debt tied to his April agreement to buy the company, as well as the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate hikes.
Some of Musk’s actions have unnerved Twitter advertisers and turned off users. He has laid off more than half of Twitter’s workforce, released contract content moderators and disbanded a council of trust and safety advisors that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech and other problems on the platform.
The Tesla CEO has also alienated investors at his electric vehicle company over concerns that Twitter is taking too much of his attention, and possibly offending loyal customers.
Even more unnerving for investors, Tesla shares are plummeting.
Shares of Tesla are down 35% since Musk took over Twitter on Oct. 27, costing investors billions. Tesla’s market value was over $1.1 trillion on April 1, the last trading day before Musk disclosed he was buying up Twitter shares. The company has since lost 58% of its value, at a time when rival auto makers are cutting in on Tesla’s dominant share of electric vehicle sales.
Shares fell Wednesday, as they have every day this week.
A single share of Tesla that cost about $400 to start the year, can now be had for less than $140.
Musk sought to defend some of his recent Twitter decisions on the Twitter Spaces call.
“They may seem sometimes spurious or odd or whatever,” Musk said. “It’s because we have an emergency fire drill on our hands. That’s the reason. Not because I’m naturally capricious. Or at least, aspirationally, I’m not naturally capricious.”
Musk, who also helms the SpaceX rocket company, has previously acknowledged how difficult it will be to find someone to take over as Twitter CEO.
Bantering with Twitter followers earlier this week, he said that the person replacing him “must like pain a lot” to run a company that he said has been “in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted.
As things stand, Musk would still retain overwhelming influence over platform as its owner. He fired the company’s board of directors soon after taking control. | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/Musk-says-Twitter-in-precarious-position-defends-17669434.php | 2022-12-21 17:55:55 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/Musk-says-Twitter-in-precarious-position-defends-17669434.php |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Spencer Strider struck out nine over six innings in his first start in Philadelphia since his postseason implosion, Austin Riley and Matt Olson homered and the Atlanta Braves beat the Phillies 4-2 on Tuesday night.
The Braves made their first trip to Philly since the NL Division Series that launched Red October into a full-blown frenzy. Phillies slugger Rhys Hoskins provided the series’ indelible moment when he raised his arms in triumph, and then spiked his bat in celebration with a Game 3 homer against Strider.
Hoskins is out for the regular season for the NL champions with a torn ACL — he was in the dugout for this one — but the moment lived on Tuesday when it was replayed on the videoboard. Strider (8-2) didn’t get rocked in this start, he just nimbly pitched out of jams until the fifth and helped the Braves win their seventh straight game.
The Phillies, coming off a 6-1 trip, wasted leadoff hits in the first, third and two straight in the fourth before Nick Castellanos continued his All-Star push with an RBI single for a 1-0 lead.
Strider lasted just 2 1/3 innings in Game 3. But in the regular season, Strider continues to flummox the Phillies and improved to 6-0 over seven career games and six starts. He didn’t allow a walk.
Raisel Iglesias gave up a run in the ninth but struck out Kyle Schwarber with the tying run on base to pick up his 10th save.
The Braves and Phillies both entered 13-2 over their last 15 games, a sizzling stretch of success for teams that had done little to nudge the Phillies toward the top of the NL East. They fell to nine games out of first in the division and may find a path to the postseason again goes through the wild card. The Phillies actually entered Tuesday with a better record (by a half-game) than the NL Central leaders, the Cincinnati Reds.
The Braves built their cushion on the strength of a favorable schedule, having played Colorado, Washington, Detroit and the Mets over their last four series. After three in Philly, Atlanta heads to Cincinnati for another three-game set.
Ranger Suarez matched Strider in a solid outing for both starters.
Suarez struck out seven over the first 5 1/3 and cruised until Riley crushed his 12th homer of the season and tied the game 1-all. He finished the inning and has allowed only five earned runs over his last 32 2/3 innings covering his last five starts. The left-hander’s improvement since a rocky start to the season played a pivotal role in Philadelphia’s resurgence.
Phillies reliever Jeff Hoffman (0-1) surrendered a walk and single to open the seventh and Ronald Acuña Jr. lined a one-out single for a 2-1 lead. Ozzie Albies followed with an RBI groundout.
Olson hit a solo shot in the eighth.
PHILLY PERFECT
Jonny Morrison (1921-22) and Kaiser Wilhelm (1903-04) are the only pitchers to start 6-0 against the Phillies. Carl Hubbell and Carlie Root won their first six decisions against the Phillies in the 1920s.
OUT AT SECOND
J.T. Realmuto squashed a rally in the eighth inning when he was thrown out on a head-first slide into second base trying to stretch a single. The Phillies left a runner stranded on third and Bryson Stott was due up.
PANTS ON FIRE
Bryce Harper, who has served exclusively as the designated hitter since his return from Tommy John surgery, could play first base not long after the All-Star break in early July.
Any chance at all Harper makes an earlier return to the field?
“He’s made me a liar so many times because he’s such a quick healer,” manager Rob Thomson said, laughing. “I don’t know.”
UP NEXT
The Braves send RHP AJ Smith-Shawver (1-0, 2.03 ERA) to the mound against Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (6-5, 4.66 ERA).
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Trump returns to campaign rallies, draws thousands to small South Carolina city ahead of July 4
PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to thousands gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing day ahead of the July 4 holiday.
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than right here on Main St., with thousands of hardworking South Carolina patriots who believe in God, family and country,” Trump said to a roaring crowd standing on asphalt as temperatures climbed into the 90s.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people had gathered in the streets of downtown Pickens, a small city in South Carolina’s conservative Upstate of around 3,400 residents. Law enforcement officials told some media outlets that around 15,000 people had gathered by 11 a.m., two hours before Trump’s remarks.
The heavily Republican area is a popular one for GOP hopefuls as they aim to attract support for South Carolina’s first-in-the-South presidential primary. In recent months, other candidates including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have all held events in the Upstate, as well as the two South Carolinians in the race: former Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott.
But none drew a crowd like Trump, whose appearance effectively shuttered Pickens’ quintessential southern downtown.
Contrasted with his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, which drew thousands to rallies in states across the country, Trump’s 2024 effort has been markedly different. Earlier this year, instead of addressing voters in a gymnasium or airplane hangar, Trump held his first South Carolina campaign event inside the Statehouse in Columbia, rolling out his state leadership team at an invitation-only gathering in an ornate lobby between the House and Senate chambers.
In other states, the former president has focused his efforts on smaller events, including a series of speeches before state party organizations, as he works to bolster his standing with delegates and local officials.
This was only Trump’s second large rally of the 2024 campaign. In March, he rallied in Waco, Texas, disparaging the prosecutors then investigating him on hush-money charges — on which he was later indicted — and predicting his vindication. A planned outdoor rally in Iowa in May was canceled due to tornado warnings.
The rallies are also expensive to put on, although Trump has continued to bring in millions in fundraising, after both the New York indictment and also federal charges related to his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House. Last month, senior Trump aide Chris LaCivita told the conservative Ruthless podcast that the rallies “are half a million bucks a pop.”
Trump’s campaign has also leaned in on unannounced stops at restaurants — such as at a celebrated Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant Friday or Versailles, a famous Cuban eatery in Miami — in a bid to showcase his strong appeal among supporters despite the multiple legal challenges.
In a broad GOP field that has continued to grow, Trump’s campaign has pointed to polls showing him with a considerable lead over his rivals, despite a campaign schedule that is far less robust than many of his rivals. He has also given frequent media interviews and appeared at many of the multi-candidate events of the primary season so far, including this past week’s Moms for Liberty gathering in Philadelphia.
Still, the chance to see the former president in person drew thousands from across the Southeast for Saturday’s rally, with attendees beginning to line up the night before, and coming from as far as Florida. Greg Pressley and his wife, Robin, said they drove more than three hours from their home in eastern Tennessee to see the candidate they’ve supported since his first run in 2016.
“Donald Trump’s the best president in history,” Greg Pressley said. “I love his policies. I love the man. I’m here to support him getting back to where he needs to be, to begin with.”
Shelley Fox of Spartanburg, who said she has supported Trump since he entered the 2016 race, said she didn’t feel it necessary to even think about any other candidates for next year’s election.
“I’d write him in,” she said, when asked what she would do if forced to consider another hopeful. “No question — I’d write him in.”
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Diana Shnaider: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg
Noma Noha Akugue (No. 207 ranking) will take on Diana Shnaider (No. 101) in the semifinals of the Hamburg on Friday, July 28.
In the Semifinal, Shnaider is favored over Noha Akugue, with -225 odds compared to the underdog's +170.
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Diana Shnaider Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Friday, July 28
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Diana Shnaider Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Diana Shnaider has a 69.2% chance to win.
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Diana Shnaider Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Thursday, Noha Akugue defeated No. 76-ranked Martina Trevisan, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5.
- Shnaider took home the win 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 against Bernarda Pera in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
- In her 11 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, Noha Akugue has played an average of 22.9 games.
- In her six matches on clay over the past year, Noha Akugue has played an average of 26.5 games.
- In the past 12 months, Shnaider has played 18 total matches (across all court surfaces), winning 50.4% of the games. She averages 21.6 games per match and 9.7 games per set.
- In seven matches on clay courts in the past 12 months, Shnaider has averaged 20.1 games per match and 9.4 games per set, winning 48.9% of the games.
- This is the first time that Noha Akugue and Shnaider have played in the last five years.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Maverix Metals Inc. ("Maverix" or the "Company") (NYSE: MMX) (TSX: MMX) is pleased to announce that on November 30, 2022, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) has granted an interim order (the "Interim Order") in connection with the previously announced statutory plan of arrangement under Section 192 of the Canada Business Corporations Act, pursuant to which, among other things and subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all applicable conditions precedent, Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp. will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Maverix (the "Arrangement").
The Interim Order authorizes the calling and holding of a special meeting (the "Special Meeting") of the Maverix shareholders to be held on January 12, 2023, the granting of dissent rights to the registered Maverix shareholders and other matters relating to the conduct of the Special Meeting. The management information proxy circular and related proxy materials in respect of the Special Meeting will be finalized, distributed to the Maverix shareholders and be filed and available under Maverix's profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and on EDGAR (www.sec.gov). Maverix will provide a further update on the details of the Special Meeting and how shareholders or their duly appointed proxyholders can attend, access and participate in the Special Meeting.
Maverix is a gold-focused royalty and streaming company with a globally diversified portfolio of over 140 assets. Maverix's mission is to increase per share value by acquiring precious metals royalties and streams. Its shares trade on both the NYSE American and the TSX under the symbol "MMX".
Cautionary statements to U.S. investors
Information Contained or Referenced in This Press Release or in the Documents Referenced Herein Concerning the Properties, Technical Information and Operations of Maverix Has Been Prepared in Accordance with Requirements and Standards Under Canadian Securities Laws, Which Differ from the Requirements of the U.s. Securities and Exchange Commission ("Sec") Under Subpart 1300 of Regulation S-k ("S-k 1300"). the Terms "Mineral Resource" and "Inferred Mineral Resource" Used in This Press Release or in the Documents Incorporated by Reference Herein Are Mining Terms As Defined in Accordance with Ni 43-101 Under Guidelines Set out in the Definition Standards for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Adopted by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Council. While the Terms Are Substantially Similar to the Same Terms Defined Under S-k 1300 There Are Differences in the Definitions. Accordingly, There Is No Assurance Any Mineral Resources That the Company May Report Under Ni 43-101 Will Be the Same As Resource Estimates Prepared Under the Standards Adopted Under S-k 1300. Because the Company Is Eligible for the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System Adopted by the Sec and Canadian Securities Administrators, the Company Is Not Required to Present Disclosure Regarding Its Mineral Properties in Compliance with S-k 1300. Accordingly, Certain Information Contained in This Press Release Concerning Descriptions of Mineralization and Mineral Resources Under These Standards May Not Be Comparable to Similar Information Made Public by Us Companies Subject to Reporting and Disclosure Requirements of the Sec.
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This release contains certain "forward looking statements" and certain "forward-looking information" as defined under applicable Canadian and U.S. securities laws. Forward-looking statements and information can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans" or similar terminology. The forward-looking information contained herein is provided for the purpose of assisting readers in understanding management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to developments in respect of the friendly merger of Maverix and Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp., including the terms and conditions of the Arrangement. Forward-looking statements and information are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions that, while believed by management to be reasonable, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual actions, events or results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: the impact of general business and economic conditions; the absence of control over mining operations from which Maverix will purchase gold and other metals or from which it will receive royalty payments and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, delays in mine construction and operations, actual results of mining and current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; accidents, equipment breakdowns, title matters, labor disputes or other unanticipated difficulties or interruptions in operations; problems inherent to the marketability of gold and other metals; the inherent uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses; industry conditions, including fluctuations in the price of the primary commodities mined at such operations, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and fluctuations in interest rates; government entities interpreting existing tax legislation or enacting new tax legislation in a way which adversely affects Maverix; stock market volatility; regulatory restrictions; liability, competition, the potential impact of epidemics, pandemics or other public health crises, including the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 on Maverix's business, operations and financial condition, loss of key employees, as well as those risk factors discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Maverix's annual information form dated March 16, 2022, available at www.sedar.com. Maverix has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. Maverix undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information except as required by applicable law. Such forward-looking information represents management's best judgment based on information currently available.
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NORTHBROOK, Ill. , July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a notification from UL Solutions that the network communication cable identified below may pose a fire hazard. The communication cable is marked for use in Plenums and does not comply with UL Solutions' Safety Standards for the application.
Name of Product: High-Performance Network Cable Category 6 Plenum 550Mhz (1000 ft)
Remedy: UL Solutions recommends that this product be removed from service.
Identification on the Product Labels: The Network Cable box bears a Gold Holographic UL label.
The label has the following information:
UL mark as shown below:
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COMMUNICATIONS CABLE
No. YXXXXXXXX (Affected units have Numbers ranging from Y96199575 - Y96199619)
1000FT
Surface print on the Cable: E362025 UTP CAT6 BC 4 PAIRS 23 AWG 550 MHZ UL PLENUM CMPTIA EIA -568C ROHS COMPLIANT
Location: The cables were found in www.A1security.com
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Shraga Tichover is hanging up his fatigues. After more than three decades as a reservist in the Israeli military, the paratrooper says he will no longer put his life on the line for a country slipping toward autocracy.
Tichover is part of a wave of unprecedented opposition from within the ranks of the Israeli military to a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary. Like Tichover, some reservists are refusing to show up for duty and former commanders are defending their actions as a natural response to the impending change.
“The values of this country are going to change. I am not able to serve the military of a state that is not a democracy,” said Tichover, a 53-year-old volunteer reservist who has served in southern Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The typically taboo talk of defying military orders underlines how deeply the overhaul has divided Israel and is now tearing at what Israeli Jews see as their most respected institution, the military. Concerns are growing that the protest could trickle down to young conscripts as well.
In a declaration that has sent shock waves through the country, three dozen reservist fighter pilots said they wouldn’t show up for training on Wednesday in protest. The airmen are seen as the cream of the military’s personnel and irreplaceable elements of many of Israel’s battle plans.
After appeals from top officials, the pilots announced they would show up to their base — but only for a dialogue with their commanders, Israeli media reported. “We have full confidence in our commanders,” the reports quoted the pilots as saying in a letter.
The military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzl Halevi, reportedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week that the reservists’ protest risks harming the military’s capabilities. Halevi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met late Tuesday with a group of senior reservists to discuss the crisis.
“The army cannot operate without the reservists,” Halevi told them. But, he said, “insubordination is a red line.”
For Israel’s Jewish majority, most of whom must serve in the military, the army is a source of unity and a rite of passage. Military service is an important launching pad into civilian life and the workforce.
After completing three years of mandatory service, many men continue in the reserves until their 40s, when service becomes voluntary. Most of those threatening to halt their service are volunteers, protecting them from potential punishment.
Recognizing the threat to its stability, the military has pleaded to be kept out of the heated public discourse. But it’s become central to the debate over what kind of Israel will emerge after the overhaul.
Netanyahu, a former soldier in an elite unit, and his government are pushing forward on a plan to weaken the Supreme Court and limit the independence of the judiciary. His allies say the changes are meant to streamline governance, while critics say the plan will upend Israel’s system of checks and balances and slide the country toward authoritarianism. They also say Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, is motivated by a personal grudge and has a conflict of interest.
The overhaul, which is moving ahead in parliament, has sparked an outcry from business leaders and legal officials. Tens of thousands of protesters have been taking to the streets each week.
Not everyone identifies with the soldiers. Critics say the military, as the enforcer of Israel’s rule over millions of Palestinians in an open-ended occupation, has subjugated another people and eroded the country’s democratic ideals. The reserve units now protesting, including pilots and intelligence units, have been behind deadly strikes or surveillance against Palestinians.
Israel’s own Palestinian minority has largely stayed on the sidelines of the anti-government protests, in part because of Israel’s treatment of their Palestinian brethren in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
But Jewish Israelis see the military as a pillar of security in the face of myriad threats. Israel is mired in a bloody round of violence with Palestinians and archenemy Iran is blazing ahead with its nuclear program. Israel says Iran is developing a nuclear bomb — a charge that Tehran denies.
Those developments have not stopped the creeping challenge within the military. Israel’s pool of reservists are the backbone of the force when security crises erupt.
Ehud Barak, a former military chief of staff, defense minister and prime minister, has said it would be acceptable to defy orders from what he calls a dictatorial regime. Dan Halutz, another former military chief, said soldiers won’t agree to become “mercenaries for a dictator.”
In addition to the protesting pilots, hundreds of reservists have signed letters promising not to serve if the overhaul passes.
“Hit the emergency brake now,” reservists from the 8200 intelligence unit warned the government in a letter last week. Many 8200 graduates join the country’s booming tech sector, also a fierce opponent of the overhaul.
A mass protest movement demonstrating against the overhaul has its own reservist contingent. A new group, “Do it Yourself,” is calling on secular families to refuse to allow their children to serve in the occupied West Bank. A group of soldiers has asked permission to join the mass protests.
Activists warn that the overhaul is threatening to hurt future morale.
“The generations after us will not follow us,” said Eyal Naveh, 47, a reservist from an elite unit and protest leader. “What will a person who halted his reserve duty tell his son? To go to the army or not?”
Naveh said reservists are also concerned the changes will leave soldiers exposed to war crimes charges at international courts. One of Israel’s defenses against war crimes accusations is that it has an independent legal system capable of investigating any potential wrongdoing.
Debate has emerged in the past over whether soldiers ideologically opposed to an order should refuse to carry it out, particularly over the evacuation of Jews from settlements. But the mere suggestion of insubordination is rare.
Tichover, the volunteer reservist, said he struggled during his service with what he called “irrational” orders that harmed Palestinians, like being told to damage Palestinian cars. He said he found ways to skirt around such orders but never overtly defied them.
Late on Monday, Netanyahu met with members of the paramilitary border police force at a base in the occupied West Bank, telling them there was no room for politics in the military.
“There is no place for refusal now, and there won’t be a place in the future,” he said.
Reflecting the military’s public standing, opposition leaders have also spoken out against the calls to defy orders.
“Do not lend a hand to insubordination,” said Benny Gantz, an opposition leader and former military chief.
The looming threat to the military isn’t the reservists’ protest, said Idit Shafran Gittleman, an expert on the military at the Institute for National Security Studies, a Tel Aviv think tank. She says the overhaul could lead to a constitutional crisis over who is in charge.
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First Instance of OCHIN Epic in Illinois
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company, and recognized 2022 #2 Best in KLAS: Overall IT Services Firm, today announced the full deployment of OCHIN's Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) system at Erie Family Health Centers (Erie), a nonprofit with 13 locations dedicated to the integrated healthcare needs of underserved communities across Chicago. This is the first instance of OCHIN Epic in Illinois.
Erie has more than 730 staff members across seven primary care centers, four of which include integrated dental care, one teen center and five school-based health centers, two of which are also open to the surrounding community. Erie cared for more than 88,000 patients in 2021 – the highest number in its 65-year history – providing medical, dental and behavioral health to those it serves. Out of 45 community health centers in Illinois, Erie now ranks in the top 1% of community health centers nationally and #1 in Illinois for newborn delivery volume.
"We are thrilled to partner with Pivot Point and OCHIN to deploy the Epic platform across our community-based health centers," said Amy Valukas, COO at Erie, who also served as a sponsor for the overall project. "Our aim is to drive efficiencies, get more out of our data and build upon the robust connection between our clinical providers and our patients. We were able to deploy OCHIN Epic seamlessly across our organization leveraging a super user program, effective training, as well as a provider personalization program to enhance patient-provider engagements."
The OCHIN Epic EHR technology enables all of Erie's community health centers to access, organize, store and share electronic medical records with four Epic hospital partners. Pivot Point Consulting brings expert project management, resourcing and strategy services to their OCHIN partnership and this EHR transformation initiative.
According to Rachel Marano, Founder and Managing Partner at Pivot Point, "We are tremendously proud to partner with OCHIN and its members nationwide to successfully plan and implement the OCHIN Epic EHR platform. We are continually gratified by this important work to help superior community health centers like Erie leverage crucial technology so they can continue to deliver high-quality care to the communities they serve."
About Erie Family Health
With a mission motivated by the belief that healthcare is a human right, Erie provides high-quality, affordable care to support healthier people, families and communities. Its vision statement is "All people living their healthiest lives." Erie serves patients in nearly 200 zip codes from North Lawndale on Chicago's west side north to Waukegan, regardless of a patient's insurance status, immigration status, primary language, or ability to pay. Erie trains over 300 providers and healthcare workers annually to support this goal of healthcare accessibility. To expand healthcare access, Erie has also deployed an effective telehealth program and last year more than 26 percent of its total patient visits were via telehealth, and successfully served patients in 83 languages.
About Pivot Point Consulting
Pivot Point Consulting enables healthcare organizations to realize the most value from their technology and resources through EHR, ERP, Strategy, Virtual Care, Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, Service Desk, Application Support and Revenue Cycle Management services. Our experts deliver consulting, managed services and talent solutions to providers, payers, life sciences and technology organizations. In 2022, the firm ranked as the #2 Best in KLAS: Overall IT Services Firm, by KLAS (after being 2020 #1 Best in KLAS Overall IT Services Firm) and also ranked #2 in Partial IT Outsourcing. For more information, visit us at pivotpointconsulting.com.
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51-year-old man caught recording fiancee’s daughter in the shower, court docs say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A Tennessee man was arrested Monday morning after police say he secretly recorded his fiancee’s daughter while she showered.
Police charged 51-year-old Eric V. Walker with unlawful photography.
Officers were dispatched on Sunday to a home in Nashville after Walker’s fiancee said she found a video recording of her daughter in the shower on Walker’s phone, according to an affidavit.
The video shows Walker’s cell phone was positioned under the home’s bathroom door crack and pointed toward the shower, WSMV reported.
The woman’s daughter reviewed the recording and confirmed it was her in the shower, police said.
Police did not reveal the ages of the fiancee or the daughter.
Walker was arrested and has since been released, police said.
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WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Sixty Washtenaw County high school students are among the approximately 16,000 semifinalists for the 2023 National Merit Scholarship.
The semifinalists, announced Wednesday, Sept. 14, have an opportunity to compete for 7,250 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered next spring.
Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 95% of semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship.
To become a finalist, semifinalists and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment and honors and awards received.
A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
The 2023 National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July.
Here’s a look at this year’s semifinalists from Washtenaw County:
Ann Arbor
Community High School
Santiago Fiori
Christopher Mendez
Greenhills School
Silvia Abbasi
Sophia Bleakley Wasserman
Celine Duenyas
Ziyad Emara
Kyle Frassetto
Manasa Gollapalli
Emma Hudson
James Kluge
Mark Labovitz
Richard Joseph Miller
Jay Vijan
Emma Zhang
Huron High School
Nathan M. Choi
Ahmed Hejazi
Kenneth H. Jiang
Armaan Kamat
Anne Y. Kim
Kaan K. Lacin
Catherine B. Li
Aico Miao
Grace J. Pang
Kelly H. Park
Peter Schwendeman
Anthony J. Varkey
Christopher P. Yiu
Audrey Z. Zhao
Eric Y. Zhao
Pioneer High School
Arjun Bajaj
Elliott E. Besirli
Connor J. Casey
Ryan Y. Hong
Luke Jimenez
David Lu
Maya I. Mustata
Soren F. Newman-Taylor
Avi N. Patel
Kai A. Sylvester
Kaden Thornton
Holden K. Tsai
Sakthi Vijay
Sonia A. Walter
Ryan H. Wang
Father Gabriel Richard High School
Lucy J. Cousino
Skyline High School
Arjun H. Bharadwaj
Diego J. Del Rio
Benjamin J. Edlund
Daniel Y. Jung
David K. Lee
Julia Mei
Jane Ryu
Dexter High School
Evelyn R. Clemens
Elena C. Lu
Saline High School
Brian Liu
Neel V. Moudgal
Andrew W. Strong
Ypsilanti
Washtenaw International High School
Vendanth T. Kallakuri
Sonia N. Ling
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Learn More About the Latest Organizations Powering BRIDGE's Mission to Tackle the Structures in Place that Contribute to the Gap in Belonging, Representation, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity and What's Next
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BRIDGE, the first purpose-driven DEI trade organization to serve the global marketing industry, today announced that it has added eleven new members to its board, including:
- Elise James-DeCruise, Chief Equity Officer, AdCouncil
- Jessica Ricaurte, Chief Revenue Officer, Adsmovil
- Tony Chen, CEO and Founder, Channel Factory
- Emile Khader, Senior Vice President, Marketing Strategy, Chief of Staff to Global CMO, Condé Nast
- Michele Laven, Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Diversity Officer at iHeartMedia
- Jennifer Warren, VP, Global Brand and Marketing Communications, Indeed
- Kareem Cook, Chief Marketing Officer, Owner, Naturade/VeganSmart
- Sandra Sims-Williams, Chief Diversity Officer, Nielsen
- Charles Cantu, Founder, Reset Digital
- Deborah Yeh, Global Chief Purpose Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Sephora Americas
- Judy Jackson, Former Global Head of Culture, WPP
With the addition of the new board members, twenty-four of BRIDGE's twenty-eight board seats are now filled.
Founded by former MMA Global Chief Strategy Officer Sheryl Daija, BRIDGE's mission is to provide its member companies with the knowledge and resources to bridge the gaps that have created inequities for under-represented and untapped communities in the workplace, workforce and marketplace. BRIDGE's action-oriented philosophy is positioned to help companies and the industry drive meaningful, accountable and measurable change.
"It is fundamental for marketing and business leaders to incorporate DEI as core to our growth strategies and to build a culture of inclusion at both the brand and company levels," said Emile Khader, Senior Vice President, Marketing Strategy, Chief of Staff to Global CMO, Condé Nast. "I am thrilled to join BRIDGE's Board of Directors to accelerate the work it is leading to do just that."
"The increased power, knowledge and commitment our new board members bring forward in support of BRIDGE's mission to drive an equitable culture in our industry is game changing," said BRIDGE founder and CEO Sheryl Daija. "With the unique convergence of diversity and business leaders, we are building the foundations to help companies drive systemic change as part of both a moral and business imperative."
"Our new board members-in-arms could not have signed on at a better time as BRIDGE is about to show the industry what we are made of, as we roll out our first action-based programs," said Jonita Wilson, Chief Diversity Officer, Discover Financial and Chair of the BRIDGE board.
Key initiatives BRIDGE is preparing to roll out in Q4 2022 and early 2023, include:
- Voices of Inclusion Research and the Inclusive Brand Project — A pioneering research study led by an academic team that is deliberately designed to advance the understanding, management and measurement of inclusion in marketing.
- BRIDGE SmartBrief: Launching early Q4 2022, the BRIDGE SmartBrief will be the first of its kind weekly newsletter for the media, marketing and advertising industry that aggregates leading DEI stories, providing those who care about DEI news and issues with one place to go to get their fix. To sign up click here.
- BRIDGE's Leadership and Learning — A comprehensive DEI framework to help companies identify, deconstruct and rethink their own structural gaps that contribute to inequities. This agenda includes multiple layers of standards, best practices and interactive workshop sessions.
- BRIDGE 2023 Inaugural Event: Pioneering DEI Next Practices — BRIDGE's inaugural executive retreat is programmed specifically for Chief Diversity Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, other C-Suite and Business Leaders as well as rising stars. Throughout this interactive program, participants will discover how to commit more fully to all aspects of DEI as integral to a brand's ethos and a company's bottom line as well as help set the industry agenda as we begin to define the future of DEI. Please request an invitation to join April 23-25, 2023 here.
"BRIDGE and the board will double down on driving positive sustainable change across our industry," said Sandra Sims-Williams, Chief Diversity Officer, Nielsen. "Positioning diversity, equity and inclusion at the center of your business, beyond HR or culture, sets you up for long-term business success. Companies that prioritize DE&I and put it into practice are winning savvy job seekers and consumers."
In addition to the incredible work BRIDGE's board has been doing to get these initiatives off the ground, the organization has also established a strategic relationship with The CMO Club to ensure those members who are interested in DEI have easy access to BRIDGE's innovative research, thought leadership and resources.
For more information about BRIDGE's new board, please visit http://www.wearebridge.com or contact us at bridge@wearebridge.com.
Launched in 2022, BRIDGE is a member-driven 501C6. We help companies bridge the gaps that have created inequities for under-represented and untapped communities in the workplace, workforce and marketplace. With the variety of programs that BRIDGE offers including proprietary research, storytelling workshops, best practices, events and more, we identify and dismantle the structures in place to drive systemic change in belonging, representation, inclusion, diversity and equity (BRIDGE is an acronym for these constructs). Our long term goal is to create a comprehensive BRIDGE agenda for companies and certify against its implementation and impact. BRIDGE is an inclusive organization that welcomes support and participation from all companies in the global marketing industry as well as like-minded academics and DEI champions. We are stronger together. Visit BRIDGE to learn more and join (http://www.wearebridge.com).
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Wisdom Boys low on numbers, but big on heart
St Agatha, Maine (WAGM) - The Wisdom Pioneers boys basketball team has just seven players on the team, but they are not letting their low numbers affect them on the court.
They are hoping to host a preliminary game and make the trip to Bangor
<(Nathan Boynton):” A small team very close knit. A team that loves to work together. Have to overcome some obstacles in practice because we can’t do five on five or four on four. "
The Pioneers lost a few games early in the year, but since then they have stepped up their game and are ready to take part in the post season.
Boynton:” We have come a long way since the beginning of the season. We are improving just in time for the tournament.”
It is a fine line when you have such a short bench because your substitution pattern has to change and players are on the court for more minutes. Boynton said the key is to pay attention to the players on the court and listen to them.
Boynton:” Practices are limited we try to modify things down from a five on five standpoint. We focus more on positioning of players. Rest is huge hydration recovery. It’s things we take seriously.”
The key was getting the team to buy into the system and to believe in each other.
Boynton:” I think a lot of it confidence. We are a fairly experienced team, but we have a lot of people stepping into bigger roles.”
(Logan Legasse):” I honestly think it would be confidence also because some people would be passing the ball right away. As we started being more confident with the ball and handling the ball it was a lot better.”
(Kaden Daigle):” I feel pretty good about my team this far in the season. We came a long way. The chemistry just got better within the past month and just been rocketed out.”
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The head of the House Democrats said this week that tougher work requirements for social benefits won’t fly with members of his caucus, setting the stage for a drag-out fight with GOP leaders who are insisting on those provisions as a condition of raising the debt ceiling.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday night told members of the Democrats’ Steering and Policy Committee that “work requirements are a nonstarter” as bipartisan negotiators seek a deal to prevent a government default, according to a spokesperson.
That stipulation stands equal but opposite to the ‘red line’ drawn by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday morning, when he told reporters that Republicans will insist on tougher work requirements as part of any agreement.
“Yes, it is,” McCarthy said, when asked if that’s a red line.
More coverage of the debt ceiling from The Hill:
- Five things to know about where negotiations stand
- McCarthy confirms work requirements are ‘red line’
- Yellen warns of catastrophic default: ‘Time is running out’
- McCarthy, Biden, other congressional leaders set for Tuesday meeting
- GOP senators dismiss Trump’s calls for a default
- LAST WEEK: Takeaways from initial White House debt ceiling meeting
House Republicans have already passed some work mandates as part of the debt limit package that moved through the lower chamber without Democratic support late last month. Their legislation would apply stricter work requirements to certain recipients of Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as food stamps) and other federal benefit programs.
“When you’re talking about work requirements, remember what we’re talking about: able-bodied people with no dependents,” McCarthy told reporters. “It’s 20 hours.”
Democrats have widely rejected those changes, noting that many social benefit programs already have work requirements in place and blasting Republicans for proposing to cut benefits that are used to help children disproportionately.
“The average SNAP benefit … is $6 per person per day,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), chairman of the Democratic Caucus, said Tuesday during a press briefing in the Capitol. “That’s who Republicans are. They would rather cut that, or eliminate it, and take food out of the mouths of kids in order to make a political point.”
President Biden had muddied the debate over work requirements over the weekend, when he appeared to be open to the concept, particularly under Medicaid.
“I’m waiting to hear what their exact proposal is,” Biden told reporters during a trip to Delaware.
Yet Biden’s liberal allies on and off of Capitol Hill have lambasted the tougher requirements, warning that they would only hurt low-income families that rely on certain benefit programs for basic necessities such as nutrition and health care.
The president Monday appeared to walk back his comments, tweeting a warning about the detrimental effect the House Republican proposal would have on “older adults.”
“Rather than push Americans into poverty, we should reduce the deficit by making sure the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes,” Biden tweeted.
The president is scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon at the White House with Jeffries, McCarthy and the top Senate leaders on a path forward.
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Having no particular relevant experience to offer, unless you count yes man to Doug Ducey, Juan Ciscomani resorts to the standard, boilerplate Republican attack on Kirsten Engel. Reflexively, phrases like "Open Borders" and "Defund Police" are hurled at any and all Democrats, including Kirsten Engel, whether true or not. In the case of Kirsten Engel: not. At least so far, Ciscomani hasn't accused Engel of being an Antifa commander.
We are indeed fortunate to have a person with Kirsten Engel's integrity, education, intelligence, experience and selflessness who is willing to put herself into the arena for all of us. Please vote for Kirsten Engel so that she can be our champion in Washington fighting for our voting rights, immigration reform, water and environmental preservation, Social Security, education, workers' rights, respect for minority communities and, yes, defending womens' rights to make their own reproductive health decisions.
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Rutgers will try to end a 20-game losing streak at home against Big Ten Conference opponents when it faces Nebraska on Friday night.
The Scarlet Knights have never beaten the Cornhuskers, having lost all five meetings. After opening with three straight wins, Rutgers has lost to Iowa and Ohio State. Nebraska is 2-3 and coming off a win over Indiana. The Cornhuskers have had a coaching change. Mickey Joseph has been running the team since Scott Frost was fired after the third game, a stunning loss to Georgia Southern.
WHAT'S AT STAKE?
Nebraska ended a nine-game losing streak against Bowl Subdivision opponents when it beat Indiana, and now the Cornhuskers look to build on it. Joseph has brought a positive vibe, and the Huskers believe they can still achieve some big goals playing in a less-than-intimidating Big Ten West. If Rutgers is going to get back to a bowl game this season, this is the type of game it needs to win.
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Nebraska RB Anthony Grant vs. Rutgers defense. Grant is a punishing runner who has four 100-yard games and averages 5.2 yards per carry, second-best among Big Ten backs with more than 100 attempts. The Scarlet Knights allowed 7.1 yards per carry against Ohio State, way up from the 1.8 against four less distinguished opponents.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Nebraska: QB Casey Thompson this week disclosed a host of injuries he's dealt with over the first five games: shoulder, wrist, jaw and calf. The Texas transfer landed on his shoulder in the second half against Indiana and had to visit the medical tent. Now he faces a physical Rutgers defense, and it's critical to keep him on the field because there's a steep drop-off after him.
Rutgers: Evan Simon has been the only healthy scholarship quarterback for weeks. Noah Vedral got four snaps last weekend against Ohio State in his first action of the season. The player to watch is true freshman running back Sam Brown. He has been getting more time and leads the team with 210 yards on 42 carries, a 5.0 yard average.
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Nebraska has lost five straight true road games since winning 28-21 at Rutgers on Dec. 18, 2020, which also was a Friday game. … The Huskers have scored touchdowns on four of five opening drives and on six of seven dating to last season. … The Huskers allowed Indiana to convert just 2 of 15 third downs (13.3%), their best mark since Illinois went 1 for 12 (8.3%) in 2019. ... Rutgers has lost 20 straight conference games at home. The last win was against Maryland in 2017. ... Defensively, Rutgers is 18th nationally in total defense (282.2 yards), 18th in rushing defense (95.6), 22nd in interceptions (6), 27th on third down (.302) and 29th in passing yards against (186.6). S Christian Izien leads the team with 37 tackles. LB Tyreem Powell has three sacks and DB Robert Longerbeam has a team-high two interceptions. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/college/rutgers-faces-nebraska-on-friday-with-chance-to-end-20-game-home-losing-streak-vs/article_b86775c0-4584-11ed-a282-8bdbdf7e181f.html | 2022-10-06 16:18:24 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/college/rutgers-faces-nebraska-on-friday-with-chance-to-end-20-game-home-losing-streak-vs/article_b86775c0-4584-11ed-a282-8bdbdf7e181f.html |
Indonesian recalls stinging tear gas in deadly soccer melee
By EDNA TARIGAN
Associated Press
MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — Dicky Kurniawan felt the sharp sting in his eyes as Indonesian police fired tear gas into the football stadium.
From his seat near an exit, he said he watched the melee unfold Saturday night as angry fans poured into the field to demand answers after host Arema FC of East Java’s Malang city lost to Persebaya Surabaya, its first defeat ever on its home turf. The mob threw bottles and other objects, and the violence spread outside the stadium, where police cars were overturned and torched.
Kurniawan, 22, was shocked when police fired tear gas at spectators in the stands. As the stinging gas spread through the stadium, Kurniawan grabbed his girlfriend and — like everyone else — dashed to the exits.
The mass rush led to a stampede that killed nearly three dozen people almost instantly. The death toll reached 125 and hundreds more were injured in one of the world’s deadliest tragedies at a sporting event. More than 40,000 spectators were at the match, all Arema fans because the organizer had banned Persebaya Surabaya supporters due to Indonesia’s history of violent soccer rivalries.
“The chaos was on the field, but they fired the tear gas into the stadium stands,” Kurniawan said as he described the tragedy from his hospital bed. He received bruises on his face but said he was fortunate to survive.
“Now I am done watching soccer in the stadium,” Kurniawan said.
In the bed next to Kurniawan, teenager Farel Panji also had a lucky escape.
Panji, 16, had just left his seat to go to the exit when the tear gas came. As people ran past him to get to the exit, Panji said he got pushed down by the crowd and collapsed.
“I fainted for a while. When I woke up, I was still in the stadium seating area,” Panji said. He got home safely and was taken to the hospital the next day. Wearing an Arema jersey, Panji said Saturday’s incident did not stop him from loving the club.
Malang’s Dr. Saiful Anwar General Hospital, one of several used to treat victims, was filled Sunday with grieving relatives waiting to identify bodies in the morgue or for information about their loves ones.
Police say 323 people were injured in the crush, with some still in critical condition. At least 17 children were among the dead and seven other children are being treated at hospitals, according to the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection.
Arema’s Chilean coach, Javier Roca, led the players and other officials in paying respect to the dead in a ceremony Monday.
Wearing black shirts, the team gathered at the statue of a lion head outside Kanjuruhan Stadium. Dozens of Arema supporters also attended, and started to cry when the players poured rose petals around the statue and prayed together.
“We came here as a team, asking forgiveness from the families impacted by this tragedy, those who lost their loves ones or the ones who are still being treated in the hospital,” Roca said.
He said soccer violence must stop.
“We feel like we got a punishment,” he said. “One match result is not worth paying with the lives of people, let alone more than 100 people.” | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/03/indonesian-recalls-stinging-tear-gas-in-deadly-soccer-melee-2/ | 2022-10-03 11:03:01 | 0 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/03/indonesian-recalls-stinging-tear-gas-in-deadly-soccer-melee-2/ |
Kate Middleton plays the piano in surprise appearance at Eurovision Song Contest: 'Enjoy the show'
Kate Middleton made a surprise cameo at the Eurovision Song Contest final on Saturday night.
The 41-year-old Princess of Wales gave a pre-recorded piano performance in the international song competition's opening segment, which she filmed earlier this month at the Crimson Drawing Room of Windsor Castle. Middleton played an instrumental version of the Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra's song "Stefania," which won the contest last year.
The official account for the Middleton and her husband Prince William, 40, later shared a clip of the princess's performance on Twitter.
Kate Middleton gave a surprise piano performance in a video to open the Eurovision Song Contest final. ( Alex Bramall/Kensington Palace via Getty Images)
"A #Eurovision surprise," the royals wrote alongside the video, adding an emoji of piano keys.
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They continued, "A pleasure to join Kalush Orchestra in a special performance of last year's winning @eurovision entry."
"Enjoy the show, Liverpool."
The Duchess of Cambridge wore a bright blue one-shouldered chiffon Jenny Packham dress and a pair of earrings that formerly belonged to the late Queen Elizabeth II. The color of Middleton's gown was a nod to the Ukrainian blue and yellow flag.
The clip opened with an overhead shot of Windsor Castle before the camera zoomed into window of the Red Drawing room and cut to Middleton sitting at a black grand piano and beaming before she began to play the piece, which was arranged by music directors Joe Price and Kojo Samuel.
Eurovision's opening montage featured cuts to Middleton as well as a number of artists performing their own versions of "Stephania" alongside Kalush Orchestra. The performers included Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ms, Banks, Joss Stone, Ballet Black, Bolt Strings, and 2022 runner-up Sam Ryder.
The song contest usually takes place in the home country of the previous year's winner but the 2023 final was held in Liverpool, U.K. due to Ukraine's ongoing war with Russia.
Middleton learned to play piano from the age of around 10 or 11 until 13, according to her former instructor Peter Nicholls. In Apri 2012, he told the Evening Standard that she was "absolutely lovely, a really delightful person to teach the piano."
Middleton first showed off her musical ability at the Christmas concert that she hosted at Westminster Abbey. She was joined by Prince William and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. ( YUI MOK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
In December 2021, the princess showed off her musical ability in her first public performance during the Christmas carol concert that she hosted at Westminster Abbey. She accompanied singer Tom Walker on the piano as he performed his song "For Those Who Can't Be Here."
At the time, a source told People magazine that Middleton proposed the idea herself. The insider added that she took "great comfort" in playing the piano while quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Music was very important to the Duchess during the lockdowns," the source said. "She also recognizes the powerful way in which music brings people together — especially during difficult times. For these reasons, she was keen to be part of Tom's performance in this way."
Walker raved over Middleton's performance, telling People that she "absolutely smashed it."
Middeton accompanied singer Tom Walker on the piano as he performed his song "For Those Who Can't Be Here." ( YUI MOK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
"It's not easy to just jump behind a piano with a bunch of musicians you've never played with before and record live takes to camera, but she completely nailed it," Walker said.
He continued, "She's such a lovely, kind and warm-hearted person and she took the time to thank everyone personally for the opportunity to play together."
"It was a crazy pinch-yourself kind of day for me, to be in such a beautiful venue playing alongside the Duchess with my band and a string quartet. I certainly won't forget that in a hurry!"
Middleton wasn't the only member of the royal family to make a surprise appearance at Eurovision. King Charles and Queen Camilla also played a role in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Two weeks ago, the couple officially opened the stage at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool and also made cameos in the film "Welcome to Liverpool" which was screened ahead of the semi-fnals. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/kate-middleton-plays-the-piano-in-surprise-appearance-at-eurovision-song-contest-enjoy-the-show | 2023-05-14 13:57:40 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/kate-middleton-plays-the-piano-in-surprise-appearance-at-eurovision-song-contest-enjoy-the-show |
Hurricanes are decreasing in every ocean except this one, study says
(CNN) – A study finds the number of hurricanes decreased in every ocean basin, except for one, over the past century.
The study found the annual number of global hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms declined overall by about 13% as the planet warmed during the 20th century.
Scientists found the number of storms increased only in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The lead researcher said the drop in frequency doesn’t mean storms are becoming less of a threat, saying while there may be fewer tropical cyclones in the future, it is likely they will be more intense.
He said global warming makes underlying conditions less favorable for the formation of cyclones but when they do form, they are feeding on more energy from the warming atmosphere.
The study was published in the journal “Nature Climate Change.”
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The attraction-based celebration will be produced by Artistic Holiday Designs
in Chicago with expansion into New York City
STAMFORD, Conn., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Amaze Light Festival is back and it's better than ever. Artistic Holiday Designs has announced the expansion of the Amaze Light Festival for the 2022 holiday season, which will now be three times larger in Chicago and on display in New York City for the first time ever. Following a $5 million fundraise by MEP Capital, the popular light show will enjoy a 45-day run starting in November and going through the holiday season at Odyssey Fun World in Tinley Park and Citi Field in New York.
"We're fully expecting this year to be bigger and more extravagant than ever before in 2022," says Derek Norwood, CEO of Artistic Holiday Designs. "We are excited that MEP Capital shares in our vision of bringing the holiday experience to life. They have made some incredible strategic investments in the entertainment space over the years and are very supportive in helping us grow exponentially over last season, which was very successful."
In Chicago, the new 250,000 square-foot venue at Tinley Park will be three times as large as the 2021 venue in Rosemont, which served more than 120,000 guests. This year, the Amaze Light Festival is expecting more than 300,000 enthusiasts in Chicago and roughly 400,000 at Citi Field in New York City. The festival is poised to add VIP features, improved check-in times and overall logistic efficiency.
"We are thrilled to partner with Artistic Holiday Designs and our longstanding collaborators at Parachute Concerts to help bring Amaze Light Festivals to New York and Tinley Park," says MEP Capital partner Andrew Kotliar. "The team has built a unique brand that is sure to delight families this holiday season and for years to come."
Artistic Holiday Designs began as a design firm seeking to chant holiday decor. The company's experience as an installer of holiday lighting led its team to seek out innovative and unique decor options for its clients. In March 2015, Artistic Holiday Designs partnered with Leblanc Illuminations as their sole distributor in the United States market. The company's creativity with Leblanc's mastery of products has allowed them to become a force in the world of holiday decor.
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Since 1958, Leblanc Illuminations has been a leading light in the festive and christmas lighting sector. A pioneer of new trends, Leblanc Illuminations has always been at the heart of innovation, renewing more than 30% of its collections each year and decorating for more than 1,000 cities worldwide.
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McConnell leaves rehab facility after therapy for concussion
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday he has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this month.
The 81-year-old Kentucky Republican said in a statement released by his office that he will work from home for the next few days. The Senate is scheduled to be on break for the weeks of April 3 and April 10.
McConnell was at dinner on March 8 after a hotel reception for a campaign committee aligned with him when he tripped and fell. In addition to the concussion, he also had a rib fracture.
He was released from the hospital on March 13 and, upon the advice of his doctor, moved to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for physical therapy and to continue his recovery.
Concussions can be serious injuries and take time for recovery. Even a single incident of concussion can limit a person’s abilities during that period.
“I’m going to follow the advice of my physical therapists and spend the next few days working for Kentuckians and the Republican Conference from home," McConnell said in the statement. "I’m in frequent touch with my Senate colleagues and my staff. I look forward to returning in person to the Senate soon.”
Almost four years ago he tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, causing a shoulder fracture that required surgery. The Senate had just started a summer recess, and he worked from home for some weeks as he recovered.
In his early childhood, he had polio and he has acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in climbing stairs.
McConnell was first elected in 1984. In January, he became the longest-serving Senate leader when the new Congress convened, breaking the previous record of 16 years. | https://www.kcra.com/article/mcconnell-leaves-rehab-facility/43418035 | 2023-03-25 23:24:32 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/mcconnell-leaves-rehab-facility/43418035 |
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
UZHHOROD, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine on Sunday, holding a surprise Mother’s Day meeting with the nation’s first lady, Olena Zelenskyy, as Russia presses its punishing war in the eastern regions.
Biden traveled under the cloak of secrecy, becoming the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during its 10-week-old conflict with Russia.
“I wanted to come on Mother’s Day,” Biden told Zelenskyy. “I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and this war has been brutal and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine.”
The first lady traveled by vehicle to the town of Uzhhorod, about a 10-minute drive from a Slovakian village that borders Ukraine.
The two came together in a small classroom, sitting across a table from one another and talking before reporters before they met in private. Zelenskyy and her children have been at an undisclosed location for their safety.
Zelenskyy thanked Biden for her “courageous act” and said, “We understand what it takes for the U.S. first lady to come here during a war when military actions are taking place every day, where the air sirens are happening every day — even today.”
The school where they met has been turned into transitional housing for Ukrainian migrants from elsewhere in the country.
The visit allowed Biden to conduct the kind of personal diplomacy that her husband would like to be doing himself.
President Joe Biden said during his visit to Poland in March that he was disappointed he could not visit Ukraine to see conditions “firsthand” but that he was not allowed, likely due to security reasons. The White House said as recently as last week that the president “would love to visit” but there were no plans for him to do so at this time.
The meeting came about after the two first ladies exchanged correspondence in recent weeks, according to U.S. officials who declined to provide further details because they were not authorized to discuss the ladies’ private communications.
As she arrived at the school, Biden, who was wearing a Mother’s Day corsage that was a gift from her husband, embraced Zelenskyy and presented her with a bouquet.
After their private meeting, the two joined a group of children who live at the school in making tissue-paper bears to give as Mother’s Day gifts.
Jill Biden’s visit follows recent stops in the war-torn country by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress, as well as a joint trip by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
Her visit was limited to western Ukraine; Russia is concentrating its military power in eastern Ukraine, and she was not in harm’s way.
Earlier, in the Slovakian border village of Vysne Nemecke, she toured its border processing facility, surveying operations set up by the United Nations and other relief organizations to assist Ukrainians seeking refuge. Biden attended a religious service in a tent set up as a chapel, where a priest intoned, “We pray for the people of Ukraine.”
Before that, in Kosice, Biden met and offered support to Ukrainian mothers in Slovakia who have been displaced by Russia’s war and assuring them that the “hearts of the American people” are behind them.
At a bus station in the city that is now a 24-hour refugee processing center, Biden found herself in an extended conversation with a Ukrainian woman who said she struggles to explain the war to her three children because she cannot understand it herself.
“I cannot explain because I don’t know myself and I’m a teacher,” Victorie Kutocha, who had her arms around her 7-year-old daughter, Yulie, told Biden.
At one point, Kutocha asked, “Why?” seeming to seek an explanation for Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine on Feb. 24.
’It’s so hard to understand,” the first lady replied.
The 24-hour facility is one of six refugee centers in Slovakia, providing an average of 300 to 350 people daily with food, showers, clothing, emergency on-site accommodations and other services, according to information provided by the White House.
Biden also dropped in at a Slovakian public school that has taken in displaced students.
Slovakian and Ukrainian moms were brought together at the school for a Mother’s Day event while their children made crafts to give them as gifts.
Biden went from table to table meeting the mothers and kids. She told some of the women that she wanted to come and ” say the hearts of the American people are with the mothers of Ukraine.”
“I just wanted to come and show you our support,” she said before departing for Vysne Nemecke.
In recent weeks border crossings are averaging less than 2,000 per day, down from over 10,000 per day immediately after Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, and a large portion of that flow is daily cross border traffic.
Biden is on a four-day visit to Eastern Europe to highlight U.S. support for Ukrainian refugees and for the allied countries such as Romania and Slovakia that are providing a safe haven for them.
She spent Friday and Saturday in Romania, visiting with U.S. troops and meeting with Ukrainian refugee mothers and children.
With her trip, the American first lady followed the path of prior sitting first ladies who also traveled to war or conflict zones.
Eleanor Roosevelt visited servicemen abroad during World War II to help boost troop morale. Pat Nixon joined President Richard Nixon on his 1969 trip to South Vietnam, becoming the first first lady to visit a combat zone, according to the National First Ladies’ Library. She flew 18 miles from Saigon in an open helicopter, accompanied by U.S. Secret Service agents.
Hillary Clinton visited a combat zone, stopping in Bosnia in 1996. Four years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Laura Bush went to Kabul in 2005 and Melania Trump accompanied President Donald Trump to Iraq in December 2018.
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The employer-sponsored health plan insurer also earned URAC accreditations for disease management and health utilization management
PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine360, a company offering a simplified, total health plan solution for self-funded businesses, today announced they received Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) accreditation for the company's case management program.
URAC's rigorous review and accreditation demonstrates Imagine360's exemplary care coordination in providing case management to its members. A collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation and advocacy help to ensure each member's comprehensive health needs are met.
"Imagine360 is committed to ensuring exceptional member support and experience, and it is because of this commitment that we received this valued accreditation," said Jeff Bak, President and CEO at Imagine360. "Our credentialed and compassionate healthcare specialists, the 1:1 patient support, and the integration of plan data all support a seamless member experience. The URAC accreditation further distinguishes Imagine360's devotion to quality and accountability. We are very proud to have earned this distinction."
The company also earned the URAC accreditations for disease management, for its ability to meet the needs of members with chronic diseases, and for health utilization management, recognizing its ability to help ensure members get the quality and cost-effective care they need.
Imagine360 offers self-funded businesses and their employees innovative and cost-effective health plan solutions, all while providing the highest quality of member services. The solution is a people-centric, data-driven healthcare journey that includes identifying top-quality healthcare providers, assisting with the management of complex health issues, and ensuring full price protection with deep transparency.
About Imagine360
Imagine360 is a company offering a simplified, total health plan solution for self-funded businesses that combines the financial savings from reference-based pricing with seamless benefits administration and concierge-level member support. The reimagined health plan solution leverages 50+ years of expertise and best-in-class offerings from industry leaders to deliver a more affordable and better healthcare experience.
About URAC
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Assailants fatally shot an American aid worker Monday in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi capital in recent years, two police officials said.
The man was shot in his car as he entered the street where he lives in Baghdad’s central Karrada district on the east bank of the Tigris River but the reason for the killing was not immediately clear, they said. They said the man’s wife and child were in the car with him but were not hurt.
The officials said as the man drove through his street, a car cut him off and assailants in another car shot him dead. It was not immediately clear if the assailants were trying to kidnap the man, they said.
State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters the department is aware of the reports of the killing of a U.S. aid worker in Baghdad and is looking into them. But, he said the department was not yet in a position to confirm the accounts of the death or that the person was a U.S. citizen.
According to documents seen by The Associated Press, the man had been renting an apartment in Karrada’s Wahda area since May last year.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.
U.S. Embassy officials when contacted by The Associated Press could not immediately provide any information about the case.
Two security officials confirmed a U.S. citizen who worked for an international aid organization had been killed without giving his name. They said details were scarce but an investigation was underway. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
A medical worker at Sheikh Zayed Hospital, where the victim was taken, said he was dead on arrival.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said he would form a committee comprising the interior ministry and various security agencies to “investigate the circumstances of the killing of an American citizen in the capital.”
The streets of the middle class, mixed Christian and Muslim neighborhood where the victim reportedly lived were empty of residents but heavily patrolled by police Monday night.
Such attacks against individuals in the Iraqi capital have been rare since the defeat of the Islamic State group in the country in 2017 but rockets are sometimes fired toward the U.S. Embassy.
In the early years that followed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, such attacks were common. In 2004, two Americans were kidnapped in Baghdad and extremists later released videos showing their beheading.
The attack came after Iraq’s new Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was given a vote of confidence by parliament in late October. Al-Sudani was named by the Iran-backed Coordination Framework, composed largely of Shiite parties.
Iraq held early elections more than a year ago in response to mass anti-government protests that began in October 2019 in Baghdad and across southern Iraq. Protesters called for the overhaul of the political system established after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
U.S.-led coalition forces recently ended their combat mission in Iraq but continue to play an advisory role to Iraqi forces in the fight against IS.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-officials-us-aid-worker-shot-dead-in-baghdad-in-rare-attack/ | 2022-11-08 06:19:49 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-officials-us-aid-worker-shot-dead-in-baghdad-in-rare-attack/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge on New York’s highest court has reversed her refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine months after not complying with a vaccination mandate.
Judge Jenny Rivera, one of seven jurists on the state’s Court of Appeals, said this week that she is now ready to receive the recently authorized Novavax vaccine once it's publicly available.
Rivera said in a statement Tuesday that she had declined to get vaccinated because of concerns about her personal health.
“My doctors have confirmed that the recently approved Novavax COVID-19 vaccine does not present any health-related risks to me, and I am ready and eager to receive this vaccine as soon as it is publicly available,” said Rivera, who was appointed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.
New York's court system has barred Rivera from court facilities for refusing to comply with its requirement for all employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. She has worked remotely since October.
Rivera is one of four judges statewide who have been referred to the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct for failing to show proof of vaccination. Judges in New York can only be removed by the commission, which has never sanctioned or removed a Court of Appeals judge.
Rivera's announcement comes as the state's highest court faces the departure of Chief Judge Janet DiFiore at the end of August.
The court system is expected to announce an acting chief judge to temporarily replace DiFiore.
Novavax is a more traditional kind of vaccine. The Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots train the body to fight the coronavirus by recognizing its outer coating, the spike protein, and essentially turning people’s cells into a temporary vaccine factory.
Novavax works by injecting copies of a spike protein that are grown in a lab and packaged into nanoparticles that to the immune system resemble a virus. Protein vaccines have been used for years to prevent other diseases including hepatitis B and shingles.
Health officials hope the Novavax vaccine will appeal to people who have been waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine built on a different technology.
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Wildfires in Canada have burned a staggering 25 million acres so far this year, an area roughly the size of Kentucky. With more than a month of peak fire season left to go, 2023 has already eclipsed Canada’s previous annual record from 1989, when over 18 million acres were scorched. And the country’s worst wildfire season on record continues to rage.
Hot, dry conditions have fueled widespread wildfires, mostly in Canada’s boreal forests, since the spring, with some of the largest blazes burning in northwest Canada and in Quebec. The fires have forced more than 120,000 people to evacuate their homes, stretched firefighting resources, and repeatedly darkened the skies and polluted the air for millions of people across North America.
“What is kind of extraordinary this year is that the fire season started early and in multiple areas at the same time,” said Jennifer Kamau, a spokesperson for the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center.
In a more typical season, Kamau said, “fires would flare up in one part of the country, then die down and then start in another area,” which allows fire crews to tackle one region at a time. But this year, she said, “demand in every province and territory is high,” nearly coast to coast.
International fire crews, including more than 1,800 firefighters and support staff from the United States, have been mobilized to help battle the flames since May, but the size and ferocity of the blazes have often hampered their efforts even as many of the largest, most remote fires have been left to burn. Over the past week, two Canadian firefighters were killed on duty just days apart.
High temperatures in the spring helped the fire season get off to an intense early start. A heat wave baked British Columbia and Alberta in mid-May, exacerbating several early wildfires. In early June, multiple fires broke out in Quebec amid record heat and rapidly intensified. By the end of the month, June was recorded as the planet’s hottest month ever, and some of the world’s most anomalous temperatures were found in northern Canada.
“The recipe for a wildfire is simple,” said Mike Flannigan, a professor who studies wildland fires at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. “You need three ingredients: First, vegetation. We call it fuel. Second: ignition, which in Canada is people and lightning. And, third: hot, dry, windy weather.”
Those ingredients came together over and over again this year across much of the country, he said, resulting in a fire season that stands “head and shoulders above any other year.”
By early June this year, Canadian wildfires had already burned as many acres as they usually do over an entire season.
The hot, dry, windy conditions that make it more likely for fires to take hold are becoming more common in many parts of the world as the planet heats from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. Canada has, on average, warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world in recent years, largely because of a loss of snow and sea ice.
Studies directly linking climate change to this year’s wildfires have not yet been carried out, but the 2023 fire season is in line with scientists’ understanding of how global warming is affecting wildfires.
“Fire season is getting longer, we’re seeing more frequent fire-conducive weather, the conditions are getting more severe, the vegetation is getting drier and more primed to burn if there are ignitions,” said Yan Boulanger, a research scientist in forest ecology at the Laurentian Forestry Center in Quebec. “These are very significant trends we are seeing across large swaths of Canada.”
That doesn’t mean that quieter wildfire years, such as last year, are no longer possible, Flanningan said, but a warmer world makes large, explosive wildfires more likely than they were in the past.
This year’s hot, dry conditions have contributed to extreme fire behavior, too, experts said. More than 100 times over the past three months, Canadian wildfires have grown sufficiently large and powerful to produce their own weather, kicking up giant thunderclouds known as pyrocumulonibus, and injecting smoke high into the atmosphere. These events can help transport smoke over very long distances.
The previous most active year for such extreme fire weather in Canada was 2021, which had fewer than half as many pyroCbs, as they are more commonly called, over the entire season.
Forecasts for the rest of the summer suggest that higher-than-normal fire activity is likely to continue across much of Canada, which could mean more heat, more fires and more smoke ahead. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/how-canadas-record-wildfires-got-so-bad-so-fast/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2023-07-21 20:01:20 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/how-canadas-record-wildfires-got-so-bad-so-fast/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
SEATTLE, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., the premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced that Pouch Insurance Services has chosen Milliman AccuRate FleetTM as its platform for usage-based insurance scores. AccuRate Fleet is a usage-based insurance score designed to enable more accurate pricing of fleet exposure and driving behavior risk. Developed by Milliman actuaries and data scientists, AccuRate Fleet is based on over a billion miles of commercial auto driving data and thousands of crashes.
"The Milliman AccuRate score allows us to offer extremely fair and accurate pricing to our customers and rewards them with lower rates for driving carefully and managing their fleets," says Steve McKay, CEO of Pouch. "Milliman's combination of statistical and regulatory expertise made the process a win for us."
Milliman AccuRate Fleet is a risk score relating driving behavior to the likelihood of a crash, and allows commercial auto insurers, MGAs, and startups to better match price to risk and improve retention of customers with safe driving habits. Unlike existing filed telematics scores, AccuRate Fleet is developed using over 2.7 billion miles of commercial auto data. These scores have been reviewed and approved by state insurance regulators for use in ratemaking.
"We are excited to help Pouch accelerate the launch of their innovative commercial auto program," says Peggy Brinkmann, a Milliman principal and consulting actuary. "The Milliman AccuRate Fleet score not only helps programs like Pouch's better match rate to risk, but also get to market quickly since it's been approved in 27 states and counting."
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS) between March 19, 2021 and March 25, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important June 28, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Governor Glenn Youngkin approved new laws giving teachers a tax break and providing more money for school construction.
Both measures went into overtime after the General Assembly’s 2022 regular session wrapped up. Youngkin had until Thursday at 11:59 p.m. to act on bills finalized during the special session.
School Construction
Youngkin ceremonially signed legislation on Friday that will increase funding to replace and upgrade schools across the state. The event was held at Mecklenburg County High School and Middle School, where there was also a ribbon cutting to celebrate the construction of a new campus.
“This is monumental,” Youngkin said. “I’m sorry that support didn’t help build this but, you know what, you do have elementary schools that I know need investment, so we look forward to being back here at a future date.”
Senator Jennifer McClellan, one of the sponsors of the bill Youngkin signed, said the funding could also help rebuild Richmond’s Fox Elementary School, which went up in flames back in February.
“My son’s third grade classroom was right on the corner,” McClellan said. “This was a devastating event for our family.”
All together, the state budget includes $1.2 billion for school construction grants and loans.
“Since the 1950s, I don’t think we’ve had as big an investment in schools and yet the commission that I chair has found that over half of our schools are over one hundred years old and the total cost to replace them would be $25 billion dollars. Our localities just can’t do that on their own,” McClellan said.
McClellan said it’s too soon to say when applications will come out, how quickly the money will be allocated and which projects will be prioritized. She said the Virginia Department of Education is in the process of crafting guidelines.
Teacher Tax Break
Youngkin also approved a tax break for teachers, schools counselors, principals, special needs personnel and student aides. The law applies to educators at both public and private K-12 schools who worked for at least 900 hours during the taxable year in Virginia.
The law authorizes an income tax deduction of up to $500 dollars for those paying for professional development courses, school supplies or education-related equipment out of pocket. The credit can be used for taxable years 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Chesterfield Teacher Melanie-Nicole Harris said it’s a relief.
“It would definitely help because I just spent over $800 on my classroom,” Harris said. “Any help we can get is appreciated. $500 is better than zero.”
Harris said the tax break isn’t likely to offset all of her expenses but it’s still important to her to spend the extra cash.
“The onus kind of gets put on teachers. If you want to have a dynamic, fun, collaborative classroom, you have to provide some of those materials. So that’s what I do,” Harris said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/virginia/tax-break-for-teachers-school-construction-money-approved-by-youngkin/ | 2022-08-06 03:50:49 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/virginia/tax-break-for-teachers-school-construction-money-approved-by-youngkin/ |
On Sunday afternoon, traffic will come to a halt in Adams Morgan. Instead of Uber Eats drivers blocking traffic outside restaurants and buses idling at stoplights, 18th Street NW will be filled with diners enjoying restaurants alfresco and families doing yoga together while an entertainer riding a big-wheeled penny-farthing cycles past.
Well, that’s the idea, anyway.
Sunday marks the debut of the Adams Morgan Pedestrian Zone, a pilot program that will close 18th Street to vehicular traffic between Columbia and Kalorama roads one Sunday each month, from noon to 10 p.m., through October. The goal, according to the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District, is to draw more people to the neighborhood, then make it easier for them to move around and socialize or participate in activities on the pavement.
For years, or maybe decades, Adams Morgan business owners and bar regulars have floated the idea of closing 18th Street to cars on weekends, turning the strip of eateries, music venues and taverns into some sort of combination of Les Halles and Bourbon Street. Outside of the annual Adams Morgan Day festival, however, it remained a pipe dream.
Then, in June 2020, the District Department of Transportation announced it was closing 18th between Columbia and Kalorama roads for extended stretches over the course of a weekend — eight hours each on Friday and Saturday and 12 hours on Sunday. The goal was to “reimagine outdoor space in the District” as bars and restaurants began to reopen, creating more room for outdoor drinking and dining. When the weekend finally arrived, it might have been more successful than anticipated: There were long lines and full patios up and down the street. “That was very successful for us,” says Jo-Jo Valenzuela, the owner of the Game sports bar and Tiki on 18th, though he adds that “it was the craziest shift I’ve ever worked in my life” due to crowds ordering cocktails while restaurants remained short-staffed. Dave Delaplaine, the general manager and beer director at Roofers Union, is more concise: “That kicked our a--.”
Despite interest in repeating the experiment, neighbors complained about the lack of social distancing and masking, and it didn’t happen again. But closing the street became a possibility once more this year thanks to the Streets for People grant program, which supports outdoor concerts, movies and events in public spaces around the city. A majority of the funding is going to purchase a system with metal cables that can be pulled across the street to close it to traffic, rather than using dump trucks to block motor access. (An earlier plan to install hydraulic bollards in the middle of the roadway has been nixed.)
Beyond hanging out on rooftop bars and at streateries, free scheduled activities include yoga and Zumba classes, instructors from Words, Beats and Life leading a dance academy, face painting and balloon artists for children, and the creation of a chalk mural in the middle of the street.
During a hearing with the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission in May, Kristen Barden, the BID’s executive director, stressed that the pedestrian zone won’t become a monthly Adams Morgan Day-style block party with stages or booths for vendors set up in the road. “Because a 20-foot fire lane must be clear in the middle of the street, any entertainment will be more pop-up in nature,” she explained — activities that can quickly move out of the way if needed.
Note for those planning to attend via public transportation: The 90 and 96 buses, which usually run on 18th Street, are being rerouted on Florida and Connecticut avenues on Sunday.
Bars and restaurants are cautiously enthusiastic about the project. “I don’t know what to expect,” says Delaplaine of Roofers Union. “I don’t want to plan too much and stretch the staff out.” Instead, he thinks they’ll operate like a normal Sunday but maybe open the rooftop bar at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30. “Because there are three of these, we’re going to base what we do in the future off this Sunday,” he says, potentially adding live music Sept. 4.
Still, Delaplaine says, he’s looking forward to the series. “Part of Adams Morgan has been lacking coming out of covid,” compared with other neighborhoods. “We’ve lost a few restaurants, and people are looking for more outdoor options.”
The Adams Morgan Pedestrian Zone will be held on Sunday, Sept. 4 and Oct. 23. More information is available at admodc.org. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/19/adams-morgan-18th-street-closed/ | 2022-08-19 11:05:31 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/19/adams-morgan-18th-street-closed/ |
WASHINGTON — Another solid month of hiring in the United States is expected to be reported Friday, an outcome that would suggest no recession is near but could make it harder for the Federal Reserve to succeed in its drive to cool the economy and curb high inflation.
Employers are forecast to have added 205,000 jobs in June, according to economists surveyed by data provider FactSet. Though below recent monthly gains, that would amount to a healthy increase and reflect a historically high number of advertised job openings.
A continuation of robust hiring would underscore the economy's surprising resilience at a time when the Fed has jacked up its key interest rate by a sizable 5 percentage points — the fastest pace of rate hikes in four decades. Those increases have made mortgages, auto loans and other forms of borrowing significantly more expensive. Yet consumers are still increasing their spending, if modestly, providing the incentive for some companies to keep hiring and expanding.
Economists have projected that the unemployment rate dipped last month from 3.7% to 3.6%, near the lowest level in five decades.
Even a modest job gain for June would virtually cement the likelihood that the Fed will resume its rate hikes when it next meets later this month. Before pausing last month, the central bank had boosted its benchmark rate 10 straight times. Chair Jerome Powell said then that the Fed had skipped a rate hike so policymakers could take stock of what impact sharply higher borrowing costs have had on the economy.
When they met in June, the Fed's policymakers indicated that they envisioned as many as two additional quarter-point rate hikes before year's end. Previously, Fed watchers had expected the officials to signal just one more rate increase this year. Their updated projections reflected the belief of many Fed officials that they need to do more to conquer inflation, which is down sharply from its peak, but at 4% is still well above the Fed's 2% target.
On Thursday, Lorie Logan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, suggested that persistently high inflation and “a stronger-than expected labor market" mean that borrowing costs will need to go still higher.
“I remain very concerned about whether inflation will return to target in a sustainable and timely way,” Logan said in remarks at a central banking conference in New York. “And I think more-restrictive monetary policy will be needed.”
Other Fed officials are looking for signs of what they describe as better balance in the job market, by which they mean the supply and demand for workers would become more equal. After the economy emerged from the pandemic, the number of available jobs surged above 10 million — the highest level on record. That burgeoning demand for labor coincided with millions of Americans dropping out of the workforce to retire, avoid COVID, care for relatives or prepare for new careers.
With companies struggling to fill numerous openings, many offered sharply higher pay and better benefits to attract or keep employees. Fed officials still worry that rising pay levels will keep inflation chronically elevated once companies pass on their growing labor costs by raising prices.
There has been some progress toward a better alignment of supply and demand: About 2 million people have started looking for work in the past seven months, and most of them have found jobs. As the supply of workers has improved, businesses say they are seeing more people apply for open positions. And the number of job openings dropped in May, a sign that demand for workers is gradually cooling, though it remains higher than in pre-pandemic times.
In another sign of a potential slowdown in the job market, fewer Americans are quitting their jobs to search for new positions. Quits had soared after the pandemic. Millions of Americans had sought more meaningful or better-paying jobs, stoking the pressure on companies to raise pay to keep their employees. In May, about 4 million Americans left their jobs, up from April's figure but below a peak of 4.5 million reached last year.
“As economic uncertainty has been growing, workers are a little less eager to switch jobs, which might indicate that the labor market will slow down,” said Luke Pardue, an economist at Gusto, which makes payroll software for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Still, other recent reports suggest that the economy has continued to expand and that demand for workers remains high. On Thursday, a survey of service providers — including banks, restaurants and shipping companies — found that the sector expanded at a healthy clip in June and that services companies accelerated their hiring compared with May.
Also on Thursday, the payroll provider ADP reported an explosive increase in hiring by private employers in June — 497,000 added jobs. ADP's hiring figures, though, often diverge from the government's official data.
“Time and time again, economists and analysts have expected a strong slowdown to appear in the jobs numbers, which just hasn’t materialized over the past six months,” Pardue said. “Despite a lot of calls for a recession in the near term, the job market remains surprisingly resilient.” | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/nation-world/us-jobs-report-growth/507-3102763c-a271-4a38-ab84-7bac7c2da76c | 2023-07-07 11:48:15 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/nation-world/us-jobs-report-growth/507-3102763c-a271-4a38-ab84-7bac7c2da76c |
On the eve of the Massachusetts primary election, former president Donald J. Trump will appear live in a telephone rally supporting GOP gubernatorial hopeful Geoff Diehl, who he endorsed in October, and who has trumpeted Trump’s false claims the 2020 election was rigged.
Diehl, who served as the honorary state co-chair of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has leaned into the former president’s brand throughout his run. In February, he brought on longtime Trump confidant and former adviser Corey Lewandowski as a strategist.
The news of the telephone rally was first announced Thursday morning by Lewandowski on conservative radio host Jeff Kuhner’s show. Lewandowski said voters will be able to call an area code 508 number and hear Trump give his live assessment of the race, in which Diehl faces Wrentham businessman Chris Doughty.
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The rally will take place Sept. 5, one day before the Sept. 6 primary election.
“I am honored to have the support of our former President heading into the primary on Tuesday, and I am doubly honored to have President Trump’s help rallying Massachusetts voters,” Diehl said in a statement Thursday. “This event will give us an excellent opportunity to reaffirm what’s important to us in this race, particularly issues of freedom, fiscal responsibility, public safety, and empowering parents to protect their kids.”
Trump endorsed Diehl, a former Whitman state representative, in October, saying in a statement that he “will be an outstanding Governor for the state of Massachusetts, and it is my honor to give him my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
Since the start of his campaign, Diehl has enjoyed the support of Trump-aligned figures in Massachusetts politics.
Massachusetts Republican Party chair Jim Lyons — known for his unflinching support of Trump — has appeared at Diehl fundraisers and other events. Auto sales magnate Ernie Boch Jr., an early supporter who hosted a Trump rally at his Norwood estate in 2015, hosted a Diehl fundraiser last month with the arch-conservative governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem. She was also endorsed by Trump in her primary election and has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running-mate if Trump seeks election again in 2024.
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Trump has participated in similar pre-primary “tele-rally” events in recent months for Republican candidates in states like Alaska, Connecticut, Michigan, Nevada. During a tele-rally for former governor and congressional candidate Sarah Palin, Trump called in hours after the FBI raid on his personal residence at Mar-a-Lago.
“Another day in paradise. This is a strange day. You probably all read about it,” Trump said, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
The winner of the Massachusetts GOP primary will face presumptive Democratic nominee Maura Healey, the attorney general, in November. She’s led both Doughty and Diehl by wide margins in public polling.
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Best iced coffee makers
For many people, mornings are easier with some fresh coffee first thing. Hot coffee is great in the winter, but warmer weather inspires the desire for colder beverages. Iced coffee can be made as quickly and easily as regular hot coffee — you just need the right brewer. Once your coffee is ready, pour it over ice, add your favorite sweetener or creamer and get a great start to your day.
Iced coffee vs. cold brew
Iced coffee and cold brew are often discussed synonymously, but they are not the same. The process and the product are unique to each other.
Brewing process
Iced coffee is brewed hot just like regular coffee, then chilled and iced. Cold brew is made using only cold water but requires a brewing time of 12 to 24 hours, much longer than iced coffee.
Caffeine
Cold brew is more caffeinated than iced coffee. A higher amount of caffeine is extracted from the bean during the longer brewing process, so it may require dilution. Iced coffee, however, is brewed similarly to hot coffee and packs the same punch.
Flavor
Cold brew has a stronger flavor, so if you take your coffee black, you may prefer its taste. However, there are several ways to improve the flavor of your brewed beans. You can use filtered water to bring out the finer notes or add your favorite creamer and sugar to enhance the experience.
Manual vs. automatic
Manual iced coffee makers: Whether you like a pour-over coffee maker or a french press, manual options are simple to use and very affordable. Easy to care for, they can be stashed away in a cupboard to keep your counter clear.
Automatic iced coffee makers: If you want iced coffee in a hurry, these models are regular coffee makers that include a setting for iced coffee. With the press of a button, the machine knows how to make the precise strength and amount of coffee needed to go over a cup of ice. However, they can take up precious counter space and be challenging to keep clean.
How to make iced coffee
If you’re ready to make yourself an amazing iced coffee, gather a few things first.
- Coffee beans
- A coffee grinder
- An iced coffee maker
- Ice
- Water
- Creamer
- Sugar
- A spoon
- A glass or mug
Prep
Coffee must first be prepared before it can be brewed, but in just a few steps, you’ll have a delicious caffeine drink.
- Grind: Use a grinder to expose all of the flavors in your coffee beans. Even if you have pre-ground coffee, you can use a grinder to make it even better. Once the coffee has been chopped up just right, scoop the desired amount and place it in the coffee maker.
- Water: Fill the maker with enough water to be compatible with the amount of coffee grounds you’re using. Most makers will come with instructions for how to fill it.
- Mug: Put ice in your glass, so it is ready to go once your coffee has been brewed.
Brew
Turn the iced coffee maker on and let it do its thing. If the coffee is not strong enough for your needs, you can use the first batch of brewed coffee like water and brew it again. Double-brewed coffee is bolder and more bitter but will definitely get you fully caffeinated for the day ahead.
Stir
Pour your coffee into your pre-iced glass and add more ice if needed. If you are using granulated sugar, you may want to add the sugar to the glass before the ice. This will let it melt and sweeten your drink evenly. After the ice, sugar and coffee are in the glass, add your creamer. Stir the mixture together, taste and add more if needed.
Best iced coffee makers
Manual iced coffee makers
Ovalware Airtight Cold Brew/Iced Coffee Maker
This well-designed, modern coffee maker brews hot and cold tea or coffee and features a borosilicate glass carafe with a handle for easy pouring. It also includes an airtight seal to ensure your beverage stays fresh.
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Compact and easy to use, this attractive model from Oxo features a borosilicate glass carafe with a cork stopper. Its “rainmaker” system on the brewer allows the water to be more evenly distributed over the coffee grounds. If you want iced coffee, use this first to make a batch of cold brew and then add cold water to dilute it.
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Automatic iced coffee makers
This coffee machine makes hot or cold coffee in multiple cup sizes with the push of a button. Press the “Iced” function, and it will select the proper brew strength and amount of coffee, which you can then pour over a glass of ice. It also tells you when maintenance is needed.
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Ninja Hot and Cold Brew System
Use the “Over Ice” function to brew cold coffee and tea with this single-touch programmable machine. It can also froth milk for your drink in seconds and includes a removable water reservoir for easy refills.
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What you need to buy to make iced coffee
Cuisinart DBM-8 Supreme Grind Automatic Burr Mill
This is a popular and durable grinder for whole coffee beans. It has 18 unique grind cycles and automatically shuts off when the cycle is complete.
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This set of silicone trays makes 1.25-inch-thick ice cubes that you can remove individually. They come in several fade-resistant colors and are dishwasher safe.
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Yotipp Stainless Steel Mixing Spoon
These eco-friendly and stainless steel stirring spoons can be used for iced coffee or other beverages. They are thin, long and will not rust from moisture.
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Coffee-Mate French Vanilla Creamer
Want a creamer that pours and blends smoothly into your coffee? This 10.2-ounce bottle of sugar-free powdered creamer fits the bill. It’s also gluten-, lactose- and dairy-free, making it completely vegan.
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Contigo Vacuum Insulated Travel Mug
Have your iced coffee on the go with this travel mug that will keep it cold for up to 12 hours. It stays sealed to prevent spills, but sips can be taken easily by pressing the button on the side.
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EXCLUSIVE - Former Attorney General William Barr is preparing to battle the Biden administration's "bureaucratic overreach and excessive regulation" that he says is crippling to American business.
Barr will chair the advisory board of the Center for Legal Action, a new project launched last week by the conservative American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce that aims to rein in excessive federal rulemaking.
"The Left likes to talk about threats to democracy, but the use of the regulatory process to impose these major changes on the United States is the ultimate end run around democracy instead of having Congress, the people's representatives, make the decisions about these fundamental rules that will bind society," Barr said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.
"They have these unaccountable and frequently non-transparent, bureaucracies promulgate these rules, and so that's a big end run," he said.
COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO RECLAIM POWER FROM ‘NAMELESS, FACELESS’ REGULATORS CRUSHING ECONOMY
Barr, who served as attorney general under presidents George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump, says the Center for Legal Action will be involved "in all stages of the regulatory process in Washington before the federal agencies that implement them, before Congress, and before the courts."
"For the last 20 years, but certainly under Biden, there's been a huge upsurge in regulation and the burden of regulation on American companies and on the economy," Barr said. "And there's an increasing attempt to bypass the democratic process by having all of these major rules that will have a dramatic impact on our society, having them promulgated by bureaucracies rather than go through the legislative process."
Federal rules and regulations are based on federal law but are written by unelected officials in federal agencies who can interpret the law in ways that Congress didn't intend.
Barr said the goal of the center is "to beat back bureaucratic overreach and excessive regulation and to do that using every tool possible." He said that includes trying to get Congress to "pare back on the ambitions of the bureaucrats, but also where that fails to fight out the regulatory process in the agencies themselves and then eventually sue them in court."
GOP PLANNING BILL TO CURB 'SILENT KILLER' OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, FEDERAL REGULATIONS
Barr said the center will tackle a wide range of federal regulations, including rules aimed at eliminating internal combustion engines in 10 years that force Americans to buy expensive electric vehicles, to rules threatening to put Maine lobstermen out of business.
"There are a lot of industries and sectors that can be devastated by a rule that most of America doesn't even hear about," Barr said.
"Sometimes they can be, you know, industrial sectors that are specialized, other times they can be smaller businesses, like lobstermen," he said. "And they don't have a strong voice in Washington… so part of what this group is going to try to do is target these regulations that can be devastating to small business and to particular sectors of the economy," he said.
HOW MAINE LOBSTERMEN TURNED A ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ FROM THE WHITE HOUSE INTO A POLICY VICTORY
The group will also target rules that not only disadvantage American business, but also "gratuitously benefits" U.S. competitors, like China.
He said one example of that is a Biden administration rule intended to encourage electric vehicle production that ultimately makes the United States dependent on Chinese-manufactured electric batteries.
"When we've succeeded in getting robust economic growth in our country, it's been during periods where there are administrations that are far more disciplined in putting out regulations. And now you have people trying to redesign the entire economy through these rules," said Barr. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/bill-barr-set-to-battle-biden-s-bureaucracy-through-new-legal-project-focused-on-excessive/article_0e48ff4c-1e70-5713-9e41-e30ac31a2a32.html | 2023-04-18 18:16:19 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/bill-barr-set-to-battle-biden-s-bureaucracy-through-new-legal-project-focused-on-excessive/article_0e48ff4c-1e70-5713-9e41-e30ac31a2a32.html |
(WSYR-TV) — Brr… it’s cold outside. Steve and Erik are back and they are freezing.
Wednesday night brought cold temps back into the forecast and even some frost. StormTeam Meteorologist Kate Thornton took a photo of the frost and it was featured by Ginger Zee and Good Morning America.
The frost also affected the first round of the PGA Championship Thursday. Tee times were pushed back an hour or so. Steve and Erik chatted about the excitement in Rochester and gave their picks.
The City of Syracuse is in the market for a new flag. Bridge Street runs through the options and tells you how you can make your voice heard.
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Soles 2 Souls working to serve those in need in Phoenix
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — An organization in Phoenix is working to give some much-needed assistance to some special people in our communities.
Brophy High School students Jake Krotonsky and Andrew Phillips came to Arizona’s Family to talk about their organization. “We saw was a man asking for money and we thought rather than giving him some money...we would go to the nearest shoe store and get him some shoes,” Krotonsky said. “That’s really how we started.” That was 2 years ago!
Phillips said that for him, he’s a devout Christian that wants to help others in need. “The first big event that we had was Arizona Helping Hands come to our shool on a Sunday and give out like 50 pairs of shoes that day,” he said.
Krotonsky said that Brophy has come alongside their nonprofit and helped suggest other organizations in the community to come alongside and partner up. You can learn more about Soles 2 Souls and how you can help here! Know of someone or a group doing good in your community? Nominate them for our segment here.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers held inconclusive talks Thursday with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help residents cope with soaring gas and electricity prices.
Johnson, who is in his final weeks as prime minister, joined Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng at the meeting with firms including Scottish Power, EDF and Centrica. But with Johnson insisting that “significant fiscal decisions” must be left to his successor, the talks produced no relief for Britons struggling with a cost-of-living crisis.
Johnson said the government would “keep urging the electricity sector to continue working on ways we can ease the cost of living pressures and to invest further and faster in British energy security.”
There was a hint that the Conservative government could take action at some point. It said it “continues to evaluate the extraordinary profits seen in certain parts of the electricity generation sector and the appropriate and proportionate steps to take.”
Energy bills around the world have soared this year as the war in Ukraine squeezes global oil and gas supplies. The problem is especially acute in Britain, where the bills that people pay are governed by a regulator-set price cap linked to wholesale prices.
The average U.K. household fuel bill has risen more than 50% this year, and another increase is due in October. Consulting firm Cornwall Insight forecast this week that the average bill will top 3,500 pounds ($4,300) a year in the fall, and rise above 4,000 pounds ($4,900) in the new year.
Energy suppliers say the price increases are not their fault.
“This is not in the hands of energy retailers,” Dale Vince, founder of the energy firm Ecotricity, told Sky News. “The problem is the crazy price of gas on global commodity markets.”
Anti-poverty campaigners say Britain is facing financial time bomb that could leave millions of people unable to heat their homes this winter.
Johnson resigned as Conservative Party leader last month, and remains in office for a few more weeks as caretaker prime minister. The two candidates to replace him — Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak — can’t act until one of them takes over as prime minister in September.
Sunak — who earlier this year signed off on a 400 pound ($490) payment to offset fuel bills that all households will get this fall — has said he will offer more help, but has not given specifics. Truss says she prefers tax cuts to giving “handouts,” but also is facing intense pressure to help poor households.
Opponents say by the time the new leader is announced on Sept. 5 and takes office the next day, it will be too late to avert an autumn crisis.
Some want the U.K. to emulate France, where the government last month announced the nationalization of electricity giant EDF.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who led the U.K. during the global financial crisis of 2008, said Britain was now in “the eye of a cost-of-living storm” and action couldn’t wait. Brown, a member of the opposition Labour Party, said the Conservative government should negotiate lower prices with energy firms, and suggested those that resisted could be temporarily nationalized.
Writing in The Guardian, he said that crises “don’t take holidays, and don’t politely hang fire – certainly not to suit the convenience of a departing PM and the whims of two potential successors.”
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy minister submitted his resignation Monday over ties to the Unification Church after facing mounting criticism in a widening controversy involving dozens of governing party lawmakers.
Daishiro Yamagiwa’s resignation is a further blow to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, which has been rocked by his party’s close ties to the controversial South Korean-based church following the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe in July.
Yamagiwa faced opposition lawmakers’ growing demands for his resignation after he repeatedly said he did not remember his past attendance at church meetings during overseas trips and posing for group photos with church leader Hak Ja Han Moon and other executives.
Kishida on Tuesday appointed former Health Minister Shigeyuki Goto to take Yamagiwa’s place as the economy minister.
Kishida said Goto is a veteran politician who is “highly capable of giving explanation” and has ”passion” for economic and social reforms. Kishida said he expected him to play a central role in coordinating and achieving key policy goals, including a major economic package that Kishida plans to announce later this week. Goto’s appointment is to be official after a palace ceremony later Tuesday.
The Kishida government’s support ratings have nosedived over his handling of the scandal and for holding a highly unusual state funeral for Abe, one of Japan’s most divisive leaders who is now seen as a key link between the governing Liberal Democratic Party and the church. Abe sent a video message in 2021 praising Hak Ja Han Moon at a meeting of the church affiliate the Universal Peace Federation.
Since the 1980s, the church has faced accusations of devious business and recruitment tactics, including brainwashing members into turning over huge portions of their salaries to it.
“I just submitted my resignation” to Kishida, Yamagiwa told reporters Monday. He said he routinely discards documents and therefore could not clearly verify past contacts with the church and only provided explanations after reports of his past church ties surfaced.
“As a result, I ended up causing trouble to the administration,” Yamagiwa said. “I attended the church’s meetings a number of times and that provided credibility to the group, and I deeply regret that.” He pledged to stay away from the church in the future.
A governing party survey in September found nearly half of its about 400 lawmakers had ties to the church, including Cabinet ministers, many of whom shared the church’s conservative views and sent messages or attended church meetings, though not as followers of the church theology. Kishida has pledged to cut all such ties, and recently said he instructed the government to probe the church, with the possibility of revoking its legal status.
Media surveys show many Japanese want a clearer explanation of how the church may have influenced party policies.
Kishida said he accepted Yamagiwa’s resignation because “as prime minister, I have to prioritize our work to push forward economic measures, an extra budget and support for victims of the church problems.”
Yamagiwa, who was criticized for clinging to his post and stalling parliamentary sessions because of questioning by opposition lawmakers, was seen as having been forced to quit. He said he has no intention of resigning as a lawmaker because he did not break any law.
Former Prime Minister Abe was shot to death during an outdoor campaign speech in July. The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, told police he killed Abe because of his apparent link to a religious group he hated. A letter and social media postings attributed to Yamagami said his mother’s large donations to the Unification Church bankrupted his family and ruined his life.
The church, founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon, obtained religious organization status in Japan in 1968 amid an anti-communist movement supported by Abe’s grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.
The group acknowledged there have been cases in which it received “excessive” donations. It says the problems have been mitigated since it adopted stricter compliance measures in 2009 and has pledged further reforms.
The police investigation of Abe’s killing led to revelations of widespread ties between the church and members of the governing party, including Abe, over their shared interests in conservative causes. The case also shed light on the suffering of adherents’ relatives, some of whom say they were forced to join the church or were left in poverty or neglected because of their parents’ devotion.
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DALLAS, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Advisors, L.P., investment adviser to the NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust ("NXDT" and together with affiliated entities "NexPoint"), today announced the extension of the offering period for its previously announced offer to purchase Shares of Beneficial Interest (the "Shares") of United Development Funding IV ("UDFI" or the "Company") at a price of $1.10 per Share upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and in the related Assignment Form for the offer (which together constitute the "Offer" and the "Tender Offer Documents"). The Offer is now scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, Eastern Time, at the end of the day on August 23, 2022, unless the Offer is extended or earlier terminated. The Tender Offer Documents are available at www.UDFITenderOffer.com, or from the information agent for the Offer, as discussed below.
As previously announced on December 14, 2020, the Offer is conditioned upon, among other things, the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions: (i) there shall not have been threatened, instituted, or pending any action or proceeding before any court or any governmental or administrative agency (a) challenging the acquisition of shares pursuant to the Offer or otherwise relating in any manner to the Offer, or (b) in the sole judgment of NexPoint, otherwise materially adversely affecting the Company; (ii) NexPoint shall have received all required governmental approvals, if any, for the Offer; (iii) NexPoint shall have had the opportunity to conduct sufficient due diligence to determine whether the offered price per share is reasonable given the current financial condition and results of operations of UDFI; (iv) the Board of Trustees of UDFI shall have waived in writing the ownership limitations set forth in Article VII of the Declaration of Trust of UDFI as such limitations would otherwise apply to the Offer; and (v) NexPoint shall have received satisfactory evidence that UDFI has continued to qualify as a real estate investment trust ("REIT") under federal tax laws and thereby to avoid any entity-level federal income or excise tax.
NXDT has recently completed its conversion from an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 into a real estate investment trust ("REIT"). In connection with that conversion, NXDT dropped down certain of its investments to a single-member, wholly owned limited liability company subsidiary, NexPoint Real Estate Opportunities ("NREO"), which heretofore has been reflected as a portfolio company of NXDT in its SEC filings. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., external adviser to NXDT and NREO, continues to have investment and voting power over the UDF IV Common Shares. Accordingly, NexPoint continues to beneficially own the UDF IV Common Shares it had previously reported to the SEC on its last Schedule 13D.
On January 8, 2021, UDFI announced that it had reduced the percentage of outstanding Shares that a shareholder may own from 9.8% to 5.0%. The Company took such action in an effort to frustrate the Offer. It also announced it amended the Company's bylaws to require that certain legal actions could be brought on behalf of or against UDFI only in certain courts in Maryland. NexPoint is reviewing these actions and their legality under applicable law.
Shareholders should read the Offer to Purchase and the related materials carefully because they contain important information. Shareholders may obtain a free copy of the Offer to Purchase and the Assignment Form from D.F. King & Co., Inc., the information agent for the Offer (the "Information Agent"), by calling toll-free at (800) 331-7543. THE OFFER WILL EXPIRE AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT, EASTERN TIME, AT THE END OF THE DAY ON AUGUST 23, 2022, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED OR EARLIER TERMINATED.
About the NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NXDT)
The NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT), formerly the NexPoint Strategic Opportunities Fund (NYSE: NHF), is a diversified REIT that formerly operated as a closed-end fund. The name change became effective on November 8, 2021. On August 28, 2020, shareholders approved the conversion from a closed-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act") and amended NXDT's fundamental investment policies and restrictions to permit NXDT to operate as a diversified REIT. NXDT completed the repositioning of its investment portfolio sufficient to achieve REIT tax status and operated during its 2021 taxable year, and continues to operate, so that it qualifies for taxation as a REIT. NXDT has also realigned its portfolio so that it is no longer an "investment company" under the 1940 Act. On July 1, 2022, NXDT received an order from the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") declaring that NXDT has ceased to be an investment company and that its registration under the 1940 Act is no longer in effect (the "Deregistration Order").
For more information visit www.nexpoint.com/nexpoint-strategic-opportunities-fund
About NexPoint Advisors, L.P.
NexPoint Advisors, L.P. is an SEC-registered adviser on the NexPoint alternative investment platform. It serves as the adviser to a suite of funds and investment vehicles, including a closed-end fund, interval fund, business development company, and various real estate vehicles. For more information visit www.nexpoint.com
Risks and Disclosures
This document is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell any common stock of UDFI or any other securities. The offer to purchase common stock of UDFI will only be made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, the Assignment Form and related documents. THE TENDER OFFER MATERIALS (INCLUDING THE OFFER TO PURCHASE, THE ASSIGNMENT FORM AND CERTAIN OTHER TENDER OFFER DOCUMENTS) WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. STOCKHOLDERS OF UDFI ARE URGED TO READ THESE DOCUMENTS CAREFULLY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT SUCH STOCKHOLDERS SHOULD CONSIDER BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISION REGARDING TENDERING THEIR SHARES. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of these statements (when available) by directing such requests to the Information Agent, by calling toll-free at (800) 331-7543.
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SHANGHAI, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greencity Acquisition Corporation (the "Company" or "Greencity") (NASDAQ:GRCY) today announced that on October 28, 2022 the Company held an Annual General Meeting of its shareholders (the "Meeting") at which time the shareholders voted to extend the date (the "Extension") by which Greencity has to consummate a business combination from October 28, 2022 to April 28, 2023. The holders of 3,506,907 of the Company's ordinary shares present and entitled to vote at the Meeting, constituting 100% of ordinary shares present, voted in favor of the Extension. The Company will be promptly filing an appropriate amendment to its Memorandum and Articles of Association with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands.
About Greencity Acquisition Corporation
The Company is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. While the Company may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any industry or sector, the Company intends to focus on businesses that have a connection to the Asian market.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's registration statement and prospectus for the offering filed with the U.S. Securities and exchange Commission ("SEC"). Copies are available on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this press release, except as required by law.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
5-8-2-4, SB: 8
(five, eight, two, four; SB: eight)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
5-8-2-4, SB: 8
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The biggest question being asked around Major League baseball right now is, will the Los Angeles Angels trade Shohei Ohtani? And if they do, who will be the team capable of convincing Angels owner Arte Moreno to pull the trigger on a deal for the best player in baseball?
The main issue for every team is that Ohtani is a free agent this offseason, and it’s not guaranteed that he will re-sign with the team who acquires him, so it’s a significant risk. On the other hand, it’s Shohei Ohtani and even two months of Ohtani in your lineup and rotation is better than not having Ohtani on your team.
On a special crossover edition of Locked On Angels, hosts Jon and Mike Frisch were joined by Lindsay Crosby of Locked On MLB Prospects to talk about a possible Ohtani trade and tell you which teams have the best chance of landing Ohtani for the stretch run.
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“You’re getting the home run leader in baseball as well as a pretty good pitcher, and so because of that, it’s going to be a larger package than you typically see for a rental at the trade deadline,” Crosby said. “The common consensus around the prospect apparatus is two Top 100 prospects and/or recently graduated Top 100 prospects is the base of the package no matter what. That’s at least in there.” Additionally, Crosby mentioned, “A guy that’s in your organization’s Top 10 and then at least one that’s in your Top 20 to Top 30 and a wild card lottery ticket of a random prospect.”
The bottom line is a team would need to give the Angels a lot to get Ohtani or, more to the point, to entice Moreno into handing over the best player in baseball.
So who are the contenders? Crosby has a list of 10 teams, with five of them being the top tier and the rest having a chance but perhaps better than those top five teams.
1) The Los Angeles Dodgers have six Top 100 prospects, giving them a really good shot at landing Ohtani: three pitchers and three position players. As Crosby laid out, they have some prospects who graduated who could be included in a package. Ohtani wouldn’t have to go far, either. He could drive up to L.A.
2) Baltimore Orioles - The main reason they’re so high is that they’re almost overflowing with prospects at this point, and some of them may not even get playing time, so with a surplus of position players, the Orioles are in an excellent position to land Ohtani. And given they just overtook first place from the Rays in the AL East, it would give them an ever bigger boost down the stretch.
3) Texas Rangers - Crosby said he knows that would be tricky to accept simply because they’re a division rival, but he said, “They have a ton of position player talent as well.” He mentioned how they’re locked up in the infield on the Major League level, so the Rangers have a surplus like the Orioles and could trade a few position players for Ohtani. But on the flip side, if Ohtani goes to Texas and doesn’t sign with them in the offseason, Crosby joked that the team could spend the next decade being beaten by their former prospects in the division.
4) Philadelphia Phillies - Crosby called them the dark horse candidate because they’ve got “a bunch of young hard-throwing pitchers.” The Phillies have a bunch of outfielders as well, but the Phillies outfielders have a higher ceiling than the Angels’ outfield prospects. There’s also a history between the two teams which might make it easier for them to work on a deal.
5) Tampa Bay Rays - As Crosby said, “The Tampa Bay Rays need starting pitching really badly.” He added, “They’re always the team that has excess Triple-A position player prospects.” But while the Rays have many players in Triple-A and even Double-A that they could move, they’ve never been a team to make a big splashy trade at the deadline. Of course, there’s always a first time for everything. And right now, the Rays are faltering a bit and need some help now that Baltimore has passed them in the AL East standings.
So five teams could be contending for Ohtani at the deadline, but as we’ve seen in the past, this could all be moot, and he could stay put in Anaheim and finish the season with the Angels. Still, it’s fun to imagine someone making a blockbuster trade at the deadline, and maybe one of these teams will do it.
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Full survey will help shape the work of policymakers and museum professionals in continuing to best serve their communities, while preserving our nation's historical, natural, and cultural infrastructure
WASHINGTON, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is launching a pilot National Museum Survey (NMS) as part of its ongoing mission to invest in the future of museums. The pilot survey will be fielded from July 24 through September 15, 2023, and will inform the feasibility of an annual nationwide survey that would gather and share foundational data about the essential work happening in the nation's museums.
Anticipating the successful completion of the pilot, the full annual NMS will be rolled out in 2025 and would, for the first time, capture the scope, reach, and importance of the incredible work of museums and related institutions across the U.S., collecting information that will help shape the work of policymakers and museum professionals through published data tools and topical reports.
"Currently, there is no annual federal data collection about museums in the United States, and policymakers have acknowledged that there is a real need for reliable national statistics," said IMLS Deputy Director Laura Huerta Migus. "IMLS is here to answer that call. By showcasing the scope and reach of museums in communities across the country, the NMS will inspire new ways to efficiently invest in our nation's historical, natural, and cultural infrastructure."
Approximately 7,050 museums of varying disciplines, sizes, and geographies will be invited to complete the NMS pilot in 2023. The survey will include zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and arboretums; nature and science centers; history museums and historic sites; art museums; children's museums; natural history museums; and specialized museums. The survey will capture a variety of information about the institution's characteristics and facilities; financial data; human resources information; admissions, visitors, and outreach; digital presence; and diversity, equity, and inclusion. The goal of the pilot is to explore the best ways to engage museums for successful survey participation.
"IMLS has surveyed the nation's libraries for many years, but this is the first time the organization will be reaching out to capture the work of museums and related institutions. This represents a significant investment in the field, and it will, we believe, create an understanding of the important role that museums play in our nation," said IMLS Director Crosby Kemper III. "Museum practitioners, researchers, journalists, the public, local practitioners, and policymakers can use the data for planning, evaluation, and policymaking. It will help them better engage with the public, develop connections with policymakers, and connect with others in the field."
IMLS has been engaging in the groundwork for this pilot for more than two years and will use the data from the pilot to understand how best to execute the full survey. The pilot phase of the survey will be administered via emails sent directly to selected museums.
In 2025, after the full launch is executed and completed, IMLS plans to use their findings to build dynamic dashboards and other data products that will allow users to interact with the data and enables institutions to compare themselves to others in their museum discipline.
The NMS will be a consequential tool for IMLS to determine best practices in supporting the needs of cultural institutions across the nation.
Learn more about this effort by visiting the IMLS website and searching "National Museum Survey," visiting https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/national-museum-survey, and/or subscribing to the IMLS newsletter for updates.
About the Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's libraries and museums. We advance, support, and empower America's museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. Our vision is a nation where museums and libraries work together to transform the lives of individuals and communities. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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It's the final day before Brazilians go to the polls and according to polling, the gap between President Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva is getting ever closer.
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OREGON CITY, Ore., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The HDBaseT Alliance, Pro AV's largest interoperable ecosystem, has announced its official plans for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2023. The packed lineup of in-booth attractions will feature exhibits and live demonstrations presented by HDBaseT Alliance members across leading industry verticals, the largest ever assembled collection of HDBaseT Spec 3.0-supported devices, innovative proofs of concept from Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), an exclusive thought leadership interview series, and an "installer skills challenge" complete with a chance to win prizes.
"This year we're back in full force at ISE with our usual uncompressed crowd-pleasers that the HDBaseT Alliance has come to be known for at our industry's in-person events," said Tzahi Madgar, President of the HDBaseT Alliance.
Once again, the Alliance's signature Power Wall headlines the booth's many activities, with upwards of 40 HDBaseT Spec 3.0 products expected to be on display from over two dozen members of the HDBaseT Alliance ecosystem.
"As market demand for HDBaseT 3.0 products and their ability to extend fully uncompressed 4K@60Hz 4:4:4, along with USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, power, and controls up to 100m/328ft. over a single Category cable continues to grow, our members are answering the call. We have doubled the number of solutions on our Power Wall from ISE 2022 with plenty more to be found throughout the show floor." Madgar added.
Complementing the collection of Spec 3.0 products, the Alliance will also play host to a dozen exhibits highlighting the flexibility of HDBaseT connectivity by AViQ, AVPro Edge, CYP, HighSecLabs, Key Digital, Matrox, MSolutions, SCP, Simply45, Silvertel, along with a preview of what's next in Pro AV presented by Valens Semiconductor.
The diverse lineup of showcases will feature HDBaseT's ability to be tailored to fit any streamlined aesthetic as illustrated by AVPro Edge. HDBaseT's plug-and-play nature supporting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) will be demonstrated by CYP and Key Digital. In the Secure KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) space, the HDBaseT Alliance's newest member, HighSecLabs, will provide an up-close look at the industry's most advanced NIAP Common Criteria PP4.0 Certified and Compliant switcher. Furthermore, Matrox will demonstrate how to bridge HDBaseT and AVoIP with their award-winning AV networking solution including support of NMOS for HDBaseT end devices.
Plus, HDBaseT Alliance Co-Founder, Valens Semiconductor will offer previews into the futures of video conferencing and digital signage with four demonstrations showcasing the technologies leading the way forward, including Professional-Grade USB Type-C extension.
"With USB fast becoming the connectivity of choice, especially in the software-driven video conferencing space, HDBaseT is perfectly equipped to provide AV professionals with a simple Professional-Grade USB extension solution to both extend and power their USB devices up to 100m/328ft. over a single Category cable," Madgar continued.
Meanwhile, visitors to the Alliance booth will also be treated to a look behind the scenes at some of the hallmarks of HDBaseT interoperability, including the standard's Certified Product List presented by AV-iQ, along with the technology that makes Power over HDBaseT possible from Silvertel. Moreover, for showgoers interested in the latest industry developments, buzz, and trends, the Alliance will also host an exclusive daily thought leadership interview series conducted by Commercial Integrator Editor-in-Chief, Dan Ferrisi.
Finally, in building on its ISE tradition of providing fun and friendly competition, visitors to the Alliance booth are invited to take part in The Master Cable Terminator Challenge for a chance to win prizes from Alliance members MSolutions, Simply45, and Structured Cable Products. To participate, players will need to terminate a Category cable flawlessly and in the shortest amount of time. "With tens of thousands of AV professionals expected to be in attendance at this year's ISE we're looking forward a fierce competition so stop by if you think you have what it takes," said Madgar.
Join the HDBaseT Alliance Press Conference on February 1st, 12:00PM, Booth #2M650 for an up-close look at the latest cutting-edge solutions reshaping the video conferencing landscape in both corporate and educational environments.
About the HDBaseT Alliance
The HDBaseT Alliance advances and promotes the adoption of HDBaseT technology as the global standard for ultra-high-definition multimedia distribution. Since its founding in 2010 by LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Valens Semiconductor, the Alliance has brought together the leading names in the consumer electronics, professional AV, industrial and medical verticals, today boasting more than 200 members and thousands of products.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian firefighters known for rescuing people from buildings hit by shelling in more than six months of war helped a small, furry survivor this weekend — a gray-and-white kitten.
The rescuers, wearing full firefighting gear, battled raging flames and smoke to pull the kitten out from under a metal chair in the rubble of a wooden hotel-restaurant complex hit by a rocket in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, the country’s emergency services said Sunday on Facebook.
Video showed the firefighters petting and cuddling the feline as they carried it to safety. One used water from a firetruck to wipe down the kitten in his arms.
“We found a beauty,” one of the firefighters said as the kitten wiggled around in a colleague’s arms. Another said, “Get this kitty some oxygen.”
Ukraine’s emergency services said the kitten’s paw needed medical attention.
“Heroes of our time,” the emergency services proclaimed of the firefighters. “They protect, work, save, treat … And we wish the cat a speedy recovery.”
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a convenient way to sanitize the airborne environment of any room within a home or business," said an inventor, from Birmingham, Ala., "so I invented the DISINFECTANT FOGGER. My environmentally-safe design provides added protection and peace of mind for users."
The invention provides an effective way to dispense a disinfectant within a room. In doing so, it helps prevent the spread of germs, microorganisms, viruses, fungus, and bacteria. As a result, it enhances safety and convenience and it offers an alternative to spraying or wiping various surfaces. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households and businesses. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Birmingham sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-BRK-4183, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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LAINDEHA, Indonesia (AP) — As Tamar Ana Jawa wove a red sarong in the fading sunlight, her neighbor switched on a light bulb dangling from the sloping tin roof. It was just one bulb powered by a small solar panel, but in this remote village that means a lot. In some of the world’s most remote places, off-grid solar systems are bringing villagers like Jawa more hours in the day, more money and more social gatherings.
Before electricity came to the village a bit less than two years ago, the day ended when the sun went down. Villagers in Laindeha, on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia, would set aside the mats they were weaving or coffee they were sorting to sell at the market as the light faded.
A few families who could afford them would start noisy generators that rumbled into the night, emitting plumes of smoke. Some people wired lightbulbs to old car batteries, which would quickly die or burn out appliances, as they had no regulator. Children sometimes studied by makeshift oil lamps, but these occasionally burned down homes when knocked over by the wind.
That’s changed since grassroots social enterprise projects have brought small, individual solar panel systems to Laindeha and villages like it across the island.
For Jawa, it means much-needed extra income. When her husband died of a stroke in December 2022, Jawa wasn’t sure how she would pay for her children’s schooling. But when a neighbor got electric lighting shortly after, she realized she could continue weaving clothes for the market late into the evening.
“It used to be dark at night, now it’s bright until morning,” the 30-year old mother of two said, carefully arranging and pushing red threads at the loom. “So tonight I work … to pay for the children.”
Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them.
Some 775 million people globally lacked access to electricity in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are home to some of the largest populations without access to electricity. Not having electricity at home keeps people in poverty, the U.N. and World Bank wrote in a 2021 report. It’s hard for very poor people to get electricity, according to the report, and it’s hard for people who don’t have it to participate in the modern economy.
Indonesia has brought electricity to millions of people in recent years, going from 85% to nearly 97% coverage between 2005 and 2020, according to World Bank data. But there are still more than half a million people in Indonesia living in places the grid doesn’t reach.
While barriers still remain, experts say off-grid solar programs on the island could be replicated across the vast archipelago nation, bringing renewable energy to remote communities.
“Off-grid solar there plays an important role in that it will deliver clean electricity directly to those who are unelectrified,” said Daniel Kurniawan, a solar policy analyst at the Institute for Essential Services Reform.
Now, villagers frequently gather in the evening to continue the day’s work, gather to watch television shows on cellphones charged by the panels and help children do homework in light bright enough to read.
“I couldn’t really study at night before,” said Antonius Pekambani, a 17-year old student in Ndapaymi village, east Sumba. “But now I can.”
Solar power is still fairly rare in Indonesia. While the country has targeted more solar as part of its climate goals, there has been limited progress due to regulations that don’t allow households to sell power back to the grid, ruling out a way of defraying the cost that has helped people afford solar in other parts of the world.
That’s where grassroots organizations like Sumba Sustainable Solutions, based in eastern Sumba since 2019, saw potential to help.
Working with international donors to help subsidize the cost, it provides imported home solar systems, which can power light bulbs and charge cellphones, for monthly payments equivalent to $3.50 over three years.
The organization also offers solar-powered appliances such as wireless lamps and grinding machines. It said it has distributed over 3,020 solar light systems and 62 mills across the island, reaching more than 3,000 homes.
Imelda Pindi Mbitu, a 46-year-old mother of five living in Walatungga, said she used to spend whole days grinding corn kernels and coffee beans between two rocks to sell at the local market; now, she takes it to a solar-powered mill shared by the village.
“With manual milling, if I start in the morning I can only finish in the afternoon. I can’t do anything else,” she said sitting in her wooden home. “If you use the machine, it’s faster. So now I can do other things.”
Similar schemes in other places, including Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa, have helped provide electricity for millions, according to the World Bank.
But some smaller off-grid solar systems like these don’t provide the same amount of power as grid access. While cellphones, light bulbs and mills remain charged, the systems don’t generate enough power for a large sound system or a church.
Off-grid solar projects face hurdles too, said Jetty Arlenda, an engineer with Sumba Sustainable Solutions .
The organization’s scheme is heavily reliant upon donors to subsidize the cost of solar equipment, which many rural residents would be unable to afford at their market cost. Villagers without off-grid solar panels are stuck on waitlists while Sumba Sustainable Solutions looks for more funding. They’re hoping for support from Indonesia’s $20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership deal, which is being negotiated by numerous developed nations and international financial institutions.
There’s also been issues with recipients failing to make payments, especially as the island deals with locust outbreaks diminishing crops and livelihoods of villagers. And when solar systems break, they need imported parts that can be hard to come by.
But for now, villagers like Jawa said the solar systems are making a big difference.
“I’m grateful for this lamp,” she said, sitting at the loom and nodding towards the hanging bulb. “It will be bright all night.”
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WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump ‘s mounting legal woes are burning through cash, leading his campaign to request a refund from a supportive super PAC and launch a new legal defense fund to help cover costs.
His political action committee, Save America, is expected to disclose Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of the year for costs related to defending the former president, his aides and other allies, according to a person familiar with the filing who spoke on the condition of anonymity before the deadline. The number was first reported by The Washington Post.
At the same time, Trump's allies are creating a new legal defense fund that will help pay the soaring legal fees as Trump faces dozens of criminal charges stemming from indictments in New York and Florida, with more expected as soon as this week. The Patriot Legal Defense Fund, as it is called, is intended to raise money to defray costs for those “defending against legal actions arising from an individual or group’s participation in the political process,” according to a filing made last month with the IRS. The group will be run by Trump campaign senior advisers Susie Wiles and Michael Glassner.
“The weaponized Department of Justice and the deranged Jack Smith have targeted innocent Americans associated with President Trump," said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung. “In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, a new legal defense fund will help pay for their legal fees." The fund was first reported by The New York Times.
Smith is the special counsel leading the federal investigations of Trump. His team has expressed interest in the payment of legal fees for Trump-aligned witnesses in the investigations and has sought information about it, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss ongoing criminal probes.
Trump's PAC has also requested that his super PAC, MAGA Inc., return some of the money that it transferred to seed the group to help cover costs. It is unclear whether money was actually transferred or how much.
A spokesman for the super PAC did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump launched his PAC, Save America, in the days after the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden. For weeks, the group bombarded supporters with a nonstop stream of text messages and emails that purported to raise money for an “election defense fund” that would be used to contest the election's outcome.
But the $170 million that the effort raised in less than a month was not used to contest the election, records show. Instead, it was used to pay down campaign debt and replenish the coffers of the Republican National Committee, with Trump also stockpiling another large chunk for his future political endeavors. Last year, the Justice Department issued a round of grand jury subpoenas that sought information about the political action committee’s fundraising practices.
Since then, Save America has served as a different sort of “defense fund,” covering the legal expenses for Trump operatives, allies and employees who have been ensnared in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation.
Some of Save America's money has been used to boost other candidates, though it's a pittance compared to how much Trump has spent on ballooning legal costs.
As the 2022 midterm elections approached, Trump pledged to back congressional candidates loyal to him. But of the roughly $65 million earmarked by Save America for political spending, only a fraction — about $20 million — was used to back midterm candidates through campaign contributions or paid advertising.
Save America requested to claw back much of the money. And much of the remaining cash Save America had was dedicated to a different sort of “defense fund” — paying dozens of law firms to represent the former president and his aides.
“Forty-million dollars — I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Paul S. Ryan, a longtime campaign finance attorney in Washington, referring to the sum the group spent on legal fees this year. “There’s no legal issue. It’s really just a question for his donors: Do they want to be funding lawyers?”
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Biden, Macron ready to talk Ukraine, trade in state visit
WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is headed to Washington for the first state visit of Joe Biden’s presidency — a revival of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Biden-Macron relationship had a choppy start. Macron briefly recalled France’s ambassador to the United States last year after the White House announced a deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia, undermining a contract for France to sell diesel-powered submarines.
But the relationship has turned around with Macron emerging as one of Biden’s most forward-facing European allies in the Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This week’s visit — it will include Oval Office talks, a glitzy dinner, a news conference and more — comes at a critical moment for both leaders.
The leaders have a long agenda for their Thursday meeting at the White House, including Iran’s nuclear program, China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific and growing concerns about security and stability in Africa’s Sahel region, according to U.S. and French officials. But front and center during their Oval Office meeting will be Russia’s war in Ukraine, as both Biden and Macron work to maintain economic and military support for Kyiv as it tries to repel Russian forces.
In Washington, Republicans are set to take control of the House, where GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday following a meeting with Biden and fellow congressional leaders again vowed that Republicans will not write a “blank check” for Ukraine. Across the Atlantic, Macron’s efforts to keep Europe united will be tested by the mounting costs of supporting Ukraine in the nine-month war and as Europe battles rising energy prices that threaten to derail the post-pandemic economic recovery.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday described Macron as the “dynamic leader” of America’s oldest ally while explaining Biden’s decision to honor the French president with the first state visit of his presidency.
The U.S. tradition of honoring foreign heads of state dates back to Ulysses S. Grant, who hosted King David Kalakaua of the Kingdom of Hawaii for a more than 20-course White House dinner, but the tradition has been on hold since 2019 because of COVID-19 concerns.
“If you look at what’s going on in Ukraine, look at what’s going on in the Indo Pacific and the tensions with China, France is really at the center of all those things,” Kirby said. “And so the president felt that this was exactly the right and the most appropriate country to start with for state visits.”
Macron was also Republican Donald Trump’s pick as the first foreign leader to be honored with a state visit during his term. The 2018 state visit included a jaunt by the two leaders to Mount Vernon, the Virginia estate of George Washington, America’s founding president.
French government spokesperson Olivier Veran said Tuesday that Macron’s second state visit is “a strong symbol of the partnership between France and the United States.” It shows “very strong ties” between the countries and comes at a moment where the world is faced with important international issues, including the war in Ukraine, food security, climate and energy, he said.
Veran added that there is a need for “re-synchronizing” the agendas of the European Union and the United States to face crises, especially on energy and rising prices.
Macron was scheduled to arrive in Washington on Tuesday evening before a packed day of meetings and appearances in and around Washington on Wednesday — including a visit to NASA headquarters with Vice President Kamala Harris and talks with Biden administration officials on nuclear energy.
On Thursday, Macron will have his private meeting with Biden followed by a joint news conference and visits to the State Department and Capitol Hill before Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are feted at the state dinner. Grammy winner Jon Batiste is to provide the entertainment. The White House has been preparing for days for Macron’s arrival, setting up a large tent for the festivities on the South Lawn and decorating light poles bordering the White House complex with French flags.
Macron will head to New Orleans on Friday, where he is to announce plans to expand programming to support French language education in U.S. schools, according to French officials.
For all of that, there are still areas of tension in the U.S.-French relationship.
Biden has steered clear of embracing Macron’s calls on Ukraine to resume peace talks with Russia, something Biden has repeatedly said is a decision solely in the hands of Ukraine’s leadership.
Perhaps more pressing are differences that French and other European Union leaders have raised about Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, sweeping legislation passed in August that includes historic spending on climate and energy initiatives. Macron and other leaders have been rankled by a provision in the bill that provides tax credits to consumers who buy electric vehicles manufactured in North America.
The French president, in making his case against the subsidies, will underscore that it’s crucial for “Europe, like the U.S., to come out stronger ... not weaker” as the world emerges from the tumult of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a senior French government official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity to preview private talks.
Macron earlier this month said the subsidies could upend the “level playing field” on trade with the EU and called aspects of the Biden legislation “unfriendly.”
The White House, meanwhile, plans to counter that the legislation goes a long way in helping the U.S. meet global efforts to curb climate change. The president and aides will also impress on the French that the legislation will also create new opportunities for French companies and others in Europe, according to a senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity to preview the talks.
Macron’s visit comes about 14 months after the relationship hit its nadir after the U.S. announced its deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia.
After the announcement of the deal, which had been negotiated in secret, France briefly recalled its ambassador to Washington. A few weeks later Macron met Biden in Rome ahead of the Group of 20 summit, where the U.S. president sought to patch things up by acknowledging his administration had been “clumsy” in how it handled the issue.
Macron’s visit with Harris to NASA headquarters on Wednesday will offer the two countries a chance to spotlight their cooperation on space.
France in June signed the Artemis Accords, a blueprint for space cooperation supporting NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon by 2024 and to launch a historic human mission to Mars.
The same month, the U.S. joined a French initiative to develop new tools for adapting to climate change, the Space for Climate Observatory.
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Corbet reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed reporting.
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Massachusetts seafood business says it did not discriminate against immigrant worker
African immigrant worker accused Eastern Fisheries of racial discrimination, sexual harassment
A Massachusetts seafood business said Thursday that it did not discriminate against an immigrant worker who complained to the state.
The worker, Paula Fortes, is a Black woman who immigrated to the U.S. from Cape Verde, an island nation off the west coast of Africa. She filed the complaint against Eastern Fisheries, a New Bedford seafood harvester and distributor, a year ago and amended it earlier this week.
She told the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that the company subjected her to years of sexual harassment and racial discrimination on the job, according to the complaint.
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Eastern Fisheries said in a Thursday statement that it "denies all allegations of discrimination or unlawful conduct." The statement also said the company "has been cooperating fully" with the state commission since the charge first arrived a year ago.
A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination declined to comment on the case. The commission is tasked with investigating complaints of discrimination and enforcing anti-discrimination laws. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-seafood-business-says-not-discriminate-immigrant-worker | 2023-05-12 12:28:37 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-seafood-business-says-not-discriminate-immigrant-worker |
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NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Aaron Nichols walked past rows of kale growing on his farm, his knee-high brown rubber boots speckled with some of the richest soil on earth, and gazed with concern toward fields in the distance. Just over the horizon loomed a gigantic building of the semiconductor chipmaker Intel.
For exactly 50 years, the farms and forests that ring Oregon's metropolitan centers have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law that placed growth boundaries on cities. Cities cannot expand beyond those borders unless they make a request and justify it. Approval by cities and counties can take months or even a few years (larger expansions also need approval by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development).
But now, a bill being considered in Oregon's Legislature could authorize the governor to unilaterally expand those boundaries as part of Oregon’s quest to lure chip companies and provide land for them to build their factories. The measure would also provide $200 million in grants to chipmakers.
Farmers and conservationists are deeply worried about the proposal and what it will mean for a state that cherishes its open spaces.
“One of the reasons we bought our farm right here is that we knew that for 50 years we’d be farms, and everyone around us would be farms,” Nichols said. “And now we’re not so sure. Now it’s up to one decision by the governor. And that’s a scarier place to be.”
State officials and lawmakers, on the other hand, are eager to bring more semiconductor factories to Oregon while billions of dollars of federal funding to promote the industry is available.
They were stung by Intel's decision last year to build a massive $20 billion chipmaking complex in Ohio, and not in Oregon where suitable zoned land is scarce.
Oregon has its “Silicon Forest” — a counterpoint to California's Silicon Valley — and has been at the center of semiconductor research and production for decades. But Oregon is competing with other states to host multibillion-dollar microchip factories, called fabs. The competition heated up after Congress passed the CHIPS Act in 2022, providing $39 billion for companies constructing or expanding facilities that will manufacture semiconductors and those that will assemble, test and package the chips.
Dramatically expanding semiconductor design and manufacturing in Oregon would create tens of thousands of high-paying construction jobs and thousands of manufacturing and supply chain jobs, the Oregon Semiconductor Competitiveness Task Force, said in a report in August.
But the task force warned that Oregon needs more buildable industrial land near infrastructure, talented workers and specialized suppliers to attract and retain semiconductor businesses, and called for “urgent legislative attention.”
“This is about generational change," Democratic state Sen. Janeen Sollman, a chief sponsor of the bill, said during a recent tour of an HP Inc. campus in Corvallis, Oregon. "This is the opportunity that students will have for their future in going into these types of jobs.”
Today, thanks to a former Republican governor, you can drive from many cities in Oregon and within minutes be in farm or ranch country, unlike many states where cities are surrounded by expanses of shopping centers and housing developments.
Tom McCall, who served as Oregon's governor from 1967 to 1975, had successfully championed protections for Oregon’s beaches to ensure they remained public. In 1973, he urged lawmakers to push for a tough new land-use law.
“Sagebrush subdivisions, coastal ‘condomania’ and the ravenous rampage of suburbia here in the Willamette Valley all threaten to mock Oregon’s status as an environmental model of this nation" McCall said in a speech before the Legislature in 1973.
The Legislature complied, passing a bill that established the nation's first statewide urban growth boundary policy.
Washington state and Tennessee followed Oregon’s lead. In 1982, a ballot measure called for a repeal in Oregon. McCall, who was dying of cancer, campaigned against it. Voters upheld Oregon's land-use system by rejecting the measure two months before McCall died.
Under Oregon's system, an urban growth boundary designates where a city expects to grow over the next 20 years. Once land is included in a UGB, it is eligible for annexation to a city. Those UGB lines are regularly expanded. From 2016 through 2021, 35 were approved, according to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development.
But the process takes time. McMinnville, in Oregon's fabled wine country, battled for 20 years to expand its boundary, said Robert Parker, director of strategy at the University of Oregon’s Institute for Policy Research and Engagement.
Obtaining approval can take months or years, depending on its level of controversy, said Gordon Howard, of Oregon's land conservation department. Appeals to the courts or a state board cause further delays.
That's too long a wait for chipmaking companies, especially those that want to take advantage of CHIPS Act funding.
“Other states offer a more streamlined approach that is more in sync with the speed of the market,” according to Oregon's semiconductor task force, whose members included then-Gov. Kate Brown.
Under the bill, the governor may designate up to a maximum of eight sites for UGB expansion: two that exceed 500 acres (202 hectares) and six smaller sites. Any appeals go straight to the state Supreme Court.
The Oregon Farm Bureau, which represents 7,000 family farmers, said the effort should instead focus on lands already within the urban growth boundary.
“The conversion of agricultural lands into paved industrial lands is a permanent destruction of our natural and working lands,” said bureau Vice President Lauren Poor. “Once it’s paved, the soil and its ability to sequester carbon, support our food system and generate income for Oregonians is gone forever.”
Washington County, where Nichol’s farm is located, produces more clover seed crop than anywhere else in the world, thanks to its unique soil and rainy climate, said Nicole Anderson, an associate professor at Oregon State University's Department of Crop and Soil Science.
"I hope that science and consideration of our land resources are considered when this bill is voted on,” Anderson told the Legislature's joint committee on semiconductors on March 13.
On Friday, the ways and means committee sent the bill for a vote on the Senate floor. The Senate will consider the priority legislation this week.
“I am thrilled to see this legislation pass out of committee and look forward to seeing it through to the finish line,” said Rep. Kim Wallan, a Republican and a chief sponsor of the bill.
Parker, the land-use expert, doesn't believe its passage would mark the start of the end of Oregon's treasured policy.
“Will there be more challenges and bumps in the road ahead? Yeah, I think so," Parker said. “But I feel like it is so well established in the state at this point that it has the inertia to carry it through those challenges.” | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/factory-or-farm-oregon-may-alter-land-use-for-17860704.php | 2023-03-26 13:26:10 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/factory-or-farm-oregon-may-alter-land-use-for-17860704.php |
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