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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (KVEO) — People could be fined for not voting in general elections if a bill recently introduced into Congress becomes law.
The Civic Duty to Vote Act was introduced to the House of Representatives on Monday. The bill is written by Rep. John Larson (CT-1).
The bill’s goal is to require each eligible citizen to appear to vote in each regularly scheduled general election for federal office. To be an eligible citizen, a person has to be registered to vote for an upcoming election.
If any eligible citizen is found to have not voted in the general election, a $20 civil money penalty will be assessed to these individuals.
However, the bill’s text allows Americans to get around the penalty if they are not registered to vote, are unable to vote because of an emergency, cannot follow the terms of the act because of religious beliefs, or if they are unaware of their eligibility to vote.
Additionally, a waiver would be available for citizens to apply if they cannot afford the $20 penalty or if they commit to performing one hour of community service.
If a person fails to pay the $20 penalty, they will face no additional penalty or any denial of government benefits, according to the bill’s text. Law enforcement agencies are not allowed to use a person’s violation of this act to conduct any further criminal investigation on them.
Now that the bill has been introduced into the House, it will have to pass a vote there. If that succeeds, it will have to pass a vote in the Senate before being signed into law by the president.
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Jain will help the experimentation category creator redefine the marketer experience.
NEW YORK, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimizely, the leading digital experience platform (DXP) provider, today announced it has named seasoned product leader Rupali Jain as its Chief Product Officer. Jain will lend her deep technical expertise to further empower fast, confident innovation in marketing.
Prior to joining Optimizely, Jain held product leadership roles at a number of SaaS software companies, including PowerBI at Microsoft and Qualtrics. Throughout her two-decade career, she has echoed Optimizely's vision of placing a premium on the end user's daily needs. She looks forward to advancing pragmatic, growth-driving applications of AI and machine learning to help marketers take control of their workflows, experiment at scale, and deliver digital experiences that meet and exceed customer expectations.
"Optimizely has an incredible portfolio of best-in-class solutions, and we needed a product leader who has the experience to scale market-leading SaaS platforms. We found that leader in Rupali," said Alex Atzberger, CEO of Optimizely. "With Rupali's history of championing user needs and prioritizing innovation that creates tangible customer value, we're confident that she will play a vital role in our mission to redefine how marketing and product teams work together to create and optimize digital experiences."
Jain's arrival follows a strong first quarter for the global DXP provider. Optimizely was recognized as a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Platforms for the fourth consecutive year*. Gartner also positioned Optimizely in the Leaders Quadrant for the sixth year in a row** in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Content Marketing Platforms for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Jain joins recent executive hires Shafqat Islam and Sebastiaan de Jong, who were named Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Sales Officer, respectively.
"Marketers are contending with a very fragmented software landscape today, as the margin of error continues to narrow," said Jain. "What drew me to Optimizely was the depth of its insight into how marketers work and the solutions they need to radically improve their day-to-day. I couldn't be more excited to join a team that understands these unique challenges and is dedicated to keeping customers' needs as the primary motivation for all we do."
Optimizely leverages powerful experimentation capabilities and intuitive content management to enable exceptional customer experiences for over 10,000 of the world's top brands. A seven-time leader in analyst reports, the web experimentation category creator has facilitated 1.8 million experiments and counting for its worldwide customers.
*Episerver (acquired Optimizely and later rebranded to Optimizely) named in the 2021 and 2020 Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms.
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By CHINEDU ASADU
Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 100 people may have died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeast Nigeria, a local oil official said Sunday as the search intensified for bodies at the site and for two people suspected of being involved in the blast.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement, called the explosion a “catastrophe and a national disaster.”
The explosion Friday night at the facility in Ohaji-Egbema local government area in Imo state was triggered by a fire at two fuel storage areas where more than 100 people worked, state officials told The Associated Press.
Dozens of workers were caught up in the explosion while many others attempted to escape the blaze by running into wooded areas.
Those who died in the disaster are estimated to be within “the range of 100,” said Goodluck Opiah, the Imo commissioner for petroleum resources. “A lot of them ran into the bush with the burns and they died there.”
Buhari has directed the nation’s security forces “to intensify the clampdown” on such facilities being operated illegally in many parts of southern Nigeria, a spokesperson said in a statement.
Although Nigeria is Africa’s largest producer of crude oil, for many years its oil production capacity has been limited by a chronic challenge of oil storage and the operation of illegal refineries.
Nigeria lost at least $3 billion worth of crude oil to theft between January 2021 and February 2022, with shady business operators often avoiding regulators by setting up refineries in remote areas such as the one that exploded in Imo, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) said in March.
“There are no arrests yet but the two culprits are on the run with the police now looking for them,” said Declan Emelumba, the Imo State commissioner for information. Officials did not reveal the identities of the suspects.
A mass burial is being planned for those killed in the explosion, many of who “were burnt beyond recognition,” said Emelumba. Environmental officials have started to fumigate the area.
Such disasters are a regular occurrence in Africa’s most populous country, where poverty and unemployment – at 33% according to the latest government estimates – have forced millions of young people into criminal activities.
Operating illegal refineries is not as popular in Imo state as it is in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, where militants have gained notoriety for blowing up oil pipelines and kidnapping workers from petroleum companies.
As many as 30 illegal oil refineries were busted in the Niger Delta region in just two weeks, Nigeria’s Defense Department said earlier this month when it announced a task force to curb crude oil theft.
In the aftermath of the explosion in Imo state, the Nigerian ministry of petroleum told The AP there is “a renewed action” to tackle illegal activities in the oil sector.
The government and the military are stepping up actions “to minimize the criminalities along the oil production lines,” said Horatius Egua, a senior official at the petroleum ministry.
But many of the culprits are not deterred including in Imo state, one of the few places producing oil in Nigeria’s southeast. The problem of illegal refineries “has never been this bad” and remains “difficult to end,” said Opiah, the Imo petroleum commissioner.
“It is like asking why kidnapping or armed robbery has not stopped,” he said. “Even with this incident, not many people will be deterred. I am sure more illegal refineries will be cropping up in other places.”
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Edgard Gouveia Jr., 58, says the key to solving the world's problems is games. "I use games and narrative to mobilize crowds," says the Brazilian game inventor and co-founder of Livelab. He's worked with schools, companies, government offices and slums. And his target audiences keep getting bigger. "For example, games that can make a whole town, a whole city or even a whole country play together," he says.
And now he's developing a global game called "Jornada X" whose goal is to get kids and teenagers to save nothing less than all life on the planet. Gouveia's thinking is that if you can frame a problem as a challenge or epic journey, then kids "can solve a lot of problems that adults can't," he says. "And they're able to mobilize the adults among them."
NPR sat down with Gouveia to discuss his ambitions to crowdsource and gamify the solving of big problems and how games grabbed a hold of him as a boy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
When was the first time you realized that games could be used to achieve something big?
When I was a kid, we had this game called gincana. In Brazil, it goes back like 100 years. Fewer communities play it today, but you can still find maybe 30 cities in Brazil where it's played.
Here's how it works. Once a year, the whole town or city was invited to play together. We created teams of 500 or 600 people that included kids and adults and grandparents. It was like a big weekend festival.
And we played silly, impossible missions. There was actually a commission that created these missions.
What's an example of one of these missions that community members would compete in?
I remember the first one that I played in my hometown of Santos. There was this stage in front of the church where the whole town of thousands of people gathered to hear what the mission was. And the guy said into the microphone, "You have three hours to bring a real pink elephant."
There are no wild elephants in Brazil. And there's certainly no pink elephant anywhere! But when the guy said we had three hours, the whole town started screaming and running, trying to find a solution. This is an ancestral training system that awakens and strengthens the power of community because you cannot complete the mission by yourself.
After five minutes, someone in the crowd said, "The circus!" Then his team ran and drove to the circus in another city. And the owner loaned them the elephant because everyone knows that the gincana is something sacred. Everyone wants to help you. So he probably said, "OK, take it, but bring it back in three hours! Please! Because I have a show."
This team thought they were going to win since they had the elephant. "Nobody's gonna find a pink elephant. We're the amazing ones!"
But another team brought an elephant from another town and they started painting it pink. The first team said, "No! You can't do that!" But the second team said, "Nobody said you couldn't paint a real elephant pink."
So people created these crazy strategies out of nothing. And we did it together. It's a kind of collective intelligence... a brainstorm the size of a city. And then we all laughed. We all celebrated. Even if you lost, you couldn't believe these groups actually brought real elephants to your town.
As a boy, I witnessed the creative potential we have to solve anything.
What gets in the way of solving big problems today, do you think?
There's a mindset that leads us to create scarcity in our behavior with our neighbors, with our partners, with other countries. It's the idea that there's not enough for everybody. So we feel like we better collect and save for ourselves and for our families.
But this idea of scarcity is crazy. It creates a kind of social sickness. You can be a millionaire but if you have the idea of scarcity in your head, you'll want to collect more and save more.
The people that often share the most are the poorest people. If you give someone who's homeless a sandwich, they will share it. They know that tomorrow, they won't have food. And if they share with someone now, that person may share with them tomorrow. All over the world, the homeless people I've met have a different kind of knowledge.
Most of us in big cities, we see the other as a competitor or a potential enemy.
But for many traditional communities, if they see you coming and they never saw someone that looks like you before, they'll find the difference attractive. "Oh, it's a potential friend," they might think. So they want to feed you, learn from you, bring you to their home.
So how do you shift this mindset of scarcity?
It's not about trying to educate people out of it because for them, it feels true. They've experienced that scarcity. You cannot manipulate people's will. But you can manipulate or design the environment so that scarcity isn't important.
What I do is help build skills in others that I've learned from traditional communities, Indigenous villages or observing kids in nature.
I just tell people, "Let's play." And through games and playful activities, we create a field of trust, of safety, of love and empathy. And people wind up wanting to give more and more.
When you create abundance of connection, abundance of possibility, people sense it right away. It doesn't matter if for 30 or 40 years they were living in scarcity. When our biology finds an abundance of love, connection and an acceptance that we can be ourselves, people flourish within minutes.
How do you create this abundance through your organization Livelab?
Collective intelligence and collective action are way more powerful than a traditional pyramid or hierarchy. We're trying to tune back into a community's power to bring people together.
And we do that through this guiding question: What if building the world of our dreams could be fast, free, fun and fantastic?
If you think about inviting the whole world to take on a big global challenge, the United Nations can't do that. But the Olympic Games can. The World Cup can. We have so much knowledge, especially in Indigenous communities, about how to treat the environment and how to build connections among thousands of people.
If you can create a challenge where you invite all of humanity to join a journey that's fast, free, fun and fantastic, everybody is going to join — kids and elders alike. I've done it locally, regionally and nationally. But to take on climate change, we need to go global.
Describe your vision for the global game you're building.
It's called "Jornada X" in Portuguese, or "X Journey" in English. And the idea is to save the planet — a forest, a piece of a neighborhood — one block at a time.
It starts with young people. They receive a call that's like a Matrix video that says, "Humanity isn't doing well. Society is violent and nature is dying. But you are one of a group of special kids with superpowers — things like love, helping others, strength, and friendship. In this game, in this journey, you have to awaken and release your superpower.
But here's the key — it has to be a collective superpower. They have to call at least three more friends and convince them to form a team. And anyone who joins that league gets the superpower as well. Kids love playing superheroes as a team.
As soon as they sign up, the team starts to receive missions. For instance, we might say, "Look at your neighborhood around you. What pisses you off about your neighborhood? What's wrong?" Kids and teenagers are all about criticizing. So they choose something like not having trees or having a dirty river or kids not being safe.
And the idea is that by the end of seven weeks, they have to find a solution and build it alongside their community. They don't know how to begin, but they try.
We tell them that the whole neighborhood is their game board. We explain that everything that they need to solve the problem is there in their community. So they have to find the local experts, the local materials, the local organizational patterns.
And eventually, they come up with something... like planting trees or cleaning gardens or cleaning the river.
How does the broader community get involved?
The next mission might be to find allies in your neighborhood — people who know about the problem you're trying to tackle. We ask the young people to choose the best three experts, tell them about the problem they're trying to solve and ask them to share the story of their lives. That's a trick to create connection.
These allies have the wisdom but they sometimes feel stuck and that they can't do anything. But when kids go to them, it energizes them.
Soon, we ask the kids to mobilize the support of as many adults as possible to get them involved in the hands-on work of their solution.
And when the community sees kids healing their neighborhood, they come together and say, "There's something meaningful here. We need to be part of it. We've been waiting for the government or companies to support us, but we are the people who can act to restore our neighborhood."
By belonging to a group that we love and that's doing good in the world — these are ways of energizing our collective power, our collective meaning. When you do some good, you feel like you have an identity. Your neighbor says, "Amazing. How can I support you?" You feel appreciated and so you want to do more.
By playing the game, we strengthen our personal and collective portions of confidence, joy, and willingness to do good.
You really think this could work?
Well, kids play war games all the time. They collaborate to kill people. It's not that they like death, but they want to have this kind of adrenaline. What could be more exciting? My answer is saving the planet in a way that adults haven't been able to.
Our global game is a way to get communities to come together and use hands-on actions to restore the environment. By doing that, they reconnect with nature, reconnect with society and they want to do more. They dance together, they celebrate together, they share food, and it's fun. It restores community.
We've been testing it in Brazil and over 15 countries. And the kids are telling us they want to build this huge network across the planet.
So it's coming. It's coming.
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Reported sexual assaults across US military increase by 13%
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out of pandemic restrictions and public venues reopened, The Associated Press has learned.
Mirroring the increase in those reports is the disclosure that close to 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact — a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in a similar 2018 survey, U.S. defense and military officials said.
The latest numbers are certain to anger lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been critical of the Pentagon’s efforts to get a handle on sexual crimes and misconduct.
According to officials, the overall increase is largely fueled by a nearly 26% jump in reports involving Army soldiers. It’s the largest increase for that service since 2013, when such reports went up by 51%.
The increase in Navy reports was about 9%, the Air Force was a bit more than 2% and the Marine Corps was less than 2%, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the reporting has not yet been made public.
The big increase is especially troublesome for the Army, which is struggling to meet its recruiting goals and is expected to miss the target by at least 10,000 — or by anywhere from 18% to 25% — at the end of September. Army leaders have acknowledged that it is important for parents and others who influence recruits to feel comfortable that their son or daughter is safe and will be taken care of in the service.
COVID-19 and the pandemic restrictions make year-to-year comparisons complicated. Officials said they do not have enough data to determine if — or how much — the pandemic played a role in the higher reporting and survey numbers.
The Pentagon and the military services have long struggled to come up with programs to prevent sexual assaults and to encourage reporting. While the military has made inroads in making it easier and safer for service members to come forward, it has had far less success reducing the assaults, which have increased nearly every year since 2006.
The double-digit overall increase comes after two years of relatively small increases in reports filed by or involving service members. In the budget year ending September 2020, reports of sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact edged up by 1%, as much of the world largely shut down due to the pandemic. The previous year, reports went up by about 3% — a substantial improvement over 2018, which also saw a 13% increase.
The widespread restrictions on travel and movement for the military continued during fall 2020 and the early part of 2021, and many businesses, restaurants and bars were shut down or had limited service. Things began to open up as more people were vaccinated in the summer and fall, but it’s also not clear whether that greater freedom contributed to the increase in assault reports.
The Pentagon releases a report every year on the number of sexual assaults reported by or about troops. But because sexual assault is a highly underreported crime, the department began to do an confidential survey every two years to get a clearer picture of the problem. The 2018 survey found that more than 20,000 service members said they experienced some type of sexual assault, but only one-third of them filed a formal report.
The latest report, expected to be publicly released Thursday, estimates that about 35,800 service members experienced some type of sexual assault in the previous year, based on the confidential survey. That means that only about one in every five service members reported an incident that happened in the previous year.
Every year as many as 10% of the assaults that service members reported happened before they joined the military.
Officials familiar with the findings said survey respondents also reported increases in unhappiness in the workplace, as well as more sexual harassment, which can sometimes lead to other sexual assaults or misconduct.
Defense officials have argued that an increase in reported assaults is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report it, both in the military and in society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system and greater comfort with the support for victims.
It’s unclear, however, whether the increased reports last year actually represent a growing problem or whether those who say they were assaulted were just more willing to come forward.
The Pentagon has been under persistent pressure from Congress to improve prevention and prosecutions. Lawmakers acted late last year to take some prosecution authority out of the hands of commanders and instead use independent prosecutors.
Victims rights advocates and others have argued that service members don’t trust the system and are often unwilling to go to their commanders with a complaint for fear of retribution. They also worry that commanders may not press ahead with some cases if they know the accused. Members of Congress argued that using independent prosecutors would make the process more fair, and make victims more comfortable coming forward.
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Dear Miss Manners: My boyfriend is an elderly man. He is truly nice, but he is also snide. His comments are sometimes hurtful and ongoing.
There is a lot of trouble “them men” have gotten themselves into with just such an excuse, and it is no longer tolerable.
Miss Manners suggests you tell your boyfriend as much: “That is not how I wish to be treated, so if we are going to continue this relationship, your attitude will have to change. If I am hurt, I expect an apology and subsequent change of behavior.”
Unfortunately, he may tell you that his stubbornness outweighs your need for him to change. If that is the case, Miss Manners suggests you put some serious thought into whether it is worth it to keep him.
Dear Miss Manners: I have a slightly older friend, a very dear and loving woman, who often seems very anxious over a plethora of small things, including anything in my life that she deems worrying.
I bought a house, and during that lengthy process, she called frequently to inquire about how it was going. It was as if I could hear her mentally wringing her hands. Now my moving date is set, and she has repeatedly insisted I allow her to help me pack, unpack, lay shelf liner, clean the bathroom and cook.
I don't look forward to having a casual friend going through boxes of my personal items or generally being underfoot while I'm deciding where things should go, etc. I have two healthy adult daughters and sons-in-law who are providing any help I require.
I have repeatedly responded to her offers by saying, “Oh, Sally, I'd really enjoy it if you'd just come over and have a cup of coffee with me and see the house. Please don't bother cooking, or even think about cleaning the bathroom!”
Her response is something like she “just might have to help, whether I want her to or not.” I have stomach issues that make me very careful about what I eat, so I particularly don't want her to bring food I won't be able to eat, which would make her feel awful.
I realize she wants to feel useful. None of her children live here; she is in her early 70s and mostly retired. I’m trying to think of what I could do to let her feel helpful, as this is clearly so important to her, without feeling like I have my mother hovering over me or invading my personal space.
Why not go out instead?
“You know what would really help? A break from all of this moving and unpacking. Let's go for lunch or a walk so that I can take my mind off all of this.”
Your friend may still well ask to see the new house — and Miss Manners leaves it up to your discretion to oblige. But please make sure that there are firm reservations or appointments in place so that your friend cannot linger — and end up rearranging the furniture.
New Miss Manners columns are posted Monday through Saturday on washingtonpost.com/advice. You can send questions to Miss Manners at her website, missmanners.com. You can also follow her @RealMissManners.
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Brings High-Quality Specialized Storage Services to Key Market and Offers New RV Repair Services to All RecNation Community Members
DALLAS, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RecNation Storage ("RecNation" or the "Company"), a leading owner, operator and developer of specialized recreational vehicles and marine storage facilities, today announced it has completed the acquisition of a state-of-the-art storage facility in Shawnee, Kansas, marking the Company's inaugural location in the Kansas City metropolitan market.
The new facility, located at 25105 W 43rd Street in Shawnee, is just 20 miles west of central Kansas City in the Overland Park area and will provide outdoor enthusiasts across the region with access to premier recreational storage services. The facility will be one of the largest locations in RecNation's portfolio, with more than 725 units and 325,000 total leasable square feet. In addition to providing many of the best-in-class amenities and services that RecNation customers across the country have come to love and expect, including 24/7 video surveillance, well-lit driveways and 24-hour accessibility, the facility will also offer RV repair services to all members of the RecNation community.
Kansas City represents an underserved market in the recreational storage sector. With its central geographic location making it 'Half Way to Everywhere' and numerous notable recreational activities – including pristine lakes, historic state parks and unique hiking trails – there is a significant opportunity to provide modernized, professional recreational storage services for locals and visitors alike across the region.
"We view the Midwest as an attractive market brimming with communities of outdoor enthusiasts that stand to benefit meaningfully from high-quality, reliable recreational storage services, and we are thrilled to set our flag down in Kansas," said Gary Wojtaszek, Founder and Chief Camper of RecNation. "I know firsthand how much Kansas City has to offer those who enjoy spending their free time exploring and enjoying the Great Outdoors. It's a perfect location for enthusiasts near and far who are adventuring with family and friends to National and State parks across the country, and I look forward to growing our national community and providing our loyal customers with not only the highest quality and most secure storage facilities, but essential RV repair services as well."
This acquisition builds upon RecNation's recent expansion into the San Antonio and Phoenix markets, as well as the company's growing footprint in Florida. Following the close of this acquisition, RecNation owns and operates 40 storage locations across Arizona, Texas, Florida and now Kansas, with over 5.5 million square feet of leasable storage space.
In December 2021, RecNation partnered with Centerbridge Partners, L.P., a private investment management firm, and WOJO Capital Partners LLC to accelerate its expansion into a national platform dedicated to serving recreational and marine vehicle enthusiasts across the nation.
About RecNation
RecNation acquires, builds and manages specialized RV and Boat storage facilities across the United States. The company was founded to meet the burgeoning storage requirements of the owners of recreational and marine vehicles. The company caters to the needs of the outdoor enthusiast by providing highly secure and professionally maintained facilities that provide superior customer service. To learn more and find a storage location near you, visit: https://www.recnationstorage.com/.
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What could be more exciting for kids than a bouncy inflatable in the summertime? Inflatable water bouncies combine the irresistible bouncy surfaces that kids love with water so they can splash while they play.
Built-in pools, wading areas, sprinklers and other water components give water bouncies the appeal that resembles a water park. What’s more, when youngsters have their very own water wonderland at home, they’ll be able to indulge in hours of affordable fun in their own yard.
Considerations before buying a water bouncy
If you are thinking about purchasing a water bouncy to maximize outdoor fun for the kids in your life, there are a few factors to consider to ensure you choose one that fits your needs and yard space. You’ll also need to be prepared for setup when it arrives.
How many kids will be using your new water bouncy?
Water bouncies come in a wide range of sizes. Smaller models will fit two or three kids, while giant play centers are great for gatherings and parties. Although not all product descriptions include the total number of kids that a particular toy will accommodate, most include a maximum weight limit. This may range from about 250 to more than 1,000 pounds.
How much space do you need in your yard for a water bouncy?
Just as water bouncies can hold different numbers of occupants, they also come in various sizes. While smaller models hold fewer children, large party-size options take up quite a bit of yard space. Be sure to check the dimensions in the product descriptions as you shop to be sure you have enough space for any bouncies you are considering. If you want to do other backyard activities while the bouncie is set up, make sure you have enough room for those too.
Setting up a water bouncy
Most water bouncies are easy to set up and come with the items and instructions necessary for completing the task. These include an air blower to keep the toy inflated and stakes to keep it secure during play. However, keep in mind that some models don’t include a blower. This information is included in the product descriptions.
Features of water bouncies
Material durability
Most bouncies are made of strong vinyl or PVC material that’s flexible and resists punctures with normal play. However, air leaks from punctures are still possible. That’s why most quality water bouncies include repair kits with patches. For the ultimate durability, look for models that are made of materials that are classified as rental-grade.
Water and other components
Water bouncies are very similar to bounce houses. The main difference is that they have components that spray, squirt or hold water for added fun in the summertime. Slides, bounce areas, wading pools, climbing walls, sprinklers and water cannons are common components.
Age
Another selling point of water bouncies is that they are suitable for kids of various ages. Because well-made models are durable enough to accommodate kids of various sizes, they typically have an age range from about 3 to 12-plus years old.
Best inflatable water bouncies
Sunny & Fun 2-in-1 Bounce & Blast Inflatable Water Slide Park
Kids will have plenty of fun activities to do with this water bouncy, as it offers a bounce area, slide, climbing wall and splash pool. It has a weight limit of 350 pounds, which makes it practical for several kids. It comes with a blower, stakes, patches and a storage bag.
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Banzai Bounce N Splash Water Park Play Center
This bouncy is the perfect size for smaller yards and is suitable for younger kids. It’s a bounce house, slide and splash pool in one space-saving design. The weight capacity is 250 pounds. Stakes, a blower, a storage bag and a repair kit are included.
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Action Air Inflatable Water Slide
If you have a smaller yard or need a portable option, this inflatable slide with a splash pool is a suitable choice. It has an 88-pound weight capacity and is ideal for two kids. It comes with a blower, stakes, patches and a storage bag.
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JumpOrange DuraLite Octopus Bounce House
With an 800-pound capacity, large slide and spacious bounce house and splash pool, this bouncy is ideal for groups of kids. It boasts a fun octopus theme that’s appealing to kids. Its impressive feature set includes a blower, stakes, basketball hoop, safety net and water sprayer.
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Hurricanes vs. Devils Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 5
The New Jersey Devils take the road to square off against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Thursday, May 11, starting at 7:00 PM ET on TNT, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS. The Hurricanes hold a 3-1 lead in the series. The Devils have +110 moneyline odds against the favorite Hurricanes (-130).
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Hurricanes vs. Devils Predictions for Thursday
Our model for this game calls for a final score of Hurricanes 4, Devils 2.
- Moneyline Pick: Hurricanes (-130)
- Computer Predicted Total: 6.1
- Computer Predicted Spread: Hurricanes (-1.4)
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Hurricanes vs Devils Additional Info
Hurricanes Splits and Trends
- The Hurricanes have finished 15-9-24 in overtime contests to contribute to an overall record of 52-21-9.
- In the 37 games Carolina has played that were decided by one goal, it has a 24-7-6 record (good for 54 points).
- Looking at the seven times this season the Hurricanes finished a game with just one goal, they have a 2-4-1 record, good for five points.
- Carolina has finished 6-8-3 in the 17 games this season when it scored a pair of goals (registering 15 points).
- The Hurricanes have scored at least three goals in 62 games (51-6-5, 107 points).
- In the 24 games when Carolina has scored a single power-play goal, it went 21-3-0 to record 42 points.
- In the 72 games when it outshot its opponent, Carolina is 49-19-4 (102 points).
- The Hurricanes have been outshot by opponents in 15 games, going 7-5-3 to record 17 points.
Devils Splits and Trends
- The Devils (52-22-8 overall) have posted a record of 14-8-22 in contests that have required OT this season.
- In the 29 games New Jersey has played that were decided by one goal, it racked up 42 points.
- This season the Devils scored only one goal in 16 games and have gone 1-14-1 (three points).
- When New Jersey has scored exactly two goals this season, they've earned 11 points (5-7-1 record).
- The Devils have scored three or more goals in 64 games, earning 108 points from those contests.
- New Jersey has scored a single power-play goal in 46 games this season and has registered 68 points from those matchups.
- When outshooting its opponent this season, New Jersey is 37-18-6 (80 points).
- The Devils' opponents have had more shots in 30 games. The Devils went 18-10-2 in those contests (38 points).
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Hurricanes vs. Devils Game Time and TV Channel
- When: Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS
- Where: PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina
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These works featuring magical realism are newly available through the Allen County Public Library.
“Maybe Next Time”
by Cesca Major
A stressed woman must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate.
“Gone Like Yesterday”
by Janelle M. Williams
Zahra, a young Black woman who can hear the voices of her ancestors singing to her through moths, teams up with Sammie, an outspoken Trini-American teenager who can also hear them, as the pair search for Zahra’s missing brother.
“The Love Scribe”
by Amy Meyerson
While trying to harness her extraordinary gift – the ability to write stories that make others fall in love – Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her most challenging assignment yet, one that forces her to confront her own guarded heart.
“The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone”
by Audrey Burges
A 34-year-old recluse living in the Arizona mountains, Myra Malone, who blogs about a dollhouse mansion to which she is tethered by mysteries she cannot understand, must learn to expand the boundaries of her small world when a man searching for answers becomes part of her story.
“What We Remember”
by Sarah Echavarre
While caring for Opal, a dementia patient struggling to remember, hospital chaplain Isabel Myles, who copes by forgetting, finds the more invested she becomes in Opal’s vanishing world, the more open she is to forming bonds, realizing she no longer has to face her traumatic past alone.
“The Wilderwomen”
by Ruth Emmie Lang
When she is seized by an “echo” – a memory someone has left behind – Finn Wilder, believing the memory belongs to their mother, must convince her psychic sister Zadie to retrace their mother’s footsteps and uncover the answer to the question that has been haunting them for years: Why did she leave? | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/books/new-library-books/article_eec7fc1e-d889-11ed-9d53-c734fde4846d.html | 2023-04-15 04:59:19 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/books/new-library-books/article_eec7fc1e-d889-11ed-9d53-c734fde4846d.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. Instead of the site of a massive die-off as suspected, it might have been an ancient maternity ward where the creatures came to give birth.
The site is famous for its fossils from giant ichthyosaurs — reptiles that dominated the ancient seas and could grow up to the size of a school bus. The creatures — the name means fish lizard — were underwater predators with large paddle-shaped flippers and long jaws full of teeth.
Since the ichthyosaur bones in Nevada were excavated in the 1950s, many paleontologists have investigated how all these creatures could have died together. Now, researchers have proposed a different theory in a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology.
“Several lines of evidence all kind of point towards one argument here: That this was a place where giant ichthyosaurs came to give birth,” said co-author Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Once a tropical sea, the site — part of Nevada’s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park — now sits in a dry, dusty landscape near an abandoned mining town, said lead author Randy Irmis, a paleontologist at the University of Utah.
To get a better look at the massive skeletons, which boast vertebrae the size of dinner plates and bones from their flippers as thick as boulders, researchers used 3D scanning to create a detailed digital model, Irmis said.
They identified fossils from at least 37 ichthyosaurs scattered around the area, dating back about 230 million years. The bones were preserved in different rock layers, suggesting the creatures could have died hundreds of thousands of years apart rather than all at once, Pyenson said.
A major break came when the researchers spotted some tiny bones among the massive adult fossils, and realized they belonged to embryos and newborns, Pyenson said. The researchers concluded that the creatures traveled to the site in groups for protection as they gave birth, like today’s marine giants. The fossils are believed to be from the mothers and offspring that died there over the years.
“Finding a place to give birth separated from a place where you might feed is really common in the modern world — among whales, among sharks,” Pyenson said.
Other clues helped rule out some previous explanations.
Testing the chemicals in the dirt didn’t turn up any signs of volcanic eruptions or huge shifts to the local environment. And the geology showed that the reptiles were preserved on the ocean floor pretty far from the shore — meaning they probably didn’t die in a mass beaching event, Irmis said.
The new study offers a plausible explanation for a site that’s baffled paleontologists for decades, said Dean Lomax, an ichthyosaur specialist at England’s University of Manchester who was not involved with the research.
The case may not be fully closed yet but the study “really helps to unlock a little bit more about this fascinating site,” Lomax said.
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Musk’s partisan tweet calls Twitter neutrality into question
(AP) – Elon Musk used his Twitter megaphone to appeal to “independent-minded voters” on Monday, urging them to vote Republican in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections and stepping into the country’s political debate that tech company executives have largely tried to stay out of — so their platforms wouldn’t be seen as favoring one side over the other.
Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion, has expressed political views in the past, on and off the platform. But a direct endorsement of one party over another now that he owns it raises questions about Twitter’s ability to remain neutral under the rule of the world’s richest man.
“Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,” Musk tweeted.
It’s one thing for the CEO of Wendy’s or Chick-fil-A to endorse a political party, said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a professor at Syracuse University who studies social media and politics. It’s a whole other thing, though, for the owner of one of the world’s most high-profile information ecosystems to do so.
“These social media platforms are not just companies. It’s not just a business. It is also our digital public sphere. It’s our town square,” Stromer-Galley said. “And it feels like the public sphere is increasingly privatized and owned by these companies — and when the heads of these companies put their finger on the scale — it feels like it’s potentially skewing our democracy in harmful ways.”
Musk’s comments come as he seeks to remake the company and amid widespread concern that recent mass layoffs at the social media platform could leave the company unable to deal with hate speech, misinformation that could impact voter safety and security and actors who seek to cast doubt on the legitimate winners of elections. Though Musk has vowed not to let Twitter become a “free-for-all hellscape,” advertisers have left the platform and Musk himself has amplified misinformation.
It’s not a secret that when it comes to tech workers and executives, the political mix tends to favor the left, with a good amount of Silicon Valley libertarianism thrown in. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for instance has donated to candidates on both sides of the political spectrum, but in recent years he’s veered more toward Democrats. Publicly he’s stayed away from pledging allegiance to either party.
But in their platform policies and content moderation, tech companies such as Facebook (now Meta), Google and even Twitter have taken great pains to appear politically neutral, even as they are routinely criticized — largely by conservatives but also by liberals — for favoring one side over the other.
“Now, you might say, look, Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News and that’s his voice amplified,” said Charles Anthony Smith, a professor of political science and law at The University of California at Irvine. “But the difference is that gets filtered through a variety of different script writers and on-air personalities and all this other sort of stuff. So it’s not really Rupert Murdoch. It may be people that agree with him on things, but it’s filtered through other voices. This is an unadulterated direct contact. So it’s an amplification that is unrivaled.”
Musk’s tweets could also stir up trouble in global politics outside of the U.S. elections. On Sunday, the billionaire signaled willingness to explore reversing decisions blocking some accounts of Brazilian right-wing lawmakers. The nation’s electoral court last week ordered their suspension; all are supporters of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who on Oct. 30 lost his reelection bid by a narrow margin, and most had aired claims of election fraud.
Paulo Figueiredo Filho, a political analyst who often defends Bolsonaro on social media and is also the grandson of the military dictatorship’s final president, tweeted that Twitter has become a strict and spontaneous censor.
“Your moderators are currently being more dictatorial than our own courts!” Figueiredo wrote.
Musk responded: “I will look into this.”
The suspended accounts include that of Nikolas Ferreira, who garnered more votes in the October race than any other candidate for a seat in the Lower House. According to orders issued by the electoral authority, Ferreira’s account and most others were blocked for sharing a live video from an Argentinian digital influencer questioning the reliability of Brazil’s electronic voting system. The video was largely shared by allies of Bolsonaro, who himself has often claimed the system is susceptible to fraud, without presenting any evidence.
Twitter’s policies, as of Monday, prohibit “manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.”
In a tweet just two days after he agreed to buy Twitter in April, Musk said that for “Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.”
And to attract the largest possible number of advertisers and users, Big Tech has tried to go this route, with varying degrees of success. For years, it managed to succeed. But the 2016 U.S. presidential elections changed online discourse, fueling the country’s increased political polarization.
In early 2016, a tech blog quoted an anonymous former Facebook contractor who said the site downplayed news that conservatives are interested in and artificially boosted liberal issues such as the “BlackLivesMatter” hashtag. The blog did not name the person, and no evidence was provided for their claim.
But in the explosive political climate that preceded the election of former President Donald Trump, the claim quickly took a life of its own. There was plenty of media coverage, as well as as inquiries from GOP lawmakers, then, later, congressional hearings on the matter. In the years since, as social media companies began to crack down on far-right accounts and conspiracy theories such as QAnon, some conservatives have come to see it as evidence of the platforms’ bias.
Musk himself is at least listening to such claims, and he’s repeatedly engaged with figures on the right and far-right who would like to see a loosening of Twitter’s misinformation and hate speech policies.
Evidence suggests those voices are already being heard. In an October study, for instance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that “Twitter gives greater visibility to politically conservative news than it does content with a liberal bent.”
Musk’s tweet garnered hundreds of thousands of likes and many retweets Monday on the day before the final votes are cast in thousands of races around the country. But in replies and retweets, many prominent (and not so prominent) Twitter personalities expressed criticism for the Tesla CEO — often poking fun at him. For Smith, that’s a sign Musk may not quite be a billionaire political kingmaker that some of his peers, like venture capitalist Peter Thiel, are aspiring to be.
“I wonder if we’re we’re having the emergence of a new type of billionaire, the ones who want to decide what happens and get credit for deciding what happens,” Smith said. “So this more like an oligarchy approach than the old school billionaires who would drop lots of money but then they didn’t want anybody to know their names.”
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Associated Press Writer Carla Bridi contributed to this story from Brasilia, Brazil.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made official his bid to run for reelection in October, giving him three months to close a double-digit gap to secure victory.
The Liberal Party’s formal approval of Bolsonaro’s candidacy took place at its convention Sunday in a Rio de Janeiro stadium. Support was widely expected and merely symbolic, given that the far-right president has effectively been campaigning for months, crisscrossing the country to drum up support and remind voters why they shouldn’t back his nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“We don’t need another ideology that hasn’t worked anywhere else in the world. We need to improve what we have,” Bolsonaro said on stage, surrounded by ministers, former ministers, family and other allies. “Our life wasn’t easy, but one thing comforts me isn’t seeing a communist sitting in that chair of mine.”
Bolsonaro has sought to characterize the upcoming race as a battle between good and evil, echoing his 2018 campaign that presented him as an outsider crusading to restore law, order and conservative values to a wayward nation. He joined the centrist Liberal Party in November after failing to found his own party.
People snaked through lines to enter the stadium, where the campaign jingle “Captain of the People” played repeatedly. Cheering supporters were decked out in the green-and-yellow national colors, though there were dozens of empty seats in the stadium, which has capacity of about 13,600.
Several supporters of the president told The Associated Press that if Bolsonaro doesn’t win a second term, Brazil will follow the catastrophic lead of Venezuela. And many spoke about how they don’t trust polls that show Bolsonaro trailing, and fully expect him to win.
Alexandre Carlos, 52, said he came to the convention to support Bolsonaro’s quest to make Brazil better, and that the president didn’t waver in his first term.
“It’s good versus evil and we’re in favor of the good,” Carlos said. “Bolsonaro is the only hope we have now to save the country.”
Da Silva, leads all polls to return to his former job — as he had in 2018 until his removal from that race due to a corruption conviction. That enabled Bolsonaro, then a seven-term fringe lawmaker, to cruise to victory. Da Silva’s conviction was annulled last year by the Supreme Court that ruled the judge overseeing the probe had been biased and colluded with prosecutors.
Bolsonaro faces an uphill battle. His approval ratings have recovered only slightly since declining during the pandemic. A congressional investigation last year recommended he and administration officials face criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world’s second highest death toll from the disease.
The latest survey by pollster Datafolha, in June, found more than half of respondents said they wouldn’t vote for him under any circumstance. And 47% of respondents said they plan to vote for da Silva, versus 28% for Bolsonaro, according to the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Political analysts expect the race to tighten somewhat in coming months.
Bolsonaro’s administration recently limited interstate taxes to reduce gasoline prices for consumers — an effort aided by falling global oil prices — and approved an increased social welfare program that will begin next month and run through year-end. Bolsonaro announced Sunday that, if elected, the program will be extended into 2023.
The unemployment rate has also dipped below double digits for the first time since 2016, and economic prospects for this year have climbed steadily. Analysts surveyed by the central bank expect 1.75% growth, more than triple the level they forecast in April.
“The cumulative impact of a better economy, relief on inflation in July, and a larger cash transfer stipend does move the needle somewhat on the election. But not tremendously,” Christopher Garman, Americas managing director for political risk consultancy Eurasia Group wrote in a July 19 note, forecasting the race will ultimately tighten to single digits.
The welfare program will provide a limited bump for Bolsonaro because the social class benefiting is more favorable to da Silva, according to Esther Solano, sociologist at the Federal University of Sao Paulo who has conducted targeted polling of potential Bolsonaro voters.
“There is a very strong attachment of this popular base to Lula. He is recognized as a political leader who actually cared about that base,” Solano said.
Bolsonaro is particularly struggling to draw support from female voters, and looking to his wife, an evangelical Christian, for help. Michelle Bolsonaro took the stage Sunday and delivered a speech full of biblical passages, at one point referring to her husband as “God’s chosen one.”
To help burnish his appeal among women, allies had encouraged him to tap his former agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina, as his vice president. Instead, Bolsonaro chose a fellow military man, Gen. Walter Braga Netto, who served as a special adviser.
With the possibility of a loss looming, Bolsonaro has insisted that the electronic voting system used since 1996 is susceptible to fraud, though never presented any evidence. Many political analysts have expressed fear that Bolsonaro — an outspoken admirer of Donald Trump — is preparing to follow the former U.S. president’s lead and reject results.
His unsubstantiated claims have been roundly dismissed, most recently after he called dozens of diplomats to the presidential palace to hold forth on the subject. Associations of prosecutors, judges and Federal Police expressed their faith in the current system, as did members of the Supreme Court and electoral authority, lawmakers include the Senate’s president, and the U.S. State Department.
Bolsonaro made no direct mention of the matter in his speech on Sunday.
Standing outside the stadium, Marcelo Cunha, 57, said he isn’t a Bolsonaro fanatic, but that the president is the only one who can prevent da Silva’s return to power, which he said would be “terrible.”
“It hasn’t been a government of great achievements, but I was OK with what was done,” Cunha said. “For me, it is the best option at the moment.”
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Williston’s Outlaws’ Bar and Grill to close
Published: Aug. 14, 2022 at 9:28 PM CDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
WILLISTON, N.D. (KFYR) - Outlaws’ Bar and Grill in Williston announced it will be closing August 15.
According to a social media post: ‘Western North Dakota...[has] been hit particularly hard during these unprecedented times. Due to difficulty in finding quality labor, we have decided to close our doors. Thank you for an amazing eight years.’
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Mortgage rates have fluctuated a lot in the last year and interest rates are still climbing. No one knows for sure when the housing market will improve, and not everyone is waiting until it does.
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Mortgage rates have fluctuated a lot in the last year and interest rates are still climbing. No one knows for sure when the housing market will improve, and not everyone is waiting until it does.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gamut, the award-winning leader in local CTV advertising, and AI video creation platform Waymark, today announced a partnership to expand next-generation local advertising services on a national scale.
Gamut offers advertisers brand-safe, direct access to premium CTV video ad inventory and relevant audiences in every DMA. Waymark is a creative AI startup that automates video production and returns ready-to-air commercials for any local business in minutes.
Together, the two companies aim to remove barriers to local advertising through their unique combination of direct, premium local CTV inventory and cutting-edge creative AI that makes professional video ads easy, fast and affordable to produce.
"We're excited about this partnership because it opens the door for more local buyers to access the benefits of CTV advertising," said Keith Kazerman, President of Gamut. "Brands can leverage customized ads to targeted streaming audiences at scale, without the heavy lift and budget of traditional video ad creation. On the other side of the equation, publishers want to provide viewers with sponsored content that feels relevant, tailored, and varied - that's what local CTV advertising brings, and what we want to enable."
"Together, Gamut and Waymark give content providers and advertisers everything they need to accomplish their mutual goals," added Alex Persky-Stern, CEO of Waymark. "Gamut has access to the inventory - and then taps into Waymark to offer that additional layer of video production at scale for local and regional ad partners with our AI-powered creative tools."
Gamut and Waymark's partnership offers an opportunity to bring advanced, comprehensive support to local advertisers, meeting the increasing demand for localized advertising in the TV industry, particularly in CTV. This announcement introduces an innovative and powerful option for prospective SMB advertisers to seamlessly buy local CTV ads, quickly produce go-to-market-ready creative ad messages, and measure impact all in one place.
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Gamut, the award-winning leader in local CTV, helps brands connect with relevant streaming audiences in every DMA. Leveraging its direct access to brand-safe, premium OTT inventory, and advanced advertising tools, marketers can reach desired local audiences on a national scale with highly engaging and personalized ads. With more than 20 years of digital media experience, Gamut is committed to delivering the highest level of service and expertise to ensure maximum results for its clients and partners. Gamut aligns with industry-leading sister company, CoxReps, to provide advertisers with a holistic approach to reaching key audiences. For more information about Gamut, please visit: www.gamut.media.
Waymark is a creative AI company making video production faster and easier than ever before. With a radically simple natural language interface, Waymark makes it possible for anyone to produce professional quality commercials for any platform — including TV and CTV — in a matter of minutes. The company is based in Michigan and is privately held. To learn more about Waymark, visit www.waymark.com.
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America's Diner will work with Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance to expand opportunities for Black franchisees
SPARTANBURG, S.C. , June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Denny's announced its commitment to the Pathways to Black Franchise Ownership program created by the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance (MFHA). Denny's and MFHA have enjoyed a successful 25-year alliance and, as a new Pathways to Black Franchise Ownership partner, Denny's will help MFHA reach its goal of creating 100 Black-owned franchises by 2023.
The Pathways to Black Franchising program aims to make systemic change and drive greater wealth in the Black community by empowering African American entrepreneurs to operate high-performing franchise businesses. Research from the US Census Bureau and the International Franchise Association shows that African Americans make up only 8% of franchise business owners, and, together, Denny's and MFHA will work to close that gap by providing participants with specialized training, coaching, mentoring and other support to help them open both single and/or multi-unit franchise businesses.
Joining Pathways marks another chapter in Denny's long-standing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Since 1993, Denny's has invested more than $2 billion in underrepresented suppliers, including hiring minority-owned small business operators and entrepreneurs as consultants.
"At Denny's, diversity, equity and inclusion are key components of our business strategy and that includes every part of our organization from our board of directors to our franchisee association," said Denny's CEO John Miller. "Our expanded partnership with MFHA will help close the ownership gap for Black business owners and bring new faces and fresh thinking to Denny's. We're humbled to be able to create more opportunities for Black business owners who are historically underrepresented in the restaurant industry."
"MFHA is excited to welcome Denny's to the Pathways program," said Gerry Fernandez, Founder and President of MFHA. "Together, we can make a lasting impact by helping Black entrepreneurs achieve their dream of owning their own restaurant, uplifting their communities and building wealth for their family and future generations."
Pathways to Black Franchise Ownership was launched in 2020 with the goal of creating 100 Black-owned franchises by the end of 2023. MFHA is working closely with the National Restaurant Association, the National Restaurant Association Education Foundation (NRAEF) and the International Franchise Association to expand the program.
Companies and aspiring Black entrepreneurs can click here to learn more and register for the Pathways webinar on June 16, 2022.
Denny's Corporation is the franchisor and operator of one of America's largest franchised full-service restaurant chains, based on the number of restaurants. As of March 30, 2022, Denny's had 1,643 franchised, licensed, and company restaurants around the world including 153 restaurants in Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Philippines, New Zealand, Honduras, the United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Guam, Guatemala, El Salvador, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. For further information on Denny's, including news releases, please visit the Denny's website at www.dennys.com or the brand's social channel via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube.
The Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance (MFHA) is dedicated to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry. Founded by Gerry Fernandez in 1996, MFHA serves as a leading resource for companies large and small seeking to improve DEI across their organization and to become culturally competent. MFHA provides tailored solutions and guidance that draw from a broad range of best practices, research, DEI partnerships and expertise in current and emerging social issues.
As a non-profit 501(c)(3), MFHA is also affiliated with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), the non-profit arm of the National Restaurant Association. MFHA members have access to a range of products and services, including workshops, webinars, research, programs, events and speaking engagements.
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By ROB HARRIS
AP Global Soccer Writer
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City clinched a sixth Premier League title in 11 seasons on Sunday by scoring three times in five minutes to come from behind to beat Aston Villa 3-2 in the finale and hold off Liverpool’s challenge.
After starting the day in first place, City was at risk of an historic choke when it conceded twice to trail 2-0 at home to Villa. It took İlkay Gündoğan’s header to begin the comeback in the 76th and Rodri equalized two minutes later by placing the ball through a tight gap into the bottom corner.
The Etihad Stadium erupted in celebrations in the 81st when Gündoğan tapped in Kevin De Bruyne’s cross.
The importance of that goal became clearer moments later. Liverpool had been locked at 1-1 against Wolverhampton but Mohamed Salah then put the second-place team 2-1 in front in the 84th minute. That scoreline would have taken Liverpool into first place had City not just mounted its fightback to take the lead.
The jeopardy was still there — with Andy Robertson sealing Liverpool’s 3-1 win — while City would have conceded the title had it conceded a late equalizer.
But Pep Guardiola’s side held on for the win in a thrilling climax, retaining the trophy on the final day by a single point in a manner that was more jittery than expected considering City briefly had a 14-point lead in January.
City’s fourth championship success in five seasons produced a first for Guardiola. It’s the first time City has sealed the title in front of its own fans who spilled onto the field in their thousands at the final whistle against Villa.
“It was an unbelievable game,” Gündoğan said. “We are human beings and, after going 2-0 down, the chances were just very, very small. But we had to do the simple things and scoring two goals quickly and then having 10 minutes to score the third one gave us the right lift.
“It was about getting that goal and then the momentum was on our side then were able to score three goals in just a few minutes. These are the days you look back to, it was an unbelievable game.”
Although it went down to the wire, this one came without any of the anguish of 10 years ago when City’s first Premier League title was only clinched in the final minutes of the season.
That success, which produced City’s first championship crown in 44 years — with Roberto Mancini as manager — ushered in the era of dominance enjoyed by a club transformed by the influx of investment from Abu Dhabi.
City is now enjoying the steady stream of titles it once had to watch crosstown rival United gather up under Alex Ferguson. The rise of City coincided with the retirement of the Scot — who won the Premier League 13 times from 1993 to 2013 — and the decline of Manchester United.
The teams entered the final round on Sunday with City 32 points ahead of United and with Liverpool the greater threat to Guardiola’s side. In the last five seasons, the only time City didn’t win the trophy was when Liverpool’s 30-year title drought ended in 2020.
But it will be another season ending with City unable to win the biggest prize in European football — the Champions League — while Liverpool will be contesting the final against Real Madrid on May 28.
While Liverpool’s net spending on transfers has been around $250 million in the last five years, City’s has been more than $530 million.
City’s financial might wasn’t enough to convince Tottenham to sell Harry Kane ahead of this season, leaving Guardiola to achieve this title without a recognizable striker. Yet, City was able to break the British transfer record to sign Jack Grealish for 100 million pounds ($139 million) even though the midfielder only started sparingly.
City has already reinforced its attack for next season, with a deal clinched with Borussia Dortmund to sign Erling Haaland for 60 million euros ($63 million), adding one of Europe’s most exciting young forwards into the squad.
Still, concerns remain for human rights activists and less wealthy rivals about the club’s Abu Dhabi ownership and its actions.
Human rights violations by the United Arab Emirates are glossed over by City fans who largely overlook how their club has been used by a state as a tool of soft power that exploits the glamor of the world’s biggest sport to cleanse its image.
City owner Sheikh Mansour has only been seen at one game during his 14 years as owner. Mansour, who is deputy prime minister of the UAE, was condemned by the British government for recently hosting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
City was fined €10 million ($12 million) in 2020 for obstructing a UEFA investigation into its finances following leaks of internal correspondence at the club. But the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned a two-year Champions League ban because claims that the club disguised the source of income as overvalued sponsorships from companies linked to its Abu Dhabi ownership were either rejected or found to have happened too long ago to be investigated.
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Located near the western coast of South America is a large plain near the Andes Mountains, the Altiplano of the Atacama Desert. Standing at more than 4,000 meters high, this generally cold and dry spot on Earth also receives more sunlight than any other place on the planet — outshining locations that are higher in elevation and closer to the equator. In fact, the plateau can see as much sun as Venus.
A recent study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society measured a world record of solar irradiance (the output of light energy from the sun to Earth) of 2,177 watts per square meter on the Altiplano, which is also the second highest extensive plateau on Earth. That’s much higher than the radiation at the top of our atmosphere, which receives about 1,360 watts per square meter.
“It’s actually the radiation that you will be receiving in summer if you are standing up on Venus,” said study author Raul Cordero, a climatologist at University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He said that comparison is “incredible” because Venus is about 28 percent closer than Earth to the Sun.
On average, the solar irradiance on the plateau is around 308 watts per square meter, still the highest worldwide. Cordero said the solar energy potential in the Altiplano is roughly, on average, twice as high than in Central Europe and the U.S. East Coast.
“If you are exposed to such a high radiation danger, you have to protect your skin,” said Cordero. “At this particular location, for people working there … they are aware that the radiation was high, but now we know how really high.”
Satellite data have previously shown this area receives the most sunlight on Earth, but the new study analyzed new measurements to help explain why this area experiences such extreme radiation. The measurements were conducted at the Chajnantor Plateau, a vast flat expanse standing at more than 5,000 meters high and means “lift off place.” It hosts major astronomical projects including the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA).
The team found the extreme radiation can be traced back to thin, high-altitude clouds in the area.
Cordero explained that clouds often block sunlight or reflect radiation back into space, but thin broken clouds at this location can intensely focus the sun on the surface in a phenomenon known as forward scattering — like holding up a magnifying glass to the sun. The study found these clouds, typically cumulus, cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, can enhance solar radiation on the surface by up to 80 percent compared to cloudless conditions.
These clouds are most pronounced in January and February during the summer in the southern hemisphere. The moisture that creates these clouds comes from the Amazon, during the South American monsoon.
“What was striking to me was how large the value can get under the conditions of forward scattering in Altiplano,” said Tirthankar Chakraborty, an Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who was not involved in the research. “This is an interesting observational study of solar extremes possible on our planet, setting new records for shortwave radiation at the surface.”
Seiji Kato, an atmospheric scientist at NASA who was also not involved in the research, was not surprised at the study’s findings. He said when solar irradiance is transmitted through the atmosphere, it is absorbed by water vapor and scattered by clouds and aerosols. But a high elevation place that is located above the water vapor layer and has less clouds and aerosols would receive more sunshine.
Cordero said these clouds show up in other high-elevation places too, such as the Himalayan plateau, but they still don’t experience as high solar radiation values.
For one, summer in the northern hemisphere is less intense than its counterpart in the southern hemisphere. During summer in the southern hemisphere, Earth’s orbit is closer to the sun and reaches a point called perihelion in early January. As a result, solar irradiance is up to 7 percent higher in the southern hemisphere than the northern.
Second, the northern hemisphere also has more ozone molecules from the surface to space than the southern hemisphere. Ozone molecules higher in our atmosphere act as a natural sunscreen and protect us from the sun’s radiation.
The study, Kato pointed out, also only looks at downward solar irradiance, but there are other radiation sources to consider as well.
For instance, he said the surface also receives irradiance emitted by the atmosphere, which we can’t see and isn’t useful for solar power. But when clouds (especially low-level clouds) are present in the atmosphere, he said that radiation emitted by the atmosphere can be greater than the radiation coming directly from the sun on a cloudless day. That’s also the reason you may feel warmer standing outside on a cloudy winter night than on a clear winter night.
If you were to add both the solar irradiance and atmospheric irradiance, data from the NASA CERES satellite show that the largest irradiance at the surface occurs in an equatorial region over the Pacific Ocean, said Kato, who is also a member of the satellite team.
The sunniest spots also don’t always correspond to hottest places, either. Another recent study, authored by Chakraborty, determined the hottest places in the world for human discomfort, placing cities in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan at the top. Additionally, he and his colleagues found that most of the urban areas with extreme hot and cold temperatures were generally in medium to small cities. “Solar radiation does generally relate to temperature … but there will be exceptions though,” he said.
Cordero explained that air and surface temperatures depend on a lot more than just solar radiation. For instance, the atmosphere near the Altiplano is relatively cool because of its high elevation. The adjacent Pacific Ocean, which receives water currents near Antarctica, also helps keep the area cooler than land near warmer oceans like the Mediterranean seas. Vegetated areas may also be cooler than dry, arid surfaces because the plants cool the surface through evapotranspiration.
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PARIS (AP) — Health workers protested Tuesday around France to demand more hiring and better salaries in public hospitals, after years of cost cuts that left medics submerged when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and are now forcing emergency rooms to cut services.
Nine unions and collectives organized a day of protest, including a demonstration outside the Health Ministry in Paris and in dozens of other towns and cities, to call the government’s attention to growing concerns about staff shortages.
President Emmanuel Macron has promised a rethink of the public hospital system and commissioned an urgent review by July 1. Protesters hope to pressure the government as France heads into two rounds of legislative elections starting Sunday.
“We need an emergency plan for public hospitals today, with massive hiring … We also want a pay rise. We are the least paid in Europe,” said Nathalie Marchand, a personnel assistant at Paris’ Saint Louis hospital.
She was among several hundred health workers who demonstrated outside the Health Ministry.
Demonstrations were held elsewhere in France, including in Cherbourg, where Macron visited a hospital last week to announce his “flash mission” to work to bolster saturated emergency services.
“How could Emmanuel Macron, call an urgent review when there have been shortages for so long?” said Rachid Ouchem, a psychological assistant.
Ouchem is among those who would like to see the rehiring of around 15,000 health workers who lost their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying it would be an immediate answer to the long process of eventually training new hospital staff.
Macron’s government offered slight salary boosts to some hospital workers last year and authorized new equipment, but medics say the problems are deeper. Years of gradual cost cuts left France’s once-renowned public health care system understaffed and ill-prepared when the pandemic hit. Morale was already low among many medics, and some have quit the profession. Others are still reeling from the challenges of treating successive waves of COVID-19 patients.
An emergency medics’ group, Samu-Urgences de France, calculated last month that more than 100 emergency facilities have either already limited services are plan to because of staff shortages.
Despite the crisis situation, the Paris demonstration failed to attract huge throngs of protesters.
“The public hospital is the common good,” said Ouchem, encouraging health professionals and others to mobilize. “Anybody could be at the hospital or in an ER tomorrow.”
He added, “For two years, hospitals only stand thanks to health workers.”
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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The County of Santa Clara, California has officially launched the implementation of their new Cloud Collections Financial Ecosystem, "CSS IMPACT! HD™ 2.0" for its California Public Assistance Program called "Statewide Automated Welfare System" or "CALSAWS". CSS, Inc., a leader in innovation that continuously pioneers advanced solutions, is the exclusive provider of enterprise-grade financial ecosystems and omnichannel contact engagement solutions that cater to all verticals of the financial industry.
Santa Clara County, known as "the Silicon Valley," is a prominent destination for global technology companies. With a strong focus on innovation and digital transformation, the County consistently leads the way in adopting advanced digital tools to provide exceptional service to its residents.
The County continuously aims to transform modern governance using cloud technologies and smart AI-enabled services. The vision is to provide smart, mobile, transparent, and engaging public services that encourage increased constituent participation and foster trust with our citizens. This transformative vision is outlined in the County's strategic plan mission statement, which focuses on collaboration to support the goal of an enhanced experience and better services to its citizens.
"We are incredibly proud to have been selected by the prestigious County of Santa Clara to carry out this important project. Through the implementation of our cutting-edge "NextGen" HD 2.0 Collections Ecosystem, the County will be able to unify and simplify its outdated systems, giving users the power to streamline processes and improve efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency. Ultimately, this will lead to increased revenues for the County," said Carl Briganti, President and CEO of CSS, Inc.
About the County of Santa Clara
The County of Santa Clara is located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay and encompasses 1,312 square miles. World-known as "the Silicon Valley", the County of Santa Clara is a major employment hub in the technology sector providing more than a quarter of all jobs in the Bay Area with one of the highest median family incomes in the country. Home to a population of nearly 2 million from a wide diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and talents, the County continues to attract people from all over the world.
For more information on the County of Santa Clara, visit https://home.sccgov.org/home
About CSS
CSS, Inc. is a leading provider of complete enterprise-level Financial Ecosystems for the financial services industry. Our diverse range of solutions caters to all verticals and allows businesses to modernize their revenue and payment management systems by consolidating them into a single, unified enterprise-level cloud-based financial ecosystem with a wide range of fully integrated merchant services. This comprehensive solution unifies all areas of the enterprise, ensuring the highest level of financial transparency.
As pioneers in the industry, CSS prides itself on continuously introducing an innovative line of products such as the revolutionary COLLECTOR IQ+ & IMPACT IQ+. This powerful application seamlessly integrates Ai and Machine Learning into the debt-recovery workflows, providing both system administrators and agents with an intuitive and powerful set of dynamic tools for an unparalleled experience. Discover the future of financial management with CSS.
For more information, download our brochure at http://brochure.cssimpact.com or visit us http://www.cssimpact.com or call 877.277.4621
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PRAGUE, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar energy group SOLEK has closed a USD379 million financing for its portfolio in Chile, consisting of solar photovoltaic utility-scale and PMGD plants located in the Central Region. The fast-growing company in the renewable and solar energy sector owns a portfolio of approximately 284MWdc in Chile and has more than 400MW of projects in development stage in Latin America.
The comprehensive financing comprises the following facilities: A USD178 million senior private placement, A USD75 million mezzanine, a USD55 million PMGD bridge-loan facility, a USD37 million utility-scale bridge loan, a USD19 million LC Facility, and a USD15 million VAT line.
BNP Paribas and Natixis, New York Branch acted as placement agents, arrangers and lenders. BCI and Scotiabank Chile acted as agents and lenders on local facilities. White & Case and Guerrero Olivos acted respectively, as international and local legal counsels to the Company.
Entering the US private bond market with USD178 million issuance
Recently, the SOLEK company entered the major United States Private Placement market (USPP). The company has confirmed its attractiveness to investors and has gained flexible access to further financing. SOLEK is entering this new market with a 20-year bond issuance worth approximately USD178 million, or close to CZK 4 billion. The transaction had strong demand from investors, confirming the attractiveness of SOLEK's assets and the market's confidence in its long-term plans.
The USPP market is one of the largest and most sophisticated bond markets in the world. It is available to both, US and international companies. Active investors in the USPP market are represented by the largest international investment funds and insurance companies in the world.
"Thanks to the big opportunities that the renewable energy sector offers today, SOLEK has been experiencing a period of dynamic growth that implicates financing requirements. We had to meet stringent accreditation criteria to access financing on the USPP market. This flexible financing will allow us to focus on our PV projects and further development," said Zdeněk Sobotka, founder, and CEO of the SOLEK Group.
Companies entering the USPP market typically issue long-term bonds. In line with the market practice, SOLEK's USPP bonds have an amortizing repayment schedule with a maturity of 20 years, which aligns the debt profile to the life of the underlying investment. The proceeds from the USPP bonds will be used primarily to finance the company's expansion plans and to refinance existing debt, setting an important milestone for SOLEK´s continuous growth.
Since 2010, SOLEK has connected a total of 53 PV solar projects, 18 in Europe and 35 in Chile. The Group has currently more than 38 projects to be built in Chile in 2023 and 2024.
The total installed capacity targeted by the end of 2023 is 400 MW worldwide, most of them in Latin America. In Europe, PV solar projects with a total capacity of 1.4 GW are in the pipeline. The projects in Romania and Greece are at the most advanced stage of development. The first plants are planned to be connected in 2024.
SOLEK HOLDING SE
The SOLEK Group is a leading company engaged in the design, construction, and operation of solar power plants in Latin America and Europe. The company's clients include leading international investment companies, banks, funds, energy groups, and multinational companies.
The Group's main portfolio is located in Chile, where it manages more than three dozen photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of over 200 MW. It also focuses on Europe, where it successfully develops existing projects while seeking new investment opportunities.
It is diversifying its activities to include innovative projects such as floating power plants, agro-photovoltaics, wind farms, battery storage including CO2 energy domes, green hydrogen production, and hybrid projects.
The company aims to complete 2GW of installed capacity by the end of 2027.
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Olive Oil isn't as slim as the win Charles City chalked up in tripping Algona 78-75 for an Iowa boys basketball victory on December 3.
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NEW YORK, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 16, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Yext securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (2) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (3) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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ND Gov. Burgum and Former VP Pence Jump Into Already Crowded GOP Race for President
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a former software entrepreneur who enacted a slate of laws this year advancing conservative policies on culture war issues, highlighted his small-town roots and business experience as he announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday.
Burgum, 66, joins a long list of contenders hoping to dent former President Donald Trump’s early lead in the race. The governor of the nation’s fourth-least populous state made the announcement in the The Wall Street Journal and kicked off his campaign in Fargo, near the tiny farm town of Arthur where he grew up.
“It shouldn’t be a surprise that small-town values have guided me my entire life,” Burgum told the crowd. “And frankly, big cities could use more ideas and more values from small towns right now.”
Burgum spoke under a sign declaring him “A new leader for a changing economy,” echoing a slogan he first used as his successful 2016 gubernatorial campaign. Reelected in 2020, he’s eligible to run for a third time in 2024.
In 1983, he founded Great Plains Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2011, and Burgum stayed on as a Microsoft vice president until 2007.
His first presidential campaign event, held at a former church in downtown Fargo, was attended by many prominent North Dakota Republicans, including two former governors and top state lawmakers.
Burgum will campaign Thursday and Friday in Iowa, home of the first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses, and Saturday and Sunday in New Hampshire, which hosts the first GOP primary.
Former Vice President Mike Pence opened his bid for the Republican nomination for president Wednesday with a firm denunciation of former President Donald Trump, accusing his two-time running mate of abandoning conservative principles and being guilty of dereliction of duty on Jan. 6, 2021.
Pence, launching his campaign in a suburb of Des Moines, became the first vice president in modern history to challenge the president under whom he served. He said Trump had disqualified himself when he insisted that Pence had the power to keep him in office — even though he did not.
Trump, he said, “endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol” on the 6th. “But the American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded I choose between him and our Constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice.”
“I believe anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States, and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United Sates again,” he said.
Pence has spent much of the past two-and-a-half-years obliquely criticizing Trump, trying to navigate his political future in a party that has been transformed in Trump’s image. But Wednesday, as he made his pitch to voters for the first time as a declared candidate, he did not hold his tongue.
With Pence’s entry into the race, on his 64th birthday, the GOP field is largely set. It includes Trump, who’s leading in early polls, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who remains in second, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who also launched his campaign Wednesday. | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/06/07/nd-gov-burgum-and-former-vp-pence-jump-into-already-crowded-gop-race-for-president/ | 2023-06-07 22:57:43 | 1 | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/06/07/nd-gov-burgum-and-former-vp-pence-jump-into-already-crowded-gop-race-for-president/ |
Who is Sergei Surovikin? Meet Putin's new top general for Ukraine
Sergei Surovikin first gained notoriety for firing on civilians in Moscow in 1991
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed General Sergei Surovikin to lead Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Friday, and it took no time at all for the infamous commander to bring his tactics from the Middle East to Europe.
Surovikin's appointment represents the first time Russian troops in Ukraine will all answer to a single commander. The general first gained notoriety in 1991 for ordering Russian soldiers to fire on protesting civilians in Moscow in the final months of the Soviet Union. He displayed similar brutality when Putin deployed him to Syria in 2017, allegedly ordering the indiscriminate bombings of Aleppo and other anti-government strongholds.
Surovikin has also been accused of complicity in the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Surovikin has been imprisoned in Russia twice over his career, once for selling weapons and again for ordering the shooting of civilians in Moscow, according to the Guardian.
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Surovikin was a captain at the time of the Moscow incident. He fought alongside Soviet loyalists who attempted a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. He drove a vehicle through pro-democracy barricades in the Capital and ordered his soldiers to fire on civilians, killing three people.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private military company, praised Putin's decision to appoint Surovikin this weekend.
"Surovikin is the most able commander in the Russian army," Prigozhin said, according to the Guardian. "He was born to serve his motherland faithfully. Having received an order in 1991, Surovikin was that officer who without hesitation got in his tank and went forward to save his country."
PUTIN ACCUSES UKRAINE OF ‘TERRORISM’ IN CRIMEA BRIDGE EXPLOSION
Intelligence experts have warned that Surovikin's appointment could also signal that Putin is moving one step closer to ordering the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The decision to use such weapons would have vast consequences for Russia, and Putin would need to have commanders on the ground willing to carry out the order.
"So they have already signaled their intent, but they would need commanders who would have the capability to do it," Military analyst and head of McKenzie Intelligence Forbes McKenzie told Sky News. "This is a man who has used chemical weapons in recent history, so that demonstrates capability."
It comes as no surprise then that unprecedented numbers of missiles and shells started raining down on Ukraine's most populous cities on Monday, just days after Surovikin's appointment.
Images from the streets of Kyiv and more than a dozen other cities show missiles struck residential buildings, offices, parks and even children's playgrounds over the course of a four-hour barrage.
Putin framed the attack as revenge for Friday's bombing of the Kerch Bridge, a major thoroughfare connecting Russia and Crimea.
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Some argue that the offensive signals that Putin is allowing Surovikin to usher in a new, more brutal phase in his war against Ukraine. Strategic intelligence expert and author of "Putin’s Playbook" Rebekah Koffler warned that Russia lacks the ordnance to sustain such high-volume missile attacks long term, however. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-is-sergei-surovikin-meet-putins-new-top-general-ukraine | 2022-10-28 10:49:10 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-is-sergei-surovikin-meet-putins-new-top-general-ukraine |
Earnings Call Scheduled for 7:30 a.m. ET on March 24, 2023
BEIJING, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE: STG) ("Sunlands" or the "Company"), a leader in China's online post-secondary and professional education, today announced that it will report its fourth quarter and full year 2022 unaudited financial results on Friday, March 24, 2023, before the open of U.S. markets.
Sunlands' management team will host a conference call at 7:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, (7:30 p.m. Beijing/Hong Kong time) on March 24, 2023, following the quarterly results announcement.
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin. When prompted, ask to be connected to the call for "Sunlands Technology Group". Participants will be required to state their name and company upon entering the call.
A live webcast and archive of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of Sunlands' website at http://www.sunlands.investorroom.com/.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live call until March 31, 2023, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
About Sunlands
Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE: STG) ("Sunlands" or the "Company"), formerly known as Sunlands Online Education Group, is the leader in China's online post-secondary and professional education. With a one to many, live streaming platform, Sunlands offers various degree and diploma-oriented post-secondary courses as well as online professional courses and educational content, to help students prepare for professional certification exams and attain professional skills. Students can access its services either through PC or mobile applications. The Company's online platform cultivates a personalized, interactive learning environment by featuring a virtual learning community and a vast library of educational content offerings that adapt to the learning habits of its students. Sunlands offers a unique approach to education research and development that organizes subject content into Learning Outcome Trees, the Company's proprietary knowledge management system. Sunlands has a deep understanding of the educational needs of its prospective students and offers solutions that help them achieve their goals.
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Recent actions in two states have solidified a bloc of EV support throughout most of the East Coast.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced plans to adopt California’s 2035 end date for new internal-combustion cars aside from plug-in hybrids. This was codified in one of three executive orders signed by Murphy Wednesday, which outline policies that include 100% clean-energy use by 2035, and greater energy efficiency in the state’s building sector.
“These bold targets and carefully crafted initiatives signal our unequivocal commitment to swift and concrete climate action today,” Murphy said in a statement.
The executive order directs the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to formally adopt the stricter emissions rules needed to meet the 2035 goal by the end of the year. Environmental advocates were quick to note that the clock is ticking.
“The longer we wait to adopt this rule, the lesser our chances are at securing more EV options in the state, and the harder to achieve the goal of 100% of new sales by 2035,” Anjuli Ramos-Busot, director of the NJ Sierra Club, said in a statement.
New Jersey joins a number of East Coast states that have finalized, or are working to finalize, emissions standards that follow California’s 2035 timeline, which are collectively referred to as “Advanced Clean Cars II” standards, the Sierra Club noted. This East Coast bloc joins a West Coast contingent of EV-friendly states encompassing California, Washington, and Oregon.
Other states in that cohort include New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and Virginia, which just successfully rejected a challenge to its Clean Car standards, keeping it on track to tighten emissions standards in the coming years.
A Democrat-led state senate committee last month threw out a slate of Republican proposals aimed at repealing Virginia’s adoption of California standards, according to the Virginia Mercury.
These states are getting hard to ignore, and with states in the middle of the country now stepping in—like Minnesota, which is now also a Clean Cars state—it’s easier for automakers to simply plan, on a national level, for the vehicles these standards will require.
It should be noted that not everyone will profess regulation as the solution for EV adoption. Three out of the five U.S. states with the most EVs haven’t had a mandate for them, according to a 2021 study. Yet it’s unclear whether that sales growth will continue without mandates, which also serve as a clear sign to automakers to continue producing more EVs.
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KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin accomplished what she called “the big, big goal for me this season.”
But it wasn’t a record-tying 86th career victory.
Shiffrin on Saturday locked up her fifth overall World Cup title, widely regarded as ski racing’s biggest prize, by tying for fifth place in a downhill.
“That’s really amazing. That (overall title) was like the big, big goal for me this season,” Shiffrin said. “I had such a big focus on it that I was even talking about it in interviews in the beginning of the season. Normally I don’t talk about it so much because it takes a long time to figure out if you can do it.”
The American’s quest for another race win was extended by at least another day, as she was set to compete in a super-G Sunday.
Shiffrin needs one victory to match Ingemar Stenmark ’s total on the all-time overall winners list — between men and women. The Swede competed in the 1970s and 80s.
Shiffrin broke a tie on the all-time women’s list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn in January. Vonn had 82 wins when she retired in 2019.
Saturday’s race was won by home favorite Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, who became the first Norwegian woman to win a downhill in the 56-year history of World Cup skiing.
“We are so used to the (Norwegian) men winning downhills, so I didn’t even know that before this season,” Lie said. “For me, I wanted to win a downhill, that’s been my dream. And it’s always been a dream of me to have a home race, to have everybody here. I wanted to give them a show.”
Sofia Goggia finished 0.29 seconds behind in second as the Italian secured the season-long downhill title again.
“I feel great, I mean, it’s my fourth downhill globe, the third in a row, I’m really happy about that,” Goggia said. “But I’m not so happy about the performance of today. I didn’t ski that well, wasn’t smooth as in the training runs.”
Olympic champion Corinne Suter and two-time former world champion Ilka Stuhec placed third and fourth, respectively.
Shiffrin and Austrian skier Ramona Siebenhofer both finished 0.79 seconds behind Lie.
The result, however, was enough for Shiffrin to extend her lead in the overall standings to an insurmountable 796 points with seven races left. Her only competitor for the big crystal globe, two-time former overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami, finished 21st.
“It’s pretty wild, actually. The overall, or any season title, is always strange to explain how it feels on the day you win it when you don’t win the race,” Shiffrin said.
“I think people find it exciting when there is a battle to the final race,” she added. “But there’s so many things left going on this season, and it’s been so incredible, so for me it’s quite special to have it now already. I can take a little bit of weight of my shoulders.”
Shiffrin previously won the overall title three years in a row from 2017-19, and again last year. She moved past Vonn into outright second position on the all-time women’s winners list, one short of the mark of six titles set by Annemarie Moser-Proell in the 1970s.
The overall record is held by another Austrian great, Marcel Hirscher, who won it for eight straight seasons from 2012-19.
Her overall championship came five weeks after Shiffrin wrapped up the season title in slalom for a record seventh time.
Asked in a post-race TV interview about her remaining goals for the season, Shiffrin did not mention the Stenmark record.
“If I had like one final wish for the season, maybe it’s wishing for too much, but the GS globe would be like, yeah…,” Shiffrin said. “Then I could be pretty satisfied with the season.”
Shiffrin has an 118-point lead in the giant slalom standings with two races left.
The race on the Olympiabakken course, which is an annual track on the men’s circuit but hosted women’s races for the first time in 20 years, took place in sunny conditions, but strong winds affected the race.
Organizers decided to adapt the course and bypass the Russi jump which it deemed potentially too dangerous after skiers jumped there as far as 50 meters (yards) in training.
Cornelia Huetter, who won Friday’s super-G, lost her balance and slid off the course halfway through her run, but the Austrian avoided injuries.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.3% in May from a year earlier, unchanged from its level in April.
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department provided the latest evidence that painfully high inflation is pressuring American households and inflicting particular harm on low-income families and people of color.
The report also said that consumer spending rose at a sluggish 0.2% rate from April to May. Consumer spending is beginning to weaken in the face of high inflation. But it’s still helping fuel inflation itself, especially as demand grows for services ranging from airline tickets and hotel rooms to restaurant meals and new and used autos.
“It should really come as no surprise that U.S. consumers are paring their spending due to the high costs of, well, almost everything,” Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a research note. After adjusting for inflation, she noted, consumer spending actually fell 0.4% from April to May.
On a month-to-month basis, Thursday’s report showed, prices rose 0.6% from April to May, up from the 0.2% increase from March to April.
Chronically high inflation has become a leading threat to the economy and a political hazard for President Joe Biden and Democrats as midterm elections near. Seventy-nine percent of U.S. adults describe the economy as poor, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Inflation is eclipsing the healthy 3.6% unemployment rate as a focal point for Americans who are struggling, in particular, with high gasoline and food prices.
In response, the Fed has embarked on a series of aggressive interest rate hikes that are intended to slow growth by making borrowing more expensive but that also risk causing a recession. Two weeks ago, the Fed raised its key rate by three-quarters of a point — its largest hike in nearly three decades — and signaled more large rate increases to come.
The Fed tends to monitor Thursday’s inflation gauge, called the personal consumption expenditures price index, even more closely it does the government’s better-known consumer price index. While the components of the two indexes differ — CPI tends to weigh gasoline and housing costs more heavily and to show higher inflation — the two gauges tell the same basic story: Inflation is running dangerously hot.
The report also showed that consumer incomes rose 0.5% from April to May, staying slightly ahead of inflation. In addition, the savings rate rose slightly to 5.4% last month, though it remains well below its peak of nearly 34% in April 2020. At that time, millions of Americans were banking government relief checks and otherwise saving money while staying at home as a precaution against COVID-19.
Soaring prices are a consequence of the economy’s unexpectedly swift rebound from the pandemic recession of 2020. Boosted by government stimulus checks, record-low borrowing rates and savings built up while stuck at home during the pandemic, consumers went on a spending spree that caught businesses off guard and overwhelmed factories, ports and freight yards. The resulting shortages of goods and labor sent prices spiking.
The Fed was slow to recognize the severity of the inflation threat, dismissing it as mainly a temporary consequence of supply chain bottlenecks. But spiking prices have proved intractable, and now the central bank is playing catch-up with sizable rate hikes that could end up derailing the economy.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH) (OTCQX: GPHOF) ("Graphite One" or the "Company") announces that further to the news release disseminated on August 23, 2022, the Company has revised the pricing of a shares for debt transaction (the "Debt Settlement Transaction") to settle outstanding debt in an aggregate of US$6,775,230, including US$1,819,230 of accrued interest, owing pursuant to an unsecured loan facility dated September 6, 2019, as amended and extended, between Taiga Mining Company, Inc. ("Taiga") and the Company.
Pursuant to the revised terms of the Debt Settlement Transaction, the Company will issue 9,296,328 common shares (the "Settlement Shares") at a deemed price of CA$0.95 per share to Taiga in full settlement of the debt. The Settlement Shares will be subject to a statutory four months and one day hold period pursuant to applicable securities laws. The Debt Settlement Transaction is subject to final approval by the TSX Venture Exchange.
The Debt Settlement Transaction constitutes a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transaction ("MI 61-101") as Taiga is an insider of the Company. The Company is relying on exemptions from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101, as the fair market value of the Debt Settlement Transaction with Taiga does not exceed 25% of the market capitalization of the Company, as determined in accordance with MI 61-101.
The Company did not file a material change report in respect of the related party transaction at least 21 days before the closing of the Debt Settlement Transaction, which the Company deems reasonable in the circumstances as the Company wishes to improve its financial position by reducing accrued liabilities as soon as possible.
As a result of this transaction, Taiga now holds 30,150,191 common shares and 8,768,189 warrants to purchase additional common shares of the Company. Additional information concerning the foregoing will be contained in the Early Warning Report to be filed by Taiga on SEDAR under the Company's profile.
GRAPHITE ONE INC. (GPH: TSX‐V; GPHOF: OTCQB) continues to develop its Graphite One Project (the "Project"), with the goal of becoming an American producer of high-grade anode materials that is integrated with a domestic graphite resource. The Project is proposed as a vertically integrated enterprise to mine, process and manufacture high grade anode materials primarily for the lithium‐ion electric vehicle battery market. As set forth in the Company's 2022 Pre-Feasibility Study, potential graphite mineralization mined from the Company's Graphite Creek Property is expected to be processed into concentrate at a graphite processing plant. The proposed processing plant would be located on the Graphite Creek Property situated on the Seward Peninsula about 60 kilometers north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite anode materials and other value‐added graphite products would be manufactured from the concentrate and other materials at the Company's proposed advanced graphite materials manufacturing facility expected to be located in Washington. The Company intends to make a production decision on the Project upon the completion of a Feasibility Study.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
"Anthony Huston" (signed)
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This release includes certain statements that may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that the Company expects, including but not limited to delays or uncertainties with regulatory approvals, including that of the TSX Venture Exchange, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continuity of mineralization, uncertainties related to the ability to obtain necessary permits, licenses and title and delays due to third party opposition, changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration and exploitation, and continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities laws. For more information on the Company, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — We’re clearing the air when it comes to answering your questions about the wildfire smoke.
Question: Do the smoke particles impact our drinking water?
Many in Central New York get their drinking water from Otisco Lake, Lake Ontario and Skaneateles Lake.
The Your Stories Team sent this question to the New York State Department of Health. They sent us the following statement:
“The Department does not expect drinking water quality to be affected by the particulate matter we’re currently seeing in the air from the wildfires. Any surface water source for drinking water, such as a reservoir, is treated prior to distribution, and rigorously monitored for suspended matter.”
During the first round of wildfire smoke that blanketed Central New York, we were asked about smoke particles and its impact on crops.
The New York State Department of Conservation told us it does not anticipate the particulate matter to affect vegetation or groundwater sources.
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This article was produced in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, The Seattle Times, Street Sense Media and WAMU/DCist.
When is a student considered homeless?
The definition of homelessness among K-12 students is laid out in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law that details the help public schools must give unstably housed children. That includes students living in the following conditions:
- motels, hotels or campgrounds when they have no other options.
- emergency or transitional shelters.
- cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.
- the homes of friends or extended relatives, due to need rather than choice.
More than 75% of children identified as homeless under the McKinney-Vento law are in that final category, often known as “doubled-up,” the informal wording used to describe situations when children must live with friends or relatives beyond their immediate family because of circumstances such as economic hardship, an eviction or a natural disaster.
During the 2019-20 school year, close to 1.3 million children in the nation’s public schools were identified as homeless. But that figure may vastly underestimate the actual number. A Center for Public Integrity analysis found evidence that thousands of school districts are undercounting.
Experts who spoke with Public Integrity said that confusion surrounding the McKinney-Vento law and who qualifies as “doubled-up” can leave many students unidentified and not receiving the support they need in school.
Schools are required to use housing questionnaires or surveys to find these students, but some put much more effort into it than others.
Complicating matters: Parents, guardians and older students navigating the system themselves may not know about the federal law or even consider themselves homeless. Some may also fear that acknowledging homelessness could bring unwanted attention from child-welfare agencies.
What rights do homeless children have?
Homelessness can affect a child’s ability to learn and perform well in school. Nationwide, homeless students graduate at lower rates than average. They’re also more likely to be chronically absent from school and have lower standardized test scores.
That’s why schools are required to provide extra support.
Under federal law, school districts and charter schools are required to designate liaisons to support homeless children.
State and local McKinney-Vento contacts maintained by the National Center for Homeless Education are available at nche.ed.gov/data.
The liaison coordinates services to help provide a stable learning environment. When students are identified as homeless, schools must:
- waive enrollment requirements, such as immunization forms, that could keep kids out of the classroom.
- refer families to health care and housing services.
- provide transportation to and from school so children can remain in their “school of origin,” the school they attended before they became homeless, even if they’re now outside the attendance boundaries.
Allowing a student to continue classes at their school of origin keeps them in a stable situation with familiar peers and adults to counter the often harmful effects of housing instability.
What happens when schools deny or dispute a child’s rights?
Children experiencing homelessness should have equal access to educational opportunities, including public preschool education. Federal law mandates that schools remove any barriers that would prevent that from happening. However, districts and families aren’t always in agreement on what those barriers are.
In some instances, parents have filed lawsuits after districts denied services. Most cases that Public Integrity reviewed focus on whether students are eligible for transportation to attend their school of origin.
If a family files a complaint with their school district, homeless liaisons are supposed to step in to ensure that the rights of students are protected. In cases where an agreement cannot be reached, either party may request that the state’s homeless-children education coordinator decide who is right.
But sometimes outside intervention is needed and attorneys are called in.
While disputes are ongoing, students must be immediately enrolled in the school in which they’re seeking enrollment, pending the resolution of a case or complaint.
So, children should attend school until a dispute is resolved — even if the district thinks families are misinterpreting the law.
Families with questions about their eligibility for services under the McKinney-Vento law can contact local legal aid offices. Students and families can also review information on their rights by visiting homeless advocacy organizations’ websites, such as the National Homelessness Law Center and SchoolHouse Connection.
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STOCKHOLM, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights of the first quarter of 2022
- Net sales increased to SEK 30,118m (29,026), corresponding to an organic sales decline of 3.4%. This was driven by lower volumes compared to a strong last year, partially offset by strong price execution.
- Operating income amounted to SEK 1,575m (2,297), corresponding to a margin of 5.2% (7.9).
- Operating income includes a positive non-recurring item of SEK 656m, related to the U.S. tariff case, impacting the business area North America. Excluding this non-recurring item, operating income amounted to SEK 919m, corresponding to a margin of 3.1% (7.9). Significant cost increases and supply constraints impacting volume were not fully compensated by price increases and new product launches.
- Income for the period amounted to SEK 950m (1,556) and earnings per share was SEK 3.40 (5.41).
- Operating cash flow after investments was SEK -5,280m (-161). In addition to a more normal seasonal outflow compared to last year, global supply chain constraints further increased inventory levels.
President and CEO Jonas Samuelson's comment
The beginning of the year has been dominated by the terrible situation in Ukraine, which also contributed to the already escalating cost inflation and supply instability. At the same time, we have entered our most launch-intensive period ever. I am very pleased with the strong consumer demand for our new and innovative premium products.
In the first quarter, supply chain constraints continued to significantly impact our production and sales volumes, particularly of higher featured products. As anticipated, the constraints also resulted in substantial costs for express logistics and spot buys. In addition, this supply situation further increased inventory levels, which negatively impacted cash flow. We are collaborating closely with our suppliers to mitigate these constraints, but we estimate that the second quarter will be as challenging as the first quarter, with significant risks of disruptions relating to the resurgence of the coronavirus in China. We expect sequential improvements from mid-2022.
In the first quarter, organic sales declined by 3.4% and operating margin excl. non-recurring items was 3.1%.
We have continued to implement list price increases in all regions during the quarter to offset the accelerating inflationary pressures, with a cumulative year-over-year impact of over 8% and are continuously implementing further increases. In the increasingly inflationary environment, price increases are now more accepted in the market. For the full year, we remain confident that price will fully offset cost inflation, as it has done for the past four years.
The recent geopolitical tensions, inflation soaring to historically high levels, global supply chain constraints and uncertainty regarding the coronavirus pandemic are leading to limited visibility for the rest of the year. We revise our regional market demand outlook for the 2022 full year in North America, mainly driven by supply constraints, and in Europe, due to lower consumer confidence. However, we still expect demand in these regions to be above pre-pandemic levels.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a serious violation of international law. We are very concerned about the geopolitical situation and the suffering that the invasion is causing our employees and the people of Ukraine. There is an urgent need to help, and we have focused our efforts on supporting the International Red Cross' humanitarian response in Ukraine. When the war commenced, we paused our operations in Russia and Belarus. In Ukraine, both sales and production in the factory, located in the western part of Ukraine, were halted. After careful risk assessment, limited sales and production in Ukraine re-started during the second half of April. In 2021, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine represented approximately 2% of Group net sales.
Our ability to adapt quickly and successfully to a changing environment, as demonstrated during the past two years, will continue to be instrumental. It is a confirmation that we have the right strategy and culture to respond quickly to challenges and seize opportunities.
As one of the leading players in our industry we have a major responsibility to ensure that our investments contribute to the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. A great example is the recent investment in the production facility at Anderson. In addition to increased efficiency as well as an attractive product offering, the investment has resulted in a significant reduction of the climate footprint.
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We still have the chances for some rain and even some thunderstorms over the next few days. Some of the rainfall may be on the heavy side by portions of our Wednesday and into our Thursday.
Today we will see scattered rain with some thunderstorms potentially for the late afternoon and overnight. We will still see mostly to partly cloudy skies into the afternoon with some places getting a little sunshine. Temperatures today will warm to the low 70s.
Thursday starts off with some heavy rain for some. Scattered showers for the morning tomorrow could impact that commute. We will see mostly cloudy skies and temperatures warming to the low 70s again. Some of the storms on Thursday could be on the stronger to severe side. The main impact with these storms is possible damaging wind.
We will see a bit of brief high pressure build into our area on Friday and that will somewhat dry our skies on Friday. Another bit of low pressure will move back into our area on Saturday. This will give our area another chance for some at least scattered showers and maybe an isolated thunderstorm or two.
More high pressure builds into our area on Saturday night and into our Sunday. This will linger in our area well into our next work week. We will see the skies clear out in most areas due to this high pressure. Temperatures will not fluctuate much over the next several days. Mostly 60s and 70s for the high temperatures and mostly 40s and 50s for most of the overnight low temperatures. | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/scattered-showers-and-thunderstorms-the-next-couple-of-days/article_ecab3290-e435-11ed-ba7b-a70e581c71a8.html | 2023-04-26 17:03:42 | 0 | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/scattered-showers-and-thunderstorms-the-next-couple-of-days/article_ecab3290-e435-11ed-ba7b-a70e581c71a8.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids’ voice and location data recorded by its popular Alexa voice assistant.
Separately, the company agreed to pay $5.8 million in customer refunds for alleged privacy violations involving its doorbell camera Ring.
The Alexa-related action orders Amazon to overhaul its data deletion practices and impose stricter, more transparent privacy measures. It also obliges the tech giant to delete certain data collected by its internet-connected digital assistant, which people use for everything from checking the weather to playing games and queueing up music.
“Amazon’s history of misleading parents, keeping children’s recordings indefinitely, and flouting parents’ deletion requests violated COPPA (the Child Online Privacy Protection Act) and sacrificed privacy for profits,” Samuel Levine, the FCT consumer protection chief, said in a statement. The 1998 law is designed to shield children from online harms.
FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said in a statement that “when parents asked Amazon to delete their kids’ Alexa voice data, the company did not delete all of it.”
The agency ordered the company to delete inactive child accounts as well as certain voice and geolocation data.
Amazon kept the kids’ data to refine its voice recognition algorithm, the artificial intelligence behind Alexa, which powers Echo and other smart speakers, Bedoya said. The FTC complaint sends a message to all tech companies who are “sprinting to do the same” amid fierce competition in developing AI datasets, he added.
“Nothing is more visceral to a parent than the sound of their child’s voice,” tweeted Bedoya, the father of two small children.
Amazon said last month that it has sold more than a half-billion Alexa-enabled devices globally and that use of the service increased 35% last year.
In the Ring case, the FTC says Amazon’s home security camera subsidiary let employees and contractors access consumers’ private videos and providing lax security practices that enabled hackers to take control of some accounts.
Amazon bought California-based Ring in 2018, and many of the violations alleged by the FTC predate the acquisition. Under the FTC’s order, Ring is required to pay $5.8 million that would be used for consumer refunds.
Amazon said it disagreed with the FTC’s claims on both Alexa and Ring and denied violating the law. But it said the settlements “put these matters behind us.”
“Our devices and services are built to protect customers’ privacy, and to provide customers with control over their experience,” the Seattle-based company said.
In addition to the fine in the Alexa case, the proposed order prohibits Amazon from using deleted geolocation and voice information to create or improve any data product. The order also requires Amazon to create a privacy program for its use of geolocation information.
The proposed orders must be approved by federal judges.
FTC commissioners had unanimously voted to file the charges against Amazon in both cases. | https://cbs4indy.com/technology/ap-technology/ftc-charges-amazon-with-privacy-violations-over-alexa-and-ring-cameras/ | 2023-06-01 16:58:09 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/technology/ap-technology/ftc-charges-amazon-with-privacy-violations-over-alexa-and-ring-cameras/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
First Bank (NASDAQ: FRBA)'s merger with Malvern Bancorp, Inc. Under the terms of the merger, Malvern shareholders will receive 0.7733 shares of First Bank common stock and $7.80 in cash per each Malvern common share outstanding. If you are a First Bank shareholder, click here to learn more about your legal rights and options.
Malvern Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: MLVF)'s sale to First Bank for 0.7733 shares of First Bank common stock and $7.80 in cash per each Malvern common share. If you are a Malvern shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
The Community Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: TCFC)'s sale to Shore Bancshares, Inc. for 2.3287 shares of Shore common stock per share of Community Financial. If you are a Community Financial shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Shore Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHBI)'s merger with The Community Financial Corporation. Under the terms of the merger, holders of Community Financial common stock will have the right to receive 2.3287 shares of Shore common stock. Existing Shore shareholders will own approximately 60% of the outstanding shares of the combined company. If you are a Shore shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Four High-Power 300 kW Inductive Chargers Now in Use by Link Transit in Washington
MALVERN, Pa., June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With three solid years of regular daily operation, Link Transit's electric buses are proving their worth, according to Richard DeRock, General Manager of the Wenatchee, Washington, public transit agency. Now with 12 electric buses in operation, all using wireless chargers installed by Momentum Dynamics, the global leader in efficient, automated high-power wireless charging for electric vehicles, Link operates one of the largest electric bus fleets of any transit system in the nation. DeRock reports that the operating cost of their electric buses is about 51% of a diesel-fueled bus.
Momentum Dynamics installed the first wireless charging system at Link in late 2017 and more recently completed installation of four 300kW inductive chargers in 2021, three at Columbia Station and one in Leavenworth, WA. These four shared chargers support all of Link's electric buses and keep them in constant service throughout the day.
"Momentum's wireless chargers have been a game-changer for us," said DeRock. "They charge our electric buses for a few minutes on the layover between routes and provide additional range, allowing our buses to stay in service for 12 to 14 hours a day – even during the harsh cold of winter. Buses typically end their day with 40-50% of battery charge still remaining even on the coldest days. The cost savings are real and measurable. Along with the availability of inexpensive, clean, renewable hydro-power from the Columbia River and lower maintenance costs, it makes expansion of our fleet of battery-electric buses a financially sensible solution to combating climate change."
To replace aging diesel buses and allow for service expansion, Link will take delivery of three more 35' buses in early 2023 and another eight 30' buses later in 2023, all of which will use Momentum's wireless chargers to extend range and allow for operational efficiency.
"We are very pleased to support Link Transit in their drive to a healthier future in an economically beneficial way," said Andy Daga, CEO of Momentum Dynamics. "Wireless charging makes fleet management very efficient because the system delivers increased range and eliminates the need for a depot full of cables and chargers, all of which are subject to wear and tear and create a hazardous condition for workers. It is the most reliable and cost-effective charging system for fleets available today."
Other communities now using wireless chargers for their mass-transit buses installed by Momentum Dynamics include Indianapolis, Martha's Vineyard, Chattanooga, TN, and new installations across Washington, Oregon, California, and other states. The new terminal at Kansas City International Airport has been equipped with the wireless chargers to support their buses which will transport passengers between the terminal and parking facilities with an initial fleet of 7 (eventually 28) buses that will be kept in constant operation using only two shared wireless chargers.
Momentum Dynamics, located in Malvern, PA, is the global leader in high-power inductive charging for all types of electric vehicles, including passenger vehicles, buses, delivery trucks, and heavy trucks. The company practices world-class technology innovation through modular design and is recognized for the extraordinary accomplishments and unique expertise of its engineers and scientists. Momentum was a winner of the 2019 Emerging Technology Award from Mechanical Engineering Magazine. Please visit www.momentumdynamics.com or LinkedIn for additional information about Momentum.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-6-8, FIREBALL: 2
(eight, six, eight; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-6-8, FIREBALL: 2
(eight, six, eight; FIREBALL: two) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17700572.php | 2023-01-07 01:26:51 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17700572.php |
Public gets chance to view queen’s coffin in Edinburgh
LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson Prince Harry hailed her Monday as a “guiding compass” and praised her “unwavering grace and dignity,” as members of the public were to get the chance to pay their respects to the monarch when her coffin lies at rest at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh.
The personal statement, posted on Harry and his wife Meghan’s Archwell website, said he cherished their times together “from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved greatgrandchildren.”
Amid acrimony in the House of Windsor, Harry quit as a senior royal and moved to the U.S. two years ago. On Saturday, there was a possible sign of a reconciliation as Harry and Meghan joined his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Catherine in meeting mourners outside Windsor Castle.
Harry’s statement came at the start of another day steeped in the historic pageantry and pomp that follows the death of a British sovereign.
King Charles III was starting the day speaking to lawmakers at Parliament in London before flying to Scotland.
Hundreds of lawmakers crowded into the 1,000-year-old Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament for a service in which Parliament will offer its condolences to the king, and he will reply.
A trumpet fanfare greeted the king and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, as they entered the hall, which was packed with hundreds of legislators.
The Speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords were offering condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and Charles will make a speech in reply.
The hall, with its magnificent hammer-beam roof, is the oldest part of the parliamentary complex — a remnant of the medieval Palace of Westminster that once stood on the site.
The ceremony was being held in Westminster Hall because monarchs are not allowed inside the House of Commons. That rule dates from the 17th century, when King Charles I tried to enter and arrest lawmakers. That confrontation between crown and Parliament led to a civil war which ended with the king being beheaded in 1649.
On Sunday, thousands of people lined streets and roadsides as the oak coffin was borne from the late queen’s beloved Balmoral Castle summer retreat, where she died on Thursday, to Edinburgh.
The new king will fly to Edingburgh later and will walk behind his mother’s coffin as it is slowly transported from Holyroodhouse to St. Giles’ Cathedral, where the crown of Scotland will be placed on the coffin ahead of a service of prayer and reflection on the life and 70-year reign of the widely cherished monarch.
The queen’s coffin will lie at the cathedral for 24 hours, giving members of the public a chance to file past and pay their respects. On Tuesday, it will be flown to London where the coffin will lie in state at the Houses of Parliament Palace from Wednesday afternoon until the morning of the funeral on Sept. 19.
Authorities already have issued rules and guidelines for people wanting to pay their respects in London, with a long queue expected.
After visiting Scotland, Charles embarks on a tour of the other nations that make up the United Kingdom — he visits the Northern Ireland capital, Belfast, on Tuesday and Wales on Friday.
Harry’s statement ended on a poignant note alluding to the death last year of his grandfather, Prince Philip, saying that “We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace.”
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a strong and durable hammer that could be easily gripped and struck without experiencing any recoil," said one of two inventors, from Mamou, La., "so we invented the SHOCK ABSORBING HAMMER. Our design would help to protect the user against stress-related injuries in the hand, arm and shoulder."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved design for a hammer. In doing so, it helps to prevent recoil and vibrations. As a result, it reduces stress and fatigue on the body when pounding and it enhances safety, comfort and efficiency. The invention features a durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for carpenters, construction workers and do-it-yourselfers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CTK-2634, 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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NC State softball started off its series finale against No. 8 Clemson by scoring four runs in the opening frame. The Pack never fell behind in the game and avoided a series sweep at home, winning the game and upsetting the Tigers 7-5.
LET’S GO pic.twitter.com/BLdgh1lpPr
— NC State Softball (@PackSoftball) April 16, 2023
NC State (16-28, 6-12 ACC) dropped two straight games prior to Sunday’s matchup, losing 4-1 and 6-3 against Clemson (40-5, 14-4 ACC). The Tigers led the country ERA with 0.87 per game entering the series, but the Pack gathered four runs in just the first inning thanks to two home runs.
Sophomore third baseman Hannah Goodwin led off the inning and launched Clemson’s second pitch of the game over the left field wall, putting the Pack up 1-0. Freshman catcher Amanda Hasler, who has been on fire as of late, hit a three-run blast to right field not long after to add onto NC State’s lead, bringing the score to 4-0.
AMANDA HASLER HITS A THREE RUN BOMB!!! 🐺 4, 🐯 0 pic.twitter.com/NsujS47fiZ
— NC State Softball (@PackSoftball) April 16, 2023
Clemson came back in the third to even the score at four apiece with a three-run homer and a sacrifice fly. In the fifth, NC State gathered two singles and its third homer of the game, hit by graduate left fielder Katlyn Pavlick. With the three-run dinger, the Wolfpack led 7-4 over the Tigers. But Clemson grabbed one last run after loading the bases at the top of the seventh inning the red-and-white was able to hold down the fort on defense and record its sixth win in the ACC.
KATLYN PAVLICK HOMERS TO CENTER FIELD AND BRINGS IN THREE!!!🐺 7, 🐯 4 pic.twitter.com/yyzn9BT1AK
— NC State Softball (@PackSoftball) April 16, 2023
Freshman right-handed pitcher Rylee Wyman started the game and pitched two innings, she finished with two strikeouts and three walks and only allowed three hits.
Redshirt junior right-handed pitcher Aisha Weixlmann came in relief and pitched five innings, and was credited with the one run in the seventh inning. She recorded five strikeouts and allowed just one hit. She also allowed three walks and a wild pitch, which helped to score the lone Clemson run she let up. Weixlmann was also credited with the win, bringing her personal record to 7-7. Meanwhile, the Pack handed opposing pitcher Brooke McCubbin her first loss of the season.
Goodwin went for a perfect 2-2, including the first homer of the game. Graduate center fielder Rebecca Murray did not record an RBI, but she went 2-3 and crossed home twice due to her performance hitting the ball.
NC State has seven home games in a row coming up with the next series against North Carolina beginning Friday, April 21 at Dail Softball Stadium. | https://www.technicianonline.com/sports/nc-state-softball-upsets-no-8-clemson-7-5-in-series-finale/article_42fe1c90-dcbe-11ed-b1ef-5fb6375cb969.html | 2023-04-17 10:03:55 | 1 | https://www.technicianonline.com/sports/nc-state-softball-upsets-no-8-clemson-7-5-in-series-finale/article_42fe1c90-dcbe-11ed-b1ef-5fb6375cb969.html |
Starting in January, driver’s education courses will include a primer on the perils of driving under the influence of marijuana, according to the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles.
The RMV will hold a briefing Friday to discuss the AAA-crafted curriculum, “Shifting Gears: the Blunt Truth about Marijuana and Driving,” which teaches teenagers about the “risks of cannabis-impaired driving.”
Massachusetts is the first state with legal recreational-use cannabis to adopt the curriculum as part of driver’s education courses. All new drivers younger than 18 must complete 30 hours of driver’s ed and pass a road test before they can get a license.
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“The current driver education module addressing impaired driving will be updated to include research-based information on cannabis, explaining how tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana, affects cognition, vision, reaction time, and perception of time and distance,” the RMV said in a statement. “This is the first generation of driver education students to be licensed since cannabis became legal in Massachusetts, and AAA research shows that impaired driving crashes may increase and continue to injure and kill motorists and their passengers.”
The impaired driving program will be taught to roughly 50,000 young drivers each year at 700 driving school locations, according to the RMV.
Speakers at Friday’s news conference include state Registrar Colleen Ogilvie, Cannabis Control Commissioner Kimberly Roy, Newton Police Chief John Carmichael, Keefe Regional Technical High School graduate Lily Sullivan, and Mary Maguire, AAA Northeast’s vice president of public and government affairs, the RMV said.
The AAA website says the curriculum offers students evidence-based information about the dangers of high driving, explains the physical and cognitive processes affected by pot, discusses alternate methods of transportation, and shows a driver’s susceptibility to weed impairment, as well as the “severe consequences” that can result from driving impaired.
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Friday’s briefing will be held at 1 p.m. at the Worcester RMV location at 50 Southwest Cutoff, officials said.
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NEW YORK, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Subversive Capital Advisor (the "Advisor" or the "Company"), a Registered Investment Advisor primarily focused on different mission-driven emerging sectors, has announced today that the Board of Trustees (the "Trust") has determined to close and liquidate the Subversive Metaverse ETF (CBOE: PUNK) (the "Fund") effective immediately after the close of business on May 31, 2023. Subversive Capital Advisor will continue to operate its other Exchange Funds as usual.
In 2022, the world watched as Meta, formerly Facebook, place a big bet, including its name, on the future of the Metaverse. Subversive Capital Advisor launched the Fund with a skeptical view of Meta's imagining of what that world would look like, and to invest in other companies spearheading innovation in this new space. "We continue to believe Meta's focus is misguided and, we've decided to pivot given the rapid advances in more promising technology such as Artificial Intelligence." said Subversive's portfolio manager, Christian H. Cooper.
The Fund's last day of trading will be May 31, 2023, which will also be the final day for creation unit orders by authorized participants. The Fund will conclude operations and distribute the remaining proceeds to shareholders promptly after May 31, 2023. Shareholders who do not sell their Fund shares by this date will have their shares automatically redeemed for cash based on the Fund's net asset value (NAV). Customary brokerage charges may apply to transactions to sell Fund shares. Shareholders should contact their tax advisor to discuss the income tax consequences of the liquidation.
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The firm's investment strategies primarily focus on different mission-driven emerging sectors that we believe will shape the economy of the future. The companies we invest in are bold, daring, and uninhibited enough not to let the world as it exists today limit their imagination for opportunities of the future.
Leveraging our team's track record in the private sector, we aim to bring all investors our industry knowledge and network to drive meaningful value for their portfolios via diversified ETFs. ETFs in the Advisor's suite include the Subversive Decarbonization ETF (Ticker: DKRB), the Subversive Mental Health ETF (Ticker: SANE), the Subversive Food Security ETF (Ticker: KCAL), the Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic ETF (Ticker: NANC) and the Unusual Whales Subversive Republican ETF (Ticker: KRUZ).
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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — Five-year-old King Young's mother, Jalessa Young, was totally caught off-guard when she unexpectedly went into labor Tuesday.
King Young was the only other person inside their home at the time, but he knew exactly what to do.
Jalessa Young says the world wasn't supposed to meet her newborn Prince until Dec. 7, but he just couldn't wait.
She says in a moment, most would freeze, but her oldest child stepped into action and started comforting her.
"I go into the restroom, and I'm screaming, and he's like, 'Momma, when will the pain go away?' and I'm like, 'When your baby brother comes,'" Jalessa Young said. "So he starts rubbing my back, and I let out a little more screaming, and he's like, 'I'm gonna call the ambulance,' and I'm like, 'Yes, baby, call the ambulance.'"
King Young told the dispatchers how to get there. The dispatchers then told the toddler to make sure the door was unlocked for the paramedics.
"I told them that my mom needs help," King Young said.
Jalessa Young's husband, Jared Young, rushed home from work when he found out his wife was going into labor.
However, he said things happened so fast that the baby, with assistance from medics, beat him there.
"I'm amazed, man," Jared Young said, referencing King. "He surprises me every day."
He added that he is sure Prince would follow in his eldest son's footsteps in the future.
"Basically, it was her and King at the house delivering the baby until the paramedics got there and did the rest of it," Jared Young said. I'm grateful. I got a new son, Prince is gonna be just as great as King one day." | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/5-year-old-in-missouri-praised-for-quick-thinking-when-mom-suddenly-went-into-labor | 2022-11-25 16:36:02 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/5-year-old-in-missouri-praised-for-quick-thinking-when-mom-suddenly-went-into-labor |
When Twitter's former security chief testifies before a Senate committee on Tuesday, he will be the second highly-placed tech worker in less than a year to warn federal lawmakers about the struggles inside a social media platform.
The timing highlights both the public scrutiny on social media companies lately and Twitter's own delicate position.
Peiter Zatko's federal whistleblower complaint landed in the middle of a high-stakes legal drama in which Twitter is attempting to compel Tesla CEO Elon Musk to make good on a $44 billion deal to buy the struggling company.
Zatko, who's also known by his hacker name, Mudge, accused Twitter of lax security practices, failing to protect user privacy, misleading regulators in violation of a 2011 settlement, and knowingly employing foreign government agents and giving them access to sensitive systems and data.
Twitter has pushed back on the claims, saying Zatko was fired for poor performance and is "opportunistically seeking to inflict harm."
This push and pull is familiar to Frances Haugen, who publicly called out her former employer, Facebook, at a similar hearing about a year ago.
Zatko is "helping to shine light on the fact that critical pieces of communication infrastructure – Twitter, Facebook, TikTok – are being held together with duct tape and string," she said. "He took a huge personal risk and definitely a large career risk by coming forward with this information."
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled the hearing for 10am Tuesday. Three hours later, Twitter shareholders are scheduled to vote on whether to move forward with the merger agreement that Musk wants to dissolve. The company says it remains committed to closing the deal on the original terms.
Frances Haugen: people should be 'shocked' by weak security systems
Almost a year ago, Frances Haugen testified before Congress about Facebook. Looking back, she said it was a critical moment in her journey from tech executive to whistleblower to activist.
Haugen says the public assumes that Silicon Valley companies have deep pockets to maintain security. But Zatko paints a different picture, claiming that if a data center went down, Twitter might not be able to turn itself back on.
"That is a symptom of a level of underinvestment that the public should be shocked by. We take for granted that private corporations are running critical pieces of communication infrastructure," she said. "We need to have public accountability and transparency on how these systems work, because I guarantee you there are more skeletons in the closet than just what we're seeing at Twitter."
She says social media companies tend to prioritize growth. Stronger security or better protection of users' data doesn't lead to greater audiences.
"Critical parts of public safety are cost centers," she said. "If it's not essential to the bottom line, companies will never adequately invest in it. And unfortunately, that means that comes at the cost of public safety."
Investing in security infrastructure and staff is also costly. Twitter has struggled financially for years, yet the platform is deeply ingrained in public life.
It has an "outsized influence. That's why [Zatko] went to work there," said Margaret O'Mara, who studies the history of technology at the University of Washington. "Its founders never imagined it would have such political and newsmaking significance that it has now."
Facebook whistleblower: Zatko must gain the public's trust
Unlike Haugen a year ago, Zatko is somewhat familiar with Congress and the ways of Washington.
Back in 1998, when most people surfed the internet with Netscape or Mosaic, Zatko told a congressional committee that hackers could be an asset to the feds. He famously bragged that he could break the Internet in 30 minutes.
Zatko's career evolved and matured along with the commercial Internet. He worked for DARPA, the Defense Department's secretive deep-research unit, and founded a consulting firm before being hired by Twitter in November 2020 to shore up its security after young hackers commandeered dozens of high-profile accounts, including that of Elon Musk.
"Of the other senior people I have known who have gone to work at Twitter in security, a huge fraction of them go because they really care about public safety," Haugen said, adding that many other tech companies pay more. "You go there because you see Twitter is a critical piece of global communications infrastructure and you want to give back."
But Zatko says that when he raised concerns about security at Twitter, top executives, including the new CEO, Parag Agrawal, ignored them.
Haugen says she never intended to come forward with her criticism of Facebook. She thought the trove of internal documents she had gathered and leaked to The Wall Street Journal would stand on its own. But when she did testify, "the public got to put a face to my name," Haugen said. "Whether [Zatko's] disclosures have impact will be dependent on the public trusting him."
Unlike Haugen, Zatko has presented far fewer internal documents so far to support his allegations. And given the timing–in the midst of a legal battle between Twitter and Musk–people may be more skeptical of his motives.
Tromble says the public and policymakers have to rely on people like Zatko and Haugen to shine a light on social media companies, which she describes as "black boxes."
"We particularly lack transparency about the overall impact that they have on their users. So right now, we're in a place where we rely heavily on these individual whistle whistleblowers for a peek inside the black box. And that's really problematic."
What to watch for at the hearing and beyond
Nu Wexler, a communications consultant who previously worked for tech companies, including Twitter, and on Capitol Hill, expects senators to ask about the two Indian government agents allegedly hired at Twitter and how Twitter protects sensitive information about U.S. citizens.
But he's doubtful that lawmakers are truly motivated to act.
"We have seen time and time again, no matter who the whistleblower, no matter what the particular controversy, our representatives are up in arms for a while, propose a number of pieces of legislation, and yet not much has yet come of it," he said. "Maybe in this case, we'll see more, because there are foreign intelligence and security questions involved."
Yet he is skeptical that there will be much substance to the hearing.
"The hearing will devolve into a political food fight about bias and censorship, like every other congressional hearing does," Wexler said. Because of free speech issues, "Congress is limited in what they can actually do about online content. And so they sort of stall out, which wouldn't be a bad outcome for Twitter here."
Zatko filed his complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department. The SEC is already questioning Twitter on how it counts fake or bot accounts on its platform.
The FTC is likely to take action too, said Rebekah Tromble, a George Washington University professor, who studies social media.
"We're seeing, even just in the last few months, really strong signals from the FTC that they are ready, willing and able to step into the void to take a much firmer stance with the social media companies." she said.
The FTC has already fined Twitter $150 million for misusing user email addresses and phone numbers for marketing purposes in violation of its 2011 consent decree.
Tromble says senators and their staff are now better versed on tech policy and industry challenges. She expects sophisticated and nuanced questions from senators.
"I think we can expect more intelligent, thoughtful questions than we've seen in some of the hearings that took place maybe three, four or five years ago when [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg and [then-Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey could say just about anything and it was taken at face value," said Tromble, whose research has been funded by Twitter in the past.
Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk casts a shadow over the Senate hearing
Meanwhile, the lawsuit that Twitter brought against the world's richest person is speeding toward an October 17th trial date.
Musk seized upon Zatko's allegations to bolster his defense, which had previously focused on how Twitter counts false accounts on the platform. (Many experts in corporate law say that is a flabby argument.)
Last week, Delaware Chancery Judge Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick allowed Musk to amend his countersuit to include Zatko's allegations.
If you're waiting for juicy details about Twitter's inner workings, "the Musk case is far more important than the Senate hearing," Wexler said. "That's the main event."
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A smaller version of The Cuddler, Bearaby's wildly-popular body pillow, The Cuddling provides soothing comfort on-the-go.
NEW YORK, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bearaby, the sustainable home wellness brand dedicated to producing design-forward products for mental, emotional and physical well-being, today announces the launch of "The Cuddling," an ergonomically designed and gently weighted, soothing bolster pillow. The Cuddling provides versatile support by alleviating pressure on the neck, knees, back or shoulders, as well as lumbar support, making it both a solution for back- or side-sleepers and a helpful companion for practicing yoga or traveling. The Cuddling is made from the brand's breathable, plant-based Melofoam™ material that cradles the shape of the body for supportive comfort. Following the introduction of The Cuddler last year, Bearaby has continued to see an uptick in interest in its ergonomic products that promote relaxation and deep sleep.
"Thrilled by the overwhelming success of our body pillow, we're excited to introduce The Cuddling — a satisfyingly squashy, breathable bolster pillow that provides ergonomic support and comfort, wherever you need," shares Kathrin Hamm, Founder and CEO of Bearaby. "Its smaller shape allows for easy transport, making it perfect for travel. The Cuddling cover also provides our first foray into a new fabric, organic Belgian flax linen. We're excited to help everyone rest and relax in cooling, stylish comfort. The Cuddling is specifically designed to mold to your body shape, melting away tension, so it's a natural addition to our patented best-selling weighted blankets and sustainable sensory pillows."
The Cuddling's smaller size, 14" x 7.5", makes the pillow ideal for both on-the-go occasions and home use. Like all Bearaby products, The Cuddling is made using sustainably and ethically sourced materials. Its GOLS- certified, proprietary Melofoam™ is made by tapping sap directly from organic hevea trees in Sri Lanka, which is collected in coconuts and gently steamed to produce a spongey, airy foam. The entire process is completely natural and the rubber trees live for decades. Any waste – such as water and the coconut husks used to collect the sap – is reused in the farming process to help new trees to grow.
The responsive Cuddling bolster pillow is encased in a removable, washable GOTS-certified 100% organic cotton cover in a fresh white hue. In addition to the organic white base, Bearaby Cuddling covers are available in 100% organic Belgian flax linen, the first of its kind for Bearaby, launching in six soothing shades - Asteroid Grey, Moonstone Grey, Magnolia, Evening Rose, Glass Blue and Rosemary. The linen material provides cooling comfort for the satisfyingly squashy pillow. It cradles the shape of the body to ease pain and promotes comfortable relaxation.
The Bearaby Cuddling retails for $89, with Cuddling Covers available for $69, totaling $158 for the bundle. For more information on Bearaby, visit www.bearaby.com.
About Bearaby
Bearaby is a sustainable home wellness brand on a mission to create a calmer, more comforted world: one nap at a time. Every Bearaby product prioritizes holistic wellbeing, sustainability, and exceptional design to bring about revolutionary rest, naturally. To experience Bearaby, please visit www.bearaby.com or @mybearaby on Instagram.
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USC falls to No. 22 Tennessee in overtime in Battle 4 Atlantis
Julian Phillips scored a season-high 25 points to help No. 22 Tennessee hold off USC 73-66 in overtime in Thursday’s semifinals at the Battle 4 Atlantis.
The first-year forward made seven of 13 shots and 10 of 12 free throws to go with eight rebounds for the Volunteers (4-1), with four of those free throws coming in overtime.
Boogie Ellis scored 21 points in his second big output in as many days to lead the Trojans (4-2). He made seven of 14 shots from the field, including three of six from three-point range.
The only other USC player in double figures was Tre White, who finished with 11 points on five-of-11 shooting from the field. Joshua Morgan contributed six points, five rebounds, four blocked shots and one steal.
Santiago Vescovi overcame a rough shooting game to make the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:45 left in the extra period, while Zakai Zeigler made all four of his free throws in the final 23.7 seconds of overtime to seal the win.
Tennessee won despite playing a second straight day without leading scorer Josiah-Jordan James (13.7 points per game) because of soreness in his left knee. He had an offseason procedure on that knee, and coach Rick Barnes said he’s day-to-day.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
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Frequent lockdowns may have contributed to Uvalde tragedy
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Teachers and students at Robb Elementary School knew the safety protocols when an 18-year-old with an AR-15 style rifle entered the building in May. Dozens of times in the previous four months alone, the campus had gone into lockdown or issued security alerts, not because of active shooter scares — because of nearby, often high-speed pursuits of migrants coming from the U.S.-Mexico border.
An entire generation of students in America has grown up simulating lockdowns for active shooters, or worse, experiencing the real thing. But in South Texas, another unique kind of classroom lockdown occurs along the state’s 1,200-mile southern border: hunkering down because Border Patrol agents or state police are chasing migrants who are trying to evade apprehension.
The frequency of lockdowns and security alerts in Uvalde — nearly 50 between February and May alone, according to school officials — are now viewed by investigators as one of the tragic contributors to how a gunman was able to walk into a fourth-grade classroom unobstructed and slaughter 19 children and two teachers. Although a slow and bungled police response remains the main failure, a damning new report by the Texas House says recurring lockdowns in Uvalde created a “diminished sense of vigilance.”
With a new school year now just weeks away in heavily patrolled South Texas, there are worries the lockdowns will resume and deepen the trauma for scarred students in Uvalde, as migrant crossings remain high and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues expanding a massive border security operation.
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“That’s what it probably was, just complacency, because it does happen on a frequent basis,” said Uvalde County Justice of the Peace Eulalio “Lalo” Diaz Jr., who had to identify the bodies of the dead at Robb Elementary.
The new findings that a culture of lockdowns in Uvalde played some role in the failures on May 24 reflects how one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history intersected with immigration policies and thousands of Border Patrol agents, National Guard members and state police assigned to apprehend migrants and stop drug traffickers. Of the nearly 400 law enforcement officers at the scene of Robb Elementary, more than half were Border Patrol agents or state police, according to the report.
On Tuesday, over the span of just 20 minutes, eight state police vehicles and Border Patrol SUVs cruised through Uvalde’s central square, less than a mile from Robb Elementary.
Uvalde is about an hour’s drive from the border with Mexico, located at the crossroads of two major state highways. Nearby are the cities of Pearsall, Dilley and Karnes – all of which have immigration detention centers with some of the nation’s highest populations. More than 4,500 detainees in total were at the three facilities as of June 2022, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Jazmin Cazares, whose 9-year-old sister Jacklyn was among the students killed, told Texas lawmakers in June that no one in the school district took lockdowns seriously “until that day.” She said she is now terrified to return for her senior year in the fall.
“Am I going to survive it? Unbelievable,” Cazares said.
Even the first officers on scene at Robb Elementary wondered whether the threat was a so-called “bailout” — the term used by law enforcement along the border to describe suspected migrants or drug traffickers who have fled. Pete Arrendondo, the embattled Uvalde school police chief who has become the target of angry demands by parents to resign or be fired, told the House committee the thought crossed his mind since it happens so often.
The gunman entered Robb Elementary at 11:33 a.m. One minute earlier, according to the report, a fourth-grade teacher in Room 105 received a lockdown alert and made sure her classroom door was locked. That teacher also told the committee she saw a teacher across the hall locking the door in Room 112, one of two adjoining rooms where the shooting occurred.
The shooter is believed to have entered the classroom through Room 111, which was known to have trouble locking properly.
The signal the school’s alert system sends out does not specify the potential threat. And because of the prevalence of lockdowns in recent months, according to the report, many teachers and administrators “assumed it was another bailout.”
“Bailouts” has become an increasingly common part of Uvalde’s vernacular in the last year as the area has become extraordinarily busy with migrants crossing illegally, largely from countries outside Mexico and northern Central America.
The Border Patrol sector based in Del Rio, Texas – one of nine along the Mexican border – was the most transited corridor for illegal crossings in June, replacing Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. For much of the year, the two South Texas sectors have posted similar numbers of border encounters, well ahead of the others in California, Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas.
While many migrants turn themselves in to the Border Patrol in the border towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass – each about an hour’s drive from Uvalde – many seek to elude capture for hours or days, hiding in “stash houses” or in tall fields of corn and other crops for smugglers to pick them up at a previously agreed location for the drive to San Antonio.
The committee report said there had been no incidents of “bailout-related” violence on Uvalde school campuses before the shooting. High-speed driving sometimes crossed school parking lots, according to the report, which also said some pursuits involved firearms in surrounding neighborhoods.
Diaz, the Uvalde justice of the peace, serves as a magistrate when police make arrests in the area as part of the governor’s massive border mobilization known as Operation Lone Star. He sets bail for people taken into custody for alleged human or drug smuggling, but also for crimes unrelated to national security, like minor drug charges.
He said Abbott’s operation hasn’t made Uvalde safer.
“These people who are coming through don’t want to be in Uvalde,” said Diaz. “They are looking to get away from the border and we’re too close.”
Over the last decade, many police departments have shifted away from having officers engage in car chases because they are a danger to the public. A 2017 report from the Justice Department found that between 1996 and 2015 police pursuits killed an average of 355 people annually, with nearly a third of those killed in vehicles not involved in the chases.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, who said he has not spoken to Abbott for nearly a month, has called on the governor to do even more on the border to curb migrant crossings. With classes set to re-start in less than two months, he worries about “the bailouts by the schools and so forth” and said “it needs to stop.”
Angie Villescaz, who grew up in Uvalde and after the shooting founded the Latina mothers advocacy group Fierce Madres with local moms, said the border rhetoric is a distraction from the most pressing issue.
“They’ve always wanted to keep the narrative about securing the border,” Villescaz said, “and now they can’t because it’s about securing our schools.”
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Coronado reported from Austin, Texas. Associated Press writer Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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Cattle Dog Digital, Australia's leading RevOps consulting and implementation firm among top applicants selected for Newchip's exclusive accelerator
SYDNEY, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cattle Dog Digital, a growing full-funnel RevOps consulting and implementation company that helps global leaders and innovative startups stand-up their tech-stack across sales, marketing and finance - fast, was accepted into Newchip's renowned global accelerator program. Designed to provide all the skills and tools seed-stage founders need to rapidly fund, build and scale their companies, past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5 times the average funding amount. The equity-free, fully digital accelerator has helped over 1,500 founders from more than 50 countries and 250 cities raise over $450 million in funding with an estimated portfolio of over $9 billion.
"Newchip evaluates a vast and diverse number of seed-stage companies from around the globe, selecting only a small percentage to be part of our Seed Accelerator program," says Armando Vera Carvajal, Vice President of Product at Newchip. "This careful vetting process of both the business model and founder makes us an ideal partner for venture capital investors and other key stakeholders in early-stage startup financings who are looking for promising startups that are beginning to generate traction and revenue. RevOps practitioner companies like Cattle Dog Digital can scale quickly with proper funding and guidance. We are excited for Cattle Dog Digital and believe they will be well positioned to take advantage of our fast-expanding global ecosystem at Newchip."
Cattle Dog Digital was established in 2015 to disrupt the services implementation and consulting industry. By creating a company founded on the value of being a customer's loyal companion through their technology journey, Cattle Dog Digital hopes to change the way the customers look at digital transformation and RevOps (Revenue Operations) to ultimately realise their potential.
Since launching, the Cattle Dog Digital team has:
- Won FinancialForce's APAC Partner of The Year 2021 Award
- Grown revenue 120% YOY
- Secured partnerships with key RevTech companies; Salesforce, FinancialForce
- Been awarded the 2021 Australian Growth Company Awards, "One To Watch" category of Women in Leadership
- Implemented RevOps for enterprises; Bayer, Fuji Xerox, CSG, JB Hi-Fi
- Launched the RevOps Academy with Sales IQ and best-selling author, Tony J Hughes
"Being part of the Newchip Accelerator, we are looking forward to accelerating the growth of our services and RevOps product suite and learning from the best in the business as we expand operations to North America and globally," says Sarah Harkness, Co-founder and CRO at Cattle Dog Digital. "This presents a way for us to raise capital, partner with the cohort and support the global 'RevOps Revolution' taking place today. With Gartner research telling us that 75% of all companies will have adopted a RevOps operating model by 2025, we see the Newchip Accelerator as a way to amplify that message and make sure we're ahead of that adoption."
About Cattle Dog Digital
Cattle Dog Digital provides full-stack RevOps implementation services, specializing in Salesforce and FinancialForce for clients, large and small. Always focused on delivering successful outcomes, the team adheres to best of breed governance practices with all teams fully aligned, using Agile delivery. The company uniquely provides expertise across all business functions including sales, marketing, services and finance which benefits clients with the most efficient, 360 degree end-to-end view of their business under a RevOps model. Practice teams are fully certified across Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud, Pardot, Hubspot, FinancialForce, and more. For updates, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. To learn more, please visit https://cattledogdigital.io Please contact: hello@cattledogdigital.com or call (+61) 0408 819 933
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By ILAN BEN ZION
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum documenting the community’s rich, if pained, history.
The Mardigian Museum showcases Armenian culture and tells of the community’s centuries-long connection to the holy city. At the same time, it is a memorial to around 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks around World War I, in what many scholars consider the 20th century’s first genocide.
Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
Director Tzoghig Karakashian said the museum is meant to serve as “a passport for people to know about the Armenians” and to understand their part of Jerusalem’s history.
The museum reopened in late 2022 after a more than five-year renovation project. Before that, the building — originally a pilgrim guesthouse built in the 1850s — served as a monastery, an orphanage for children who survived the genocide, a seminary and ultimately a small museum and library.
Jerusalem is home to a community of around 6,000 Armenians, many of them descendants of people who fled the genocide. Many inhabit one of the historic Old City’s main quarters, a mostly enclosed compound abutting the 12th-century Armenian cathedral of St. James.
But the Armenians’ link to the holy city stretches back centuries, from monks and pilgrims during the late Roman Empire to Armenian queens of Crusader Jerusalem.
The museum’s centerpiece, filling the sunlit courtyard, is an exquisite 5th or 6th century mosaic adorned with exotic birds and vines discovered in 1894 on the grounds of an ancient Armenian monastery complex. It bears an inscription in Armenian dedicated to “the memorial and salvation of all Armenians whose names the Lord knows.”
For decades, the mosaic remained in a small museum near the Old City’s Damascus Gate. In 2019, the Israeli Antiquities Authority and the Armenian Patriarchate undertook the laborious task of removing the mosaic floor and transporting it across town to the newly refurbished museum.
From elaborately carved stone crosses known as “khachkars” to iconic painted tiles and priestly vestments, the museum showcases Armenian material art, while also excelling in telling the Armenian story of survival. While Jerusalem changed hands as empires rose and fell, the Armenians remained.
“Surviving means to not be seen,” said Arek Kahkedjian, a museum tour guide. “We survived without people knowing what or who we are, and today we feel ready to show you and teach about the history and heritage, about the culture, and to show you how we advance and modernize with the times.”
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Retail sportsbook and mobile offering planned for upcoming launch
FREDERICK, Md. , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Betfred Sports is excited to announce an agreement with Long Shot's of Frederick, Maryland to bring retail and online sports betting to Maryland pending regulatory approval. A temporary retail sportsbook will be adjacent to the Maryland Jockey Club's OTB within Long Shot's for the 2022 football season. A permanent, 8,800 square foot, state-of-the-art sportsbook with a video wall and comfortable theater-style seating will open just after the first of the year. A robust food and beverage menu will also be available. Online betting will be launched when formally allowed by state regulators.
"We were at the forefront of bringing sports betting to Maryland and specifically to Frederick. We are thrilled to open a sportsbook at Long Shot's in partnership with Betfred Sports," stated Long Shot's CEO, Alyse Cohen. "We are proud that Long Shot's is one of the premier off-track betting locations in the State and we look forward to achieving similar success with sports wagering. Long Shot's will not only boost the local economy but contribute to enhancing the education of our students."
Bryan Bennett, Betfred Sports Chief Operating Officer, stated "We identified Long Shot's very early when searching for a Maryland partner. When combining Betfred's 50 years of bookmaking experience and Long Shot's success with off-track betting, we believe this will be a formidable partnership to compete in the Maryland sports betting space."
The temporary sportsbook, scheduled to open in September pending regulatory approval, will consist of in-person betting windows and self-serve betting kiosks.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Asked whether he’s going to be campaigning for president this year, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said no.
But what about beyond that? That part remains unclear.
Specifically, Youngkin was asked Monday at a conference where he was speaking in California if he would be “getting out on the presidential campaign trail” in 2023.
“No,” the governor said. “I’m going to be working in Virginia this year.”
Speculation about a presidential run has followed the former private equity executive ever since his 2021 election, which made him the first Republican elected to lead blue-trending Virginia in over a decade. But Youngkin has long redirected those those questions, focusing instead on next November’s legislative elections, when all 140 state General Assembly seats will be on the ballot.
Dave Rexrode, chairman of Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia political action committee, said the governor’s remarks on Monday were no different.
“Nothing has changed. He is focused on Virginia’s 2023 elections — that is his priority. He will be campaigning across the commonwealth this year to build a majority,” Rexrode said.
No, Youngkin and his political advisers have not publicly ruled out a presidential campaign in 2024. But they’re pointing to the opportunity that Virginia elections this year provide for him to showcase a different kind of Republican politics that proved successful in a state where Democrat Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020.
A person familiar with Youngkin’s political operation but not authorized to speak publicly by name said some media coverage suggesting Youngkin had ruled out a campaign was an overreaction. And the governor’s answer came in response to a question specifically about 2023 — not 2024.
In an interview on Fox Business on Tuesday, Youngkin again gave a middling answer, saying, “What I’ve been very clear with from the very beginning is how humbling it is for my name to be in this, this circle,” of potential White House candidates. He said he wants to “demonstrate that conservative commonsense leadership can in fact win in a purple state.”
Strategists have said that being a Republican who can win in Democrat-favored areas could set Youngkin apart from other GOP contenders like Trump, who is running again, or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to enter the presidential race soon. DeSantis’ election strength has thus far been tested only in his Republican-favored Florida, while Trump lost the 2020 national election and endorsed a string of 2022 candidates who lost their midterm races.
Youngkin, who cannot seek a second consecutive term as governor, theoretically could run for president in 2024 once Virginia’s 2023 elections are over, but the ability for any candidate to put together a successful campaign later this year or early next year would be extremely difficult. That’s true even for a candidate like Youngkin, who has dabbled in cross-country campaigning and can tap into his own personal fortune and lists of wealthy donors.
There is no filing deadline for Republican candidates to win support in Iowa’s caucuses, the first-in-the-nation contest set for early February, but candidates typically need to start this year to secure support. Trump, who announced his campaign in late 2022, is using data from past campaigns to lock in his most loyal supporters — an obstacle for later entrants.
A late campaign entry would also mean missing the first Republican primary debates, scheduled to start in August, and delaying the complex and time-consuming process to organize and woo delegates around the country who will actually choose the nominee at the GOP convention in July 2024.
Top Republican operatives who worked on Youngkin’s 2021 campaign are already working on a potential rival’s 2024 presidential race, having signed on for a super PAC urging DeSantis to run.
On the other hand, Youngkin campaigned across the country in 2022, handing out red fleece vests to candidates that matched the one he donned in his own race — a softer, fuzzier incarnation of Trump’s distinctive Make America Great Again hats.
He’s ramped up his campaign-style activities again lately, with frequent appearances on cable news, fundraising trips to Palm Beach, New York City and Dallas, high-profile speaking engagements, and an international trade mission to Taiwan amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, along with stops in Japan and South Korea.
He raised $2.75 million over a few weeks for his Spirit of Virginia PAC, in addition to a $1 million check from billionaire Thomas Peterffy on April 20. The check came days after Peterffy told The Financial Times he was pausing his financial support for DeSantis because of his conservative stances “on abortion and book banning.”
Peterffy attended an April 14 fundraising lunch in Palm Beach for Youngkin, which the governor followed with another fundraising event in Dallas on April 19. The next day, he spoke at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas and an event back in Virginia for the conservative Heritage Foundation, and he is expected to make more trips around the country this year.
He will likely be asked again about running for president, especially after his answer to a follow-up question on Monday in California, when the interviewer, The Wall Street Journal’s editor-at-large Gerard Baker, asked: “So in the words of LBJ, you will not seek, and if nominated, you will not serve and accept the Republican nomination for president of the United States?”
Youngkin laughed and said, “We’ll leave that one to LBJ.”
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Price reported from New York. Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report. | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/gops-youngkin-says-no-to-presidential-campaign-for-now/ | 2023-05-03 13:39:54 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/gops-youngkin-says-no-to-presidential-campaign-for-now/ |
ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- A man and woman were arrested earlier this week after police said a verbal argument escalated into a dangerous attack. Jeserica Murry, 31, has been charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Dessie Burton, 29, has been charged with Assault.
According to an arrest report, on June 19, the couple’s child called 911 and said her parents were fighting and that her dad had been stabbed. Officers with the Odessa Police Department responded to the home in the 2700 block of N Alleghaney to investigate.
At the scene, officers found Burton lying in the street, bleeding. According to the affidavit, Burton had been stabbed in the shoulder. Paramedics arrived and Burton was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Once Burton was taken from the scene, officers spoke with Murry who said an argument escalated when she asked Burton to leave her home. According to Murry, after she asked Burton to leave, he kicked in the front door, knocked her to the ground, and started punching her in the head. She said Burton then grabbed her by the hair and began dragging her around her home.
Murry said she “got away” from Burton long enough to grab a knife and then told Burton to leave once again. When Burton next approached her, she said she swung the knife and stabbed him.
Officers arrested Murry and booked her into the Ector County Law Enforcement Center. She was later released on a $50,000 bond.
Following a hospital stay, Burton was also arrested for his role in the fight. He was booked into the Ector County Law Enforcement Center on June 20 and remained behind bars as of Tuesday afternoon. His bond had not yet been set.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A member of the Belarus opposition movement urged the European Union on Monday to keep sanctions against a Belarusian state fertilizer producer, warning that lifting them would generate a $1.5 billion windfall for Alexander Lukashenko’s regime as it supports Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian minister of culture who is now in exile in Poland, said he feared the EU might be tempted to lift sanctions against Belaruskali, which is one of the world’s largest exporters of potash fertilizers.
Latushka heads an opposition group, the National Anti-Crisis Management, which has been documenting what it alleges is Lukashenko’s participation in a scheme to deport Ukrainian orphans to camps in Belarus.
The team has been working to bring international attention to its findings in an attempt to stop the alleged deportations and hold Lukashenko to account.
“Belaruskali is the firm that finances the deportation of Ukrainian children,” Latushka, who was sentenced to 18 years of prison in absentia in March by a court in Belarus, told The Associated Press.
His appeal comes as EU foreign ministers were meeting for informal talks expected to focus on sanctions against Belaruskali and the Belarusian Potash Company, which exports Belaruskali’s products.
“This is an opportunity for Lukashenko to generate at least one and a half billion dollars in revenue each year, which he will spend on the war,” Latushka said.
The group alleges that the Ukrainian orphans deported to Belarus undergo a process of Russification before being sent to Russia for adoption, something they say amounts to violations of the Geneva conventions against war crimes.
Lukashenko’s government denies those claims.
“The allegation of Belarus’ involvement in the forced removal of Ukrainian children looks absolutely wild and inappropriate, even against the backdrop of the usual accusations and demands toward us that have nothing to do with reality,” said Anatoly Glaz, spokesman of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
Latushka and his team are collecting evidence and bringing it to international organizations, hoping that the International Criminal Court will issue an arrest warrant for Lukashenko as it did for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The ICC in March issued arrest warrants for both Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights. Judges in The Hague said they found “reasonable grounds to believe” the two were responsible for war crimes, specifically the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.
The Belarusian authorities have said that Belarus would host more than 1,000 children aged 6-15 from the partially occupied Donbas in eastern Ukraine for “convalescence.” The first 350 of those children arrived in Belarus in late April. The authorities have allotted at least four summer camps for them.
Officials haven’t specified for how long exactly the Ukrainian children would stay in Belarus, but say the decision was made at the presidential level.
Lukashenko’s press service said it underscored his “commitment to the ideas of humanism and mercy towards children in need of care and support.”
Within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, special programs were approved aimed at relocating Ukrainian children. Financial support is provided by Belaruskali.
The placement of children and logistics in Belarus are handled by a pro-government activist, Aleksey Talai, a Paralympian who has set up a charitable foundation.
“Belarus gives children peace of mind, help and continues to provide support to the regions affected by hostilities,” Talai said.
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A recent trademark filing hints that General Motors will keep the sporty Buick GS badge for future electric cars.
GM on Oct. 4 filed a trademark application for the Electra GS name, combining the GS badge with the Electra nameplate the automaker previously said would be used for upcoming Buick EVs.
Short for Gran Sport, the GS badge dates back to 1965. It was used on various Buick muscle cars, but outlasted the muscle-car era and was used periodically in the following decades, including an early 2000s Regal GS with a manual transmission. The last production model to get the GS badge was a version of the Buick Regal Sportback that debuted for the 2018 model year.
GM in June confirmed that future Buick EVs will get Electra badging, which, along with a new logo, is part of an attempt to remake the brand for the EV era. The automaker said these EVs will also use an alphanumeric suffix to denote size and body style, leaving room for the GS badge to be tacked on to denote sportier variants.
GM has also indicated that it’s willing to buy out Buick dealers that don’t want to make the EV transition, which will include significant investments for charging hardware. The automaker has also offered buyouts to Cadillac dealers, but not Chevrolet and GMC dealers.
While GM is laying the groundwork for Buick’s EV shift now, the first production Buick EV for the U.S. isn’t scheduled to go on sale until 2024, with an unveiling later this year. Most likely to be EV crossovers, the planned lineup of Buick EVs will use the same Ultium battery and motor architecture as other upcoming GM electric models.
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Surgeons treating victims of firearm violence highlight 13 recommendations from ACS Firearms Strategy Team that can reduce deaths and serious injuries
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) called for bipartisan solutions to reduce the rising numbers of deaths and serious injuries that are arriving in trauma centers on a daily basis due to firearm violence.
During an ACS news conference at its Washington, DC office, surgeons outlined important attainable steps that can be taken to accelerate an effective response to reduce firearm violence.
"Firearm violence is a growing public health crisis that must be immediately addressed. This is a public health crisis, not a political debate. The American College of Surgeons is committed to crafting solutions that save lives and minimize preventable death," said ACS Executive Director, Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS. "We are unwilling to wait for another tragedy to befall another community when we believe we have a series of actions that will have an impact."
She explained that trauma surgeons are practical problem solvers who see and live through this crisis every day treating patients who are victims of attempted suicides, homicides, and who suffer other grievous injuries from firearms. "We must be an integral part of the solution to reduce the rising number of deaths we see every year." Dr. Turner said the ACS wants to work with and educate legislators about firearm injury prevention "so that we can incorporate what we know, in a data driven way."
The ACS Committee on Trauma convened the Firearms Strategy Team (FAST) in 2017 consisting of highly regarded trauma surgeons, many of whom are avid firearm owners. Their singular mission was to develop an effective strategy to reduce firearm injury, death, and disability. The recommendations first introduced in 2018, and renewed today, are the product of broad consensus.
The FAST recommendations cover 13 areas and include background checks; registration; licensure; firearm education and training; safe storage practices; red flag laws; addressing mental health issues; and more research to better inform an approach going forward and to help address the root causes of violence. The full-text article appears in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
"These comprehensive recommendations provide a road map to a solution and can have an immediate impact on saving lives," said Eileen M, Bulger, MD, FACS, Medical Director of ACS Trauma Programs and one of the leaders who helped develop the FAST recommendations and spelled them out at the news conference.
Trauma surgeon, Ronald M, Stewart, MD, FACS, provided a compelling front line perspective of the crisis. Dr. Stewart, chair of the department of surgery at University Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, explained he has been in the unfortunate position of caring for victims from two of the largest mass shootings in modern U.S. History—Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church and the Uvalde School shooting, and described the injuries inflicted by high-velocity weapons as "horrific." The fact that their current patients are improving "brings us joy," he reported. But they all have a long road ahead to deal with both the physical and emotional impact of this shooting. "This moment of crisis will have a lifetime of impact on these innocent souls. Our teams are working to facilitate healing in a way that minimizes long term effects."
Dr. Stewart, a former Chair of the ACS COT, credited decades of work from the COT in setting organized, regional trauma systems of care that make real life saving difference in communities. "In many ways, South Texas has a model trauma and emergency health care system built on the ACS model." He also pointed out that newer recommendations to administer whole blood quickly to seriously injured shooting patients is now a factor in saving lives. He commended ACS trauma leaders for advocacy work in educating and training people who are bystanders to control serious bleeding through its STOP THE BLEED® program as another life-saving measure that's made an impact in improving survival too. But he pointed out that these are treatments, "and treatment is not enough, these tragedies are preventable. We can prevent these atrocities."
As for the severity of the problem, he noted that in 2020 firearm injuries became the leading cause of death among children and adolescents. Not the leading cause of traumatic death, but the leading cause of death.
Dr. Stewart believes that the "ACS COT has proven that people who significantly differ in their views on firearms can and will enthusiastically work together to reduce unnecessary death and suffering from firearm related injury and intentional violence."
Patrick V. Bailey, MD, MLS, FACS, a pediatric surgeon by training, who currently serves as a Medical Director in the ACS Division of Advocacy and Health Policy, observed that the FAST recommendations were developed through "a very deliberative process that included the participation and perspective of other surgeons who like me were also gun owners, but who seek to reduce the impact of gun violence on our country." Dr. Bailey does not believe these recommendations "pose an undue burden on the rights of individual gun owners" and said that he hopes these recommendations will be viewed by a Congress that comes together in a bipartisan way to "enact substantive legislation directed at mitigating gun violence."
Other advocacy work initiated by the ACS COT that was highlighted today included a brief overview by Dr. Bulger of its Improving Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence (ISAVE) workgroup. ISAVE presents strategies for trauma centers to address the root causes of violence. The work that came out of the COT's 2019 Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention was also highlighted. The Summit included active participation by 44 professional organizations that gathered to identify collaborative ways to address the firearm violence problem. The organizations developed recommendations based on a consensus of all participating groups.
At the close of the summit, a comprehensive public health and medical approach to address the issue emerged that included focusing on recognizing firearm injury as a U.S. public health crisis and taking a comprehensive public health and medical approach to address it; researching it using a disease model; engaging firearm owners and at-risk communities to develop firearm injury prevention programs and empowering the medical community to function in the best interest of its patients in variety of palpable ways. Full proceedings from the Summit were published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
The important work started at the inaugural Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention will continue, announced Jeffrey Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS, current Chair of the ACS COT. "This fall, we will reconvene and cohost the Summit to bring together subject matter experts from across the house of medicine. We must continue to build our collective will and work creatively to address the root causes that have led to this epidemic." He believes the ACS COT recommendations provide an immediate path for moving forward.
Dr. Kerby, who is Brigham Family Endowed Professor and director of the division of trauma and acute care surgery for the department of surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), explained that he regularly speaks with trauma surgeons across the nation. "We are all deeply disturbed by the inordinate amount of firearm injuries and death we must constantly address. My own trauma center has seen a 40% increase in the number of firearm related injuries just in the last two years, and these numbers continue to increase. We are in the midst of an epidemic of firearm violence, and we need to act. I have to believe that as a country, we can do better."
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and improve the quality of care for all surgical patients. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 84,000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. "FACS" designates that a surgeon is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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Hurricane Ian destroys turtle eggs that now litter Florida beaches
MELBOURNE, Fla. - Turtle eggs laid on the beach ahead of Hurricane Ian are scattered for miles, destroyed.
Betty Gonzalez photographs wildlife in her free time. She lives in Brevard County and focuses her efforts there. She says she's always had a soft spot for turtles and used to volunteer with the park service at Playalinda Beach, caring for them. So she was devastated the first time she went out after Ian passed through.
"There’s just thousands of eggs all over the place, so it’s sad," said Gonzalez. "And there’s nothing you can do. And then when you see them, and you think, ‘Okay, these are going to make it. Then you come the next day, and they’ve just been washed, even more, it’s not fun."
She says the eggs she saw were mostly from green turtles – she didn’t see any loggerheads. She explained, green turtles typically hatch later in the year.
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"It’s just sad. I know there’s so much destruction on the west coast that’s way worse than what we’re experiencing. But I love turtles and to see that many turtles, it’s so sad."
She isn’t sure what a loss like this will do to the population overall but is worried about the damage to the eggs and the dunes.
"I’ve seen it before, but never this bad. It’s never fun to see that many turtle eggs," said Gonzalez. | https://www.wogx.com/news/destroyed-turtle-eggs-litter-beach-after-hurricane-ian | 2022-10-04 05:25:03 | 1 | https://www.wogx.com/news/destroyed-turtle-eggs-litter-beach-after-hurricane-ian |
Which “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy is best?
When toys have context, they can be even more exciting to play with. Your child can use the established storyline as a jumping-off point to create bold new adventures for their favorite characters.
“Godzilla vs. Kong” is a fantastic movie of epic proportions that has spawned a whole line of imaginative play toys. To find the best one, you need to know a little about both the movie and what your child liked about the movie. For instance, do they have a favorite character? If you’re not sure, TwCare’s 8-Piece King Kong vs. Godzilla is a top choice because it contains both Godzilla and King Kong figures, so you can’t go wrong.
What to know before you buy a “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy
Use
When children role-play and act out scenes and situations that they have witnessed or experienced, this is called imaginative play. Imaginative play helps children make sense of the world and learn how to navigate their way through life.
Benefits
An imaginative play toy can be anything that helps your child role-play. While they are pretending to be Godzilla or King Kong, they are developing the fine motor skills that are needed to manipulate their toy. Additionally, your child is learning how to make choices, strategize, communicate with others and develop relationships. If a parent plays along, it can strengthen the family bond and temporarily put the child on equal ground with the parent to help build confidence, self-esteem and leadership qualities. When a parent is involved, it also provides an opportunity to gently correct poor behavior.
What to look for in a quality “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy
Age range
The best King Kong or Godzilla toy for your child is age-appropriate. Some figures have tiny pieces that could create a choking hazard for younger children. Before purchasing, always check the labeling on the toy to make sure it is age-appropriate for your child.
Favorite character
If your child loves King Kong and you get them Godzilla, they may not be happy. To better understand the mindset, consider how often you would wear a sports fan jersey that features the logo of your least favorite team.
Size of the playset
While many of the “Godzilla vs. Kong” toys feature a single figure — Godzilla or King Kong — there are some playsets that include both. Alternatively, you might find a “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy that comes with several versions of each character or a kaiju that was from another movie.
Posable figure and accessories
You know your child best. Will they be happy with a statue or would they prefer a poseable figure? It is also prudent to consider the importance of accessories. For example, does the Kong figure come with a battle-ax?
How much you can expect to spend on a “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy
Because these toys are from a popular movie franchise, they tend to carry a slightly higher price. It may be hard to find a “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy for less than $15, but you can easily find one for $50 or more. Before purchasing, do a little comparison shopping to make sure you are not overpaying.
“Godzilla vs. Kong” toy FAQ
What is a kaiju?
A. A kaiju is a giant, powerful monster. For example, Godzilla is a kaiju. King Kong, Gamera, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Yonggary are also kaijus. Kaiju is also the name of the genre that features giant monsters.
What are Godzilla’s powers?
A. Godzilla is generally considered to be the most powerful kaiju. He is strong, somewhat intelligent and has incredible healing powers. He can survive underwater and has a whole array of nuclear and radioactive powers that he can use during battle.
What are King Kong’s powers?
A. King Kong has impressive resistance to many of Godzilla’s powers. He seems to be immune to radioactivity and atomic breath and he is remarkably resilien; it takes a lot to hurt him. King Kong is also incredibly strong and agile, but his most impressive power is his intelligence.
What’s the best “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy to buy?
Top “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy
TwCare 8-Piece King Kong vs. Godzilla
What you need to know: This is a set of eight figurines that feature different versions of Godzilla, King Kong and more.
What you’ll love: This collection of eight toys includes five Godzilla figures, two King Kong figures and one King Ghidorah figure. The various versions of Godzilla each have different color dorsal plates, so your child can choose which is their favorite. They are nontoxic, waterproof and have moveable joints.
What you should consider: Marketed as cake toppers, these figurines are smaller than typical action figures but still offer a fun playing experience.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top “Godzilla vs. Kong” toy for the money
KYMELLIE Godzilla vs. King Kong Night Light
What you need to know: While this offering is not necessarily a toy, this nightlight is something your child will likely use every day.
What you’ll love: The laser-etched acrylic features an image of Godzilla and King Kong squaring off, and the illuminating LED can produce 16 different colors. The lamp comes with a remote that allows you to choose from a variety of lighting modes to get the effect you like.
What you should consider: If you use this light in battery mode, it can run out of power in one night. For the best performance, use the included USB cable to connect to a power source.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If your child is a bigger fan of Godzilla than King Kong, this posable figure will make them happy.
What you’ll love: The nontoxic paint makes it look like Godzilla’s dorsal plates are lit up. He has five points of articulation, so you can place him in a number of dramatic poses. The toy is made with a soft plastic, so it is safer for children to play with.
What you should consider: Some individuals were not happy when this toy arrived without packaging.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LONDON (AP) — American and British boxing officials launched a breakaway group Thursday with the aim of saving boxing’s place at the Olympics.
The new federation, to be called World Boxing, is a rival to the 77-year-old International Boxing Association, which has been excluded from organizing the sport at the Olympics amid longstanding concerns about fair judging and the IBA’s ties to Russia.
World Boxing will be based in Switzerland and have a board consisting of athletes and officials, including USA Boxing president Tyson Lee and GB Boxing chief executive Matthew Holt. Lauren Price of Britain, a gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. of the United States are on the board as athlete representatives.
Elections for a president and a new board are planned for November.
A standoff between the IBA and the International Olympic Committee meant boxing was left off the initial program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Boxing is part of next year’s Paris Olympics, but it will be organized by the IOC.
The IOC suspended the IBA in 2019 after years of concerns about its finances, governance and claims that fights at the 2016 Olympics were manipulated. Current IBA president Umar Kremlev took over in 2020, bringing financial backing from Russian state gas company Gazprom.
The IOC wants Russians to compete as neutral athletes in Olympic sports following the invasion of Ukraine, but Kremlev’s IBA has allowed them to fight at the world championships with national flags and anthems, drawing another rebuke from the IOC.
The United States and Britain were among more than 10 countries that announced boycotts of the recent women’s world championships and upcoming men’s world championships because of Russia’s position and wider concerns about the IBA. Kremlev said officials who backed a boycott were “worse than hyenas and jackals.”
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Bill protecting same-sex, interracial unions clears Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval Thursday to protections for same-sex marriages. The vote sends the legislation to President Joe Biden, a monumental step in a decadeslong battle for nationwide recognition of such unions. The law requires all states to recognize same-sex marriages, a relief for hundreds of thousands of couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing the marriages. The bipartisan legislation would also protect interracial unions by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.” Biden is expected to sign the measure into law.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval Thursday to legislation protecting same-sex marriages, a monumental step in a decadeslong battle for nationwide recognition of such unions that reflects a stunning turnaround in societal attitudes.
President Joe Biden is expected to promptly sign the measure, which requires all states to recognize same-sex marriages, a relief for hundreds of thousands of couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized those marriages nationwide.
The bipartisan legislation, which passed 258-169 with almost 40 Republican votes, would also protect interracial unions by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.” After months of talks, the Senate passed the bill last week with 12 Republican votes.
In debate ahead of the vote, several gay members of Congress talked about what it would mean for them and their families. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., said he was set to marry “the love of my life” next year and that it is “unthinkable” that his marriage might not be recognized in some states.
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said he and his husband should be able to visit each other in the hospital just like any other married couple and receive spousal benefits “regardless of if your spouse’s name Samuel or Samantha.”
Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said that the idea of marriage equality used to be a “far fetched idea, Now it’s the law of the land and supported by the vast majority of Americans.”
Democrats moved the bill quickly through the House and Senate after the Supreme Court’s June decision that overturned the federal right to an abortion. That ruling included a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas that suggested same-sex marriage should also be reconsidered.
The legislation lost some Republican support since July, when 47 Republicans voted for it — a robust and unexpected show of support that kick-started serious negotiations in the Senate. But most of those lawmakers held firm.
“To me this is really just standing with the Constitution,” said Republican Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri, who voted for it both times. She pushed back on GOP arguments that it would affect religious rights of those who don’t believe in same sex marriage.
“No one’s religious. liberties are affected in any way, shape or form,” Wagner said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., presided over the vote as one of her last acts in leadership before stepping aside in January. She said the legislation “will ensure that “the federal government will never again stand in the way of marrying the person you love.”
The legislation would not require states to allow same-sex couples to marry, as the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision now does. But it would require states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed and it would protect current same-sex unions if the Obergefell decision were overturned.
While it’s not everything advocates may have wanted, passage of the legislation represents a watershed moment. Just a decade ago, many Republicans openly campaigned on blocking same-sex marriages; today more than two-thirds of the public support them.
Still, most Republicans opposed the legislation and some conservative advocacy groups lobbied aggressively against it in recent weeks, arguing that it doesn’t do enough to protect those who want to refuse services for same-sex couples.
“God’s perfect design is indeed marriage between one man and one woman for life,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va, ahead of the vote. “And it doesn’t matter what you think or what I think, that’s what the Bible says.”
Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., choked up as she begged colleagues to vote against the bill, which she said undermines “natural marriage” between a man and a woman.
“I’ll tell you my priorities,” Hartzler said. “Protect religious liberty, protect people of faith and protect Americans who believe in the true meaning of marriage.”
Democrats in the Senate, led by Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, tried to address those GOP concerns by negotiating an amendment that would clarify that the legislation does not affect the rights of private individuals or businesses that are already enshrined in current law. The amended bill would also make clear that a marriage is between two people, an effort to ward off some far-right criticism that the legislation could endorse polygamy.
In the end, several religious groups, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came out in support of the bill. The Mormon church said it would support rights for same-sex couples as long as they didn’t infringe upon religious groups’ right to believe as they choose.
Thursday’s vote came as the LGBTQ community has faced violent attacks, such as the shooting earlier this month at a gay nightclub in Colorado that killed five people and injured at least 17.
“We have been through a lot,” said Kelley Robinson, the incoming president of the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. But Robinson says the votes show “in such an important way” that the country values LBGTQ people.
“We are part of the full story of what it means to be an American,” said Robinson, who was inside the Senate chamber for last week’s vote with her wife and young son. “It really speaks to them validating our love.”
The vote was personal for many senators, too. The day the bill passed their chamber, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was wearing the tie he wore at his daughter’s wedding to another woman. He recalled that day as “one of the happiest moments of my life.”
Baldwin, the first openly gay senator who has been working on gay rights issues for almost four decades, tearfully hugged Schumer as the final vote was underway. She tweeted thanks to the same-sex and interracial couples who she said made the moment possible.
“By living as your true selves, you changed the hearts and minds of people around you,” she wrote.
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BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it structured the sale and financing of Trails at Timberline, located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Class A, large-scale property includes 314 total units and an average unit size of 897 square feet.
Walker & Dunlop's Dan Woodward, Dave Potarf, Matt Barnett, and Jake Young represented the seller. Mark Grace and Trevor Fase structured the debt financing on behalf of the buyer.
Adjacent to the established neighborhood of Parkwood East, Trails at Timberline offers residents the feel of a quiet, residential neighborhood minutes from the excitement of greater Fort Collins. With easy access to Timberline Road and Drake Road, the property is minutes from Foothills Mall and within proximity to Colorado State University, home to 33,000 full-time students and 2,600 faculty members.
"The Fort Collins submarket continues to exhibit strong fundamentals with an average submarket vacancy of 4.62%, a historic low," said Dan Woodward, Managing Director of Investment Sales at Walker & Dunlop.
Walker & Dunlop is a leader in multifamily property sales, having completed $19.3 billion in property sales volume in 2021 alone, up 214% from 2020. The firm is also one of the top providers of capital to the U.S. multifamily market. In 2021, Walker & Dunlop originated $49 billion in debt financing volume, including lending over $42 billion for multifamily properties. To learn more about our capabilities and financing options, visit our website.
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Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry in the United States, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. Our people, brand and technology make W&D one of the most insightful and customer-focused firms in our industry. With more than 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
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Fighting chronic Lyme disease, healthcare policies in Indiana
Editor's Note: The following is part of a class project originally initiated in the classroom of Ball State University professor Adam Kuban in fall 2021. Kuban continued the project this spring semester, challenging his students to find sustainability efforts in the Muncie area and pitch their ideas to Deanna Watson, editor of The Star Press, Journal & Courier and Pal-Item. Several such stories are being featured this spring.
MUNCIE, Ind. − Chronic Lyme disease patients in the state of Indiana and all over the United States have been struggling to find affordable treatment due to the disease itself not being covered by insurance past the 30-day treatment that is provided.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lyme disease is transmitted to humans through being bit by infected blacklegged ticks. Patients who experience symptoms of pain, fatigue or difficulty thinking more than six months after they finish treatment have a condition called Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome, also known as chronic Lyme disease.
Most cases of Lyme disease can be treated successfully with a two-to-four-week course of antibiotics. According to an article by Medical Bill Gurus, insurance companies are not required to cover treatment per the Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines. Therefore, insurance companies do not recognize chronic Lyme disease and use these guidelines to deny coverage for long-term treatment.
A majority of all Lyme Literate Medical Doctors are not in-network with any major insurance companies, and this leaves those patients who still experience symptoms after the provided few weeks of antibiotics with slim options.
Lyme disease patients who continue to have symptoms after that four-week mark may not be able to get the treatment they need due to the lack of financial help. According to a 2022 study by Samantha S. Ficon published in “Nursing Continuing Professional Development”, the disease can be harmful and deadly if it is not treated effectively early on, and 10% to 20% of patients previously treated for Lyme disease still experience symptoms for more than six months after finishing antibiotic treatment.
Kimberly Sharp, director of pain management for Community Health Network, has worked in the field of chronic pain management for over 20 years.
“There is currently no evidence supporting the long-term use of antibiotics, and the CDC does not officially recognize chronic Lyme. There are limited dollars for care, so insurance companies must draw the line somewhere on what is covered,” Sharp said.
Many insurance companies are not covering what chronic Lyme patients need.
Riley Sims, senior at Ball State University, was diagnosed with Lyme disease in May 2020 and struggles with the chronic illness daily. She said she has to work twice as hard to keep up with her schoolwork and day-to-day tasks, and she has no choice but to seek treatment. Sims looks to her mother and father for financial help in order to cover her chronic Lyme expenses. Due to being a busy college student, she does not have enough money at this point in time to cover the costs of treatment and appointments.
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“I take supplements for my chronic Lyme disease that are suggested by my doctor, and I also have to get many blood tests, but none of it is covered by insurance, not even my doctor appointments,” Sims said.
According to Global Lyme Alliance, patients can suffer for years not only from the symptoms of chronic Lyme, but from the financial impact as well. Patients end up paying out-of-pocket costs and hope for reimbursement. This leaves patients who become too sick to work with large financial struggles.
Mitchell Goldman, MD, senior associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and professor of medicine for the Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, previously worked at the Indiana University Medical Center and has experience with Lyme disease patients.
“Insurance companies often require an approval process to provide therapies beyond usual guidelines, and this requires a physician or other provider to plead the case to the insurance company that may accept or deny a therapy beyond usual time,” Goldman said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 34,945 reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States in 2019. Compared to other tickborne illnesses, this number is high. There were 5,655 Anaplasmosis cases, 5,207 Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis cases, 2,420 Babesiosis cases and 2,093 cases of Ehrlichia chaffeensis ehrlichiosis. Many patients suffer daily from chronic Lyme disease with no help from their insurance providers, and some of them may even be forced to quit treatment due to financial challenges.
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Sims said the Lyme Treatment Foundation has helped her tremendously and that other patients seeking financial help should look more into other non-profit organizations like this.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — Islam Makhachev defied a rowdy crowd and a sustained challenge from Alexander Volkanovski on Sunday to cement his supremacy in the UFC lightweight division in a grueling fight in Perth, Western Australia.
In the main event of UFC 284, Makhachev defended his 155-pound belt with an unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) to prevail in a five-round slugfest.
The 31-year-old also claimed the title of best pound-for-pound fighter from featherweight champion Australian Volkanovski, who saw his 22-win streak ended.
“People will call me not just ‘champ’, but ‘best fighter in the world’. I’m very happy,” said the Russian who was jeered throughout the fight by a sold-out 13,000 crowd at RAC Arena.
“I landed many good punches but he’s strong and a real champion. He was the best fighter in the world…not now.”
Makhachev (24 wins, one loss) had to fend off a furious challenge from the 34-year-old Volkanovski but his grappling and wrestling prowess proved enough.
Volkanovski, a former concreter and rugby league player, impressed as he moved up a division. He landed several blows and dominated for stretches of the contest but fell in his second defeat from 27 fights.
“It was a winnable fight. I’m very harsh on myself,” said Volkanovski, who hopes for a rematch with Makhachev after suffering his first UFC defeat. “I’m still proud of myself and proved people wrong but I expected to win and could have capitalized on things earlier (in the fight). Maybe I held back just a little bit until the last round.”
Considered the greatest UFC featherweight of all time, Volkanovski faced the toughest challenge of his career against an opponent four inches taller and 15 pounds heavier.
Volkanovski, who made his ring walk to the classic Australian song ‘Down Under’, needed to rely on his formidable striking and speed to produce an upset.
Both fighters felt each other out initially amid a febrile atmosphere before Volkanovski went on the attack as they traded blows.
But Makhachev got on top with his favored grappling and tried to choke out Volkanovski but was unable to.
Volkanovski, who holds the nickname ‘The Great’, survived a big left from his opponent in the second round before clawing back into the fight as it went the distance.
During a frenetic finish, willed on by giddy fans, a bloodied Volkanovski made his move and a big right-handed blow gave him one last chance, but Makhachev held firm to ultimately prevail.
Among the other bouts on the main card, Mexico’s Yair Rodriguez choked out American Josh Emmett to become the interim featherweight champion.
“I’ve been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid,” said Rodriguez before holding up his championship belt.
The 30-year-old, who earned the submission in the second round, will take on Volkanovski at a later date.
New Zealander Justin Tafa knocked out American Parker Porter in the first round of the heavyweight fight after landing a right uppercut.
In the welterweight division, hometown Perth hero Jack Della Maddalena defeated Jamaican Randy Brown by submission.
It was the first UFC event staged in Australia since the COVID-19 pandemic with the country enduring strict border controls for most of 2020 and 2021.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As U.S. opioid deaths mounted in 2016, the incoming head of the Food and Drug Administration promised a “sweeping review” of prescription painkillers in hopes of reversing the worst overdose epidemic in American history.
Dr. Robert Califf even personally commissioned a report from the nation’s top medical advisers that recommended reforms, including potentially removing some drugs from the market. But six years later, opioids are claiming more lives than ever, and the FDA has not pulled a single drug from pharmacy shelves since the report’s publication. In fact, the agency continues putting new painkillers on the market — six in the last five years.
Now Califf is back in charge at the FDA, and he faces skepticism from lawmakers, patient advocates and others about his long-promised reckoning for drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin, which are largely blamed for sparking a two-decade rise in opioid deaths.
“All the concerns that we had at the time on opioids are still there. We still have a really huge problem,” said Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia public health expert who chaired the committee that wrote the report.
Bonnie and his co-authors say the FDA seems to have incorporated several of their recommendations into recent decisions, including a broader consideration of a drug’s public health risks. But they say there is more to be done.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Califf said a new internal review of opioids has been underway for months and that the public will soon “be hearing a lot more about this.” While the review will look at past FDA decisions, Califf suggested the focus will be on future policy.
“It seems like people love sort of looking back and fault-finding, but I’m much more interested in learning so we can go forward and make the best decisions for what we need to do today,” said Califf, who split his time between Duke University and working for Google after leaving the FDA in 2017 following President Donald Trump’s election.
The 453-page report issued five years ago this month by the National Academies of Sciences laid out a strategy for reducing overprescribing and misuse of opioids, with particular focus on the FDA.
At the center of the recommendations was a proposal for the FDA to reassess the dozens of opioids being sold to determine whether their overall benefits in treating pain outweigh their risks of addiction and overdose. Those that don’t should be removed from the market, the group said.
The lack of swift action underscores the glacial pace of federal regulation and the legal obstacles to clawing back drugs previously deemed safe and effective.
“It’s really hard for the agency to get a drug taken off the market once it’s been approved,” said Margaret Riley, a food and drug law professor who consulted on the report.
Last year, U.S. overdose deaths soared to a record of 107,000, driven overwhelmingly by fentanyl and other illegal opioids.
Opioid prescriptions have fallen about 40% in the last decade amid restrictions by hospitals, insurers and state officials. But deaths tied to the medications remain at 13,000 to 14,000 per year. And studies suggest people who become addicted to opioids continue to start with prescription opioids, before switching to cheaper heroin and illegally made fentanyl.
“If Dr. Califf is serious about addressing the drug epidemic, the FDA should immediately implement” the report’s recommendations, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said in a statement.
Manchin told the AP that he requested an update in April on the FDA’s progress on the recommendations but didn’t receive a response. He was one of five Democrats from hard-hit opioid states who voted against Califf’s confirmation in February.
In response to questions about the recommendations, the FDA provided a list of actions it has taken on opioids, some which predated the report. The agency said it has acted on “nearly all” of the recommendations, by enhancing prescriber education and labeling, convening meetings and improving data collection.
“I think what you’ve seen is the agency grabbing at some of the low-hanging fruit and only to a certain level,” Riley said.
Despite heightened scrutiny, the FDA continues putting new painkillers on the market. Many of the drugs have formulations designed to make them harder to misuse, such as hard-to-crush coatings that discourage snorting or injecting.
Califf has said the FDA is bound by its regulations: Companies need only show that their drugs work better than a placebo, and the agency can’t require new opioids to be safer or more effective than ones already on the market. He told Senate lawmakers in April that doing so might require legislation from Congress.
One of the report authors disagreed.
“I think the FDA has a lot of flexibility at this point to say, ‘Look, given these circumstances we don’t think that a placebo-controlled trial would be adequate,’” said Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, a lawyer and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
As for older opioids like OxyContin, Califf says that as the agency gets more evidence on opioids’ risks, it will “aggressively look at relabeling.”
But delays in getting that evidence illustrate just how slowly the FDA process moves. It’s been nearly 10 years since the agency required makers of long-acting opioids to conduct a dozen studies of their drugs’ risks and effectiveness.
The main clinical trial looking at opioids for chronic pain has been delayed since 2019, due to repeated changes to its design. And results from seven other studies released in 2020 don’t give a clear picture of whether the drugs are truly safe and effective for long-term use.
“We’ve got to have the data, and we can’t accept excuses that it’s hard to do,” Califf said. “That’s not going to be acceptable.”
Riley said the data the FDA is seeking will be critical to providing the evidence needed to remove opioids from the market, which would likely face years of industry pushback.
“The question to me is whether the agency will actually have the gumption to use those tools to start pulling drugs,” Riley said. “Do they have the will to do it?”
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-- GID's community, The Casey, Honored for Smart Leasing Program --
DENVER, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GID, a real estate owner and fiduciary that invests in multiple asset classes, is proud to announce that The Casey, one of its wholly owned and managed apartment communities, has earned 1st Place for Smart Leasing in the 2022 Energize Denver Awards. Each year, Denver recognizes buildings that demonstrate excellence not only in energy efficiency and electrification, but also in community leadership and equity. This year, an additional category was added for Smart Leasing to encourage collaboration between tenants and landlords.
GID has long been a champion of sustainability, incorporating smart leasing practices and sustainability technology throughout its portfolio. The Casey, a 187-unit apartment community located in Denver, is a leader in implementing some of the company's overall Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, introducing green leasing language as its standard in 2016. Last year, the community was equipped with new smart technology to improve and regulate unit energy use, thermal comfort, and safety. The green lease language and new technology allow for better tracking of energy and water use metrics.
In addition to the leasing and technology initiatives, The Casey focuses many of their efforts on resident education and engagement. The community's Green Resident Guide engages residents with tips and strategies that reduce their environmental impact. The Casey also creates resident engagement campaigns around recognition days, including Earth Day, National Bike Month, Plastic Free July and more.
"We believe that collaboration is crucial for the implementation and success of our ESG program," says Phil Carmody, Vice President and Head of ESG at GID. "Our programs aim to build partnerships with residents, giving them the tools and education that they need to make sustainable choices in many areas of their lives. Our vision of creating sustainable communities relies not only on data and technology but also the support that we can garner from our residents."
"The places where we live and work are key to a sustainable future. Buildings and homes are responsible for 64% of Denver's greenhouse gas emissions," says Katrina Managan, Director of Buildings and Homes for Denver's Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency. "Our partnerships with the local building community are vital to reaching Denver's ambitious goal of net zero emissions for all existing buildings."
GID's wholly-owned property management company, Windsor Communities, manages more than 45,000 residential units in 25 states and is consistently recognized for its top-rated customer service and established ESG standards. Windsor Communities has 49 certified sustainable communities across the country, including 21 LEED-certified communities and 17 Energy Star-certified communities. In addition, GID's award-winning ESG program has also been recognized by prestigious industry organizations, including the GRESB Benchmark and Green Lease Leaders. To learn more about GID's ESG program, visit: www.gid.com/esg
GID is a privately held, vertically-integrated real estate company that owns and operates a portfolio of multifamily and industrial assets, as well as develops mixed-use projects. With corporate offices in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, New York City, and San Francisco, GID is an experienced real estate private equity investor and manager supported by an integrated operating platform and has 60+ years of experience across multiple asset classes. GID's existing and under-development properties are valued at over $29.7 billion as of October 31, 2022.
The current portfolio includes over 51,000 residential units, more than 23 million square feet of industrial space, and one million square feet of retail and office space. More information is available at www.gid.com.
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Top Players to Watch: Kansas State vs. Florida Atlantic - Elite Eight
When the Kansas State Wildcats and Florida Atlantic Owls face off in their Elite Eight matchup at Madison Square Garden on Saturday at 6:09 PM ET, Markquis Nowell and Johnell Davis will be two of the most notable players to watch.
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How to Watch Kansas State vs. Florida Atlantic
- Game Day: Saturday, March 25
- Game Time: 6:09 PM ET
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Kansas State's Last Game
On Thursday, in its most recent game, Kansas State defeated Michigan State 98-93 in OT. With 22 points, Keyontae Johnson was its leading scorer.
Florida Atlantic's Last Game
In its previous game, Florida Atlantic defeated Tennessee on Thursday, 62-55. Its leading scorer was Davis with 15 points.
Kansas State Players to Watch
Nowell is tops on his team in assists per contest (8.1), and also puts up 17.2 points and 3.5 rebounds. At the other end, he posts 2.5 steals (eighth in the country) and 0.1 blocked shots.
Johnson paces his team in both points (17.7) and rebounds (6.9) per game, and also averages 2.2 assists. At the other end, he posts 1.1 steals and 0.2 blocked shots.
Nae'Qwan Tomlin posts 10.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. Defensively, he posts 1.2 steals and 1 block.
Desi Sills is averaging 8.7 points, 2.2 assists and 3.5 rebounds per contest.
Cam Carter posts 6.5 points, 3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per contest. At the other end, he puts up 0.9 steals and 0.3 blocked shots.
Florida Atlantic Players to Watch
Davis is the Owls' top scorer (13.9 points per game) and assist man (1.5), and produces 5.4 rebounds.
The Owls receive 13 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game from Alijah Martin.
Vladislav Goldin leads the Owls in rebounding (6.4 per game), and produces 10.2 points and 0.4 assists. He also posts 0.4 steals and 1.2 blocked shots.
Nicholas Boyd is posting a team-high 2.6 assists per game. And he is producing 8.9 points and 4.3 rebounds, making 44.8% of his shots from the floor and 39% from beyond the arc, with 1.7 treys per game.
Bryan Greenlee is putting up 7.1 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, making 41.3% of his shots from the field and 39.1% from 3-point range, with 1.4 triples per contest.
Kansas State Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
Florida Atlantic Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities early on Sunday recovered the body of a 45-year-old fisherman whose ATV likely fell through weak ice on Lake Waubesa.
The Dane County sheriff's office said it was notified late Saturday that the man had not returned home as expected.
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“At approximately 3:30 a.m., deputies began focusing their search in an area that indicated an ATV may have entered the water through the ice,” the sheriff's office said.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister on Tuesday backed down from his initial declaration to award bonuses to the national soccer team for it World Cup performance amid high inflation and hardship in the country.
It was a sudden reversal by Mateusz Morawiecki, who just hours earlier said he believed the players had earned some kind of a bonus by advancing from their group, Poland’s best result at the tournament in 36 years.
But following controversy fuelled by high inflation and general uncertainty, Morawiecki eventually said on Facebook that “there will be no government means” for bonuses for the players.
He said that lack of sufficient financing is among the problems standing in the way of Poland's soccer development. He added that state money will be dedicated to amend that.
Earlier in the day he was saying that the national team, including star striker Robert Lewandowski, had earned a bonus.
At a meeting before the team left for Qatar, Morawiecki promised players a “very good reward” if things go well. Media reports said there was talk of at least 30 million zlotys ($6.7 million.)
Poland advanced from Group C after defeating Saudi Arabia, drawing with Mexico and losing to Argentina. It was then eliminated in the round of 16 by defending champion France 3-1.
With a budget deficit, high spending on defense and inflation of over 17% hitting the nation, government spokesman Piotr Mueller recently said there would be no bonus for the players and the money would be spent on training children and developing the soccer infrastructure.
Some angered Twitter users said the taxpayers' money could be better spent on helping ordinary people at the time of war in neighbouring Ukraine and spiking costs of living and general uncertainty in Poland.
In a podcast last month ahead of the game with Saudi Arabia, Morawiecki said there is “no sport in Poland that would be more political than football. In the good and bad sense of it.”
The bad sense he described as the state trying to “appropriate” the sports people.
“Today, such things are taking place no more,” Morawiecki said then.
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The 2023 Valero Texas Open Odds & Preview: Brendon Todd
Brendon Todd will take to the course at TPC San Antonio (Oaks) in San Antonio, Texas to compete in the 2023 Valero Texas Open from March 30 - April 2. It's a par-72 that spans 7,438 yards, with a purse of $8,900,000.00 on the line.
Looking to place a bet on Todd at the Valero Texas Open this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you need to know before you make your picks.
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Brendon Todd Insights
- Todd has finished below par on nine occasions, completed his day without a bogey twice and finished nine rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 16 rounds played.
- He has recorded a top-five score in two of his last 16 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day six times.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Todd has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on seven occasions.
- In his past five appearances, Todd has finished in the top five once.
- He has made the cut in three of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five appearances, Todd has finished within three shots of the leader once and posted a score better than average twice.
Over the last year
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Valero Texas Open Insights and Stats
- In Todd's past five appearances at this tournament, he has finished among the top 10 two times, and his average finish has been 26th.
- Todd made the cut in four of his past five entries in this event.
- Todd finished eighth on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2022.
- Courses on the PGA Tour have played at an average length of 7,294 yards in the past year. This tournament will be held on a par 72 that registers at 7,438 yards, 144 yards longer than average.
- TPC San Antonio (Oaks) has had an average tournament score of -2 recently, which is higher than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- The courses that Todd has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,247 yards, while TPC San Antonio (Oaks) will be 7,438 yards this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -7 among finishers, lower than the -2 average at this course.
Todd's Last Time Out
- Todd finished in the 44th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at THE PLAYERS Championship, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- He shot well to finish in the 87th percentile on par 4s at THE PLAYERS Championship, averaging 3.95 strokes on those 40 holes.
- Todd was better than 48% of the competitors at THE PLAYERS Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.69 strokes per hole in comparison to the field average of 4.67.
- Todd carded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at THE PLAYERS Championship (the other competitors averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at THE PLAYERS Championship, Todd had more bogeys or worse (three) than the field average (2.7).
- Todd's 10 birdies or better on par-4s at THE PLAYERS Championship were more than the field average of 5.1.
- In that last outing, Todd had a bogey or worse on seven of 40 par-4s (the field averaged 7.1).
- Todd finished THE PLAYERS Championship with a birdie or better on eight par-5 holes, while the field averaged 5.1 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at THE PLAYERS Championship, Todd recorded three bogeys or worse, more than the field average of 1.3.
Valero Texas Open Time and Date Info
- Date: March 30 - April 2, 2023
- Course: TPC San Antonio (Oaks)
- Location: San Antonio, Texas
- Par: 72 / 7,438 yards
- Todd Odds to Win: +4500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland, the famed home of Elvis Presley that on Friday became a gathering place for fans distraught over her death a day earlier.
The singer-songwriter’s final resting place will be next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, said a representative of her daughter and actor Riley Keough. Elvis and other members of the Presley family are also buried at Graceland.
Fans paid their respects at Graceland’s gates on Friday, writing messages on the stone wall, leaving flowers and sharing memories of Elvis Presley’s only child, who was one of the last remaining touchstones to the icon whose influence and significance still resonates more than 45 years after his own sudden death.
Lisa Marie Presley, 54, died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.
A singer-songwriter herself, Lisa Marie did not live in Memphis, where she was born. But she made trips to the city for celebrations of her father’s birth anniversary and commemorations of his death, which stunned the world when he was found dead in his Graceland home at age 42 on Aug. 16, 1977. She was in Memphis just this past Sunday, on what would have been her father’s 88th birthday.
Angela Ferraro was among those on Thursday night who stopped by Graceland, where the trees in the front lawn were adorned by green and red lights. Fans took photos and left flowers at the front gate on the chilly and windy evening.
Ferraro and her fiance drove 25 minutes from Olive Branch, Mississippi, to pay their respects. Ferraro said she was a fan of Elvis’ music and of Lisa Marie’s — the couple listened to Lisa Marie’s song “Lights Out” on the drive north to Graceland.
“Elvis died young, and so did she. And her son, his passing was very tragic as well,” said Ferraro, 32. “It’s hard and it’s devastating.”
Lisa Marie became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust, which — along with Elvis Presley Enterprises — managed Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005. She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home.
A representative from Elvis Presley Enterprises told The Associated Press that the mansion is in a trust that will go to the benefit of her children — she’s survived by three daughters. The representative did not have details on the timing of a funeral or burial.
Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. She was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he died. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
“I just had a feeling,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t doing well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very early age.”
Lisa Marie visited Graceland in 2012 to attend the opening of a new exhibit, “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes,” a personal look that included her baby shoes — her birth, nine months exactly after Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s wedding, was international news — as well as her first record player and a small white fur coat.
During an interview with the AP during that stop, she smiled when recalling the time spent with her dad. She said one of her favorite items was the key used to operate a golf cart because it helped her recall when she was alone with her father, riding around the neighborhood.
“That was my life,” she said. “I carried it everywhere. It was never far from me or not on my person when I was a child. I hadn’t seen it in 35 years.”
On Thursday, Sancelle Vance, 50, had taken the Graceland tour, which included a stop by Lisa Marie’s old swing set and the grave of her son.
About an hour and a half later, Vance heard about Lisa Marie’s death; the mood at The Guest House at Graceland, the hotel where she is staying, became somber. Vance, who decided to stop in Memphis while moving from Mississippi to California, said it was “surreal” that she was at Graceland on the day Lisa Marie died.
Kristen Sainato and her husband were visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the news of Lisa Marie’s death on Thursday. She wore a black jacket with the well-known TCB lightning bolt (shorthand for taking care of business in a flash, a motto Elvis lived by) on the back as she described meeting Lisa Marie at a celebration of her father’s birthday. Sainato set down a bouquet of flowers at the front gate of Graceland, where one of two planes is named for Lisa Marie.
“Those are for Lisa,” she said.
She said Lisa Marie Presley was one of the last connections to her famous father.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A significant rewrite of Ohio’s election laws was amended Thursday to trim the window after an election for mailed military and overseas ballots to arrive at election boards by three days, a move the bill’s sponsor said was in response to post-2020 pressures the public has placed on vote counting.
Sponsoring state Rep. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, said the reduction was “in the interest of getting an accurate count without having to wait forever, like we’re waiting on the United States House of Representatives.” Though results of House races in some states, including California, continue to be tallied, election officials emphasize that the duration of the count is not a sign of irregularities.
The latest version of the Ohio bill also strikes sections that would have set up an online absentee ballot request system and allowed for automated voter registration. Seitz said, though he believes in the latter, the Ohio Senate had objections to it — and “it takes two to tango.”
He said separate legislation expected to add further restrictions to Ohio’s voter ID law will be coming later from the Senate. It was unclear whether that bill will make IDs available for free, a proposition Seitz had been discussing.
Voting rights advocates continued to object to the bill overall.
Chris Tavenor, of the Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund, said eliminating in-person voting on the Monday before Election Day, limiting the location of drop boxes to county boards of elections and adding — rather than removing — restrictions to voting absentee “make it less likely that people participate in our democracy.”
Jen Miller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, said her organization supports such elements of the bill as added funding for e-pollbooks.
“On balance, though, this bill would make elections more difficult and more expensive for election officials and voters alike,” she testified.
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I have a confession to make. My name is Harry Enten, and I am a millennial who sounds like a 75-year-old Jewish man.
In fact, a lot of people assume I have stepped out of a time machine.
I speak with what many consider a stereotypical New York accent. And yes, it's distinct.
This got me thinking about accents and dialects in general. When you turn on television, it feels like we hear fewer accents than we used to. Instead, we get this bland "general American" accent that doesn't sound like it's from anywhere in particular.
Are our (my) ears playing a trick on us (me)? Are accents going away?
I set out on a journey to find some answers in the second season of my podcast Margins of Error. The podcast gets to the stories that are often pushed to the margins. And while I love data, we also explore the stories behind the numbers.
The idea that accents (how words sound when we speak) and dialects (can include different words and phrases for the same word or phenomenon) -- which are two different things, I've learned -- are dying has some basis in numbers. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have been tracking the decline of the traditional Texas accent. In the 1980s, 80% of Texans they interviewed had that accent. As of 2013, only a third of them do.
But a deeper dive reveals that there's a lot more to the story.
For one thing, experts can't even agree on how many regional accents there are in the United States. "There's some number between like three and 25, depending on what source you're going to," Nicole Holliday, assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed out in an episode of the podcast.
Between three and 25. That's a huge range. For me as a stats guy -- that's freakin' nuts, folks.
And there certainly still are differences in the way we speak. When comedian and Georgia native Mia Jackson and I took the New York Times dialect quiz, she and I had very different answers to a lot of questions. For instance, what I call a "sunshower," she called "the devil is beating his wife." It's a Southern thing, she told me, and it means raining when the sun is out.
In fact, the idea that accents are dying isn't anything new. "American Dialects Disappearing" is the headline of an article from a newspaper in Eugene, Oregon. You want to guess which year it was published? 1960. And yes, I guess people from Oregon speak with an accent.
What I came to find out during my time recording the podcast is that accents and dialects aren't dying. Instead, they are constantly changing, though usually at a very slow pace.
The significance of evolving accents is actually much bigger than merely sounding different than we used to in the past. It's about how we've changed as Americans. It used to be, as Holliday pointed out to me, that people didn't mix as much as we do now.
"Before we had planes and stuff, people living on one side of a mountain did not talk to people living on the other side of the mountain," Holliday said. "And when groups of people are segregated from each other, they develop different ways of speaking."
Today, with about 8.4% of people moving, according to 2021 US Census data, and Americans connected through technologies such as social media, accents continue, usually slowly, to shift.
Sometimes, though, the story isn't about slow change. It's about something dramatic happening. For instance, did you know an accent can change because of a Hollywood portrayal?
The 1996 movie "Fargo" made people in the Upper Midwest think twice about their vowel shift, according to Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University professor emeritus of linguistics, who spoke in a podcast episode.
But do we lose something with changing accents, especially those that come about because of social pressure?
"We're eliminating a lot of the rich history that people come with when we encounter different people," Holiday said. "I would hate to see ... social pressure cause the disappearance of these varieties that can tell us so much about the world that we live in in our history."
And that's why I spend part of the podcast trying my hand at speaking in an accent that seems to be going away.
If you want to hear me take a stab at a very different accent from New York's and learn a lot about accents along the way, you'll have to tune in.
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CLARK, N.J., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GEP®, a leading provider of procurement and supply chain strategy, software and managed services to Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide, announced that the public company bpost group — Belgium's leading postal operator and a growing e-commerce logistics provider in Europe, North America and Asia — has selected, rolled out and started using GEP SOFTWARE™, the industry's leading procurement and supply chain platform.
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The man accused of fatally shooting two Muslim men in Albuquerque appeared in court for the first time Wednesday as investigators continued to search for a motive and probe whether he's connected to two other killings.
Muhammad Syed, 51, of Albuquerque, is the primary suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in the city between November and August, according to police.
He is being held on murder charges in two of the homicides: the July 26 killing of 41-year-old Aftab Hussein and the August 1 killing of 27-year-old Muhammad Afzaal Hussain.
Syed denied any involvement in the killings during an interview with police on Tuesday, according to an arrest affidavit.
Syed was arrested Tuesday following tips from the public, authorities said. He was stopped by police while driving near Santa Rosa, New Mexico, more than 100 miles east of Albuquerque.
Authorities found firearms during a search of his home, as well as information showing Syed may have known the victims "to some extent" and that interpersonal conflict may have led to the killings, police said Tuesday
One of the firearms recovered has been linked to bullet casings found at the scenes of two of the killings, while casings for a handgun found in his car when he was stopped were linked to one of the scenes, according to the arrest affidavit.
Syed told police "he was driving to Texas to find a new place for his family to live because the situation in Albuquerque was bad," referring to the killing of Muslim men, the affidavit said.
On Wednesday, he appeared in court via video from a detention center.
Through a Pashto interpreter, he asked to address the court during his hearing. His attorney Megan Mitsunaga followed up asking the court not to take statements from her client.
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Judge Renée Torres also advised Syed that remaining silent would be the best thing for him to do. "Sounds good," Syed said in response.
Syed's case will be transferred to a district court. He is being held without bond in the meantime.
In announcing Syed's arrest Tuesday, Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said the department is working with the district attorney's office on potential charges in the deaths of the two other men, 62-year-old Mohammad Zaher Ahmadi, killed November 7, and 25-year-old Naeem Hussain, killed August 5 after attending a funeral for the two other victims.
There is evidence "strong enough that" authorities are continuing to view Syed as the "most likely person of interest or suspect" in those killings as well, Kyle Hartsock, deputy commander of the city police department's criminal investigation division, said Tuesday.
The killings and how the investigation unfolded
The killings that Syed is being charged with -- of Aftab Hussein and Muhammad Afzaal Hussain -- happened just days apart and police quickly connected them after determining that casings found at both crime scenes were likely fired from the same firearm, Hartsock said.
"We quickly started looking at other cases that could be similar and identify that there might be a really active public threat," Hartsock added.
That's when police turned their attention to a different unsolved homicide in the city: the November 7 killing of Mohammad Ahmadi, an Afghan man who was found with a gunshot wound in the parking lot behind the business he ran with his brother.
All three of the killings involved Muslim men who were "ambushed with no warning, fired on and killed," Hartsock said.
Aftab Hussein was found July 26 with multiple gunshot wounds, lying next to a car, according to police. Detectives learned the gunman had waited behind a bush near the driveway where the victim usually parked his vehicle and fired multiple times through the bush, according to the complaint.
Muhammud Afzaal Hussain was found on August 1 with multiple gunshot wounds by officers who responded to reports of a drive-by shooting, the complaint states.
While police were still trying to piece together whether the three killings were connected, a fourth Muslim man, Naeem Hussain, was shot and killed before midnight on August 5.
The shootings caused panic within Albuquerque's Muslim community, while also triggering hundreds of tips to law enforcement, authorities said Tuesday.
Who is Muhammad Syed?
Syed is a father of six whose family has been in the US for about six years since moving from Afghanistan, his daughter told CNN.
Hours before police announced Syed was a suspect, CNN was inside his home Tuesday morning and spoke to his daughter, who offered insight on her father and what happened when they last saw each other, which was before his arrest and before authorities executed a search warrant on their family's home. CNN has chosen not to name the daughter out of concern for her safety.
"My father is not a person who can kill somebody. My father has always talked about peace. That's why we are here in the United States. We came from Afghanistan, from fighting, from shooting," she told CNN.
The daughter told CNN she married a man in February 2018, and her father was not happy with the marriage at the time but had come to accept it more recently. She said her husband was friends with two victims, Aftab Hussein and Naeem Hussain.
Syed previously had "a few minor misdemeanor arrests (from the Albuquerque Police Department) from domestic violence" and some other incidents, Hartsock said. All three previous domestic violence charges Syed faced were dismissed, Hartsock said.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has affected millions across the country — including plans to meet a third of the country’s electricity demands using renewable energy.
Climate change for years has compounded the woes of the troubled country. Droughts and increased water salinity have destroyed crops, animals and farms and dried up entire bodies of water. Hospitals have faced waves of patients with respiratory illnesses caused by rampant sandstorms. Climate change has also played a role in Iraq’s ongoing struggle to combat cholera.
“More than seven million citizens have been affected in Iraq … and hundreds of thousands have been displaced because they lost their livelihoods that rely on agriculture and hunting,” Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a speech to open the two-day Iraq Climate Conference in Basra.
Al-Sudani said the Iraqi government is working on a national plan to tackle climate change that consists of a series of measures it hopes to take by 2030. The plan includes building renewable energy plants, modernizing inefficient and outdated irrigation techniques, reducing carbon emissions, combating desertification, and protecting the country’s biodiversity.
Among the projects is a massive afforestation initiative, where Iraq would plant 5 million trees across the country. Iraq also hopes to provide one-third of the country’s electricity demand through renewable energy instead of fossil fuel.
Al-Sudani said he is hoping to organize a regional conference on climate change in Baghdad in the near future as well.
Developments in neighboring countries have also compounded Iraq’s water woes.
Iraq relies on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for nearly all of its water needs. They flow into the country from Turkey and Iran. Because those countries have constructed dams that have either blocked or diverted water, shortages have worsened in Iraq.
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Top 10 homebuilder releasing 5 brand-new floor plans at popular resort-style development
AURORA, Colo., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS), a top 10 national homebuilder and industry leader in online sales, is excited to announce the grand opening of the Floret Collection at The Outlook at Southshore—bringing 89 new homesites to Aurora's amenity-rich Southshore development. The collection showcases five brand-new floor plans starting in the mid $600s.
The Floret Collection features a versatile lineup of ranch and two-story floor plans with included smart home technology, beautiful exteriors, Whirlpool® appliances and more. Homebuyers will also love an array of resort-style amenities—such as multiple community centers, a saltwater pool, private access to Aurora Reservoir, and miles of trails. In addition, a prime location offers quick access to I-225, E-470, Southland's shopping center, the Denver Tech Center and Denver International Airport.
Buyers and agents are invited to attend the community's official Grand Opening event— slated for September 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.—offering complimentary refreshments and tours of the fully furnished Iris model.
Learn more at www.CenturyCommunities.com/SouthshoreFloret.
More About the Floret Collection at The Outlook at Southshore:
- Single-family homes from the mid $600s
- Ranch and two-story floor plans
- 2 to 7 bedrooms, 2.5 to 3.5 bathrooms, 2-bay garages
- Up to 2,940 square feet
- Stunning location alongside Aurora Reservoir
- Ranch homes with 10' ceilings
- Spacious backyards
- Standard full unfinished basements
- Exceptional amenities, including two large community centers and a saltwater pool
- Part of the prestigious Cherry Creek School District, including a community-based elementary school
Sales Center:
27902 E. Glasgow Place
Aurora, CO 80016
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 303.557.4805
About Century Communities
Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is a top 10 national homebuilder, offering new homes under the Century Communities and Century Complete brands. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Colorado-based company operates in 17 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An IRS plan to test drive a new electronic free-file tax return system next year has got supporters and critics of the idea mobilizing to sway the public and Congress over whether the government should set up a permanent program to help people file their taxes without needing to pay somebody else to figure out what they owe.
On one side, civil society groups this week launched a coalition to promote the move toward a government-run free-file program. On the other, tax preparation firms like Intuit — the parent company of TurboTax — and H&R Block have been pouring millions into trying to stop the idea cold.
The advocacy groups are exponentially out-monied.
An April AP analysis found that overall, Intuit, H&R Block, and other private companies and advocacy groups for large tax preparation businesses, as well as proponents in favor of electronic free file, have reported spending $39.3 million since 2006 to lobby on “free-file” and other matters. Federal law doesn’t require domestic lobbyists to itemize expenses by specific issue, so the sums are not limited to free-file.
Intuit spent at least $25.6 million since 2006 on lobbying, H&R Block about $9.6 million and the conservative Americans for Tax Reform roughly $3 million.
In contrast, the NAACP has spent $140,000 lobbying on “free-file” since 2006 and Public Citizen has spent $110,000 in the same time frame.
“What we have on our side is public opinion,” said Igor Volsky, executive director of the liberal Groundwork Action advocacy group.
Volsky’s organization and leaders from Public Citizen, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Code for America, the Economic Security Project and others launched the “Coalition for Free and Fair Filing” on Wednesday. The group’s mission is to “ensure all U.S. taxpayers can easily file tax returns and get the tax credits they deserve by safeguarding and expanding” the new IRS program.
“The overwhelming majority of people demand a free-file option,” Volsky said. “Now the question for us is how do you channel that into effective political pressure.”
The IRS in May released a report that said most taxpayers are interested in filing their taxes directly to the IRS for free, and concurrently announced plans to launch the pilot program for the 2024 filing season. The goal is to test a direct file system that will help the IRS decide whether to move forward with a more permanent program.
That idea has faced the immediate threat of budget cuts from congressional Republicans.
Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in June proposed a budget rider that would prohibit funds to be used for the IRS to create a government-run tax preparation software, unless approved by a group of House and Senate committees.
The move “safeguards the IRS from an obvious conflict of interest where the tax collector becomes the tax preparer,” the bill’s summary states.
A Government Accountability Report in April 2022 found that 70% of taxpayers were eligible to use an existing free-file program but just 3% actually used the service. That program consists of a public-private partnership of tax software companies that offers free services to certain taxpayers outside of the IRS website.
Additionally, anyone can prepare and mail in their taxes for free, but the tax code is so complex that almost 50% of Americans use a tax prep company. IRS officials have estimated individual taxpayers pay an average of $140 preparing their tax returns each year.
Derrick Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit, stressed the free options that already were available.
“An IRS direct-to-e-file system is redundant and will not be free – not free to build, not free to operate, and not free for taxpayers,” Plummer said, adding that it “will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars.”
H&R Block said in a statement the direct e-file pilot “continues to be a solution in search of a problem.”
Citing the free-filing options for Americans under a certain income threshold through the existing Free File Alliance, H&R Block said, “this pilot is unnecessary and faces significant barriers to providing comprehensive tax preparation services.”
H&R Block came under fire after congressional Democrats last week released a report stating that it was one of three large tax preparation firms that sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta and Google over the course of at least two years.
Susan Harley, Congress Watch managing director at Public Citizen, said “we’re outgunned as far as money being spent, but we have the moral higher ground” in supporting the free-file program over third-party tax preparers.
Nations like Germany, Japan, the U.K. and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries already offer their taxpayers some form of pre-populated tax document.
Some countries also use “tax agency reconciliation,” where taxpayers who opt to participate provide the government with basic employment status information and the tax administrator sends them a return with their calculated tax liability.
Research conducted last year by a group of Treasury, Federal Reserve and other academics shows that the IRS could pre-populate 42 to 48% of all tax returns.
The IRS has already seen cuts to its funding since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed last August gave the agency $80 billion to modernize and hire more workers and move toward the free-file program.
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Over 100 years of research, education: UM Biological Station hosts school regents
PELLSTON — University of Michigan Regents visited the school's biological station near Pellston on Thursday to tour the facility and learn about its research and education efforts.
The regents broke into three groups; one tour learned about the history of the station and how that history informs its educational mission, the second tour learned about the station's new and ongoing research, and the third tour learned about how the station’s research in Northern Michigan can inform local and global questions.
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The biological station is located near Pellston, on the shores of Douglas Lake, and has been in operation since 1909. The station functions as a place for researchers to conduct their work studying the ecosystem of Northern Michigan, as well as a place for students to learn and gain experience doing field research.
One of the stops for the third tour group was in the station’s UV field, an open meadow with solar panels and several devices designed for catching precipitation.
Resident biologist Adam Schubel explained to the regents how the station’s participation in the National Atmospheric Deposition Program since 1979 helped amend the Clean Air Act to include new regulatory programs for the control of acid rain.
“It's a good example of how monitoring, especially long term monitoring, can elucidate these global trends that then inform real time policy decisions that make real differences,” said Jenny Kalejs, communications coordinator for the station.
One of the points of discussion during the tour was the outdated equipment the station uses and the need for other facilities upgrades.
“We just got confirmation from (the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) and the provost’s office that they're going to give us $5 million to build new cabins here,” Kalejs said. “We're so excited about that. They're going to be winterized, we’ll be able to do four seasons research and accommodate more of that amazing science.”
Some of the cabins on the campus have been standing since the early 1910s and currently, most of the cabins are not livable during winter. While research is still conducted in the fall and winter, the station is primarily active in spring and summer when it is warm enough to occupy the cabins.
Every May, students from U of M come to Pellston to learn and conduct research at the station in a setting similar to summer camp, but with a lot more science. The station holds two four-week terms; the spring term starting in May and the summer term starting in June.
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This year was the first time the station held the terms in-person since 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During their time at the station, students participate in various research studies, many of which are long-term data collection studies, meaning multiple generations of students work on them.
Also at the station in the spring and summer are faculty and researchers with their families. Dozens of children play and ride bikes around the campus while their parents conduct their work.
According to Kalejs, one of the station’s goals is to engage more with the local community.
“That's something we'd love to expand. We're pretty lean operation staff wise, so we haven't had a ton of capacity to have a lot of programming that's open to the public, but we have hosted open houses in the house and some different bio blitzes where we host community members,” Kalejs said.
“We also host a summer lecture series. So, we bring scientists from all over to give talks about their work and that is open to the public and we really encourage folks to come out for those kinds of programs. But we hope to expand our footprint in the community. And we also want people to know that we're here and we want them to know that we maintain 13,000 acres around Douglas Lake and all of our trails are open to the public.”
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40,000 American Shoppers Voted Berry Clouds® as Most Innovative Non-Chocolate Candy of 2023
ROSEMONT, Ill., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HARIBO®, America's #1 gummi brand, announced today that its latest treat, Berry Clouds®, won Product of the Year in the non-chocolate candy category as part of the 2023 Product of the Year USA Awards. Berry Clouds are playful, triple-layered gummies with a soft and sweet chew that kids and grown-ups love, and their award was determined through a national study of 40,000 American shoppers in partnership with Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. Product of the Year is the largest consumer-voted awards program centered around product innovation.
"We're thrilled that consumers voted Berry Clouds as Product of the Year in the candy category. We prioritize innovation because we know our consumers are looking for new and exciting treats, and our whimsical Berry Clouds deliver on both," said Terry Do, Senior Associate Brand Manager at HARIBO of America. "HARIBO is about inspiring childlike happiness and delighting our fans with innovative treats, and it's rewarding to know that they love our latest gummies. We hope that through this great news, more consumers will get to know and love Berry Clouds along with the more than 25 varieties of fun and delicious gummies that HARIBO offers. It's a sure way to remember how it feels to be a kid in a candy store!"
Berry Clouds come in dreamy cloud shapes that highlight their irresistibly soft and fluffy texture. Coming in a mixed assortment of three "berry" delicious flavors including blueberry, wildberry, and strawberry, they're sure to have you floating on cloud nine. Rooted in innovation and inspired by consumer feedback, HARIBO began dreaming up Berry Clouds in 2020 and went through multiple rounds of testing and sample production until they reached pillowy perfection. Consumers are loving the new treat, with 40,000 shoppers voting it Product of the Year.
"Product of the Year is more valuable now than ever. The level of access consumers have to products today is unprecedented – far beyond retail aisles, they have DTC options, grocery delivery in the palm of their hands, and they can watch their favorite influencer review items they're considering purchasing in real time," notes Mike Nolan, Global CEO of Product of the Year Management. "Product of the Year is an established and increasingly relevant resource for CPG companies, helping their products stand out, and be understood and trusted by their customers. Entirely new 2023 categories of Product of the Year award winners further demonstrate the ever-evolving trends we are seeing in the U.S. market, and as a company we're thrilled to be at the forefront of recognizing these products for top performing function, design, packaging, or ingredients."
Berry Clouds joins HARIBO's more than 25 crowd-pleasing varieties, including fan favorites such as the original Goldbears, Twin Snakes, Starmix, Sour Goldbears, Watermelon, Rainbow Worms and Z!NG Sour Kicks. Berry Clouds are available now in small, medium, and large peg bag sizes at major U.S retailers.
For more information about Berry Clouds and the full range of HARIBO treats, visit www.haribo.com and follow along on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
About HARIBO
HARIBO is the world's leading manufacturer of gummi products, most famous for our classic Goldbears. Globally, the business employs nearly 7,000 Associates and operates 16 production sites in 10 countries. A family-owned business with a century-long heritage, our founder, Hans Riegel, built HARIBO on a foundation of quality and delivering moments of childlike happiness through our products. Established in 1920, HARIBO is the acronym that comprises our founder's name and the city in which the company was born (Bonn, Germany): HAns RIegel BOnn. We pride ourselves on making playful gummies that are meant to be shared so our inner-child can always experience joy through sweet treats. HARIBO global headquarters is in Grafschaft, Germany and its U.S. headquarters operates out of Rosemont, Ill. For more information, visit haribo.com.
About Product of the Year:
Product of the Year is the largest consumer-voted award for product innovation. Established over 30 years ago, POY currently operates in over 40 countries with the same purpose: Guide consumers to the best products in their market and reward manufacturers for quality and innovation. Product of the Year winners are backed by the votes of 40,000 consumers in a national representative study conducted by research partner Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. The award is a powerful merchandising program for marketers proven to increase product sales, distribution, and awareness. Winning products are announced in February each year and receive the right to use the Product of the Year logo in marketing communications for two years. For more information, visit productoftheyearusa.com.
About Kantar:
Kantar is the world's leading marketing data, insight and consultancy company. We know more about how people live, feel, shop, vote, watch and post worldwide than any other company. Working across the entire sales and marketing lifecycle, we help brands uncover growth in an extraordinary world. Kantar is part of WPP and its services are employed by over half of the Fortune 500 companies in 100 countries.
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(WTAJ) – Carhartt has issued a recall on work pants sold at Dick’s Sporting Goods for a possible fall hazard.
The recall is for the Carhartt men’s force relaxed 5-pocket work pants with an elastic drawstring near the ankle that was sold exclusively at Dick’s in-store and online between June and November 2022.
Carhartt said that the drawstring could create an extra loop posing a trip and fall hazard for those wearing them.
Product number 105222 is printed on a tag on the inside seam near the waistband.
Carhartt said no injuries have been reported.
If you have these work pants, you should return them to Dicks Sporting Goods or Carhartt for a full refund. Carhartt said if you want to keep the pants, you can cut the loop out of the hems and send a photo to Carhartt at just_ask_us@carhartt.com showing proof that the cord was removed to get a full refund.
For more information, you can call Carhartt at 888-894-7601, email the address linked above or visit the company online at www.Carhartt.com/recall or www.Carhartt.com and click on the “Men’s Force Relaxed 5 Pocket Work Pants Recall” for more information. | https://www.krqe.com/news/recalls/carhartt-recalls-work-pants-over-fall-hazard/ | 2023-03-30 22:12:35 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/recalls/carhartt-recalls-work-pants-over-fall-hazard/ |
SHENZHEN, China, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei's Carrier BG Chief Marketing Officer Philip Song launched a new suite of green development solution today during Win-Win·Huawei Innovation Week.
This solution, he explained in his speech titled " Green Development, Building Energy-efficient ICT Infrastructure ", is aimed at helping operators systematically improve network energy efficiency: "As ICT infrastructure continues to evolve from 5G and F5G to 5.5G and F5.5G, green networks, evaluated against the network carbon intensity (NCIe) index, will become a critical part of future target networks. The main objective of our solution launch today is to help operators systematically build green networks that simultaneously address traffic growth and carbon emission reduction."
According to Song, technological innovation is required at three levels to help customers achieve green development goals:
- At the site and equipment level, more integrated designs and new materials should be used to move sites fully outdoors, and increase equipment energy efficiency and the efficiency of using renewable energy.
- In cross-site coordination and networking, a simplified network architecture and improved forwarding efficiency are required to maximize energy efficiency and make networks all-optical, simplified, and intelligent.
- To achieve green O&M, new O&M and energy-saving policies should be more easily developed and delivered, and energy efficiency indicators and baselines should be made more visible, manageable, and optimizable.
At the event, Song launched Huawei's green development solution with innovations at these three levels, as well as the new NCIe indicator system which supports this three-layer solution of green site, green network, and green operation.
Closing out his speech, Song also announced the opening of the Evergreen Land engagement room, where Huawei will meet with global operators to discuss in-depth about green development and ways to build the most energy-efficient ICT infrastructure. He reiterated, "Huawei is committed to working with operators to improve the energy efficiency of ICT infrastructure and create value using green ICT technologies."
The full details of Huawei's new green development solution have been provided below:
At the site layer, the solution focuses on innovation in three areas:
- Fully-outdoor deployment: Using innovative materials, the industry-leading blade power module supports 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G within a single site. The leading One Blade One Site solution features 97% site energy efficiency (SEE).
- High degrees of integration: Ultra-wideband RF modules and multi-band antennas are integrated within these simplified sites. The company's unique signal direct injection feeding (SDIF) technology is able to realize zero losses with zero cabling inside multi-band antennas, boosting the telecommunications energy efficiency (TEE) of the equipment.
- Efficient use of renewable energy: Solutions such as Huawei's AI-based PV-storage optimization and iPV shading for loss reduction are used to maximize the efficiency of using renewable energy.
At the network layer, the solution also features innovations in three areas:
- All-optical connectivity: By upgrading the entire network from electrical switching to optical switching, the solution improves energy efficiency by about 10 times, while swapping copper for fiber further improves energy efficiency by about five times.
- Simplification: The multi-service processing capability of Huawei routers enables the solution to integrate four units of equipment into one. With SDH modernization, the solution replaces multiple cabinets per site with one sub-rack per site, significantly reducing the amount of equipment room space needed and improving network energy efficiency (NEE). Continuous innovation in the optical transmission network (OTN) has also enabled the ultra-wideband Super C120+L120 solution to support a per-fiber capacity of nearly 100 Tbit/s, which means 1 million users can simultaneously watch movies online over a single fiber the thickness of a hair.
- Intelligence: The solution supports intelligent dynamic hibernation of routers and automatically adjusts the forwarding frequency of network processors based on changes in the traffic volume.
At the operation layer, the solution focuses on user operations, energy saving policies, and energy efficiency indicators:
- The solution accelerates the migration of users to networks using more energy-efficient RATs, for example, from 2G and 3G to 4G and 5G, greatly reducing energy consumption per bit and reducing the NCIe value.
- The solution implements real-time traffic control and analysis, and adjusts forwarding processors' frequency or shuts down ports based on traffic volume changes.
- The solution ensures that the indicators are visible, manageable, and optimizable.
The Win-Win·Huawei Innovation Week is held from July 18 to July 21 in Shenzhen, China. Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, we dive into topics such as 5.5G, green development, and digital transformation to envision shared success in the digital economy. For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/winwin-innovation-week
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New research published in the Data Science Issue of AACC's The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Breaking research demonstrates the efficacy of two data analytics-based strategies that clinical labs employed to meet COVID-19 testing demands during the height of the pandemic. These findings, published in the Data Science Issue of AACC's The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, give labs a blueprint for using data analytics to ensure patient access to testing during future infectious disease outbreaks.
A major challenge that labs faced during the first two years of the pandemic was keeping up with testing demands in the midst of chronic supply shortages. While this isn't currently a serious issue with U.S. COVID-19 cases being relatively low, it's only a matter of time before labs could be grappling with this problem again—either because of a surge in COVID-19 cases caused by a new variant, or because of a new infectious disease outbreak entirely.
One team of researchers led by Rohit B. Sangal, MD, MBA, FACEP, of the Yale University School of Medicine, has shown that labs can use electronic health record systems (EHRs) to ensure that scarce testing resources are optimally allocated during a pandemic.
View the full study here: https://academic.oup.com/jalm/article/8/1/98/6848829
During the omicron variant surge of December 2021 – January 2022, Sangal's healthcare system developed guidelines to ensure that limited SARS-CoV-2 tests and combined tests for SARS-CoV-2, flu, and RSV were used on the appropriate patients. To help clinicians adhere to these guidelines when ordering tests, Sangal's team implemented a redesign of the EHR's test ordering interface on December 22, 2021.
Following this, Sangal's team analyzed test ordering data from the 3 weeks before the redesign and the 3 weeks after and found that the EHR redesign successfully changed testing patterns to align with guidelines. For symptomatic patients who were discharged from the emergency department, COVID-19 + flu/RSV testing decreased 49% while testing for COVID-19 + flu-only increased 160%. Meanwhile, for symptomatic patients who were admitted to the hospital, COVID-19 + flu/RSV testing increased 128%. Not only does this mean that the right patients were getting the right tests, but these changes also saved approximately 437 test cartridges per week, thereby preserving the limited supply of testing resources.
"A simple EHR order redesign was associated with increased adherence to institutional guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza testing amidst supply chain limitations necessitating optimal allocation of scarce testing resources," said Sangal. "With continually shifting resource availability, clinician education is not sufficient. Rather, system-based interventions embedded within existing workflows can better align resources and serve the testing needs of the community."
These findings build on data analytics work from the start of the pandemic led by Daniel T. Holmes, MD, of St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, which demonstrated how labs can use data automation to handle outbreak-related testing surges.
View the full study here: https://academic.oup.com/jalm/article/8/1/41/6840464
During the first year of the pandemic, supply shortages for SARS-CoV-2 testing instruments began to affect the ability of St. Paul's Hospital to keep up with testing demand. In response, Holmes's team used open-source software tools (Linux, bash, R, RShiny, ShinyProxy, and Docker) to develop an automated workflow that manages and optimizes all steps of the SARS-CoV-2 testing process. From September – December 2020, this automated workflow decreased the lab's consumption of reagents for SARS-CoV-2 testing by approximately 58%.
In his group's paper in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, Holmes said, "We describe our strategy for data automation for singleton and pooled sample [testing] for SARS-CoV-2 with extension to other viral PCR assays. The open-source software tools used and the software development and operational deployment strategy are explained. This work will give the reader direction on how to develop and deploy similar tools should the need arise."
About AACC
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
Launched by AACC in 2016, The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine (jalm.org) is an international, peer-reviewed publication showcasing the applied research in clinical laboratory science that is driving innovation forward in healthcare.
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Half of consumers are more interested in protecting their retirement income since the start of the pandemic
New research paper from the Retirement Income Institute finds investors with professionally managed retirement investments perform better in adverse market conditions
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the drumbeat of a potential recession grows louder and Americans continue to face the aftereffects of the pandemic, the number of Americans who believe their retirement savings and sources of income will not last them throughout their lifetime is on the rise. According to the third Protected Retirement Income and Planning Study from the Alliance for Lifetime Income and CANNEX, less than half of respondents (48%) believe their retirement savings and sources of income will last them throughout their lifetime—a 13% drop from a year ago. However, among those who have an annuity, 74% believe their savings and sources of income will last their lifetime, compared to only 43% for those without an annuity.
- Nearly two thirds of consumers worry about their finances several times a month or more; one quarter worry about their finances every day
- Only 35% of consumers believe they will be able to fund their "wants" in retirement
- Nearly a third of those not yet retired believe there is risk that they will be forced to retire early for reasons beyond their control
- Half of consumers are now more interested in protecting their retirement income since the start of the Covid pandemic
The survey reveals a notable lack of financial preparation for the future. Despite mounting economic concerns, nearly one quarter of consumers don't have any kind of financial plan and another quarter (28%) have an overall direction in mind, but no financial plan to get there. Nearly half of non-retired consumers ages 45-75 are saving less than 10% of their annual income for retirement. Among those not yet retired and who are advised by a financial professional, only three out of 10 have both talked with their financial professional and have a plan in place in the event they retire early.
"Consumers' strong desire for protection amid this tricky economic environment is why the Alliance is relentless in helping people understand how to protect their hard-earned savings," said Jean Statler, CEO of the Alliance for Lifetime Income. "Not surprisingly, consumers are turning up the heat on their financial professionals and asking them to find ways to protect their portfolios. Unfortunately, the research also shows that many financial professionals are falling short of what their clients expect and want."
Just over half of consumers that work with a financial professional would give him or her an "A" for how much they listen and understand needs, according to the survey. Many consumers believe that holistic support is not a "can do" for financial planners, but a "must do." Nearly half of consumers believe financial professionals have a responsibility to present protected lifetime income products to their clients. Forty-two percent of consumers who currently work with a financial professional would consider leaving their advisor if they did not present them all the possible strategies for producing income in retirement.
"In my mind, that's a real wake-up call to financial professionals looking to hold on to their clients," said Statler.
Gary Baker, president of CANNEX USA added, "Investors rated the importance of income protection more highly than financial professionals in this most recent study. Given the uncertainty of when and how retirement will evolve over time, investors expect to understand the full range of solutions and strategies available, from which they can make an informed decision with the help of their financial professional."
Study Findings Affirmed by New Research Paper
The survey's findings correspond with a research paper released today by the Alliance's Retirement Income Institute which concluded that investors with professional investment management perform better in adverse economic conditions than self-directed investors. Authored by David Blanchett, managing director and head of retirement research for PGIM DC Solutions and research fellow with the Alliance's Institute. The paper analyzed the trading activity of 730,533 investors during 2020—a period of extraordinary market volatility brought on by the Covid pandemic.
Blanchett's analysis found that participants using any type of professionally managed portfolio solution were significantly less likely to trade in 2020 than were self-directing participants. Among participants who self-directed their accounts and who traded in 2020, older participants made changes that were the most significant. These participants were also significantly less likely to use a professionally managed portfolio option, which suggests that those participants who could benefit the most from professional investment management are not the ones receiving it.
The Alliance's latest survey supports these findings in revealing that 73% of consumers who work with a financial professional think their retirement savings and sources of income will last throughout their lifetimes compared to 36% who do not work with a financial professional. Similarly, the survey found that consumers who work with a financial professional are more than twice as likely to have a pension or annuity.
Financial professionals looking to understand how the certainty of annuities can protect retirement portfolios and give their clients peace of mind during uncertain times, are encouraged to use the Alliance's dedicated resource center at www.resources.protectedincome.org.
To learn more about the role of protected income in a retirement portfolio visit www.protectedincome.org for free educational resources and interactive tools, including the RISE Score® and the Financial Planning Personality Quiz.
About the Survey
The 2022 Protected Retirement Income and Planning Study was created by the Alliance for Lifetime Income and conducted online by Artemis Strategy Group in April and May 2022 among 2,025 American consumers ages 45 to 75, and 514 financial professionals who conduct retirement planning for individual clients.
About the Alliance for Lifetime Income
The Alliance for Lifetime Income is a non-profit 501(c)(6) educational organization based in Washington, D.C., that creates awareness and educates Americans about the value and importance of having protected lifetime income in retirement. Our vision is for a country where no American has to face the prospect of running out of money in retirement. The Alliance provides consumers and financial advisors with educational resources, interactive tools, and actionable research and insights to use in building retirement income strategies and plans. We believe focusing attention and conversations on retirement income that lasts throughout life leads to greater retirement security for millions of Americans. Learn more at www.ProtectedIncome.org.
About CANNEX
CANNEX Financial Exchanges Ltd. supports the exchange of pricing information for annuity and bank products in North America. The firm provides financial institutions with the ability to evaluate and compare various guarantees associated with retirement savings and retirement income products. In the U.S. this includes the evaluation of annuity guarantees (Income Annuities, Variable Annuities, Indexed Annuities, and Fixed Rate Annuities) and consulting services supporting the optimization and allocation of retirement income portfolios.
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We break down the messaging in President Biden's latest budget proposal, a document that the White House is using to try to pressure Republicans in Congress ahead of the looming debt limit deadline.
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‘Amsterdam’ and ‘Lyle Lyle’ struggle, letting ‘Smile’ repeat at #1
NEW YORK (AP) — David O. Russell’s star-studded 1930s mystery “Amsterdam” flopped and the children’s book adaptation “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” debuted softly, allowing the horror thriller “Smile” to repeat atop the box office in U.S. and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Neither new release caught fire with moviegoers but the disappointment was most acute for “Amsterdam,” a poorly reviewed $80 million screwball romp starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington. The 20th Century Studios production, co-funded by New Regency and released by the Walt Disney Co., opened with just $6.5 million — a stinging rebuke for the decorated filmmaker of “Silver Linings Playbook” whose splashy ensemble also includes Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy and Taylor Swift.
Sony Pictures’ “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” a musical based on Bernard Waber’s children’s book featuring Shawn Mendes as the voice of a computer-generated reptile, fared better, collecting $11.5 million in ticket sales. But that still was a relatively modest result, especially for the first major family movie to land in theaters since the summer. The film, which cost $50 million to make, could benefit from children being out of school for Monday’s Columbus Day and little kid-movie competition this month.
A week after topping the charts with a $22-million launch, Paramount Pictures’ “Smile” remained No. 1 with $17.6 million at the box office — an impressive second week for the modestly budget horror flick. Horror films usually fall steeply in their second week of release but “Smile,” a creepy thriller about trauma and evil spirits, dropped just 22%. To keep the momentum, Paramount on Sunday announced a weeklong series of promotions, including discounted tickets and a “Smile” NFT giveaway for some ticket-buyers on Thursday.
The best news for Hollywood over the weekend was a sign that adult audiences, after two pandemic-plagued seasons, may be eager to come out for the fall’s top awards contenders. Todd Field’s “Tár,” starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renown conductor, debuted with $160,000 in four New York and Los Angeles theaters, good for a stellar $40,000 per-theater average. After its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Field’s first film since 2006′s “Little Children” has drawn raves from critics and Oscar nomination predictions for Blanchett.
The promising start will encourage a long line of awards contenders coming in the next few weeks, including MGM’s Emmett Till drama “Till,” MUBI’s Park Chan-wook thriller “Decision to Leave” and Searchlight Pictures’ “The Banshees of Inisherin,” by writer-director Martin McDonagh.
At the same time, a prolonged sluggish period in theaters may be coming to a close. Not since “Bullet Train” opened in early August has a film cleared $23 million, a downturn owed in part to a light release schedule. But next week, Universal Pictures debuts “Halloween Ends” both in theaters and on Peacock. The following weekend sees the release of Warner Bros.’ “Black Adam,” with Dwayne Johnson.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Smile,” $17.6 million.
2. “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” $11.5 million.
3. “Amsterdam,” $6.5 million.
4. “The Woman King,” $5.3 million.
5. “Don’t Worry Darling,” $3.5 million.
6. “Avatar,” $2.6 million.
7. “Barbarian,” $2.2 million.
8. “Bros,” $2.2 million.
9. “Ponniyin Selvan Part One,” $910,000.
10. “Terrifier 2,” $825,000.
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BEIJING (AP) — A campaign to vaccinate the elderly has sparked hopes China might roll back severe anti-virus controls that prompted protesters to demand President Xi Jinping resign, but the country faces daunting hurdles and up to a year of hard work before “zero COVID” can end.
Stock markets rose after the National Health Commission on Monday announced the long-awaited campaign. A low vaccination rate is one of the biggest obstacles to ending curbs that have confined millions of people to their homes, depressed the economy and kept most visitors out of China. Health officials gave no indication how long it might take.
A vaccination campaign will require months and China also needs to build up its hospitals and work out a long-term virus strategy, health experts and economists warn. They say “zero COVID” is likely to stay in place until mid-2023 and possibly as late as 2024.
“China is in no place right now to move away from its ‘zero-COVID’ policy toward a ‘living with COVID’ policy,” said Mark Williams, chief Asia economist for Capital Economics. “Health care capacity is very weak.”
China, where the virus first was detected in late 2019 in the central city of Wuhan, is the last major country trying to stop transmission completely. Others are relaxing controls and trying to live with the virus that has killed at least 6.6 million people worldwide and sickened almost 650 million.
Chinese protesters accuse the ruling Communist Party of failing to outline a path away from restrictions that have repeatedly closed businesses and schools and suspended access to neighborhoods. The curbs have kept case numbers lower than other countries but are seen by the public and scientists as excessive.
Families who have been confined at home for up to four months say they lack reliable access to food and medicine. Others struggle to get treatment for other medical problems. Authorities faced public fury over reports two children who were in quarantine died after their parents said anti-virus controls hampered efforts to get emergency medical care.
The protests, the most widespread show of dissent in decades, erupted Friday after a fire in Urumqi in the northwest killed at least 10 people. That prompted angry questions online about whether firefighters or victims trying to escape were blocked by locked doors or other controls. Authorities denied that, but the deaths became a focus of public anger over the human cost of “zero COVID.”
The ruling party has promised to make restrictions less disruptive and eased some controls this week following protests in Shanghai, Beijing and at least six other major cities. But party leaders said they were sticking to “zero COVID“ and gave no sign when it might end.
On Wednesday, the Health Commission reported 37,828 new cases in the past 24 hours, including 33,540 without symptoms. The official death toll stands at 5,233 out of 319,536 confirmed cases, compared with 1.1 million deaths in the United States out of almost 100 million infections.
Beijing has tried to discredit protesters by accusing them of working for “foreign forces,” a reference to long-running complaints that Washington and other Western governments are trying to sabotage China’s economic and political rise.
On Tuesday, the ruling party legal affairs committee vowed to “resolutely crack down on the infiltration and sabotage activities of hostile forces.” Its statement promising to carry out the spirit of a congress last month where Xi, China’s most powerful figure since at least the 1980s, awarded himself a third five-year term as leader.
The statement didn’t mention the protests and echoed routine declarations issued after such party meetings. But it was a reminder of the ruling party’s determination to enforce its will and of its hostility to opposition.
The National Health Commission said its campaign will encourage people over 60 to be vaccinated.
Many have avoided vaccines due to safety worries and because, with few cases in China, their infection risk was low.
The commission said it will send out mobile vaccination units to reach people in their 70s and 80s who can’t leave home.
Nine in 10 Chinese have been vaccinated but only 66% of people over 80 have gotten one shot, while 40% have received a booster, according to the Commission. It said 86% of people over 60 are vaccinated.
By comparison, 93% of Americans 65 and over are fully vaccinated and another 2% have at least one dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
State media have described unvaccinated elderly people as at “highest risk” from the virus.
“We hope elderly friends can actively complete the vaccination as soon as possible,” said a commission spokesman, Mi Feng.
China uses vaccines made by domestic developers including Sinovac and Sinopharm. It has withheld approval of mRNA vaccines such as the one invented by Germany’s BioNTech, though a Chinese company bought distribution rights in 2020.
Last year, the country’s top infectious diseases official acknowledged those homegrown vaccines were less effective.
Still, ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, an infectious disease expert on Shanghai’s COVID-19 team expressed confidence China can emerge from COVID with the right vaccination program.
“Our diagnosis, treatment and vaccines have reached a very high level,” Zhang Wenhong said at a Nov. 18 medical conference in the southern city of Haikou. “We are fully capable of finally taming the coronavirus.”
However, China’s small, overworked health care system, especially in the poor, populous countryside, could be overwhelmed if infections spiral as restrictions are relaxed.
China has 4.3 hospital beds per person, barely half of the average of eight in neighboring Mongolia, a much poorer country, according to the World Health Organization. Japan has 13 and South Korea has 12.5.
“China will never lift COVID restrictions completely like other countries,” said Yu Changping, a respiratory specialist at People’s Hospital of Wuhan University.
“The epidemic will not disappear in the next three or five years and may never,” Yu said. “It is a long-term task for China’s prevention and control.”
The outbreaks that began in October prompted affected communities to close shops and offices. Factories were required to isolate workers from outside contact.
Economists estimate those areas account for up to one-third of China’s economic output. Some forecasts say China’s annual growth will stay below 3%, less than half of 2021′s 8.1% expansion.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a series of proposed gun laws Monday in a state already considered one of the strictest for firearms ownership, including a statewide ban on open carrying expected to draw strong opposition from gun rights supporters.
Lamont revealed his latest plans to curb gun violence during a news conference in Waterbury with fellow Democrats, including Attorney General William Tong and mayors of the state’s largest cities, as well as state and local law enforcement officials.
Lamont and other officials said the legislation, which also includes new registration requirements for ghost guns and monthly limits on handgun purchases, is needed to help curb rising gun violence and crack down on illegal firearms around the state. Hartford, for example, recorded 39 murders in 2022, the most in two decades.
“That sense of anxiety and fear that many people sense — it doesn’t do us any good to say we’re in one of the safest states in the country … and people don’t feel safe,” Lamont said. “Over this last tough few years, the shootings are up. They’re up across the country. They’re up in our state.”
Lamont and others at the news conference also referred to Saturday night’s shooting that killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club, in expressing their dismay and in talking about the need for more gun control.
The governor’s proposals include a ban on the currently legal open carrying of firearms, while still allowing concealed carrying; limiting handgun purchases to one per month to discourage bulk purchases and illegal sales; and spending an additional $2.5 million on community anti-violence programs.
Lamont also wants to update the state’s ban on unregistered ghost guns, which are firearms assembled from kits and do not have serial numbers, making them hard to trace. He said a flaw in the current ban has made it difficult to enforce.
A 2019 state law requires ghost guns to be registered with the state, but only those assembled after the law took effect. Police said it is difficult to determine whether a ghost gun was made before or after the law. The proposed legislation would require all ghost guns, including those assembled before the law, to be registered.
The governor, however, did not include in his proposals a plan he talked about during his re-election campaign last year — eliminating an exception to the bans on certain semiautomatic rifles that allows people who owned such firearms before the bans took effect to keep them.
Republicans in the Democratic-controlled legislature issued statements criticizing the governor’s proposals as focusing too much on law-abiding citizens and not enough on criminals who aren’t obeying the law.
“Today the Governor and Democrats pitched a familiar path to an ‘everybody problem’ by offering proposals that will again have law-abiding gun owners carrying most of the freight,” said House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora. “Missing from their news conference was any talk about focusing on the people who are squarely responsible for causing mayhem in our communities.”
Republican Rep. Craig Fishbein, House ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, added, “If enacted, these new proposals will do more to harass and restrict law-abiding citizens from exercising their Constitutional Rights, and little to curb the increased violent crime sweeping through our state.”
The Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a prominent gun rights group, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Connecticut, state officials and experts say, has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, many passed in the months after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 20 children and six educators. The state, for example, bans many semiautomatic rifles and prohibits magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
More recent mass shootings, including in Uvalde, Texas, last year, have spurred new calls for more gun control in many states.
Gun rights groups, including the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, are currently suing the state in federal court in an attempt to overturn the prohibition on what they call “modern sporting arms” such as AR-15-style rifles like the ones used at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown and in many other mass shootings.
Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary, a Democrat and former police chief in the city, said fear and anxiety over violent crime are the highest he has seen in his four decades of public service.
“The number one issue for urban mayors is guns and gun violence, mental health. It is all intertwined,” he said at Monday’s news conference. “And the sadness that’s in everyone’s hearts about what happened in California last night is just another example of why we’re all here in this room.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/connecticut-governors-gun-proposals-include-open-carry-ban/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-01-23 20:29:32 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/connecticut-governors-gun-proposals-include-open-carry-ban/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
WASHINGTON, and LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 corporate board members, today announced that UCLA Anderson Executive Education has joined the NACD Education NetworkTM, an alliance of top-tier academic institutions offering reciprocal credit for directors who are NACD Directorship Certified®.
The education network was formed in 2020 to better prepare board directors for the rigors of the increasingly complex and challenging work of directorship. UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education joins this growing alliance, which began with Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, the founding member of the NACD Education Network, along with Columbia Business School Executive Education, Drexel University's Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute, and the Wharton School's Aresty Institute of Executive Education.
Building on NACD Directorship Certification®, which puts directors on the leading edge of governance issues and demonstrates their commitment to the profession of directorship, the NACD Education Network enables NACD Directorship Certified individuals to earn credits to maintain their certification through participation in leading director programs provided by world-class universities. NACD Directorship Certification requires recertification every two years through 32 hours of continuous learning at recognized programs.
"In order to meet the complex and challenging work in today's boardroom, it is vital that board directors are more enlightened and well-prepared," said Donna Sharp, associate dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management's Executive Education Programs. "We are delighted to join with NACD and its partners in providing directors and executives with research and action for board oversight and stewardship of the enterprise."
The goal of the NACD Education Network is to help certified directors to enhance their knowledge, skills, and their abilities to discharge their duties as effectively as possible, as their companies continue to face increasingly complex business markets.
"We are thrilled to add the prestigious UCLA Anderson School of Management to the growing NACD Education Network," said Peter Gleason, president and CEO of NACD. "Expanding the network of world-class providers of executive education to pair with NACD's cutting-edge education programming and certification will help directors succeed as they face the most challenging times of their directorships."
UCLA Anderson Executive Education's upcoming Corporate Governance Program, taking place September 27–29, 2022, is a powerful combination of foundational topics and advanced insight on the timely and pressing issues facing boards today. The program, running continuously since 1999, is taught by world-class UCLA Anderson faculty and distinguished speakers who represent some of the nation's most prestigious organizations. Learn more and apply here. NACD Directorship Certified individuals will earn credits toward their recertification through participation in this leading program.
Plans are underway to expand the NACD Education Network to include additional nationally and internationally recognized institutions. To learn more about the network, visit https://certification.nacdonline.org/educationnetwork.
For more than 40 years, NACD has been on the leading edge of corporate governance, setting standards of excellence that have elevated board performance. NACD arms today's directors with insights and education that drive their mission forward, while preparing a new generation of boardroom leaders to meet tomorrow's biggest challenges. NACD is a community of more than 23,000 directors driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in businesses and in the communities they serve. To learn more about NACD, visit nacdonline.org.
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, Master of Science in Business Analytics, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think in the Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow.
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The 2023 Genesis Scottish Open Odds & Preview: Patrick Cantlay
From July 13-16, Patrick Cantlay will hit the course at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, United Kingdom to compete in the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open. It's a par-70 that spans 7,237 yards, with a purse of $9,000,000.00 on the line.
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Patrick Cantlay Insights
- Over his last 20 rounds, Cantlay has shot below par on 12 occasions, while also posting one bogey-free round and 16 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-five score five times and a top-10 score nine times in his last 20 rounds.
- Over his last 20 rounds, Cantlay has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round seven times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 10 occasions.
- In his past five appearances, Cantlay has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes.
- In his past five tournaments, Cantlay has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average five times.
- Cantlay has made the cut in 10 tournaments in a row.
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Genesis Scottish Open Insights and Stats
- In Cantlay's previous three appearances in this tournament, he has finished among the top five two times. His average finish has been eighth.
- In his last three attempts at this event, he's made the cut every time.
- Courses on the Tour have played at an average length of 7,014 yards in the past year. This tournament will be held on a par 70 that registers at 7,237 yards, 223 yards longer than average.
- Golfers at The Renaissance Club have averaged a score of +2 per tournament, higher than the Tour-wide scoring average of -5 during the past year.
- The courses that Cantlay has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,336 yards, while The Renaissance Club will be at 7,237 yards this week.
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -5. That is lower than this course's recent scoring average of +2.
Cantlay's Last Time Out
- Cantlay was rather mediocre on the 16 par-3 holes at the Travelers Championship, averaging 2.88 strokes to finish in the 64th percentile of the field.
- He shot well to finish in the 88th percentile on par 4s at the Travelers Championship, averaging 3.77 strokes on those 48 holes.
- Cantlay shot better than 76% of the field at the Travelers Championship on the tournament's eight par-5 holes, averaging 4.25 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.55.
- Cantlay fared better on par 3s than most players his last time out, carding a birdie or better on four of 16 par-3s at the Travelers Championship (the other participants averaged 2.0).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Travelers Championship, Cantlay recorded two bogeys or worse (the field averaged 1.7).
- Cantlay carded more birdies or better (14) than the tournament average of 7.6 on the 48 par-4s at the Travelers Championship.
- In that most recent tournament, Cantlay's showing on the 48 par-4s included a bogey or worse three times (the field's average was worse, at 4.8).
- Cantlay ended the Travelers Championship bettering the field average of birdies or better on par-5s (2.9) with six on the eight par-5 holes.
- The field at the Travelers Championship averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the eight par-5s, but Cantlay finished without one.
Genesis Scottish Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: The Renaissance Club
- Location: North Berwick, United Kingdom
- Par: 70 / 7,237 yards
- Cantlay Odds to Win: +1400 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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OKLAHOMA CITY, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUSK) ("Mammoth" or the "Company") announced today the first appeal response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") related to Project Worksheet 251, commonly referred to as the first contract between Mammoth's subsidiary Cobra Acquisitions LLC ("Cobra") and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority ("PREPA"). This appeal followed the May 26, 2021, determination memorandum issued by FEMA, which denied $47 million of the claimed costs under the first contract. FEMA approved the appeal in part and denied the appeal in part. FEMA found that staffing costs of $24.4 million are eligible for funding and that FEMA would amend Project Worksheet 251 to obligate this additional funding.
Mammoth's Chief Executive Officer, Arty Straehla, commented:
"Despite our work having received numerous third-party validations, PREPA continues to choose to pay advisors rather than its pre-existing obligations for services performed years ago. PREPA has $40.4 million in federal funding sitting in a cash account set aside for our work that could be used to pay us now, yet PREPA continues to withhold payment. Astoundingly, the Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico continues to allow PREPA to accrue interest on FEMA-approved amounts while PREPA has funds set aside and has over $1 billion in cash on hand. PREPA says that they can't pay when they don't have funds and won't pay when they do have funds. This lack of accountability should serve as a red flag for any entity that is considering performing work for PREPA and is bad news for people of Puerto Rico the next time a natural disaster strikes."
PREPA has 60 days from the date of receipt of the determination to submit a second appeal to the Assistant Administrator, Recovery Directorate, at FEMA headquarters or to request arbitration by the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals.
The total amount PREPA owes Cobra exceeds $350 million and continues to accrue contractual interest at the rate of over $3.3 million per month.
For more information related to the Puerto Rico situation as well as access to the FEMA first appeal response, please visit: https://puertorico.mammothenergy.com/
Mammoth is an integrated, growth-oriented energy services company focused on the construction and repair of the electric grid for private utilities, public investor-owned utilities and co-operative utilities through its infrastructure services businesses. The Company also provides products and services to enable the exploration and development of North American onshore unconventional oil and natural gas reserves. Mammoth's suite of services and products include: infrastructure services, well completion services, natural sand and proppant services, drilling services and other energy services. For more information, please visit www.mammothenergy.com.
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Although management believes that the expectations and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made, no assurance can be given that these assumptions are accurate or that any of these expectations will be achieved (in full or at all). Moreover, the Company's forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including those described in its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other filings it makes with the SEC, including those relating to the Company's acquisitions and contracts, many of which are beyond the Company's control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience and present expectations or projections which are implied or expressed by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: any continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, related global and national health concerns and economic repercussions; demand for our services; the volatility of oil and natural gas prices and actions by OPEC members and other exporting nations affecting commodities prices and production levels; the impact of the current Russian/Ukrainian military conflict on the global energy and capital markets and global stability; operational challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, including logistical challenges, protecting the health and well-being of our employees, remote work arrangements, performance of contracts and supply chain disruptions; inflationary pressures; the outcome of ongoing government investigations and other legal proceedings, including those relating to the contracts awarded to the Company's subsidiary Cobra Acquisitions LLC ("Cobra") by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority ("PREPA"); the failure to receive or delays in receiving governmental authorizations, approvals and/or payments, including payments with respect to the PREPA account receivable for prior services to PREPA performed by Cobra; the Company's inability to replace the prior levels of work in its business segments, including its infrastructure and well completion services segments; risks relating to economic conditions; impacts of the recent federal infrastructure bill on the infrastructure industry and our infrastructure services business; the loss of or interruption in operations of one or more of Mammoth's significant suppliers or customers; the loss of management and/or crews; the outcome or settlement of our litigation matters, including the adverse impact of the recent settlement with MasTec Renewables Puerto Rico, LLC, and the effect on our financial condition and results of operations; the effects of government regulation, permitting and other legal requirements; operating risks; the adequacy of capital resources and liquidity; Mammoth's ability to continue to comply with, or if applicable, obtain a waiver of forecasted or actual noncompliance with certain financial covenants and comply with other terms and conditions under our recently amended revolving credit facility; weather; natural disasters; litigation; volatility in commodity markets; competition in the oil and natural gas and infrastructure industries; and costs and availability of resources.
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Raven Chacon is a Diné composer and visual artist. His work has won much acclaim: His 2020 opera “Sweet Land” was named Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America. This year, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition “Voiceless Mass.” His work will be performed in New York and San Francisco this month.
Reporter Karen Michel has this profile.
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“Dogtown,” by Howard Owens (Permanent Press)
Willie Black is a multi-racial, 60-year-old reporter who covers the night-cops beat for a dying Richmond, Virginia, newspaper. He smokes, drinks, and falls in love too much, knows the sleazy side of his city as well as he knows his own face, and is fiercely dedicated to a profession that has not been kind to him.
Author Howard Owen, a former Virginia newspaperman himself, first introduced Willie in “Oregon Hill” in 2012, and now, in the 12th book in this underappreciated series of crime novels, the protagonist’s hold on employment is more tenuous than ever. The decline of print journalism is a recurring theme in these books, and thanks to massive budget cuts and layoffs by a greedy, absentee corporate owner, the newspaper to which Willie has devoted his life appears on the verge of cutting him loose.
As “Dogtown” opens, a plumber, Richmond’s first murder victim of the new year, is discovered near the railroad tracks in a bad part of town, his throat cut and one of his fingers removed. When two more victims are butchered the same way, Willie realizes the city he has a love/hate relationship with has a serial killer on its hands.
With the police investigation going nowhere, Willie, a dogged and skilled investigative reporter, sets out to end the reign of terror himself while at the same time generously mentoring a young reporter who is after his job. Working long hours without overtime pay, he contends with a stonewalling police chief, an ethically compromised mayor and even anti-vaxxers to bring the case to a disturbing conclusion.
In a sense, Willie is an archetype. Most newspapers in America have a veteran reporter or two like him, battling against long odds to do the thankless job of holding public officials accountable while struggling to keep his job and breathe life into the First Amendment. However, his quirks and his biting, self-deprecatory sense of humor are all his own.
As always in an Owen novel, the writing is tight, the dark story is leavened with humor, and Willie’s oddball collection of friends and ex-wives are as engaging as ever.
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Bruce DeSilva, winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, is the author of the Mulligan crime novels including “The Dread Line.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/Review-A-reporter-at-a-dying-paper-solves-a-17689615.php | 2023-01-02 14:54:29 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/Review-A-reporter-at-a-dying-paper-solves-a-17689615.php |
Positively BlackWeekly series highlighting health and education issues, social and cultural programs and services in the black community. Tracie Strahan interviews those who are making a difference. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/community-top-stories/positively-black/positively-black-westchester-barber-academy-providing-free-haircuts/3850817/ | 2022-09-04 17:57:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/community-top-stories/positively-black/positively-black-westchester-barber-academy-providing-free-haircuts/3850817/ |
“I was there every day, and I’m still here every day,” said Amanda Araiza.
She hasn’t left her fiancé’s side since mid-December.
Robert Elbie’s life was forever changed as he was trying to help Araiza with her tire on the side of Interstate 17.
Video in the player above includes previous coverage of the couple's crash.
The couple was hit by another driver, but Elbie's injuries were much worse than Araiza's.
“These are things you see in movies, and now we're in this nightmare together,” said Araiza.
She said Elbie has had issues with his memory and doctors have told them it could take months for his brain injury to improve.
After weeks in the hospital, Elbie is now at an in-patient rehab facility in Glendale learning how to live again.
“They taught him how to eat, how to speak again because he lost his voice for a while,” said Araiza.
Elbie is even adjusting to having one leg after part of his left had to be amputated.
“It’s a miracle that you’re alive, and you’ve come this far.” That’s what Araiza makes sure to remind her fiancé.
Videos from Araiza show Elbie getting stronger.
On Wednesday, he was even able to speak with ABC15.
“I’m feeling OK. Ready to go home soon, so that’s good,” said Elbie.
Araiza quit her job to be by Elbie’s side.
She said both of their cars are totaled and are still with the Department of Public Safety.
On top of all of this, they have two kids at home.
“There are going to be a lot of things that are going to be different,” said Araiza.
DPS did submit charging recommendations for the other driver, including DUI, assault, aggravated assault, endangerment, and criminal damage.
ABC15 is working to learn if that diver has been officially charged.
“It hurts him to see him like this,” said Araiza. “It hurts me that he’s going through all this pain all because someone was selfish and got behind the wheel.”
They were hoping to get married this year, but they are now planning to wait until 2024 so Elbie can heal.
A GoFundMe has been organized to help support the couple.
So far, they have used the money raised for medical bills and to make Elbie comfortable when he returns home.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday:
Verisk Analytics Inc., up $1.71 to $182.83.
The insurance data provider is selling its energy business to Veritas for $3.1 billion.
Credit Suisse Group AG, up 19 cents to $4.12.
The investment bank gave investors details about its plan to raise roughly $4 billion.
XPO Logistics Inc., up $1.07 to $51.74.
The freight transportation company reported strong third-quarter earnings.
TuSimple Holdings Inc., down $2.88 to $3.43
The self-driving truck developer fired its CEO and is reportedly facing a federal investigation over Chinese technology transfers.
Howmet Aerospace Inc., down 62 cents to $35.55.
The Pittsburgh-based maker of jet engine components trimmed its financial forecasts for the year.
Amicus Therapeutics Inc., down 75 cents to $10.
U.S. regulators extended their review of the biotechnology company's component for a rare disease treatment.
Wynn Resorts Ltd., up $5.60 to $63.90.
Tilman Fertitta, owner of casinos and the Houston Rockets basketball team, disclosed a 6% stake in the casino operator.
Align Technology Inc., up $5.68 to $194.30.
The maker of Invisalign dental appliances announced a $200 million stock buyback plan. | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/TuSimple-Howmet-fall-XPO-Logistics-Wynn-17547606.php | 2022-10-31 20:42:45 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/TuSimple-Howmet-fall-XPO-Logistics-Wynn-17547606.php |
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