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Employee satisfaction drives brand acceleration and client success at RadarFirst.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RadarFirst, the global innovator in privacy incident management, is proud to be named as one of the 2022 Top Workplaces by The Oregonian/Oregon Live. Now in its eleventh year, this esteemed award is earned based on employee surveys that ask participants to rate their employers on multiple aspects of workplace culture, from pay and benefits to company values, productivity, and leadership.
"It is a privilege to be named a top workplace by our community this year. We strive to be an employer of choice by prioritizing the well-being of our employees and creating a flexible and inclusive culture. The recognition is both rewarding and reassuring that we are on the right trajectory as an organization. This award indicates we are living our company values." - Courtney Moss, Senior Human Resources Manager at RadarFirst.
RadarFirst is committed to being the most innovative privacy solution and creating a culture reflective of its corporate values:
- Integrity and Empathy
- Inclusion and Innovation
- Respect and Candor
These values are present through every action RadarFirst takes as an organization. RadarFirst offers its employees the opportunity to grow and innovate within the privacy industry.
Employees are confident in RadarFirst's values, productivity, and leadership. This confidence has translated into the success of the solution and the positive impact it has had on customers and how they accelerate efficiency in privacy incident management.
RadarFirst just completed its annual Privacy Summit, virtually this year – an event that differentiates RadarFirst from other privacy software solutions. Over three hundred privacy leaders were in attendance, a registration list consisting of current and potential customers. Attendees joined to hear how RadarFirst continues to solve an increasingly complex privacy landscape with a solution to simplify all ten stages of privacy incident management.
Attendees were educated on where the brand is today and where it is headed in terms of new product features and offerings. Highlights from the event included:
- A panel discussion with privacy experts from university healthcare and Fortune 500 life and health insurance companies
- An awards ceremony that acknowledged outstanding privacy professionals and teams
- New feature announcements and product knowledge sessions from RadarFirst experts
RadarFirst continues to put its employees and customers first. Feedback on the solution is imperative for ongoing enhancements needed to be the most innovative privacy solution.
Recent enhancements include three new product offerings designed to streamline team collaboration and improve privacy inefficiencies: Incident Dimensions, Playbooks, and Health Check with RadarFirst.
CEO of RadarFirst, Don India, comments on this year's growth and top workplace achievement, "This award is an honor to receive. Our brand is only as strong as the employees who contribute to our success each day. We truly strive to offer an environment where every employee can have a voice in improving our product for the customers we serve."
In today's world of increasingly complex and changing privacy regulations, RadarFirst offers innovative software solutions to data privacy challenges. With RadarFirst, the patented SaaS-based incident response management platform, organizations make consistent, defensible breach notification decisions in half the time. The Radar Breach Guidance Engine™ profiles and scores data privacy incidents and generates incident-specific notification recommendations to help ensure compliance with data breach laws as well as contractual notification obligations. Privacy leaders around the globe rely on RadarFirst for an efficient, consistent, and defensible solution for privacy incident response. Learn more about a career with RadarFirst, visit radarfirst.com/careers.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Will Smith’s comeback campaign is in full swing thanks to the new Antoine Fuqua movie “Emancipation,” which begins streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday. The film follows the escape of an enslaved man, Peter (Smith), from a Louisiana plantation during the Civil War. In his review, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle writes that the film is “something distinct from many recent big-screen treatments of slavery and also more shallow. Fuqua’s film is often harrowing and gripping but also less nuanced and too narrowly confined in genre conventions than its real-life protagonist deserves.”
— “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” is a dream almost 15 years in the making for the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who first announced his plans to make an adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s story in 2008. After many years of false starts, Netflix helped del Toro realize his vision, with beautifully intricate stop-motion puppets and voice actors like David Bradley (Geppetto) and Ewan McGregor (Sebastian J. Cricket). He’s set the story in Italy between the two world wars during the rise of fascism. The “Pan’s Labyrinth” filmmaker told Vanity Fair that though the film is challenging, he hopes it will appeal to all generations. “These are times that demand from kids a complexity that is tremendous,” he said. Co-directed by Mark Gustafson, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” hits Netflix on Friday.
— Or for a holiday-themed romantic comedy (with some earnestly blatant brand tie-ins), head over to Amazon Prime for “Something from Tiffany’s,” in which a jewelry mix-up sends two relationships into a spiral. Kendrick Sampson plays a man about to propose to his longtime girlfriend and Zoey Deutch plays a woman in a dead-end relationship who accidentally gets an engagement ring meant for someone else. This mishap is an elaborate set-up that gets Sampson and Deutch to meet. Directed by Daryl Wein and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, “Something from Tiffany’s” starts streaming Friday.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— Can’t get to New York but still want to hear chart-toppers? Join the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden concert on Friday with Dua Lipa, Lizzo, The Kid Laroi, Backstreet Boys, Charlie Puth, AJR, Demi Lovato, Lauv, Ava Max, Dove Cameron and Jax. The concert will be carried live across the country on all iHeartRadio CHR stations and will livestream exclusively via The CW App and CWTV.com. Not happy with just listening? There’s also an exclusive IMAX Live presentation in IMAX theatres nationwide for the first time.
— Broadway star Idina Menzel opens up about her career and her life in the documentary “Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?” Menzel has starred in “Rent” and “Wicked” as well as created the legendary voice of Elsa in Disney’s “Frozen.” Cameras follow Menzel on a national tour over the course of 16 shows as she juggles the challenges of being a working mom with a grueling travel schedule, all while preparing finally to realize her dream of singing at Madison Square Garden in her hometown of New York City. Join her Friday on Disney+.
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— In the new TV series “George & Tammy,” Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon play out the passionate but tumultuous relationship between country music stars Tammy Wynette and George Jones. The couple divorced in 1975 after six years together, but they remained a major influence in each other’s lives. Chastain and Shannon also sing the artist’s legendary songs in the series including Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man” and Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” The show premiered Sunday simultaneously on Showtime and the Paramount Network, and the remainder of the series will be available exclusively on Showtime.
— The true crime genre is booming but ID/discovery+ explores a case perhaps you haven’t heard of. “The Tetris Murders” is a three-part look at the murder of Vladimir Pokhilko, one of the creators of the video game “Tetris,” died along with his family in their California home in 1998. Originally believed to be a murder-suicide, investigators revisit the case and find it’s much more complicated than once thought. “The Tetris Murders” debuts Monday on ID and discovery+.
— Spoiler alert: “The Masked Singer” has already unveiled its season eight winner but the hit Fox show has one more episode to air just in time for the holidays. A special singalong edition airs Wednesday on Fox, featuring new performances, bloopers and behind-the-scenes material.
— Season two of the heartwarming “Little America” debuts on Apple TV+. on Friday. Created by Academy Award winner Siân Heder, actor Kumail Nanjiani, and Emmy-nominee Lee Eisenberg (“The Office,” “WeCrashed,”) the scripted anthology series tells the unique stories of immigrants in the United States who are trying to achieve their dream. New episodes include stories of a Somali chef preparing for the Minnesota State Fair; a Korean medical student whose passion is hat design and a Japanese woman in Ohio trying to form a women’s baseball team.
— Alicia Rancilio
VIDEO GAMES
— “Dragon Quest Treasures” is the latest spinoff of Square Enix’s long-running series of role-playing epics. It’s an origin story of sorts for two of the characters from 2018′s “Dragon Quest XI,” Erik and Mia. We meet them as children living on a Viking ship before they’re magically transported to the land of Draconia. Familiar monsters, from slimes to sabercats, abound, but now the kids can recruit the beasts to help them hunt for loot. And they can spend their fortune building an elaborate castle while they search for seven elusive Dragonstones. It’s a more lighthearted take on the “DQ” franchise, and it comes to the Nintendo Switch on Friday.
— Lou Kesten
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine, the Swiss government said Friday.
The Swiss Defense Ministry said that Germany’s defense and economy ministers wrote on Feb. 23 to Swiss Defense Minister Viola Amherd, setting out German manufacturer Rheinmetall’s interest in buying Leopard 2 tanks that the Swiss army doesn’t plan to put back into service.
They assured Amherd that the tanks, if bought, wouldn’t be sent to Ukraine and would be used by Germany or its NATO and European partners to fill the gaps in their own stocks created by their donations of tanks to Kyiv and to improve the availability of replacement parts.
That’s an issue because Switzerland has a long tradition of neutrality. Germany so far has been unable to persuade the Swiss to provide supplies from their stockpile of ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that Berlin provided to Ukraine.
The ministry, in an emailed response to a query after Swiss daily Blick reported on the request, didn’t specify how many tanks Germany would like to buy. Switzerland has 230 of the German-made Leopard 2 tanks, 96 of which aren’t in operation, according to German news agency dpa.
Amherd this week responded to the German government that any sale would require a decision by the Swiss parliament to declare the tanks officially removed from service, and that while there are discussions in parliament, no such decision has yet been made.
Her ministry said that the army has determined that in principle it would be possible to do without a “limited number” of battle tanks.
Germany is providing 18 of its own military’s Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, and they are expected to be delivered later this month. Together with tanks provided by Sweden and Portugal, they will make up a battalion. Poland and other countries also are providing Leopard 2 tanks.
Germany’s defense minister has pushed for the tanks to be replaced as quickly as possible.
German Defense Ministry spokesman Arne Collatz confirmed Germany’s interest in the tanks from Switzerland but said there had been no discussion yet of how many tanks might be involved.
Asked whether similar queries were made to other countries, Collatz replied that “we are in constant contact and good talks with many partners.” He didn’t elaborate. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/germany-seeks-to-buy-mothballed-swiss-leopard-2-tanks/ | 2023-03-04 12:25:29 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/germany-seeks-to-buy-mothballed-swiss-leopard-2-tanks/ |
Former Hoosiers coach Knight battling undisclosed illness
(AP) – Former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight was hospitalized over the weekend with an undisclosed illness but was not listed as a patient on Monday at two hospitals in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives.
An email from the university about Knight’s health was sent to former Indiana basketball players on Friday asking for prayers and saying the former coach hoped to return home soon.
The university did not have an update on Knight’s condition on Monday.
The 82-year-old Knight won three national championships, 11 Big Ten titles and 662 games at Indiana before being fired in September 2000 after he allegedly grabbed a student by the arm in a hallway. The incident violated a zero-tolerance policy instituted by the university following an investigation into accusations of physical and verbal abuse made by former player Neil Reed, who died of a heart attack in 2012.
Texas Tech hired Knight in 2001, and he stayed there until retiring in 2008 with a then-Division I record 902 career wins.
Knight was succeeded by his son, Pat, at Texas Tech and moved back to Bloomington in 2019. Then, after vowing never to return to an Indiana University event, he relented on that promise by attending the Hoosiers’ game against Purdue in February 2020, joined by dozens of his former players and former Purdue coach Gene Keady.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Amber Heard's sister has testified she personally witnessed Johnny Depp and Heard strike each other during a fight.
Whitney Heard Henriquez became the first witness to testify during the five-week trial that she personally witnessed Depp hitting Heard. Depp has said he never struck Heard at any time.
But on Wednesday, Henriquez said both Depp and Heard landed blows in a March 2015 fight.
A friend of Heard's also testified Wednesday that she saw cuts and bruises on Heard that resulted from Depp's assaults.
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ROCKWALL, Texas — After high school and college careers in which he achieved milestone after milestone, Rockwall native Jaxon Smith-Njigba fittingly snagged himself another notable accomplishment on Thursday night.
He became the first wide receiver off the board in the 2023 NFL Draft when he was selected at No. 20 by the Seattle Seahawks.
That's not exactly a shocker, though. The Ohio State slot receiver was projected by most draftniks to be the top pass-catcher off the board in this year's draft.
Rightly so, too. The six-foot-tall, 198-pound wideout has dominated at every level of competition in the game.
Over the course of his Rockwall High School career, Smith-Njigba had 5,346 career receiving yards and 82 touchdowns across 44 games.
In college, he set the FBS Bowl Game and Ohio State single-game record for most receiving yards by posting 347 receiving yards in the 2022 Rose Bowl. He also holds the Ohio State records for most catches in a single game (15 catches, a feat he accomplished twice) and most most receiving yards in a single season (1,606 yards, which he posted as a sophomore in a 2021 season in which he snagged 95 catches).
Smith-Njigba declared for the NFL Draft after a junior season in which a hamstring injury limited him to only three games played. He also chose to skip participating in the college playoffs in order to continue rehabbing and preparing for the draft.
He comes from a family of athletes -- his older brother Canaan Smith-Njigba plays outfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates and his father Maada Smith-Njigba played linebacker at Stephen F. Austin University -- and seems to have a strong support system around him.
As his mother Jami Smith recently told WFAA as her son was getting in final preparations for the draft, reaching the NFL has always been her son's goal -- and his family was intent on helping him get there. They hired him a skills trainer when Jaxon was a teenager, and a speed coach in recent years to help him get faster.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Thursday, December 1:
- Nexstar Media Group Inc. (NASD:NXST) will replace Sabre Corp. (NASD:SABR) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Sabre will replace Flagstar Bancorp Inc. (NYSE:FBC) in the S&P SmallCap 600. S&P MidCap 400 constituent New York Community Bancorp Inc. (NYSE: NYCB) is acquiring Flagstar Bancorp in a deal expected to be completed soon pending final conditions. Sabre has a market capitalization more representative of the small-cap market space.
- S&P SmallCap 600 constituent PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF) will replace Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:NUS) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Nu Skin Enterprises will replace PBF Energy in the S&P SmallCap 600. PBF is more representative of the mid-cap market space, and Nu Skin is more representative of the small-cap market space.
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Warriors vs. Lakers Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - Western Conference Semifinals Game 5
Published: May. 10, 2023 at 4:54 PM EDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
The Los Angeles Lakers are 7.5-point underdogs heading into a potentially-deciding Game 5 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center on Wednesday, starting at 10:00 PM ET on TNT. The Lakers lead the series 3-1.
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Warriors vs. Lakers Game Info & Odds
- Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Chase Center
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Warriors vs. Lakers Score Prediction
- Prediction: Warriors 118 - Lakers 115
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Spread & Total Prediction for Warriors vs. Lakers
- Pick ATS: Lakers (+ 7.5)
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Over (225)
- The Lakers (40-39-3 ATS) have covered the spread 47.6% of the time, 1.2% more often than the Warriors (39-42-1) this season.
- As a 7.5-point favorite or more in 2022-23, Golden State is 13-11 against the spread compared to the 4-11-1 ATS record Los Angeles puts up as a 7.5-point underdog.
- Los Angeles and its opponents have eclipsed the total 52.4% of the time this season (43 out of 82). That's less often than Golden State and its opponents have (45 out of 82).
- As a moneyline underdog this season, the Lakers are 23-28, while the Warriors are 37-21 as moneyline favorites.
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Warriors Performance Insights
- Golden State has been carried by its offense, as it ranks second-best in the NBA by scoring 118.9 points per game. It ranks 21st in the league in points allowed (117.1 per contest).
- The Warriors have been racking up assists in 2022-23, ranking best in the NBA with 29.8 dimes per game.
- In terms of three-point shooting, everything is clicking for the Warriors, who are draining 16.6 three-pointers per game (best in NBA) and shooting 38.5% from three-point land (second-best).
- Of the shots taken by Golden State in 2022-23, 52.1% of them have been two-pointers (61.5% of the team's made baskets) and 47.9% have been threes (38.5%).
Lakers Performance Insights
- With 117.2 points scored per game and 116.6 points allowed, Los Angeles is sixth in the league offensively and 20th defensively.
- The Lakers are 15th in the NBA in assists (25.3 per game) in 2022-23.
- Beyond the arc, the Lakers are 24th in the league in 3-pointers made per game (10.8). They are 24th in 3-point percentage at 34.6%.
- Los Angeles takes 64.9% percent of its shots from inside the arc, and 35.1% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 74.8% of Los Angeles' baskets are 2-pointers, and 25.2% are 3-pointers.
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An innocent-sounding character named "Huggy Wuggy" may be used to scare young kids, according to media reports.
Huggy Wuggy is a character from the October 2021 video game "Poppy Playtime," described as a "horror/puzzle adventure" in which the player attempts to "survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory," notes the Steam page for "Poppy Playtime."
During gameplay in the first chapter, players realize they are being followed by Huggy Wuggy, one of the toys that was created in the now-abandoned factory.
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The character became popular on YouTube after the initial release of "Poppy Playtime."
Many Huggy Wuggy fans made videos that garnered millions of views.
Knockoffs of the toy based on the video game character can now be found on the streets of New York City at souvenirs stands and around the world at street vendors, according to The New York Times.
Fox News Digital reached out to Playtime Co., the official Huggy Wuggy merchandise retailer, for comment regarding questions about the product.
Huggy Wuggy also stars in many fan videos on TikTok and other social media sites, the publication Level reports.
The name of the doll can fool parents, who may assume "Poppy Playtime" is just as innocent as "Peppa Pig" when they see it on YouTube and TikTok, according to media reports.
One YouTube edit appeared to show a scene from the kid’s show "Peppa Pig," Newsweek reported in 2022.
"One song includes the lyrics ‘I could hug you here forever, till you breathe your last breath together,’" that outlet reported about a Huggy Wuggy song.
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Huggy Wuggy was also a popular Halloween costume choice in 2022, just over a year after "Poppy Playtime" debuted.
Recently, parents were warned their kids may be harassed at school with Huggy Wuggy-related pranks.
A primary school in England warned parents last year that "a sinister character going by the name of 'Huggy Wuggy' is being viewed by our children online, some as young as Year 2."
Wrote Justine Brown, head of Deal Parochial Primary School in Walmer, United Kingdom, "The character can be easily viewed on YouTube channels and is a rather sinister looking bear with razor sharp teeth that sings worrying songs about hugging and killing."
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"We are seeing children recreating a game on the playground with hugging and whispering nasty things in the recipient's ear," Brown continued. She called Huggy Wuggy "a very deceiving character, as hugs should be seen as something kind and loving."
Huggy Wuggy's "cute name" enables products with the character "to infiltrate [parental] firewalls and filters" online, she also said.
"Please be vigilant about what your children are watching as children can become upset and confused by what they see," said Brown.
A New York City-based clinical psychologist said that it's important for children, if they're old enough to understand, to be informed that characters like Huggy Wuggy are "just pretend."
It is also important for kids to "understand that it's something meant to scare them in a fun, playful way," said Dr. Jayme Albin.
"This will help them reframe any experiences they have with the toy," Albin added.
"But it’s also important for them to know that they’re not to use the toy to scare other children."
A "Huggy Wuggy Song" inspired by the game has over 10 million views. The song is not found in the game; it was written by YouTuber TryHardNinja.
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In a pinned comment on his video, the songwriter explained that the song was never intended for children and that he went out of his way to ensure that it was not made available on YouTube Kids.
"Most importantly, I have marked this video ‘Not for Kids’ upon upload and it does not appear in the YouTube Kids app," he said.
"There is no ‘bait and switch’ in this video to try to mislead kids into thinking they are clicking on a video of a cute character to be surprised by an indie game monster," he continued in his pinned comment.
"The video solely exists on the general YouTube platform, which by default isn’t intended for a very young audience," he added. "This is the only content I have control over and I have already made sure it’s not on YouTube kids."
The company that created the "Poppy Playtime" video game urged caution when considering warnings and threats about the character Huggy Wuggy and how it may be used to scare children.
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"The vast majority of the controversy we are seeing regarding warnings from schools about the Huggy Wuggy character are completely untrue and/or grossly exaggerated," Zach Belanger, president and CEO of Enchanted Mob, told Forbes.
"As far as we are aware, all of these warnings from schools are originating from fan made content based off our game," he continued.
There are ways that parents can protect their children from inappropriate content on YouTube, says the website SafetyDetectives.com.
In addition to YouTube's own products, YouTube Kids and Restricted Mode, there are other apps that can be purchased to screen out offensive or suggestive content, said the site.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA an all-new, ground-breaking, clean, prestige beauty brand delivering supercharged clean artistry makeup powered by innovation, announces their partnership with celebrity makeup artist Rokael Lizama, as the brand's Complexion Consultant. Sarah Tanno, remains at the helm and forefront, as Haus Labs Global Artistry Director.
"I could not be more honored to be working with the Haus Labs team as their newest Brand Complexion Consultant. Working with clients who need to have their makeup perfected on and off the stage/on camera, I really valued Haus Labs stance to create complexion products, such as the Triclone Skin Tech Foundation, that provides an incredible skin-like finish that gives skin a healthy hydrated glow. It also includes a diverse range of shades that cater to a multitude of skin tones + undertones, feels weightless on the skin with a medium coverage and catches the light beautifully." - Rokael Lizama, Celebrity Makeup Artist and Haus Labs Brand Complexion Consultant.
Rokael Lizama (@rokaelbeauty) is one of the most celebrated industry makeup artists known for his coveted work on some of the world's highest profile singers and social media queens, including but not limited to: Beyonce, Kourtney Kardashian, Mariah Carey and Normani. Born in Mexico, Rokael has collaborated with global beauty brands around the world and is excited to bring his expertise to Haubs Labs. Working closely with Haus Labs Product Development and Artistry teams, Rokael provided shade validation, tested and helped to ensure that the entire 51 shade range and performance for Triclone SkinTech Foundation and Bio-Blurring Loose Setting Powder were inclusive and provided a multitude of undertones.
"As our Haus Labs Complexion Consultant, Rokael's experience working with some of the most famous faces across a multitude of skin tones and mediums including video, print and film were incredibly valuable as we worked tirelessly with Sarah Tanno, Haus Labs Global Artistry Director and Nick Gavrelis, Product Development Expert and Artistry Advisor (formerly of MAC) to select and validate the shades for each family – Deep, Medium-Deep, Medium, Light-Medium, Fair and Light as well as perfect the undertones for each of the 51 shades of foundation. For the Bio-Blurring Loose Setting Powder, he was instrumental in helping us optimize the shades and product performance across all skin tones." - Gloria Ryu, Senior Vice President of Product and Innovation.
As part of the partnership with Haus Labs, Rokael will be working with the education and social teams at Haus Labs to create long-lasting beauty looks that provide a seamless transition from day to night through video, events and training. On Haus Labs TikTok and YouTube channels, the brand will be providing a peek behind the curtain and masterclass content of Rokael walking through some of his top tips and tricks of how he approaches complexion on his clientele, such as his nuanced secrets when it comes to achieving celebrity skin, brush mechanics, color and product placement in every shade family.
Additionally, Rokael will be leading the Haus Labs Foundation Tutorial at SEPHORiA: Virtual House of Beauty on Sunday, September 18th (to get tickets to the Masterclass go to www.sephoria2022.com).
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A North Carolina teenager is accused of killing her boyfriend and asking friends to help her clean it up.
Greensboro resident Kaylee Turnipseed, 18, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Quantell White, 21.
During a court appearance on Tuesday, officials said that the Winston-Salem Police Department (WSPD) arrested Turnipseed after people called and told them that she said she’d shot and killed White, her boyfriend.
Prosecutors say Turnipseed asked friends to help her clean up the crime scene. WSPD called the Greensboro Police Department about the case and they went to an apartment, where they found White’s dead body.
The prosecution also claims that Turnipseed confessed to the crime when she was taken into custody. No motive was discussed.
Turnipseed was denied bond due to the allegations that she attempted to cover up the crime. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/north-carolina-teen-accused-of-murdering-boyfriend-asking-friends-to-help-clean-up/ | 2023-02-09 00:35:45 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/north-carolina-teen-accused-of-murdering-boyfriend-asking-friends-to-help-clean-up/ |
The cold case was solved through advancements in DNA technology
ABILENE, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The Abilene Police Department announced Wednesday that another arrest has been made in connection with the 2005 death of a Midland man. 43-year-old Jose Angel Morales has been charged with First Degree Felony Homicide.
In April of 2005, a fight broke out between 21-year-old Bobby Knox Beck, an oil field hand from Midland, and two unknown men. Beck was stabbed multiple times outside a home located in the 1900 block of North 5th Street.
The case, which had been considered “cold” for several years, was given new life thanks to new technology, the City of Abilene said. DNA evidence from the scene came back to two suspects- Morales, and Marco Ramos. Ramos was charged with the crime in October of 2022.
Morales was booked into the Tom Green County jail in April on unrelated charges and APD requested an arrest warrant which was executed on June 7. Morales remained custody as of Wednesday afternoon on a $200,000 bond. Ramos has since bonded out of jail and his mugshot was not immediately available. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/abilene-man-charged-in-connection-with-2005-death-of-midland-man/ | 2023-06-07 23:18:55 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/abilene-man-charged-in-connection-with-2005-death-of-midland-man/ |
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy auto and transport industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the auto and transportation industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- NACTOY Names 26 Semifinalists for 2023 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year Awards™
"This year's group of semifinalists highlights the changes we've seen sweeping across the automotive industry in recent years: Most mainstream vehicles now fall into the Utility category; most vehicles in the Car category are focused on performance or luxury; and more electric vehicles than ever before are starting to hit the market," said NACTOY President Gary Witzenburg. - Union Pacific Issues $600 Million in Green Bonds to Fund Investments Aimed at Reducing Carbon Footprint
"Union Pacific helped shape our nation's history and we're excited to be a leader on the path to a more sustainable future," said Beth Whited, Executive Vice President – Sustainability and Strategy. - New-Vehicle Prices Increase for Fifth Straight Month, Set Record Again in August, According to Kelley Blue Book
The Kelley Blue Book new-vehicle average transaction price increased to $48,301 in August 2022, beating the previous high of $48,080 set in the prior month. - Airstream® Welcomes Rangeline® to Motorhome Product Line
Whether heading out on a long road trip or simply going across town, this 21-foot handcrafted camper van turns road travel into a seamless experience where you relish the journey to and from as much as you do the destination. - The New Kia Telluride X-Pro Climbs High in New Creative Campaign Debuting During the 74th Emmy® Awards
For 2023, Kia's flagship SUV introduces a new X-Pro model built for adventures in the wild, and Kia will take things to new heights through an in-show video montage highlighting the new Telluride. - Aptiv Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Intercable Automotive Solutions
Leveraging Intercable's highly automated manufacturing processes, innovative product design, and strategic relationships with key European automotive OEMs, Aptiv will enhance its position as a global leader in vehicle architecture systems. - VinFast Delivers the First 100 VF 8 All-Electric SUVs and is Ready for Global Export
After these initial deliveries in Vietnam, VinFast plans to export the next batch of approximately 5,000 VF 8s headed to the US, Canada, and Europe from November. - Lockheed Martin, AT&T Demonstrate 5G High Speed Transfer of Black Hawk Data to 5G.MIL® Pilot Network
The test demonstrated that wireless 5G technologies on the flight line can support accelerated maintenance operations and improved aircraft readiness to support our service members. - CARFAX-Built Search Tool Identifies Tens of Millions of Open Recalls Nationwide
The Vehicle Recall Search Service (VRSS) has identified 29 million vehicles on the road with an open recall since it was launched in March 2018. - More than 3 in 4 Americans Feel Less Safe in Self-Driving Cars, Survey Finds
"Whether because of road rage, reckless driving, or car accidents, it's understandable that many people are wary of taking their eyes off the road and relying on a self-driving car," Rachael Brennan, a licensed property and casualty insurance expert at Policygenius, said.
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PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects on Thursday, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the projects would help modernize America’s transportation systems.
“This is a program that recognizes many of the most interesting and compelling ideas and designs and plans aren’t going to come from Washington, but more of the funding should,” Buttigieg said. “That’s what we’re delivering here.”
Buttigieg traveled to Arizona to highlight projects in Phoenix and Tucson, each of which are receiving the maximum $25 million. In Phoenix, the money will help build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Rio Salado, connecting the city’s southern area with downtown.
In Tucson, the money will revamp a prominent street and replace a 1960s-era vehicle bridge that’s in poor condition. It also will add a separate bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of what Mayor Regina Romero called “a transformative investment in Tucson’s infrastructure.”
While the Tucson project will expand the number lanes for motorists, some projects elsewhere will reduce them. For example, a $17 million grant will help narrow a five-lane road to three lanes in the Chicago suburb of Munster, Indiana, in an effort to decrease traffic crashes. The money also will fund a 10-foot-wide multi-purpose path along the street and plant more than 250 trees.
For many road improvement grants, “we’re doing it in mind of also benefitting the bike and pedestrian side,” Buttigieg said.
Other newly announced projects in the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program also provide funding for bicycle and pedestrian paths.
Texas and Kansas are each receiving about $25 million for hiking and biking trails. Huntsville, Alabama, is getting $20 million to improve a pedestrian corridor linking downtown to isolated neighborhoods. Another $20 million is helping finance a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Potomac River between Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Buttigieg said the U.S. Department of Transportation received about $13 billion in grant applications.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion. The funding marks a significant increase from the $983 million distributed among 90 projects in 2021. The allotment is the largest dating to 2009 for a program that has undergone multiple name and emphasis changes during the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Though still substantial, the funding doesn’t have quite the buying power as anticipated when the infrastructure legislation passed Congress last year. That’s because inflation has driven up the cost of key transportation construction materials, such as steel plates for bridges and asphalt for paving roads.
This year’s projects range from a new seawall and port improvements in Sitka, Alaska, to the construction of a four-lane parkway in the Virgin Islands.
Among other projects, New Jersey is getting $20 million to elevate a roadway that serves as a main evacuation route for Atlantic City and its casino industry. In Louisiana, $20 million will go toward the design and construction of two train stations along a planned route between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Whatcom County, Washington, will get $25 million to replace a 60-year-old ferry serving rural Lummi Island with an electric hybrid model.
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Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Mo. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/over-2b-announced-for-roads-bridges-bike-lanes-across-us/ | 2022-08-12 15:23:51 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/over-2b-announced-for-roads-bridges-bike-lanes-across-us/ |
Jury awards $27 million to man who had meningitis, misdiagnosed with flu
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa jury has returned a $27 million verdict against a Des Moines medical clinic after a man with bacterial meningitis was misdiagnosed with the flu, suffered strokes and said he has been permanently injured.
The Polk County jury returned the verdict Monday in the lawsuit filed in 2017 against UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine in Des Moines.
Joseph Dudley and his wife Sarah Dudley filed the lawsuit after Joseph became ill in February 2017 and went to the clinic in southeast Des Moines. They reported he had dizziness, delusions, a headache, high fever and a cough.
A physician’s assistant in charge of the clinic at the time diagnosed him with the flu although tests returned negative, said Dudley’s lawyer Nick Rowley. Dudley was given Tamiflu and a pain reliever and sent home.
Two days later he went to the emergency room at UnityPoint Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where a doctor diagnosed the bacterial meningitis resulting from a heart valve infection. Dudley was put into a medically induced coma and was in intensive care for eight days during which he had a series of strokes causing the loss of hearing in his right ear, vertigo and dizziness, numb feet and legs, and much slower thinking and reaction time, Rowley said.
“Mr. Dudley will suffer from a lifetime of permanent brain damage because they failed to perform a simple blood test, a complete blood count,” said Rowley, founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice.
West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has 400 clinics, 20 regional hospitals and 19 community network hospitals in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
UnityPoint Health spokesman Mark Tauscheck said the company believes it met well-established standards of care.
“We respect the jury process but strongly disagree with this verdict and are exploring all options including an appeal,” he said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anyone who's been around Sacramento for a while knows that the Railyards in the downtown area has been sitting empty for years.
However, a new expansion project for the Railyards, bringing housing and even a hospital to the area, is supposed to double the size of downtown.
One of the Railyards’ anchor developments is a stadium that Sacramento hoped a Major League Soccer team would play in. But, the next MLS expansion team is officially going to San Diego.
With or without an MLS team, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg says the stadium at the Railyards is still being built.
"We are moving forward with a first-class stadium in the Railyards," said Steinberg. "Hopefully, it will be in partnership with Major League Soccer, but either way, we are going to work in partnership with the Sac Republic team, the community and the fan base to bring years of great soccer to Sacramento."
At last check, the stadium in the Railyards is expected to generate over 2,600 jobs, host up to 15,000 fans and be home to soccer games, concerts and festivals.
Soccer is definitely still something that Sacramento residents ABC10 spoke to would love to see happen.
"As someone who just got done playing college soccer, having a professional team here would be everything," said Elisha Burbridge, a Sacramento resident. "You see how big it is around the world, the World Cup, and how it's really the world's game. And I think having that here in Sacramento would be a huge privilege, and something that the city would do very well with."
"We definitely deserve one," said Ali Saeed, another Sacramento resident. "I mean, we got a basketball team. I mean, that's doing great, and... adding a soccer team or any other team after that, that'd be awesome."
Time will tell if Sacramento’s soccer dreams come true. | https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/to-the-point/sacramento-railyards-downtown-mls-soccer/103-6f362389-3dee-43ce-bdb3-3b5223b53ce9 | 2023-05-19 02:46:27 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/to-the-point/sacramento-railyards-downtown-mls-soccer/103-6f362389-3dee-43ce-bdb3-3b5223b53ce9 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A new passport acceptance center has opened in Downtown Raleigh.
The facility opened last month in the wake County Justice Center. It will accept complete DS11 for a new passport and will forward it to the passport section of the state department.
Walk-ins are welcome at the location however appointments are recommended.
The hours of operation are 8:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday to Friday | https://abc11.com/new-passport-office-wake-county-justice-center-application-travel/12052775/ | 2022-07-15 03:44:52 | 0 | https://abc11.com/new-passport-office-wake-county-justice-center-application-travel/12052775/ |
Grants of up to $40K available for dental disease prevention, treatment and oral health education
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation announces the launch of its annual signature grant program for oral health projects designed to bring a smile to Arkansans. New this year is the increased individual grant maximum of $40,000.
From June 13 through Aug. 12, 2022, eligible organizations may apply for Community Grant funds to support new or existing programs that provide oral health education, dental disease treatment or preventive oral care. Initiatives must serve primarily low-income, uninsured and underserved Arkansans.
The Foundation will award a total of up to $500,000.
Applicants, especially first-time applicants, are encouraged to attend a free webinar on June 14 for detailed information, application guidelines and an opportunity for Q+As. The webinar will also be recorded for later viewing by registered attendees.
"The Foundation funds community-focused oral health projects that take a bite out of tooth decay, gum disease and other oral health issues among uninsured Arkansans," said Chrissy Chatham, executive director of the Foundation. "A healthy smile goes beyond the mouth. With proper oral hygiene and the right dental treatment, individuals are more likely to eat and speak properly, feel confident at work and school and reduce their risk of other debilitating health complications. We hope our funding supports those outcomes."
Applicants must be an Arkansas-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, government agency, school or charitable dental treatment facility. They may apply for amounts ranging from $2,500 to $40,000 to support program-specific administrative/staffing costs, capital needs, dental clinic treatment expenses or program-related operational expenses.
Grants are awarded based on the applicants' ability to meet any of these funding goals: support low-cost clinics, provide oral health educational opportunities, support service-connecting organizations, and incorporate oral health into broader social determinants of health.
Selections will be made in November, and grant funds will be issued in January 2023.
Grant guidelines and the online application may be accessed at https://www.deltadentalar.com/2023-community-grants on or after June 13.
Advance registrations for the free, informational webinar on June 14, 2-3 pm, can be made at https://www.deltadentalar.com/2023-community-grant-webinar-signup.
The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation is committed to transforming oral health through collaboration, innovation, education and service. Since 2015, the Foundation has contributed an average of $1 million per year to local communities to support oral health education, prevention and treatment programs. More information is available at https://www.deltadentalar.com/giving-back/delta-dental-of-arkansas-foundation/about.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing Israeli school trips to Poland, saying it recommends a number of “problematic sites” that distort history.
Yad Vashem issued its statement weeks after Israel and Poland announced a breakthrough agreement meant to repair ties that had been badly damaged due to disagreements over how to remember Polish behavior during the Holocaust. Israeli youth trips to Poland had been one of the key points of contention.
The March 22 agreement, which still needs to be ratified by both countries’ parliaments, stresses the importance of youth education “and the need to tell the full story of the dark times of the Holocaust and World War II.” The contents of the agreement were first reported by the liberal daily Haaretz.
It also calls for visits to “sites commemorating the Holocaust and other crimes of World War II,” including sites of special importance to each country’s history. Student groups are required to visit at least one site on a long list of museums and memorials recommended by the other government.
In its statement, Yad Vashem said the trips must maintain “complete historical accuracy, including the role of Poles in the persecution, handing in, and murder of Jews during the Holocaust, as well as in acts of rescue.”
It said the list of authorized sites in Poland had been compiled without its input and includes “problematic sites that should not be visited in an educational context.”
The list includes dozens of sites, including art galleries, royal palaces and Jewish history museums that already are popular destinations for Jewish visitors.
Poland's Foreign Ministry said the two nations “have come to an agreement that it is good for young people to learn about all aspects of Jewish, Israeli and Polish history, not limited to the Holocaust.”
Yad Vashem did not say which sites it considers problematic. But the list includes the Ulma Family Museum, a site that tells the story of a Polish family that rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
The museum has been criticized for portraying the family, which was murdered along with the Jews they sheltered, as representative of mainstream Poles at the time, instead of a small minority who risked their lives.
Another museum commemorates Poland’s so-called “cursed soldiers,” anti-communist resistance fighters, some of whom collaborated with the Nazis and killed Jews toward the end of the war as they tried to prevent the imposition of communist rule.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry played down the controversy. It said the list had been approved by Israel’s Education Ministry and included dozens of choices, including the popular POLIN museum, which presents the history of Polish Jewry.
The inclusion of more controversial sites that are unlikely to be visited might be rooted more in Polish politics than international education. Poland's nationalist government can point to the list as it appeals to its political base ahead of parliamentary elections this fall.
Poland has been one of Israel’s closest allies in Europe. But in recent years, relations have deteriorated due to disagreements over how to remember Polish involvement in the killing of Jews by German forces during World War II.
Nazi Germany occupied Poland in 1939 and killed millions of Jews and non-Jews. Unlike other countries occupied by Germany, there was no collaborationist government in Poland. While some Poles risked their lives to save Jews, others helped the Germans hunt down and kill them.
Poland’s governing nationalists have sought to depict Polish crimes as a marginal phenomenon and focus almost exclusively on remembering the Polish heroes who helped Jews. Historians, Israeli authorities and Jewish survivors who suffered persecution at Polish hands before, during and after the war have condemned the nationalist position and accuse the government of seeking to whitewash history.
For years, young Israelis made pilgrimages to Auschwitz and other Holocaust and historic Jewish sites. But Israel canceled the trips last year, claiming the Polish government was trying to control the Holocaust-studies curriculum taught to Israeli children.
In its lead editorial on Tuesday, Haaretz said the agreement “comes at a heavy cost to Israel” and accused the government of cheapening the memory of the Holocaust in the name of diplomatic expediency.
Noting that Israel marks its annual Holocaust memorial day next week, it said: “We must also not forget who the people are who agreed to sell out Holocaust remembrance.”
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Gera reported from Warsaw, Poland. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/israeli-holocaust-memorial-criticizes-deal-with-17890466.php | 2023-04-11 14:14:00 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/israeli-holocaust-memorial-criticizes-deal-with-17890466.php |
Appellate court rules that Missouri man with schizophrenia can be executed after all
The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday.
Johnny Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing 6-year-old Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in 2002.
With questions swirling about his mental competency, the execution was halted last Tuesday by a divided three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court. But after the Missouri Attorney General’s Office asked that the full court reconsider, that decision was reversed in a 7-3 ruling.
The case will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before the scheduled execution date.
Attorneys for Johnson have claimed his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding the link between his crime and the punishment. They have also said Johnson has delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.
The Missouri Supreme Court in June declined to halt the execution based on the mental health claim. The attorney general’s office challenged the credibility of psychiatric evaluations of Johnson and contended that medical records indicate he is able to manage his mental illness through medication.
Johnson lured the girl to an abandoned glass factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free. He killed her with bricks and rocks, then washed off in the Meramec River. Johnson confessed to the crimes.
Casey’s disappearance set off a frantic search involving first responders and volunteers. Her body was found in a pit less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
The execution would be the fourth in Missouri this year.
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Border Patrol investigating after boat with 11 passengers washes up in Huntington Beach
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers are investigating an incident in Orange County in which a boat carrying 11 people washed ashore.
The incident took place in Huntington Beach around 9:30 p.m. Monday near the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and 14th Street, said Jennifer Carey, public affairs manager for the city.
Responders with the Huntington Beach Fire Department were called to the scene to check the status of the passengers, Carey said Tuesday. No injuries were reported.
Such reports are not uncommon in Orange County. Last year, a panga boat carrying 14 passengers from Mexico was intercepted at Laguna Beach’s Agate Street Beach on May 18. A similar sighting was reported in Newport Beach three days earlier, and a third incident was recorded on May 2.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is overseeing the investigation into Monday’s incident. It was still unclear Tuesday whether anyone was detained at the scene and where the vessel — which appears to be an unmarked motorboat — was taken.
Representatives of the agency did not respond Tuesday to requests for more information.
The mother of a girl at Pepper Tree Elementary School said her daughter, who is Black, was given drawings with the messages, “You’re my favorite monkey” and “To my favorite cotton picker.”
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WASHINGTON — The National Archives and Records Administration recovered more than 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, according to newly public government correspondence with the Trump legal team.
The numbers make clear the large volume of secret government documents recovered months ago from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, well before FBI officials returned there with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and removed an additional 11 sets of classified records. The warrant reveals an FBI investigation into the potential unlawful possession of the records as well as obstruction of justice.
The figures on documents were included in a May 10 letter in which acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall told a lawyer for Trump, Evan Corcoran, that the Biden administration would not be honoring the former president's protective claims of executive privilege over the documents.
Corcoran had weeks earlier requested additional time to review the materials in the boxes before the National Archives produced them to the FBI so that he could determine whether any specific document was subject to executive privilege and therefore exempt from disclosure, according to the letter.
The letter was made public Tuesday on the website of the National Archives. It was released Monday night on a website launched by John Solomon, who was appointed by Trump in June to be one of his designated representatives to the National Archives and who is a Trump ally and conservative journalist.
The archivist's letter says the Justice Department had found “no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former President against an incumbent President to prevent the latter" from obtaining from the National Archives presidential records that belong to the federal government and that are needed for current government business.
As a result, the letter said, claims of executive privilege would not be honored and the FBI would be given access to the documents in a matter of days.
The National Archives had asked the Justice Department to investigate after saying that it had located classified material among the 15 boxes of records it retrieved from Mar-a-Lago that it said should have been turned over by Trump at the end of his White House tenure.
In the letter, archivist Wall writes that in those boxes, the National Archives had identified items marked as classified at the top secret level as well as information about special access programs.
It says the records included over 100 documents with classified markings, “comprising more than 700 pages” and cites an excerpt from separate correspondence from the Justice Department's National Security Division saying that “access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation” but also for an “assessment of the potential damage” resulting from the manner in which the documents were transported and stored.
Corcoran did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the letter.
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- The bi-directional loader features a 180-degree rotating cab.
- The project includes support from the leading global engineering services company, Roush Industries.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pro-Tech Group, LLC, a minority-owned company providing innovative, sustainable and safe logistics and supply chain solutions, today announced its patent award from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a 180-degree rotating cab Class VII variable reach type loader ("bi-directional loader") - U.S. Pat. 11,518,660. Pro-Tech Group chose Roush Industries Inc. to complete a feasibility study and build a working prototype for pilot testing in Q4 2023.
"First and foremost, we couldn't be more thankful for the support from Roush and our partner GameAbove Capital in helping make the bi-directional loader a reality. Safety and speed are at the forefront of our decision to pursue this innovation further," says Earle B. Higgins, CEO of Pro-Tech Group. "Having a machine of this kind in the logistics and construction industry is long overdue. What is in the market serves its purpose. However, due to the size and mechanics, current machines present significant safety concerns for the operators and surrounding workers when moving forward and backward. We believe the number of telescopic loader-related incidents, injuries, and deaths reported across the globe to be considerable enough for a product like ours to be utilitarian. Our bi-directional loader will improve worksite safety and the speed of handling cargo and other items."
The core workings of the bi-directional loader are to allow the operator to swivel the cab 180 degrees to face the direction in which the loader is traveling. The mechanics eliminate driving the loader in reverse while looking over the shoulder and entirely relying on a spotter, side and rearview mirrors, and sensors. The bi-directional loader enhances visibility and offers better maneuverability around tight construction sites and cargo distribution centers.
The bi-directional loader complements Pro-Tech Group's flagship product, the Pro-Tech Container (PTC)—an industry-first, patented, railroad industry-approved, collapsible shipping container designed for autoracks. Today, the PTC can be transported in and out of autoracks and through distribution centers using a modern telescopic loader. Through testing with a major automotive leader in 2020, the time of operations for handling the PTC was considered satisfactory for logistical efficiencies. Pro-Tech Group estimates a decrease in PTC handling time of up to 50% by substituting today's standard telescopic loader with the bi-directional loader.
"We could not be more excited to have the bi-directional loader go to market soon. Not only will it improve our container system, but a variety of companies and industries will benefit from this innovation. Our patent also allows us to explore the mechanics of the rotating cab on other machines and we will implement the technology where it is considered necessary," says Higgins.
Pro-Tech Group chose Roush, an American company specializing in engineering, prototyping, testing and manufacturing services based out of Livonia, Michigan, to solidify the feasibility study for the prototype of the bi-directional loader. "When we were looking for a company to support this initiative, Roush was the top choice. They are widely known for their ingenuity and exceptional team of engineers. Roush is the type of company that can bring something this game-changing to reality," says Higgins.
"We are thrilled to work with Mr. Higgins and Pro-Tech Group on this project," said Steve Wesoloski, Roush Business Development Manager. "The uniqueness of the bi-directional loader is a new challenge for us, and we are confident in our expertise to build a fully working prototype for real-world testing."
The Pro-Tech Container (PTC)
Pro-Tech Group introduced the Pro-Tech Container in 2020. Explicitly intended for U.S. automakers, the PTC capitalizes on deadheading autoracks after successful long-haul automobile shipments across the country. That same year, Pro-Tech Group entered its investment partnership with GameAbove Capital to complete testing and further product development.
Through Pro-Tech Group's study of the automotive shipping industry, it is estimated that automakers can save nearly $10 million annually using the Pro-Tech Container system. Pro-Tech Group has received recognition for the PTC from Canadian National, Ford Motor Company, The National Association of Black Suppliers, and Stellantis.
Definition of Class VII Variable Reach Type
The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) defines Class VII reach type as a drivable machine equipped with a telescoping boom, which enables it to pick and place loads at various distances and lift heights in front of the machine. The ability to reach out in front of the machine allows the operator flexibility in the placement of a load.
About Roush
For almost 50 years, Roush has been widely recognized for providing innovative engineering, testing, prototyping, and manufacturing services to the advanced mobility, aerospace, defense, and theme park industries. Roush is unique in its ability to leverage services across the complete product development cycle, solving customers' most complex technical challenges, and accelerating critical product launch targets. Please visit www.roush.com.
About GameAbove Capital
GameAbove Capital, a CapStone Holdings Inc. company, is a private capital fund focused on investing in and partnering with advanced-staged businesses with market leadership positions in services and products promoting transportation, technology, and sustainability to name a few. GameAbove Capital also intends to help close the gap in funds available to women and minority business owners. To learn more, visit www.GameAboveCapital.com.
About Pro-Tech Group
Pro-Tech Group, LLC, is a comprehensive supply chain management company providing shipping and logistics innovations to various global industries. Pro-Tech Group is the owner of two patented products and designs: Pro-Tech Container - U.S. Pat. No. 9,016,490 (2015) and the Pro-Tech Bi-directional Loader - U.S. Pat. 11,518,660 (2022). The company, founded in 1999 by Earle B Higgins, Sr., is headquartered in Southfield, MI, and is a proud member of the national and Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council. To learn more, visit www.protechgroup.us.
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HAVRE — On Monday evening, the Havre City Council had its monthly meeting, deciding to schedule an ordinance meeting for Tuesday, June 20th at 7pm. Discussed on the meeting’s docket will be the permitted of chickens within the cities limits.
Since the issue of “Urban Hens” was first presented to the council in 2015, the issue has been hotly contested.
“There are a lot of people who are very emotionally supportive of it, and there are a lot of people who are very emotionally, you know, have a problem with it,” says City Councilman, Andrew Brekke.
Those in favor, like resident Al Garver, believe in the sustainability and economical nature of eggs.
“Now, I'm an organic gardener, I have a vegetable garden in there and have a whole garden and again, being able to feed, produce to hens and you get those rich eggs, it's just something organic gardeners like to do,” says Garver.
Garver recently wrote an op-ed in the Havre newspaper, pleading in favor of raising hens. He also created a petition on change.org which amassed more than 200 favorable signatures in just one week.
There are, however, concerns many of these signatures belong to residents living outside the cities limits.
For those who disagree with allowing chickens, concerns over pestilence, smell and disease are raised.
“Varmints decide, you know that hey, this sounds like a pretty good meal. So they're going to be looking to see what they smell. It's not a pretty sight. It smells, and when you've got a lot of small yards and it's not a good thing, in my opinion,” says Havre resident David Brewer.
One military veteran at the meeting said adamantly that chickens set him off, causing him adverse triggers to his health. There are also concerns over chickens ability to spread avian flu, especially to nearby Hudderite colonies.
A number of restriction have already been drafted as follows:
• Up to six hens
• No roosters
• Must have a chicken coop and run (includes requirements)
• Chickens must be shut in at night
• Must not be in front yard
• Annual permit from the city is required
• Coops and runs must be aesthetically pleasing
• Neighbors on all sides must provide written approval of their consent
With an ordinance meeting scheduled for June 20th, the Council will discuss the pros and cons of allowing chickens onto residential properties to eager participants. Most of the council do agree that the best solution to this, is a democratic one.
“It would be appropriate to put it on the ballot for the whole city to vote on,” says Councilwoman Lindsay Ratliff.
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Suspect in police shooting taken into custody
DANA, Ind. (WISH) — Indiana State Police officers say a suspect in a shooting that injured a police officer was taken into custody Monday.
Justin Henry, 46, of Urbana, Illinois, is facing charges of attempted murder for a shooting on Feb. 24 that injured a police officer.
According to officers, the shooting took place after 7 p.m. near Dana, Indiana, which is two hours west of Indianapolis, right on the Illinois border.
Investigators say that officers pursued Henry after he failed to stop for a traffic violation. Once Henry’s vehicle came to a stop near a house in Dana, Henry stepped out of the vehicle and began shooting at the officers, shooting and injuring a deputy with the Vermillion County Sheriff’s Department.
Officers continued their pursuit of Henry until Henry stole a farm truck, driving the vehicle toward the officers. Police fired at the truck and struck Henry.
Both the deputy and Henry were taken to an area hospital and treated for their wounds. Henry was later transported to an Indianapolis hospital for further treatment.
Henry was released from the hospital Monday and was being held at the Vermillion County Jail without bond. An initial hearing was scheduled for Wednesday. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/suspect-in-officer-shooting-taken-into-custody/ | 2023-03-29 20:36:03 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/suspect-in-officer-shooting-taken-into-custody/ |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jaylen Clark scored 24 points and No. 19 UCLA opened the second half with a 17-0 run on its way to an 87-64 rout of Denver on Saturday for the Bruins’ fifth straight victory.
Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 18 points on 9-of-11 shooting for the Bruins (8-2), who last week opened Pac-12 play with a pair of wins. Clark's points were one off his career high.
Clark dunked twice off his own steals to highlight the big run that put the game away. The Bruins stretched their nine-point halftime lead to a 61-35 advantage. Jaquez added six points in the spurt.
“The defense had changed. We started hawking the point guard, we knew he was the head of the snake,” freshman Dylan Andrews said. “We started speeding them up and turning the ball over. It felt great.”
Denver (8-3) has six players who average double figures, but they didn't put up those numbers Saturday. Touko Tainamo had 16 points and seven rebounds as one of two starters in foul trouble. Justin Mullins added 14 points.
Denver twice got within four points in the first half. Tyger Campbell (3 of 10) and freshman Amari Bailey (2 of 9) struggled with their shooting. Campbell and Bailey also were a combined 0 for 8 from 3-point range.
“It happens, you miss shots. I was really unhappy with our energy when the shots don’t go in,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said. “We got to rebound the ball. The leaders, particularly our guards, can’t look like they lost their dog.”
Clark had a big hand in a 10-0 run later in the half. He combined with freshman Adem Bona to score all the points and extend UCLA's lead to 74-42. Clark opened with a 3-pointer before Bona's 3-point play. Clark then stole the ball and scored on a layup in which he got fouled. He didn't make the free throw, but Bona finished off the run with a basket.
UCLA's defense forced the Pioneers into a season-worst 24 turnovers. The Bruins scored 31 points off Denver's miscues and dominated the paint, 56-30.
Andrews saw his most minutes of the season and finished with a season-high 11 points and six assists.
REMEMBERING JALEN HILL
The Bruins remembered former player Jalen Hill in an emotional pre-game ceremony.
Hill was 22 when he died last summer after going missing in Costa Rica. He started 40 of 77 games over three years until leaving last season for personal reasons.
Jaquez asked Hill after he left the team if he could wear Hill's No. 24 and his former teammate agreed.
“We miss him dearly,” Jaquez said.
Hill's parents and sister stood next to his framed jersey and a floral wreath during a moment of silence. After a tribute video played, the team gathered around the family for a group hug. Cronin stood to the side before individually hugging Hill’s loved ones.
“It's still hard for all of us to process,” Cronin said.
Clark said, “In the first half it kind of affected me. It's just really, really sad.”
The team will attend a memorial service for Hill on Sunday.
MCCLENDON IN ACTION
Will McClendon saw the first serious minutes of his UCLA career.
The guard tore the ACL in his right knee shortly after arriving on campus in 2021 and had to sit out all last season. He's still wearing a knee brace as a precaution. He appeared briefly against Oregon last weekend, but clocked 10 minutes Saturday and hit a 3-pointer.
“It’s great to see him overcome all that,” Clark said. “He’s out there every day with us in practice. It’s nice to see him get some shine.”
BIG PICTURE
Denver: The Pioneers' only other defeats so far are two losses to Sacramento State, including one in overtime this week that snapped their six-game winning streak.
UCLA: The Bruins face another tough two-game test with East Coast games against No. 13 Maryland and No. 16 Kentucky next week. Their only two losses so far came against ranked Illinois and Baylor in November.
UP NEXT
Denver: Hosts Colorado Christian on Wednesday.
UCLA: At No. 13 Maryland on Wednesday in the first of back-to-back games against ranked opponents.
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REGINA - Connor Bedard's hat trick was in vain as his Regina Pats fell 9-5 to the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors in the Western Hockey League on Friday.
Jagger Firkus countered with a hat trick for Moose Jaw (39-22-0-3) with Eric Alarie, Ryder Korczak, Logan Dowhaniuk, Atley Calvert, Martin Rysavy and Josh Hoekstra also scoring for the Warriors.
Moose Jaw has a playoff spot secured, while the Pats (32-28-3-1) are still looking to lock in a post-season berth.
Bedard is the projected No. 1 pick in June's NHL draft.
Warriors netminder Jackson Unger made 21 saves for the win.
Alexander Suzdalev and Riley Ginnell were Regina's other goal scorers.
Kelton Pyne stopped 22 shots and Drew Sim nine in Regina's net.
RAIDERS 4 WHEAT KINGS 3
BRANDON, Man. — Sloan Stanick scored twice, including the game-winner at 17:37 of the third period. for the Raiders.
Carter Anderson and Ryder Ritchie also scored for Prince Albert (27-34-3-0) with goaltender Tikhon Chaika stopping 36 shots.
Nolan Ritchie, Andrei Malyavin and Nate Danielson replied for Brandon (26-31-8-0) with Carson Bjarnason turning away 17 shots in a losing cause.
HURRICANES 6 HITMEN 4
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Tyson Laventure paced the Hurricanes with a goal and two assists.
Brayden Edwards, Trae Wilke, Jett Jones, Logan McCutcheon and Cole Shepard were the other goal scorers for Lethbridge (34-24-3-3).
Hurricanes goaltender Bryan Thomson had 26 saves.
Riley Fiddler-Schultz, Matteo Danis, London Hoilett and Maxim Muranov scored for Calgary (27-28-5-3).
Hitmen goalie Brayden Peters had 26 saves in the loss.
REBELS 2 BRONCOS 0
RED DEER, Alta. — Kyle Kelsey posted a 34-save shutout for the host Rebels (42-17-3-3).
Jayden Grubbe and Jace Isley scored once for Red Deer.
Broncos netminder Reid Dyck stopped 29 shots.
TIGERS 7 OIL KINGS 2
EDMONTON — Dru Krebs' hat trick paced the visiting Tigers to victory.
Cayden Lindstrom, Dallon Melin, Brendan Lee and Hunter St. Martin each scored singles for Medicine Hat (28-26-8-1).
Evan May stopped 20 shots in the Tigers' net while his Oil Kings counter part Kolby Hay turned away 22.
Ethan MacKenzie and Cole Miller were goal scorers for Edmonton (9-50-4-0) at the bottom of the league.
BLAZERS 5 ROCKETS 2
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Rockets goaltender Talyn Boyko's 55 saves weren't enough to stop Kamloops, who got goals from five different Blazers.
Emmitt Finnie, Shea Van Olm, Logan Stankoven, Connor Levis and Dylan Sydor all scored for Kamloops (46-11-4-2) atop the B.C. Division.
Blazers goaltender Dylan Ernst had a 24-save night.
Grady Lenton and Dylan Wightman replied for Kelowna (26-36-3-0).
THUNDERBIRDS 5 WINTERHAWKS 2
SEATTLE, Wash. — Dylan Guenther led the host Thunderbirds with a goal and two assists.
Mekai Sanders, Luke Prokop, Kevin Korchinski and Brad Lambert also chipped in goals for Seattle (51-9-1-2) atop the U.S. Division.
T-Birds goalie Scott Ratzlaff stopped 19 of 21 shots.
Josh Zakreski and Jack O'Brien each scored for Portland (39-18-4-3).
Dante Giannuzzi stopped 18 of 23 shots and Jan Špunar all seven he faced in Portland's net.
COUGARS 7 ROYALS 1
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Seven different Cougars scored for the hosts with Hudson Thornton's goal and two assists leading the way.
Cayden Glover, Riley Heidt, Koehn Ziemmer, Chase Wheatcroft, Arjun Bawa and Zac Funk also scored for Prince George (34-24-6-0).
Cougars goaltender Tyler Brennan stopped 20 shots in the win while Royals goalie Braden Holt repelled 31 shots by the Cougars.
Matthew Hodson scored for Victoria (15-42-6-1).
AMERICANS 3 CHIEFS 1
SPOKANE, Wash. — Jordan Gavin, Tyson Greenway and Jalen Luypen all scored in a winning cause for Tri-City (30-26-5-3).
Americans goaltender Tomas Suchanek stopped all but one of the 24 shots he faced.
Tommaso De Luca scored the only goal for Spokane (14-41-4-5) with goaltender Dawson Cowan making 21 saves in the loss.
GIANTS 3 SILVERTIPS 0
LANGLEY, B.C. — Jesper Vikman's 32-save shutout led the Giants to victory.
Captain Ty Thorpe had a goal and an assist, with Colton Roberts and Jaden Lipinski also scoring for Vancouver (26-29-5-3).
Tyler Palmer had 19 saves in the loss for Everett (31-30-2-1).
This roundup was generated automatically with a CP-developed application.
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The Reporter's Notebook Podcast, Ep. 39: Barbara Hubbard
This week, we’re talking to Sun-News reporter Leah Romero, who covers trending news.
We’re talking about Barbara Hubbard, who turned 95 on July 12, and was celebrated last Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Pan American Center at NMSU — a facility she once spent a lot of time in during her tenure as the university’s special events director.
Barbara Ann Johnston was born in Arkansas in 1927. After graduating from Henderson State she went to Tennessee to pursue a career as a doctor. In 1954 her career ambitions changed to become a teacher. She began teaching at Las Cruces High School as a Biology teacher in 1954.
On a blind date, in the early 60's she met her future husband, Peirce Hubbard.
At last Wednesday’s event, Barbara — or “Mother Hubbard” as she is affectionately called — shared stories about her 60 years in the entertainment industry.
READ MORE: Here are 180-plus shows Barbara Hubbard has promoted. How many have you been to?
A longtime resident of the Mesilla Valley, Barbara has been bringing big acts to perform in Las Cruces since the 1960s. As a nonagenarian, those efforts continue, and so does her passion for getting college students into the entertainment business. She is a force of nature, and hard to keep up with.
Over the years, Hubbard has built up quite a reputation in the industry.
This week, we’re honored to be joined by Leah, who will talk about her reporting and how she has covered it as a reporter.
Damien Willis is a Lead Reporter for the Las Cruces Sun-News. He can be reached at 575-541-5443, dwillis@lcsun-news.com or @DamienWillis on Twitter.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Fulgent Genetics, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of FLGT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 22, 2019 to August 4, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Fulgent had been conducting medically unnecessary laboratory testing, engaging in improper billing practices in relation to laboratory testing, and providing or receiving remuneration in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law; (ii) accordingly, Fulgent was likely to become subject to enhanced legal and regulatory scrutiny; (iii) Fulgent's revenues, to the extent they were derived from the foregoing unlawful conduct, were unsustainable; (iv) the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to subject the Company to significant financial and/or reputational harm; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: November 21, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/fulgent-genetics-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=33228&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of FLGT during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is November 21, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
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‘He had so much life ahead of him’: 12-year-old student killed hours after 6th grade commencement
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - A Mississippi community is mourning the loss of a 12-year-old after he was killed in a drive-by shooting after his 6th grade graduation.
Adrian McDougles’ mother had already begun the process of moving her kids from Jackson to Hattiesburg, one of his teachers said, but brought him back to Midtown Public Charter School’s campus on Thursday so he could participate in the graduation ceremonies.
Hours later, a drive-by shooting left Adrian dead and his older brother injured.
“Adrian was good and bright and smart and funny, and he had so much life ahead of him,” Luciana Taylor, one of his teachers, said. “There’s no telling what he could have become. And just to know that he wouldn’t ever be able to do that is heart-wrenching. It’s devastating. And it’s the part that really hurts the most.”
Taylor learned a lot about 12-year-old Adrian over the course of that year.
What stood out most to her was his personality.
“Every time the tears tried to fall, I would burst out laughing because I like to think every memory was hilarious,” Taylor said.
That includes the last memory she had with him on Thursday.
Taylor said she was in her classroom when Adrian burst inside and told her he had come all the way from out of town to get his certificate.
Taylor told him she didn’t have one for him.
“He grabs a sheet of paper from my front desk. And he writes on there, writes his name,” Taylor said. “He said, ‘Here.’ I said, ‘What am I going to do with it?’ He said, ‘Write my award on there.’ And I said, ‘What award?’ ‘What are you going to say?’ ‘I don’t know. Make up something.’ And I said, ‘Fine.’ So, I took the pen, and I wrote ‘Most Likely to Get on My Nerves.”
On Thursday alone, four children from age 6 to 16 were shot in Jackson, including the shooting that killed Adrian and injured his older brother Onterrio.
Those shootings became a galvanizing force for Jackson city council members to discuss new crime initiatives this week, including an ordinance that would hold parents accountable when their kids commit crimes with guns.
Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes said he plans to vote in favor of that ordinance once it’s put before the entire council.
“Whatever it’s gonna take to stop these killings, we need to do,” Stokes said. “School is out. We want to make sure when school starts back in August that not one child will miss school because that child is dead, killed by a bullet.”
Ward 2 Councilwoman Angelique Lee plans to support the ordinance as well, saying it’s their job to put forth legislation that makes people feel safe and in turn, makes the city safe as well.
“We need to do everything we can to curb crime. Right now, we’re in a war zone, you know,” Lee said. “People are feeling unsafe in this city. If we need to do something that would hold parents accountable, then we need to do that.”
Taylor said she thinks that’s a step in the right direction, but she also sees how many mothers and fathers simply check out of their kids’ lives.
“The more I teach kids as years go by, I just, sometimes I feel like, we get less and less involvement from parents, and so many excuses,” Taylor said. “I’m a parent, and ultimately, my kids and how they behave and how they carry themselves. It’s all things that I have instilled in them. Your children are a direct reflection of you.”
Other initiatives planned for Tuesday evening’s meeting of the council’s public safety committee include a discussion on expanding the city’s real-time camera footprint, more violence interruption efforts, and the creation of a crime prevention task force.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Connecticut state representative pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with the theft of more than $1.2 million in federal coronavirus relief funds from the city of West Haven, using some of the money for gambling at a casino, according to prosecutors.
Michael DiMassa, a West Haven Democrat, appeared in federal court in Hartford and pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud conspiracy. DiMassa's wife and his former business partner also pleaded guilty earlier this year, while a fourth person charged in the scheme awaits trial.
At the time of the theft, DiMassa was both a state representative and an aide to the West Haven City Council. Prosecutors alleged he used his city position, which had authority to approve the reimbursement of COVID-19 expenditures, to steal the funds — some of which he used for gambling at the Mohegan Sun Casino in eastern Connecticut.
DiMassa resigned from both positions after his arrest last year.
No sentencing date was set for DiMassa. The sentencing guideline range for the charges he pleaded guilty to is 41 to 51 months.
DiMassa didn't answer questions as he left the courthouse Tuesday.
DiMassa's wife, Lauren DiMassa, pleaded guilty in July to wire fraud conspiracy. Prosecutors said West Haven paid her nearly $148,000 for services she never provided to the city. Her sentencing is set for January.
The couple submitted fraudulent invoices to the city for coronavirus-related services including youth violence prevention, but instead they used the money for their own benefit, prosecutors said. Lauren DiMassa's lawyer has said she turned over most of the money she received from the city to her husband.
John Bernardo, Michael DiMassa's former business partner who served as a housing specialist for the city, also pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge for his role in the theft. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 29.
A fourth person charged in the case, business owner John Trasacco, pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors said Trasacco is linked to fraudulent invoices submitted to the city for COVID-19 related services that were never provided. His trial is slated to start on Nov. 21.
West Haven officials came under scrutiny for how they spent more than $1 million the city received in federal COVID-19 relief funds. An audit released in April indicated about 80% of the expenditures should not have been allowed.
In May, Gov. Ned Lamont approved a recommendation by a state board to place West Haven's finances under greater state oversight. The city had previously been placed under state oversight because of budget deficit problems. | https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2022-11-01/ex-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-in-theft-of-1-2m-in-covid-19-aid | 2022-11-01 18:04:44 | 1 | https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2022-11-01/ex-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-in-theft-of-1-2m-in-covid-19-aid |
Which gifts for video gamers are best?
Last year was an incredible year for anyone who loves video games, but buying a gift for a gaming enthusiast can be tough if you aren’t up to speed with this year’s latest and greatest offerings.
While you may have heard about the recently released game streaming service, Google Stadia, the initial reports of performance issues mean you’re probably better off sticking with some of the tried-and-true names in gaming like Nintendo and PlayStation when shopping this holiday.
Here are the top gaming-related presents that we’d be excited to receive for the holidays.
What are the best gaming consoles to buy?
If you’re planning to buy a gaming console for someone, here’s the breakdown of the best and most popular options available.
The Nintendo Switch took the gaming world by storm when it launched in 2017 as the first platform specifically designed to switch between home console and portable system. It’s easy to dock on a TV for traditional gameplay or to quickly convert into handheld or tabletop mode.
Best for: College students who want an easily portable option or adults who grew up playing NES or Nintendo 64.
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The recently released Nintendo Switch Lite is more affordable than the original console and is specifically for handheld gameplay. It was optimized as a lightweight and compact system that allows players to enjoy gaming on the go with its vibrant screen and long battery life.
Best for: Kids who want to play games like Super Smash Bros and Pokémon or teens and adults who want the modern version of their old Gameboy Advance or Nintendo DS.
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This is the lightest and thinnest PlayStation ever, so it’s streamlined to fit with a high-tech but minimal flatscreen and soundbar setup (or any other rig). It offers its own streaming services that include games, movies, and music, but it can also connect with Netflix and Hulu.
Best for: The person who wants a gaming console and streaming device all in one. The PS4 removes the need for a separate streaming box, so it’s great for the minimalist.
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What are the best games for video gamers?
For the person who already owns their favorite gaming console, you might gift them one of these popular games so they can enjoy new adventures.
Pokemon Shield and Pokemon Sword
Players are invited to collect, train, and battle with the 400 different evolutions in what will likely be the most wanted games of the year. With so much to see, secrets to uncover, and online challengers to defeat, these new Pokemon games will keep players engaged for a long while.
Console: Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch Lite
Best for: Younger players or nostalgic adults who loved playing Pokémon growing up.
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Players take on the role of Cal Kestis, a young Jedi doing his best to survive constant persecution from the Empire and its band of ruthless Imperial Inquisitors as he attempts to revive the Jedi Order. This cinematic game features intense lightsaber battles, exotic worlds to traverse with the aid of impressive Force abilities, and a range of menacing foes.
Console: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or PC
Best for: Young fans of the recent “Star Wars” movies and series releases or older fans of the original franchise.
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Although Mario was historically the more popular of Nintendo’s red and green plumber duo, Luigi has taken off with the younger generation. The skinny green avatar has new tools and skills at his disposal as he navigates situations with the help of various inventions.
Console: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite
Best for: Younger children, especially elementary through college age.
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This role-playing game throws players into a galaxy of beautifully designed planets as they attempt to solve the many problems that come with waking up after being cryogenically frozen. Every decision deeply impacts the story as it unfolds all around the player.
Console: Xbox One or PlayStation 4
Best for: Adult players with active, curious imaginations.
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Capcom pulled out all the stops when they released a remake of the 1998 survival horror classic earlier this year, but there are more than enough creepy surprises to keep veteran Resident Evil players on their toes. It’s an affordable must-buy for gamers who enjoy a scary story or two.
Console: Xbox One
Best for: Fans of the previous Resident Evil or those who enjoy the horror genre.
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What are the best controllers and accessories to buy?
Xbox One Elite Series 2 Controller
The textured rubberized grip, built-in 40-hour battery, hair-trigger locks, adjustable thumbsticks, and Bluetooth connectivity make this the best controller on the market for the Xbox One as well as Windows 10 PC and tablet players who need an extremely customizable controller.
Best for: Those who spend a lot of time playing Xbox One or who want another gameplay option for a PC or tablet.
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Wireless GameCube Style Controller for Nintendo Switch
This controller is a blast from the past, as it has the same look and feel of a classic GameCube controller. But now it’s new and improved. It connects wirelessly and has motion controls to be compatible with all modern Nintendo Switch games.
Best for: Nostalgic Nintendo Switch Players who always talk about the simpler gaming consoles of their youth or big fans of Super Smash Bros.
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Razer Viper Ultimate Hyperspeed Gaming Mouse
People who prefer to play video games on their PC can feel the difference between a run-of-the-mill mouse and a high-end model. The wireless speed, precise sensor, 70 hours of battery life, and ergonomic design of the Viper Ultimate make all the difference.
Best for: Serious PC gamers.
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When President Joe Biden signs a proclamation on Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it will mark the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.
The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement, will be seen as more than just a cause of that movement, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.
“We are resolute that it now becomes an American story and not just a civil rights story,” Parker told The Associated Press, ahead of a planned proclamation signing ceremony at the White House.
With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, will be federally protected places. But Till’s family members, along with a national organization seeking to preserve Black cultural heritage sites, say their work protecting the Till legacy continues.
They hope to raise money to restore the sites and develop educational programming to support their inclusion in the National Park System.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday that the Till national monument will be the Biden-Harris administration’s fourth designation that reflects their “work to advance civil rights.” The move comes as conservative leaders, mostly at the state and local levels, push legislation that limits the teaching of slavery and Black history in public schools.
The Democratic president’s administration “will continue to speak out against hateful attempts to rewrite our history and strongly oppose any actions that threaten to divide us and take our country backwards,” Jean-Pierre said.
Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said the federal designation is a milestone in a yearslong effort to preserve and protect places tied to events that have shaped the nation and that symbolize national wounds.
“We believe that not until Black history matters will Black lives and Black bodies matter,” he said. “Through reckoning with America’s racist past, we have the opportunity to heal.”
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has provided $750,000 in grant funding since 2017 to help rescue sites important to the Till legacy. With its partners, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Lilly Endowment Inc., Leggs said an additional $5 million in funding has been secured for specialized preservation of the sites.
Biden’s proclamation protects places that are central to the story of Emmett Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers by an all-white jury and his late mother’s activism.
In the summer of 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley put her son Emmett on a train to her native Mississippi, where he was to spend time with his uncle and his cousins. In the overnight hours of Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett was taken from his uncle’s home at gunpoint by two vengeful white men.
Emmett’s alleged crime? Flirting with the wife of one of his kidnappers.
Three days later, a fisherman on the Tallahatchie River discovered the teenager’s bloated corpse — one of his eyes was detached, an ear was missing, his head was shot and bashed in.
Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and propelled the civil rights movement.
At the trial of his killers in Mississippi, Till-Mobley bravely took the witness stand to counter the perverse image of her son that defense attorneys had painted for jurors and trial watchers.
Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried.
There is already the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, which received philanthropic funding to expand programming and pay staff who interface with visitors.
At Graball Landing, a memorial sign installed in 2008 had been repeatedly stolen and was riddled with bullets. An inch-thick bulletproof sign was erected at the site in October 2019.
The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955.
In a statement emailed to the AP, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin saluted Mamie Till-Mobley’s courage to have the nation and the world bear witness to the scourge of racial hatred. The monument, he said, helps “ensure that Emmett Till’s story is not forgotten.”
The Till national monument will join dozens of federally recognized landmarks, buildings and other places in the Deep South, in the north and out west that represent historical events and tragedies from the civil right movement. For example, in Atlanta, sites representing the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., including his birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church, are all part of the National Park Service.
The designation often requires public and private entities to work together on developing interpretation centers at each of the sites, so that anyone who visits can understand the site’s significance. The hiring of park rangers is supported through partnerships with the National Park Foundation, the park service’s official nonprofit, and the National Parks Conservation Association.
Increasingly, the park service includes sites “that are part of the arc of justice in this country, both telling where we’ve come from, how far we’ve come, and frankly, how far we have to still go,” said Will Shafroth, the president and CEO of the National Park Foundation.
That’s where Leggs’ African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Till family’s work remains — to raise enough money so that the sites are properly maintained and have the staffing needed to educate the public.
For Parker, who was 16 years old when he witnessed Emmett’s abduction, the Till monument proclamation begins to lift the weight of trauma that he has carried for most of his life. Tuesday is the anniversary of Emmett’s birth in 1941. He would have been 82.
“I’ve been suffering for all these years of how they’ve portrayed him — I still deal with that,” Parker, 84, said of his cousin Emmett.
“The truth should carry itself, but it doesn’t have wings. You have to put some wings on it.”
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Associated Press writers Joshua Boak and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! Five Natrona County Students Advance to the State Spelling Bee
The Natrona County School District Spelling Bee showcased another year of literacy excellence and celebration for student participants.
Students not only demonstrated tremendous spelling skills and talents, but they also displayed good sportsmanship and public speaking skills, read a written statement from the NCSD.
Students in 2nd-8th grade completed the first round of written tests at their schools, including two tests with multiple-choice spelling and vocabulary words followed by one written spelling test.
"Congratulations to each of the students who shared their spelling talents in the individual school preliminary rounds; excellent work!" read the statement.
From the initial round, 25 spellers moved to the oral round of the District Spelling Bee.
The top 5 students who will move on to the State Spelling Bee include:
- 1st place, Abigail John - Casper Classical Academy
- 2nd place, Ben Munger - Summit Elementary
- 3rd place, Eddie Koch - Summit Elementary
- 4th place, Marie Holden - Casper Elementary
- 5th place, Tyler Clements - Summit Elementary
The NCSD Athletics & Activities office coordinates the District Spelling Bee.
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More manufacturing capacity, new retail products, celebrity recipes and a documentary video series highlight a year of announcements and celebrations
COLUMBUS, Ohio , June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1987, White Castle launched its retail division, becoming the first fast-food restaurant to offer its food in grocery stores for preparation at home. Some industry experts scoffed at the idea, saying a fast-food restaurant couldn't succeed as a consumer packaged-goods company. But White Castle proved them wrong. Its retail division has grown steadily over the years, becoming an integral part of the family-owned business' success and giving the brand a national presence.
"When my dad, Bill Ingram, was president and CEO, he wanted to make sure everyone had access to White Castle Sliders, including people who didn't live in a White Castle market," said Lisa Ingram, White Castle's current president and CEO. "That's how he came up with the idea of selling our Sliders in grocery and convenience stores. It was a strategic decision that has made a significant difference for White Castle."
Now observing its 35th birthday, White Castle's retail division has several reasons to celebrate.
The division sold its 6 billionth retail Slider at the end of 2021 and achieved record sales last year. In fact, 20% of its total sales since 1987 have come in the past three years alone, and the division is poised for continued growth.
To keep up with the increasing demand for its frozen Sliders, White Castle is expanding the manufacturing capacity at its plant in Vandalia, Ohio, near Dayton. The company has invested $27 million in the project, which will be finished this summer. The expansion doubles the size of the plant from approximately 75,000 square feet to 150,000 square feet.
During the groundbreaking ceremony last summer, White Castle officials named the plant "The House That Bill Built" in honor of Bill Ingram, the third-generation family member who was responsible for creating and expanding the retail division during his tenure as president and CEO. Today, The House That Bill Built, along with other dedicated manufacturing facilities in Covington and Louisville, Kentucky, supply packaged Sliders to retailers, large and small, in all 50 states.
As part of White Castle's commitment to bring even more craveable snacking solutions to consumers, White Castle on June 1 announced a partnership with Bellisio Foods, one of the nation's largest, most trusted frozen-food companies, to bring White Castle's Chicken Rings to retail outlets across the U.S.
One of the most popular menu items in Castles, Chicken Rings will debut this summer, making a welcome addition to White Castle's retail selection. These lightly breaded, tender, juicy white meat chicken rings will come in two flavors — original and spicy. Packaged in a stand-up, resealable pouch, they're ready to satisfy every crave anytime.
Look for another product announcement at the end of July.
"Our retail division continues to perform well and exceed our sales goals," said Tiffany Carreker, general manager and vice president of sales for White Castle's retail division. "These new products are going to enhance our existing line-up and make our retail offerings even more attractive to customers. It's a perfect way to celebrate our 35 years as a CPG business."
In late 2021, White Castle added the Chicken & Cheese Slider, White Castle's top-selling non-beef Slider sold in Castles, to its retail lineup. The rollout of the popular Slider, which is made with all white meat topped with American cheese, continues with wide acceptance among major food retailers nationwide. The Chicken & Cheese Slider joins five other craveable varieties of White Castle Sliders available in grocers' freezers: Original Sliders, Classic Cheese Sliders, Jalapeño Cheese Sliders, Chicken Breast Sliders and the Sausage, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Slider.
White Castle will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of its retail division in other ways, too.
Celebrity food enthusiast Adam Richman, the former host of Man v Food, recreated three of his favorite recipes using White Castle Sliders. This tasty trio of dishes — Slider Lasagna, Slider Scallion Pancakes and Afternoon Tea with Sliders — are very easy to make but result in surprisingly delicious flavor combinations.
And later this year, White Castle will release a documentary-style video series on social media. Called "The Crave Chronicles," these 30- to 45-second vignettes will go behind the scenes to show how Sliders are made, how they ended up in grocery stores nationwide, and how team members work to satisfy customers' cravings every single day.
"We've come a long way since retail's launch in 1987, not just in years, but in everything we've been able to accomplish, as well," Carreker said. "We make the great taste of Sliders available to Cravers all across the country, and that's always reason to celebrate."
About White Castle®
White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain, has been making hot and tasty Sliders as a family-owned business for 101 years. Based in Columbus, Ohio, White Castle started serving The Original Slider® in 1921. Today White Castle owns and operates more than 350 restaurants dedicated to satisfying customers' cravings morning, noon and night and sells its famous fare in retail stores nationwide. The Original Slider, named in 2014 as Time magazine's "Most Influential Burger of All Time," is served alongside a menu of creatively crafted Sliders and other mouthwatering food options, including White Castle's Impossible™ Slider, named by Thrillist in 2019 as the "Best Plant-Based Fast Food Burger." White Castle's commitment to maintaining the highest quality products extends to the company owning and operating its own meat processing plants, bakeries and frozen-food processing plants. In 2021, 100 years after the first Slider was sold, Fast Company named the fast-food pioneer one of the "10 Most Innovative Dining Companies." White Castle is known for the legendary loyalty of its team members, more than 1 in 4 of whom have worked for White Castle for at least 10 years, and also for its faithful fans ("Cravers"), many of whom compete each year for entry into the Cravers Hall of Fame. The official White Castle app, available at iTunes App Store or Google Play, makes it easy for Cravers to access sweet deals and place pickup orders at any time. They can also have their orders delivered using one of White Castle's delivery partners. For more information on White Castle, visit whitecastle.com.
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Nursing home workers from two area facilities called off strikes planned to begin Friday after reaching a tentative contract agreement, according to a news release Monday from SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania.
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Salon-quality hair care brand, VERB, advocates for LGBTQ+ community by creating exclusive Pride merchandise and committing 100% of proceeds to the AFC
NEW YORK, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Verb haircare announced today the launch of its pride campaign and year-round initiative aimed at bringing awareness to efforts of the Ali Forney Center (AFC) and its support of the LGBTQ+ youth community. Since 2022, Verb has worked in partnership with the AFC to donate over $42,000 worth of personal care necessities, pantry items, and meals to the LGBTQ+ youth community with the goal of empowering them with the tools needed to live independently. With the launch of this most recent partnership, Verb has committed to advocating for LGBTQ+ youth by offering its allyship and co-creating an exclusive pride merchandise offering in partnership with the AFC.
Throughout the month of June, a limited-edition, pride-inspired baseball cap will be sold for $20 at verbproducts.com with 100% of the proceeds being directed to the Ali Forney Center. The collaboration marks Verb's second annual partnership with the AFC. Committed to continued partnership, Verb's Creative Director, Luis Colón, currently sits on the Leadership Council for the Ali Forney Center and supports fundraising and sponsorship opportunities year-round.
Luis Colon, Verb's Creative Director, states "I am thrilled to work for a brand that is committed to giving back to the community. It's so important for brands to recognize the value of connections with organizations and groups like the Ali Forney Center, which is doing such important work to support LGBTQ+ youth. By working together, we create a more inclusive and equitable world for everyone."
In support of Verb's partnership with the Ali Forney Center, the brand will be hosting a campaign across its owned social channels and at verbproducts.com throughout the month of June featuring key members of the AFC and encouraging its community to become an ally and educate others on the impact giving back can have on LGBTQ+ youth.
"We are humbled and immensely grateful for Verb's commitment to our cause, and to making the world a better place. Brands are people, and people care about their community. It is important for brands, like Verb, to affirm that not only for their teams but also for their consumers, who yearn for a beautiful tomorrow" said Alexander Roque, President and Executive Director at the Ali Forney Center.
To learn more about Verb's pride initiative and partnership with the Ali Forney Center, visit verbproducts.com and aliforneycenter.org.
About Verb Haircare:
Born in Austin. Raised in New York. We keep it real: real products, real results, real people, no retouching. Just great hair with no filters. Verb products are loved by stylists and made with only good stuff. No parabens. No gluten. No harmful sulfates. PETA certified cruelty-free. Verb is a team of all types with one commitment, making the best hair care at one simple price.
About Ali Forney Center:
The Ali Forney Center was founded in 2002 in memory of Ali Forney, a homeless gender-nonconforming youth who was forced to live on the streets, where they were tragically murdered. Committed to saving the lives of LGBTQ+ young people, the AFC's mission is to protect these youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently. Learn more at aliforneycenter.org.
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Israeli troops killed three Palestinian men accused of executing a deadly attack last month that resulted in the death of a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters, the Israeli military said on Thursday.
In a joint operation of the army, police and Shin Bet security service, Israeli security forces entered the West Bank city of Nablus early Thursday and killed the three suspects. They alleged two of those killed were militants affiliated with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and the third supported the other two suspects.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that three people were killed in the fighting.
In a statement, the Israeli military said troops recovered two M-16 rifles and an AK-47 from the apartment where the men were located.
Gunbattle amid already high tension
The gunbattle in Nablus comes at a particularly sensitive time in the region, days after a prominent Palestinian prisoner, who had been on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison, died earlier this week.
Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, died after 87 days of starving himself to protest his detention in an Israeli jail. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are classified as terrorist organizations by the European Union, the United States and other countries.
Adnan's death was followed by exchanges of fire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups during a period of already high tension.
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Alek Thomas Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Mets - July 5
Published: Jul. 5, 2023 at 4:28 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Wednesday, Alek Thomas (.270 batting average in his past 10 games, with three doubles, a walk and an RBI) and the Arizona Diamondbacks play the New York Mets, whose starting pitcher will be Kodai Senga. First pitch is at 9:40 PM ET.
In his last game he had a one-hit performance (1-for-2) against the Mets.
Alek Thomas Game Info & Props vs. the Mets
- Game Day: Wednesday, July 5, 2023
- Game Time: 9:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Chase Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Mets Starter: Kodai Senga
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Alek Thomas At The Plate
- Thomas is batting .222 with eight doubles, two triples, three home runs and nine walks.
- Thomas has picked up a hit in 47.9% of his 48 games this season, with at least two hits in 16.7% of them.
- He has hit a home run in 6.3% of his games in 2023, and 1.8% of his trips to the plate.
- Thomas has driven in a run in 11 games this season (22.9%), including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- He has scored at least once 18 times this season (37.5%), including four games with multiple runs (8.3%).
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Mets Pitching Rankings
- The 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Mets pitching staff ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Mets' 4.50 team ERA ranks 22nd among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Mets pitchers combine to rank 24th in baseball in home runs given up (114 total, 1.3 per game).
- Senga (6-5) takes the mound for the Mets in his 16th start of the season. He has a 3.53 ERA in 81 2/3 innings pitched, with 101 strikeouts.
- In his most recent appearance on Wednesday, the righty tossed five innings against the Milwaukee Brewers, allowing two earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- The 30-year-old has amassed an ERA of 3.53, with 11.1 strikeouts per nine innings, in 15 games this season. Opponents have a .209 batting average against him.
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The Ocean City/Upper Township 12-and-under Little League team defeated Absecon 15-0 in District 16 pool-play Thursday.
Ocean City/Upper Township finished pool play 4-0 and will begin district playoffs Sunday.
On Thursday, Andrew Pashley pitched three perfect innings to earn the win. J.R. Dinsmore, Henry Bogle, Brody Wilson and Corey Clemens each finished with multiple hits for the winners. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/ocean-city-upper-township-beats-absecon-to-open-playoffs-sunday/article_8c6d0de6-1779-11ee-8b06-2f08b6b2934d.html | 2023-06-30 20:59:28 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/ocean-city-upper-township-beats-absecon-to-open-playoffs-sunday/article_8c6d0de6-1779-11ee-8b06-2f08b6b2934d.html |
Baby fatally shot while mother pushed him in stroller
MERCED, Calif. (Gray News) - An investigation is underway after a 9-month-old boy was shot and killed on a California street.
Police say the baby’s mother and her boyfriend were pushing him in a stroller Wednesday afternoon in Merced when someone driving by opened fire. At least three shots went off. Only the little boy was hit.
The boy’s mother took him to a nearby McDonald’s to call for help, but police say he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police identified the baby as Darius King Grigsby in a Wednesday night Facebook post.
No suspects have been identified.
Police are searching for witnesses and video surveillance as they continue to investigate.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. KFSN contributed to this report via CNN Newsource. | https://www.kwch.com/2022/11/10/baby-fatally-shot-while-mother-pushed-him-stroller/ | 2022-11-10 05:45:40 | 1 | https://www.kwch.com/2022/11/10/baby-fatally-shot-while-mother-pushed-him-stroller/ |
Philadelphia is struggling to properly investigate all of its sudden and unexplained deaths, a new report has found, citing the city’s opioid crisis, COVID-19, and a record-high homicide rate for exacerbating problems in an understaffed Medical Examiner’s Office.
An independent report on medical examiners’ mishandling of remains from the Philadelphia Police Department’s bombing of the MOVE complex in West Philadelphia in 1985 also criticized the office for wide-ranging problems — many associated having too few investigators and pathologists to keep pace with the city’s deaths.
Among America’s 10 most populated cities, Philadelphia is one of three that isn’t accredited by a national professional organization, a process that ensures certain quality standards are being met. Right now, even the office’s toxicology department isn’t accredited, something a national expert in the field called unusual.
“That’s very fundamental — that a toxicology lab is to be accredited,” said John Fudenberg, a retired Las Vegas coroner and executive director of International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners.
The report also criticized its lack of written policies. Establishing a policy manual will be one of the first tasks for a soon-to-be hired city medical examiner, said Cheryl Bettigole, the city health commissioner who oversees the medical examiners office, in an interview on Monday.
She said the MOVE controversy itself highlights one of those policies needing crafting: how much families should be told about the specimens and remains taken from victims in an investigation, and what input they should have about what happens to them.
» READ MORE: Philly health commissioner resigns over cremating MOVE victims without telling family; Kenney apologizes
Staffing shortages are contributing to the problems in the office, which has just 58 staffers and was asked to consider investigating 6,921 deaths in 2021, Bettigole said.
“We are very, very stretched,” she said.
The staffing shortages keep the office from effectively acting as an independent investigator — essentially another set of eyes, separate from law enforcement or prosecutors — on cases involving police killings or deaths in custody, according to the report prepared by the law firms Dechert and Montgomery, McCracken, Walker, and Rhoad.
The report included 16 recommendations for the medical examiner’s office, including a call for more independence from other branches of city government, cultural sensitivity training, and a push to gain national accreditation, which the health department has said could take years.
Bettigole said she is near the end of a search for a new chief medical examiner, a more-than $200,000-a-year position that has been vacant since the office’s previous director resigned in 2021 the handling of the MOVE victims’ remains.
Staff at the medical’s examiner’s office described feeling “overwhelmed and suffering burnout,” investigators found. It’s a complaint that resonates throughout the profession. Nationwide, there are just 400 to 500 full-time forensic pathologists working — half the number needed to fill vacancies at medical examiners’ offices across the country.
“It’s a common problem across the nation that medical examiners and coroners offices are underfunded and understaffed,” said Fudenberg. “The crux of that problem is the counties don’t fund the offices.”
An overwhelming caseload
One of the office’s primary goals is to ensure investigators are present when a police officer shoots someone or a person dies in government custody, like in a jail or prison, Bettigole said. Currently, the medical examiner’s office isn’t able to guarantee an investigator always responds those calls.
As of March 2022, the office had a $7.2 million annual budget, eight staff investigators and five unfilled investigator positions. Whenever a death is called in — and there were 6,921 in 2021 — an investigator determines whether the medical examiner’s office has jurisdiction, which typically involves cases with sudden, unnatural, or unexpected deaths.
In the 40% of cases where the office does get involved, an investigator must gather records, interview witnesses and relatives, and in some cases investigate scenes.
The report noted an independent review is particularly important in those cases to boost public trust. ”These deaths have the potential to be highly politicized, drawing heavy media interest and scrutiny,” the report stated.
» READ MORE: Questions persist over Philly’s mishandling of MOVE remains
Instead, staffers are swamped by a tide of death investigations that have only become worse during the pandemic. In 2021, the office performed 1,721 autopsies. That’s more than 240 autopsies per pathologist, the report stated. Even that is likely an underestimate, since it counts the current acting medical examiner as a pathologist, and his administrative work keeps him from doing a full slate of autopsies.
It’s questionable whether the office’s caseload would warrant accreditation, which requires no more than 250 autopsies per year for each forensic pathologist.
Reaching accreditation also requires that training, equipment, and an office’s physical location meet professional standards.
Medical examiners aren’t regulated by the federal government, and there are no national standards for the profession. About 4% of the nation’s 2,500 offices were accredited as of 2016, according to the report, although it is more common in big cities.
The lack of accreditation could result in criminal prosecutors losing cases to defense attorneys, who could home in on the medical examiner’s lack of professional certification, Fudenberg said.
Philadelphia’s health commissioner said the immediate goal is to address the toxicology department’s accreditation, a step needed before the office as a whole can obtain accreditation. And the report noted that toxicology was the only department within the office that has a policy manual.
Bettigole said she also is lobbying the city’s office of human resources to boost the median pay for some jobs in the hopes of attracting new workers and retaining current ones. The office added three new positions in 2022, but it loses people as quickly as it can hire them.
Difficult decisions
The report, released Thursday, was the result of a yearlong independent investigation commissioned by Philadelphia officials over the handling of a box of victims’ bones from the MOVE bombing that languished in the city medical examiner’s office for decades.
In 2017, the box was discovered in a storage room, and then-health commissioner Thomas Farley ordered them cremated without notifying the victims’ families. The decision outraged victims’ relatives when it came to light and led to his resignation. For reasons that remain murky, the remains were never destroyed, and are still held by the medical examiner’s office.
Daniel Hartstein, a lawyer for Lionel Dotson, whose sisters, Katricia and Zanetta, were killed in the bombing, said city officials showed him and Dotson what is believed to be bones of his sisters on a Zoom call last fall. Hartstein hopes to get them returned to his client soon.
The office’s treatment of the MOVE remains has caused Dotson “tremendous pain,” he said Monday.
“They were literally forgotten, just sitting in a box. The family thought they were buried and given a proper funeral,” he said. “How much disrespect can there be?”
The city has not had contact with the families of the bombing’s victims since the report was released Thursday. Health commissioner Bettigole said officials are in the process of reaching out to them. It isn’t clear who some of the bones belonged to, Bettigole said. The next step could be doing additional forensic investigation to confirm identifies, or creating a joint memorial for the remains.
The report described shoddy record keeping and storage policies that played a role in the misplacement of the remains. The office has introduced a digital record keeping system for specimens that should keep that from happening again, Bettigole said.
In February, the medical examiner’s facilities moved to a new location on North Broad Street, a big improvement over their older offices in West Philadelphia.
The staffing issues, though, are harder to resolve.
“I want this office accredited,” Bettigole said. “Unfortunately with the continued rise in the homicides and overdose deaths, it’s a moving target.” | https://www.inquirer.com/health/medical-examiner-philadelphia-move-forensics-remains-20220613.html | 2022-06-13 23:42:32 | 0 | https://www.inquirer.com/health/medical-examiner-philadelphia-move-forensics-remains-20220613.html |
'We're out-manned & out-gunned!' York City Police investigate 2nd homicide in a week
York City Police are investigating a second homicide in less than a week, and Commissioner Michael Muldrow addressed the recent violence in a statement.
A 19-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, died at WellSpan York Hospital after suffering multiple gunshot wounds, York City Police said in a news release Wednesday.
Officers responded to the reported shooting in 500 block of West Market Street around 11:52 p.m. Tuesday, the release states.
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Over the weekend, 28-year-old Akwame J. Anderson of the 400 block of Wallace Street, died at York Hospital after being fatally wounded in a shooting early Saturday morning.
And two weeks ago, 26-year-old Lykeem Bethune of York died a day after he was critically wound in a shooting.
No arrests have been made, Capt. Daniel Lentz said.
In his message, Muldrow wrote, "First, our thoughts and prayers go out to each one of these victims and the families they leave behind, because (regardless of the decisions people make) No One should ever die at a young age."
He said the symptoms, such as gun violence, gang beefs and crime, need to be addressed before deeper problems, including self-destructiveness, poverty and trauma, can be dealt with.
"The age of the actors getting younger and younger, and (with it) a system (one that's been trying to move from the punitive to the redemptive) struggling to find ways to balance human rights vs public safety..." he wrote.
Muldrow also noted the ease of access to high-capacity, high-volume automatic firearms and the limited staffing in the police department.
"We're out-manned & out-gunned!" he wrote.
"But even with all that said; We're still fighting, We're still thankful and committed to the strategies and the good work being done by our officers and community partners (to help hold the line through this difficult time)...
"And we're going to keep doing what we need to do to try to hold that line (and protect this community) until we get the resources we need to truly contend with those Symptoms and the "street level" challenges of this current climate (resources such as: 1. Community Surveillance Cameras, 2. Additional Officers, 3. and Conflict Resolution and Gun Violence Prevention Education in our schools)," he said.
York City Police detectives are investigating the latest homicides.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police:
- Submit a tip through the CRIMEWATCH App or at www.yorkcitypolice.com. Click on submit a tip and fill out the available boxes.
- Email Detective Baez at abaez@yorkcity.org.
- Call the York City Police Tip Line at 717-849-2204.
- Call the York City Police Department at 717-846-1234 or 717-849-2219.
Check back later for more information. | https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/28/york-city-police-investigating-second-homicide-in-less-than-a-week/69524234007/ | 2022-09-28 16:08:12 | 1 | https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/28/york-city-police-investigating-second-homicide-in-less-than-a-week/69524234007/ |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A nearly 20-year-old killer whale born at SeaWorld San Diego has died of an infection, the park announced Friday.
Nakai died Thursday night after aggressive efforts to treat him were unsuccessful, a park statement said.
Nakai was born at the park in September 2001. He was described as friendly and playful.
“He’ll be remembered as a curious and quick learner, often picking up behaviors just by observing the other whales in his pod,” the statement said. “Because of these natural abilities, Nakai participated in hearing studies to help scientists better understand the impact on orcas of noise from ships and other human activity.”
“His contributions to helping improve the health and survival of whales in the wild cannot be underestimated and will never be forgotten,” the statement said.
With Nakai’s death, there are now eight killer whales remaining at SeaWorld, ranging in age from 9 to 57 years old.
SeaWorld announced the end of its orca breeding program in March 2016, following years of pressure from animal rights protests and shifting public opinion about orcas being held in captivity.
The protests intensified after the release of the 2013 documentary “Blackfish,” which focused on the life of Tilikum, a killer whale responsible for killing trainer Dawn Brancheau when he dragged her into a pool at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010. The movie implied that orcas become more aggressive in captivity.
Nakai was the second orca to die at the park within a year. A 6-year-old female orca named Amaya died Aug. 20, 2021 after a sudden illness.
Kasatka, a 42-year-old female, died from a lung disease in 2017. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/killer-whale-born-at-seaworld-san-diego-dies-of-infection | 2022-08-07 20:27:07 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/killer-whale-born-at-seaworld-san-diego-dies-of-infection |
SUGAR LAND, Texas, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble Corporation plc ("Noble") today announced that the business combination with The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S ("Maersk Drilling") has been successfully completed. The transaction concluded through the completion of Noble's recommended voluntary public share exchange offer to the shareholders of Maersk Drilling. The companies are now operating as a single organization as of October 3, 2022.
Noble's President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Eifler, commented "Today marks an exciting new chapter as we bring together these two exceptional companies. The fundamental industrial logic of the combination is clear and has only grown stronger over the past year, driven by steady improvements in the offshore drilling market and a deeper appreciation of the immense talent across this newly combined team. I'd personally like to thank the employees of both companies for their sustained focus on safety, integrity, and service as we have worked through this demanding transaction process. I look forward to supporting this team through a rapid integration as we aim to position Noble as a new and dynamic leader in offshore drilling."
Charles M. (Chuck) Sledge, Noble's Chairman of the Board of Directors, added: "Today's combination of Noble and Maersk Drilling represents a defining moment in the history of offshore drilling. We are excited to join forces with Maersk Drilling's talented team and embark on this journey together as a combined company. I am confident that Noble is now better positioned to deliver enhanced value to all our customers and shareholders."
Consistent with the strategic rationale described in the merger announcement, the combination creates significant operational and financial opportunities for Noble's customers, shareholders, and employees through:
- A World Class Fleet – among the youngest and highest specification fleets in the industry, with global scale and diversification and a combined track record of industry-leading utilization.
- Enhanced Customer Experience – uniting two complementary cultures that are focused on best-in-class safety and customer satisfaction as well as a commitment to being an industry leader around sustainability and innovation.
- Highly Attractive Financial Characteristics – supported by contract backlog (as of October 3, 2022) of over $4 billion and a conservative balance sheet with low leverage and significant liquidity, Noble is set up to be a strong platform for cash flow generation and distribution potential.
- Significant Accretion from Scale and Synergies – annual cost synergies of at least $125 million, which are expected to be realized within two years after closing, with Noble's cost-competitiveness meaningfully enhanced via scale.
Noble has received preliminary commitments from a group of banks to enter into a $350 million, 3-year term loan to replace the existing Maersk Drilling syndicated facilities. Additionally, Noble has received a preliminary commitment for a $150 million, 3-year term loan to replace the existing Maersk Drilling loan with Danish Ship Finance. Each loan has an indicative initial interest rate of Term SOFR plus 3.50% with margin increases beginning in year two. The loans remain subject to final documentation and customary closing conditions, which Noble anticipates will be completed during the fourth quarter.
Noble expects to close the previously announced sale of five jackup rigs (Noble Hans Deul, Noble Sam Hartley, Noble Sam Turner, Noble Houston Colbert, and Noble Lloyd Noble, together the "Remedy Rigs") to Shelf Drilling Ltd. on October 5th for cash proceeds of $375 million.
Additionally, results from the exchange offer for Maersk Drilling shares show a strong preference for settlement in Noble shares rather than cash, with less than $2 million estimated cash required at settlement relative to the $50 million maximum cash settlement amount. Separately, the cash versus shares settlement split pertaining to the compulsory purchase ("squeeze-out") of the 9.97% minority of Maersk Drilling shareholders that did not tender their shares in the exchange offer will be known upon completion of the squeeze-out in mid-November 2022 (as further set out below).
Based on the closing of the business combination, investors should not rely on Noble's previously issued financial guidance for 2022, which is no longer applicable on a combined company basis. Noble will update the market with refreshed financial guidance in the near future.
Concurrent with today's closing announcement, Noble has published an updated fleet status report that can be found at www.noblecorp.com.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH VARIOUS REGULATORY AND STOCK EXCHANGE REQUIREMENTS
Reference is made to the voluntary public share exchange offer by Noble to the shareholders of Maersk Drilling to acquire the entire share capital in Maersk Drilling (excluding any treasury shares) in connection with the business combination between Noble Corporation and Maersk Drilling (the "Business Combination") as announced on August 8, 2022 (the "Exchange Offer"). The Exchange Offer was made pursuant to the business combination agreement (the "Business Combination Agreement") to combine Noble Corporation and Maersk Drilling, which was announced on November 10, 2021.
Admission to trading and official listing of the Noble Shares on Nasdaq Copenhagen
On September 8, 2022, Nasdaq Copenhagen A/S ("Nasdaq Copenhagen") provided their conditional approval for the admission to trading and official listing of Noble Shares (in the form of share entitlements) on Nasdaq Copenhagen under the symbol "NOBLE". As per the approval, and due to the satisfaction of the conditions contained therein, trading in Noble Shares will commence at 9:00 a.m. (CEST) today. Noble Shares are issued in USD, and the trading on Nasdaq Copenhagen and clearing through Euronext Securities Copenhagen will be carried out in DKK. In addition, Noble Shares are also listed on NYSE under the symbol "NE".
Changes to the board of directors and management team of Noble
Effective as of October 3, 2022, Claus V. Hemmingsen, Alastair Maxwell and Kristin H. Holth have been appointed to the Noble board of directors. Consequently, the current board of directors of Noble comprises the following seven individuals:
- Charles M. (Chuck) Sledge (Chairman)
- Claus V. Hemmingsen
- Alan J. Hirshberg
- Kristin H. Holth
- Alastair Maxwell
- Ann D. Pickard
- Robert W. Eifler
Further, Caroline Alting has been appointed as Senior Vice President – Operation Excellence and Mikkel Ipsen has been appointed as Vice President – Human Resources of Noble. Consequently, the following individuals comprise the executive officers (denoted with an asterisk) and other senior members of management of Noble:
- Robert W. Eifler, President and Chief Executive Officer*
- Richard B. Barker, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer*
- William E. Turcotte, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary*
- Joey M. Kawaja, Senior Vice President - Operations*
- Caroline Alting, Senior Vice President – Operational Excellence*
- Blake A. Denton, Senior Vice President – Marketing and Contracts*
- Mikkel Ipsen, Vice President – Human Resources*
- Laura D. Campbell, Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller*
- Kirk T. Atkinson, Head of Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE)
- Tine Østergaard Hansen, Vice President – Communication and Sustainability
- Brian Nygaard, Head of Integration
- Marika C. Reis, Chief Innovation Officer
Additional information on the experience and former positions held by the persons mentioned above may be found in the management team section of Noble's website at www.noblecorp.com and in section 22.3 "Executive Officers and Directors of Topco" of the exemption document prepared by Noble, as approved by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) on August 8, 2022 and also available on Noble's website.
Settlement of the Exchange Offer and changes in share capital and number of shares
On September 30, 2022, Noble issued 70,353,759 class A ordinary shares of Noble (these shares together with any other issued and outstanding shares of Noble, including those in the form of share entitlements as applicable, the "Noble Shares") to former shareholders of Noble Corporation, in connection with the closing of the Cayman Merger. Further, Noble issued 14,539,883 warrants ("Noble Warrants) to former holders of warrants exercisable for shares in Noble Corporation in connection with the closing of the Cayman Merger. Additional information about the Noble Warrants may be found on Noble's website at www.noblecorp.com.
In connection with the completion of the Exchange Offer, Noble has issued 60,137,000 Noble Shares to the former holders of Maersk Drilling shares or Acceptance Shares, as applicable (such number of Noble Shares not adjusted for cash settlement of fractional shares, which will result in a minor capital decrease post-completion), and delivered DKK 5,292,351 to Maersk Drilling shareholders who elected to receive exchange offer consideration in cash (plus additional cash paid in connection with the settlement of any fractional entitlements to Noble Shares). As a result of the completion of the Exchange Offer and the issuance of Noble Shares, there are 130,490,759 Noble Shares issued and outstanding and 14,539,883 Noble Warrants outstanding as of this date.
Initiation of compulsory purchase and delisting of Maersk Drilling
As acceptances representing more than 90% of the outstanding share capital and voting rights in Maersk Drilling have been obtained by Noble in the Exchange Offer, Noble has decided to exercise its rights under the Danish Companies Act to conduct a compulsory purchase of the Maersk Drilling shares held by the remaining minority shareholders of Maersk Drilling.
Further, Maersk Drilling has submitted an application to Nasdaq Copenhagen for the removal from trading and official listing of all Maersk Drilling shares from Nasdaq Copenhagen. On September 23, 2022, Nasdaq Copenhagen approved this request, as a result of which the delisting will be effective from October 4, 2022, and the last day of trading and official listing for Maersk Drilling Shares on Nasdaq Copenhagen will be on October 3, 2022. Maersk Drilling shareholders who have not accepted the Exchange Offer will not be able to trade the shares in Maersk Drilling on Nasdaq Copenhagen after October 3, 2022 but will instead have their shares purchased in connection with the compulsory purchase conducted by Topco in accordance with sections 70-72 of the Danish Companies Act.
The compulsory purchase conducted by Topco in accordance with sections 70-72 of the Danish Companies Act will be initiated on October 4, 2022. As a result of the compulsory purchase, all remaining Maersk Drilling shareholders, who have not accepted the Exchange Offer and have not sold their Maersk Drilling shares on Nasdaq Copenhagen prior to the delisting becoming effective, will be requested to transfer their Maersk Drilling shares to Noble within the four week compulsory purchase period beginning on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 and ending on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 23:59 CET in accordance with section 70-72 of the Danish Companies Act. Such Maersk Drilling shareholders can elect to exchange their Maersk Drilling shares for a number of Noble Shares equal to the share consideration offered to Maersk Drilling shareholders who have accepted the Exchange Offer, or alternatively, a full cash alternative, which will amount to DKK 340.98 (USD 46.79) per Maersk Drilling share.
If a Maersk Drilling shareholder elects to exchange its shares in Maersk Drilling for Noble Shares, then such shareholder will initially receive acceptance shares (the "Compulsory Purchase Acceptance Shares"). Such Compulsory Purchase Acceptance Shares will not be admitted to trading on Nasdaq Copenhagen and will therefore not be tradeable on Nasdaq Copenhagen. The Compulsory Purchase Acceptance Shares received in connection with the compulsory purchase are expected to be exchanged for Noble Shares (in the form of share entitlements) on or around November 11, 2022.
If a Maersk Drilling shareholder elects to receive the full cash alternative, then such shareholder will receive the full cash alternative for the compulsory purchase of their Maersk Drilling shares expectedly on or around November 11, 2022, and the ownership of such Maersk Drilling shares held by minority shareholders will be concurrently transferred to Noble.
Any remaining Maersk Drilling shareholders who have not voluntarily accepted to transfer their Maersk Drilling shares to Noble prior to the expiry of the four week period ending on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, will automatically receive the full cash alternative for the compulsory purchase of their Maersk Drilling Shares expectedly on or around November 14, 2022.
Separate press releases and announcements in the IT system of the Danish Business Authority will be made by Noble when the compulsory purchase has been resolved in accordance with the relevant provisions set out in sections 70-72 of the Danish Companies Act.
According to the Danish Tax Authority, if a Maersk Drilling shareholder elects the share-for-share exchange, then for Danish tax purposes the sales price of the Maersk Drilling shares shall be determined on the basis of the closing price of the Noble shares on Nasdaq Copenhagen the day when the respective Maersk Drilling shareholder informs the Danish Tax Authority of the election to exchange the Maersk Drilling Shares to Noble Shares. The tax disposal date is therefore prior to the date on which the Noble shares are delivered and are available for trading (which is expected to be on or around November 11, 2022). For Danish tax purposes, the sales price of the Maersk Drilling shares which are purchased for cash in connection with the compulsory purchase, is the received cash amount (i.e. DKK 340.98 for each Maersk Drilling shares).
Assumption of Maersk Drilling RSUs and adoption of long-term incentive programs
For purposes of assuming the RSUs (as defined herein) in Maersk Drilling currently held by the executive officers and key employees of Maersk Drilling, Noble today announces the approval and adoption of (i) the RSU Long-Term Incentive Program for Executive Management 2022 (the "Executive RSU Plan") and (ii) the RSU Long-Term Incentive Program for Key Employees 2022 (the "Key Employee RSU Plan" and, together with the Executive RSU Plan, the "RSU Plans").
Under the RSU Plans, the participants will be eligible to receive a number of restricted share units ("RSUs"). Under the RSU Plans, the executive officers may also be eligible to receive performance-based restricted share units ("PSUs"). The participants will be granted RSUs free of charge under the RSU Plans. Grants of RSUs may take place on a revolving basis and neither grant nor vesting of RSUs depend on the achievement of specific goals. The vesting period for the RSUs is three years from the date of grant, subject to the participant's continued employment with the Noble group. Upon vesting, the participants will receive free of charge a number of Noble Shares equal to the number of RSUs vested to the extent they have not lapsed. In case of a participant's resignation during the vesting period, non-vested RSUs will lapse. In addition, the participants may be subject to ownership requirements pursuant to their individual employment agreements.
On October 3, 2022, in connection with the completion of the Exchange Offer and the Business Combination, the Noble board of directors adopted a resolution, whereby each RSU in Maersk Drilling granted under the Maersk Drilling RSU Long-Term Incentive Program for Executive Management 2019 and the Maersk Drilling RSU Long-Term Incentive Program for Key Employees (the "Maersk Drilling RSU Plans") shall be assumed by Noble under the corresponding RSU Plans and be converted into an RSU, on substantially the same terms and conditions (including vesting conditions) as applicable to the original RSUs in Maersk Drilling prior to the closing of the Business Combination, representing the right to receive Noble Shares (collectively, the "Converted Executive RSUs").
Vesting for Converted Executive RSUs will accelerate for Maersk Drilling executive management and certain other employees of Maersk Drilling who are party to agreements that provide for enhanced severance protections in the event of termination of employment following the Business Combination.
About Noble Corporation
Noble is a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry. The Company owns and operates one of the most modern, versatile, and technically advanced fleets in the offshore drilling industry. Noble and its predecessors have been engaged in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells since 1921. Noble performs, through its subsidiaries, contract drilling services with a fleet of offshore drilling units focused largely on ultra-deepwater and high specification jackup drilling opportunities in both established and emerging regions worldwide.
Capitalized terms used in this announcement but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the exemption document, as published on August 8, 2022 (the "Exemption Document").
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
In connection with the business combination transaction, Noble filed a registration statement on Form S-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") that included a prospectus (the "Prospectus") of Noble to be used in connection with the Exchange Offer by Noble to acquire all outstanding shares in Maersk Drilling. The registration statement on Form S-4, as amended, was declared effective by the SEC on April 11, 2022. In addition, on August 8, 2022, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority approved the publication of the Exemption Document and the Offer Document in connection with the Exchange Offer. Noble published the Exemption Document and the Offer Document on August 8, 2022.
INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OF MAERSK DRILLING ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, THE EXEMPTION DOCUMENT AND THE OFFER DOCUMENT, AS WELL AS OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN OR WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC OR THE DANISH FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY OR PUBLISHED ON NOBLE'S WEBSITE AT WWW.NOBLECORP.COM REGARDING THE BUSINESS COMBINATION TRANSACTION BETWEEN NOBLE AND MAERSK DRILLING AND THE EXCHANGE OFFER BECAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
You may also obtain a free copy of the Prospectus, an English translation of the Offer Document setting out the full terms and conditions to the Exchange Offer, and other related documents filed by Noble with the SEC on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute or contain any invitation, solicitation, recommendation, offer or advice to any person to subscribe for or otherwise acquire or dispose of any securities of Noble or Maersk Drilling. Final terms and further provisions regarding the Exchange Offer are disclosed in the Offer Document, the Exemption Document and in documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC.
Unless required by mandatory law, no action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction other than Denmark and the United States that would permit a public offering of shares in Noble, the Topco Offer Shares (as defined in the Exemption Document), the Acceptance Shares (as defined in the Exemption Document) or Cash Acceptance Shares (as defined in the Exemption Document), or permit possession or distribution of the Offer Document and/or the Exemption Document or any advertising material relating to the shares in Noble, the Topco Offer Shares the Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares, except as described in the Offer Document or the Exemption Document.
NEITHER THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY U.S. STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION OR REGULATORY AUTHORITY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THE SECURITIES ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS COMBINATION BETWEEN NOBLE AND MAERSK DRILLING OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE EXEMPTION DOCUMENT, THE OFFER DOCUMENT OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EXCHANGE OFFER. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER U.S. LAW.
In any member state of the European Economic Area other than Denmark (each a "Relevant State"), this announcement, including any attachments hereto, is only addressed to, and is only directed at Maersk Drilling Shareholders in that Relevant State that fulfil the criteria for exemption from the obligation to publish a prospectus, including qualified investors, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017, as amended, (the "Prospectus Regulation").
This announcement, including any attachments hereto, has been prepared on the basis that all offers of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares offered in the Exchange Offer, other than the offer contemplated in Denmark, will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to produce a prospectus for offers of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares. Accordingly, any person making or intending to make any offer within a Relevant State of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for Noble to produce a prospectus for such offer. Noble has not authorised, and Noble will not authorise, the making of any offer of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares through any financial intermediary, other than offers made by Noble which constitute the final offer of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares as contemplated through the Exchange Offer.
The Topco Offer Shares, the Acceptance Shares and the Cash Acceptance Shares offered in the Exchange Offer have not been, and will not be, offered to the public in any Relevant State. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an offering of the Topco Offer Shares, the Acceptance Shares and the Cash Acceptance Shares offered in the Exchange Offer may be made in a Relevant State: (i) to any qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Regulation; (ii) to fewer than 150 natural or legal persons per Relevant State (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Regulation); (iii) to investors who acquire Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares and Cash Acceptance Shares for a total consideration of at least EUR 100,000 per investor, for each separate offer; and (iv) in any other circumstances falling within Article 1(4) of the Prospectus Regulation, subject to obtaining the prior consent of Noble and provided that no such offer of Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares shall result in a requirement for the publication by Noble of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation or a supplementary prospectus pursuant to Article 23 of the Prospectus Regulation.
For the purposes of the foregoing paragraph, the expression an "offer to the public" in relation to any Topco Offer Shares, Acceptance Shares or Cash Acceptance Shares in any Relevant State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the Exchange Offer as to enable an investor to decide to participate in the Exchange Offer.
In the United Kingdom, this announcement, including any attachments hereto, is only addressed to and directed at persons who are (a) both "qualified investors" (within the meaning of the UK version of the Prospectus Regulation as it forms part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and either (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "FSMA Order"); or (ii) persons who are high net worth entities falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the FSMA Order; and/or (b) persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be communicated to, including under the FSMA Order (all such persons (a) and (b) together being referred to as "U.K. Relevant Persons"). Any investment activity to which this announcement, including any attachments hereto, is only available to U.K. Relevant Persons. Any person who is not a U.K. Relevant Person should not act on or rely on this announcement, including any attachments hereto, or any of its contents.
This announcement, including any attachments hereto, does not comprise a prospectus for the purposes of the U.K. Prospectus Regulation and has not been approved by or filed with the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements in this announcement, including any attachments hereto, may constitute forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are statements (other than statements of historical fact) relating to future events and Noble and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Noble Group"), Maersk Drilling and its subsidiaries (the "Maersk Drilling Group") and the combined Noble Group and Maersk Drilling Group following completion of the transactions contemplated by the business combination agreement entered into by and between Noble and Maersk Drilling to combine (the "Combined Group") anticipated or planned financial and operational performance. The words "targets", "believes", "continues", "expects", "aims", "intends", "plans", "seeks", "will", "may", "might", "anticipates", "would", "could", "should", "estimates", "projects", "potentially" or similar expressions or the negatives thereof, identify certain of these forward-looking statements. The absence of these words, however, does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking. Other forward-looking statements can be identified in the context in which the statements are made.
Although Topco believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date of this announcement, such forward-looking statements are based on Topco's current expectations, estimates, forecasts, assumptions and projections about the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's and the Combined Group's business and the industry in which the Noble Group and the Maersk Drilling Group operate as well as on information which Topco has received from the Maersk Drilling Group (including with respect to forecasts prepared by Noble's management with respect to expected future financial and operating performance of Maersk Drilling) and/or which has been extracted from publications, reports and other documents prepared by the Maersk Drilling Group and/or the Noble Group and are not guarantees of future performance or development and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors beyond the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's or the Combined Group's control that could cause the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's and/or the Combined Group's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, the Noble Group's, the Maersk Drilling Group's and/or the Combined Group's actual financial condition, cash flow or results of operations could differ materially from what is described in the Exemption Document and the Offer Document, including any attachment thereto, as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Topco urges the Maersk Drilling Shareholders to read the Offer Document and the Exemption Document in their entirety for a more complete discussion of the factors that could affect the Combined Group's future performance and the market in which it operates.
Any forward-looking statements included in this announcement, including any attachment hereto, speak only as of today.
Topco does not intend, and does not assume, any obligations to update any forward-looking statements contained herein, except as may be required by law or the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Copenhagen. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Topco or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements referred to above and contained in this announcement, including any attachment hereto.
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BEIJING (AP) — Authorities eased anti-virus rules in scattered areas but affirmed China’s severe “zero- COVID” strategy Monday after crowds demanded President Xi Jinping resign during protests against controls that confine millions of people to their homes.
The government made no comment on the protests or criticism of Xi, the most widespread display of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades. There was no official word on how many people were detained after police used pepper spray against protesters in Shanghai and struggled to suppress demonstrations in other cities including Beijing, the capital.
The city government of Beijing announced it would no longer set up gates to block access to apartment compounds where infections are found. It made no mention of a deadly fire last week that set off the protests following angry questions online about whether firefighters or victims trying to escape were blocked by locked doors or other anti-virus controls.
“Passages must remain clear for medical transportation, emergency escapes and rescues,” said a city official in charge of epidemic control, Wang Daguang, according to the official China News Service.
“Zero COVID,” which aims to isolate every infected person, has helped to keep China’s case numbers lower than those of the United States and other major countries. But people in some areas have been confined at home for up to four months and say they lack reliable food supplies.
The ruling party promised last month to reduce the disruption of “zero COVID" by changing quarantine and other rules. But public acceptance is wearing thin after a spike in infections prompted cities to tighten controls, fueling complaints overzealous enforcement is hurting the public.
On Monday, the number of new daily cases rose to 40,347, including 36,525 with no symptoms.
The ruling party newspaper People’s Daily called for its anti-virus strategy to be carried out effectively, indicating Xi’s government has no plans to change course.
“Facts have fully proved that each version of the prevention and control plan has withstood the test of practice,” a People’s Daily commentator wrote.
Also Monday, the southern manufacturing and trade metropolis of Guangzhou, the biggest hotspot in China’s latest wave of infections, announced some residents will no longer be required to undergo mass testing. It cited a need to conserve resources.
Protests spread to at least eight major cities after at least 10 people died Thursday in the fire in an apartment building in Urumqi in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Most protesters complained about excessive restrictions, but some shouted slogans against Xi, China's most powerful leader since at least the 1980s. In a video that was verified by The Associated Press, a crowd in Shanghai on Saturday chanted, “Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!”
Police using pepper spray broke up that demonstration, but people returned to the same spot on Sunday for another protest. A reporter saw an unknown number being driven away in a police bus after being detained.
Elsewhere, videos on social media that said they were filmed in Nanjing in the east, Chongqing and Chengdu in the southwest and other cities showed protesters tussling with police in white protective suits or dismantling barricades used to seal off neighborhoods. The Associated Press could not verify that all those protests took place or where.
Earlier, the ruling party faced public anger over the deaths of two children whose parents said anti-virus controls hampered efforts to get emergency medical help.
Urumqi and a smaller city in Xinjiang, Korla, announced markets and other businesses in areas deemed at low risk of infection would reopen this week and public bus service would resume in what appeared to be an attempt to mollify the public.
There was no indication whether residents in higher-risk areas would be allowed out of their homes. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/China-affirms-zero-COVID-stance-eases-rules-17614805.php | 2022-11-28 07:49:04 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/China-affirms-zero-COVID-stance-eases-rules-17614805.php |
ALBANY, N.Y., March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Curran Investment Management's Curran Core Growth Equity Strategy was ranked #3 total return by Broadridge Lipper in the U.S Large Cap Growth and Value Equity category in a 5-year period and ranked #14 in the 10-year period.
Awards for CIM's Curran Core Growth Equity Strategy in the Large Cap Growth and Value Asset Class Include:
- #3 total return over a 5-year period out of 104 composites/funds
- #14 total return over a 10-year period out of 79 composites/funds
Awards for CIM's Curran Core Growth Equity Strategy in the U.S Growth and Value Asset Class Include:
- #9 total return over a 5-year period out of 403 composites/funds
- #24 total return over a 10-year period out of 294 composites/funds
Awards for CIM's Midcap Strategy in the U.S Midcap Growth Asset Class:
- #4 total return over a 10-year period out of 55 composites/funds
- #5 total return over a 5-year period out of 69 composites/funds
- #11 total return over a 3-year period out of 74 composites/funds
Awards for CIM's Midcap Strategy in the U.S Midcap Asset Class Include:
- #6 total return for a 5-year period out of 181 composites/funds
- #7 total return for a 10-year period out of 139 composites/funds
To achieve a Lipper ranking for Best Money Managers performance is calculated net of fees, on an investment strategy asset base which is at least $10 million dollars, inclusive of all cash reserves, calculated in U.S dollars and the classification of the product must fall into one of the categories Lipper ranks. Curran's Core Growth Equity strategy falls under the U.S Large-Cap Growth & Value Equity category.
"We are pleased that not only our Curran Core Growth strategy, but our Midcap Equity continues to be ranked among Lipper's Best Money Managers." — Kevin T. Curran, Co-CEO and Chief Investment Officer
As a Registered Investment Advisor headquartered in Albany, NY we serve both individual and institutional clients nationally with an additional office in Cape May. Curran has over $481 million assets under managements (AUM) as of 12/31/2022.
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Past Performance does not guarantee future results. The information herein is considered to be obtained from reference sources deemed reliable. All Investments carry risks, including possible loss of principal.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Lawyers for a doctor who intentionally defied a Texas abortion law that the lawyers called a “bounty-hunting scheme” say a court has dismissed a test of whether members of the public can sue providers who violate the restrictions for at least $10,000 in damages.
Dr. Alan Braid published an opinion piece in the Washington Post last year revealing that he intentionally violated the Texas law shortly after it took effect in September 2021. The law bans abortions after roughly the sixth week of pregnancy and is only enforced through lawsuits filed by private citizens — although Texas subsequently banned abortions entirely after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Even though Texas now has a broader abortion ban, the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents Braid, said the decision Thursday by a San Antonio court is still significant because it rejected that people with no connection to an abortion can sue. The dismissal was announced from the bench, and no formal written opinion had been published as of Friday morning.
“When I provided my patient with the care she needed last year, I was doing my duty as a physician,” Braid said in a statement. “It is heartbreaking that Texans still can’t get essential health care in their home state and that providers are left afraid to do their jobs.”
The lawsuit brought against Braid after he announced he had defied the Texas law was filed by Felipe N. Gomez, of Chicago, who asked the court to declare the law unconstitutional. He has said that he wasn’t aware he could claim at least $10,000 in damages if he won his lawsuit, and that if he had received any money, he likely would have donated it to an abortion rights group or to the patients of the doctor he sued.
Gomez said he was waiting to see the court’s ruling but has already filed a notice of appeal.
Braid has closed his clinics in Texas and Oklahoma, where abortion is also outlawed. He has since opened other clinics in Illinois and New Mexico. | https://www.kxxv.com/hometown/texas/lawsuit-against-doctor-who-defied-texas-abortion-law-tossed | 2022-12-09 22:46:07 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/hometown/texas/lawsuit-against-doctor-who-defied-texas-abortion-law-tossed |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA) – A latex-clad “mistress” presented an unusual proposal during a Florida city commission meeting on Tuesday: Scrap the proposed waste disposal contract and divert some of the funds to build a “dungeon.”
Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners were discussing a proposed $906,500 yard waste disposal contract with Waste Management, Inc. when they called upon a woman who signed up to speak.
The woman — identified only as ‘Miss Crave’ — stepped up to the microphone, flanked by two others in tall stiletto boots, latex hoods and reflective face shields.
“Good evening, council peoples. You may call me mistress,” Miss Crave said.
The “mistress” said she stood “neutral” regarding the contract, but claimed the council members supported the pricey deal “to hide [their] secrets down the drain,” such as “the condom [they] used to cheat on [their] spouse.”
Miss Crave suggested they use “a quarter of that [million]” to “support doms and subs in Broward County.”
‘Dom’ is shorthand for dominant in the BDSM subculture, while ‘sub’ is shorthand for submissive.
She also said the money should be used to “build a dungeon, created by us and for us, the taxpayers and voting citizens.” Spaces where BDSM practitioners gather are often referred to as dungeons.
“In closing, do not let this glamorous look distract you from doing your duty to take my demand,” she said, gesturing towards the women behind her. “I look forward to spanking each and every one of you at the new esteemed dungeon.”
After walking off in silence, a council member drily wished them happy holidays.
“Are there any districts that have a dungeon?” another member jokingly asked the city manager.
“Not that I know of,” the city manager replied.
“OK, just wanted to check,” the council member said. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/florida-mistress-demands-taxpayer-funded-bdsm-dungeon-at-city-commission-meeting/ | 2022-12-22 23:31:21 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/florida-mistress-demands-taxpayer-funded-bdsm-dungeon-at-city-commission-meeting/ |
JIUQUAN, China, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bearing the GCL's slogan "Bringing Green Power to Life", Zhuque-2 (ZQ-2 Y2), a methane-fueled rocket built by LandSpace in collaboration with GCL System Integration Technology Co., Ltd. ("GCL", SHE:002506), successfully entered orbit after launching at 9 a.m. (0100 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
GCL, a leading one-stop renewable energy service provider, is one of the major partners helping LandSpace to build Zhuque-2, making China the first nation in the world to send a rocket carrier to space propelled by liquid methane, a cleaner, cheaper, and more powerful fuel ideal for reusable rockets.
LandSpace, through independent research and development, has achieved a major breakthrough in the technology used for Zhuque-2, leading to significant advancements in the application of low-cost liquid propellant carrier rockets.
As environmental considerations have come to the forefront of rocket research and development, nations around the world are seeking replacements to carbon-incentive technology as part of efforts to combat climate change. Methane stands out as a new-type, low-carbon alternative to its traditional counterparts in many aspects, including lower weight, less space, and streamlined maintenance.
The achievement of creating and testing a rocket powered by this green, economically viable, and safe propellant, thanks to GCL's strong support, puts China ahead of the global race. This milestone paves the way for the country's private aerospace industry to develop next-gen low-cost, high-performance, heavy-duty carrier rocket solutions.
A new energy leader that has been pioneering renewable innovation to empower the world's transition to clean energy, GCL's mission matches LandSpace's commitment to developing green, more efficient, and cost-effective solutions for global sustainable development.
GCL sees an opportunity for the two parties to bring together their technological expertise to push innovation in the renewable energy and aerospace sectors. The pair will deepen cooperation to unlock the potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to digitize the entire value chain of the aerospace industry.
Dedicated to integrating renewable energy into daily life, GCL is one of the leading forces that drive the energy industry's digital transformation and e-mobility innovation. To help China and beyond accelerate toward low-carbon targets, the company has set up multiple zero-carbon industry parks and zero-carbon smart cities.
GCL is now maximizing the potential of renewable power sources by building wind and solar farms in desert regions, bringing meaningful environmental and economic benefits to residents living in surrounding areas. Meanwhile, the company's participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has expedited the construction of new energy infrastructure worldwide, decarbonizing and boosting the economy of the regions where it operates.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PNC Bank, N.A., announced an increase in its prime lending rate. The new rate of 7.50% is effective tomorrow, Dec. 15, 2022.
PNC Bank, National Association, is a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC). PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the United States, organized around its customers and communities for strong relationships and local delivery of retail and business banking including a full range of lending products; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management and asset management. For information about PNC, visit www.pnc.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Leading Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly optimistic that a Senate majority is within reach even as a dramatic family fight in Georgia clouds one of the party’s biggest pickup opportunities.
And as some Democrats crow on social media about apparent Republican setbacks, party strategists privately concede that their own shortcomings may not be outweighed by the GOP’s mounting challenges.
The evolving outlook is tied to a blunt reality: Democrats have virtually no margin for error as they confront the weight of history, widespread economic concerns and President Joe Biden’s weak standing. There is broad agreement among both parties that the Democrats’ summertime momentum across states like Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin has eroded just five weeks before Election Day.
“There’s reason to be apprehensive, not reason to be gloomy,” veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said. “It looked like at the end of August we had a little momentum. I don’t know if we’ve regressed any, but we’re not progressing in many places.”
That tepid outlook comes even as Republicans confront a series of self-imposed setbacks in the states that matter most in the 2022 midterms, which will decide the balance of power in Congress and statehouses across the nation.
None has been more glaring than Herschel Walker’s struggles in Georgia, where the Republican Senate candidate’s own son accused him of lying about his personal challenges — including a report from The Daily Beast alleging that the anti-abortion Walker paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. Walker called the accusation a “flat-out lie” and said he would sue, an action his campaign hadn’t taken as of late Tuesday.
“Everything has been a lie,” Christian Walker responded Tuesday.
The Republican establishment, including the Sen. Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund, and former President Donald Trump himself remained staunchly behind Walker on Tuesday in his bid to oust first-term Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. The Walker campaign also reported a massive fundraising haul that coincided with the latest allegations.
“If you’re in a fight, people will come to your aid,” said Steven Law, head of the Senate Leadership Fund and a close ally of McConnell, R-Ky.
Law said the Georgia race had grown increasingly competitive despite the Democrats’ focus on Walker’s personal life. And looking beyond Georgia, Law said the political climate was predictably shifting against the party that controls the White House, as is typically the case in midterm elections.
“It certainly seems that voters are returning to a more traditional midterm frame of mind,” Law said.
Should Republicans gain even one Senate seat in November, they would take control of Congress’ upper chamber — and with it, the power to control judicial nominations and policy debates for the last two years of Biden’s term. Leaders in both parties believe Republicans are likely to take over the House.
Even facing such odds, it’s far too soon to predict a Republican-controlled Congress.
Democrats remain decidedly on offense and are spending heavily to try to flip Republican-held seats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Voter opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision this summer to strip women of their constitutional right to an abortion has energized the Democratic base and led to a surge in female voter registrations.
Republicans are most focused on Democratic incumbents in Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Nevada, although Republican officials believe that underwhelming Trump-backed nominees in Arizona and New Hampshire have dampened the party’s pickup opportunities.
“The Republican candidates they’re running are too extreme,” said J.B. Poersch, who leads the pro-Democrat Senate Majority PAC. “I think this is still advantage Democrats.”
Meanwhile, conditions in the top battleground states are rapidly evolving.
In Pennsylvania, Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz faced difficult new questions this week raised by a Washington Post article about the medical products he endorsed as a daytime television star. Another news report by the news site Jezebel detailing how his research caused hundreds of dogs to be killed rippled across social media.
Still, Democratic officials acknowledge the race tightened considerably as the calendar shifted to October. And White House officials are concerned about Democratic nominee John Fetterman’s stamina as he recovers from a May stroke.
“Senate Republicans had a very bad start to October, but we know each of our races will be tight and we’re going to keep taking nothing for granted,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who leads the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.
The GOP Senate candidates’ latest challenges in Georgia and Pennsylvania dominated social media Monday and Tuesday, according to data compiled by GQR, a public opinion research firm that works with Democratic organizations.
News stories about Walker’s abortion accuser and Oz’s animal research had the first- and second-highest reach of any news stories on Facebook and Twitter since they surfaced Monday, topping content related to the television show “Sons of Anarchy,” another report about Planned Parenthood mobile abortion clinics and news about Kanye West. GQR used the social listening tool NewsWhip, which tracks over 500,000 websites in more than 100 languages roughly in real time.
In swing-state Nevada, the rhetoric from Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto has become increasingly urgent in recent days as she fends off a fierce challenge from former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt. Within the White House, there is real fear that she could lose her reelection bid, giving Republicans the only seat they may need to claim the Senate majority.
“We have a big problem, friend,” Cortez Masto wrote in a fundraising appeal Tuesday. “Experts say that our race in Nevada could decide Senate control — and right now, polling shows me 1 point behind my Trump-endorsed opponent.”
Democrats and their allies continue to hope that backlash against the Supreme Court’s abortion decision will help them overcome historical trends in which the party controlling the White House almost always loses seats in Congress. Democrats, who control Washington, are also facing deep voter pessimism about the direction of the country and Biden’s relatively weak approval ratings.
The traditional rules of politics have often been broken in the Trump era. In past years, Republicans may have abandoned Walker. But on Tuesday, they linked arms behind him.
Law, of the Senate Leadership Fund, said he takes Walker at his word that he did not pay for a former girlfriend’s abortion, despite apparent evidence of a “Get Well” card with Walker’s signature and a check receipt.
He said voters believe that “Walker may have made mistakes in his personal life that affected him and his family, but Warnock has made mistakes in public life in Washington that affected them and their families.”
There were some signs of Republican concern on the ground in Georgia, however.
Martha Zoller, a popular Republican radio host in north Georgia and one-time congressional candidate, told her audience Tuesday that the latest allegations require Walker to reset his campaign with a straightforward admission about his “personal demons” and what he’s done to overcome them.
“He needs to fall on the sword. ‘I was a dog. … And I have asked forgiveness for it,’” she said, detailing the kind of message she believes Walker must give voters. “It would be so refreshing to have somebody just tell the truth.”
Veteran Democratic strategist Josh Schwerin warned his party against writing off the Georgia Republican.
“I wouldn’t say Walker is done. Over the last couple of cycles we’ve certainly seen Republican candidates survive things that are not supposed to be survivable,” Schwerin said. “There are a lot of close races, and the dynamics of this election are difficult to predict. Everybody is expecting multiple shifts in momentum between now and Election Day.”
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Abby Finkenauer ‘s bid to clinch the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Iowa was not supposed to be so fraught.
Finkenauer, 33, is one of the more prominent Democrats in the state, earning a wunderkind reputation in the Legislature before toppling a Republican congressman in 2018. She was the second-youngest woman elected to Congress, helping Democrats retake control of the U.S. House that year.
Though she would go on to lose the Democratic-leaning district in 2020, her stature suffered little. She raised her profile on cable television and in email attacks on Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley. It all helped her raise millions of dollars before her Senate run.
But Finkenauer’s campaign faced unexpected trouble last month when, at least for a moment, it appeared she would not be allowed to compete in the June 7 primary. A judge found errors in Finkenauer’s nominating petitions after Republican activists challenged her filings.
The Iowa Supreme Court ultimately assured her spot on the ballot, but the turmoil — and Finkenauer’s response — prompted some prominent Democrats to give another look to her chief primary rival, retired Navy admiral Mike Franken.
Some Democrats blame Finkenauer, who blasted the Republican-appointed state judge’s ruling as “deeply partisan,” for quickly blaming political motivations and not acknowledging her own campaign’s organizational mistakes.
“It really just struck me the wrong way,” said Bonnie Campbell, a former Iowa attorney general and past Democratic nominee for governor.
Campbell had contributed money to Finkenauer’s campaign but also had been eyeing Franken. Finkenauer’s remarks tipped the scales, she said.
“It’s the same thing Donald Trump says, that this is all about politics,” Campbell said. “I thought, what are my alternatives?”
Finkenauer’s campaign declined a request for an interview for this story.
There is little reliable polling in the primary, and the winner faces a daunting challenge in Grassley, who raised more money through March than Finkenauer and Franken combined.
Adding to the challenge, Iowa has shifted sharply to the right over the past decade, making the Democratic primary a kind of test case for the party in Iowa and other once-competitive northern rural states about the path back to power.
Still, Finkenauer retains the backing of more Democratic state legislators than Franken. She received the endorsement last month of the Iowa Federation of Labor, Iowa’s largest union organization. She also had raised more than $3 million to Franken’s $1.8 million, according to the most recent finance filings.
Finkenauer has a higher national profile in addition to the cable news appearances, in part as a regular spokeswoman on the presidential campaign trail for Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
But Franken has quietly built a competitive campaign, backed by former party officials such as Campbell and former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge. Franken, a distant second-place finisher in Iowa’s 2020 Senate primary, also raised more money in the first quarter of 2022 than Finkenauer, and had more money on hand entering the second quarter. Franken was also first to begin airing TV ads, which began in April. Finkenauer planned to begin advertising next week.
Though Finkenauer and Franken are a close match on policy, they present strikingly different profiles.
Finkenauer is more than 30 years younger than the 64-year-old Franken. Her message leans heavily on her working-class upbringing in blue-collar Dubuque, as it did in her two congressional campaigns and campaigns for state legislature. Often with a wide smile, she campaigns with an impassioned edge, as she did at a recent state Democratic fundraiser.
“I will never ever forget where I come from and who I fight for,” Finkenauer promised 600 state party activists at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines.
Tall, graying and standing ramrod straight, Franken’s approach is understated. With a dry sense of humor, Franken spends most of his campaign time answering audience questions, promoting a standard progressive platform but with a calm unfamiliar in much of politics today.
“I’m also running to dial down political tension to achieve these things,” Franken told the crowd at the Des Moines banquet.
Finkenauer has been on a political course since college when she volunteered as a college student for Joe Biden’s 2008 campaign and later as a legislative page. She won an Iowa House seat at age 24 in 2014, earning a reputation as a vocal member in the minority party, and U.S. House seat four years later.
Franken has skippered ships around the world, but also worked on Capitol Hill longer than Finkenauer, as a legislative aide to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and the Department of the Navy’s legislative liaison during the Obama administration.
It’s Finkenauer’s stylistic contrast with the 88-year-old, gravelly-voiced Grassley that make her the better choice for Andrea Phillips, a former deputy state Democratic Party chairwoman.
“The contrasts with Abby — you know, younger, fresh ideas, newer generation — it presents voters with a clearer choice,” said Phillips.
Phillips, though, would like to have heard Finkenauer take responsibility for her campaign’s administrative mistake. When asked repeatedly by reporters, Finkenauer has not said she was at fault for errors the Iowa Supreme Court found not significant enough to keep her off the ballot.
Finkenauer’s campaign offered the bare minimum of signatures needed from different counties, leaving herself almost no margin for error. But the judge found a small handful of signatures out of the 5,000 obtained by Finkenauer’s campaign were not properly dated, as required by state law.
“As a supporter I probably would have liked her to come out and apologize,” Phillips said. “As a supporter I would have liked to have seen an email from her saying that.”
At the party fundraiser, Des Moines Democrats Suzanne and Tom Fross were split on the impact of the episode. Suzanne Fross, a retired state employee, said, “She handled it fine. It was a Republican ambush.” Her husband, a manufacturing manager, said, “It was embarrassing. She should have owned up to it.”
Yet, neither have decided who they’ll support with less than a month to go.
Veteran Dubuque Democratic party volunteer Diane Gibson said she “didn’t need much of a nudge” to consider Franken after the episode.
“Abby hasn’t taken responsibility for her own campaign’s failure to do the job,” said Gibson. “That’s the mark of a rookie.”
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This story has been corrected to reflect that among the former Democratic officials who are backing Mike Franken is former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge, not former Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/finkenauers-senate-bid-faces-skepticism-after-ballot-woes/ | 2022-05-15 04:07:53 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/finkenauers-senate-bid-faces-skepticism-after-ballot-woes/ |
Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence in a country already experiencing a sharp increase in antisemitism.
Leaders of the Jewish community in the U.S. and extremism experts have been alarmed to see celebrities with massive followings spew antisemitic tropes in a way that has been taboo for decades. Some said it harkens back to a darker time in America when powerful people routinely spread conspiracy theories about Jews with impunity.
Former President Donald Trump hosted a Holocaust-denying white supremacist at Mar-a-Lago. The rapper Ye expressed love for Adolf Hitler in an interview. Basketball star Kyrie Irving appeared to promote an antisemitic film on social media. Neo-Nazi trolls are clamoring to return to Twitter as new CEO Elon Musk grants “amnesty” to suspended accounts.
“These are not fringe outliers sending emails from their parents garage or idiots no one has ever heard of. When influential mainstream cultural, political and even sports icons normalize hate speech, everyone needs to be very concerned,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, a leader in South Florida’s Jewish community.
Northwestern University history professor Peter Hayes, who specializes in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, said normalizing antisemitism is a “real possibility” when there is a “public discussion of things that used to be beneath contempt.”
“I’m very concerned about it,” Hayes said. “It’s one of the many ways in which America has to get a grip and stop toying with concepts and ideas that are potentially murderous.”
Trump hosted Ye — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes for dinner at his Florida home on Nov. 22.
Fuentes was a Boston University student when he attended a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted in violence in 2017. He became an internet personality who used his platform to spread white supremacist and antisemitic views. Fuentes leads a far-right extremist movement called “America First,” with supporters known as “Groypers.”
On Thursday, Fuentes joined Ye in appearing on the Infowars show hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Ye praised Hitler during the interview, ratcheting up the rhetoric that already cost him a lucrative business deal with Adidas.
Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said it is astonishing and alarming that two of the nation’s leading purveyors of antisemitism were “breaking bread with the erstwhile head of the GOP.”
“I would characterize this as the normalization of antisemitism. It has now become part of the political process in a way we hadn’t seen before,” Greenblatt said. “And that is not unique to Republicans. It is not just a Republican problem. It is a societal problem.”
Most Americans knew it was “beyond the pale” when torch-toting white supremacists marched through the University of Virginia’s campus on the eve of the 2017 rally, said Amy Spitalnick, executive director of Integrity First for America, a group that backed a lawsuit against organizers of the Charlottesville rally.
“What’s even more dangerous than Nazis with torches chanting, ‘Jews will not replace us,’ is when we have political leaders and others espousing those same conspiracy theories in increasingly normalized ways,” she said.
Spitalnick said the virulent hatred that Ye has been spewing can make diluted expressions of antisemitism seem more normal in contrast.
“It’s crucial that we hold Kanye and Irving and these other public figures accountable for their antisemitism. But it means nothing if we’re not also recognizing and holding accountable the ways in which this antisemitism and extremism has seeped into the mainstream of one of our major political parties and become commonplace in our political discourse,” she said.
Trump’s critics and even some of his allies condemned the former president for hosting Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. Trump claimed that he knew nothing about Fuentes before the dinner and defended his decision to host Ye at his club.
Twitter suspended Ye’s account this week after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David. Musk tweeted that Ye had violated a rule against inciting violence.
Musk announced last week that his “amnesty” plan applied to accounts that haven’t “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” Online safety experts predict that the move will lead to a rise in harassment and hate speech.
Groups that monitor Twitter for racist and antisemitic content say toxic speech already has been on the rise in the month since Musk took over the platform and fired thousands of employees. Content moderators were among those who lost their jobs.
Watchdogs also have rebuked Musk for some of his own tweets, including posting a meme featuring Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that was hijacked by far-right extremists.
In April, the Anti-Defamation League announced that its annual tally of antisemitic incidents reached a record high last year. The organization counted 2,717 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2021, a 34% increase over the previous year and the highest number since the ADL began tracking the events in 1979.
Generations ago, famous Americans including Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh unapologetically expressed antisemitic sentiments in a way that would have shocked Americans in more recent decades. Now, the internet and social media make it easy for world-famous celebrities to normalize anti-Jewish hate.
For somebody of Ye’s status to praise Nazis and Hitler is “escalating from ugliness to a kind of incitement,” Greenblatt said. He noted that Jewish institutions already have to beef up security to protect against attacks such as the one in which a gunman killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.
“Our community still has to brace for the consequences of those ideas going mainstream,” Greenblatt said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden, a longtime teacher, said Friday she’s often wondered if her own students would be the next “heartbreaking headline” as she urged parents and teachers to speak up and demand that Congress pass tougher gun safety measures.
“There are no excuses. It’s up to Congress to act,” Biden said in a speech to the National PTA Convention meeting in a Maryland suburb of Washington. “And they represent the will of the people and that’s why we need the people to speak up. Parents and teachers, all of us.”
“We need to fight, now, for the lives of our children and for the safety of our schools,” she said.
The first lady, who has taught for nearly 40 years and teaches English and writing at Northern Virginia Community College, said she often imagines the terrifying scene of a school shooter playing out in her own classroom.
She said she explains to her students on the first day of class how they can escape “if the worst happens” and acknowledged that “I’ve wondered over the years if my students would be the next heartbreaking headline.”
She added: “So Congress did not act after Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Parkland,” referencing some of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. “Nothing changed, and nothing will change unless we change it.”
The first lady echoed top advisers to her husband, who say President Joe Biden has milked his executive authority to address gun violence and that next steps are up to Congress.
President Biden has called for a range of gun safety measures, including reinstating a long-expired ban on the type of assault-style weapons that were used in the New York and Texas shootings.
A group of Democratic and Republican senators last weekend announced the elements of a compromise acceptable to both sides, minus the assault-weapons ban. The lawmakers have spent this week working to finalize a bill that can be voted on by a self-imposed early July deadline.
In brief remarks at the Parent Teacher Association convention, the first lady recalled her visit last month with the president to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 pupils and two teachers in adjoining classrooms were gunned down by an 18-year-old male who was later killed by police.
She described touching the photos of the “bright, beautiful faces that would never again laugh or open birthday presents or tell their parents that they love them.”
“And I laid down white roses on a sea of colorful flowers, the offerings of a town broken by grief, just as I had done in Buffalo, New York, one week before,” the first lady said, referring to the couple’s earlier visit to the scene of a racist attack on a supermarket that left 10 Black people dead. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/jill-biden-its-up-to-congress-to-act-on-gun-safety-laws/ | 2022-06-18 18:14:05 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/jill-biden-its-up-to-congress-to-act-on-gun-safety-laws/ |
CAMP HILL, Pa., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LINKBANCORP, Inc. announced the appointment of Dee Bonora as Chief Technology Officer.
As Chief Technology Officer, Bonora will help drive innovation and operational excellence throughout the organization. With 25 years of technology and software engineering experience within the banking and other industries, she brings a wealth of knowledge to the Company.
"We are thrilled to have Dee join the team," said Andrew Samuel, Chief Executive Officer. "Dee's experience, leadership and knowledge will help us continue to improve business functionalities and client experience and drive a digitally-focused and technologically innovative centered organization."
Commenting on what drew her to LINKBANK, Bonora explained that she is excited about the culture and innovation of a growing organization focused on positively impacting lives.
Bonora resides in Lewisberry, PA with her husband and son. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in Business Information Systems from Shippensburg University. She serves on the Harrisburg University IT Board of Advisors and is passionate about supporting Women in STEM and Girls in STEM programs.
About LINKBANCORP, Inc.
LINKBANCORP, Inc. was formed in 2018 with a mission to positively impact lives through community banking. Its subsidiary bank, LINKBANK, is a Pennsylvania state-chartered bank serving individuals, families, nonprofits, and business clients throughout Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania through 10 client solutions centers and www.linkbank.com. LINKBANCORP, Inc. common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "LNKB". For further company information, visit ir.linkbancorp.com.
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Duke volleyball player: BYU was slow to respond to racial slurs at game
(AP) - The Duke volleyball player who was subjected to racial slurs during a match at BYU said Sunday that officials onsite didn’t react quickly enough when they were made aware of the behavior during play.
Nor did they adequately address the situation immediately after the match, Rachel Richardson said in a statement posted to her Twitter account.
“No athlete, regardless of their race, should ever be subject to such hostile conditions,” said Richardson, the only Black starter on the Blue Devils team.
BYU banned a fan from all athletic venues on campus Saturday, a day after the match. The fan was not a student but was sitting in the student section.
Richardson, a 19-year-old sophomore from Ellicott City, Maryland, wrote that she didn’t believe the fan’s actions were a reflection of BYU athletes, saying her opponents showed respect and sportsmanship, adding that BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe had reacted quickly once he was notified.
“This is not the first time this has happened in college athletics and sadly it likely will not be the last time,” Richardson said. “However, each time it happens we as student athletes, coaches, fans, and administrators have a chance to educate those who act in hateful ways.”
Richardson also responded to the idea that some people would have liked to see Duke’s team respond quickly, such as by refusing to continue playing in what became a 3-1 victory for BYU.
“Although the heckling eventually took a mental toll on me, I refused to allow it to stop me from doing what I love to do and what I came to BYU to do: which was to play volleyball,” Richardson said. “I refused to allow those racist bigots to feel any degree of satisfaction from thinking that their comments had ‘gotten to me,’ So, I pushed through and finished the game.
“Therefore, on behalf of my African American teammates and I, we do not want to receive pity or to be looked at as helpless. We do not feel as though we are victims of some tragic unavoidable event. We are proud to be young African American women; we are proud to be Duke student athletes, and we are proud to stand up against racism.”
The Duke team released a statement, saying:
“We stand against any form of racism, bigotry or hatred. As a program we have worked extensively to create an inclusive and safe environment where our student-athletes feel heard and supported but are not naive to the fact that there is always work to be done.”
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YUBA CITY, Calif. — Police are trying to locate an at-risk teenager who went missing in Yuba City.
According to the Yuba City Police Department, 15-year-old Casey Trask hasn't been seen since 5 a.m. Sunday. She was last seen on a Ring surveillance video leaving her home along the 700 block of Franklin Avenue.
She's described as having blue eyes with brown hair and a brown birthmark on her forehead and as wearing light-colored pants and a black shirt. She stands at 5'2" and weighs around 100 pounds.
If anyone sees Trask or knows where she is, they're asked to police at (530) 822-4660.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
01-03-26-44-59, Cash Ball: 3
(one, three, twenty-six, forty-four, fifty-nine; Cash Ball: three)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
01-03-26-44-59, Cash Ball: 3
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Jackson Rotary Clubs put heart and soles into three elementary schools
The Rotary Clubs of Jackson teamed up Friday to distribute more than 400 pairs of socks and tennis shoes to South Elementary School in Pinson, Tenn. as part of a project that's seen thousands of students outfitted with new kicks.
As students waited for their turn to be served, volunteers from the rotary clubs and the community took the time to talk to them one on one.
Each child was treated to a foot washing, a pair of socks and a pair of tennis shoes.
West Tennessee Health Care Director of Health and Wellness Shelley Hayes said she was overwhelmed with joy as she interacted with the students. She was also pleased with how the community came together to help, she said.
“The Jackson Old Hickory Rotary Club, Jackson Downtown Rotary Club and Good Evening Club worked together,” said Hayes, a Rotarian. “We raised the funds, making it possible to provide new socks and shoes to three elementary schools in Jackson.”
The Rotary club is a civic organization that brings together business and professional leaders in order to provide community service, promote integrity and advance goodwill, peace and understanding in the world.
Together, the three Rotary Clubs served students at East Elementary, South Elementary and Denmark Elementary Schools in the Jackson Madison County School System (JMCSS).
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They provided more than 1,400 pairs of socks and tennis shoes between the three schools.
It was the fourth year that Rotarians had worked on the project.
“One year, students were invited to the gym at the Lyft and were instructed to wear tennis shoes,” Hayes said. “Some didn’t have tennis shoes and had on flip flops. As a mother, it touched my heart, and I presented the idea to the Rotary Club.”
On Friday, many of the students from South Elementary School were excited to show off their new shoes.
Some of them were even more thrilled to see that they shared the same style of shoe as their classmates.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The United Nations rights chief on Wednesday urged Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to block an anti-LGBTQ bill that prescribes harsh penalties for some homosexual offenses, including death and life imprisonment.
“The passing of this discriminatory bill — probably among the worst of its kind in the world — is a deeply troubling development,” Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement.
And in the U.S., National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said if the law were enacted Washington would “have to take a look” at imposing economic sanctions on Uganda. He noted that this would be “really unfortunate” since most U.S. aid is in the form health assistance, especially anti-AIDS assistance.
Uganda’s legislature passed the bill late Tuesday in a protracted plenary session during which last-minute changes were made to the legislation that originally included penalties of up to 10 years in jail for homosexual offenses.
In the version approved by lawmakers the offense of “aggravated homosexuality” now carries the death penalty. Aggravated homosexuality applies in cases of sex relations involving those infected with HIV as well as minors and other categories of vulnerable people.
According to the bill, a suspect convicted of “attempted aggravated homosexuality” can be jailed for 14 years, and the offense of “attempted homosexuality” is punishable by up to 10 years.
The offense of “homosexuality” is punishable by life imprisonment, the same punishment prescribed in a colonial-era penal code criminalizing sex acts “against the order of nature.”
The bill was introduced last month by an opposition lawmaker who said his goal was to punish “promotion, recruitment and funding” related to LGBTQ activities in this East African country where homosexuals are widely disparaged.
The bill now goes to Museveni, who can veto or sign it into law. He suggested in a recent speech that he supports the legislation, accusing unnamed Western nations of “trying to impose their practices on other people.”
“If signed into law by the president, it will render lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Uganda criminals simply for existing, for being who they are,” Turk, the U.N. rights chief, said in the statement. “It could provide carte blanche for the systematic violation of nearly all of their human rights and serve to incite people against each other.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday the United States had “grave concerns” about the bill, adding that it would hamper tourism and economic investment, and “damage Uganda’s reputation.”
Jean-Pierre added: “No one should be attacked, imprisoned, or killed simply because of who they are, or who they love.”
Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has grown in recent weeks amid alleged reports of sodomy in boarding schools, including a prestigious one for boys where a parent accused a teacher of abusing her son. Authorities are investigating that case.
The recent decision of the Church of England to bless civil marriages of same-sex couples also has inflamed many, including some who see homosexuality as imported from abroad.
Uganda’s LGBTQ community in recent years has faced growing pressure from civilian authorities who wanted a tough new law punishing same-sex activities.
The Ugandan agency overseeing the work of non-governmental organizations last year stopped the operations of Sexual Minorities Uganda, the most prominent LGBTQ organization in the country, accusing it of failing to register legally. But the group’s leader stated that his organization had been rejected by the registrar of companies as undesirable.
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ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14, Megaplier: 2
(thirteen, thirty-six, forty-five, fifty-seven, sixty-seven; Mega Ball: fourteen; Megaplier: two)
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RALEIGH, N.C., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the health of all dogs and their owners, welcomes Stephanie Montgomery, DVM, PhD, DACVP as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) starting in June.
Dr. Montgomery earned her PhD in Microbiology & Immunology from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She stayed in North Carolina to earn her veterinary degree and complete an anatomic pathology residency at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is a board-certified veterinary pathologist whose research interests include infectious disease, cancer, vaccines, biodevices, and biological therapies. She has extensive experience both in academia and private industry. Dr. Montgomery has been serving as Chair of CHF's Scientific Review Committee and on the Board of Directors. She has professional and personal interests in translating state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapies to veterinary medicine and advancing patient-based outcomes.
Dr. Charles Garvin, CHF Board Chairman notes, "We are thrilled to have Dr. Montgomery join the leadership team at CHF. She has consistently demonstrated her belief in and dedication to CHF's mission and goals, and we know her to be highly intelligent, efficient, and effective. We are confident that bringing her talent to this position will enhance our organization as we continue to work toward improving the health of all dogs."
CHF currently manages a portfolio of 170 active canine health research and educational grants studying health topics from epilepsy to cancer to tick-borne disease and more. Learn more about their work to prevent, treat and cure canine disease at akcchf.org.
About CHF
Since 1995, the AKC Canine Health Foundation has leveraged the power of science to address the health needs of all dogs. With more than $67.5 million in funding to date, the Foundation provides grants for the highest quality canine health research and shares information on the discoveries that help prevent, treat and cure canine diseases. The Foundation meets and exceeds industry standards for fiscal responsibility, as demonstrated by their highest four-star Charity Navigator rating and Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency. Learn more at www.akcchf.org.
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Boston-born rock band the Pixies on Thursday announced a multi-leg North American tour, which includes one stop in Boston — the band’s first time performing in the city since 2018.
The band will take the stage at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on June 8. The 2023 World Tour is in support of the latest Pixies album “Doggerel,” released in September. Rock bands Franz Ferdinand and Bully will open the show.
Considered one of the pioneering alternative rock bands of the 1980s, the Pixies inspired the sounds of legendary artists from Nirvana to Radiohead to Pearl Jam. The band’s songs include “Where Is My Mind,” “Wave of Mutilation,” and “Here Comes Your Man.”
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“Since the late 1980s, they have been releasing music that has been as confrontational as it is exciting and pop-savvy,” a release about the tour said.
The band’s North American tour starts in Oakland, Calif. on May 4, and ends in San Diego on Sept. 16.
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FROSTPROOF, Fla. (WFLA) — Community members gathered near Frostproof High School Monday for a vigil in honor of 17-year-old Jose Torres, who died Sunday in an incident on Lake Clinch.
Torres was operating a jet ski Sunday night with a 15-year-old passenger. Polk County deputies think Torres made a turn, sending him and his passenger into the water. Torres was not wearing a life jacket. The passenger was wearing a life jacket, and was able to swim back to the vessel, but could not find Torres. Deputies searched the lake for hours before finding his body in 20 feet of water just after midnight.
“The most competitive kid that I’ve ever coached out here in Frostproof. It’s a tragic loss for the community, the team, for everyone,” said Gio Fazzani, a soccer coach.
Hundreds gathered on a soccer field near the high school where Torres once played, sharing stories and a word of prayer.
“Energetic, lovable, kind, aggressive. He’d always have a smile on his face. I’ll hold many memories of him,” said Jose Trejo, the victim’s cousin.
Former teammates signed one of Torres’ jerseys to give to his family. Friends have also set up a GoFundMe page, which school leaders say will be used to help the family pay for funeral expenses. | https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/a-tragic-loss-vigil-held-for-frostproof-teen-killed-in-jet-ski-incident/ | 2023-06-20 04:12:52 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/a-tragic-loss-vigil-held-for-frostproof-teen-killed-in-jet-ski-incident/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — Almost 60 school districts across Texas have now switched to four-day school weeks, often in a bid to prevent teacher turnover.
According to a KXAN analysis, at least 59 districts have made the switch. Some of those districts have recently approved the change effective for the 2023-24 school year.
At least seven other districts offer a hybrid schedule, with four-day weeks for part of the year.
Districts in all parts of the state have made the change, with the schedule proving particularly popular in rural districts in north and east Texas.
In 2015, Texas lawmakers passed a bill that changed how classroom instruction was timed. Districts no longer had to provide 180 days of classes, but instead a minimum of 75,600 minutes. Requiring minutes instead of a set number of days gave districts more flexibility in how they scheduled classes.
Crosby ISD, in Harris County just outside Houston, recently became the largest district in the state to adopt a four-day week. The district, which serves almost 6,500 students, approved the switch in a Feb. 27 school board meeting. The new schedule will begin next school year.
“Our why is simple and straightforward,” Superintendent Paula Patterson said. “We want to find, recruit and retain the best teachers in the state in the classrooms for our students. This change immediately makes Crosby ISD a top destination for educators in Harris County.”
Districts statewide have been struggling with teacher retention, particularly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A KXAN investigation found a record number of teachers retired or resigned in the 2021-22 school year, many citing low pay and increasing workloads without additional planning time.
District after district making the switch cited teacher retention as a big advantage of the schedule change. Alto ISD, south of Tyler, said the four-day week offered a “competitive advantage in hiring high-quality faculty and staff.”
A presentation from New Waverly ISD, north of Houston said, “We believe that the implementation of a four-day instructional week may offer NWISD a pathway to retain and attract high-quality instructors.”
And in La Vernia ISD, just east of San Antonio, a survey of staff found 82% were interested in a four-day week, with one teacher saying they would probably use the Fridays off for grading and planning.
All three districts approved changes to their schedules in February, with three-year pilot programs set to begin next school year.
A recently-published report by the Teacher Vacancy Task Force highlighted the need to “demonstrate respect and value for teacher time.” The report, by the Texas Education Agency, said teachers are responsible for so much more than just teaching, from finding and making copies of instructional materials to completing paperwork and attending meetings and professional development.
Districts have touted the four-day instructional week for providing the fifth day for teachers to complete some of those additional tasks.
TEA Commissioner Mike Morath is not sold on the four-day week, though. In a March 1 hearing of the state’s Senate Committee on Education, Morath said the schedule shift is “harmful for student achievement on balance,” unless certain conditions are met.
Morath said districts would have to shift “very, very thoughtfully.” For example, any academic disruptions during the week, such as field trips, athletic competitions, extracurriculars and other reasons for students being pulled out of class, should be moved to the non-class day.
The “educational experience” on the four class days would then have to be thoughtfully organized to maximize instructional time. On the fifth day, teachers would have “built-in reflection time” and training or professional development time.
“There is a subset of districts that when they make those sets of shifts, it does not reduce student achievement,” Morath said. “I still don’t have any data that shows it increases student achievement, but if all those conditions are true, it is not openly harmful to student achievement. But if all of those conditions are not true, the data is pretty clear. It just reduces student achievement.”
Many districts are hoping a shorter school week will improve attendance, and in turn, improve achievement. A presentation by China Spring ISD, just outside Waco, said the attendance in the district is about 1.5 percentage points lower than before the pandemic. The district is currently considering making the switch.
“If the four-day week improves student attendance just to pre-COVID rates, it will increase funding by a little over $300,000,” the presentation states. Funding for school districts in Texas is directly tied to student attendance. “When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic performance.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/almost-60-school-districts-in-texas-have-now-made-the-switch-to-four-day-weeks-2/ | 2023-03-08 01:11:21 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/almost-60-school-districts-in-texas-have-now-made-the-switch-to-four-day-weeks-2/ |
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Some residents in western Palm Beach County are outraged over an ordinance they call confusing and claim that it targets their bottom line.
The measure doesn't allow them to store commercial and recreational vehicles on their property — even though some said they've been doing it for years.
Running a small business can be tough.
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"I have a trucking business. It's family-owned, just my husband and father-in-law," Natalia Alonso said.
She runs it while her husband and father-in-law do the driving.
"I keep the trucks in the back of my property along the side of the line," she said.
Alonso said she first came to the attention of the county for having chicken coops. Once they saw their trucks, she said things escalated.
"After citing me for my chicken coops, they went ahead and told me that I also had illegal trucks parked on my property," she said. "I was told by my realtor, when I moved in and by county code enforcement directors, that I could have my vehicles back then," she said.
Under the current zoning code, residents are allowed one commercial truck to be stored, but it cannot weigh more than 12,500 pounds, the height of the truck can't exceed 9 feet, and can't be longer than 26 feet in length.
Many people at a Board of County Commissioners zoning hearing Thursday said the county needs to do a better job of making the code clear and that there were elements of the ordinance that were added, but they were not made aware of those changes.
"Before 2019, the code allowed you to, in the AR rural areas, you could have your boats and your RVs on your property, but when that change happened in 2019, it required the urban style of screening and parking of boats and RVs out in the rural areas," a county official said during the hearing.
Alonso said there are 17,000 homes in her community. She said many people have recreational vehicles, as well as work vehicles on their property. She wonders where all those vehicles are supposed to go. Plus, she said the fines have people living in fear.
"My case has been postponed and postponed and it just keeps getting dragged and dragged, and I don't get a solution," she said. "Every day I live in fear of not knowing when they're going to start putting those fines on me that could be $1,000 a day."
Currently, the county said it has staff looking at streamlining and simplifying the ordinance. The next zoning meeting on this topic is in June. | https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/palm-beach-county-residents-outraged-by-ordinance-they-call-confusing | 2023-04-29 01:58:14 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/palm-beach-county-residents-outraged-by-ordinance-they-call-confusing |
SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — Brazil said a final farewell to Pelé on Tuesday, burying the legend who unified the bitterly divided country.
Newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid his respects at Vila Belmiro, the stadium where Pelé played for most of his career.
Pelé was laid to rest in the city where he grew up and became famous, and which became a global capital of his sport. Mass was held at the Vila Belmiro stadium before the black casket was driven through the streets of the city of Santos in a firetruck.
It was taken into the cemetery as bands played the Santos team’s official song, and a Catholic hymn. Before the golden-wrapped casket arrived, attendees sang samba songs that Pelé had liked.
Some legends of Pelé’s sport weren’t there.
“Where’s Ronaldo Nazario? Where’s Kaká, where’s Neymar?” asked Claudionor Alves, 67, who works at a bakery next to the stadium. “Do they think they will be remembered like Pelé will? These guys didn’t want to stop their vacations, that’s the problem.”
Another notable absentee was Jair Bolsonaro, whose term as president ended Dec. 31. A day before, he departed capital Brasilia on a flight to Florida, shirking the ceremonial duty of passing the presidential sash to Lula. Bolsonaro is staying in a condominium complex outside Orlando and has been filmed speaking to neighbors.
Geovana Sarmento, 17, waited in the three-hour line to view his body as it lay in repose. She came with her father, who was wearing a Brazil shirt with Pelé’s name.
“I am not a Santos fan, neither is my father. But this guy invented Brazil’s national team. He made Santos stronger, he made it big, how could you not respect him? He is one of the greatest people ever, we needed to honor him,” she said.
Caio Zalke, 35, an engineer, wore a Brazil shirt as he waited in line. “Pelé is the most important Brazilian of all time. He made the sport important for Brazil and he made Brazil important for the world,” he said.
In the 1960s and 70s, Pelé was perhaps the world’s most famous athlete. He met presidents and queens, and in Nigeria a civil war was put on hold to watch him play. Many Brazilians credit him with putting the country on the world stage for the first time.
Rows of shirts with Pelé’s number 10 were placed behind one of the goals, waving in the city’s summer winds. A section of the stands was filling up with bouquets of flowers placed by mourners and sent by clubs and star players — Neymar and Ronaldo among them — from around the world as loudspeakers played a song named “Eu sou Pelé” (“I am Pelé”) that was recorded by the Brazilian himself.
The crowd was mostly local, although some came from far away. Many mourners were too young ever to have seen Pelé play. The mood was light, as people filtered out of the stadium to local bars, wearing Santos FC and Brazil shirts.
Claudio Carrança, 32, a salesman, said: “I never saw him play, but loving Pelé is a tradition that goes from father to son in Santos. I learned his history, saw his goals, and I see how Santos FC is important because he is important. I know some Santos fans have children supporting other teams. But that’s just because they never saw Pelé in action. If they had, they would feel this gratitude I feel now.”
Among those at the stadium was Pelé’s best friend Manoel Maria, also a former Santos player.
“If I had all the wealth in the world I would never be able to repay what this man did for me and my family,” Maria said. “He was as great a man as he was as a player; the best of all time. His legacy will outlive us all. And that can be seen in this long line with people of all ages here.”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino told journalists that every country should name a stadium after Pelé.
“I am here with a lot of emotion, sadness, but also with a smile because he gave us so many smiles,” Infantino said. “As FIFA, we will pay a tribute to the ‘King’ and we ask the whole world to observe a minute of silence.”
Another fan and friend in line was Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes.
“It is a very sad moment, but we are now seeing the real meaning of this legendary player to our country,” Mendes told journalists. “My office has shirts signed by Pelé, a picture of him as a goalkeeper, also signed by him. DVDs, photos, a big collection of him.”
Pelé had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. The medical center where he had been hospitalized said he died of multiple organ failure as a result of the cancer.
Pelé led Brazil to World Cup titles in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and remains one of the team’s all-time leading scorers with 77 goals. Neymar tied Pelé’s record during this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
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LAS VEGAS and RENO, Nev., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) (the "Company," "Caesars" or the "Issuer") today announced the pricing of its previously announced offering of Senior Secured Notes due 2030 (the "Notes") at an interest rate of 7.00% per annum and an issue price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes. The offering is expected to close on or about February 6, 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. The Notes were offered in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to persons outside the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act. The aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be issued in the offering was increased to $2,000.0 million from the previously announced $1,250.0 million.
The Notes will be guaranteed on a senior secured basis by each existing and future wholly-owned domestic subsidiary of the Company that is a guarantor with respect to the Company's senior secured credit facilities (the "CEI Credit Agreement") and its existing 6.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the "Subsidiary Guarantors"), once certain regulatory approvals are obtained. The Notes and guarantees of the Notes will be the Issuer's and the Subsidiary Guarantors' senior secured obligations and, once certain regulatory approvals are obtained, secured on a first-priority pari passu basis on substantially all of the property and assets of the Issuer and the Subsidiary Guarantors, now owned or hereafter acquired by the Issuer and any Subsidiary Guarantor, that secure the obligations under the Company's senior secured credit facilities and its existing 6.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2025.
Concurrently with the issuance of the Notes, the Company expects to enter into an amendment to the CEI Credit Agreement to provide for, among other things, a new approximately $1.750 billion senior secured term loan facility (the "New Term B Loan"). The closing of the New Term B Loan under the CEI Credit Agreement is not a condition to the closing of the sale of the Notes. The Company intends to apply the net proceeds of the sale of the Notes, the New Term B Loan, and cash on hand, (i) to repay all of the Term B Loans of Caesars Resort Collection, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company("CRC"), together with all accrued interest, fees and premiums thereon, and (ii) to pay fees and expenses related to the foregoing, and any remaining proceeds therefrom will be used by the Company for general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, the potential repayment of a portion of CRC's outstanding Term B-1 Loans.
The Notes were offered to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act and to persons outside the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act. The Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act, and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
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DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — The FBI has issued arrest warrants and released disturbing details in the armed home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly North Carolina couple and the theft of more than $150,000 of their cryptocurrency in April.
The incident took place at gunpoint at the couple’s home the morning of April 12 after thieves allegedly posed as construction workers and forced their way into the home, according to the Durham Police Department and the FBI.
According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by Nexstar’s WNCN, the incident began when two men, dressed as construction workers, came to the victims’ home around 7:30 a.m. The duo claimed they would be inspecting pipes for damage and told the husband they would be “walking around the house.”
After a few minutes, the pair knocked on the door again and the wife answered the door. The suspects, who allegedly both had guns, then pushed their way inside.
“The men restrained and zip-tied the husband’s hands and the wife’s hands,” the FBI complaint said.
A man armed with a pink gun showed the wife it was loaded by opening the cylinder and then dragged her into a bathroom by her legs, the criminal complaint said.
The husband was taken to his Apple iMac and forced at gunpoint to log in and install a remote desktop application called AnyDesk. A person on the phone with a thief already knew “details about the account without being told,” the FBI complaint said.
The FBI believes the husband’s email account was compromised in the past, allowing the thieves to learn the details ahead of the trip to Durham and the home invasion.
The suspects were able to transfer $156,853 worth of cryptocurrency during the next 45 minutes, the FBI said. Before leaving, the thieves allegedly smashed the couple’s cellphones and the iMac.
The elderly couple managed to get out of their home and ask neighbors to call 911 for help. The pair suffered minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital, Durham police said.
The arrest warrants released Thursday for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping indicate two West Palm Beach, Florida, men are wanted — Jarod Gabriel Seemungal and Remy Ra St. Felix.
According to the FBI criminal complaint filed the same day, the suspects began targeting retirees who had cryptocurrency as early as February. The accused men even had the license plate number for the husband’s car, authorities said. A third man is also named in the criminal complaint, but no arrest warrant was issued for him as of Thursday.
Messages sent between those involved identified actual cryptocurrency amounts and their locations, the criminal complaint said. One suspect had a photo of the husband’s North Carolina driver’s license in his email account, according to the FBI.
The two suspects also discussed in internet messages how potential victims “have so much” money in accounts that it would be “retirement licks” — the FBI explained in the complaint that “licks” is slang for a robbery.
The thieves apparently rented a car in Florida and visited the Millennium Hotel in Durham a couple of days before the actual robbery, according to the complaint. Video from a home near the victims’ showed the thieves’ BMW SUV “conducting surveillance” at the couple’s home each of the three days before the alleged kidnapping, the FBI said.
The FBI also noted that a person driving a similar vehicle purchased costumes — a clipboard, reflective vest, sunglasses and a pair of khaki pants — at a nearby Walmart that allowed the suspected thieves to get into the victims’ home. Both suspects were seen on surveillance video from the store.
Additional details about potential victims wasn’t immediately available. As of Sunday, authorities have not said whether either man is in custody. | https://www.wane.com/news/crime/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ | 2023-07-30 19:00:42 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/crime/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ |
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Speech Improvement Center is hosting their very first Speech Pathology Intern Day on October 14th, 2022 in Pacoima, CA 91331. Speech Pathology Intern Day is open to all Speech Language Pathology and Speech Language Pathology Assistant students across all schools in California.
The event will be held at the corporate office located in Pacoima and will take place from 9:30am – 3:30pm.
Speech Improvement Center is a private practice with over 24 locations in California. They specialize in speech therapy for pediatric population and come across different disorders such as voice, apraxia, and articulation, as well as expressive and receptive disorders. Speech Improvement Center is known for its extensive and detailed training programs for speech therapists and the career growth opportunities within the field. They also offer SLPA job and SLP job opportunities in all their centers.
The event is hosted for speech therapy students who want to learn more about the field and get an experience about what a day in the life of a speech therapist looks like. The students will get a chance to learn about different employment settings within the field, learn about the pros and cons of each setting, as well as hear from different professionals in the field about their experiences. There will also be different case studies and clinical subjects that will be covered through out the day, giving students a head start about the clinical knowledge and different disorders they might come across in the real world. Students will also learn about how to apply for their SLP/SLPA licenses in California. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, along with lots of fun games and activities designed specifically for students to learn and benefit from.
Speech Pathology Intern Day at Speech Improvement Center offers free admission and is open to all speech pathology students across the state of California. The event is hosted in person and will have limited seating. Those who are interested in attending the event should register before October 7th on Speech Pathology Intern Day - Speech Improvement Center.
Speech Improvement Center also offers employment opportunities for Speech Language Pathologists, Speech Language Pathology Assistants, and Clinical Fellows. If you are interested in growing your speech therapy career with a company that provides multiple opportunities for growth and specialization, Speech Improvement Center might be the right place for you. For employment opportunities, please visit: Speech Language Pathologist Assistant (SLPA) - North Hollywood, CA - Speech Improvement Center
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NEW YORK (AP) — It was 1977, and Andy Warhol was at work on his “Athletes” series, portraits of top sports personalities who, he felt, were gaining cultural prominence just like “the movie stars of yesterday.” One of them was then the star running back of the Buffalo Bills: O.J. Simpson.
Simpson, then 30, showed up without a football or a jersey, and Warhol had to scramble to find a ball. That Polaroid shoot led to 11 silkscreen portraits; one of them is now going on auction for the first time.
Signed by both men, the portrait is billed by the auction house as a work that brings together two of the most recognizable names of the 20th century and captures “a trajectory of celebrity and tragedy.”
“Warhol certainly could never have imagined how differently the image would come to be viewed, nor the controversy that still lingers around its subject today,” said Robert Manley, co-head of 20th century and contemporary art at the Phillips auction house, which is auctioning the work May 16.
It was almost two decades after Warhol’s photo shoot, in 1995, that Simpson — who had retired from the NFL in 1979 and pursued an acting career — was acquitted of the double slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. He was later found liable for the deaths by a California civil court jury that ordered him to pay $33.5 million to victims’ families.
In a separate case more than a decade later, Simpson was convicted by a jury in Las Vegas for leading five men, including two with guns, in a 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers in a cramped room at an off-strip Las Vegas casino hotel. Simpson served nine years in a Nevada prison for armed robbery. He was discharged from parole in December 2021.
Manley noted that five decades after Warhol made it, the portrait still evokes a strong reaction.
“Those who view the image of Simpson staring directly down the camera are likely to recall the other notorious picture of the celebrity — his mugshot,” Manley said. “Juxtaposing these two images, created at such different points in Simpson’s life, shows a fascinating trajectory of celebrity and tragedy.”
Commissioned as part of the broader “Athletes” series that included Muhammad Ali, soccer star Pelé, tennis star Chris Evert, golf’s Jack Nicklaus and figure skater Dorothy Hamill, among others, by Warhol friend and collector Richard Weisman, this particular portrait spent 19 years at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, where it was donated in 1992 and, according to a spokesperson there, never displayed.
In 2011, it was deaccessioned — or permanently removed from the collection — and sold to an anonymous collector in a private sale through Christie’s, with proceeds going to fund preservation of other items in the hall’s collection, said hall spokesperson Rich Desrosiers. Phillips estimates the portrait will sell in the $300,000 to $500,000 range. As with any of the athletes in the series, Simpson would not have existing rights to proceeds, the auction house said.
The highest price achieved at auction for one of Warhol’s Simpson portraits was $687,000, sold in 2019.
Warhol photographed Simpson in Buffalo on Oct. 19, 1977. According to the auction catalog, a quote from Warhol’s diary that day reads, “He had a five-day beard and I thought the pictures would be awful.” Warhol died in 1987 at age 58.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An openly transgender cleric from San Francisco, who made history last year with an appointment as a bishop by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has resigned amid allegations of racism after firing the pastor of a predominantly Latino congregation.
The Rev. Megan Rohrer, who uses the pronoun “they,” led one of the church’s 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada. They were elected in May 2021 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod.
In a letter to the synod Saturday, Rohrer said they were resigning because of “the constant misinformation, bullying and harassment” they experienced after the synod voted to remove the pastor of Mision Latina Luterana on Dec. 12, the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a significant holiday for congregants of the Stockton, California, church.
Rohrer fired the Rev. Nelson Rabell-Gonzalez after an investigation by the church into verbal harassment and retaliation allegations against the pastor, all of which he has denied. The synod council voted on Dec. 11 to vacate Rabell-Gonzalez’s call as a mission developer and to terminate his employment after they said he refused to fulfill certain mandatory requirements.
Rohrer was not available to speak with The Associated Press on Tuesday, saying they were “trying to rest and be with my family.”
A spokeswoman for the ELCA declined further comment Tuesday.
After Rabell-Gonzalez’s removal upset members of the Mision Latina Luterana, the Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, the denomination’s presiding bishop, appointed a three-person “listening panel” in March to review Rohrer’s actions.
That report released June 1 made several recommendations to the ELCA, including publicly apologizing to the Latino church community for the hurt caused, planning anti-racism training for churchwide staff and leaders, paying a “healing visit” to the community and creating a task force to review the church’s policies and procedures.
Church leaders initiated the process to discipline Rohrer on Sunday following their resignation on Saturday. Eaton posted on Twitter that the Conference of Bishops met Sunday, a meeting she said Rohrer “chose not to attend.”
“I shared that I am initiating the discipline process immediately including suspension of Bishop Rohrer, based on additional information that has come to light.”
She added that the process will take time and that she will continue “to provide updates as appropriate.”
On Twitter, Rohrer questioned the church’s move to continue with the disciplinary process following their resignation “without providing any specifics about what I allegedly did.”
“That appears to be in conflict with their own procedures,” Roher said.
Members of the listening panel reported that the Mision Latina Luterana congregation had no idea their pastor was fired on Dec. 12. The congregation comprising mostly Mexican immigrants had planned an elaborate program that day with mariachi singers, traditional dancers and performances by children, all led by their pastor.
A video, which one of the congregants recorded live, shows distraught congregants voicing their concerns. One woman said in Spanish: “Pastor Nelson has worked a lot for this day to happen. He has done a lot for our community. He has fought for our rights.”
Others said the move to fire him was “unfair” and “racist.” The report mentions other congregants asked if the complaints against Rabell-Gonzalez were sexual in nature and were further upset when they did not get a response from Rohrer or other leaders.
The report also said Rohrer threatened a child and her father with calling the police if they did not leave the sacristy – a threat that is viewed as racist by the immigrant community. Rohrer wore a bulletproof vest during the service, the report said, because they had “concerns about their safety and well-being.”
Eaton announced in a May 27 report to the church that she had requested Rohrer’s resignation from the synod.
“There are issues of broken trust at all levels, from individual members and communities to the broader church, which will need work to repair,” she said in that report.
She said she intends to act on and explore several of the listening team’s recommendations particularly the need for anti-racism and cultural sensitivity training.
The church’s Latino Ministries Association had strong words for Eaton in a May 28 statement criticizing her for not bringing disciplinary charges against the bishop for “racist actions” against the congregation.
The association’s leaders called Eaton’s statement “weak and compassionless” and framed racist actions as “unwise decisions” and “unfortunate events.” They also said her message ignored the suffering of an entire community and gave “a white aggressor the opportunity to decide their own fate – a decision deeply rooted in white supremacy and systemic racism.”
In a previous statement, the synod council said it decided to terminate Rabell-Gonzalez’s employment after “continual communications of verbal harassment and retaliatory actions from more than a dozen victims from 2019 to the present.” But church officials have not specifically stated what the pastor’s transgressions were.
Rabell-Gonzalez was one of the candidates in the election for bishop. After Rohrer’s appointment, church officials identified mandatory steps for Rabell-Gonzalez to take, which officials said he refused to comply with, on Dec. 9. The council’s action to vacate his call came two days later.
The decision to vacate the pastor’s call also cut off funding for the congregation, the report said, leaving the community without a pastor or a church building.
Rabell-Gonzalez, who spoke to the AP from his native Puerto Rico on Tuesday, said he is continuing to lead the congregation under a new name, Iglesia Luterana Santa Maria Peregrina, at the First Congregational Church in Stockton.
Rabell-Gonzalez said he never declined to follow the synod’s recommendations, and simply wants the opportunity to make his case.
“I have been taken off the roster without due process, without any disciplinary hearing and without being accused of anything,” he said.
Rohrer will now have the opportunity to mount a defense as part of a disciplinary process – an opportunity Rabell-Gonzalez says he has been denied. He also said he did not refuse the synod’s mandate to see a therapist. When Rohrer became bishop, Rabell-Gonzalez said he expected to get an ally.
“I got an oppressor instead,” he said.
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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until January 30, 2023 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC), if they purchased the Company's shares between April 29, 2021 and November 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
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Restaurant Brands International Inc. to Participate in Scotiabank Back to School Conference
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 5:30 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
TORONTO, Sept. 8, 2022/PRNewswire/ - Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX: QSR) (NYSE: QSR) (TSX: QSP) ("RBI") announced today that José Cil, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at Scotiabank Back to School Conference on September 13th,2022 at 9:00 am Eastern Time.
A live audio webcast will be available on the company's investor relations website (http://rbi.com/investors) and will be available for 30 days following the event.
About Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.
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INDIANAPOLIS — "When your mom tells you to do something, your dad tells you to do something, it's like, oh well, they don't understand, they're old. But when your peers say something, it sticks," said Anthony Beverly, Director of Stop the Violence Indianapolis.
Raising awareness about gun violence is a big task for communities across Indiana. Stop the Violence Indianapolis teamed up with IU Football in hopes that their influence will inspire our youth to put the guns down.
On March 29th, 2020, 17-year-old Da'Mario McCullough was killed, along with another person, in a triple shooting on Emerson Avenue, a difficult loss still hard for friends Cam Jordan and Jeff Utzinger to fathom.
"We were great friends. I hung out on the weekends and things like that. He was just a great guy. Really fun to be around," said Cam Jordan, IU Wide Receiver #89. "Losing him was definitely hard, especially during the covid era of only being at home."
"I just remembered when the news came out, we got a text from our coaches saying we were going to have a prayer service at the school," said Utzinger.
Da'Mario was a junior at Cathedral High School, a star on and off the field.
"We had the opportunity to speak up at a time like this when gun violence is on the rise," said Utzinger.
Two years later and his Cathedral football teammates now play for IU, and they're championing a new initiative challenging our youth to rise above gun violence.
"IU football team is going all across social media. All of the players that are participating have a reach of over 500 thousand," said Beverly.
“Team Up for Peace,” is a collaboration between IU football, Hoosiers for Good, and Stop the Violence in Indianapolis, using the power of social media to reach our youth in a unique way to encourage them to make better choices.
"Sports have always been a way to get messaging done. They have a level of influence, and we want to help encourage them to use that influence for the better," said Beverly.
Beverly said “Team Up for Peace” has also caught the attention of nearly 20 high school basketball teams across Indianapolis.
"We had an event, and at the event, we brought them in and had a conversation around the violence in the city, and the high school players responded," said Beverly.
"When I was in high school, my role models were college and professional athletes. As I grew, I realized that even though you may not see that many on the field as much, I can still make a big impact, especially in the Indianapolis area," said Jordan.
Beverly said they need more volunteers to go to the high schoolers' games this season to help spread the message. To volunteer, contact 317-692-9929.
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FDA recalls zucchini from Walmart over salmonella concerns
(CNN) - On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that World Variety Produce is recalling organic zucchini sold at Walmart stores in 18 states.
The two-count pack of zucchini was sold under the brand Organic Marketside.
The vegetables have potentially been contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes deadly infection.
Walmart stores in Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin received shipments of the potentially contaminated vegetable.
The set of two zucchinis was sold in a clear overwrap tray weighing about 6 ounces with a UPC code of 6-81131-22105-4 and case lot number 38706503.
The FDA says no illnesses have been reported and that customers should throw it away.
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Star-Studded Cast to Appear at Exclusive Premiere Screening of the AMC/AMC+ series Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, including Executive Producer Mark Johnson, Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass and Eric Bogosian
Josh Horowitz, Host of the MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount+ podcast, Happy, Sad, Confused, will be recording a podcast in front of a live audience from PaleyWKND with Actor Colin Hanks
NBA Legend John Starks, NBA Champion Ron Harper and WNBA Legend and former New York Liberty player Sue Wicks to Make Special Appearances at Jr. NBA Clinic
Stanley Cup Champion and NHL All-Star Tuukka Rask to Appear at NHL Experience
Join Josh Dela Cruz, host of Blue's Clues & You!, for a photo op and special look at the trailer for the brand-new movie, Blue's Big City Adventure, streaming exclusively on Paramount+ this November
Kate the Chemist to Take the Stage with Mo Rocca, host of Hearst Television's Innovation Nation, Sharing Surprising and Fun STEM Experiments
Stop by and get your photo taken with Sesame Street's Elmo and Abby
Major League Baseball to host special appearances by MLB Alumni John Doherty, Daniel Herrera, Jesse Levis, Oreste Marrero, and Joseph Valentine
Celebrate the Power of Sports with ESPN and Special Olympics with Special Appearances by ESPN Hosts Phil Murphy, Tony Reali, Victoria Arlen, and Cassidy Hubbarth
DJ Spinderella to Perform at Exclusive Opening Night Preview
La X 96.3 El Ritmo de New York DJs C-LO and Anthony Rey to Spin Sets on 52nd Street
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paley Center for Media announces the most recent lineup of celebrity, athlete and DJ appearances for PaleyWKND, a live, immersive, once-in-a-lifetime, family-friendly celebration in the heart of midtown Manhattan. PaleyWKND - the ultimate media, sports, gaming, and entertainment festival - takes place Saturday, October 1 through Sunday, October 2, 2022, rain or shine, kicking off with a Members-only opening night celebration on Friday, September 30. Additional announcements will be made in the lead up to this weekend's event, and the most up-to-date information can be found here.
PaleyWKND will be taking over The Paley Museum and its entire 52nd Street block between 5th and 6th Avenues for an unprecedented weekend of interactive experiences and immersive attractions from over two dozen world-class companies, iconic media brands, and the major sports leagues. The event is free and open to the public. Paley Center Members can experience PaleyWKND in VIP style with exclusive Members-only hours, fast-access lanes, and other VIP experiences and exclusive benefits. VIP Membership information can be found at www.PaleyWKND.org. Guests can reserve their free tickets for timed entry and walk-up visitors are welcome too.
"With PaleyWKND just days away, I am thrilled to announce the latest pro athletes, celebrities and other special guests to join the already star-studded line-up for this one-of-a-kind weekend festival," said Maureen J. Reidy, President and CEO for the Paley Center for Media. "Bringing unforgettable experiences to our visitors is an integral part of what we do, and Paley WKND is a perfect example of the exceptional programs we offer our members and guests year-round at the Paley Museum".
A robust lineup of brands is presenting interactive experiences at PaleyWKND, the ultimate media, sports, gaming, and entertainment festival. The complete lineup of organizations and companies at PaleyWKND, members of the Host Committee, and PaleyWKND supporters can be found here.
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AMC/AMC+ series Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire Star-Studded Cast to Appear at Premiere Screening, Including Executive Producer Mark Johnson, and cast Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass, and Eric Bogosian
Catch a special sneak preview of the first episode of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire before its premiere on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, October 2 at 10pm ET. Tune into AMC+ each week for early access to new episodes. A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice's revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia's (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).
Saturday, October 1 at 5 pm
Sesame Street
Stop by and get your photo taken with Sesame Street's Elmo and Abby.
Saturday, October 1 all day
Nickelodeon
Join Josh Dela Cruz, Host of Blue's Clues & You!, for a Photo Op and Special Look at the Trailer for the Brand-New Movie, Blue's Big City Adventure, Streaming Exclusively on Paramount+ this November.
Saturday, October 1 at 11 am
Hearst
Kate the Chemist to Take the Stage with Mo Rocca, Host of Hearst Media Production Group's "Innovation Nation", Sharing Surprising and Fun STEM Experiments
Fans can join Mo Rocca for live version of the Emmy Award-winning Hearst Media Production show "Innovation Nation", which showcases inventors and change-makers creating solutions for real needs in our communities. Kate the Chemist will share surprising and fun STEM experiments with the audience. Rocca will also feature Nick and Karl Rinne, brothers from Rockland County, and 2013 Google Science Fair winner Andini Makosinski.
Sunday, October 2, 11:30am
Athlete Appearances
Major League Baseball
MLB Presents the Interactive "PLAY BALL" Experience, Part of their Global Initiative to Encourage Youth to Play the Many Different Ways Baseball and Softball Can Be Enjoyed.
Kids and fans will get to take a swing and test their skills in a special MLB-produced batting cage and adjoining 'mini field'. With special appearances by MLB alumni John Doherty, Daniel Herrera, Jesse Levis, Oreste Marrero, Joseph Valentine and MLB Youth Ambassador "Coach Ballgame."
Saturday, October 1 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday, October 2 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
National Basketball Association
NBA Legend John Starks, NBA Champion Ron Harper and WNBA Legend and former New York Liberty player Sue Wicks to Make Special Appearances During Jr. NBA Clinics
NBA Legend and former New York Knicks player John Starks and NBA champion Ron Harper will make special appearances during Jr. NBA basketball clinics hosted by the NBA and WNBA. The Jr. NBA clinics will provide youth participants with the opportunity to hone their dribbling, passing, and shooting skills alongside members of the NBA family.
Saturday, October 1 John Starks, Ron Harper and Sue Wicks
National Hockey League
Stanley Cup Champion and NHL All-Star Tuukka Rask to Appear at NHL Experience
Stanley Cup Champion goalie Tuukka Rask will help kids put their hockey skills on display with a special appearance at the NHL Accuracy Challenge.
Saturday, October 1 at 11am
ESPN
Celebrate the Power of Sports with ESPN and Special Olympics with Exclusive Appearances by ESPN Hosts Victoria Arlen, Cassidy Hubbarth, Phil Murphy and Tony Reali.
ESPN believes that, at its very best, sports uplift the human spirit and uses the power of sport to positively address society's needs. ESPN's support and sponsorship of Special Olympics is a perfect example of using sport to promote social inclusion and acceptance. Fans are welcome to join ESPN and experience fun and inclusive sports activities, photos with ESPN personalities and an interactive digital experience that can be shared socially with friends.
Saturday, October 1 – 12pm Phil Murphy; 2pm Tony Reali
Sunday, October 2 – 12pm Victoria Arlen; 2pm Cassidy Hubbarth
DJ Performances
TelevisaUnivision
DJ Anthony Rey and DJ C-Lo of La X 96.3 FM El RITMO DE NEW YORK are bringing the beats to the streets during PaleyWKND.
Saturday, October 1 from 2-6 pm
Opening Night Preview and Reception
DJ Spinderella to Perform at Exclusive Opening Night Preview
PaleyWKND kicks kicking off with a Members-only opening night celebration with music provided by DJ Spinderella.
Friday, September 30 from 6-9 pm
Josh Horowitz, host for MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount+ and the podcast, Happy, Sad, Confused, will broadcast live with actor Colin Hanks to discuss his newest project "A Friend of the Family".
"Happy Sad Confused" is MTV, Comedy Central, and Paramount+ host Josh Horowitz's weekly interview podcast. Since 2014, Josh has welcomed the greatest actors and filmmakers of our time for thoughtful and relaxed conversations about their careers. From actors like Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson to filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan to living legends like Al Pacino and Jane Fonda, the guest list is unparalleled.
Friday, September 30 7:15 pm
PaleyWKND VIP Access with a Paley Center Membership
Throughout the weekend, Paley Center Members will enjoy VIP access with exclusive, Members-only hours, Paley Member fast-track lanes, exclusive celebrity, athlete, and character meet & greets, as well as an invitation to the Red Carpet Preview Cocktail Reception, which kicks off PaleyWKND on Friday, September 30. The Paley Center for Media invites all New Yorkers and visitors to officially join its special membership community and enjoy these and other benefits year-round. Please note individual and family memberships are fully tax deductible.
Stay up to date on announcements and additions to the PaleyWKND lineup at PaleyWKND.org.
Events and participants subject to change.
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Auto Techcelerators, an Opus IVS Company, Claims Coveted Best New Product Award in the Collision Category with Test Drive CoPilot™
DETROIT, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, today announced the winners of the New Products Showcase Awards held at the 2022 SEMA Show. The event recognizes the most cutting-edge new automotive products across the entire industry. This year, nearly 4,000 new products were submitted for consideration in 18 categories. Opus IVS™ company Auto Techcelerators was named the winner of the Best New Product Award in the Collision category for its revolutionary new product, Test Drive CoPilot™.
"Opus IVS is a technology company that innovates, and this award is a recognition by industry that our resources are focused focused on solving real challenges our customers face," said Brian Herron, CEO of Opus IVS. "Industry week has started off on a great note for us, and we are grateful for the recognition."
"I am humbled and proud to see my idea come to life and receive such a coveted award," said Frank Terlep, founder of Auto Techcelerators. "Test Drive CoPilot is designed to help collision repairers properly perform, validate and document ADAS systems on a vehicle operate as designed by the OEMs before the vehicle is delivered back to the vehicle owner."
The award-winning solution will be on display in SEMA's ADAS Garage, the SEMA Launchpad as well as alongside the future of ADAS Service, available today, in the Opus IVS booth #31095 in the South Hall Upper.
Meet Frank and the Autotechcelerators team at the SEMA Launchpad Corral in booth #22970 in the Central Hall, as well as in the Opus booth #31095 in the South Upper Hall at this year's Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show to run November 1-4 in Las Vegas. The winning solution can additionally be experienced at the ADAS Garage, also in the South Upper Hall.
Opus IVS is the Intelligent Vehicle Support division of Opus Group, formed through the merging of industry-leading companies DrewTech, Autologic, Farsight, BlueLink and AutoEnginuity to develop innovative automotive solutions for more than 50,000 repair shops and dealerships worldwide, giving them the confidence to get the most complex vehicles back on the road safely and efficiently. Opus IVS develops industry-leading OEM endorsed diagnostic technology with over 70 patents issued and pending related to remote flash programming, pre- and post-repair scanning, remote technical support, ADAS calibrations and vehicle network technology. The Opus IVS remote technical support connects the shop with 100+ brand-specific Dealer Master Technicians to help interpret trouble codes, review OEM service procedures and provide diagnostic assistance directly through the tool. Opus IVS is a division of Opus Group, which has over 2,600 employees, 34 offices globally and connects to 30M vehicles per year for OBD testing.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) _ Synovus Financial Corp. (SNV) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $205.8 million.
The bank, based in Columbus, Georgia, said it had earnings of $1.35 per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.37 per share.
The holding company for Synovus Bank posted revenue of $757.1 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $603.8 million, exceeding Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $602 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $757.9 million, or $4.95 per share. Revenue was reported as $2.21 billion.
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David Beckham’s son, Romeo, joins Premier League B team
By Issy Ronald, CNN
Romeo Beckham, son of former England captain and soccer icon David Beckham, has joined Premier League Brentford’s B team for the rest of the season on a loan deal from MLS NEXT Pro club Inter Miami CF II.
The 20-year-old midfielder will join his new teammates in Brentford’s reserve team, playing in the Premier League Cup and overseas matches.
“I’m very proud and very happy to be here,” Beckham told Brentford’s official website.
“I came here at the start to keep fit during the off season. The chance then came to come on loan here and I’ve never been so excited.”
Beckham made 20 appearances for Inter Miami II last season, playing in the MLS NEXT Pro league, and contributed 10 assists — the most in the league — as well as two goals.
In July, he was a substitute for Inter Miami, which is co-owned by his father David, in a friendly against La Liga side Barcelona.
“It was a fun season [in the USA] and there were a lot of ups and downs but I’m excited to come here and see what I can do,” he added.
“I love how we have the opportunity to play at different levels, both abroad and here.”
Meanwhile, Beckham’s family congratulated him on social media.
“Exciting start to the year. Now the hard work & fun begins. Proud of you mate,” David Beckham posted on his Instagram story alongside a photo of him and Romeo holding a Brentford jersey outside the club’s training facility.
Playing under Brentford B head coach Neil MacFarlane and assistant coach Sam Saunders, Beckham says that he hopes to continue his footballing development, learning from the players around him and playing against men’s teams overseas.
“We go across to play some men’s teams and it’s a good experience,” Beckham added. “[I want] to get the experience to play against men and get physically stronger and we’ll see how that can progress me.”
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How effective is the NIMBY activist movement in Chico? Let’s find out: In the 1950s when I was born in Chico, our population was 12,000; in the 60’s it was15,000; the 70’s 20,000; 80’s 27,000; and 90’s 44,000. In the 2000’s our population jumped to 77,000; the 2010’s it was 86,000. Our current population is over 102,000. A whopping 750% increase over the past seven decades.
So much for the anti-growth efforts. What will our population be after the next seven decades?
During my lifetime Chico’s planning has been (and is) accommodating our growth. Watching this extraordinary community become the vibrant, healthy, and safe place that it is, has been a wonderful experience.
The point is, we need to continue smart, thoughtful well-planned developments like Valley’s Edge. Likely, many more similar developments will be needed to accommodate our growth. The statistics above illustrate Chico will continue to grow regardless of good planning or contrary efforts. Do not let our community become undesirable. Growth is inevitable. Chico requires and needs great long-term planning, like Valley’s Edge.”
— Norm Nielsen, Chico | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/03/10/letter-chico-will-grow-so-lets-do-it-right/ | 2023-03-10 10:53:41 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/03/10/letter-chico-will-grow-so-lets-do-it-right/ |
The U.S. Air Force has told North Dakota leaders that it believes a Chinese company’s plans to build a wet corn milling plant near its Grand Forks base poses a “significant threat to national security,” prompting city officials to say they’ll move to stop a project once touted as an economic boon.
The Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million facility would be 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, a location that triggered some local concern about potential espionage. Gov. Doug Burgum and U.S. Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer — all Republicans — pressed the federal government in July to expedite a review of any security risk.
U.S.-China business ties have become strained amid growing tensions between the two countries over security and trade issues, which often overlap. China on Monday criticized U.S. controls on technology exports as a trade violation. Fears over spying have led the U.S. armed forces to prohibited the Chinese-owned app TikTok on military devices, and nearly half of state governments across the country have banned the video-sharing platform from state-owned devices.
The Grand Forks Air Force Base is a center for both air and space operations, according to a letter sent to Hoeven and Cramer by Andrew Hunter, an assistant secretary of the Air Force. The senators released the correspondence Tuesday.
“The proposed project presents a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area,” Hunter wrote. The letter didn’t offer any evidence that Fufeng is a threat, nor did it detail what kind of risks the company’s business might pose.
Still, it was enough to move local authorities to action.
“We believe the city should discontinue the Fufeng project and instead we should work together to find an American company to develop the agriculture project,” Hoeven and Cramer said in a joint statement.
Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski said in a statement that he will ask his City Council to deny building permits for the project and to refuse to connect the 370-acre (150-hectare) site in Grand Forks’ agri-business park to public infrastructure. The mayor, who previously favored the project, added that the federal government’s response had been “slow and contradictory.”
“It’s clearly a reflection of both the growing skepticism of trade ties with China and a sense of the security risks that come from Chinese investment,” said Adam Segal, director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Without knowing more about specific risks the Air Force fears, it’s not clear why the military considers Fufeng’s proposed mill a greater threat than any other Chinese presence in the area, Segal said. The region is already home to a Chinese-owned Cirrus Aircraft plant.
Fufeng officials previously have denied that the plant would be used for espionage. The company declined a request for comment Wednesday. The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
The Grand Forks City Council gave initial approval last February to the project, which officials said at the time could be the largest private sector investment in the community’s history. The governor initially supported it, too.
But council meetings became increasingly heated over the summer amid growing public opposition and the increasingly strained U.S.-China relationship.
Given the “unambiguous” position of the Air Force, Burgum welcomed the city’s decision to try to stop Fufeng from building the mill. He said in a statement that he would support the city’s efforts to find another partner for a corn milling operation.
Privately owned Fufeng makes products for animal nutrition, the food and beverage industry, pharmaceuticals, health and wellness, oil and gas, and others industries. It’s a leading producer of xanthan gum. The Grand Forks site was to be its first U.S.-based manufacturing facility, and it was expected to initially require 25 million bushels of corn annually. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-air-force-opposes-chinese-owned-corn-plant-near-nd-base/ | 2023-02-02 22:51:07 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-air-force-opposes-chinese-owned-corn-plant-near-nd-base/ |
RENTON, Wash., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiant Logistics, Inc. (NYSE American: RLGT), a third-party logistics and multimodal transportation services company, today announced the rebranding of its U.S. brokerage platform, the Clipper Exxpress Company (d/b/a Radiant Clipper), to Radiant Road & Rail Services.
"The renaming of Clipper to Radiant Road & Rail Services better aligns the brand with our vision for our U.S brokerage platform and our efforts to continue to build out a robust bi-modal offering of intermodal and truck brokerage services," explains Bohn Crain, Founder and CEO of Radiant. "This name change is simply a progression as we look to the future; it is the 'next chapter' for an organization that has served the industry well for over 80 years."
"Since 1938 the Clipper brand has been synonymous with service, innovation, and providing an exemplary customer experience," says Christopher Brach, SVP and General Manager for Radiant Road & Rail Services. "While the name itself will be sunset, the strong ideals of Clipper will live on as the rock-solid framework and in the people that have made it their mission to always deliver a best-in-class service experience for our partners."
Radiant Road & Rail Services provides customer-centric expertise in the areas of temperature controlled and dry intermodal; OTR and LTL trucking; asset and brokered drayage; transloading; and other value-added services. With long established relationships across these service offerings, they are well situated to provide diverse solutions in a challenging and competitive market. Visit Radiant Road & Rail Services at: https://rrs.radiantdelivers.com/ to learn more.
Radiant Logistics (www.radiantdelivers.com) is a third-party logistics and multimodal transportation services company providing a full suite of technology enabled global transportation and value-added logistics solutions through a network of Radiant and agent -owned offices located throughout North America and other key global markets. Through its comprehensive service offering, Radiant provides domestic and international freight forwarding services, truck and rail brokerage services and other value-added supply chain management services, including customs brokerage, order fulfillment, inventory management and warehousing to its customers around the world.
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SILVER LAKE, Ind. — A Statewide Silver Alert was issued Friday night for a man who was last seen on Thursday in Silver Lake, Indiana.
The Silver Lake Police Department has asked the public to be on the lookout for 69-year-old Terry Nash.
He was last seen in Silver Lake Thursday around 9 a.m., and was wearing a blue jacket with a grey hood and blue jeans, and riding a white mountain bike pulling a yellow and grey cart.
He is believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As a former ski resort executive, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu knows something about navigating slippery slopes. But recent controversy at a county-owned ski area has raised questions about his grip on the Republican Party heading into the November elections.
Sununu, who is seeking his fourth term, recently inserted himself into a power struggle over Gunstock Mountain Resort, siding with staff who quit en masse and forced a two-week shutdown last month. Pushing back against anti-government activists who want to privatize the ski area, Sununu also called for the ouster this fall of three Republican legislators with an oversight role of the resort.
“These individuals have made bad decisions, and until they are removed from their positions and replaced with good people who recognize the wonderful asset that Gunstock is, the county will continue to suffer,” he wrote in an open letter to area residents.
Sununu's intervention was seen by many as a rebuke of the Free State Project, a 20-year-old political experiment that promotes a mass migration of 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire. Fewer than 6,500 have arrived so far, but they have made inroads everywhere from school boards to the legislature. What that means for Sununu, the Republican Party and the state overall is uncertain. But so-called Free Staters are clearly shaking things up.
“In my view the governor is barely holding on to his party in the lower chamber, and some of the crazy things they have tried to pull have damaged his reputation in the state,” said Linda Fowler, professor emirata of government at Dartmouth College.
In 2003, Fowler dismissed the project as a gimmick, saying it was unlikely that even 20,000 people could have a significant impact. But she also did not foresee Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 or the coronavirus pandemic.
“Both, I think, have contributed to the fact that the Free Staters are now a negative influence on the state’s politics and that their behavior has become an election issue,” she said.
Conceived by a Yale graduate student in 2001, the Free State Project picked New Hampshire — with its low taxes, easy entry into politics and “Live Free or Die” motto — as its destination two years later. By 2016, 20,000 people had promised to pack their bags within five years. That hasn’t happened, and the group’s past president now says the pledge model has fallen by the wayside.
But it hasn’t taken huge numbers to get results.
About 45 Free Staters have been elected to the legislature since 2008; more than 20 serve now. While that is a small fraction of the 424-member legislature, it's enough to influence policy given the GOP’s slim majority in the House.
The group counts the House majority leader as one of its own, and members often team up with dozens of other lawmakers who make up the wider “freedom caucus,” securing victories on legislation related to school choice, vaccines and limiting the governor’s power during emergencies.
One Free State stronghold is Belknap County, which owns the Gunstock ski area. After months of tension, top managers abruptly resigned last month, then returned after two commissioners were ousted. Sununu’s letter targeted both the commission members and three of the Republican lawmakers who appointed them, saying they had lost the public’s trust.
The governor later described their handling of the ski area as “just the latest episode of their craziness,” noting that one of the three — Rep. Michael Sylvia — supports having New Hampshire secede from the United States. But Sununu said he doesn’t consider them representatives of either the Free State movement or the Republican Party.
“I don’t have any problem with Free Staters,” he said. “These are not Free Staters.”
Sununu also rejected the notion that the rise of the Free State movement poses a long-term problem for his political career or his party, saying voters will reject the most extreme candidates.
“Voters are very smart,” he said. “When they see that kind of extremism, they tend to move it along on both the Republican side and the Democrat side.”
Sununu’s involvement in the Gunstock dispute could signal a turning point, said political consultant Scott Spradling.
“There was, I think, a fine line between Republicans and Free Staters. Now there’s a battle line,” he said. “Gunstock could very well be a high watermark, putting warning lights around the Free State movement for New Hampshire voters who are now going to associate their identity with this controversy.”
Either side could make the other’s lives politically miserable, Spradling said. But Sununu has credibility and popularity on his side.
“Long term, I would put my money on the establishment right, on the Sununu side of the aisle, because his politics appeals to a far broader audience,” Spradling said.
Sununu, who surprised political watchers by seeking reelection instead of running for U.S. Senate, faces five largely unknown opponents in the Sept. 13 primary, and polls show him with a wide lead over the Democratic candidate, state Sen. Tom Sherman. Even Rep. Norm Silber, one of the lawmakers Sununu wants ousted, expects Sununu to be reelected and will vote for him again if he is the nominee. But he contends that it’s Sununu who has strayed from the GOP.
“Running as a Republican with a long family history of supporting the Republican Party, I thought for sure that he would be a real Republican,” Silber said. “And he has, in my view, pandered to non-Republicans in an effort to build a base of support.”
Silber said he is not a Free Stater, but he’s being called one by Democrats hoping to flip seats in November by painting all Republicans with a Free State brush. The ski area controversy has spurred the creation of a political action committee to back candidates from both parties to defeat the “extremist Free State agenda” in Belknap County.
“People on the left, or people who don’t like fiscally conservative Republicans, have a tendency to refer to people they don’t like as Free Staters,” he said.
Carla Gericke, past president of the Free State Project, agreed.
“When there’s something positive, people laud that, but on the flip side, we’ve also become the boogeyman whenever it’s convenient,” she said. “We’re at the stage where we are successful enough that we’re just being used as a pawn between the two parties. And we just do our own thing.”
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JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Effectual, a modern, cloud first managed and professional services company, announced that its public sector arm has been appraised at level 3 of ISACA's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). Effectual Public Sector Inc. provides mission-critical IT modernization solutions to Federal, State, Local, Education, and Nonprofit organizations. CMMI is a proven, outcome-based performance model and a globally accepted standard committed to helping organizations drive continuous improvement and quality management efforts. The appraisal was performed by Concept Quality Assurance Labs.
An appraisal at Maturity Level 3 indicates the organization is performing at a "defined" level. At this level, processes are well characterized and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools and methods. The organization's set of standard processes, which is the basis for Maturity Level 3, is established and improved over time.
"As champions of digital transformation, we are continually expanding our expertise and credentials to provide the best possible service to our customers. The CMMI appraisal validates our ability to accelerate cloud migration, automate development in the cloud, and proves that our methodologies effectively enable us to deliver positive business outcomes for our customers," said Effectual CEO Robb Allen.
"Organizations worldwide are harnessing CMMI to elevate their business performance to new heights, creating a sustainable competitive advantage in the process" says Ron Lear, Senior Director, CMMI Program. "We commend Effectual on achieving this CMMI appraisal level and demonstrating their ability as a high-performing organization."
What our CMMI Maturity Level rating means for our customers:
- Our work and processes have received the highest form of third-party validation
- We deliver cloud-first managed and professional services with an established set of practices prioritized for each sector and division of the company
- Efficiency in strategic planning and delivering high quality services aligned to our customer's business objectives
- We are dedicated to continuous improvement and leading with innovation to solve complex modernization challenges with cloud services
With the credentials, certifications, and contract vehicles to ensure successful outcomes, Effectual Public Sector Inc.'s US-based teams have the proven ability to architect, build, secure, and manage highly scalable environments.
Effectual holds over 200 AWS Certifications and has achieved the AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) designation, AWS Migration Consulting Competency, AWS DevOps Consulting Competency, AWS Mobile Consulting Competency, AWS SaaS Consulting Competency, AWS Government Consulting Competency, and AWS Nonprofit Consulting Competency designations. The company is also a member of the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program, AWS Public Sector Partner Programs, as well as the AWS GovCloud (US) and Authority to Operate on AWS Programs.
For more details on the appraisal, visit Public Appraisal Results System (PARs) website at www.cmmiinstitute.com/pars/appraisals/58832
For more information about CMMI performance solutions, visit www.isaca.org/enterprise/cmmi-performance-solutions.
An AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Effectual is a modern, cloud first managed and professional services company that works with commercial enterprises and the public sector to enable digital transformation and full stack IT modernization. Effectual's deeply experienced and passionate team of problem solvers apply proven methodologies to enable positive business outcomes with Amazon Web Services and VMware Cloud on AWS. Effectual is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and the PCI Security Standards Council.
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After a 10-day break, the 6-6 Patriots are back at it with a Monday Night Football matchup against the Cardinals in Glendale.
New England is still in the playoff race, but it must beat Arizona if it wants to remain so. Mac Jones and Co. kick off against Kyler Murray and the Cardinals at 8:15 p.m. EST on ESPN. You can listen locally on 98.5.
We’ll be offering live updates and analysis throughout. Follow along below.
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No worries with the weather — 6:35 p.m.
No worries about weather tonight, as the Patriots will play their second dome game of the season. Dating back to last year, New England has lost two straight dome games — a 2021 date in Indy against the Colts, and a Thanksgiving night defeat at the hands of Minnesota last month. (That’s on the heels of three consecutive indoor wins dating back to 2020.)
What to know about tonight’s officiating crew — 6:25 p.m.
Shawn Smith is the referee for tonight’s game. Smith is in his fifth season as an NFL referee. He initially served as an umpire from 2015 to 2017 before ascending to the role of lead official. Tonight marks his second Patriots game of 2022 (his first was on Oct. 30, a 22-17 win for the Patriots at MetLife Stadium). According to NFL Penalties, Smith’s crew is fifth-lowest in NFL in average penalties per game (11.08). On average, his crew calls more on road teams (6.33) than home teams (4.75).
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Your prediction? — 6:15 p.m.
What happens tonight? #Patriots #Cardinals
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Pregame reading list — 6:10 p.m.
The best way to get prepared for tonight’s game? Your personally curated pregame reading list:
- Chad Finn: In a season of must-win games just to stay afloat, Patriots face another against the Cardinals on Monday night
- Nicole Yang: Banged-up Patriots rule out WR Jakobi Meyers, CB Jalen Mills, OL Isaiah Wynn Monday night against Cardinals
- Ben Volin: What’s wrong with the Patriots’ offense? A little bit of everything.
- Jim McBride: ‘It’s like a defensive guy is calling offense’: Cardinals defensive coordinator Vance Joseph takes jab at Patriots’ play-calling
- Ben Volin: The Arizona Cardinals’ season is a mess, but at least it makes for great television
- Jim McBride: Patriots are in a run of facing some of the NFL’s elite receivers. Next up is Arizona’s DeAndre Hopkins
- Jim McBride: By looking ahead, Patriots’ advance scouts help team prepare for today
- Stan Grossfeld: An impact player, Patriots defensive tackle Lawrence Guy is making even more of an impact off the field
- Ben Volin: Week 14 Review: Enough is enough. Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are done.
Welcome back to football! — 6:00 p.m.
Good evening, and welcome back to football! After a 10-day break, the Patriots return to action tonight in the desert to face the Cardinals.
Will the time off do them some good? Can Mac Jones help lead a late-season turnaround for the offense? And could tonight’s game serve as a springboard toward a push to the playoffs for New England?
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We’ll find out the answers before the end of the evening. Keep it here all night long; we’ll have all your pregame news and analysis, in-game updates, and postgame reactions.
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Michigan health officials identified fewer COVID-19 cases but more deaths last week compared to the prior weekly update from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The state reported 9,992 new COVID cases last week, which signified a 14% decrease week-over-week. The addition dropped the seven-day average from 1,323 to 1,138 reported cases per day.
However, the 168 new deaths marked a nearly 8% increase week-over-week. Michigan’s seven-day average climbed from 17 to 20 new deaths per day during that time.
Michigan’s reported case counts are expected to be underestimates due to the rise in at-home testing, but health officials say they’re still useful in addition to wastewater surveillance and tracking hospitalizations, test positivity and deaths.
The state’s latest update came a day late this week due to the election. In total, there have been more than 2.9 million confirmed and probable cases, and 39,574 confirmed and probable deaths since the start of the pandemic in Michigan. Of them, 2,507,475 cases and 35,984 deaths are confirmed. About 400,344 cases and 3,590 deaths are probable.
The health department has included both probable and confirmed cases in its totals since the spring. A case is confirmed only when there is a positive PCR test. Cases are classified as “probable” when there was no such test but a doctor and/or an antigen test labeled them COVID.
Below is a chart that indicates the seven-day average for new cases reported per day throughout the pandemic. (Can’t see the chart? Click here.)
Cases by counties
Of Michigan’s 83 counties, only Keweenaw in the Upper Peninsula reported no new cases last week.
The following 10 counties have seen the most new, confirmed cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days: Baraga (196), Dickinson (173), Ontonagon (172), Gogebic (167), Menominee (140), Iron (120), Jackson (110), Houghton (110), Macomb (107), and Arenac (107).
Without adjusting for population, these 10 counties have seen the greatest number of new cases over the last week: Wayne (1,787), Oakland (1,218), Macomb (943), Washtenaw (390), Kent (339), Genesee (241), Ingham (187), Saginaw (178), Jackson (176), and Kalamazoo (147).
The arrows and colors on the map below show per-capita cases compared to the previous week in Michigan’s 83 counties. Hover over or tap on a county to see the underlying data. (Hint: Drag the map with your cursor to see the entire Upper Peninsula.)
Can’t see the map? Click here.
The chart below shows new cases for the past 30 days by county based on onset of symptoms. In this chart, numbers for the most recent days are incomplete because of the lag time between people getting sick and getting a confirmed coronavirus test result, which can take up to a week or more.
You can call up a chart for any county, and you can put your cursor over or tap on a bar to see the date and number of cases.
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Hospitalization
As of Monday, Nov. 7, there were 1,156 adult and 41 pediatric patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID across Michigan’s health systems. Both counts are decreases from a week ago when there were 1,199 and 47, respectively.
Of those patients hospitalized Monday, 145 were in the intensive care units and 64 were on ventilators. Both totals were on par with the previous week.
Deaths
Thirty-eight counties reported at least one new COVID death last week. Wayne led all counties with 34, followed by Oakland with 15, Macomb with 14, Saginaw with seven, St. Clair and Van Buren with five, Washtenaw, Genesee and Bay with four each, and Kent with three.
Below is a chart that tracks the state’s seven-day average for reported COVID-19 deaths per day over the course of the pandemic. (These are based on the date reported, not necessarily on the date of death.)
Can’t see the chart? Click here.
Testing
Over the last week, the state’s positivity rate was 11.4%. That’s down from 13.4% the previous week, and 14.2% three weeks ago.
Below is a chart of daily test positivity rates for Michigan throughout the pandemic. The data is based on confirmatory PCR testing.
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The interactive map below shows the seven-day average testing rate by county. You can put your cursor over a county to see the underlying data.
COVID-19 vaccinations
As of Wednesday, Nov. 2, about 63.7% of residents had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, according to Michigan health department data.
About 58.9% of Michiganders of all ages have completed their initial series, and 37.3% of individuals 5 and older have received a booster dose.
Since the new bivalent, omicron-specific booster shot became available, at least 981,659 Michiganders have gotten the updated protection. The majority of recipients have been age 50 and older.
Below is a chart that shows vaccination rates by county for people 5 and older. (Can’t see the chart? Click here.)
For more statewide data, visit MLive’s coronavirus data page.
To find a testing site near you, check out the state’s online test find send an email to COVID19@michigan.gov, or call 888-535-6136 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – North Little Rock police said Wednesday that a man who was shot Tuesday night has died.
Police identified the man as 30-year-old Keith Anthony Waller of El Dorado.
The shooting took place at the 3800 block of Hillside Drive, police reported. The area is residential, with single-family homes.
Police said that detectives are investigating this incident as a homicide.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the North Little Rock Police tip line at 501-680-8439 or Detective Gibbons at 501-771-7149. | https://www.fox16.com/crime/nlrpd-man-dies-day-after-shooting-on-hillside-drive/ | 2022-06-15 18:15:59 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/crime/nlrpd-man-dies-day-after-shooting-on-hillside-drive/ |
MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — If you’re driving around North Dakota, there’s a high chance that you’re still seeing snow on the side of the roads.
Once spring starts and the weather starts warming up, it signals the beginning of construction in the state.
“Construction season really starts as the frost is really out of the ground if we’re doing any earthwork. Temperatures have to be up over a certain degree for paving projects to begin, things like that. So it’s all weather dependent,” said Chad Beggs, the assistant district director for the North Dakota Department of Transportation’s Minot District.
And construction really is, as we saw last year, with our late April blizzard, it signaled a much later start to the season.
“They started more so in middle to late May due to the Easter blizzard we kinda had last year. Prior to that, we’re usually starting earlier in May,” said Beggs.
While Beggs says he hasn’t spoken with every single construction contractor in the Minot District, he says the ones he has spoken to so far, are optimistic they can start sooner this year.
“Right now a lot of the talk is they’re hoping to get started in May, mid-May. Depends on what the future weeks, the future storms that we’re seeing are going to do,” said Beggs.
And the Minot District has quite a few construction projects already planned.
“For Minot up to the North Side of Kenmare, they’ll be a passing lanes project begin done on Highway 52. That contractor’s actually started already with work on extensions of box culverts. And then we have Highway 52 from Minot down to Balfour. And that one they’re looking at probably mid-May to get started. That’s another passing lanes project,” said Beggs.
Beggs says construction season can start as early as April and last into November if the temperatures are warm enough.
Beggs says once construction does start, drivers should always remember to drive slowly around the zones because the people working out there are moms, dads, brothers, and sisters.
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Archives: Records from Trump White House staffers remain missing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives and Records Administration informed lawmakers that a number of electronic communications from Trump White House staffers remain missing, nearly two years since the administration was required to turn them over.
The nation’s record-keeping agency, in a letter Friday to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said that despite an ongoing effort by staff, electronic communications between certain unidentified White House officials were still not in their custody.
“While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” Debra Steidel Wall, the acting U.S. archivist, wrote in a letter to Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
The letter went on to specify that the National Archives would consult with the Justice Department about how to move forward and recover “the records unlawfully removed.”
It has been widely reported that officials in President Donald Trump’s White House used non-official electronic messaging accounts throughout his four years in office. The Presidential Records Act, which says that such records are government property and must be preserved, requires staff to copy or forward those messages into their official electronic messaging accounts.
The agency says that while it has been able to obtain these records from some former officials, a number remain outstanding. The Justice Department has already pursued records from one former Trump official, Peter Navarro, who prosecutors accused of using at least one “non-official” email account — a ProtonMail account — to send and receive emails while he worked as the president’s trade adviser.
The legal action in August came just weeks after Navarro was indicted on criminal charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The House committee has jurisdiction over the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government. The request is the latest development in a monthslong back-and-forth between the agency and the committee, which has been investigating Trump’s handling of records.
The letter on Friday also comes nearly two months after the FBI recovered more than 100 documents with classified markings and more than 10,000 other government documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Lawyers for Trump had provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned.
Maloney and other Democratic lawmakers on the panel have been seeking a briefing from the National Archives, but haven’t received one due to the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into the matter.
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EMPLOYER: Mondelez International
JOB TITLE: Part-time Nabisco Retail Merchandiser/Stocker
LOCATION: Little Rock, AR
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Are you ready to make it happen at Nabisco, a subsidiary of Mondelēz International?
Become one of our Part Time Retail Merchandisers (Stocker) and an ambassador of world-famous brands like Oreo, Ritz, belVita, Chips Ahoy, Triscuit among other delicious industry-leading snacks. Deliver the merchandising needs of our grocery customers through stocking the shelves and building and maintaining displays. Our local customers Walmart, Kroger, Target and more.
What we expect from you:
- Ensure Nabisco leading brands (Oreo, Ritz, Belvita, Chips Ahoy, Triscuit among others) are well represented, stocked and maintained on shelf and displays.
- Ensure Sales Representative’s plans within stores are being followed and communicate any issues with your Mondelēz management team.
- Follow the daily route plan (store to store) prepared by the operations team to ensure the most efficient instore service.
- Work closely with sales representative to optimize visibility of Mondelez products on shelves and the construction of promotional displays.
- Enhance seasonal sales, seasonal displays, and new product launches.
- Professional, positive, and upbeat attitude while representing Mondelēz in store.
Who is a good fit?
- Be at least 18 years of age, have a valid driver’s license and proof of auto insurance
- Ability to drive your personal vehicle to a variety of store locations (mileage will be reimbursed).
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced work environment and to meet the defined physical activities like repetitive lifting, bending, and carrying up to 25 lbs. This includes physically moving our products from the stock rooms and stocking the store’s shelves.
- Live within 25-35 miles range from the primary location (Maumelle, AR)
- Secondary Locations:Little Rock, AR
- Schedule availability required: Monday- Saturday, up to 5 days, 20-25hrs/week
What you can expect from us:
- The Part Time Retail Merchandiser position offers an hourly compensation rate of $15.00 per hour based on relative experience.
- Work related mileage reimbursement.
- Safety equipment such as kneeling pads, safety knives, PPE.
- Growth opportunities within the company.
- Reimbursement of business internet/data expenses up to $10/per month if company device is not provided.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO APPLY.
EMPLOYER: Ollie’s Bargain Outlet
JOB TITLE: Department Manager (HBA/Food/Candy)
JOB LOCATION: Pine Bluff, AR
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Sales Supervisor grows department sales to achieve the store sales plan. The Sales Supervisor responsibilities include aspects of merchandising, customer service, and store maintenance.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Greet and acknowledge every customer as they enter and exit the store and as they approach the department and front end.
- Be knowledgeable of all products, promotions, and advertisements to ensure that customer questions can be answered and to assist with selling product; support Ollie’s Army and other donation programs throughout the year.
- Assist with receiving the truck and pricing items.
- Ensure that all product within the department is merchandised and recovered per the visual merchandise standards.
- Complete price changes within the department per company guidelines.
- Communicate customer needs to Team Leaders when necessary.
- Assist with training new Associates.
- Accurately and efficiently operate the register.
- Maintain the cleanliness of the overall store.
- Complete any additional responsibilities and/or duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Minimum of six months’ retail experience in a mid-size to large retail service-oriented business.
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays on a regular basis.
- Ability to read, write and speak English.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment.
- Ability to preserve confidentiality of information.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to organize and prioritize a variety of tasks and activities and work within strict timeframes and deadlines.
- Outstanding interpersonal and listening skills.
- Must have a positive attitude and the ability to interact well with customers and Associates.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to push and pull up to 35 pounds.
- Ability to stand for extended periods.
- Ability to bend and twist frequently.
- Ability to grip, reach, and pinch with arms and hands frequently.
- Ability to squat, kneel, balance, and climb ladders occasionally.
- Ability to see, hear, and speak regularly.
- Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
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EMPLOYER: Davidson Hospitality Group
JOB TITLE: Accounting Receivable
POSITION INFORMATION:
Accounting Receivable position requires strong organizational skills and attention to detail. Performs any combination of following calculating, posting and verifying duties to obtain financial data for use in maintaining accounting records: Compiles and sorts documents, such as invoices and checks, substantiating business transactions; Verifies and posts details of business transactions, such as funds received and disbursed, and totals accounts, using calculator or computer; Computes and records charges, refunds, cost of lost or damaged goods, freight charges, rentals and similar items. May type vouchers, invoices, checks, account statements, reports, and other records, using typewriter or computer. May reconcile bank statements. Ability to compile facts and figures.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, Word and Outlook preferred.
- Prior bookkeeping related experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively with the public and other Team Members.
- Read, write and speak English fluently.
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EMPLOYER: Arkansas State University-Beebe
JOB TITLE: Instructor of Computer Systems & Networking Technology
JOB DUTIES:
Arkansas State University – Beebe, a two-year residential community college associated with the Arkansas State University System, invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, promotion eligible non-tenure eligible, Instructor of Computer Systems & Networking Technology to begin August 2023.
We are searching for an individual with a positive attitude, a drive to help students succeed, and the ability to stay on top of new technologies.
The selected faculty member will be able to teach all phases of the CSNT program, advise students as needed, assist in developing new curriculum, and complete other duties as assigned. Courses include, but are not limited to: Cisco, A+, Linux, Microsoft, VMware, Security, and other material. Teaching is done during the day, some evenings, online, or possibly some weekends. Although CSNT classes are currently only taught on the ASU-Beebe campus, one or more of our courses may need to be taught on one of our other three campuses in the future. This position reports to the Dean of Career Education.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Four-year college degree, or equivalent experience resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job, such as accounting, marketing, business administration, agriculture, etc. plus 2 years related experience and/or training. Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Certifications such as the CCNA /CCAI, CompTIA A+/Security+/Linux+/Network+, or other industry standard certifications are preferred.
PAY: $$38,425 Master’s/$48,125 Doctorate
LOCATION: Beebe Campus
ABOUT THE COMPANY: ASU-Beebe is a public two-year college with its main campus located in Beebe, Arkansas on the 67/167 corridor approximately 35 miles north of the state’s capitol of Little Rock.
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Includes Interactive 3D Animated Entrance Installation, Exclusive Portrait Studio and 3D Marketplace Showcase
NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), one of the leading global creative platforms for transformative brands and media companies, today announced it will be bringing a multi-dimensional immersive experience to this year's Cannes Lions festival. As the world's largest 3D marketplace, Shutterstock, powered by TurboSquid is curating a colorful and futuristic experience featuring AR, VR and 3D elements that will highlight its impressive collection and capabilities. The experience will run throughout the festival from Monday, June 20 through Friday, June 24 at Croisette Corner Square Reynaldo Hahn, Boulevard de La Croisette.
At the space, guests will enter a whole new experience of dimension through a 3D animated entrance installation. Once inside, they will have the exclusive opportunity to be photographed in a portrait studio hosted by renowned photographer David Fisher. Additionally, guests will be able to interact with a dynamic AR exhibit and bring images to life using their smartphones to unlock custom 3D effects, as well as sample Shutterstock's 3D marketplace through a rotating on-site showcase.
"As we enter the age of the Metaverse, Shutterstock continues to evolve and remains at the forefront of creative innovation, and we are thrilled to have such a powerful presence and showcase our unmatched 3D capabilities at Cannes Lions, a festival that emphasizes the value of creativity," said Jamie Elden, Chief Revenue Officer at Shutterstock. "Shutterstock's transformation as the premium destination for 3D models and as a leading platform for creatives comes to life with our 3D Gallery Experience, which allows attendees to become immersed in the dimensions of our Shutterstock world."
Shutterstock will also be hosting the following panels in the space:
- Defying Dimensions: Virtual Production and the 3D Future
- Defying Limitations: Ensuring Diversity and Equity in the Metaverse
- Defying Ambiguity: Demystifying NFTs and the Metaverse
"With Shutterstock's recent strategic mergers and acquisitions, this is the perfect time to share our story at Cannes Lions 2022," added Jason McClelland, Chief Marketing and Customer Care Officer at Shutterstock. "Shutterstock remains committed to looking ahead at the future of marketing and the creative industries, and we look forward to discussing these topics, Shutterstock's place during these exciting times and more."
Additionally, through its Create Fund Artist Investment Program, the Company is launching the Shutterstock Diversity in 3D Program, which offers a total of $30,000 in production grants to three 3D artists from diverse backgrounds to help diversify Shutterstock's content collection, as well as provide professional and financial support. All 3D artists selected for this grant will receive a 100% royalty rate for one year, pre-production and marketing support for their work using Shutterstock platforms, personalized content briefs, and a dedicated account manager.
For more information about TurboSquid by Shutterstock, visit www.turbosquid.com.
To RSVP, please contact Annelise Hackett at annelise.hackett@civic-us.com.
ABOUT SHUTTERSTOCK, INC.
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is one of the leading global creative platforms for transformative brands and media companies. Directly and through its group subsidiaries, Shutterstock's comprehensive collection includes high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, 3D models, videos and music. Working with its growing community of over 2 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 405 million images and more than 25 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The Company also owns Splash News, the world's leading entertainment news agency for newsrooms and media companies, Pond5, the world's largest video marketplace, TurboSquid, the world's largest 3D content marketplace, PicMonkey, a leading online graphic design and image editing platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; Shutterstock Studios, an end-to-end custom creative shop; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images and videos for the world's media; Amper Music, an AI-driven music platform; and Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering.
For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.
ABOUT TURBOSQUID
Founded in 2000, TurboSquid is the world's leading source for stock 3D models. Their customers include over half of the Fortune 100 and a diverse set of industries including film and television, retail, gaming, news media, advertising, architecture and defense. Powered by a passionate community of millions of artists from around the globe, TurboSquid is dedicated to improving how 3D models are built, bought and used.
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agate Prep tennis results for March 8, 2023 Mar 8, 2023 1 hr ago Facebook Twitter Email Print Facebook Twitter Email Print Central 4, Fruita Monument 3Tuesday at Canyon ViewSinglesNo. 1 — Alexis Wickham, C, def. Kat Austin, FM, 3-6, 6-3 (10-6); No. 2 — Sydney Maurer, C, def. Keira Wilhelm, FM, 6-3, 6-4; No. 3 — Sienna Gechter, FM, def. Shaelyn David, C, 6-0, 6-0.DoublesNo. 1 — Caysee Calton/Joey Smith, C, def. Sadie Ganzer/Solana Rodriguez, FM, 6-1, 6-3; No. 2 — Kyra Dunn/Lillie Belnap, FM, def. Tsifira Berger/Kenidee Calton, C, 6-2, 6-4; No. 3 — Haley Ammons/Lenah Anderson, C, def. Myla Gumone/Celah Schwartz, FM, 6-4, 6-1; No. 4 — Paige Barnhurst/Lauren Olson, FM, def. Claire Dziwisz/Kodie Smith, C, 6-2, 6-1. Facebook Twitter Email Print Tags Doubles Single Tennis Agate Sport Prep Loser Mathematics Armed Forces Law Recommended for you Day Precip Temp Tue 2% 28° 53° Tue Tuesday 53°/28° Partly cloudy. Lows overnight in the upper 20s. Chance of Rain: 2% Sunrise: 06:38:14 AM Sunset: 06:13:08 PM Humidity: 76% Wind: SE @ 5 mph UV Index: 0 Low Tuesday Night Partly cloudy skies. Low 28F. Winds light and variable. Wed 1% 30° 54° Wed Wednesday 54°/30° Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 50s and lows in the low 30s. Chance of Rain: 1% Sunrise: 06:36:44 AM Sunset: 06:14:10 PM Humidity: 42% Wind: S @ 13 mph UV Index: 4 Moderate Wednesday Night Clear skies. Low near 30F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Thu 2% 34° 53° Thu Thursday 53°/34° Plenty of sun. Highs in the low 50s and lows in the mid 30s. Chance of Rain: 2% Sunrise: 06:35:12 AM Sunset: 06:15:12 PM Humidity: 39% Wind: ENE @ 6 mph UV Index: 5 Moderate Thursday Night Partly cloudy skies early will become overcast later during the night. Low 34F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Fri 43% 45° 52° Fri Friday 52°/45° Chance of afternoon showers. Highs in the low 50s and lows in the mid 40s. Chance of Rain: 43% Sunrise: 06:33:41 AM Sunset: 06:16:14 PM Humidity: 52% Wind: SSE @ 11 mph UV Index: 2 Low Friday Night Cloudy with occasional rain showers. Low around 45F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%. Sat 77% 39° 53° Sat Saturday 53°/39° Rain. Highs in the low 50s and lows in the upper 30s. Chance of Rain: 77% Sunrise: 06:32:08 AM Sunset: 06:17:16 PM Humidity: 74% Wind: WNW @ 8 mph UV Index: 3 Moderate Saturday Night Rain showers early with clearing later at night. Low 39F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%. Sun 37% 39° 55° Sun Sunday 55°/39° Chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s and lows in the upper 30s. Chance of Rain: 37% Sunrise: 07:30:36 AM Sunset: 07:18:17 PM Humidity: 66% Wind: NNE @ 7 mph UV Index: 4 Moderate Sunday Night Rain showers early with clearing later at night. Low 39F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%. Mon 13% 41° 59° Mon Monday 59°/41° Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the low 40s. Chance of Rain: 13% Sunrise: 07:29:02 AM Sunset: 07:19:18 PM Humidity: 61% Wind: NE @ 6 mph UV Index: 5 Moderate Monday Night A few clouds from time to time. Low 41F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Top Jobs More Top Jobs Featured Businesses Colorado Hemp Solutions P.O. Box 13, Grand Junction, CO 81501 +1(970)434-4143 Colorado Hemp Institute 8714 Cr 300, Parachute, CO 81635 +1(970)285-9797 The Happy Camper 1043 N River Rd., Palisade, CO 81526 +1(970)609-0420 Website Tokin Tipi 393 E 2nd St., Parachute, CO 81635 +1(970)285-5660 Western Slope Hemp Growers Association PO Box 1094, Paonia, CO 81428 +1(970)399-7164 Website Buds Dispensary 2034 I-70 Frontage Rd, Old US Highway 6, De Beque, CO 81630 +1(970)285-9307 Website Holly Alm RE/MAX 4000 +1(970)683-2553 Website Find a local business | https://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/results/prep-tennis-results-for-march-8-2023/article_0d5b863a-bd48-11ed-81bb-7b26f73b4371.html | 2023-03-08 08:51:16 | 0 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/results/prep-tennis-results-for-march-8-2023/article_0d5b863a-bd48-11ed-81bb-7b26f73b4371.html |
Passage of this legislation will have a transformative impact on the electrochromic glass industry
FARIBAULT, Minn., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes numerous provisions to help decarbonize the US economy, including the addition of a new tax credit for dynamic glass. The bill added electrochromic glass to Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code, commonly referred to as the Investment Tax Credit (ITC). The credit can cover up to 30% of the costs associated with dynamic glass, moving it towards cost parity with traditional glazing and shading solutions.
The passage of this bill is both a recognition of the decarbonization potential of electrochromic glass as well as the importance of the tax code as a market driver for newer technologies. "The ITC has a long track record of stimulating increased investment in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. We applaud Congress and the Biden Administration for recognizing the importance of dynamic glass as a tool to combat climate change, while simultaneously improving the health and well-being of building occupants," said Michael Lane, VP of Sales for SageGlass. "This is a true game changer for the industry," Lane continues. "Dynamic Glass has proven itself for years in larger and larger applications, but first cost has remained an obstacle to large-scale adoption. This tax credit can go a long way towards making the technology more accessible."
The bill also contained additional changes for the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) which has a direct bearing on dynamic glass, including provisions for direct pay and credit transfer mechanisms. These new tools potentially enable certain tax-exempt entities to benefit from the credit [1]. "There are lots of important details related to credits like this and we look forward to consulting with our customers to help them understand the nuances of these changes," said Lane.
SageGlass is the global leader in electrochromic glass and is transforming the human experience in the built environment. With this smart technology, dynamic glass tints and clears automatically to optimize daylight and regulate temperature — all while maintaining unobstructed views of the outdoors.
With SageGlass, building occupants comfortably experience the biophilic benefits of the outdoors, including stress reduction, enhanced creativity, and greater wellbeing. Architects choose SageGlass to solve solar control challenges elegantly without sacrificing aesthetics. And SageGlass can help building owners use less energy and achieve sustainability and wellness certifications. The SageGlass Symphony® control system can be integrated into smart, connected building systems.
SageGlass holds more than 1,300 patents and counting. And as a wholly owned subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, SageGlass is backed by more than 350 years of building science expertise that only the world leader in sustainable environments can provide.
Worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction, and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The group's commitment is guided by its purpose, "MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME."
€44.2 billion in sales in 2021
More than 166,000 employees, located in 70 countries
Committed to achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050
For more details on Saint-Gobain, visit http://www.saint-gobain.com and follow us on Twitter @saintgobain.
[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/inflation-reduction-act-key-provisions-regarding-itc-and-ptc
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
7-7-4-1
(seven, seven, four, one)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
7-7-4-1
(seven, seven, four, one)
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Workers at animal shelters are preparing for more surrendered pets to arrive. A planned airlift will fly some of the pets to new homes across the country.
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Workers at animal shelters are preparing for more surrendered pets to arrive. A planned airlift will fly some of the pets to new homes across the country.
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