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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Armonica Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology company developing a novel DNA sequencing system based on single molecule spectroscopy, announced that the company has been awarded a follow-on Phase II SBIR grant from the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute for "Single molecule DNA/RNA transport and Raman scattering readout in a coupled nanochannel/nanopore sequencing system." The award of $2M is in support of the company's single molecule long read sequencing technology that detects all nucleic acid molecules including any chemical or conformational modifications.
The company's CSO Steve Brueck said, "long-read, single-molecule, label-free sequencing that directly reads native DNA including epigenetic modifications, is considered the ultimate solution for DNA sequencing research and clinical applications. Armonica's unique technology provides the exciting capability to read the optical spectra, or 'spectral fingerprint,' of individual nucleotides, including any epigenetic modifications. Measurements are made at the single molecule level using surface-enhanced Raman scattering." As part of the award, Armonica is partnering with Professor Jeremy Edwards' high-throughput DNA sequencing laboratory (University of New Mexico, Chemical and Chemical Biology Department), as well as Professor Eric Potma's laboratory for Chemical and Biological Imaging (University of California-Irvine, Chemistry Department).
Armonica has demonstrated the ability to linearize and control the motion of single large molecules of single and double strand DNA and has demonstrated single base sensitivity using a proprietary SERS approach that is inexpensively integrated with its nanochannel/nanopore devices.
The company's CEO, Victor Esch, stated, "There continues to be a significant unmet research and clinical need for a simple, fast and accurate sequencing technology that can detect all pertinent DNA modifications. We are honored that the NIH has awarded us this Phase II, based on our technical accomplishments and the unique potential of our technology- unique in its approach and capabilities. Our goal is to commercialize our system so that clinicians and researchers can measure all physical properties of genomic molecules."
Armonica's proprietary platform addresses the fundamental challenges involved with pore-based sequencing technologies, such as low throughput and limited accuracy, by naturally controlling the speed of nucleic acid transport through nanochannels and reading single base spectra optically, without the need for library preparations or biological manipulation. Armonica's optical readout technology is label free, has massively parallel capabilities, and directly detects epigenetic nucleotide modifications. This unique approach will enable long-read sequencing and provide life science researchers with a powerful tool that can detect presently inaccessible nuances and provide more accurate identification of genome variations.
Armonica Technologies is an Albuquerque, NM based biotechnology company focused on developing a proprietary long-read DNA sequencing technology. Armonica's technology, optical nanopore sequencing, uses proprietary nanochannels to deliver long, individual single strand DNA molecules through nanopores to proprietary Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy enhancement structures, where characteristic optical "fingerprint" signatures are read. Armonica's approach will lead to faster, higher throughput and more accurate long-read genomic analysis than is currently available, without the need for extensive workflow and reagents
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CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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884 FPUS55 KREV 071031
ZFPREV
Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
331 AM PDT Sun Aug 7 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-080300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
331 AM PDT Sun Aug 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
76 to 86. Light winds becoming west around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming clear. Lows
46 to 56. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with isolated
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 76 to 86. Light
winds becoming south around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then clear after midnight. Lows
45 to 55. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs 73 to 83. Light winds becoming southwest around 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows 44 to 54.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 73 to 83. Lows 41 to
51.
$$
CAZ070-NVZ005-080300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
331 AM PDT Sun Aug 7 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 60 to 70. South winds around
10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph shifting to the northwest after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs 90 to 100. Light winds becoming south around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows 60 to 70. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds
becoming south around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 57 to 67.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
85 to 95.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows 54 to 64. Highs
86 to 96.
$$
CAZ071-080300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
331 AM PDT Sun Aug 7 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 52 to 62. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the evening becoming light.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming south around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows 52 to 62. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph in
the evening becoming light.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 82 to 92. Light winds becoming
south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows 48 to 58.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 82 to 92. Lows 47 to
57.
$$
CAZ073-080300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
331 AM PDT Sun Aug 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
77 to 87. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows 47 to
57. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with scattered
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 77 to 87. Light
winds becoming southeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then clear after midnight. Lows
47 to 57. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs
74 to 84. Light winds becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows 45 to 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 74 to 84.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 44 to 54.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 85.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 44 to 54.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
76 to 86.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
45 to 55.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 86.
$$
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will skip this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), according to a person familiar with the plans.
The likely 2024 Republican presidential hopeful is opting instead to head off on a jam-packed travel schedule that includes several stops in Florida to promote his new book, as well as GOP dinners in Texas and an appearance at the Club for Growth’s annual donor retreat.
DeSantis was never listed among the speakers at this year’s CPAC, the prominent annual gathering of conservatives that will kick off just outside of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. But some Republicans had privately expressed hope that he would attend, given that he’s expected to mount a bid for the White House later this year.
Other 2024 Republican hopefuls, including former President Trump and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, are set to speak at CPAC this year. The list also includes would-be contenders like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Of course, DeSantis has said little about his 2024 ambitions, and isn’t expected to jump into the race until at least May. In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” last week, DeSantis said he would wait until after the Florida state legislature wraps up its regular session to make a decision on a presidential bid.
“We’re going to sell some books, we’re going to spread the message of Florida. And then on March 8, I have our Legislative Session that’s kicking off,” DeSantis said.
“You ain’t seen nothing yet,” he added. “This is going to be the most productive Legislative Session we have had across the board and I think people are going to be really excited … So those are what we’re going to be doing over these next few months as we get beyond that, then we can decide from there.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/desantis-to-skip-this-years-cpac/ | 2023-02-27 22:19:58 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/desantis-to-skip-this-years-cpac/ |
WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Friday, August 12, 2022
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446 FPUS56 KPDT 131058
ZFPPDT
Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
WAZ026-132300-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. Breezy. Northwest wind 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Windy. Northwest wind 15 to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. West wind
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the morning.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
50s to upper 60s. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 95 to 101. Lows
in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ027-132300-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Northwest wind
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Light wind,
becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. Northeast wind
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
50s to upper 60s. Highs in the 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 96 to 102. Lows
in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ028-132300-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. West wind 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Southwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. Southwest wind
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
50s to upper 60s. Highs in the 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 98 to 103. Lows
in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
WAZ029-132300-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Breezy. Southwest
wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Southwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s. South
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. Southwest wind
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Highs in the 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 97 to 103. Lows
in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
WAZ030-132300-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s, except in
the mid 70s to lower 80s valleys. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph in
the morning, becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s, except in the
lower 80s to lower 90s valleys.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s
to mid 80s, except in the mid 80s to mid 90s valleys. Lows in the
lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
WAZ520-132300-
East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s, except in
the mid 70s to lower 80s valleys. West wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph in the evening, becoming light. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s, except in
the lower to mid 80s valleys.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s, except in the
mid 80s to lower 90s valleys.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s
to lower 60s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s, except in the mid
80s to mid 90s valleys.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s to lower 70s. Highs in the lower 80s to lower 90s.
$$
WAZ521-132300-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Northwest
wind 5 to 15 mph in the evening, becoming light. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower
60s. Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 60s.
Highs 90 to 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 60s to lower 70s. Highs 91 to 101.
$$
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Jiri Lehecka 2023 Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag Odds
As action in the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag approaches its conclusion, a quarterfinal is coming up for Jiri Lehecka versus Matteo Arnaldi. At +300, Lehecka is the current favorite to win this tournament at Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris.
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Lehecka at the 2023 Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: July 21-30
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Lehecka's Next Match
Lehecka has reached the quarterfinals, where he will play Arnaldi on Friday, July 28 at 10:30 AM ET (after getting past Dominic Thiem 6-3, 7-5).
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- In the Round of 16, Lehecka won 6-3, 7-5 versus Thiem on Thursday.
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- Through 52 matches over the past year (across all court types), Lehecka has played 25.2 games per match. He won 50.5% of them.
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- Over the past year, Lehecka has been victorious in 22.5% of his return games and 78.3% of his service games.
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Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday.
Domino's Pizza — The stock popped nearly 11% after Domino's announced U.S. consumers can now order its products through Uber's Uber Eats and Postmates apps. The agreement has the potential to add incremental orders from Uber Eats to 70% of Domino's stores, the company said.
DraftKings — Shares of the sports betting app rallied about 5% following an upgrade to buy by analysts at Bank of America. The Wall Street firm cited an "inflection point" in margins and profitability.
Roku — Shares of the streaming provider gained 1%. The company said Tuesday it's teaming up with Shopify to allow viewers to purchase straight from Roku TV. Viewers will be able to simply press a button on their Roku remote to place an order upon seeing an ad for a Shopify merchant, the company said.
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Lazard, Jefferies Financial — Shares of Lazard added 3.9% while Jefferies gained 5.8% after both were upgraded by Morgan Stanley, which said it expects growing merger and acquisition activity. Lazard was upgraded to overweight from equal weight, while Jefferies was upgraded to equal weight from underweight.
Bank stocks — Bank stocks jumped after consumer prices came in lighter than expected. Citigroup
and Goldman Sachs gained 2.6% and 2%, respectively. KeyCorp rallied nearly 5%, while Zions and Comerica Bancorporation added about 4%.
Lucid Group — The electric-vehicle maker sank 12% after its second-quarter deliveries fell short of analysts' estimates. Lucid delivered 1,404 of its electric Air luxury sedans, while analysts polled by FactSet expected 2,000 deliveries.
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SunPower — Shares jumped 9.4% after the solar power company was upgraded by Raymond James to strong buy from outperform. Analyst Pavel Molchanov called this year's sell-off "excessive." His price target of $21 implies 120% upside from Tuesday's close.
Stellantis — The vehicle manufacturer stock added 3.3% after being upgraded by Bank of America to buy. The firm said Stellantis could benefit against peers due to ample exposure to the U.S.
Beyond Meat — The plant-based meat alternative rose 3.3% following the company's announcement Tuesday that its steak product will now be sold at about 14,000 stores across the U.S., including Wegmans and Whole Foods. Beyond Meat shares added 4% in the previous session.
Acadia Healthcare — Shares tumbled 4% after the company revealed in a filing that a New Mexico jury found Acadia responsible for damages totaling $485 million in a lawsuit. According to reports, the suit is related to a sexual assault in one of its now-defunct residential treatment facilities. Acadia said it is evaluating all legal options and will challenge the verdict.
Holley Inc. — Shares of the auto parts maker jumped more than 20% following upgrades by Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan said the company was "back on track," while Bank of America noted it is "firing on all cylinders."
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CHICAGO (AP) — A 1 a.m. shooting at a party in downtown St. Louis kills one and injures nearly a dozen. Gunmen open fire during a fight near Florida’s Hollywood Beach, injuring nine, including a 1-year-old. Bursts of gunfire at a Sweet 16 party in Dadeville, Alabama, kill four and wound more than 30.
What these and other recent mass shootings share in common is they all involve suspects in their teens, highlighting what can be a deadly mix of teenage bravado and impulsiveness with access to guns.
The days when many teens opted to fight out disagreements with fists seem quaint by comparison.
“I remember when I was a child and we had fights — somebody got a black eye or a broken nose and (they) lived to tell about it,” St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones told reporters after Sunday’s shooting.
Reaching for a gun is the default these days for some teens who are as quick to take offense as to pull a trigger, agreed Rodney Phillips, a 50-year-old former Chicago Black Disciples leader who works with gang members nationwide to tamp down festering beefs.
“Now, the first thing out of their mouths is, ‘I’m gonna kill you.’ It’s the brazenness of (the shootings), the reckless abandon, doing it in public places,” Phillips said. “It wasn’t like that when I came up.”
The aunt of 17-year-old Makao Moore, who died in the St. Louis shooting, said teens too often express anger with a gun.
“If we don’t figure it out, it’s going to continue to happen,” Sharonda Moore told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Among the solutions to reducing teen violence, Jones said, was to keep expanding programs offering young people activities in safe spaces, including movie and music nights.
More firearms, and even more powerful firearms, have enabled teens, or anyone wielding a gun, to maim and kill more people in single incidents.
A handgun fired at the April Sweet 16 party — in a dance studio crammed with up to 60 people — had been altered to shoot more rapidly, Alabama Special Agent Jess Thornton told a court hearing.
“Witnesses said it sounded like a machine gun,” the investigator said. Afterward, 89 bullet casings littered the scene and there was “blood everywhere.”
Bullets riddled walls and shattered glass at the shooting in a fifth-floor office in St. Louis. Police released photos of two young men clutching apparent AK-style rifles. One detained suspect was 17.
In many cities, illegal guns are never too far out of reach.
In areas with high gang activity, some guns are stolen from homes, gun stores or trains. To lower the risk of being stopped by police while in possession of guns, gang members typically hide them nearby, tucking the weapons into walls and inside tire rims, he said.
Powerful firearms became more readily available starting in the 1980s, before which knives and low-caliber pistols were often the weapons of choice by teens who killed, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston.
“With guns, teenagers tend to be trigger happy,” he said. “They’ll pull the trigger without fully thinking about the consequences.”
According to FBI data, around 90% of homicides in 2019 by teens 15 to 17 involved firearms, up from around 60% in 1980. Fox, though, said the rise in homicides by teens hasn’t correlated directly with the rising numbers of guns.
Just how many guns are around and available to teens is impossible to know. The Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey estimated in 2018 that there were some 390 million guns held by civilians in the U.S., more than those held by civilians in the other top 25 countries combined.
Mayor Jones said causes of the kind of violence that occurred Sunday are complex. Among the problems she highlighted was a trend of teenagers spilling into downtown St. Louis for late-night parties, with parents sometimes dropping them off.
“Downtown is not a 1 a.m. destination for your 15-year-old,” she said. “It’s not a place to drop children off unsupervised.”
Investigators in St. Louis, Alabama and Florida didn’t immediately suggest motives for the respective shootings. But indications are tensions rose suddenly in each.
Donna Rhone, whose son’s face was grazed by a bullet in the St. Louis shooting, told KTVI-TV that partygoers had been well-behaved before the shooting.
“Then immediately, that’s when everything shifted,” Rhone said, citing her son. “It goes from being so lighthearted to pure terror.”
When a music speaker fell with a bang at the Alabama party, one person lifted their shirt to display a gun, Thornton said. Shooting began after an announcement telling those with guns to leave. At least three shooting suspects were teens.
Pushing and shoving between two groups preceded the Memorial Day shooting in Florida, when members of one group pulled guns and fired at the other and at bystanders, an affidavit alleged. Among those charged: a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old.
For 2020, the first year of the pandemic, numbers of homicides by teens 12 to 17 jumped by nearly 40% compared to the previous year, from 974 to 1,336, according to FBI data. There was a total of around 18,000 homicides in the U.S. in 2020.
Homicides by teens 12 to 17 soared between 1984 and 1994, from 958 to a historic high of 2,800, according to the FBI. After falling to a low of 700 in 2013, numbers crept up, though they remain below mid-90s’ numbers.
When teens kill, their victims are often young.
The St. Louis victims were between 15 and 19. Those killed in the Alabama shooting were 17, 18, 19 and 23, while most of more than two dozen others injured ranged in age from 14 to 19.
Homicide in 2019 was the third leading cause of death for those between ages 12 and 17, behind accidents and suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Homicide is now the leading cause of death among African American youth.
Philips said social media is another factor driving teen violence. Feuds fanned in cyberspace with exchanges of insults can spill into the real world with exchanges of gunfire.
In the heat of the moment, peer pressure can contribute to a minor dispute spinning out of control. Fox said around a third of homicides by teens involve two or more people.
“Sometimes, no one individual wants to do the crime but everyone thinks everyone else wants to do it,” he said. “No one wants to be ostracized by the group.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/mix-of-bravado-and-access-to-guns-contribute-to-mass-shootings-by-teens-in-st-louis-other-cities/ | 2023-06-24 14:57:23 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/mix-of-bravado-and-access-to-guns-contribute-to-mass-shootings-by-teens-in-st-louis-other-cities/ |
Police are searching for three people who broke into a Catholic church in Douglaston last week and made off with cash.
According to investigators, the suspects pried open a back door of the Saint Anastasia Church on 245th Street around 1:45 a.m. on Friday and made their way into the rectory.
They took a safe along with credit cards and approximately $125 before exiting, getting in a light colored SUV and driving away southbound on 245th Street.
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Possible change in campaign strategy key to the GOP securing election victories in November?
Political expert says there is more of an emphasis on “cultural wedge issues” than on policy debate.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - In late July, the Gray Washington News Bureau spoke with former Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Garrett Soldano at a campaign stop in Marysville, Michigan.
It was just days before the state’s primary election.
“This all started with a Facebook video two years and four months ago,” said Soldano. “The power of one can lead to the power of many.”
The chiropractor campaigned against issues like abortion rights and the teaching of Critical Race Theory. He was among a group of five candidates who were running for office for the first time.
While Soldano ultimately lost to one of his opponents, his style of campaigning is something political analysts say may illustrate a trend in the Republican Party.
“We see now I think an emphasis from within the Republican Party on winning elections by stimulating turnout emphasizing what we call wedge issues, cultural wedge issues rather than specific policies they want to contrast with Democratic candidates,” said Professor Michael Traugott.
Traugott is a professor at the Center of Political Studies at the University of Michigan. He says it’s a strategy to motivate the older Republican base.
“There is an activation by the Republican Party about this kind of nervousness, anxiety which is about their place in society not really about education or jobs in particular,” said Traugott.
At the national level, Republicans say they can compete on all fronts. This extends from the culture wars to traditional pocketbook issues.
“Poll after poll shows that the number one issue for the American people across all demographic groups is the economy,” says Republican National Committee Spokesman Paris Dennard.
Dennard says issues like inflation are an opportunity for the GOP to win big in November.
“We have a tremendous opportunity as Republicans to take back this Congress,” said Dennard. “Take back the Senate.”
All 435 seats are up for election in the House. As of August, Democrats currently hold a 220-211 advantage with four vacant seats. The Senate is currently evenly split, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A storm tracker from Arkansas shares his experience of being in a Category 4 hurricane.
Zachary Hall is from Fort Smith and has been storm chasing since 2016.
Hall says there are hardly any words to describe the power and intensity of Hurricane Ian, a natural disaster that is hard to prepare for.
“You can never fully prepare yourself for a Category 4 or 5 hurricane,” Hall said.
Hall says this is not the first Category 4 hurricane he has experienced but says the power and magnitude of Hurricane Ian are like no other.
“The winds really started ripping and we’re talking sustained gust over 100 miles an hour. A lot goes through your mind. It’s pretty scary,” Hall said.
Hall says he stayed close to the shore where he could feel the intensity of the storm.
“The smell of the salt, the sounds of the waves hitting the peers, the wind whistling through the fence posts,” Hall said.
Hall says chasing the storm is not the hardest part. It’s seeing the aftermath of the damage it has caused to the community.
“The destruction of Florida is horrible. It’s apocalyptic in some areas down there, and I just want people to remember those who have been impacted. We’ve dealt with death and destruction.” Hall said. | https://www.kark.com/severe-weather-coverage/arkansas-storm-tracker-shares-story-about-hurricane-ian/ | 2022-09-30 17:29:13 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/severe-weather-coverage/arkansas-storm-tracker-shares-story-about-hurricane-ian/ |
California judge orders release of footage of Pelosi attack
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Footage of the attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband will be released to the public after a judge on Wednesday denied prosecutors’ request to keep it secret.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen M. Murphy ruled there was no reason to keep the footage secret, especially after prosecutors played it in open court during a preliminary hearing last month, according to Thomas R. Burke, a San Francisco-based lawyer who represented The Associated Press and a host of other news agencies in their attempt to access the evidence.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office handed over the evidence to Murphy on Wednesday following a court hearing. Murphy asked the court clerk’s office to distribute it to the media, which could happen as soon as Thursday.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was asleep at the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 28 when someone broke in and beat him with a hammer. Prosecutors have charged 42-year-old David DePape in connection with the attack.
During a preliminary hearing last month, prosecutors played portions of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call plus footage from Capitol police surveillance cameras, body cameras worn by the two police officers who arrived at the house, and video from DePape’s interview with police.
But when news organizations asked for copies of that evidence, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office refused to release it. The attack, which occurred just days before the 2022 midterm elections, prompted intense speculation from the public that fueled the spread of false information.
The district attorney’s office argued releasing the footage publicly would only allow people to manipulate it in their quest to spread false information.
But the news agencies argued it was vital for prosecutors to publicly share their evidence that could debunk any false information swirling on the internet about the attack.
“You don’t eliminate the public right of access just because of concerns about conspiracy theories,” Burke said.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office did not respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment.
The news agencies who sought the release of the footage includes The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Press Democrat, CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC, NBC and KQED, an NPR-member radio station in San Francisco.
DePape pleaded not guilty last month to six charges, including attempted murder. Police have said DePape told them there was “evil in Washington” and he wanted to harm Nancy Pelosi because she was second in line to the presidency. His case is pending.
Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives after the midterm elections. Republicans elected California Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker. Pelosi will remain in Congress, but she stepped down as Democratic leader. She was replaced by Hakeem Jeffries from New York.
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Live coverage: Brewers vs. Giants at Oracle Park
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The Brewers face the Giants in the second of a four-game series. Get live updates here.
Milwaukee Brewers lineup vs. Giants
Christian Yelich, LF
Willy Adames, SS
Andrew McCutchen, DH
Mike Brosseau, 1B
Hunter Renfroe, RF
Luis Urías, 3B
Pedro Severino, C
Kolten Wong, 2B
Jonathan Davis, CF
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Brandon Woodruff, P
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enviva Inc. (NYSE: EVA) between February 21, 2019 and October 11, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important January 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Enviva had misrepresented the environmental sustainability of its wood pellet production and procurement; (2) Enviva had similarly overstated the true measure of cash flow generated by the Company's platform; (3) accordingly, Enviva had misrepresented its business model and the Company's ability to achieve the level of growth that defendants had represented to investors; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Interior Dept. to require body cams for law enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Monday launched a set of new policies that would require thousands of law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, ensures the release of footage in some critical incidents and restricts the use of so-called no-knock warrants.
The announcement comes after Interior Secretary Deb Haaland launched a task force last year aimed at further building trust between law enforcement and the public. It also follows an executive order from President Joe Biden that focused on federal law enforcement agencies and required them to review and revise policies on use of force.
The policies apply to the thousands of law enforcement officers who work for the Interior Department, in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service. The agency has about 3,100 permanent law enforcement officers.
While some federal agencies have already started launching body camera programs – including some park rangers, park police officers and Fish and Wildlife officers – the federal government has lagged behind many local police departments whose officers have been using body cameras for years.
One of the new policies specifically requires all Interior Department law enforcement officers who are patrolling or engaging with the public to carry body-worn cameras and sets out the department’s intent to expedite the public release of video after an incident that results in serious injury or death.
Under the policy, officers or agents are required to activate the body-worn cameras “at the earliest possible opportunity of an interaction and should capture as much of the event as possible, starting with the decision to engage an individual or vehicle.” The camera should remain running until the event is over, the policy states.
The policy says the Interior Department “will strive to expedite the public release” of footage after incidents that involve “serious bodily injury or death in order to promote transparency and accountability.”
The Interior Department’s law enforcement arms have faced scrutiny in recent years, particularly the U.S. Park Police who were faulted in an inspector general’s report after officers used smoke grenades and pepper balls to clear racial justice protesters from an area in front of the White House in 2020. The agency also faced scrutiny over its lack of cameras after two U.S. Park Police officers fatally shot an unarmed motorist in northern Virginia in November 2017.
Another of the policies restricts the use of “no-knock” warrants, which allow law enforcement agents to enter a home without announcing their presence. A no-knock warrant, as its name implies, is an order from a judge that allows police to enter a home without prior notification to the residents, such as ringing a doorbell or banging on the door. In most cases, the law requires that officers must knock and announce themselves before entering a private home to execute a search warrant.
The updated policy – similar to the policy implemented by the Justice Department for its officers last year – follows the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in her home during a no-knock warrant and whose death led to months of mass protests over racial injustice in policing and the treatment of Black people in the United States.
The policy curtails the use of no-knock entries to instances where announcing the presence of federal officers “would create an imminent threat of physical violence to the agent and/or another person,” the Interior Department said. It also requires agents to first obtain approval from supervisors and a federal prosecutor before seeking a no-knock warrant.
The new policies also provide additional guidance on use of force incidents, laying out that its policy would meet or exceed the policies set out by the Justice Department. It also requires the law enforcement agencies to collect and report data about the number of use of force incidents and reiterates a ban on carotid restraints and chokeholds, except when deadly force has been authorized.
“Every single day across the country, the Interior Department’s law enforcement officers risk their lives to safeguard our communities, public lands and waters, and critical resources,” said Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau. “In reforming policing practices, the Department is helping strengthen the unique connection that law enforcement officers have with the communities that they serve and move the nation forward towards community-focused law enforcement.”
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DEAR HELOISE: A few days ago, I asked my 36-year-old son what type of retirement plan he had set up. And after a minute or two, he said he and his wife do not have a retirement plan of any kind.
I was shocked, because both have college degrees, both have very good jobs they enjoy and no children, but they seem to spend nearly every penny they earn. They both have employers who have people who’ll help them buy stock or set up a financial plan for retirement, but neither of them has taken advantage of this free service!
I’ve discovered from friends that their adult children also have not set up any kind of retirement savings, and a couple of them have sons and daughters who are in their late 40s. All of us have tried to stress to our children how important saving for the future is and how quickly time will pass. Sadly, it falls on deaf ears. To be old and poor in this country is no laughing matter!
What can I do or who can my son talk to about the value of saving money? With good health and a little luck, most of us live to a nice ripe old age.
— Miles H., Troy, Michigan
Miles, the first thing they need to do is talk to a financial planner, who will go over their expenses and set up goals for them, as well as a budget to live on. Have them ask friends who they recommend or use and if they’ve been happy with the results. They can also take advantage of programs offered by their employers, which is usually done as an automatic withdrawal before the employee sees his or her paycheck.
Retirement creeps up on many people, who are then totally unprepared and might not be able to retire. It’s not too late to start planning for the future.
— Heloise
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If you have an extra 10 minutes before you have to leave the house:
• Make sure there is plenty of water and food for your pets.
• Place dirty dishes in the dishwasher.
• Take a soft rag and shine your shoes.
• Hang up any clothing you draped over the exercise bike or chair.
• Wipe down the kitchen counter.
Road warrior
DEAR HELOISE: I travel a lot for my job, and sometimes I’m gone for two weeks at a time. I’ve learned to pack light and sensibly. Here are a few of my hints:
1. Place heavy items at the bottom of the suitcase.
2. Roll T-shirts and blue jeans, but never a suit or good dress.
3. Put shoes sole to sole, then place shoes in a shower cap.
4. Use only travel-size containers unless you’ll be traveling longer than 10 days. In that case, take two of everything in travel size.
5. Put your business card in a name tag on your luggage.
— Darren L., Slidell, Louisiana
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Top Player Prop Bets for Knicks vs. Heat Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 2 on May 2, 2023
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 8:15 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Oddsmakers have listed player props for Julius Randle, Bam Adebayo and others when the New York Knicks host the Miami Heat at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday at 7:30 PM ET.
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Knicks vs. Heat Game Info
- Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: New York City, New York
- Venue: Madison Square Garden
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NBA Props Today: New York Knicks
Julius Randle Props
- The 19.5 points prop total set for Randle on Tuesday is 5.6 fewer points than his season scoring average (25.1).
- Randle has averaged 2.5 more rebounds per game (10) than his prop bet total in Tuesday's game (7.5).
- Randle has averaged 4.1 assists per game this year, 0.6 more than his prop bet for Tuesday (3.5).
- Randle has knocked down 2.8 three pointers per game, 0.3 more than his over/under in Tuesday's game (2.5).
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Jalen Brunson Props
- Jalen Brunson's 24-point scoring average is 0.5 less than Tuesday's over/under.
- He averages the same number of rebounds as his prop bet on Tuesday (3.5).
- Brunson averages 6.2 assists, 0.7 more than Tuesday's prop bet (5.5).
- He drains two three-pointers per game, 0.5 less than his prop bet total on Tuesday (2.5).
Immanuel Quickley Props
- The 14.5-point over/under set for Immanuel Quickley on Tuesday is 0.4 lower than his season scoring average of 14.9.
- Quickley averages 0.7 more rebounds than his over/under on Tuesday (which is 3.5).
- Quickley averages 3.4 assists, 0.9 more than his over/under for Tuesday.
- Quickley averages 2.1 made three-pointers, which is less than his over/under on Tuesday (2.5).
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Bam Adebayo Props
- The 18.5-point over/under for Adebayo on Tuesday is 1.9 lower than his season scoring average.
- Adebayo averages 0.7 more rebounds than his over/under on Tuesday (which is 8.5).
- Adebayo's assist average -- 3.2 -- is 0.3 lower than Tuesday's prop bet (3.5).
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Jimmy Butler Props
- The 22.9 points Jimmy Butler has scored per game this season is 6.6 fewer than his prop total set for Tuesday (29.5).
- Butler's per-game rebound average -- 5.9 -- is 0.6 fewer than his prop bet over/under for Tuesday's game (6.5).
- Butler has averaged 5.3 assists per game, 0.2 fewer than Tuesday's assist over/under (5.5).
- Butler has hit 0.6 three-pointers per game, 0.9 fewer than his over/under in Tuesday's game (1.5).
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Bodies of missing Montana climbers discovered in Glacier National Park
WEST GLACIER, Mont. — A helicopter search crew looking for two missing Montana climbers in Glacier National Park spotted their bodies on Monday, park officials said in a statement.
The men, both 67, one from Kalispell and one from Columbia Falls, were reported overdue Sunday from their planned climb of Dusty Star Mountain in the park’s center. They set out for the climb on Thursday and had planned to hike out on Friday.
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Park rangers found their vehicle at a trailhead Sunday and search crews first took to the air later that day, park officials said.
Authorities were making a plan to recover the men's bodies and their belongings, the park statement said. Their identities were not immediately disclosed. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2022/07/25/missing-montana-climbers-found-dead-in-glacier-national-park-bodies-spotted-near-mountain/65382515007/ | 2022-07-26 03:15:15 | 1 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2022/07/25/missing-montana-climbers-found-dead-in-glacier-national-park-bodies-spotted-near-mountain/65382515007/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
0-2-9-3
(zero, two, nine, three)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
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Adonica Aune first golfed socially to meet others, until she decided to move to The Villages and step up her game, playing more competitively. She was then diagnosed with osteoarthritis, leading to three hip surgeries and a knee replacement. Undeterred, she was motivated to stay active and even took on a role as an ambassador at her local swimming pool as she recovered. With the support of her husband and five sons, she prioritizes health and wellness and continues to golf competitively.
Adonica is one of more than 11,000 athletes competing in the 2023 National Senior Games — the world’s largest multisport event for seniors — in Pittsburgh from July 7-18. Adonica also has been chosen as a Humana Game Changer, a national recognition of outstanding athletes who exemplify active aging and provide encouragement, motivation and inspiration for people of all ages to pursue lifelong health.
Adonica’s passion for golf is proof age isn’t an obstacle to engaging in activities that bring joy and promote well-being. While not everyone has a desire to compete, I think Adonica can inspire us all to change the game for active aging and challenge society’s expectations of what it means to be a senior.
It’s a fact, staying active can help prevent or delay many common health problems as we age.
Here are just a few ways physical activity plays a vital role in health:
Brain health: Physical activity sharpens thinking skills and can lower the risk of anxiety and depression. It helps you sleep better, too!
Disease risk: Staying active helps reduce a whole host of ailments, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and arthritis pain, and helps reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and several types of cancer.
Stronger bones and muscles: With healthy muscles and bones, you reduce the risk of falls and are more likely to keep up with your grandkids longer and check off more adventures on your bucket list.
For adults aged 65 and older, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend at least 2.5 hours of moderate-intensity activity per week, activities that help improve balance, and at least two days per week of strength training, which can be done at home, like with this simple soup can workout.
We are seeing a generation of seniors who aren’t just aging, they are living active and vibrant lives.
I know I am personally inspired by Adonica as one of just 28 Game Changers Humana is recognizing and celebrating nationwide this year. As she has clearly demonstrated, being a senior can be about leveling up, not settling down.
Good luck to Adonica and all the athletes from Florida heading to compete at the Games.
Dr. Albert Tzeel is the Health Services Vice President for Humana in Florida. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06/22/active-aging-76-year-old-villages-resident-is-an-inspiration-commentary/ | 2023-06-23 18:25:45 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06/22/active-aging-76-year-old-villages-resident-is-an-inspiration-commentary/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Alzheimer’s disease is expected to spike nationwide in future years, and according to new data released by the Alzheimer’s Association, there is a significant shortage in the dementia care workforce.
Twenty states in the U.S. have been identified as neurology “deserts” by the Alzheimer’s Association, meaning they had a projected shortage of doctors and caregivers specializing in dementia.
Carolyn Berry of Tennessee — one of the 20 “desert” states — says she’s aware of the challenges faced by families of those with cognitive diseases. Berry lost both her grandmother and mother to Alzheimer’s.
“There are beautiful moments in caring for the loved one that you are losing,” said Berry, who added that she was lucky to have a large family to help with care.
Berry, however, said even the initial diagnosis was problematic.
“We started suspecting some things in her late 60s, had her tested when she was 70,” Berry said. “The testing come back that she was on par with her age, which was not correct.”
Kevin Fehr, president and CEO of Amada Senior Care in Tennessee, said the neurology “desert” is partly to blame for the failure of timely diagnoses.
“With the lack of neurologists, folks with a specialty in this area, the diagnosis are often delayed,” Fehr said.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s in 2023. By 2050, that number is expected to increase to almost 13 million.
“It is a very difficult task to hire and retain qualified caregivers in this area, partially because it’s a lower-paying job,” Fehr said.
Fehr’s agency focuses on at-home care, specifically for clients with dementia and Alzheimer’s. But in recent years, at-home care has been falling on loved ones amid a statewide shortage in the dementia care workforce.
It’s not a problem specific to Tennessee, of course. The Alzheimer’s Association reported over 360,000 unpaid caregivers in the state last year, and the organization estimates that more than 11 million Americans are providing similar unpaid care nationwide.
Berry, as one of those caregivers, believes more education, research and training needs to be done.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Two former Alabama governors, from opposite sides of the political aisle, wrote in an opinion piece that they are now troubled by the state’s death penalty system and would commute the sentences of inmates sentenced by judicial override or divided juries.
“We missed our chance to confront the death penalty and have lived to regret it, but it is not too late for today’s elected officials to do the morally right thing,” the governor’s wrote.
Bentley and Siegelman each let eight executions go forward while they were in office, according to a list maintained by the Alabama Department of Corrections.
The governors said they are particularly concerned that a large number of the state’s death row population was sentenced to death by either divided juries or over a jury’s recommendation.
Alabama in 2017 became the last state to end the practice of allowing judges to override a jury’s sentence in a capital case and send a person to death row when a jury recommended life imprisonment — a practice that critics argued interjected election-year pressure into sentencing decisions. But the change was not retroactive and did not impact inmates already sentenced to death by judicial override.
“As governors, we had the power to commute the sentences of all those on Alabama’s death row to life in prison. We no longer have that constitutional power, but we feel that careful consideration calls for commuting the sentences of the 146 prisoners who were sentenced by non-unanimous juries or judicial override, and that an independent review unit should be established to examine all capital murder convictions,” the two governors wrote.
Only four states out of the 27 that allow the death penalty do not require a unanimous jury to sentence an inmate to death. Alabama allows a death sentence with 10-2 decision in favor of execution. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last month signed legislation ending that state’s unanimous jury requirement and allowing death sentences when at least eight jurors are in favor. Missouri and Indiana let a judge decide when there is a divided jury.
The governors cited statistics from the Death Penalty Information Center that one person on death row has been exonerated for every 8.3 executions. Applying that exoneration rate to the 167 people on Alabama’s death row, Siegelman said would suggest as many as 20 inmates could have been wrongfully convicted.
“We all should agree that if the state is going to be in the business of killing people, that we should make sure that we have the right person,” Siegelman told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday night.
Siegelman said after reviewing cases that he is now personally haunted by one of the eight executions that happened during his time as governor.
Freddie Wright was put to death in Alabama’s electric chair in 2000 after being convicted of killing a couple during a robbery. Siegelman declined to stop the execution, saying at the time that the “death penalty is appropriate in this case.” Twenty-three years later Siegelman said that he now believes Wright “was wrongfully charged, prosecuted and convicted for a murder he most likely did not commit.”
Siegelman said that he “never felt comfortable with the death penalty” but that his views have evolved over the years, at least partly sparked by his own criminal conviction.
The last Democratic governor in a state now dominated by Republicans, Siegelman was convicted of federal bribery and obstruction of justice charges largely related to his appointment of a campaign donor to a state board. Siegelman, who has maintained his innocence, said he came to see the system as flawed. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/23/alabama-governors-death-row-don-siegelman-robert-bentley/4f6587ee-f9e1-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-24 04:19:35 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/23/alabama-governors-death-row-don-siegelman-robert-bentley/4f6587ee-f9e1-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
Weather Authority: Saturday night storms pass, leaving gusty winds, clearing skies for Sunday
PHILADELPHIA - A severe weather outbreak pushed through the Delaware Valley prompting tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings across a large swath of the region.
That system has passed out of the region, leaving behind gusty winds and clearing skies.
The windy weather will stick around for the rest of the night as the skies clear later in the night. We'll drop down to the low 40s.
Plan for a cooler Sunday. Highs only make it to the low 50s. The wind will add a chill in the morning, but we'll lose the wind in the afternoon. It'll be a gorgeous-looking day with lots of sunshine.
We'll have a sunny start to the week as highs go on the rise. We'll have the 60s back on Monday, and then we're in the 70s for the middle of the week. Showers return Wednesday afternoon and storms return Thursday afternoon.
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SATURDAY NIGHT: Clear late. Low: 40
SUNDAY: Windy morning. High: 52, Low: 36
MONDAY: Becoming windy. High: 66, Low: 50
TUESDAY: Best day of the week. High: 74, Low: 58
WEDNESDAY: Afternoon showers. High: 72, Low: 62
THURSDAY: Afternoon storms. High: 72, Low: 48
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KINGSBURG, Calif. (KFSN) -- There is a new push for late Olympic legend and actor Rafer Johnson to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
California Senator Alex Padilla led a bipartisan delegation in sending a letter to President Biden, recommending that Johnson be awarded posthumously.
The Kingsburg High School alum was one of the most well-known and successful athletes of his time.
In 1960, he won gold in the Olympic Decathlon after having won a silver in the 1956 games.
After his storied career as an athlete, Johnson became an actor.
He appeared in a number of movies including Wild in the Country with Elvis Presley and the 1989 James Bond film, A License to Kill.
Johnson even helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968.
In the letter to President Biden, lawmakers went on to say his legacy serves as a blueprint for all Americans.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor. | https://abc30.com/rafer-johnson-olympic-legend-medal-of-freedom-lasting-legacy/13413136/ | 2023-06-22 05:50:02 | 1 | https://abc30.com/rafer-johnson-olympic-legend-medal-of-freedom-lasting-legacy/13413136/ |
Families and friends celebrate as Bryan ISD graduates walk the stage
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Bryan ISD graduation ceremonies began Thursday, and graduates were celebrated as they walked across the stage.
The ceremony for Mary Catherine Harris School was packed, with a large group watching via live stream in the lobby of the Bryan ISD Performing Arts Center.
Antranetta Allen is the mother of graduate, Keelun Owens, who already has his next step in the works.
“I’m so happy for him because he is graduating high school and when he’s done he’s actually in truck driving right now, he has three weeks before he’s done with that. So I’m so proud of him because he has worked very hard all year long so I am so happy to see him graduate and walk across the stage and receive his diploma,” Allen said.
A large group was in attendance to celebrate Owens’ graduation including Kenzie Owens, Devin Lister, Zeven and Zion McMarion.
Throughout the weekend, Bryan ISD will host three more graduations.
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DENVER (AP) — Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic has his bandmates back together. They’re making up for lost time, too.
Paired again in the playoffs with Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr., Jokic and his crew made quick work of short-handed Minnesota, closing out the Timberwolves with a 112-109 win in Game 5 of their first-round series Tuesday night. Denver, the No. 1 seed in the West, will face a Phoenix Suns team led by its own terrific trio — Devin Booker, Chris Paul and Kevin Durant — starting Saturday at Ball Arena.
The trifecta of Murray, Porter and Jokic haven’t been plugged in at the same time for the playoffs since the NBA bubble in 2020. It was a magical time, too, in Florida, when the team advanced to the Western Conference Finals, where they lost to LeBron James and the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers.
It seems so long ago, with Murray missing the last two versions of the playoffs as he recovered from a torn left ACL and Porter sitting out last season’s postseason due to a balky back.
But they knew that once they were all reunited, they could be a powerful force.
They flashed that Tuesday by doing a little bit of everything. There was Murray, coming up big at crunch time on his way to 35 points. And Jokic, the reigning back-to-back NBA MVP who did his usual thing with 28 points, 17 boards and 12 assists. Porter, too, who despite struggling from the field found a way to contribute with defense — something he wasn’t always known for — and by grabbing 10 rebounds. He also scored eight crucial points in the fourth quarter.
“It was good to be back in the playoffs and just be playing at a high level along with Jamal,” said Porter, who swished two big 3-pointers to help Denver fend off Anthony Edwards and the plucky Timberwolves. “It’s a good feeling.”
A year ago, guard/forward Bruce Brown was swept out of the postseason as a member — along with Durant — of the Brooklyn Nets. Brown did his homework as he looked for a new team last summer and liked the what he saw in the Mile High City. He and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope have given the Nuggets better depth in these playoffs.
“I just knew they had a bunch of great players,” said Brown, who wore a cowboy hat as he walked out of the locker room after a game in which the Nuggets went 32 of 36 from the free throw line. “I’m very impressed (with this team).”
Next up, a Suns team that swept the Nuggets in the second round of the 2021 playoffs. But that was without Murray. This is a revamped Nuggets cast.
Phoenix has a new look, too, with Durant coming over from the Nets as part of blockbuster deal at the NBA’s trade deadline day.
This could be the start of something good. Despite Denver being the top seed — and Phoenix being No. 4 — the Nuggets feel overlooked.
“Nobody is out there picking us to win,” Nugget forward Jeff Green said. “We know we have what it takes to win. We’ve just got to keep showcasing.”
First, some time to rest — and celebrate.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone wants his players to appreciate what they just accomplished. Him, too, as he earned his 25th playoff win to break a tie with Doug Moe and become the Nuggets’ winningest coach in the NBA playoffs.
“To win a series in the playoffs is hard,” Malone said. “So I’m really proud of our guys.”
The Suns and Nuggets split their season series 2-2. But it was hard to gain any sort of read into the series as Jokic sat out the last two, so he hasn’t played the Suns with Durant.
Both teams put on quite a show on Christmas night, with Aaron Gordon turning in one of the most spectacular dunks of the season. It paved the way to a 128-125 overtime win where Jokic had 41 points, 15 boards and 15 assists.
“Probably, they’re the favorites to win the championship,” Jokic said. “It’s going to be a big challenge for us.”
These are the types of moments Porter pondered when he was sidelined with the bad back last year.
“I wasn’t trying to look too far ahead, but to get back here and be competitive in a playoff series, man, it’s a great feeling,” Porter said. “Especially considering everything I’ve been through.”
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Updated October 15, 2022 at 9:28 AM ET
Robbie Coltrane's career began long before the first Harry Potter movie premiered in 2001, but for the generation that grew up with the films and the books, it's hard to separate the Scottish actor from his larger-than-life (at least for muggles) portrayal of Rubeus Hagrid, the official keeper of the keys and grounds at Hogwarts.
Following the news of his death on Friday, fans of the series and Coltrane's fellow actors took to social media to remember the man that brought the loveable half-giant character to life with iconic lines including, "Yer a wizard, Harry."
RIP to the remarkable Robbie Coltrane, whose BAFTA-nominated portrayal of Hagrid in the Harry Potter films is one of beauty, humor, and humanity pic.twitter.com/1gWFx0zc4u
— Brian Rowe 🏳️🌈🍿🎃 (@mrbrianrowe) October 14, 2022
Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger, remembered Coltrane for his compassion and the impact he had on her while they were filming.
"His talent was so immense it made sense he played a giant – he could fill ANY space with his brilliance," Watson wrote. "Robbie, if I ever get to be so kind as you were to me on a film set I promise I'll do it in your name and memory. Know how much I adore and admire you. I'll really miss your sweetness, your nicknames, your warmth, your laughs and your hugs. You made us a family. Know you were that to us. There was no better Hagrid. You made it a joy to be Hermione."
Tom Felton, whose character Draco Malfoy was often the rival of Harry Potter, spoke of how Coltrane and Hagrid were more alike in how they cared for others.
"One of my fondest memories of filming Harry Potter was a night shoot on the first film in the forbidden forest. I was 12. Robbie cared & looked after everyone around of him. Effortlessly," Felton wrote on Instagram. "And made them laugh. Effortlessly. He was a big friendly giant on screen but even more so In real life. Love you mate - thank you for everything xx."
Coltrane's Hagrid often brought grins to audiences as he found himself in comical situations with magical creatures. But his caring and nurturing demeanor often made him lovable.
"Hagrid represented the concept of unconditional love. A true friend. Thank you Robbie for bringing this character to life," said a fan on Twitter.
While reflecting on the films for the HBO special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, Coltrane spoke about his beloved character outliving him.
"The legacy of the movies is, I suspect, that my children's generation will show them to their children. So you could be watching it in 50 years' time, easy," Coltrane said. "I'll not be here, sadly, but ... Hagrid will, yes."
As Harry Potter said, "There's no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid" – and there would be no Hagrid without Coltrane.
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Dems' climate, energy, tax bill clears initial Senate hurdle
Democrats pushed their election-year economic bill toward Senate approval early Sunday, starting the sprawling collection of President Joe Biden’s priorities on climate, energy, health and taxes on a pathway that the party hopes will end in final congressional passage by the end of this week.
The evenly divided Senate voted Saturday to begin debating the legislation 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie and overcoming unanimous Republican opposition. A dwindled version of earlier multitrillion-dollar measures that Democrats failed to advance, the package has become a partisan battleground over inflation, gasoline prices and other issues that polls show are driving voters.
The House, where Democrats have a slender majority, could give the legislation final approval next Friday.
“The time is now to move forward with a big, bold package for the American people,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “This historic bill will reduce inflation, lower costs, fight climate change. It’s time to move this nation forward.”
Republicans said the measure would damage the economy and make it harder for people to cope with sky-high inflation. They said the bill’s business taxes would hurt job creation and force prices upward and urged voters to remember that in November.
“The best way to stop this tax and spend inflationary madness is to fire some of the 50 so they can’t keep doing this to your family,” said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
Nonpartisan analysts have said the legislation, which Democrats have named the Inflation Reduction Act, would have a minor impact on the nation’s worst inflation bout in four decades. Even so, it would take aim at issues the party has longed to address for years including global warming, pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.
Before reaching final passage, senators plodded through a nonstop pile of amendments called a “vote-a-rama” that seemed certain to last hours.
In early votes, the chamber rejected an effort by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to require Medicare to pay the same lower prescription drug prices paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Another, by Graham, was defeated; it would have erased a fee Democrats want to renew on barrels of oil that raises money for hazardous waste cleanups. Republicans said Democrats' proposal would boost gasoline prices, a sore point for voters after this summer's record pump prices.
Earlier, the Senate parliamentarian gave a thumbs-up to most of Democrats’ revised 755-page bill. But Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s nonpartisan rules arbiter, said Democrats had to drop a significant part of its plan for curbing drug prices.
MacDonough said Democrats violated Senate budget rules with language imposing hefty penalties on pharmaceutical companies that boost prices beyond inflation for drugs sold in the private insurance market. Those were the bill’s chief drug pricing protections for the roughly 180 million people whose health coverage comes from private insurance, either through work or bought on their own.
Other pharmaceutical provisions were left intact, including giving Medicare the power to negotiate what it pays for drugs for its 64 million elderly recipients, a longtime Democratic aspiration. Penalties on manufacturers for exceeding inflation would apply to drugs sold to Medicare, and there is a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket cap on drug costs and free vaccines for Medicare beneficiaries.
Democrats are using special procedures that would let them pass the measure without having to reach the 60-vote majority that legislation often needs in the Senate. To do that, they must abide by rules that include a requirement that provisions be chiefly aimed at affecting the federal budget, not imposing new policy.
The weekend debate capped a startling 10-day turnabout that saw Democrats resurrect top components of Biden’s agenda that had seemed dead. In rapid-fire deals with Democrats’ two most unpredictable senators — first Joe Manchin of West Virginia, then Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema — Schumer pieced together a package that would give the party an achievement against the backdrop of this fall’s congressional elections.
The measure is a shadow of Biden's initial 10-year, $3.5 trillion proposal, which funded a rainbow of progressive dreams including paid family leave, universal preschool, child care and bigger tax breaks for families with children. The current bill, barely over one-tenth that size, became much narrower as Democratic leaders sought to win the votes of the centrists Manchin and Sinema, yet it has unified a party eager to declare victory and show voters they are addressing their problems.
The bill offers spending and tax incentives favored by progressives for buying electric vehicles and making buildings more energy efficient. But in a bow to Manchin, whose state is a leading fossil fuel producer, there is also money to reduce coal plant carbon emissions and language requiring the government to open more federal land and waters to oil drilling.
Expiring subsidies that help millions of people afford private insurance premiums would be extended for three years, and there is $4 billion to help Western states combat drought. A new provision would create a $35 monthly cap for insulin, the expensive diabetes medication, for Medicare and private insurance patients starting next year. It seemed possible that language could be weakened or removed during debate.
Reflecting Democrats' calls for tax equity, there would be a new 15% minimum tax on some corporations with annual profits exceeding $1 billion but that pay well below the 21% corporate tax. Companies buying back their own stock would be taxed 1% for those transactions, swapped in after Sinema refused to support higher taxes on hedge fund managers. The IRS budget would be pumped up to strengthen its tax collections.
While the bill’s final costs were still being determined, it would spend close to $400 billion over 10 years to slow climate change, which analysts say would be the country’s largest investment in that effort, and billions more on health care. It would raise more than $700 billion in taxes and from government drug cost savings, leaving about $300 billion for deficit reduction over the coming decade — a blip compared to that period's projected $16 trillion in budget shortfalls.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/democrats-climate-energy-tax-bill-clears-initial-senate-hurdle/40825580 | 2022-08-07 13:56:10 | 1 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/democrats-climate-energy-tax-bill-clears-initial-senate-hurdle/40825580 |
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Across the globe, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted reflections on the historic sweep of her reign and how she succeeded in presiding over the end of Britain’s colonial empire and embracing the independence of her former dominions.
Tributes to the queen’s life have poured in, from world leaders to rock stars to ordinary people — along with some criticism of the monarchy.
It was in Cape Town, marking her 21st birthday in 1947, that the then Princess Elizabeth pledged that her “whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.”
The British empire soon crumbled, but Elizabeth managed to maintain a regal — if ceremonial — position as the head of the Commonwealth, the 54 nations of mostly previous British colonies.
“The Queen lived a long and consequential life, fulfilling her pledge to serve until her very last breath at the age of 96,” Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, said in a statement Friday. “She was an exemplary leader of the kind seldom seen in the modern era.”
As queen, Elizabeth was seen as endorsing the birth of democracies in former colonies in Africa where Black citizens previously had been denied basic rights, including the vote. When in glittering tiaras she danced with new African leaders in the 1960s and visited their capital cities, she burnished the new institutions.
When white-minority rule finally fell in South Africa in 1994, Elizabeth welcomed Nelson Mandela as a world leader. Her openly warm friendship with Mandela was enjoyed by him, and it gave her a new relevance.
“In the years after his release from prison, (Mandela) cultivated a close relationship with the queen. He hosted her in South Africa and visited her in England, taking particular delight in exploring Buckingham Palace. They also talked on the phone frequently, using their first names with each other as a sign of mutual respect as well as affection,” the Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement Friday.
“For Madiba (Mandela’s clan name) it was important that the former colonial power in southern Africa should be drawn into cordial and productive relations with the newly democratic republic of South Africa. For the same reason, South Africa becoming a full member of the Commonwealth again after its long apartheid-era absence had a special significance.”
Fellow radical anti-apartheid fighter, Anglican archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, also enjoyed good relations with the queen, and his foundation paid tribute to her.
“Although ensconced in the pomp, ceremony and lifestyle of royalty and empire, in a world of profound inequality, she was a servant queen,” Tutu’s foundation and trust said Friday.
In contrast, a scathing view of the queen’s rule was issued by South Africa’s populist party, the Economic Freedom Fighters. The queen was “head of an institution built up, sustained, and living off a brutal legacy of dehumanization of millions of people across the world,” said the statement.
“We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa’s history,” said the party. “During her 70-year reign as queen, she never once acknowledged the atrocities that her family inflicted on native people that Britain invaded across the world. She willingly benefited from the wealth that was attained from the exploitation and murder of millions of people across the world.”
Some Irish soccer fans raucously cheered the queen’s death at a match Thursday night, according to videos posted online that angered her supporters. The Republic of Ireland’s leadership expressed condolences and admiration for the queen.
The widespread tributes that followed her death came not only from U.S. President Joe Biden but also from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
She was a “stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States,” Biden and first lady Jill Biden said in a statement, adding that she ”defined an era.”
Putin sent a telegram to King Charles III — Elizabeth’s son who automatically became Britain’s new monarch.
“For many decades, Elizabeth II rightfully enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects, as well as authority on the world stage. I wish you courage and perseverance in the face of this heavy, irreparable loss,” Putin wrote.
Elizabeth was mourned across Europe. In France, Britain’s historic rival and contemporary ally, officials ordered flags at the presidential palace and public buildings be lowered to half-staff on Friday.
French President Emmanuel Macron released a video message Friday in English expressing a sense of “emptiness” after her passing. Addressing the British public, the French president said: “To you, she was your Queen. To us, she was THE Queen, to all of us.”
Even in places where the relationship with British monarchy is complicated, the tributes flowed. In India, once a British colony, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Elizabeth “a stalwart of our times.”
The queen’s death came as a growing number of British territories in the Caribbean are seeking to replace the monarch with their own heads of state amid demands that Britain apologize for its colonial-era abuses and award its former colonies slavery reparations.
Still, Caribbean leaders mourned her.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that for many years Elizabeth visited the island every decade.
“Undoubtedly, she formed a special bond with the people of Jamaica,” he said. “We are saddened that we will not see her light again, but we will remember her historic reign.”
Bermuda Premier David Burt noted that her reign “has spanned decades of such immense change for the United Kingdom and the world.”
It was not only Britain that lost its queen. Elizabeth was also sovereign to 14 other countries including Jamaica, Canada, Australia, the Solomon Islands and New Zealand.
“Here is a woman who gave her life, utterly, to the service of others. And regardless of what anyone thinks of the role of monarchies around the world, there is undeniably, I think here, a display of someone who gave everything on behalf of her people,” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was having trouble believing he’d had his last sit-down chat with Elizabeth: “I will so miss those chats,” he said. Elizabeth had visited Canada 22 times as monarch.
“For most Canadians, we have known no other sovereign,” Trudeau said. He said she was a “constant presence in our lives — and her service to Canadians will forever remain an important part of our country’s history.”
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who led a failed campaign to have an Australian president replace the British monarch as Australia’s head of state, came close to tears in paying tribute to Elizabeth.
“It’s the end of an era and let’s hope that the future, after the queen’s passing, is one where we will have leadership as dedicated and selfless as she has shown,” Turnbull told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Elizabeth’s death held people’s attention in China, where it was a top trending topic on social media.
“I feel quite sad,” said Bao Huifang, a lawyer in Beijing. “She played a very important role in stabilizing Britain and the world.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent his condolences, noting Elizabeth was the first British monarch to visit China.
Elizabeth’s death comes amid increasingly tense relations between Britain and China. Xi said he was willing to work with King Charles III on promoting “healthy and stable” bilateral ties.
In the U.S., tributes came not only from the Bidens but also from every living former president.
Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, said Elizabeth made “the role of queen her own — with a reign defined by grace, elegance, and a tireless work ethic.” George W. Bush called her “a woman of great intellect, charm, and wit,” and Jimmy Carter said Elizabeth’s “dignity, graciousness and sense of duty” were inspiring.
Rock star Elton John paid tribute at his Toronto concert, saying he was inspired by her and is sad she is gone. “She led the country through some of our greatest and darkest moments with grace and decency and genuine caring,” John said.
At the United Nations, the Security Council stood in silent tribute at the start of a meeting on Ukraine. France’s U.N. ambassador, Nicolas De Riviere, the council president, sent condolences on behalf of its 15 members.
Elizabeth presided “over a period of historic changes both for her country and the world,” he said. “Her life was devoted to the service of her country.”
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Another round of wintry weather is taking aim at the Upper Midwest, and once again the heaviest of the impacts will be felt on a Thursday.
A Winter Weather Advisory will be going into effect along and just west of the Interstate 35 corridor Starting Thursday, Mar. 16, lasting through Friday morning. The advised areas will be facing some of highest impacts as rain turns to snow and winds begin to blow.
The system will begin moving into our area as rain starting around 9-10 a.m., moving from west to east. All of us will be getting wet as this rain will be more widespread. Through the afternoon, colder air will swing in from the northwest, changing rain over into snow.
Alongside the cooldown, winds will increase with gusts up to 50 mph possible. This could cause blowing snow and tricky travel conditions, especially in advised counties.
When all is said and done, we won't be seeing the most impressive snow totals from this wintry system, but the slushy/icy conditions will be impactful. Accumulations will range from nothing to 2". | https://www.kimt.com/news/another-unsettled-thursday-with-rain-and-snow-expected/article_feb3ba5e-c381-11ed-879e-db17d9fc4d07.html | 2023-03-16 01:55:08 | 1 | https://www.kimt.com/news/another-unsettled-thursday-with-rain-and-snow-expected/article_feb3ba5e-c381-11ed-879e-db17d9fc4d07.html |
This past Sunday, The Last of Us aired its season finale. The HBO hit outperformed their latest show of a similar scale, House of the Dragon.
But like that Game of Thrones spin-off, The Last of Us also derives its storytelling from another medium — no, not a series of best-selling books, but a groundbreaking video game.
"It's like a family reunion I haven't heard for years. And now it's this worldwide phenomenon," says show executive producer Neil Druckmann. "I mean, the game was incredibly successful. But now it's on another level where I can't avoid it. It's everywhere. It's on commercials on TV, it's people talking about on the street"
Druckmann co-created the 2013 PlayStation game at studio Naughty Dog, and helped bring it to HBO with showrunner Craig Mazin (Chernobyl). Their job was made easier by having celebrated source material to work with.
The promise of video game storytelling
"Some of the greatest storytelling has been in video gaming" says Merle Dandridge, who played the resistance leader Marlene in both the game and the TV show.
Dandridge was among several actors from the original cast that took part in the TV rendition. She's had a long and storied career in video games, with roles that include the iconic Alyx Vance in 2004's Half Life 2. "Not only is [Alyx] a badass, not only is she smart, but she's also cool as hell — somebody I want to hang out with. Back in those days, I didn't know a ton about video game characters, but to have a Black and Asian character represented in the game world, I was like, they see me and they want to put that on the screen. They're interested in broadening the perspective of what is possible in games."
Half Life 2 came after a wave of more story-driven shooting titles that later informed The Last of Us, which also broke ground for representation in its nuanced portrayals of those in the LGBTQ community, as it features several gay love stories. But it took a long time for such cinematic narrative achievements to come to fruition.
Game acting grows up
When video games went mainstream in the 1980s and 90s, controllers only had so many buttons, and software could only carry so much data. That limited not only graphics, but also high-quality audio, let alone professional voice-over.
But as technology advanced and the game industry burgeoned, Hollywood sensed an opportunity. By the early 2000s, it had cashed in on movies based on Super Mario Bros, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider, which sometimes drew large audiences — but failed to capture critical acclaim.
Even as live action adaptations fell short, games themselves became more lifelike. Borrowing technology used in TV and film, digital impressions of real actors performing serious material became more and more common.
"Throughout the history of gaming, there have been wonderful performers," says Troy Baker, a voice actor veteran with over 300 credits, who played main character Joel in The Last of Us series. "I think that the writing has gotten better, and it's not just that we're getting these big Hollywood writers to come in and tell these great stories. It's at the understanding that the story and the game must sync up."
The Last of Us didn't just feature voices from the best in the business: actors also dressed up in high-tech motion capture suits and acted alongside each other.
"I found that on a motion capture stage, and even in a voice booth, that the joy of acting, and the immersive sense of it, could exist very fully in that world of imagination" says Jeffrey Pierce. He played Joel's brother Tommy in the original game, and then joined the show as Perry, a new role devised just for him.
"It's just like being a kid, that everything is in your imagination that they built this entire set out of boxes, and you have a toy gun or something and like you are absolutely in a state of play. Because everyone's in these ridiculous outfits, you just forget about it, and you just focus on the work."
From PlayStation to HBO
Neil Druckmann has said time and time again that the actors surprised him and changed how the characters were written. Over time, these characters ended up in other media, from a comic book, to a live theatrical performance! Now, it's succeeded as a TV adaptation, carried on by different actors.
"I'm hearing Pedro [Pascal] say lines that Troy improvised, and it's just kind of intermixed in [Joel]'s DNA," says Druckmann. "I find this really beautiful that it's like a mixture of Troy, a mixture of Pedro, a mixture of all this stuff that was built at Naughty Dog and rebuilt by this whole new crew, and an amazing cast under the HBO umbrella."
The show also expanded on the original game. In the final episode, we see Ellie's mother — now played by Ashley Johnson, the first actor to portray Ellie. Her performance deepens our knowledge of the setting, along with flashbacks across the world amid the zombie outbreak — scenes that are completely original to the adaptation.
The Last of Us on HBO wrapped up much like the first video game, leaving us to consider the morally questionable actions taken by the characters who manage to survive in their violent and virulent world.
As Druckmann puts it, "We're telling a story about love and loss, which is something that every single person that has lived long enough has experienced."
Hollywood finally seems able to do justice to such video games stories. The popularity of Netflix's Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Arcane: League of Legends and, alongside The Last of Us, prove that game adaptations have widespread appeal.
James Perkins Mastromarino contributed to this story. contributed to this story
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings.
The move to freeze and block any potential transactions with U.S. entities comes after two car bombings at a busy junction in Somalia's capital on Saturday killed more than 120 people.
Al-Shabab, which often targets the capital, Mogadishu, and controls large parts of the country, claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack, saying its objective was to hit the education ministry.
These are the first sanctions on Somalia's Islamic State group network from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. The State Department designated IS-Somalia in 2018 as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
On Oct. 17, the U.S. imposed financial penalties on more than a dozen people from Somalia and Yemen who it said were involved in al-Shabab’s financing operations, which use those funds to help in weapons procurement and recruitment activities.
The Treasury Department said the sanctions further target the “network of weapons traffickers, their associates, and an affiliated business that have facilitated weapons transfers to multiple terrorist groups.”
Violent acts have increased in recent months. Islamic extremist fighters early this month targeted a Somali government headquarters in the Hiran region, leaving at least 20 people dead and 36 wounded in a town at the center of a recent mobilization against the extremists.
Saturday's bombing in Mogadishu injured more than 320 people, and many were still missing.
“We extend our heartfelt condolences to all who lost loved ones and were injured in Saturday’s horrific attack and strongly condemn this indefensible act of terrorism,” Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said. “Today, we take direct aim at the networks funding and supplying both ISIS-Somalia and al-Shabaab that support their violent acts."
The Islamic State group sometimes is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
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SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR) announced that Joseph A. Pierce has been elected to the board. He has joined the board's Corporate Governance and Nominating, Compensation and Benefits, and Technology committees.
"We're pleased to welcome Joe to the board," said Phil Green, Cullen/Frost Chairman and CEO. "His legal, financial services and marketing expertise will be very useful as we pursue our organic growth strategy, and he is a great match for the Frost philosophy and our core values of integrity, caring and excellence."
Pierce is the senior vice president and general counsel of AMB Sports and Entertainment at The Blank Family of Businesses. In that role he counsels and advises across all areas of the organization, including the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United and the PGA Tour Superstores. Previously he held positions including senior vice president and chief legal officer at Hornets Sports and Entertainment, overseeing legal and business administration for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. He has also served as senior vice president and associate general counsel of global marketing and corporate affairs at Bank of America as well as positions with Comcast Sports Television Group and Jacksonville Jaguars Ltd.
Pierce holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Georgetown University, and dual juris doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Wharton School of Business and University of Pennsylvania Law School. He lives in Atlanta. Because he grew up in San Antonio, he is very familiar with Frost. "My family banked with Frost, and that's how I knew of the bank's customer service and the impact of Frost family in the community," he said.
About Frost:
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR) is a financial holding company, headquartered in San Antonio, with $51.8 billion in assets at June 30, 2022. Frost provides a wide range of banking, investments and insurance services to businesses and individuals across Texas in the Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Permian Basin, Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio regions. Founded in 1868, Frost has helped clients with their financial needs during three centuries. Additional information is available at www.frostbank.com.
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CEO transition to strengthen and accelerate the company's growth by driving innovation in the lab testing market and expanding production capacity to better serve customers
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Group, a leading provider of testing and regulatory consulting services in North America, has announced Amanda Bosse as CEO. Ms. Bosse succeeds John Bellinger, who will remain with the company as its Chairman. Certified Group provides mission critical and time sensitive testing and regulatory consulting services to the food & beverage, dietary supplements & NHP, cosmetics, OTC, personal care, tobacco, cannabis, nicotine, hemp and other regulated end markets.
Ms. Bosse brings over 20 years of global experience in pharmaceutical and science led service businesses. She has extensive experience in growing complex service businesses in regulated environments, building and enabling high-performing teams, and proven track record in leadership roles across strategy, commercial operations and business.
Previously, Amanda was President of Drug Product Services at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a world leader in life sciences and diagnostics. In this role, she successfully led Drug Product Services Business, inclusive of oral solid dose and sterile injectables, serving customers across development and commercial operations. Prior to Thermo Fisher Scientific, she held multiple senior roles of increasing responsibility for Patheon Pharmaceuticals, an industry-leading pharma services solutions provider for drug development, clinical trial logistics, and commercial manufacturing.
"Certified is well-positioned as a leading provider of differentiated lab testing services and I see immense opportunity in serving our growing end markets through continued M&A and service expansion, all supported by an excellent team. It is an honor to lead this exceptional company and advance its role as a premier laboratory testing platform in North America," said Amanda Bosse, CEO, Certified Group. "I look forward to working closely with John and this talented team as we further strengthen and expand our product offering, capabilities, and reach."
"Amanda has a strong background in delivering successful transformations across numerous verticals. It has been a privilege to serve as CEO of Certified and I am incredibly proud of what our team has accomplished to-date," said John Bellinger, Chairman, Certified Group. "I look forward to focusing on Certified's key customers, and supporting the company strategy as the company's Chairman." "I am thrilled that Amanda will be leading Certified Group's broad set of capabilities, colleagues, and laboratories," said Steven Mitchell, Vice Chairman, Certified Group.
Certified Group is a leading North American provider of laboratory testing, regulatory consulting and audit and certification services. The Certified Group of companies includes Food Safety Net Services, Certified Laboratories, EAS Consulting Group, Labstat International Inc., Labs-Mart Laboratories, Advanced Botanical Consulting & Testing, Microconsult Inc. and Micro Quality Labs Inc. Certified Group provides analytical testing and regulatory guidance services in the food & beverage, dietary supplements & NHP, cosmetics, OTC, personal care, tobacco, cannabis, nicotine and hemp industries.
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Dear Amy: I work for a small spa. Over the last eight years my family and the owners’ family have become friends. We have young children who play together.
The business owner recently confided that he and his wife have been breaking the law by not paying employees an hourly minimum wage, in addition to time booked with clients.
This has been happening for several years, and I am legally owed $9,000 to $10,000 of back pay.
Although the owners made everything legit, they have made no mention of paying me this owed money.
The other employees are not aware that they are also owed money.
I spoke with a lawyer and although by law the money is owed to me, I will have to take the business to court – or try to settle.
I am so torn. I feel betrayed by my boss/ friend but sort of obligated to tell my coworkers. They are owed money, too. I’m not sure I can even remain friends or work for this company anymore. I have caught them lying to other employees.
Should I ask my bosses/friends for the cash?
Should I inform the other employees?
– Rubs Me Wrong!
Dear Wrong: You should pursue the back pay owed to you, following your lawyer’s advice (a letter from the lawyer might inspire the business owners to avoid court and offer you a fair settlement).
You should assume that your friendship is over and proactively look for a position at a different business, in case you decide to part company.
In terms of notifying the other employees, the letter from your lawyer to the spa owners might include a sentence strongly suggesting that they take steps to restore back pay to all of their employees. Your lawyer might decide to contact the other employees independently, gathering a few more clients and billable hours along the way.
The business owners should assume that all of the employees will find out about this. The spa’s own lawyer will advise them on how to settle, deal with any penalties, and continue to stay in business, legitimately.
Dear Amy: Fifty-two years ago, my sister shared a secret with me on the condition that I tell no one.
She has five children, two with her first husband and three children with three different men (conceived while she was still married to her first husband).
I’m experiencing guilt about holding this secret and feel my adult nieces and nephews have a basic right to know their truth.
Her fear of being disowned by her children once they know the truth keeps her quiet. Plus, she sees no reason to upset so many families.
Is it her secret to keep from her five adult children?
The letters I read in your column make it clear that eventually, with the prevalence of DNA testing, it’s only a matter of time until this is revealed.
Is it my secret to tell?
Your thoughts?
– Not my Secret?
Dear Not: Knowing a secret doesn’t make it “yours.” So this secret is not yours to share.
Yes, your sister’s adult children do have the right to know their DNA heritage. Your sister is the person who should tell them.
She can either tell them herself and have a hope of controlling the narrative, or she can wait until the inevitable DNA search reveals the truth.
Keep in mind that if ANY of the three affected siblings (or their children) register on a DNA site, they could become connected with other DNA relatives out there (unknown half-siblings or their children, for instance) and could start the process of unraveling this very tangled web.
You might be helpful to your sister if you offer to talk this through with her and assure her that you will offer her continued emotional support.
Dear Amy: “To Tell or Not” wondered whether to tell her future husband about her previous sexual abuse history.
I did not work through my abuse history until after the death of my abuser, several years into my marriage and after the birth of my child.
I finally got the nerve to tell my husband by writing a letter outlining what had happened. His response? “I always knew there was something wrong with you.”
I was stunned. He never said anything supportive.
That was the beginning of the end of our marriage.
Had I known he would have thought I was “defective,” I probably would have never married him.
– Learned too Late
Dear Learned: I’m so sorry. Thank you for offering your perspective.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Supreme Court issued its abortion ruling last June overturning Roe v. Wade, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said “our work is far from done.” He didn’t say what might come next.
A year later later, McCarthy is the speaker, Republicans are in the majority and the blanks are beginning to be filled in.
In a flurry of little-noticed legislative action, GOP lawmakers are pushing abortion policy changes, trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated their fight to the nation’s highest court.
In one government funding bill after another, Republicans are incorporating unrelated policy provisions, known as riders, to restrict women’s reproductive rights. Democrats say the proposals will never become law.
“This is not just about an attack on women’s health,” Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said Friday. “I view it as an attempt to derail the entire process of funding the federal government by injecting these riders into the appropriations process.”
Rep. Kay Granger, the Texas Republican who heads the committee, said during a hearings this past week that the riders that were included continue “long-standing pro-life protections that are important to our side of the aisle.”
Using budget bills this way is hardly new, but it points to a broader divide among Republicans about where to go next on abortion after the Supreme Court’s decision cleared the way for state-by-state restrictions on abortion rights.
Republicans for years held stand-alone votes in the House on bills to restrict abortion. Now, some in the party — particularly the nearly 20 Republicans running for reelection in swing districts — are hesitant, if not outright opposed, to roll calls on abortion proposals. They say such bills will never see the light of day as long as Democrats control the Senate.
The GOP’s new push is taking place line by line in the sprawling legislation drafted each year to fund government agencies and programs.
Nearly a dozen anti-abortion measures have been included so far in budget bills. In the agricultural one, for example, Republicans are looking to reverse a recent move by the Food and Drug Administration that would allow the contraception pill mifepristone to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, as opposed to only in hospitals and clinics.
Anti-abortion proposals have found their way into the defense bill, where GOP lawmakers are aiming to ban paid leave and travel for military service members and their family members who are seeking reproductive health care services. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he warned Defense Secretary Llyod Austin about it.
“I told them that that was going to be a poison pill when it came to getting their legislation done over here,” Rogers, R-Ala., said this past week. “I told him, you know, you’re asking for trouble. And now they got trouble.”
There are riders, too, in the financial services bill, where Republicans want to prohibit local and federal money to be used to carry out a District of Columbia law that bans discrimination over employees’ reproductive decisions.
“It seems like they can’t do anything without trying to put something in there to restrict abortion rights,” Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state, chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, said. “I don’t think the public is fooled by that and absolutely, this will be a critical issue in the next election.”
She and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are working to target the vulnerable Republicans on the issue before the 2024 election.
The broad effort by Republicans to include what critics often deride as “poison pills” in the appropriations process steps up the confrontation with Senate Democrats and the White House come September over spending bills, potentially heightening the odds of a government shutdown with the Oct. 1 start of the new budget year.
DeLauro, who headed the Appropriations Committee in the last Congress, said the decision by Republicans to include these measures is a betrayal of the agreement the parties made years ago to not include any provisions in spending bills that would block passage.
She said committee Democrats who spent the past week marking up these bills late into the night pleaded with their Republican colleagues to rethink the abortion language.
The Senate just last week passed the military and agriculture bills out of committee without any abortion measures attached.
Sen. Patty Murray, chair of the Senate Appropriation Committee, told The Associated Press that she has made it clear that she would be a “firewall” against House Republicans’ efforts to further restrict reproductive rights.
“I have fought back Republican efforts to restrict access to reproductive health care and abortion in every deal or negotiation I have been a part of since I got to the Senate — that’s not changing any time soon,” said Murray, D-Wash.
In a previous statement with the committee’s top Republican, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the two pledged “to continue working together in a bipartisan manner to craft serious funding bills that can be signed into law.”
But the growing tension between GOP factions over abortion legislation remains apparent.
The Republican Study Committee — the largest single group in the House GOP conference — recently issued a memo to members urging leaders to hold vote on a proposal that would “clarify that health insurance plans that provide elective abortion would be ineligible for federal funding.”
That bill would effectively codify the Hyde Amendment, which restricts government funding for most abortions. Democrats have allowed it to become part of government funding legislation for decades, as a trade-off of sorts that has enabled them to focus on securing other priorities.
It is unclear whether House Republican leaders will want to take the risk of bringing anti-abortion measures to the floor for votes when the spending bill route may be a more palatable option for some in the party. | https://mynorthwest.com/3902476/in-post-roe-era-house-republicans-begin-quiet-push-for-new-restrictions-on-abortion-access/ | 2023-06-25 14:43:45 | 0 | https://mynorthwest.com/3902476/in-post-roe-era-house-republicans-begin-quiet-push-for-new-restrictions-on-abortion-access/ |
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THURSDAY’S SCHEDULE
Girls Volleyball District 11 4A Championship
Liberty at Parkland, TBA
Girls Volleyball District 11 3A Championship
Bethlehem Catholic at Allentown Central Catholic. TBA
Girls Soccer District 11 Class 4A Championship
Emmaus at Parkland, 5 p.m.
Field Hockey District 11 A Championship
Northwestern Lehigh at Wilson Area, 5 p.m.
Girls Soccer District 11 Class 2A Championship
Northwestern Lehigh at Allentown Central Catholic, 5:15 p.m.
Boys Soccer District 11 4A Championship
Emmaus at Parkland, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey District 11 3A Championship
Easton at Emmaus, 7 p.m.
Boys Soccer District 11 2A Championship
Allentown Central Catholic at Northwestern Lehigh, 7:15 p.m.
Football Eastern Conference 3A final
Pine Grove at Berks Catholic, 7 p.m.
Football Eastern Conference 4A final
Big Spring at Pottsville, 6:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY’S SCORES
Girls Soccer District 11 Class 3A Championship
Pottsville 1, Southern Lehigh 0
Girls Soccer District 11 Class A Championship
Moravian Academy 1, Pine Grove 0
Boys Soccer District 11 3A Championship
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Southern Lehigh 3, Whitehall 0
Boys Soccer District 11 A Championship
Moravian Academy 2, Palisades 0
Field Hockey District 11 2A Championship
Pocono Mountain East 1, Southern Lehigh 0
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
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Republicans and Democrats alike are throwing cold water on the idea of moving a short-term debt ceiling increase before a June 1 deadline, raising the pressure on negotiators to reach a deal before then or risk a government default.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters on Tuesday he is not in favor of a short-term clean increase, saying he doesn’t want to “play this movie over and over again.”
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), chair of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said Republicans would not accept any weeks- or months-long debt ceiling lift unless it is tied to some other measure “to show some good faith.”
“If they want to do something for a month and throw the REINS Act in,” he said, referring to a bill to increase Congressional authority over the federal rulemaking process. “Then, I think that something like that we’d be interested in talking about.”
“But if they think we’re just going to extend the debt limit for a month or two or six or whatever without anything on the other side of the equation so that they can try a more politically advantageous time to them, to box in more spending — that’s not going to happen.”
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also dismissed the idea of a short-term stopgap last week after House Republicans passed their bill to raise the debt ceiling — legislation that ties the hike to deep spending cuts.
“We just passed the bill. It’s not our job to modify it,” McCarthy said in a press conference. “The Senate can pass our bill or send me something that they have, and we’ll go to conference.”
“Otherwise, we’ve done our job. We’re the only ones to raise the debt limit to make sure this economy is not in jeopardy,” McCarthy said.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday gave lawmakers the bad news that the nation will reach its deadline for raising the debt ceiling around June 1.
That gives lawmakers precious little time to reach a deal, especially with President Biden insisting on a “clean” debt ceiling hike and Republicans saying it has to be accompanied by spending cuts.
With scheduled recesses and a planned Biden trip to Asia, the House and Senate are scheduled to be in session at the same time for about eight days in May — underscoring the difficult time frame.
That’s led to speculation that lawmakers might want to buy more time for the talks by agreeing to a weeks-long extension that would give lawmakers — some of whom have acknowledged the June 1 date was a surprise — a little more breathing room.
“I don’t know anybody who thought it was going to be June 1,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said.
Yet doing a short-term deal would be highly difficult — at least in the House, where McCarthy is under enormous pressure not to waver.
With control of the House this year, Republicans are hoping to rein in federal deficits by using the threat of default as leverage to force Biden and Democrats to accept steep cuts in federal spending in return for the debt limit increase.
“Republicans across the spectrum cannot be more clear — we are not entertaining a clean increase of any kind,” said Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), head of the Republican Study Committee, on Tuesday.
The news of the looming deadline sparked a quick response from Biden, who invited McCarthy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to discuss the debt limit on May 9. Heading into that meeting, however, both sides are digging in on their previous positions.
Democrats continue to support Biden’s demand that Republicans accept a “clean” debt ceiling increase with no conditions. With that goal in mind, Jeffries on Tuesday announced Democrats are moving on a discharge petition to force a vote on raising the debt limit — a long-shot tactic that would require support from at least five Republicans to pass through the House over McCarthy’s objections.
When pressed by reporters, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared to leave some room for the possibility of a short-term debt limit extension but said she “won’t negotiate in public on any of this.”
“What I’m going to say is we’ve been very clear — it needs to be done without conditions,” she said. “They need to take action; Congress needs to act, and that’s what the president will continue to make clear, even in the meeting next week.”
As June 1 rushes ever closer, some lawmakers are predicting the current debate will follow the contours of debt ceiling fights in the past, which have always taken the country close to the edge of default, but never over it.
With that in mind, some rank-and-file senators believe Congress just needs a deadline — not more time — to induce an elusive deal.
“How many deadline-oriented things have we ever gotten done six weeks before the deadline?” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) asked rhetorically. “So why would you just push the deadline off so that we just delay the real work until the real target date? We have plenty of time to negotiate it within the confines of what Yellen put out [on Monday].”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) noted she was expecting this issue to be dealt with later in the summer, but she added there’s no need to prolong this battle.
“But the same problem is there, so this just tells us we’ve got to get this done,” she said. | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-throw-cold-water-on-short-term-debt-limit-hike/ | 2023-05-03 12:38:52 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-throw-cold-water-on-short-term-debt-limit-hike/ |
HANGZHOU, China, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunyard Technology, the leading global payment solution provider, has successfully shown the latest, cutting-edge payment solutions at the just past Seamless Middle East, talking about the advanced mobile POS terminals powered by Android, including i90, i80, i70, and how it can help merchants drive footfall through a streamlined digital payments journey. A large audience was attracted to discuss together.
Seamless is one of the key events covering the changing landscape of digital commerce. With nearly 25 years of experience, this multi-brand exhibition is known across the world as a vital strategic conference for the industry.
"We had a blast at Seamless ME 2023. In general, we are extremely grateful for the exceptional level of interest shown towards Sunyard. As a pioneer in the fintech Industry, we feel it's important to grow the offering of our full-service payment solutions, not only POS technology. We discussed with the customer about our unique approach to creating better payments sustainability. We are thrilled to be part of this exhibition and can't wait to see what the future holds, " said by Mr. Shi, the VP of Sunyard Technology.
Within 2 intensive days of conferences, pitches, and business opportunities, Sunyard's newest Android POS products and latest acquiring solutions made their first debut on-site, gained a lot of popularity, in addition to the most innovative solutions across the payments, fintech, banking, retail, etc.,
The new i90 Android mobile terminal took the most spotlight. As a combination of traditional and smart experiences, i90 is designed with 4-inch touchscreen and physical PINpad. Clear sight dual camera technology enables 1D/2D barcode scanning under dim light or dark conditions. Widespread support of remote hardware and software service makes payments at your hand.
Sunyard Terminal Management System also attracted the audience's attention, to take payment acceptance business to the next level. It is a unified and consolidated portal encompassing merchant & POS terminal fleet management. Under easy implementation, you can organize, manage and monitor your device estate remotely, accelerate execution, and reduce complexity for faster time to business value.
At Sunyard, we're constantly expanding and evolving our portfolio of products to help you grow your business. Everything we do is backed by the expertise, support, and commitment that you already trust us for.
Our culture of care means we invest time, energy, and resources to develop products you can count on. We care about quality as much as you do. Whether you need advice, more information or to make an order, we're here to help.
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Sunyard Technology Co., Ltd, the leading global payment solution provider, is offering cost-effective, superior quality payment terminals and financial software products including payment password system, same-city liquidation system, corporate e-bank system, risk alarm system, etc. As the earliest listed financial IT company in China (SSE Code: 600571), Sunyard has achieved the leading position in the field of financial industry with more than two decades of professional experience. Based on the solid foundation in the domestic market, Sunyard is committed to expanding the international market according to its development strategy.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until July 18, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Pegasystems Inc. (NasdaqGS: PEGA), if they purchased the Company's shares between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
If you purchased shares of Pegasystems and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-pega/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by July 18, 2022.
Pegasystems and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 9, 2022, post-market, the Company disclosed that a Virginia state court jury deliberating over a lawsuit brought by one of its principal competitors, Appian Corporation ("Appian") for stealing its trade secrets and violating the commonwealth's computer crime law had awarded Appian more than $2 billion for the Company's "willful and malicious" trade secret misappropriation.
On this news, shares of Pegasystems plummeted from $65.93 per share on May 9, 2022, to close at $52.25 per share on May 10, a one-day decline of 21% that wiped out over $1 billion in market capitalization.
The case is City of Fort Lauderdale Police and Firefighters' Retirement System v. Pegasystems Inc., et al., No. 1:22-cv-00578.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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Dump truck goes airborne in deadly Indiana County crash
Dump truck goes airborne in deadly Indiana County crash
ANDREW: A MAN IS DEAD AFTER THE DUMP TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING, LOST CONTROL ALONG STATE ROUTE 119 IN WHITE TOWNSHIP, INDIANA COUNTY, HITTING AN EMBANKMENT, AND GOING AIRBORNE. THIS VICTIM WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT AND WAS EJECTED. HE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A 57-YEAR-OLD FROM MARION CENTER. HIS NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. NO WORD ON WHAT CAUSED THE VICTIM TO LOSE CONTROL
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Dump truck goes airborne in deadly Indiana County crash
State police are investigating a deadly dump truck crash that happened early Tuesday morning in Indiana County.The crash happened along State Route 119 in White Township around 4:30 a.m.State police said the driver of the unloaded dump truck lost control of the vehicle and struck a guardrail. The truck then struck a median and an embankment before going airborne, traveling through an overpass over Wayne Avenue where the vehicle came to rest. The 57-year-old driver, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected as a result of the crash. The Marion Center man was taken to Allegheny General Hospital where he later died. His name has not been released.
State police are investigating a deadly dump truck crash that happened early Tuesday morning in Indiana County.
The crash happened along State Route 119 in White Township around 4:30 a.m.
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State police said the driver of the unloaded dump truck lost control of the vehicle and struck a guardrail. The truck then struck a median and an embankment before going airborne, traveling through an overpass over Wayne Avenue where the vehicle came to rest.
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CHANGSHA, China, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bit Brother Limited ("Bit Brother", "BTB", "We" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BTB) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the formation of a Special Task Force to address suspected illegal shorting of its stock. The Special Task Force plans to engage competent counsel and/or investigation professionals and to take all possible actions to identify and prosecute those involved in the market manipulation of BTB's stock, especially the institutions or individuals involved in illegal naked short selling. The Special Task Force is comprised of Mr. Xianlong Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO of BTB, Ms. Diyu Jiang, Director and CFO of BTB, and Mr. Ralph Jones, Director of BTB and CEO of its subsidiary, Bit Brother New York Inc.
The Company plans to utilize all reasonable resources to conduct the investigation. Management believes that the formation of the Special Task Force would help expose those who may have participated in market manipulation of the Company's stock. The Board believes that this action will deter any future manipulation of the market by exposing and persecuting naked short sales of the Company's stock and other violations.
About Bit Brother Limited
Bit Brother Limited (formerly known as Urban Tea, Inc.) was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands as a company with limited liability on November 28, 2011. Our business currently consists of cryptocurrency mining in North America and the distribution and retail of specialty tea products. For more information, please visit: www.bitbrother.com.
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Zhu Rongfang was among a group of friends revisiting their favorite haunt in the center of Shanghai’s historic old town Thursday following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions that had confined many of the city’s 25 million residents to their homes for two months.
The 65-year-old retiree said she had a renewed sense of freedom that was “very nice.”
“The mood during lockdown is very different from now, really. Now it is a kind of re-liberation, a feeling of being released," Zhu said.
Zhu was taking pictures in front of the City God Temple and its scenic pond that sit at the center of the Yuyuan Garden, which usually bustles with visitors from abroad and within China.
In-restaurant dining is still forbidden in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities and many communities remain under various levels of lockdown. Authorities in Shanghai have dialed back some of the most intrusive measures that prompted rare public protests, but local Communist Party neighborhood committees have continued to restrict how far and for how long residents can venture out.
Xia Huzheng, who owns a traditional instrument store in Yuyuan Garden, said he was hopeful tourists would return despite China largely keeping its borders closed. Travel between cities and even within districts is discouraged, though not officially banned.
“No foreigners, much less visited and fewer tourists. It should get better, right? It’ll recover gradually,” said Xia, 51, who has been performing on the Xiao flute and selling Chinese classical musical Instruments for more than 20 years.
China has stuck to a “zero-COVID” strategy that requires lockdowns, mass testing and isolation for those infected or in contact with someone testing positive.
That has taken a major toll on the national economy and supply chains for manufactured goods that rely on Chinese producers.
Employment prospects for migrant workers and the 11 million new college graduates have been substantially crimped and private sector forecasters have cut their estimates for this year’s economic growth to as low as 2%, well below the ruling Communist Party’s target of 5.5%.
Shanghai reported just 13 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, furthering hopes that all restrictions will soon be lifted.
Commercial outlets in the city's major business districts have gradually resumed work, opening their doors to customers who still need to show a negative test result over the past 72 hours.
“Today, more than 90% of our stores and merchants are operating normally,” said Hu Huiya, an executive with the office and shopping complex Plaza66 in central Shanghai.
Merchants told the Shanghai Media Group that customers have shown strong desire for shopping on the first day of reopening.
“Now the entire passenger flow is the kind of scene we could only see on weekends before lockdown,” said Shi Jing of Florentia Village, a designer outlet in Shanghai’s Pudong District.
The city’s subway lines also resumed operations on Wednesday, although passenger levels remained at half of those before the lockdown, reflecting an exodus of migrants who have lined up for hours at train stations and airports to return home. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Shanghai-s-landmark-park-revived-as-COVID-17214483.php | 2022-06-02 12:52:21 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Shanghai-s-landmark-park-revived-as-COVID-17214483.php |
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday called on President Joe Biden to apologize for invoking fascism to describe the ideology of former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
McCarthy made the remarks during a prebuttal speech ahead of the President's prime-time address later in the evening. The speech from the House GOP leader marks an effort to counter the President's message -- ahead of the 2022 midterms as Republicans fight to win back control of the House of Representatives.
"President Biden has chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow Americans -- Why? simply because they disagree with his policies," McCarthy said in his speech. "That is not leadership."
"When the President speaks tonight at Independence Hall, the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as 'fascists,'" McCarthy said.
Biden has likened the philosophy that underpins Trump and those who have stood by him to "semi-facism" -- comments that Republicans have seized on to criticize the President.
"What we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy," Biden recently told a group of Democratic donors at a private home in Maryland.
"It's not just Trump," he went on, "it's the entire philosophy that underpins the -- I'm going to say something: It's like semi-fascism."
McCarthy also used his remarks to broadly criticize Democratic control of Congress and the Biden White House, arguing that Americans are struggling and that Democrats are not delivering.
The House minority leader said in his speech he'd spoken to Americans who felt Biden and Democrats' policies were making their lives harder. He suggested a Republican majority in Congress could be the solution.
"What is clear to me and clear to you is that Washington and the White House aren't listening. They just don't get it," he said. "Our best days are ahead of us not behind us. Our nation can flourish again and under a new historic Republican majority, it will. For the past two years have been a time of trial for Americans everywhere."
He added: "In the past two years, Joe Biden has launched an assault on the soul of America, on its people, on its laws, on its most sacred values. He has launched an assault on our democracy. His policies have severely wounded America's soul, diminished America's spirit and betrayed America's trust."
McCarthy spoke about Republican stances on immigration, drug addiction, Covid-19 mandates, and education, among other issues.
At one point, McCarthy addressed democracy in the United States, an issue Democrats often bring up against Republicans in relation to Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
McCarthy also suggested the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago property was politically motivated, which the Department of Justice has repeatedly denied.
"Joe Biden often says our democracy is under threat. He's right, but not for the reason he thinks," McCarthy said. "Joe Biden and a politicized DOJ launched a raid on the home of his top political rival, Donald Trump. That is an assault on democracy."
McCarthy concluded his speech offering Republicans' messaging ahead of the 2022 midterms.
"Republicans have a plan for a new direction that will get our country back on track. Our plan is our commitment to America," he said. "If Republicans are given the opportunity and honor to have a majority in the House, we will work day and night, hour after hour for you, the people."
Biden is expected to use his speech to reinforce the offensive against extremism in the Republican Party that he has recently made a focus of his messaging as he seeks to tie GOP candidates to his White House predecessor, framing the midterms as a second round against Trump.
The key battleground state of Pennsylvania is serving as the backdrop for both speeches. McCarthy's speech took place in Biden's hometown of Scranton, while Biden will speak from Philadelphia.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was prepared for a runoff contest, even as he told his supporters he was confident of an outright win in the nation’s closest election in decades.
Addressing a sea of supporters waving red Turkish flags at the headquarters of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara, the capital, Erdogan said, “We certainly believe that we will win the election in the first round.”
Kilicdaroglu, 74, accused the ruling party of interfering with the vote count through repeated objections but also prepared for the possibility of a runoff. “If our nation says the second round, we welcome it,” he said in a televised speech.
Erdogan, 69, who first gained national prominence as the mayor of Istanbul, the country’s most-populous city, is modern Turkey’s most successful politician. A deeply polarizing figure who has ruled for some two decades, he has been accused by critics of diluting democracy by using repressive tactics against civil society and the media, while concentrating power as president. Supporters say that he has modernized the country through massive infrastructure projects and brought Islam back into public life in Turkey.
The devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey in February that killed more than 50,000 people have cast a shadow over the election. Erdogan’s government was accused of lax enforcement of building codes and a slow disaster response, worsening the effects of the quakes.
Kilicdaroglu, in contrast, cast himself as an everyman during the campaign, promising to tackle financial woes — Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies have contributed to soaring inflation — and strengthen democratic norms.
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MSG Networks is launching a streaming service for local fans to watch New York and New Jersey professional sports teams, the company announced Wednesday.
The network, which is owned by James Dolan, will launch MSG+ this summer for fans to view games for the Knicks, Rangers, Devils, Islanders and Sabres. The service will cost subscribers $29.99 a month, or $309.99 annually. Fans will be able to make single-game purchases at $9.99.
MSG+ will be available to fans who live in areas where MSG’s channels are available on cable television.
Anyone who is already paying a TV service subscription that has MSG Networks will be able to access MSG+ for free.
The new launch coincides with many consumers ditching cable TV and opting for direct-to-consumer subscriptions. The newer, modern model allows regional sports networks to generate revenue as customers continue cord cutting. New England Sports Network, or NESN, launched their new subscription last year, providing fans Bruins and Red Sox games for $29.99 a month (or $329.99 per year).
MSG Network experienced a subscription decline last quarter, according to the Athletic. MSG Network CEO Andrea Greenberg discussed the direct-to-consumer option during an earnings call in February.
“We remain very, very mindful of our traditional linear business, and those important partnerships, including the value that we derive from those very important partnerships,” Greenberg said. “We’ve indicated that we’ll have more to say about the product including the pricing of the product in the very near future. That said, we believe there remains continued value in the bundle. And our D2C offering, including our pricing for that offering, we’ll most certainly take that into consideration.”
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hohem, a global-leading gimbal technology company, has launched its latest cutting-edge product, the Hohem GO. The gimbal stabilizer has a built-in camera which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to track users whenever they want to take a photo or video with smartphone or tablet, without the need for an app or bluetooth.
Hohem GO's AI face auto-tracking system, powered by a vision sensor and AI chip, enables smart tracking immediately after powering on with a simple "OK" gesture. Also, its two-axis design, allowing for a 360° pan rotation and 30° tilt up/down rotation, means users can live stream vlog, make video series, take conference call, or take selfies, without needing to worry about if the device caught all images on camera –will ensure user's face will always be in the center of the screen.
Also, the mounting design allows users to easily and securely mount smartphone or tablet on Hohem GO. Users can fix the device by putting it in the clamp of Hohem GO and tightening the knob on the back.
"With a weight of only 300 g/0.66 lbs, Hohem GO is compact, portable, and easy to hold with one hand, but its steady base allows you to carry around your smartphone or tablet with ease, wherever and whenever you're shooting," Hohem Product Manager said.
"For instance, if you are a dance enthusiast who wants to film and share your dance videos online, Hohem GO can act as your reliable shooting assistant ready to track and record your entire performance. Its noiseless rotation design ensures the audio is clear and free of distracting noise."
With a battery life of 10 hours from a single charge and support for up to 2 hours of fast charging, users never have to miss a shot. To stop filming, users just simply need to make the "palm" gesture to the device.
Compatible with all the major video, chat and photo apps, such as YouTube, Tik Tok, Twitch, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, Hohem GO is available on Amazon now for just $59.99.
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Reunion's transferable tax credit marketplace helps corporate taxpayers redirect their tax liabilities to finance high quality, de-risked clean energy projects
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Reunion launched its digital marketplace for clean energy tax credits, with over $1 billion of transferable tax credits available to immediately transact. Reunion has engaged with more than 200 clean energy developers to identify high quality solar, wind, battery storage, and biogas projects.
Reunion's marketplace connects clean energy projects with corporations seeking to invest in federal tax credits at an attractive, risk-adjusted return. Reunion provides project origination, due diligence, insurance, and transaction support services to facilitate the purchase and sale of transferable tax credits, as enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
"Corporations play a key role in financing the clean energy transition and our marketplace will give tax credit buyers the confidence to transact," said Andy Moon, CEO of Reunion. "Our team has spent most of our careers working in renewable energy tax equity and project finance, and we believe that properly structuring the purchase and sale of these credits in a diligent, yet scalable approach can unlock billions of dollars for critical clean energy projects."
Reunion is working with dozens of projects to sell tax credits between $2M - $100M+ to qualified taxpayers. Reunion's cohort of buyers represent corporate taxpayers in manufacturing, financial services, retail, technology, banking, and more.
"We are pleased to work with some of the most well-known and reputable project developers in the renewable energy business," said Billy Lee, President of Reunion. "The early days of this market are all about building trust with the buyer and seller communities. The quality of projects we've assembled on our marketplace, along with our deep expertise in structuring tax credit transactions, will go a long way toward making that happen."
Reunion raised corporate funding in early 2023, led by Segue Sustainable Infrastructure. David Riester, Managing Partner at Segue, commented on Reunion's launch, saying "We backed Reunion because they have the right people and approach to help shepherd the energy transition into this new 'season' of project financing brought forth by tax credit transferability. There's no more experienced team positioned to accelerate the flow of capital into these clean energy projects."
Corporate tax credit buyers can register for early access to Reunion's marketplace at www.reunioninfra.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — RPT Realty (RPT) on Wednesday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results beat Wall Street expectations.
The New York-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $24.3 million, or 25 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 23 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had a loss of $411,000, or 1 cent per share.
The shopping center real estate investment trust, based in New York, posted revenue of $52.2 million in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $49.4 million.
RPT Realty expects full-year funds from operations in the range of 97 cents to $1.01 per share.
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SEATTLE — The life of a farmer is hard work.
For farmer Matt Steinman it's worth it to work on land that has been in his family for 5 generations, Foothills Farm.
"We try and feed you the rainbow. The more color on your plate, the healthier your food is," Steinman said.
Spring is always a rush to get everything planted in time, and this spring there's even more challenges.
"Sometimes you can't even get it. You'll order it and it doesn't come in. Everything's more expensive too. From shipping to just the supply and demand curve, there's isn't a whole lot of supply," Steinman said.
From seeds to even rubber bands, these items have gone up between 20-25%. Steinman said other costs are significantly higher as well.
"Last year right now Red Die, which is diesel for tractors, was $1.89 a gallon if we're filling up our 500 gallon tank. Right now it's 4.89," Steinman said.
Add in the unusual weather, and the planting season is about a month late. It's not just Matt and his marketplace that's filling the pinch.
"We're used to adversities, weather wise, this is one of the worst springs I ever encountered," said Eiko Vojkovich, the owner of Skagit River Ranch.
Eiko has owner the ranch for 25 years. She said her cattle normally pop in May. Popping is when cattle start gaining weight, but with the cold weather, Eiko's aren't.
Inflation and supply chain issues also are causing problems.
"This cost is just killing us and how much can you raise prices to try and recover," said Eiko.
Both Steinman and Eiko have loyal customers who they say understand and are willing to pay.
"But still, how much can they afford?" said Eiko.
Even with the rainy start, they still show up, and hope consumers will as well. | https://www.king5.com/article/life/food/weather-impacting-farmers-facing-rising-costs-supply-chain-issues/281-5587dfd5-589d-4528-8226-68b4bc44f707 | 2022-06-06 02:03:46 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/life/food/weather-impacting-farmers-facing-rising-costs-supply-chain-issues/281-5587dfd5-589d-4528-8226-68b4bc44f707 |
Downtown Huntington bridge to close soon for cleaning/painting project
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - We have a traffic alert to pass along to drivers who use the downtown Huntington bridge into Chesapeake, Ohio.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation said Tuesday that the Sixth Street bridge, also known as the Robert C. Byrd Bridge, will completely close to traffic starting this Monday, March 27.
According to the WVDOT, that’s so crews can “completely clean and paint the bridge.” The entire project is expected to be completed by this November.
For the last few weeks during the early stages of the project, traffic has been down to one lane in both directions over the bridge.
“The Robert C. Byrd Bridge is one of our major highway structures that spans the Ohio River and provides an important local link to the City of Huntington as well as a regional connection between the states of Ohio and West Virginia,” said West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) District 2 Engineer Rob Pennington, P.E., in the release “Completely closing the bridge during the project will allow the project to be completed quicker, more efficiently and more safely for the traveling public.”
Drivers will be forced to use either the West Huntington Bridge, located about 2 miles west of the Sixth Street Bridge, or the East Huntington Bridge at 31st Street. DOT officials say detour routes will be well marked.
According to the WVDOT release, “KMX Painting Inc. was awarded a contract for nearly $10.3 million in December 2022 to completely clean and repaint the bridge approaches, main spans, and support piers.”
Built in 1994, the Sixth Street Bridge carries state Route 527 across the Ohio River.
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The population of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has fallen again. Scientists now estimate it stands at 340, the latest indication the whales are edging closer to extinction.
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The population of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has fallen again. Scientists now estimate it stands at 340, the latest indication the whales are edging closer to extinction.
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SEATTLE, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
On September 18, 2018, the SEC filed a Complaint against SeaWorld and Atchison. The SEC alleged that the defendants made untrue and/or misleading statements or omissions in SEC filings, earnings releases and calls, and other statements to the press regarding the impact of the documentary film Blackfish on the Company's reputation and business (i.e., "Blackfish effect"). According to the Complaint, released in July 2013, Blackfish criticized SeaWorld's treatment of its orcas (killer whales) and received significant media attention that escalated as the film became more widely distributed. The SEC alleged that, in connection with the offer and sale of SeaWorld stock, the defendants engaged in a course of business that by failing to disclose the Blackfish effect to investors they should have known would operate as a fraud or deceit upon the purchasers of the Securities.
According to the Complaint, from January through March 2014, Atchison sold shares of SeaWorld stock, resulting in the inflation of the Security and allowed Atchison to avoid losses of approximately $730,860. As alleged in the Complaint, on August 13, 2014, SeaWorld acknowledged for the first time that its declining attendance was, among other factors, partially caused by negative publicity connected to Blackfish. According to the Complaint, SeaWorld's stock price fell approximately 33% following this announcement, causing a loss of approximately $830 million in shareholder value.
On September 18, 2018, the SEC also filed a Complaint against Jacobs. The SEC alleged that, on January 13, 2014, Jacobs made an untrue statement of material fact and/or omitted material facts from his statement just before selling his SeaWorld stock and avoided losses of approximately $84,885.
On October 4, 2018, the Defendants, without admitting or denying the allegations, consented to the entry of final judgments against each of them that imposed a total of approximately $5.1 million in financial remedies. The Court ordered SeaWorld to pay a civil penalty of $4,000,000; Atchison to pay disgorgement of $730,860, prejudgment interest of $119,323 and civil penalty of $150,000; and Jacobs to pay disgorgement of $84,885 and prejudgment interest in the amount of $14,720. The Defendants paid in full, and the funds have been deposited in a Commission designated account at the United States Department of Treasury. On December 4, 2020, the Court entered an Order consolidating the two civil actions for the purposes of distributing the funds paid by the Defendants to harmed investors.
On December 15, 2020, the Court entered an Order establishing a Fair Fund for the $5,266,679.31 in funds collected from Defendants, appointing Miller Kaplan Arase LLP as Tax Administrator, appointing JND Legal Administration as the Distribution Agent, and authorizing payment of administrative fees and expenses and tax obligations without further order of the Court.
Company (Trading Symbol) [Relevant Period start and end dates (inclusive)]:
- SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. (SEAS) [12/20/13 through 8/12/14]
If you purchased the security set forth above during the Relevant Period and would like to be considered for eligibility for a distribution from the SeaWorld Fair Fund, you must submit a completed and signed Proof of Claim Form ("Claim Form"), including adequate supporting documentation of your transactions and a completed tax certification, to the Distribution Agent by the Claims Bar Date.
The Claim Form is available at www.SeaWorldFairFund.com. You may send your Claim Form to the Distribution Agent; Claim Forms must be postmarked no later than October 19, 2023, if sent by First Class Mail; and if not by First Class Mail, received by the Distribution Agent by October 19, 2023. Claim Forms should be directed to the following address:
SeaWorld Fair Fund
c/o JND Legal Administration
PO Box 91190
Seattle, WA 98111
Brokers, Dealers and other nominees that may have records of purchasers of the Eligible Security during the Relevant Period must notify the respective beneficial owners within fourteen (14) days of receipt of the Notice Packet so that beneficial owners may timely file a claim or provide to the Distribution Agent within fourteen (14) days of receipt a list of last known names and addresses for all beneficial owners for whom the record holders purchased the Eligible Security during the Relevant Period.
Additional information regarding the SeaWorld Fair Fund, including the Distribution Plan, the Distribution Plan Notice, the Claim Form, relevant deadlines, and related materials are available on the Distribution Website at www.SeaWorldFairFund.com. You may obtain additional information or request copies of the Claim Form by contacting the Distribution Agent toll-free at (855) 533-0228 or by emailing info@SeaWorldFairFund.com or writing to:
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BARCELONA, Spain — Prosecutors have formally accused Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments over several years to a company that belonged to the vice president of the country’s refereeing committee.
Barcelona has been under scrutiny since the club’s payments involving millions of dollars became public. The payments were initially investigated as part of a tax probe into the company.
Prosecutors have now issued three accusations which include alleged corruption in sports and fraudulent management. Another accusation related to the alleged falsification of mercantile documentation.
Spanish soccer has been rocked in recent weeks after it was revealed that Spain’s tax officials were probing Barcelona’s payment of 1.4 million euros ($1.5 million) between 2016-18 to a company belonging to former referee José María Enríquez Negreira, who was a part of the Spanish soccer federation’s refereeing committee from 1994 to 2018.
Barcelona has consistently any wrongdoing or conflict of interest, saying it paid for technical reports on referees but never tried to influence their decisions in games.
Getting reports on referees is common practice and clubs can pay other companies or have them prepared internally, as Barcelona now does.
Media reports said the payments by Barcelona totaled more than 7 million euros ($7.5 million) and that they started back in 2001. That scenario would mean Barcelona paid Enríquez’s company during different club presidents, including from 2003-10 under the first term of current president Joan Laporta, who again took charge in 2021. Laporta, however, is not being accused by the prosecutor and has denied any wrongdoing.
The accusations are against Barcelona the club, Enríquez, former Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, and former Barcelona executives Óscar Grau and Albert Soler.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SDI Presence LLC (SDI), an IT consultancy and managed services provider (MSP), today announced the addition of Ms. Ramona Prieto to its Advisory Board. Providing strategic guidance on the firm's expansion in current and new markets, SDI's Advisory Board also includes technology industry veteran Mr. Anjan Mehta, and former President of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Ms. Joset Wright-Lacy.
Prieto, currently serving as Head of Public Policy & Communications, Western US at Uber, brings a decade of government relations, public policy, and public relations experience to SDI Presence. Prior to Uber, Prieto served over six years on the leadership team at Pacific Gas & Electric Company, one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Prieto is also an active member of Hispanas Organized for Political Equality.
"As a trusted advisor to State and Local Government (SLG) and Utility looking to modernize their technologies, SDI Presence is thrilled to add Ramona's expertise in utilities and community engagement to our Advisory Board," stated David A. Gupta, SDI Presence Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Ramona is highly respected for her leadership and operational experience at PG&E and Uber, is culturally aligned with SDI's mission and core values, and her California roots overlap directly with SDI's growing client base across the West Coast."
SDI has built a 25-year track record of successfully delivering on long-term, mission-critical IT services contracts that also leverage the project work scope to build partner MBE firms' capacity in a strategic manner. The firm commits significant resources to its MBE partner network through business partnerships and mentoring. SDI spent over 53% with diverse partners in 2021, continuing SDI's commitment to a 40% minimum yearly diverse corporate spend since 2018.
"I am really proud to be joining the advisory board and the opportunity to work with the broader SDI Presence leadership team. The breadth of services and capacity to scale, aligned with their deep value in community engagement makes SDI poised for real impact" said Prieto. "I have watched SDI's growth in critical spaces, like local government, safety and utilities with great interest, and I'm looking forward to seeing their operational performance and diversity goals set the industry standard."
About SDI (SDI Presence LLC):
SDI Presence LLC is an IT consultancy and managed services provider (MSP) that leverages its strong team presence to advance our clients to a secure digital enterprise. With a 25-year corporate resume, SDI delivers strategic managed services, IT consulting, and hybrid infrastructure solutions to optimize our clients' technology environments. SDI is NMSDC-certified, with a portfolio of clients that includes some of the nation's largest airports, utilities, commercial real estate portfolios, and government agencies. SDI is backed by Abry Partners, a Boston-based sector focused private equity firm with $5B under management and over 30 years of experience in the technology market. Visit us at sdipresence.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Labor leaders lashed out Thursday at senators who voted against a proposal to provide rail workers with seven days of paid sick leave.
While the Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure to force through a railroad contract that gives workers a 24 percent raise over five years, a proposal to add paid sick days to the deal failed to reach 60 votes. All but six Republicans voted against the measure.
“While rail workers won significant wage increases and other important gains today, it’s deeply disappointing that 43 senators sided with multibillion-dollar rail corporations to block desperately needed paid sick days,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement.
By pushing through the contract, which was negotiated with the help of the Biden administration in September, Congress will prevent a devastating Dec. 9 rail strike that was set to cause service disruptions as soon as this weekend.
But lawmakers also overrode the vote of train and engine workers at SMART-TD, the largest rail union, who narrowly rejected the tentative deal last month amid concerns about paid sick leave.
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) was the only Democrat to vote against the sick leave proposal. GOP Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Braun (Ind.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and John Kennedy (La.) were the only Republicans to support it.
“The fact that there are not 60 senators willing to stand up to Big Business and fight for basic rights for U.S. rail workers is horrific,” tweeted Sean O’Brien, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. “Every senator who voted NO may not have a spine but at least they still have unlimited sick days. I’m looking at [Manchin] and 42 other cowards.”
Railroads lobbied senators to push through the Biden-negotiated deal without sick leave, arguing that lawmakers would set a bad precedent by modifying an agreement that was negotiated over a period of years.
The deal provides key wins for workers, including the ability to take time off for medical appointments without being penalized. But at the time of the vote, workers at four unions still had not ratified a contract, citing the lack of sick days as a major factor.
The House had voted Wednesday to approve both the agreement and additional paid sick leave after President Biden urged Congress to act this week. Biden did not tell lawmakers how to vote on the sick leave provision, instead focusing entirely on ending the strike threat.
“Working together, we have spared this country a Christmas catastrophe in our grocery stores, in our workplaces, and in our communities,” Biden said in a statement.
Rail workers were worried about this exact outcome. They argued that railroads were refusing to meet their demands because they knew Congress wouldn’t allow a strike, sapping unions’ leverage.
Labor leaders and progressives hinted Thursday that they will continue to fight for paid sick leave through other avenues, whether it’s legislation or executive action.
“As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, I will do everything I can to make sure that rail workers in America are treated with dignity and respect,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement. | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/unions-bash-senators-for-rejecting-paid-sick-leave-for-rail-workers/ | 2022-12-01 23:30:17 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/unions-bash-senators-for-rejecting-paid-sick-leave-for-rail-workers/ |
SINGAPORE, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As of September 2022, MEXC has finally reached a respectable milestone of 10 million users! To celebrate this unique achievement, starting November 18th of this year, MEXC will introduce a major brand color change to its global userbase to spread awareness for which it stands for. After surveying customers directly during a limited roll-out in South Korea, the color has transitioned from MEXC's original 'Forest Green' color-scheme, to a new, beautiful 'Ocean Blue' pallet.
At MEXC, our #1 priority is adhering to the principle of 'Users Come First'. Upon further surveying additional global markets, the response has been overwhelmingly positive for 'Ocean Blue' - the change is now permanent. Vice President of MEXC, Andrew Weiner states that users in Korea advocated strongly for the rebrand to 'Ocean Blue'. "Following our evaluation, we tested the requested color upgrade with our passionate users from MEXC Korea. It was great to see the change so well-received, and MEXC is truly grateful for the customer insight that directly influences our views and image."
Why 'Ocean Blue'? Blue oceans cover 71.35% of Earth's surface, whereas forests account for just 7.27%. Forests are fragile and restricted to land - but the sea is immense and limitless. 'Ocean Blue' incorporates 'every river that flows into the sea.' According to Weiner, 'Ocean Blue' is also a more accurate reflection of MEXC's brand identity. "We are calm and professional, open and inclusive, and powerful and innovative - inviting every user to dive deep and explore what treasures MEXC has to offer!"
MEXC was founded in April 2018. It is the world's leading one-stop crypto shop and fastest growing exchange, offering futures, spot, ETF, and NFT Index trades, as well as staking, MX DeFi, and much more for users.
"When we look back at MEXC's history, 'Users Come First' has always been more than a motto - it is the recipe to our success," Weiner said. Which the improvement of the brand color cannot exemplify.
MEXC significantly upgraded its Futures trading system and product functions in their June 2020 release. Before the upgrade, the operations, product, and technical teams spent months doing thorough consumer research, gathering feedback, and performing rigorous product testing. The improvements range from minute details to extravagant enhancements to customer journeys, including such examples as "Lightning Close," and "Leverage Multiples Adjustment". All these upgrades came directly from MEXC's skilled team and loyal customer feedback.
'Users Come First' has been the heart of the crypto industry's essential values of decentralization and community spirit and MEXC bleeds this mantra. "It is because we put our users in the forefront and present them with our professional goods and services that we are able to have reached the highest liquidity in futures, spot, and ETFs in the second half of this year with constant efforts," Andrew explained. "Please enjoy our rebrand and take comfort that you are in safe hands."
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diversis Capital, a Los Angeles based private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy the remaining minority interest in Tempo Software, the leader in strategic roadmapping, time and capacity planning, and portfolio management, from Origo. Diversis initially acquired a majority interest in Tempo from Origo in 2018.
Tempo has been the number one time management solution in the Atlassian ecosystem for over a decade. With the acquisitions of Roadmunk and ALM Works, creators of Structure for Jira, Tempo's suite of products are positioned to deliver the most comprehensive program and portfolio management offering to the market. Tempo was named Atlassian Partner of the Year for Enterprise App Services in recognition of solutions that provide the security, reliability and scalability that support enterprise implementations of agile at scale and IT Service Management (ITSM).
Ron Nayot, Managing Partner of Diversis Capital, said, "Diversis initially invested in Tempo four years ago because we believed in the growth potential of an organization that was delivering high value to its customers and the Atlassian Ecosystem. Through our partnership with Origo, we've seen Tempo continue to deliver strong results and grow organically and inorganically. Now operating in more geographies, categories and markets, we're excited to work with Mark Lorion, Tempo's CEO, and the entire Tempo team to drive the next phase of growth as the primary owners of Tempo Software."
Jón Björnsson, CEO, Origo, said "The sale of a majority stake in Tempo to Diversis Capital in 2018 turned out to be a very good decision for Origo and exceeded expectations. Diversis partnered closely with me, as well as Origo and Tempo leadership, to accomplish this major milestone. We wish the staff of Tempo and Diversis all the best and continued growth."
Mark Lorion, CEO, Tempo Software, commented, "Since the early days of Tempo's founding and through our expansion on a global scale, Origo has been a valued business partner. I'm grateful for Origo's support and excited about the additional investment by Diversis to accelerate the next phase of Tempo's growth and product innovation. We are changing the way teams plan and execute their work, so everyone across an organization is working in alignment on the most impactful opportunities for their teams, customers, and business."
Founded in 2013, Diversis is a software and technology focused private equity fund with $1bn+ of capital raised across its funds that invests in lower middle-market companies, targeting situations where it can add unique value in helping a company reach the next level. With a collaborative approach to investing, its Operating Partners and Strategic Advisors work alongside management teams to help build successful organizations positioned for long-term growth. To learn more, visit www.diversis.com.
Tempo Software offers integrated applications for time management, resource planning, budget management, strategic roadmapping, and program management for software engineering and product management teams. Our customers gain an unrivaled understanding of time and effort, and they improve how their teams plan and manage their work. This provides an aligned understanding of and plan for how time – the most precious, and finite resource – is optimized. Tempo Software is seamlessly integrated across popular DevOps tools and a natural and automated part of users' workflows.
Headquartered in Boston, Tempo Software is one of the largest and most successful companies in the Atlassian ecosystem. With one out of three Fortune 500 companies choosing Tempo, the company has more than 29,000 customers across a range of industries in more than 100 countries. It works with hundreds of partners around the world, offering resale, training, and consultancy in local languages. To learn more about Tempo, visit www.tempo.io
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BEIRUT (AP) — The beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls were found Tuesday in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group, an opposition war monitor and local officials said.
The bodies of the girls were found in the sewage system of the camp days after they went missing, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The group said the girls had been beheaded. It was first such crime in weeks in the facility.
An official at the camp who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals said the girls were aged 11 and 13.
Siamand Ali, an official with the Kurdish-led U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, confirmed the killings.
Such grisly crimes in the camp are usually committed by members of IS sleeper cells, especially against women who resist abiding by the group's extreme ideology. The Observatory, Ali and the official at the camp all blamed IS.
The killings are the first since U.S.-backed Syrian fighters concluded a 24-day sweep at al-Hol in mid-September during which dozens of extremists were detained and weapons were confiscated in the operation. The operation came after IS sleeper cells committed crimes inside the camp.
Following the rise of IS in 2014 and its declaration of a co-called Islamic caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, thousands of men and women came from around the world to join the extremist group. IS lost the last sliver of land it once controlled in east Syria in March 2019, but since then its sleeper cells have been blamed for deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq.
“We are horrified to hear reports that two children have been killed in al-Hol camp (in) Syria,” said Tanya Evans, Country Director for the International Rescue Committee in Syria. She added that the latest incident involving the deaths of children in the camp highlights the urgent need for longer-term solutions for children in al-Hol.
Some 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are crowded into tents in the fenced-in camp. Nearly 20,000 of them are children; most of the rest are women, the wives and widows of IS fighters.
Earlier this month, Doctors Without Borders said the camp is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness. The group said that countries with citizens held in al-Hol have failed to take responsibility for protecting them.
The two teenage girls were found in a separated, heavily guarded section of the camp known as the annex, where an additional 2,000 women from 57 countries — considered the most die-hard IS supporters — along with their roughly 8,000 children are housed, the Observatory said.
The Observatory that tracks Syria’s 11-year conflict has recorded 28 crimes since the beginning of the year at al-Hol in which 30 people were killed. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Bodies-of-2-girls-found-in-Syria-camp-housing-IS-17585928.php | 2022-11-15 15:30:13 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Bodies-of-2-girls-found-in-Syria-camp-housing-IS-17585928.php |
HONOLULU (AP) — A former Maui County official who allegedly accepted $2 million in bribes from a Honolulu businessman in exchange for more than $19 million in wastewater contracts pleaded guilty Monday in one of the largest bribery cases ever prosecuted in Hawaii.
Stewart Olani Stant, who was formerly a wastewater manager and the director of Maui’s Department of Environmental Management, pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire fraud in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
Stant is the latest public servant to admit to taking bribes from Milton Choy, the owner and manager of the wastewater company H2O Process Systems LLC.
Two former Democratic state lawmakers in February pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud for accepting bribes from Choy in exchange for influencing legislation.
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Choy was scheduled to be arraigned later Monday.
Prosecutors said Choy deposited money into bank accounts owned by Stant during a six-year period starting in 2012. They said Choy also handed Stant cash and gave him gambling chips during trips to Las Vegas. Choy further paid for Stant's Las Vegas airfare and hotel rooms, they said.
In exchange, prosecutors said Stant directed at least 56 sole source contracts to H2O and Choy, worth $19.3 million.
Court documents say Stant managed the county's Wastewater Reclamation Division from at least October 2012 to December 2015. After that, he was the director of the county's Department of Environmental Management until December 2018.
Prosecutors say they will seek to have Stant forfeit the $2 million he obtained from Choy and have Choy forfeit some $15 million he, in turn, gained from the contracts.
Clare Connors, the U.S. attorney for Hawaii, said last week the Stant case was one of the biggest bribery cases her office had ever investigated and prosecuted.
In July, former state Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking bribes from Choy. Former state Rep. Ty Cullen, who served as vice chairperson of the House Finance Committee, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 20.
Maui Mayor Michael Victorino on Friday said the events leading to the charges occurred during the previous county administration. He said he has ordered an audit of all no-bid contracts awarded to Choy's companies.
“Whenever corruption undermines the public trust, those responsible must be investigated, prosecuted, and punished to the fullest extent of the law,” Victorino said in a statement.
Hawaii this year enacted several reform bills that lawmakers passed to clean up politics after the allegations against English and Cullen emerged.
The new laws include one that prohibits holding fundraisers during the legislative session and another requiring certain nonprofit organizations operating as noncandidate committees to disclose the names of people giving them more than $10,000.
The Commission to Improve Standards of Conduct, which is an independent panel created by the House of Representatives, is expected to submit recommendations in December for more reforms. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ex-maui-official-pleads-guilty-in-latest-hawaii-bribery-case/article_b0797acc-2f7e-57f0-9feb-d12796e127e5.html | 2022-09-19 22:14:44 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ex-maui-official-pleads-guilty-in-latest-hawaii-bribery-case/article_b0797acc-2f7e-57f0-9feb-d12796e127e5.html |
SHANGHAI, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nisun International Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd ("Nisun" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: NISN), a provider of innovative comprehensive solutions through an integration of technology, industry, and finance, today announced that the Company's controlled affiliate, Fintech (Henan) Supply Chain Management Co. Ltd. ("Fintech Henan"), has entered into a procurement agreement (the "Agreement") with Tancheng County Yuxin Grains Trading Co. Limited ("Tancheng Yuxin"), a company primarily engaged in the purchase and sales of grains and other agricultural products. The Agreement represents a key initiative of the Company's supply chain business strategy to respond to the national policy of rural revitalization and explore growth opportunities in the corn market.
Corn is a widely used crop with diverse applications, including the production of corn starch, animal feed, ethanol, sweeteners, papers, and more. With a large population base, escalating consumption structure, and the rapid development of China's farming and corn processing industry, China's demand for corn is on the upswing. Despite being the second largest corn producer in the world, China is expected to import 18 million tonnes of corn in the 2022-23 marketing year and to consume 290.5 million tonnes domestically. The China Corn Market is projected to register a compound annual growth rate of 3.1% from 2023 to 2028.
The Agreement was executed as a part of Nisun's supply chain trading operations. Under the Agreement, Fintech Henan will purchase corn from Tancheng Yuxin based on orders from Xinyi Muyuan Grains Trading Co. Limited ("Muyuan"). The products will be delivered to Muyuan's warehouse in batches. Muyuan will make full payment to Fintech Henan within seven days of receiving the invoice from Tancheng Yuxin.
Mr. Xiaoyun Huang, Chief Executive Officer of Nisun, commented, "We are excited to sign the Agreement with Tancheng Yuxin. Tancheng Yuxin has a proven track record of offering exceptional products, and we are confident that this collaboration will enable us to further enhance our supply chain services and deliver greater value to our supply chain partners. We look forward to a fruitful and long-lasting partnership with Tancheng Yuxin. In the future, we will continue to pursue growth avenues in the agriculture sector and play an even greater role in facilitating rural revitalization."
About Nisun International Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd
Nisun International Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd (NASDAQ: NISN) is a technology-driven, integrated supply chain solutions provider focused on transforming the corporate finance industry. Leveraging its rich industry experience, Nisun is dedicated to providing professional supply chain solutions to Chinese and foreign enterprises and financial institutions. Through its subsidiaries, Nisun provides users with professional solutions for technology supply chain management, technology asset routing, and digital transformation of tech and finance institutions, enabling the industry to strengthen and grow. At the same time, Nisun continues to deepen the field of industry segmentation through industrial and financial integration, by cultivating/creating an ecosystem of openness and empowerment. Nisun has built a linked platform that incorporates supply chain, banking, securities, trust, insurance, funds, state-owned enterprises, among other businesses. Focusing on industry-finance linkages, Nisun aims to serve the upstream and downstream of the industrial supply chain while also assisting with supply-side sub-sector reform. For more information, please visit http://ir.nisun-international.com/.
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NASA’s Orion capsule has broken the distance record set by Apollo 13 for a mission with a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and back to Earth.
The capsule, part of NASA's Artemis mission to take humans back to the moon and ultimately Mars, broke the record Saturday morning.
The previous record — 248,655 miles — was set during the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
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The Orion capsule will continue even further out, being at a maximum distance of about 270,000 miles from Earth sometime on Monday. As of Sunday night, Orion was 266,000 miles away from Earth.
"Artemis builds on the experience of Apollo. With Artemis, humans will return to the lunar surface, and this time to stay," NASA said in a statement. "NASA will lead the way in collaboration with international and commercial partners to establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars."
Orion reached the moon on Nov. 21, whipping around the back side of the moon and passing within 80 miles. It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago, and represented a huge milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight that began Nov. 16.
Orion’s flight path took it over the landing sites of Apollo 11, 12 and 14 — humanity’s first three lunar touchdowns. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/artemis-i-nasas-orion-capsule-breaks-distance-record-set-by-apollo-13-in-1970/3435834/ | 2022-11-28 03:41:54 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/artemis-i-nasas-orion-capsule-breaks-distance-record-set-by-apollo-13-in-1970/3435834/ |
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx") (NASDAQ: APYX) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Apyx, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
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ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Apyx includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: August 5, 2022
Aggrieved Apyx investors only have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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In the midst of playing 17 games in 13 days, the Hattenhauer Distributing Columbia Gorge Hustlers baseball team seems to be enjoying the grueling schedule, as they’ve won seven straight to improve their record to 14-2 overall and 3-0 in the American Legion standings.
The Hustlers started their marathon schedule June 21 by winning a home doubleheader 15-1 and 15-5 over RC Sockeyes of Beaverton. Both contests were shortened to five innings via the 10-run Mercy Rule.
In the first contest, the pitching trio of Riley Brock, Avery Schwartz and Isaac Anthony combined on a four-hitter and 11 strikeouts. The Hustlers had 11 hits and were led offensively by Brock (1-for-3, double, RBI), Nolan Donivan (2-for-3, three RBI), Cooper Klindt (2-for-2, two RBI) and Finley Corbin (1-for-3, two RBI).
In the second game, the duo of Braden Schwartz and Manatu Crichton-Tunai combined on the mound as they scattered six hits, with six strikeouts and six walks. The Hustlers totaled 15 hits and were led offensively by Braden Schwartz (2-for-3, three RBI), Garrett Peters (3-for-3, two RBI) and Brock (3-for-3, two RBI).
On June 22, the pitching trio of Anthony, Avery Schwartz and Cody Agidius combined to toss a one-hitter to help lead the Hustlers to a 10-0 win in five innings over Eastside McDaniel. Leading 3-0 in the second, the Hustlers took control of the game by scoring six runs in the third to build a 9-0 advantage and they got a run in the fourth for the final margin.
Schwartz (1-for-3, two RBI), Braden Schwartz (2-for-3, double, RBI) and Brock (2-for-3, double, triple, RBI) led the Hustlers’ offensive, as they pounded nine hits.
Last Friday, in the first day of the three-day 16U tournament at Centennial High School in Gresham, the Hustlers continued their momentum by winning a doubleheader 4-3 and 7-2 over Stayton.
The Hustlers play their next contest Wednesday at 6 p.m. at McDaniel High School in Portland. They’ll follow with a 5 p.m. home game against the Yakima Beetles, which is the first of five consecutive games at Quinton Street Ballpark in The Dalles. The Hustlers 16U squad will play White Salmon Friday at 6 p.m., followed by Saturday’s Alumni Day doubleheader at 5 p.m. and a noon league contest Sunday versus Newberg. The Hustlers then face Mountainside in a 4 p.m. doubleheader July 5. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/sports/hustlers-come-out-on-top-despite-grueling-schedule/article_85fafd00-f705-11ec-acff-9346379a0843.html | 2022-06-29 02:34:50 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/sports/hustlers-come-out-on-top-despite-grueling-schedule/article_85fafd00-f705-11ec-acff-9346379a0843.html |
An archeological dig for a lost children’s cemetery near the Nebraska site of a former Native American boarding school has ended after two weeks — and no remains were found.
Dave Williams, the state’s archeologist, said the team searching near the former Genoa Indian Industrial School plans to meet on Zoom with representatives of 40 tribes across the U.S. next week to determine next steps.
“I would have preferred that we found the children,” said Judi gaiashkibos, a member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. “But we have to remain hopeful. They’ve been gone more than 90 years. I feel like I have to remain steadfast and committed.”
The search for gained renewed interest after hundreds of children’s remains were discovered at other Native American boarding school sites across the U.S. and Canada in recent years.
Dogs trained to detect the odor of decaying remains searched the area last summer and indicated there could be a burial site in a strip of land bordered by a farm field, railroad tracks and a canal. In November, ground-penetrating radar identified four anomalies — or areas of disturbed soil beneath the ground surface — in the shapes of graves.
Williams and his team spent the last two weeks excavating, but didn’t find the first anomaly they were seeking, which could’ve contained children’s remains.
“That’s one of the challenges of archaeology,” Williams said. “We can have a lot of evidence that something should be where we think it’s going to be. And then once we actually get in and open up the ground and take a look, it’s not what we expected.”
They’ll spend the next few weeks reevaluating the data and everything that led them to that location, Williams said, and figure out a new plan in consultation with the dozens of tribes that lost their children to the school.
There are three other anomalies nearby. Crews could search for those, pursue other leads or stop the search entirely if the tribes collectively decide that’s what they want, Williams said, but he hopes the team can still help the tribes, find the children and “bring them to rest in a satisfactory way.”
Sunshine Thomas-Bear, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the cultural preservation director for the tribe, said she wishes there had been more consultation with all 40 tribes — and not just the tribes in Nebraska — before now. She’s looking forward to that happening more in this next phase.
“Nothing was found this time. But perhaps that was because we weren’t all ready yet,” Thomas-Bear said. “There were tribes that weren’t notified, there were tribes that weren’t there. We believe that everything happens for a reason. I think that if we get on the right track together, perhaps we’ll be more successful.”
The Genoa Indian Industrial School was part of a national system of more than 400 Native American boarding schools that attempted to assimilate Indigenous people into white culture by separating children from their families, prohibiting them from speaking their Native languages, cutting them off from their heritage and inflicting abuse.
The school, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Omaha, opened in 1884 and at its height was home to nearly 600 students. It closed in the 1930s and most buildings were demolished long ago.
The U.S. Interior Department — led by Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and the first Native American Cabinet secretary — released a first-of-its-kind report last year that named hundreds of schools the federal government supported to strip Native Americans of their cultures and identities.
At least 500 children died at some of the schools, but that number is expected to reach into the thousands or tens of thousands as efforts like the Nebraska dig continue.
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Silvina Batakis comes in at a time when the Argentine economy is in full-blown crisis mode, with inflation above 60%, a high fiscal deficit, and fears rising about debt defaults.
Batakis was economy minister for Argentina's biggest and wealthiest province, Buenos Aires, from 2011 to 2015
Argentina appointed Silvina Batakis as its new economy minister on Sunday after theabrupt weekend resignation of her predecessor, Martin Guzman.
President Alberto Fernandez appointed the 53-year-old Batakis, who was economy minister for Argentina's biggest and wealthiest province, Buenos Aires, from 2011 to 2015. The appointment was announced on Twitter.
Guzman, the architect of a $44-billion debt restructuring deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), unexpectedly stepped down on Saturday. This followed his constant clashes with the militant wing of the ruling coalition loyal to Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who disapproved of his tighter fiscal policy.
Batakis comes in at a time when the Argentine economy is in full-blown crisis mode, with inflation above 60%, a high fiscal deficit, fears rising about debt defaults and people losing faith in the peso currency and anticipating a devaluation.
She is seen as more aligned with the ruling Peronist coalition's militant wing, that wants more public spending to help alleviate high poverty levels in Argentina. "There is no dignified poverty," she wrote in a pinned post on her Twitter account. "It is just poverty, and we must fight it."
This is in direct contrast of the stipulations of the deal with the IMF to bring down the fiscal deficit, increase reserves and lower central bank financing.
Her critics remain skeptical of the appointment. Matias Carugati, an economist from Consultora Seido, pointed out the lack of information regarding Batakis' policy vision. "Now we have a minister," he said, "But we do not yet have an economic plan."
The political turmoil comes at a time when Argentina is undergoing some tumultuous times economically. The agricultural powerhouse has been battling inflation of more than 60 percent in the last 12 months. The economy also has been disrupted by trucker strikes over shortages of diesel.
Guzman's abrupt departure also leaves the country in the lurch as he was expected to travel to France for talks this week to renegotiate a $2 billion debt deal with the Paris Club group of sovereign lenders.
The original debt of $57 billion to Argentina was the largest ever issued by the IMF. The last tranche of the deal was refused by President Alberto Fernandez after taking office from his liberal predecessor Mauricio Macri.
With soaring inflation and bleeding of foreign currency reserves due to high energy import costs, investors are questioning Argentina's ability to meet its debt commitments. Returns on government bonds are among the highest in the world, demonstrating investors' lack of confidence in them being honored.
Argentina has defaulted on its debt nine times since its 1816 independence from Spain, and three times this century, with the largest default taking place in late 2001.
ss/msh (AFP, AP, Reuters) | https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-silvina-batakis-appointed-economy-minister-after-abrupt-departure-of-guzman/a-62348452 | 2022-07-04 09:45:16 | 0 | https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-silvina-batakis-appointed-economy-minister-after-abrupt-departure-of-guzman/a-62348452 |
CT New York NY Zone Forecast for Sunday, November 6, 2022
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National Weather Service New York NY
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
CTZ005-071600-
Northern Fairfield-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the upper
30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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CTZ009-071600-
Southern Fairfield-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows around 40.
Northwest winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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CTZ006-071600-
Northern New Haven-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon. Gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the upper
30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
$$
CTZ010-071600-
Southern New Haven-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west this
afternoon. Gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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CTZ007-071600-
Northern Middlesex-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
morning, then sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Gusts
up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows around 40. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the upper
30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
$$
CTZ011-071600-
Southern Middlesex-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers this
morning, then sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Gusts
up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs around 50.
$$
CTZ008-071600-
Northern New London-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers this morning, then
sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon. Gusts up to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 30. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the upper
30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
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CTZ012-071600-
Southern New London-
316 AM EST Mon Nov 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers this morning, then
sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper
30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs around 50.
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JoJo Siwa doesn't shy away from criticism. In fact, she embraces it. But the 19-year-old has only one caveat: keep it real!
The newest judge on So You Think You Can Dance had that message for Twitter trolls when she spoke with ET ahead of her gig at Dodger Stadium (more on that later!). The reaction stems from a troll tweeting that he mistakenly believed Siwa was ousted from Fox's hit dance competition series. In actuality, it was Matthew Morrison who was forced out following "uncomfortable" messages he allegedly sent to a contestant.
That troll tweeted, "Dammit. I saw the headline 'Judge Leaves #sytycd' and got all excited. Yes! @itsjojosiwa was out! But, nope. It was Matthew Morrison. Dammit! I thought he brought the broadway perspective to the show. Maybe not an expert on dance, but on showmanship. Still won't watch."
Siwa, who responded to the troll on Twitter by listing her long list of accolades as an accomplished dancer, had a lot to say about her critics who think she hasn't earned her stripes to be a judge on a dance show.
"Listen, I'm the first one to hate on myself," she tells ET. "Like, you cannot tell me anything that I haven't already told myself. However, when you are saying something about me that is blatantly not true, that drives me mad."
Siwa's only 19 years old but she first set foot in a dance studio when she was a tiny toddler. In fact, her mother, Jessalynn, was also a professional dance instructor. Siwa has appeared on four major dance TV shows (including season 13 of Dancing With the Stars, where she finished second), has hired over 1,000 dancers and appeared in 16 dance music videos. Suffice it to say, her resume speaks for itself.
"I grew up in a dance studio," Siwa continued. "Literally from the time I was two I did my first solo, then I went to be on Dancing With the Stars, now I'm a judge on So You Think You Can Dance. I could tell you about every dance style. Am I the smartest dancer in the world? By no means. Am I the most knowledgeable dancer in the world? By no means. But I am smart enough to be a judge on So You Think You Can Dance, absolutely."
"And I don't like being that person that's like, 'I am good at this' but if I had to put a list of things down of things I know the most about, dance would be number one on that list," she added. "So, when people are saying that I'm not knowledgeable enough to be a judge, I'm just like, 'Ya just don't know, ya just sound silly.'"
As far as what she was doing at Dodger Stadium, the day ET spoke with her at the legendary venue she was there for the park's Pride Night. But, more than that, she was also there to film her new series, JoJo Goes, which premieres Thursday at 9 a.m. PT on Facebook Watch.
The series follows JoJo and her close group of friends -- and even some celebrities -- as she tries her hand at new experiences that she's always wanted to do. At Dodger Stadium, JoJo rolled up her sleeves and worked the concession stands, and got the stadium seats and field ready too.
Some of the guests who will appear include Olympian Misty May-Treanor and pro volleyball star Sarah Hughes, Dancing With the Stars pro Jenna Johnson, JoJo's bestie, Ezra Sosa, and pop group XOMG POP!
Siwa also dished on the one celebrity she's got on her wish list. It's safe to say if Siwa lands her, she'll go gaga!
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MOSCOW -- Russia's military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian city not far from Ukraine's border, injuring two and scaring local residents.
Belgorod, a city of 340,000 located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the Russia-Ukraine border, has faced regular drone attacks during Russia's current military operation in Ukraine. Russian authorities blamed the earlier strikes on the Ukrainian military, which refrained from directly claiming responsibility for the attacks.
NOTE: The video in the media player is from a previous report.
The explosion late Thursday was far more powerful than anything Belgorod residents had experienced before. Witnesses reported a low hissing sound followed by a blast that made nearby apartment buildings tremble and shattered their windows.
It left a 20-meter (66-foot) -wide crater in the middle of a tree-lined avenue flanked by apartment blocks, damaged several cars and threw one vehicle onto a store roof. Two people were injured, and a third person was later hospitalized with hypertension, authorities said.
Immediately after the explosion, Russian commentators and military bloggers were abuzz with theories about what weapon Ukraine had used for the attack. Many of them called for strong retribution.
But about an hour later, the Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged that a weapon accidentally released by one of its own Su-34 bombers caused the blast. The ministry did not provide any further details, but military experts said the weapon likely was a powerful 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) bomb.
Military experts charged that the weapon appeared to have been set to explode with a small delay after impact that would allow it to hit underground facilities.
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Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said local authorities decided to temporarily resettle residents of a nine-story apartment building while it was inspected to make sure it hadn't suffered structural damage that rendered it unsafe to live in.
In an editorial gaffe, an anchor on Russian state television followed the news about the local authorities dealing with the explosion's aftermath by declaring that "modern weapons allow Russian units to eliminate extremists in the area of the special military operation from a minimal distance." The anchor looked visibly puzzled by the text that he had just read.
Russian commentators questioned why the warplane flew over Belgorod and urged the military to avoid such risky overflights in the future.
Some alleged that the bomb that was accidentally dropped on Belgorod could be one of a batch of modified munitions equipped with wings and GPS-guided targeting system that allows them to glide to targets dozens of kilometers (miles) away. The Russian air force has started using such gliding bombs only recently, and some experts say that they could be prone to glitches.
In October, a Russian warplane crashed next to a residential building in the port city of Yeysk on the Sea of Azov, killing 15 people. Yeysk hosts a big Russian air base with warplanes that fly missions over Ukraine.
Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights have increased sharply during the fighting, so have crashes and misfires.
In another deadly incident in the Belgorod region, two volunteer soldiers fired at Russian troops at a military firing range, killing 11 and wounding 15 others before being shot dead. | https://abc7ny.com/russia-bombs-belgrod-own-city-ukraine-border/13165794/ | 2023-04-21 19:44:28 | 1 | https://abc7ny.com/russia-bombs-belgrod-own-city-ukraine-border/13165794/ |
ACHIN, Afghanistan — Delawar Torkhan, flanked by rifle-toting soldiers, rounded up the opium farmers and spoke loudly enough to ensure he was heard by everyone: the cowering men, the quietly fuming women — above all, his commanding officer perched in a nearby SUV.
In truth, it wasn’t a threat. It was theater.
Under orders from their supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers in April 2022 banned the cultivation of poppy, a lucrative cash crop.
One year on, it’s not clear whether the Taliban will soon make a significant dent on a crop that the United Nations estimated accounts for one-tenth of the entire Afghan economy. The country’s poppy farmers supply the raw ingredients that, after being boiled into bricks, refined and exported to Europe via Iran and Pakistan, make up 80 percent of the world’s opium and heroin supply. If the Taliban falls short, international analysts say, it’ll be because of weak enforcement, corruption, the fact that no economic alternatives exist for farmers.
On the ground here in eastern Afghanistan, the case of one war-torn village abutting the snow-capped peaks of Pakistan’s tribal regions shows how the eradication effort can be undermined by dissent and small acts of sympathy.
As his superior drove away on a hot recent afternoon, Torkhan, a 52-year-old who joined the Taliban in 1995, promptly released the detained opium growers, many of whom he has known for decades and belonged to his Shinwari tribe of Pashtuns.
Torkhan walked through destroyed homes overlooking steep terraces carpeted by pink and white poppy flowers. The village has suffered enough, he sighed. Baghdara had been occupied by Islamic State fighters, who drove out locals and made it their mountain hideout. It was relentlessly shelled by the Taliban, seeking to drive out the Islamic State. After it joined the fight against the Islamic State, the U.S. military dropped the “Mother of All Bombs,” its largest nonnuclear warhead, in an adjacent valley in 2017.
During its insurgency, even the Taliban itself had grown and taxed opium for years to fund its violent campaign. Now, Torkhan said, his own leaders were depriving war-weary villagers of their only hope of rebuilding.
When his eradication squads show up to smash poppy crops, women hurl insults from behind mud walls. The sick and the elderly beg him for money.
Torkhan confessed he feels racked by guilt when villagers confront him in the fields.
“But I would not be a good Muslim if I disobeyed orders from my supreme leader,” he said. “God knows the sadness I bear in my heart.”
Renewed eradication
Taliban leaders, viewing narcotics production as un-Islamic, banned poppy cultivation during the group’s first stint in power 25 years ago. After the Taliban was overthrown in 2001, the new Afghan government persisted with eradication campaigns but found their reach limited in remote places like Baghdara, which was still effectively governed by the Taliban.
Since seizing power again in 2021, Taliban leaders pledged once more to strictly crack down on narcotics production and trade. The move was interpreted by analysts as an attempt by the diplomatically isolated group to burnish its image as a responsible government, but the ban will come at a steep cost for the country, said Vanda Felbab-Brown, an expert at the Brookings Institution who has advised the U.S. government on Afghan drug policy. The families of some Taliban leaders, like senior officials in the previous Afghan government, rely on the illicit economy to generate considerable wealth, and countless farmers depend on it to avoid starvation, Felbab-Brown said.
“It is certainly plausible they will be able to induce fear-based elimination of poppy as they did in 1999,” she said. “But can it hold? Well, no, unless they absolutely ruin the country. Poppy underpins the political and economic life of Afghanistan.”
In Kabul, Taliban officials say their commitment to eradication is absolute. Since April, the start of the first harvest season since the ban was announced last year, eradication teams that have been deployed almost daily across the country have razed about 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of poppy fields, said Haseebullah Ahmadi, chief of staff in the national counternarcotics office.
That amounts to scant progress. In November, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that 233,000 hectares (575,000 acres) of opium were being cultivated in 2022, up 32 percent from a year prior. Opium sales generated $1.4 billion for Afghan farmers last year, worth nearly 30 percent of overall agricultural output, the U.N. agency calculated.
“It’s almost everywhere,” Ahmadi said as he scrolled through WhatsApp, showing videos sent in that morning from 10 different provinces. His men were bashing poppy plants with sticks in Kunduz. His tractors razed entire fields in Badakhshan.
“You can see we are committed to our promises and the decree of our supreme leader,” he said enthusiastically.
In the provincial capital of Jalalabad, local Taliban officials were more tempered in their comments. Haji Atta Mohammad Qudrat, a regional counternarcotics official and Torkhan’s superior, said the Taliban was working on a five-year plan to find replacement cash crops. Officials were hoping to teach farmers to grow hing, a pricey spice popular in South Asian kitchens, or expensive varieties of garlic.
“If there were a way to overlook poppy cultivation, we wouldn’t put our people in further financial struggles,” he said. “But we’ve clearly told them it absolutely won’t be tolerated. We made a promise to the international community, and the villagers made a promise to us.”
Rumblings of dissent
Among the craggy hills and steep ravines of Baghdara, Torkhan sounded the most conflicted among Taliban officials.
He was born nearby, in a neighboring district. As a young man, he fought Soviet soldiers in these hills while studying at Darul Uloom Haqqania, a seminary in Pakistan famed for producing jihadists. After he joined the Taliban, Torkhan rose to become the group’s local shadow governor, levying taxes from opium crop and supplying weapons for the insurgency against the U.S.-backed Afghan government. When the Islamic State militants arrived, Torkhan said, he led the fight against them until he was captured in a night raid by Afghan special forces, only to be released as part of the Taliban’s negotiations with the Afghan government in 2020.
“When I was a fighter, these mountains were my responsibility,” Torkhan said. “I know everyone here. They used to come to my village.”
Not that Torkhan — or any government — ever provided much in the way of services in the conflict-ridden district. “No one ever did anything for us, and that’s why we’re deprived,” said Abdul Zarif, a village farmer. “No clinics, no roads, no schools. Our children walk six hours to class.”
In 2017, life in the village of 1,000 people was upended by the arrival of fighters from Pakistan, who swore allegiance to the Islamic State and began to brutally enforce their will. Baghdara’s residents — who were quickly outnumbered in their own village by a ballooning Islamic State population of 4,000 men, women and children — soon fled.
For the next four years, village residents became refugees in their own province, recalled Malik Mareph, the village chief. Some spent all their savings building shacks to live in the desert. Others tried to make a living as laborers in Jalalabad but struggled in the city. By the time they returned to Baghdara in 2021, most were badly in debt. They found their homes destroyed, their fields flooded. Many returned to opium, which fetched 130,000 Pakistani rupees ($470) per kilogram, about six times the price they could get for any other crop, Mareph said.
On the day Torkhan’s eradication team arrived, his men were bombarded by heckles.
“You don’t have to worry while eagerly destroying our only source of income!” a woman shouted from a nearby home.
“If only you’d put so much effort in providing us food!” yelled another.
Inside a former guesthouse that had been turned by Islamic State militants into a courtroom for their severe judgments, Torkhan now sat cross-legged, listening to villagers vent.
Sedhan Shah, a man in his 30s, said a total of 30 rooms belonging to his extended family were demolished by shelling, and without opium, he could make only $1.50 a day by collecting firewood and selling it down the mountain, a seven-hour walk one way. Mareph, the village chief, said he couldn’t remember the last time he ate meat. Villagers pointed to Seyasat, a 28-year-old who lost his right leg to an Islamic State land mine, now hobbling around on crutches. How will the village support him?
“Let us grow just one harvest to fix our houses, rebuild our roofs,” Khana Gul, a village elder, demanded angrily. “We’re not even growing to make a profit.”
Torkhan heard the complaints and rubbed his eyes. He said he had already passed along the villagers’ stories to his superiors and given their phone numbers to aid workers from the International Red Crescent.
Then, he made an unusual admission. In the presence of a reporter, he told the farmers that he deeply disagreed with the poppy ban. Before he arrived, he had warned the farmers to not let his superiors see them harvesting in the fields. And when he swore he would throw them in jail, Torkhan admitted, that was an empty threat.
“I call upon the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to provide assistance to these villagers,” he said loudly, referring to the Taliban government. “If you’re suffering, I’m suffering. The last few months of this campaign have been the worst in my life.”
By now, the sun was low in the sky, and scores of women and children who had heckled Torkhan were back in the poppy fields, rushing to collect as much milky sap as they could even as advancing eradication workers whacked plants a few yards away. Torkhan’s fighters watched the scene from the hillsides, seemingly uninterested.
“Please support our mujahideen,” Torkhan said into a loudspeaker, making one final appeal as he and his men piled into a Toyota pickup truck.
It didn’t make a difference. In the sea of pink and white, the farmers ignored him, and he let them be as he drove down the mountain, saying nothing at all. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/23/taliban-opium-ban-dissent-afghanistan/ | 2023-06-23 06:12:11 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/23/taliban-opium-ban-dissent-afghanistan/ |
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) (JSE: GFI) (NYSE: GFI) is pleased to advise that it has met production and cost guidance for FY 2022.
FY 2022 operational performance
Attributable gold equivalent production for FY 2022 is expected to be 2,399koz, a 3% increase YoY (FY 2021: 2,340koz), exceeding the guidance range (upgraded in August 2022) of 2,310koz – 2,360koz.
All-in costs (AIC) for FY 2022 is expected to be US$1,320/oz, 2% higher than FY 2021 (US$1,297/oz), and below the lower end of the guidance range of US$1,370/oz – US$1,410/oz. The YoY increase is driven by an increase in operating costs due to mining inflation, partially offset by decreased project capex at Salares Norte and weaker exchange rates. AIC, if adjusted to 2022 guidance exchange rates (R/US$15.55 and US$/A$0.76), is expected to be US$1,381/oz, within the guidance range.
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) for FY 2022 is expected to be US$1,105/oz, 4% higher than FY 2021 (US$1,063/ oz), also below the lower end of the guidance range of US$1,140/oz - US$1,180/oz. AISC, if adjusted to 2022 guidance exchange rates, is expected to be US$1,160/oz, also within the guidance range.
Q4 2022 operational performance
For Q4 2022, attributable gold equivalent production is expected to be 601koz (Q3 2022: 597koz), with AIC for the quarter expected to be US$1,298/oz (Q3 2022: US$1,279/oz). AISC is expected to be US$1,063/oz (Q3 2022: US$1,061/oz).
Trading statement
Headline earnings per share for the twelve months ended 31 December 2022 (FY 2022) are expected to range from US$1.16-1.22 per share (US$0.16-0.22 per share higher), which is 16% to 22% higher than the headline earnings of US$1.00 per share reported for the twelve months ended 31 December 2021 (FY 2021). The increase in headline earnings is driven by the net proceeds relating to the Yamana break fee of US$202m.
Basic earnings per share for FY 2022 are expected to range from US$0.77-0.83 per share (US$0.06- 0.12 per share lower), which is 7% to 13% lower than the basic earnings of US$0.89 per share reported for FY 2021. The decrease in basic earnings is due to impairments recognised at Tarkwa and Cerro Corona mainly due to an increase in discount rates; a write down of the investment in Far South East; as well as inflationary cost pressures experienced in 2022. This was partially offset by the net proceeds from the Yamana break fee.
- The biggest impairments recognised at year-end comprises:
Tarkwa: US$325m pre-tax (US$220m post-tax) mainly due to the increase in the discount rate from 8.3% to 15.9% as a result of increases in the Ghana country risk premium and the risk free rate. - Cerro Corona: US$63m pre-tax (US$44m post-tax) mainly due to the increase in the discount rate from 4.8% to 8.1% as a result of increases in the risk free rate.
- Far South East: US$114m – the investment has been written down to a carrying value of nil.
Normalised earnings per share for FY 2022 are expected to range from US$0.94-1.00 per share (US$0.05-0.11 per share lower), which is 5% to 11% lower than the normalised earnings of US$1.05 per share reported for FY 2021.
The financial and operational information on which this trading statement is based has not been reviewed, and reported on, by the Company's external auditors.
Gold Fields expects to release FY 2022 financial results on Thursday, 23 February 2023.
Notes to editors
About Gold Fields
Gold Fields Limited is a globally diversified gold producer with nine operating mines in Australia, Peru, South Africa, and West Africa (including the Asanko Joint Venture) and one project in Chile. We have total attributable annual gold-equivalent production of 2.34Mo, attributable gold-equivalent Mineral Reserves of 48.6Moz and gold Mineral Resources of 111.8Moz. Our shares are listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and our American depositary share trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa (Pty) Ltd
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PHOENIX — It's not uncommon for drivers along Grand Avenue in Sun City, between Bell Road and 99th Avenue, to travel alongside a 16,800-foot-long train.
The length of that train is more than three miles long and is delivering new vehicles to a distribution facility in El Mirage.
It can take motorists an hour and twenty minutes to cross the tracks once that train rolls through town.
"It becomes more and more relevant in the last three years where railroads are trying to condense and combine and maximize going after profits," said Scott Jones, a locomotive engineer and rail safety expert.
Last week Jones testified before the Arizona House Transporation Committee in support of HB 2531.
The bill, by Tucson State Representative Consuelo Hernandez, limits the length of freight trains to 8,500 feet.
Much of Hernandez's district encompasses rural Arizona where freight train lengths can be as long as 18,000 feet.
"When you can't get across where the train is crossing you can't go to work, you can't go to school and that also means you can't, if there is an accident, the 1st responders cannot get to that location on time," Representative Hernandez, (D) Tucson District 21 said.
The Hernandez bill was filed before freight cars filled with a variety of toxic chemicals spilled during a derailment in Palestine, Ohio. Federal investigators suspect mechanical issues with one of the rail cars caused the crash. But the length and weight of the train may have been contributing factors.
Nobody with the rail companies that operate in Arizona spoke on the bill.
The bill did pass out of the Transportation Committee and it's now headed to the House floor. | https://www.abc15.com/news/state/bill-to-reduce-length-of-freight-trains-in-az-over-to-safety-concerns | 2023-02-21 00:10:10 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/state/bill-to-reduce-length-of-freight-trains-in-az-over-to-safety-concerns |
US revises down last quarter’s economic growth to 2.6% rate
By PAUL WISEMAN
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy maintained its resilience from October through December despite rising interest rates, growing at a 2.6% annual pace, the government said Thursday in a slight downgrade from its previous estimate. The government had previously estimated that the economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate last quarter. The rise in the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — for the October-December quarter was down from the 3.2% growth rate from July through September. Exports and consumer spending were revised lower in the Thursday report. For all of 2022, the U.S. economy expanded 2.1%, down from a robust 5.9% in 2021. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/30/us-revises-down-last-quarters-economic-growth-to-2-6-rate/ | 2023-03-30 13:54:56 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/30/us-revises-down-last-quarters-economic-growth-to-2-6-rate/ |
Ahead of Earth Day, the global programmatic giant is taking major steps to better the planet and spur industry action
NEW YORK, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TripleLift, the digital media platform on a mission to elevate advertising across every screen, is announcing its commitment to Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 reductions, with the goal of lowering each more than 50% by 2030.
Global warming is continuing to wreak havoc, and the need for companies to be more aware of their carbon footprint is more important than ever. TripleLift, a company that has always been at the forefront of some of the largest issues facing our world, is dedicated to going green and lowering emissions on a global scale. The company has fully committed to reducing absolute scopes 1 and 2 GHG emissions 51.33% by 2030. Additionally, TripleLift commits to reducing Scope 3 GHG emissions related to air, hotel and car travel by 55% per full time employee by 2030. Both are science-based target (SBTI) reduction goals and are 1.5ºC aligned.
"With Earth Day coming up this weekend and the theme being 'Invest in our Planet,' we are taking it as a call to action for our company," said Dave Clark, CEO of TripleLift. "For far too long, companies have not taken their emissions seriously and our planet is paying the price. We saw areas that we could cut back and really make a difference on a global scale, and we've committed ourselves to doing so over the next seven years. This is only the first step for TripleLift - we plan on taking even more action later this year to reduce carbon emissions, and we hope we are setting a precedent for other companies - especially those in our industry - to follow in our footsteps."
TripleLift has also partnered with Patch, the platform scaling unified climate action, to offset carbon emissions by investing in the Clearloop Panola County Solar Project, a female and minority-led supplier. Clearloop is directly utilizing funds from 30+ diverse organizations to help develop new solar projects that create renewable and carbon-free electricity for the next 40 years.
"Many companies have spent years allowing employees to travel unnecessarily, and have totally lost track of their own emissions, putting the world at risk for future generations," said Mary Nickels, Senior Strategic Initiatives Manager at TripleLift. "In the past, we have made travel decisions at the intersection of cost and customer impact, but now we're adding a third element: our carbon footprint. We need to be leaders in our pledge to the environment, and that's exactly what we're doing with these commitments."
TripleLift has been dedicated to environmental change since its inception. In April of last year, TripleLift launched the GREEN Exchange Traded Deal, which gave advertisers another way to use their dollars to keep the planet green. The deal features websites that are leading the way in sustainable best practices and helps advertisers reach their target market and achieve their sustainable business goals. Since launching this deal, it has generated 10.5B weekly impressions from publishers with sustainability-related content and 345B weekly impressions from publishers with ESG initiatives, including BuzzFeed, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Hearst, Discovery and more.
With Ad Net Zero USA having launched earlier this year, now is the time for all companies, including ad tech, to respond rapidly to climate action. While the ANA, the 4A's and IAB are leading the charge for the agency space, TripleLift is taking the reins on prioritizing climate change in the ad tech sector, with the hopes that other companies - both large and small - in the space will do the same.
For more information on TripleLift's commitment, visit their website to learn about their sustainability resources.
About TripleLift
We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance. As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com.
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Adidas is on the hot seat to cut ties with Kanye West
By Jon Sarlin, CNN Business
“I can say antisemitic s*** and Adidas cannot drop me,” Kanye West said during his now infamous tirade against Jews during the Drink Champs Podcast earlier this month.
With a social media uproar focused on Adidas brewing, Ye’s theory is now being tested.
Here’s the deal: The list of brands distancing themselves from West is growing by the day. Balenciaga and Vogue publicly cut ties last week, and on Monday talent agency CAA dropped West as a client, and production company MRC said that it’s shelving a documentary on West. Now the scrutiny has shifted to the German sportswear giant and its long-standing partnership with the controversial artist.
Celebrities including Kat Dennings, Josh Gad and Meg Stalter condemned Adidas for sticking by West. Detlef Schrempf, former NBA sharpshooter and Adidas sponsoree wrote, “I represented the 3 stripes during my career & beyond. @adidas needs to make a statement NOW! Suspend any relationship w/ @kanyewest until he has received psychiatric help, but why wait? End it now. He won’t change #erasethehate.”
Jonathan Goldblatt of the ADL released a statement Monday aimed squarely at Adidas calling its failure to cut ties with West “pathetic.”
Pressure on Adidas increased this weekend after a group of Neo-Nazis placed banners on the 405 highway in Los Angeles saying “Kanye is right about the Jews.”
“Today on the 405 in Los Angeles. We are waiting @adidas,” read Shannon Watts’ tweet in response to the incident that received more than 100,000 likes.
Earlier this month after West wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt in public, Adidas said that it was reviewing its lucrative partnership with his Yeezy brand.
“After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,” the apparel maker said in a statement. “We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.”
Bottom line: Since that statement, West has come out and targeted Jews explicitly in shocking public statements, becoming the most prominent openly anti-Semitic public figure in a generation.
With pressure mounting and West’s hate campaign against Jewish people continuing, it seems the question is when, not if, Adidas will cut ties.
Big Number
£730 million
Incoming British PM Rishi Sunak’s net worth is approaching the three comma club. The former banking exec and his wife, Akshata Murty, the daughter of an Indian billionaire, are worth a combined £730 million, or roughly $824 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. “Richer than Royals” is how the Washington Post describes the couple’s massive fortune.
Zuckerberg’s Meta-headache
Altimeter Capital Chair and CEO Brad Gerstner published an open letter to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg calling for the company to “streamline and focus its path forward.” In other words: limit the gigantic piles of cash being used in service of Zuckerberg’s flailing metaverse vision.
“Like many other companies in a zero rate world — Meta has drifted into the land of excess — too many people, too many ideas, too little urgency,” Gerstner wrote. “This lack of focus and fitness is obscured when growth is easy but deadly when growth slows and technology changes.”
Gerstner’s prescription for Meta, which he says has “lost the confidence of investors,” is a three step plan.
1. Layoffs
2. Cut capital expenditure from $30 billion to $25 billion
3. Limit metaverse investment to “no more than $5 [billion] a year.”
Gerstner is not alone in being Meta-skeptical. Bank Of America downgraded the company from buy to neutral Monday citing in part Zuckerberg’s metaverse investment (which the bank called “overhang.”)
Let’s step back: In an interview with Alex Heath of the Verge earlier this month, Zuckerberg acknowledged that the once rock bottom interest rates — remember those? — made his 2021 strategic shift possible in a way that might not have worked in 2022.
“There’s a part of me that thinks that it actually would’ve been a lot harder, and probably wouldn’t have been received as well, to have announced this vision this year than last year given where the world is,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg isn’t wrong, the economy of 2021 is now a distant memory. Although burning through huge piles of cash was long the go-to move in Silicon Valley c-suites, that simply isn’t sustainable anymore in a world with high inflation, high interest rates and slumping tech valuations.
So how long can Zuckerberg keep pumping money into the metaverse with little-to-no results to show for it?
Meta will report its third-quarter results Wednesday. Expect investors to look closely at any metaverse related numbers in the report.
What else is going on?
Railroad strike: not dead yet. The labor deal that the Biden administration brokered last month is on thin ice over a dispute about paid time off with rank and file members of a handful of key unions. Results of the final round of ratifying votes are due in mid-November.
Chick-Fil-A is Gen Z’s most popular restaurant, according to the annual Piper Sandler survey of not-quite-16-year olds. Starbucks ranked second, followed by Chipotle and McDonald’s.
The WSJ takes a look into Lego’s controversial packaging change, which makes it difficult for would-be collectors to identify what pieces are inside. Some hip terminology: AFOL – adult fans of Lego and TFOL – teen fans of Lego.
“What would a nation of sports gamblers look like?” Jay Caspian Kang examines America’s booming new (old) industry. As a Californian, I can tell you that Prop 27 ads are currently inescapable.
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PITTSBURGH (AP)Blake Hinson knocked down six 3-pointers and scored 22 points to lead six Pittsburgh shooters into double-figure scoring as the Panthers put on an offensive show in their final home game, a 99-82 win over Syracuse on Saturday night.
Pittsburgh won its 14th home game, its most since the 2015-16 season. After taking a 37-33 lead at intermission, the Panthers scored 62 second-half points and knocked down 11 3-pointers in the final 20 minutes.
Pitt (21-8, 14-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) knocked down 16 3-pointers in the game and its three leading 3-point shooters, Hinson, Greg Elliott and Nelly Cummings, became just the second trio in school history to knock down 50 or more 3s. Hinson now has 80 made 3s, Elliott has 70 and Cummings has 51.
Hinson opened the second half by hitting a pair of 3s, Nike Sibande sandwiched a pair of 3s around a thundering dunk and Cummings drained a 3 to put Pitt up by 11, 56-45. Hinson drew a foul from Quadir Copeland with 12:37 left and made a three-pointer the hard way, hitting three straight from the line to make it 61-49.
Elliott hit 5 of 11 from deep and finished with 19 points with three steals. Cummings, Jamarius Burton and Federiko Federiko each contributed 14 points and Sibande contributed 10. Burton grabbed nine rebounds and dished eight assists and Cummings completed a double-double by distributing 13 assists. Pitt hit 16 of 41 from 3-point range and was 19 of 22 from the free-throw line.
Benny Willams scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Syracuse (16-13, 9-9). Joe Girard scored 19 points, Jesse Edwards scored 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds, and Judah Mintz finished with 16 points and six assists.
Pittsburgh finishes its regular season on the road, playing at Notre Dame Wednesday and at No. 13 Miami Saturday. Syracuse finishes its regular season at home, hosting Georgia Tech Tuesday and Wake Forest Saturday.
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WHITE HAVEN, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Last year, a ski resort in the Poconos struggled to operate due to staffing shortages. Now, resort officials have worked all during the offseason to make sure it didn’t happen again.
Here at Jack Frost Ski Resort, officials are gearing up for its opening day Friday.
General manager Trent Poole tells Eyewitness News its snowmaking process has been smooth despite recent mild weather.
“We have some temperatures in the forecast, some lower ones in the coming week so we’re gonna blow a little bit more this week and make sure that the opening is nice and we have plenty of trails to offer for everybody,” said Poole.
Last season, Jack Frost and Big Boulder struggled with staffing shortages, causing longer lines and season-long tubing closures.
Poole says this time around, they’re fully staffed after bumping their minimum wage to 20 dollars an hour.
“We wanted to commit to our guests and the first way to do that was we need to reinvest in our employees. So we focused on our employees who worked hard each and every day,” explained Poole.
This season marks Jack Frost’s 50th anniversary and Big Boulder’s 75th, huge milestones celebrated with new upgrades.
To help improve its operations, Jack Frost and Big Boulder got five brand new ski lifts. The proceeds from the old ones are donated to local first responders.
“Lake Harmony Fire and Rescue and Lake Harmony Rescue Squad and Albrightsville. All of those folks give back to us each and every day so we thought, take this opportunity to give back to them,” stated Poole.
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Curacao didn’t do much at the plate Saturday, knocking out just three hits.
But behind 4 2/3 innings of shutout ball from Reangelo Decaster, a few defensive gems and Jaydion Louisa’s pinch-hit dribbler, the Caribbean team beat Taiwan 1-0 to move on to the Little League World Series championship.
Reangelo was “perfect,” Curacao manager Zaino Everett said. “He kept the ball down and threw good curveballs because they have good bats. A good inside and outside mix helped him get outs.”
Curacao will play Sunday against either Hawaii, which beat Tennessee 5-1 to win the United States bracket.
Reangelo got some help as he worked out of a first inning jam, thanks to a flyout and a groundout with Liao Yuan-Shu on third. In the fourth, left fielder Jaythan Cordilia ran down and snagged a fly ball that was tailing away to the corner. Afterward, he got a hug from center fielder Davey-Jay Rijke for his effort.
“We were working on defense the whole year,” assistant coach Ringemar Raap said. “What you see is no surprise for us. We trust in these guys and know they can do the job.”
In the fifth, Taiwan loaded the bases on singles by Wu Hsuan-Hung, Hsu Ta-Sheng and Liao Yuan-Shu, which ended Reangelo’s day as he surpassed the 85-pitch limit for Little League. Qshondrickson Doran came in with two outs to face Tseng Yi-Che and got him to fly out to left.
“I said ‘You can do it,’” Everett said. “‘I need one out from you. Just throw strikes and we will make the out.’”
Davey-Jay rescued Curacao in the sixth, making a warning-track catch on a deep fly ball off the bat of Wang Yuan-Fu to preserve the lead, a play that resulted in Davey-Jay getting mobbed by his fellow outfielders.
Curacao scored in the bottom of the third. Alexander Provacia led off the inning with a bunt single and advanced to second on a throwing error. Alexander moved to third on a passed ball and scored on Jaydion’s single, a grounder that found a sweet spot between first and second base, to give Curacao a 1-0 lead.
“It means so much,” Jaydion said. “When I got back to the dugout I cried because I knew we were going to win this game and go to the big final.”
An island with just over 150,000 people, Curacao has one tournament title, coming in 2004. But Curacao also was the last international team to play in the LLWS championship, in 2019, when it fell to Louisiana.
“It means so much because everyone believes in us,” Everett said. “During the tournament, they started to believe because we have come out to do our job and come up with a W.”
The 2020 tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus and last year only U.S. teams played because of travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.
Taiwan is historically one of the best international teams in the LLWS, winning 17 titles. But its last championship came in 1996.
Li Fang-Mo was excellent on the mound for Taiwan despite the loss, tossing five innings of one-run, three-hit ball and striking out nine Curacao batters.
“Li performed very well today,” Taiwan manager Chang Tzu-Chien said through an interpreter. “Competing against Curacao, we don’t have room for error. He missed one signal and the base runner advanced and that’s what we believe cost us the game.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top prosecutor on Tuesday disavowed over 300 convictions tied to police officers who were themselves found guilty of crimes, the latest in over 1,000 dismissals citywide of cases connected to officers who were charged or convicted.
The latest abandoned convictions, almost all misdemeanors, date back as far as 1996. Each involves one of nine officers who were later convicted of on-the-job offenses — among them taking bribes, illegally selling guns, lying under oath and planting drugs on suspects — and are no longer on the force.
The cases put more than 50 people behind bars and imposed fines on 130, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.
“We cannot stand by convictions that are built on cases brought by members of law enforcement who have violated the law,” Bragg, a Democrat, said in a statement after 308 misdemeanor cases were thrown out Tuesday. A similar proceeding was planned for eight felony cases Wednesday.
Since the start of 2021, Bragg and at least three of New York City’s four other district attorneys — in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens — have arranged the dismissal of a total of more than 1,200 cases connected to officers who had been convicted or charged, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press.
The dismissals began with drug convictions built by a former narcotics detective, Joseph Franco, who was charged with perjury — until the case against him was thrown out, mid-trial, this January. The case collapsed when Bragg’s office acknowledged failing to turn over evidence as required to his defense.
By then, prosecutors in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx had gotten hundreds of Franco-related convictions thrown out, and several public defense and exoneration-advocacy groups had written a letter urging the city’s DAs to do likewise with cases involving 22 other officers.
Twenty had been convicted of crimes and two others engaged in serious misconduct relating to their duties, according to the legal groups. Their list included the nine officers linked to the cases that Bragg is getting tossed out this week.
One of the letter-writers, Elizabeth Felber, of the Legal Aid Society, applauded the dismissals and urged Bragg and his fellow DAs to keep going.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntington Bancshares Incorporated announced that the Board of Directors declared and set aside a quarterly cash dividend on the company's 5.70% Series I Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (Nasdaq: HBANM) of $356.25 per share (equivalent to $0.35625 per depositary share) payable March 1, 2023, to shareholders of record on February 15, 2023.
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MARIETTA, Ga. — A new learning center in Marietta is offering parents the chance to access once-a-week preschool programming for the children - at no cost.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday for the Learning Spaces center in Marietta's Walton Village affordable living community. The United Way of Greater Atlanta operates more than a dozen Learning Spaces around the metro, the first having opened in 2016.
The United Way describes the centers as places for "targeted early learning opportunities in communities historically underserved with similar programming."
The program is available to children under five years old and was "developed in collaboration with local libraries and early childhood professionals to be a preschool program in non-traditional spaces, often churches and community centers."
"Walton Village is a very unique concept. They not only provide housing and affordable apartment living, they also build communities so that residents who live here find not only an apartment, they find a community," said Patrice Laird-Walker with United Way of Greater Atlanta. "Learning Spaces partnered with Walton Village to be able to offer the early-learning experience for parents here so that they have a place to come and bring their child once a week - to explore, to be creative, to be nurtured and for our parents to feel empowered to become advocates for their child's learning."
One parent, Jacqueline Paiz, said she had noticed attending the center had "made a difference" in her daughter's socializing and speech skills already.
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Fired Jaguars coach Urban Meyer returns to college football
Urban Meyer is returning to college football.
The fired Jacksonville Jaguars coach will rejoin Fox this fall for its college football coverage, the network announced Friday.
Meyer will reunite with sportscaster Rob Stone, former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn, and former Southern California Heisman Trophy winners Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart for Fox's "Big Noon Football" pregame show, which will hit the road for the first time beginning this season.
After resigning as Ohio State's coach after the 2018 season, Meyer worked as an analyst on the show in 2019 and 2020.
MORE: WPTV to televise Big Ten games in 2023
Meyer was hired to coach the Jaguars in 2021 but lasted just 13 games before he was fired in December after making headlines for a series of off-the-field controversies.
The 58-year-old won two national championships while at Florida and led the Buckeyes to the very first national title of the College Football Playoff era.
Meyer will return to the sideline Sept. 1 for Penn State at Purdue.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
0-5-9-6, FIREBALL: 9
(zero, five, nine, six; FIREBALL: nine)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
0-5-9-6, FIREBALL: 9
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HBO has dropped a new trailer for its "Game of Thrones" prequel, "House of the Dragon."
In the trailer, King Viserys Targaryen, played by Paddy Considine, has a premonition.
"The dream... it was clearer than a memory," he says. "And I heard the sound of thundering hooves, splintering shields and ringing swords, and I placed my heir upon the Iron Throne."
"And all the dragons roared as one," he says.
"House of the Dragon" is based on George R.R. Martin's 2018 novel "Fire & Blood" and will cover the events that transpired 200 years before "Game of Thrones." The first season will be comprised of 10 episodes.
"Games of Thrones" aired on HBO from 2011 to 2019.
"House of the Dragon" premieres August 21 on HBO Max, which like CNN is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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ATLANTA, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Novelis Inc., a leading sustainable aluminium solutions provider and a world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, announced today that its Latchford plant in the UK has been awarded £4.6 million to establish hydrogen burning trials as part of the UK Government's £55m Industrial Fuel Switching Competition, as part of the £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), and the wider regional HyNet project.
Novelis joined HyNet in 2017 and has been supporting the development of the regional infrastructure project as well as conducting its own technical feasibility studies on the use of hydrogen as a direct replacement for natural gas.
"Switching to renewable energy sources is a key initiative to advance on our journey toward carbon-neutral production," said Emilio Braghi, Executive Vice President, Novelis Inc. and President, Novelis Europe. "Besides decarbonizing our own facility, this collaboration drives the industrial decarbonization of the whole North-West region in UK."
With the recently awarded grant by the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, Novelis' Latchford plant will test the use of hydrogen on one of its recycling furnaces in a demonstration phase in 2024.
"We are proud to be one of the pioneers using hydrogen within the aluminium industry and that these trials at Latchford will additionally advance research on the viability of integrating hydrogen power in our recycling operations around the world," said Allan Sweeney, Plant Manager, Novelis Latchford.
The trial has been set up in collaboration with Progressive Energy, an independent UK energy company, and requires the installation of new burners and regenerators – both capable of operating with hydrogen or a blended hydrogen/gas input – and replacing the furnace lining material with one suitable for hydrogen.
Depending on the final configuration, replacing natural gas with hydrogen to feed the remelting furnace could reduce CO2eq emissions by up to 90% compared to using the same amount of natural gas.
"Decarbonizing our melting processes is a critical lever to achieving our sustainability goals of reducing our carbon footprint by 30% by 2026 and being carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner," said Suzanne Lindsay-Walker, Vice President, Sustainability, Novelis Inc.
In addition to its contribution to HyNet, Novelis' research & development teams worldwide are also investigating the ability to use plasma, electricity, and biomass to power its manufacturing operations.
About Novelis
Novelis Inc. is driven by its purpose of shaping a sustainable world together. We are a global leader in the production of innovative aluminium products and solutions and the world's largest recycler of aluminium. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of low-carbon, sustainable aluminium solutions and to achieve a fully circular economy by partnering with our suppliers, as well as our customers in the aerospace, automotive, beverage can and specialties industries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America. Novelis had net sales of $18.5 billion in fiscal year 2023. Novelis is a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited, an industry leader in aluminium and copper, and the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai. For more information, visit novelis.com.
About Novelis Latchford
Novelis Latchford in Warrington, UK, is one of Europe's largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants, and Europe's largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195,000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis' European production, which has enough capacity to recycle every aluminium beverage can sold in the UK, and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR's production site in the UK. Due to the high level of economic integration and the geographical proximity between the EU, UK, and Switzerland, Novelis operates across borders in well-established and efficient supply chains. This interconnectedness creates important economies of scale that benefit the value chains across Europe and enables Novelis to maximize the use of recycled inputs in line with its ambition to provide low-carbon, sustainable aluminium solutions to its customers.
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Statements made in this news release that describe Novelis' intentions, expectations or predictions may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of securities laws. Examples of forward-looking statements in this news release include plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 30% by 2026 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner. Novelis cautions that, by their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty. We do not intend, and we disclaim any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Important risk factors which could impact outcomes are included under the caption "Risk Factors" in the company's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023.
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- Mr. Märkl will join Valour's asset management team in early August 2022, taking the lead on all legal and regulatory matters, in particular in relation to exchange-traded products (ETPs) as General Counsel.
TORONTO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Valour Inc. (the "Company" or "Valour") (NEO: DEFI) (GR: RMJR) (OTCQB: DEFTF), a technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance, announced today that it will appoint Peter Märkl to the role of its General Counsel. With his international experience in investment banking and digital assets, he will head the Legal Department globally and lead Valour on all legal and regulatory matters, in particular in relation to ETPs.
Mr. Märkl, currently the Head of Legal for Amun/21Shares, was responsible for expanding the legal department in Zurich and New York. Prior to his role at 21Shares, Mr. Märkl worked in the Zurich office of the law firm Heuking, where he concentrated on the fintech and private banking business. Märkl previously held management positions at UBS in Germany and Switzerland. In addition to broad expertise in international investment banking and family office business, he also has a profound understanding of crypto-based financial products.
"The team at Valour is very excited to begin work with Peter and the extensive international experience he has with regulated crypto products will help navigate the regulatory aspects of our next phase of growth," said Russell Starr, CEO of Valour. "Regardless of market conditions we will continue to build out our product offerings and attract top tier talent like Peter that will set Valour up for long term success in providing access to safe, secure and regulated digital assets."
Mr. Märkl's hiring marks the second accession to the Company's management team within just a few weeks with the recently announced addition of Chief Sales Officer, Marco Infuso. Valour intends to continue making strategic hirings that will enable them to become a leading ETP provider in Europe and on a global scale.
Valour offers fully hedged digital asset ETPs with low to zero management fees, with product listings across four European exchanges. Valour's existing product range includes Valour Uniswap (UNI), Cardano (ADA), Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), Cosmos (ATOM) and Enjin (ENJ) ETPs, as well as Valour's flagship Bitcoin Zero and Valour Ethereum Zero products, the first fully hedged, passive investment products with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as underlyings which are completely fee-free, with competitors charging up to 2.5% in management fees.
Learn more about Valour at https://valour.com/
Valour Inc. is a technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance. Our mission is to expand investor access to industry-leading decentralized technologies which we believe lie at the heart of the future of finance. On behalf of our shareholders and investors, we identify opportunities and areas of innovation and build and invest in new technologies and ventures in order to provide trusted, diversified exposure across the decentralized finance ecosystem. For more information or to subscribe to receive company updates and financial information, visit https://valour.com
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to the regulatory environment with respect to the growth and adoption of decentralized finance; the pursuit by Valour and its subsidiaries of business opportunities; and the merits or potential returns of any such opportunities. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company, as the case may be, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but is not limited the acceptance of Valour ETPs by exchanges; growth and development of DeFi and cryptocurrency sector; rules and regulations with respect to DeFi and cryptocurrency; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-1-2
(seven, one, two)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-1-2
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SAN ANTONIO — A 17-year-old has been charged with capital murder for a deadly shooting that occurred in January, San Antonio police officials say.
The suspect, Ray Espinosa, is accused of killing 18-year-old Jonathan Heredia on Jan. 11, when authorities say Espinosa arranged a drug deal and planned to rob a group of teens. Heredia was set to graduate high school this semester, according to family.
When the victims arrived on Club House Boulevard, police say Espinosa pointed a gun and told them to get out of the car. Heredia fought back and tried to take his gun away when he was shot by Espinosa, killing him, according to investigators.
"He always looked out for everybody, especially his friends and family," Alejandro Heredia, Jonathan's brother, told KENS 5 in March when police were still looking for a suspect.
Jonathan also had dreams of starting a clothing line and skateboarding line, according to relatives. Alejandro said his brother would always skateboard at Pearsall Park.
"It was his home away from home," he said.
The Heredias are raising money to build a memorial at the park in Jonathan's memory. They are hoping to plant a tree alongside a bench.
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LYSAKER, Norway, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aker Solutions has been awarded a frame agreement from Petrobras and Partners (Consortiums) to provide subsea production systems (SPS) and subsea lifecycle services (SLS) for Petrobras-operated oil and gas fields offshore Brazil.
The frame agreement has a fixed period of five years, from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the fourth quarter of 2027. The framework agreement will be managed from Aker Solutions' locations in Brazil.
The scope of the agreement covers the delivery of complete subsea production systems, including equipment such as subsea trees, the company's latest generation of subsea controls called "Vectus", subsea distribution units and spare parts, for Petrobras-operated fields offshore Brazil. Over the duration of the frame agreement, it is estimated that the number of subsea trees to be called off could be up to 33 trees. This estimate does not represent a minimum or maximum amount.
The scope also covers the full range of subsea lifecycle services for Petrobras-operated fields offshore Brazil. This will include intervention, preservation, and maintenance, as well as installation services. The service work will be managed from Aker Solutions' service base in Rio das Ostras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"Brazil is a key offshore market globally and we look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship with Petrobras. This landmark frame agreement is a testimony to the quality our skilled employees have delivered over time in Brazil and the value our subsea solutions and services. Aker Solutions has been present in Brazil for more than four decades and has a proven track-record of delivering safe, efficient, sustainable and reliable operations," said Maria Peralta, executive vice president and head of Aker Solutions' subsea business.
The frame agreement continues Aker Solutions' longstanding commitment to drive local partnerships, with more than 50% local content rate for both SPS and SLS. The agreement has a strong focus on safe and sustainable operations, as well continuous improvements, including increased use of digital solutions in order to increase efficiency, optimize execution and increase value creation for all parties.
The work under the frame agreement will be call-off based. Aker Solutions expects to initially book a significant1 order intake in the fourth quarter of 2022 in the Subsea segment, representing an estimate of the expected initial work to be called-off. The full potential under the five-year fixed period of the frame agreement could represent substantial2 order intake over time. This range does not represent a minimum or maximum amount, the total value will depend on the customer's future demands.
1Aker Solutions defines a significant contract as being between NOK 1.5 billion and NOK 2.5 billion
2Aker Solutions defines a substantial contract as being between NOK 2.5 billion and NOK 4.0 billion
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Torbjørn Andersen, mob: +47 928 85 542, email: torbjorn.andersen@akersolutions.com
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Daniele Rivera, mob: +55 21 993480110, email: daniele.rivera@akersolutions.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is nominating former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday, crediting him with critical experience on global challenges including climate change.
The news comes days after Trump appointee David Malpass announced plans to step down in June from his role leading the 189-nation poverty reduction agency. His five-year term was due to expire in April 2024.
Addressing the impacts of climate change at the multilateral bank is a priority for the U.S. And leading climate figures have urged the Biden administration to use Malpass’ early departure as an opening to overhaul the powerful financial institution, which has been increasingly criticized as hostile to less-wealthy nations and efforts to address climate change.
Malpass ran into criticism last year for seeming, in comments at a conference, to cast doubt on the science that says the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming. He later apologized and said he had misspoken, noting that the bank routinely relies on climate science.
Banga, currently vice chairman at private equity firm General Atlantic, has more than 30 years of business experience, having served in various roles at Mastercard and the boards of the American Red Cross, Kraft Foods and Dow Inc. He is the first Indian-born nominee to the World Bank president role.
“Ajay is uniquely equipped to lead the World Bank at this critical moment in history,” Biden said in a statement, adding that Banga “has critical experience mobilizing public-private resources to tackle the most urgent challenges of our time, including climate change.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement that Banga’s experience “will help him achieve the World Bank’s objectives of eliminating extreme poverty and expanding shared prosperity while pursuing the changes needed to effectively evolve the institution,” which include meeting “ambitious goals for climate adaptation and emissions reduction.”
Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, said on Twitter that Banga was “the right choice.”
“He can help put in place new policies that help deploy the large sums of money necessary to reduce global emissions and help developing and vulnerable countries adapt, build resilience, and mitigate the impact of greenhouse gases,” Kerry tweeted.
The United States has traditionally picked the World Bank chief. The head of its sister agency, the International Monetary Fund, has traditionally come from Europe. But critics have called for an end to that arrangement and for developing countries to gain a bigger voice in the two organizations.
The World Bank has promised to conduct “an open, merit-based and transparent selection process″ and said it would accept nominations through March 29.
Eric LeCompte, executive director of the anti-poverty coalition Jubilee USA Network, said the United States was “looking to nominate people that will be supported by the developing world’’ and that it was “incredibly relevant’’ that Banga was born in India. “They want to be able to appoint people who have experience and roots with other economies,’’ LeCompte said.
“I can’t think of a more intense time for a person to be coming into this job,’’ said Clemence Landers, policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, a Washington think tank.
The bank is under pressure to expand its mandate — an effort that likely would require the next president to convince donor countries to provide more money.
Critics say the bank should be doing more to help poor countries finance projects to combat and prepare for climate change without saddling them with heavy debt burdens. And Landers said it needs to do a better job at tackling problems that cross borders such as providing pandemic surveillance and backing broad vaccination programs.
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Ellen Knickmeyer and Paul Wiseman contributed to this story.
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After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up
For the first time in its 51-year history, Penn Live Arts plans to expand the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, adding a new performance space to the campus.
Built in 1971, the Annenberg is the home of the campus arts presenting organization that renamed itself Penn Live Arts last year. It now plans to expand the footprint of its building, turning its adjacent Annenberg Plaza into a 3,100-square-foot theater.
The $20- to $25-million project, expected to begin in 2025, will be a flexible performance space, allowing artists to reconfigure the interior to the needs of their productions. Much of the new theater will be made of glass and can be converted into an open-air space, in contrast to the Brutalist brick and concrete facade of the original Annenberg building.
“It’s a real time capsule from 1971. It’s a wonderful, Brutalist architectural example of when Penn was designing in a very different way,” said Executive and Artistic Director Christopher Gruits. “The university was very inward-focused at that time. If you look at that section of Walnut Street, there’s almost like a solid wall of brick for several blocks.”
“As we move through these phases of renovating the building, so much is going to be predicated on opening up the building to the campus, to the community. Really making it a lot brighter, a lot airier,” he said.
The new theater will be able to seat 300-350 people, and be named the Stuart Weitzman Theater, after the 1963 Wharton School graduate who became a successful designer and manufacturer of shoes.
The Weitzman Theater will be the fourth performance space at the Annenberg Center. As part of the building renovation, the smaller Bruce Montgomery Theater, with about 100 seats inside the main building, will be transformed into a state of the art film screening room.
Part of the new Weitzman Theater will act as a gateway for Locust Walk, one of Penn’s main walking routes through campus, drawing pedestrians toward the Annenberg Center.
The project is still in its design phase. Architectural plans are not finalized.
Gruits said the new theater will benefit invited artists who sometimes prefer more flexible performance spaces instead of traditional proscenium stage auditoriums.
“Increasingly they want to use digital media, they want to use projection, they want flexibility in how they tell those stories,” he said. “This was part of that effort to meet artists based on the needs that they were expressing to us.”
Gruits said the new theater will also be geared to non-professional performances by Penn students.
“Around 20% of University of Pennsylvania students are involved in some way in performance on campus, primarily through extracurricular activities,” he said. “There’s just a tremendous space need on campus.”
The Weitzman Theater will not be the only building in Philadelphia bearing Stuart Weitzman’s name. The New York-based philanthropist has made other significant contributions to Philadelphia: Penn’s design school is named after him, as is the National Museum of American Jewish History, in Old City.
Penn President Liz Magill said Weitzman’s gift of an undisclosed amount came at the “perfect time,” when Penn Live Arts is celebrating its 50th anniversary season.
“Naming the theater for Stuart honors his enduring commitment to Penn students, his love of the performing arts, and our shared desire to make the performing arts even more visible and widely accessible on campus and throughout the greater Philadelphia region,” Magill said.
Gruits said financial commitments from both the Penn Live board and Weitzman will allow the project architect, Paul Westlake of DLR Group and a Penn alumnus, to begin designing. With an estimated cost of $20 – $25 million, fluctuating in a turbulent inflationary economy, Gruits said he does not plan to start construction until 100% of the building costs are raised.
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Rain returns to the forecast for many in Alabama today, and there could be a stronger storm or two in the mix.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has added a marginal risk for severe weather for parts of north and west Alabama later today as a cold front approaches the state.
A marginal risk is Level 1 out of 5 and means that isolated severe storms will be possible.
The National Weather Service said gusty winds up to 40 mph and small hail will be possible with any stronger storm that develops. Tornadoes are not expected.
Rain and storms were approaching Alabama from the west on Monday morning, and rain will affect parts of the state off and on today.
The potential for stronger storms is expected later this afternoon as the cold front approaches.
The chances for storms will end as the front passes through, although showers could linger into Tuesday. Drier and cooler weather is expected for most of the rest of the work week. | https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/a-few-storms-possible-in-parts-of-alabama-later-today.html | 2022-04-25 12:22:54 | 0 | https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/a-few-storms-possible-in-parts-of-alabama-later-today.html |
HANNOVER, Germany, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midea Industrial Technology, showcased innovative automation and green energy products from its two industrial automation brands Servotronix and Hiconics at Booth B38/3, Hall 11.
"We hope to leverage the Hannover Messe for more in-depth exchanges with partners and customers from the global industrial community", said Diego Fu, Vice President of Midea Group and President of Midea Industrial Technology. "I have fully committed Midea to helping vertical industries to transform and reduce carbon dioxide emission through our leading technologies and solutions."
Servotronix exhibits four types of products, providing industries with new customized motion control options:
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- CDLB single-axis robot: Compared to the screw guide rail, the single-axis robot based on the CDLB linear drive servo solution has superior direct-drive performance and better parameters including higher precision, higher speed, longer stroke, and lower noise level.
Hiconics helps steel, petrochemical, chemical, mining, building materials, textile, and paper industries towards sustainable development:
- Hivert series water-cooled VFD: The modular hardware design and advanced software features of the HIVERT series make the water-cooled VFD suitable for a variety of applications, including in harsh environments.
- HV4 Medium voltage VFD: An energy-saving and improved efficiency solution realized through controlling the frequency and voltage of the motor.
- HIC530 general low-voltage VFD: Embedded sensorless vector control and V/F control can be widely used in applications that have high requirements for items such as speed control, torque response speed, and low-frequency outputs.
To date, Midea Industrial Technology has established 27 R&D centers worldwide, and has accumulated over 5,500 authorized patents.
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