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STATEN ISLAND (PIX11) — The mother of 12-year-old Ariyah Garcia-Smith said her daughter never gave a hint she was unhappy at home before the girl failed to return from school on Sept. 21.
“I saw her in the morning when I was leaving for work,” Lateefah Smith, who said she works for the Department of Education, told PIX11 News. “I would never have thought that she would have run away.”
Yet there were clues the girl was being manipulated by an older man more than a year ago.
The mother said when her daughter had just started 6th grade at Intermediate School 51 in September 2021; the mom woke up suddenly one night.
“It’s late at night; I’m hearing like a man’s voice laughing,” the mom recalled. “When I go in the room, she’s talking to somebody with her shirt off with the laptop from DOE.”
The mother said the man’s face was blurred on a chat room site called Redden Anime, so she took the computer to school the following day.
“They called the cops, they took a report, and a week later the cops said it was like, a ‘burner phone'” the man was using, the mother recounted.
The Department of Education resolved the computer issue, but the mother said she later transferred Ariyah from I.S. 51 in May 2022 after an incident involving boys near the school.
Ariyah started 7th grade at Intermediate School 72, nearly five miles from home, but the mom said her journal indicated she wasn’t happy there. The girl’s phone last “pinged” on September 21st near Mariner’s Harbor public housing, just over a mile from her house. The family used to live there until they moved to a private home six years ago.
Ariyah’s neighbor on Wright Avenue is Lisa Smith. She said the girl’s mother cries every night.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Smith said. “She’s a sweet little girl. I see her every day. Never any trouble.”
Lateefah Smith said she’s been riding the Staten Island Ferry at night, looking for her daughter, and searching a local McDonald’s. The mom has also returned to the housing project where the family lived.
The mother claimed her daughter’s school contacted the Administration for Children’s Services after a classmate claimed the mother neglected her daughter and knew the girl had a 20-year-old boyfriend.
“ACS came here for a visit,” the mother said. She denied all allegations of abuse or neglect.
The mother showed us Ariyah’s bedroom, where she had hung curtains for her daughter with motivational phrases. The girl had also created some art with the word “Queen” painted prominently on the board.
The family’s neighbor, Lisa Smith, said she’s tried to be a support system for Ariyah’s mother by posting notices online about the girl’s disappearance.
“When I was trying help post it on the website, I came across a lot of kids that age that are missing,” Smith noted. “Black American kids…they’ve been missing a long time.”
When PIX11 News reached out to the Department of Education about the incident involving Ariyah’s DOE computer, spokesman Nathaniel Syer responded, “We wouldn’t be able to comment on student specifics like this due to federal privacy laws.”
Ariyah’s mother pleaded for someone to come forward with information about her daughter.
“Whoever has her, let her go,” the mother begged. “Let her go.”
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ | https://pix11.com/news/themissing/red-flags-before-staten-island-girl-12-disappeared%EF%BF%BC/ | 2022-10-07 23:56:30 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/themissing/red-flags-before-staten-island-girl-12-disappeared%EF%BF%BC/ |
OKOTOKS, AB, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (TSX: MTL) The Board of Directors of Mullen Group Ltd. ("Mullen Group", "We", "Our" and/or the "Corporation") announced today that it has declared a monthly dividend of $0.06 per Common Share payable to the holders of record of Common Shares at the close of business on November 30, 2022. The dividend will be paid on December 15, 2022.
For Canadian resident shareholders, this dividend is designated as an "eligible dividend" for purposes of the enhanced dividend tax credit rules contained in the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any corresponding provincial and territorial tax legislation.
Mullen Group is one of North America's largest logistics providers. Our network of independently operated businesses provide a wide range of service offerings including less-than-truckload, truckload, warehousing, logistics, transload, oversized, third-party logistics and specialized hauling transportation. In addition, we provide a diverse set of specialized services related to the energy, mining, forestry and construction industries in western Canada, including water management, fluid hauling and environmental reclamation. The corporate office provides the capital and financial expertise, legal support, technology and systems support, shared services and strategic planning to its independent businesses.
Mullen Group is a publicly traded corporation listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "MTL". Additional information is available on our website at www.mullen-group.com or on the Corporation's issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Contact Information
Mr. Murray K. Mullen - Chair, Senior Executive Officer and President
Mr. Richard J. Maloney - Senior Operating Officer
Mr. Carson P. Urlacher - Senior Accounting Officer
Ms. Joanna K. Scott - Senior Corporate Officer
121A - 31 Southridge Drive
Okotoks, Alberta, Canada T1S 2N3
Telephone: 403-995-5200
Fax: 403-995-5296
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a new generation of human enzyme therapeutics as innovative solutions for rare metabolic diseases, today announced that Linda Neuman, M.D., M.B.A. has been appointed chief medical officer. Dr. Neuman's appointment is an internal promotion from her previous role as Aeglea's senior vice president of clinical development.
"Linda brings significant medical expertise and drug development experience to the Aeglea leadership team and will play an important role in helping to guide the development strategy for pegtarviliase and the rest of our portfolio," said Jim Kastenmayer, Ph. D., J.D., interim chief executive officer and general counsel of Aeglea. "Linda has proven that she has the creative and flexible leadership required to navigate the complexities of drug development and has made a significant impact on our medical strategy since joining our team. I am excited to continue working closely with Linda as a valued member of our executive leadership team."
Prior to joining Aeglea in 2021, Dr. Neuman served as vice president, clinical development at Catalyst Biosciences where she led the clinical development of their late-stage development program for a novel hemophilia treatment. Before Catalyst, she served as the interim chief medical officer at Adverum Biotechnologies, where she directed the early phase development for three gene therapy programs, including two Investigational New Drug Applications (IND) in rare disease and ophthalmology indications. She previously worked at Sunesis Pharmaceuticals where she led the filing of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application and initiated a Phase 1b/2 clinical study and Puma Biotechnology, Inc., where she contributed to the successful New Drug Application (NDA) and Market Authorization Application (MAA) for neratininb. She began her career as an internist and practiced medicine for 10 years prior to joining industry. Dr. Neuman earned an M.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, a B.S. in biology from Southern Illinois University, and an M.B.A from Indiana Wesleyan University.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company redefining the potential of human enzyme therapeutics to benefit people with rare metabolic diseases with limited treatment options. Aeglea is investigating pegtarviliase in an ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of Classical Homocystinuria. Pegtarviliase has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation. Aeglea's other clinical program, pegzilarginase, achieved the primary endpoint of arginine reduction in the PEACE Phase 3 clinical trial and has received both Rare Pediatric Disease and Breakthrough Therapy Designations. The Marketing Authorization Application for pegzilarginase is currently under review with the European Medicines Agency. Aeglea has an active discovery platform focused on engineering small changes in human enzymes to have a big impact on the lives of patients and their families. For more information, please visit http://aeglea.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as: "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "goal," "seek," "believe," "project," "estimate," "expect," "strategy," "future," "likely," "may," "should," "will" and similar references to future periods. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding the timing of announcements and updates relating to our clinical trials and related data, including the clinical data for our Phase 1/2 trial of pegtarviliase in Classical Homocystinuria, the timing and success of our clinical trials and related data, the timing and expectations for regulatory submissions and approvals, including the MAA for pegzilarginase in Europe, our ability to obtain regulatory approval for, and commercialize, pegzilarginase, recognize milestone and royalty payments from our agreement with Immedica, our ability to enroll patients into our clinical trials, the expected impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and clinical trials, success in our collaborations, the length of time that we believe our existing cash resources will fund operations, the potential addressable markets of our product candidates and the potential therapeutic benefits and economic value of our lead product candidate or other product candidates. Further information on potential risk factors that could affect our business and its financial results are detailed in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and our other reports as filed with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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ELGIN, Ill., June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- United Food Group, Inc. of Elgin IL is introducing two lines of affordable, convenient, protein-packed, nutritious meals—just add water, heat and eat! Perfect Servings® Meals are plant-based meal solutions ideal for eating at home, at the office, in an RV or while camping. The Easy Peasy Mac & Cheesy™ Meals are great to keep in your backpack as a portable lunch or to eat as a simple after-school snack.
Perfect Servings Meals are available in six flavors: Be'f Stroganoff, Creamy Chick'n Alfredo, Spicy Chick'n Jambalaya, Mac & Cheese with Bac'n, Mac & Cheese with Jalapeño and Mac & Cheese with Ch'rizo Jalapeño.
Easy Peasy Meals are available in four flavors: Mac & Cheesy, Mac & Cheesy with Bac'n, Mac & Cheesy with Jalapeño and Mac & Cheesy with Ch'rizo Jalapeño.
Both Perfect Servings Meals and Easy Peasy Meals may be prepared in a microwave, on a stovetop, or over a campfire—just add water, heat and eat. All meals cook quickly—between three and nine minutes depending on the flavor profile. Unlike other quick-serve meals, no additional ingredients are needed.
"Over the past 18 months, we have successfully developed delightful flavor profiles with excellent nutritional value in each of our Perfect Servings Meals," says Bryan Real from United Food Group, Inc. "This is a new and exciting product line for our company."
United Food Group, Inc. is a privately held business located in Elgin, IL with years of experience in the food industry catering to the convenience store trade, vending and office coffee service, micro markets and food service nationwide.
Contact:
Doug Shea
dshea@unitedfoodgroup.net
404-556-3898
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INDIANAPOLIS — We always like to start Indy Now “On a Good Note,” and this sweet, inspiring story certainly accomplishes that.
Brownsburg couple Tiffany and Justin Reuzenaar gave birth to a baby girl named Charlotte Grace in 2015. Sadly, she passed away nine days later.
Each year since, the family honors Charlotte’s birthday and expresses thanks to the NICU team of doctors and nurses by holding a donation drive for Riley Cheer Guild, a nonprofit that provides cheer and comfort to both patients and caregivers at Riley Hospital for Children. Their 5-year-old daughter Harper loves to participate in the project along with them.
This year, the family donated a whopping 1,052 items and a $500 check to the Riley Cheer Guild. The donated items completely filled up their living room.
Tiffany Reuzenaar said she hoped sharing her story would inspire other people to donate and support the kids and families at Riley.
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A St. Paul mother was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter last year.
Ciashia Lee, 30, previously pleaded guilty in Ramsey County District Court to second-degree unintentional murder while committing a felony in the death of Melody Vang.
In exchange for the plea, a charge of first-degree murder-with a pattern of child abuse was dismissed at sentencing.
Lee will receive credit for the 516 days she has already in jail.
The presumptive sentencing range was between 128 and 180 months in prison, but prosecutors sought an additional three months for Lee due to the girl’s age and her vulnerability, according to court records.
Lee told police that she lost her temper when Melody Vang “kept crying” and woke up her infant, so she “kept hitting” her daughter, according to charges.
Lee’s husband, 43-year-old John Vang, was sentenced on March 21 to 240 days in the Ramsey County workhouse and three years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to felony child endangerment in connection with Melody’s death.
The girl and her siblings were in foster care together until 2020. The children were returned to Lee and Vang after both parents completed chemical dependency treatment and mental health evaluations, according to court documents.
After Vang called police about “an incident” on Jan. 10, 2021, officers found Melody dead on the back porch of the Dayton’s Bluff home where her family lived. The girl wore only a diaper and her body had been wrapped in bedding and a rug, according to the criminal complaint. She was cold to the touch and rigor mortis had set in.
Melody had multiple large bruises on her face and body, and “cuts and scratches on a significant portion of her body,” the criminal complaint read. An autopsy determined she died of head trauma due to assault.
When police asked Lee what she did to Melody, she said she punched her “too many times because the girl wouldn’t stop crying,” according to the complaint. “Lee also said she put her hand over the girl’s mouth to stop her from crying, but it didn’t work so she continued to hit the girl out of anger. Lee eventually picked up the girl, hit her some more, and took her to a ‘time out’ closet.”
Lee reported that Vang hadn’t witnessed what she did that evening, but had seen her hit the girl in the past. | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/10/st-paul-mother-sentenced-to-18-years-for-fatally-beating-her-2-year-old-daughter/ | 2022-06-10 20:57:52 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/10/st-paul-mother-sentenced-to-18-years-for-fatally-beating-her-2-year-old-daughter/ |
University of Arizona shooting suspect had guns, knives and changes of clothes in his vehicle, according to search warrant
Murad Can Dervish is facing murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with the death of Dr. Thomas Meixner
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Authorities found two handguns, several rounds of ammunition, five knives and two machetes in the vehicle of University of Arizona shooting suspect Murad Can Dervish.
According to the search warrant obtained by KOLD News 13, authorities also found three cell phones, anti-tracking technology, and several changes of clothes.
The 46-year-old Dervish is facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection with the fatal shooting of Dr. Thomas Meixner on Wednesday, Oct. 5.
Meixner was the Department Head of the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. Dervish had been a graduate student in that program before he was expelled in February 2022.
Dervish had been expelled and barred from campus over previous threatening behavior, according to the interim complaint. He was also the subject of an unrelated order of protection prohibiting him from possessing a firearm.
Authorities said Dervish shot Meixner multiple times at the John W. Harshbarger Building before fleeing in his gold/tan van. He was arrested hours later near Gila Bend, which is about 120 miles from Tucson.
Items found in Dervish’s vehicle include:
- One Ruger MAX-9 handgun
- Receipt for the Ruger handgun
- One half-full magazine for the Ruger handgun
- One empty magazine for the Ruger handgun
- Extra rounds of 9mm ammunition
- One spent 9mm shell casing
- One loaded Raven MP-25 handgun
- Three magazines for the Raven handgun
- Box of .25 ammunition
- Five knives
- Two machetes in different suitcases
- One USB drive
- Eviction paperwork
- Three cell phones, one of which was in a faraday bag that blocks signals and prevents tracking.
- One router
- One can of mace
- One laptop
According to the search warrant, Dervish was living at an apartment in the 200 block of East Fourth Street. He was in the process of being evicted for non-payment. Inside the home officers found:
- Eviction paperwork
- Several empty knife boxes
- Knife sheaths
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Beverage Industry Pioneer Introduces Cutting-Edge Approach to Product Creation
SEATTLE, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Talking Rain Beverage Company, the maker of bestselling flavored sparkling water brand, Sparkling Ice®, is excited to announce the launch of its new innovation program, I.C.E. Labs™ – bringing new beverage concepts to market in a small-scale, test and learn model, allowing for an iterative approach to product development.
I.C.E. Labs, short for Innovate, Create and Enjoy, will maximize Talking Rain Beverage Company's ability to test products more efficiently on a smaller scale, generating consumer response over a six to nine-month basis. This entrepreneurial approach will utilize a variety of store types and locations to cater to different demographics and markets, ranging from convenience stores to specialty groceries. Products that are successfully tested will be moved to larger test markets, eventually expanding to a national scale. Talking Rain is currently testing locally in the Pacific Northwest.
"We're excited to introduce I.C.E. Labs as an added innovation arm to Talking Rain Beverage Company, which will allow us to create a path to a more diverse portfolio for our consumers," said Anne Wilcox, Senior Vice President of Insights and Innovation at Talking Rain Beverage Company. "We anticipate that this pilot program will bring positive results for Talking Rain with its iterative approach to product development while benefiting consumers with innovative and "better-for-you" beverages."
The I.C.E. Labs program was designed to guide new product ideas from the early stages of development to market testing and eventual expansion. This will help Talking Rain gain valuable consumer feedback, prove the feasibility of new beverage concepts and lay the foundation for growth and success on a national level.
For more information on Talking Rain Beverage Company's I.C.E. Labs Program, please visit: https://www.talkingrain.com/ice-labs/.
About Talking Rain Beverage Company
Talking Rain Beverage Company is a Washington-based beverage company that has been an industry leader for 35 years. The company's portfolio of brands includes the bestselling flavored sparkling water, Sparkling Ice®, Sparkling Ice® +Caffeine, and Talking Rain AQA®, all of which offer better-for-you beverage options. In 2023, Talking Rain launched its new innovation program, I.C.E. Labs, bringing new beverage concepts to market through a small scale, test and learn model that allows for an iterative approach to product development. With a commitment to developing best-in-class brands and driving meaningful community engagement, Talking Rain is creating connections with every sip.
Talking Rain is building a sustainable future in an ever-changing market space. The company is committed to crafting products and embracing practices that build a better future for business, communities, and the planet.
About I.C.E. Labs™
I.C.E. Labs is Talking Rain Beverage Company's new innovation program, bringing concepts to market in a small-scale, test and learn model, allowing for an iterative approach to product development. Standing for Innovate, Create and Enjoy, I.C.E. Labs allows Talking Rain to test products in local markets to proof concepts before expanding on a national scale. Stemming from an entrepreneurial mindset, this new model creates a path to a more diverse portfolio for Talking Rain beverages.
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Survey: Business economists push back US recession forecasts
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of the nation’s business economists expect a U.S. recession to begin later this year than they had previously forecast, after a series of reports have pointed to a surprisingly resilient economy despite steadily higher interest rates.
Fifty-eight percent of 48 economists who responded to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics envision a recession sometime this year, the same proportion who said so in the NABE’s survey in December. But only a quarter think a recession will have begun by the end of March, only half the proportion who had thought so in December.
The findings, reflecting a survey of economists from businesses, trade associations and academia, were released Monday.
A third of the economists who responded to the survey now expect a recession to begin in the April-June quarter. One-fifth think it will start in the July-September quarter.
The delay in the economists’ expectations of when a downturn will begin follows a series of government reports that have pointed to a still-robust economy even after the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates eight times in a strenuous effort to slow growth and curb high inflation.
In January, employers added more than a half-million jobs, and the unemployment rate reached 3.4%, the lowest level since 1969.
And sales at retail stores and restaurants jumped 3% in January, the sharpest monthly gain in nearly two years. That suggested that consumers as a whole, who drive most of the economy’s growth, still feel financially healthy and willing to spend.
At the same time, several government releases also showed that inflation shot back up in January after weakening for several months, fanning fears that the Fed will raise its benchmark rate even higher than was previously expected. When the Fed lifts its key rate, it typically leads to more expensive mortgages, auto loans and credit card borrowing. Interest rates on business loans also rise.
Tighter credit can then weaken the economy and even cause a recession. Economic research released Friday found that the Fed has never managed to reduce inflation from the high levels it has recently reached without causing a recession. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/26/survey-business-economists-push-back-us-recession-forecasts/ | 2023-02-27 06:07:10 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/26/survey-business-economists-push-back-us-recession-forecasts/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (WGNO) — Christmas came early for the LSU Tigers as they learn today that starting quarterback Jayden Daniels will return for the 2023 season.
Daniels made the announcement on Twitter, detailing the “amazing ride” he had in his first year with the Tigers.
Daniels says “This has been an amazing ride and honestly, I’m not ready to get off just yet. That is why it is important that I announce I am returning for the 2023 season to fulfill the goal of an LSU Tiger and bring our fans another championship.”
Daniels will have a chance to lead the LSU Tigers to the 10th win of the season when the Tigers play Purdue in the Citrus Bowl on Monday, January 2nd.
That game will air at noon on WGNO and ABC affiliates.
In 13 games of action, Daniels has completed 68 % of his passes for 2,774 yards and 16 touchdowns.
He also ran the ball 180 times for 818 yards and 11 scores.
Daniels was named the Charles McClendon Most Valuable Player at LSU’s annual Football Awards Show. | https://www.cenlanow.com/sports/geaux-nation/jayden-daniels-announces-return-to-lsu-for-the-2023-season/ | 2022-12-22 22:44:45 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/sports/geaux-nation/jayden-daniels-announces-return-to-lsu-for-the-2023-season/ |
A look at what’s happening around the majors on today:
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SOTO SETBACK
Washington star Juan Soto is being checked out after exiting a game early because of an injured left calf.
The 23-year-old outfielder flexed and pointed to his left leg after making a throw in right in the third inning against Miami. He was taken out after being involved in a rundown in the fourth.
Soto left Nationals Park to get an MRI.
“We’ll re-evaluate him and see what’s going on,” manager Dave Martinez said.
Soto, the face of the franchise, is attempting to sign to a long-term contract. He has 15 home runs and 33 RBIs this season, along with a .382 on-base average and a .449 slugging percentage.
“Oh yeah, it’s terrifying, obviously,” Nationals first baseman Josh Bell said. “Fingers crossed that it’s not anything too, too time-consuming. We’ll see. I know he’s probably going to get the results back here soon. I know we’re all holding our breath for him. I guess time will tell.”
The Nationals get an early start, hosting the Marlins at 11:05 a.m.
CHECK HIM
The Red Sox will see how shortstop Xander Bogaerts is feeling, a day after he got seven stitches in his left thigh because of a spike wound.
The three-time All-Star left in the second inning with a laceration after the Cubs’ Willson Contreras slid into him while caught stealing second at Wrigley Field.
Bogaerts said he didn’t think Contreras meant to harm him, and he didn’t mean to block the base as Contreras was arriving.
“I know he probably didn’t do it on purpose. My foot being in that position, it shouldn’t be there, either,” he said.
Bogaerts is hitting .318 going into Boston’s series opener at Fenway Park against Tampa Bay.
A FOURTH TRADITION
Way back, it seemed as if every big league team playing a doubleheader on the Fourth of July. It would be Koufax and Drysdale going for the Dodgers or Palmer and McNally for the Orioles or Seaver and Koosman for the Mets.
Well, it’s not quite that way anymore.
But, like it or not, the Cleveland Guardians are keeping up the twinbill tradition.
The Guardians will play yet another doubleheader, already their seventh this season and third in six days, when they take on the Tigers at Comerica Park.
Zach Plesac (2-5, 3.86) will start the opener against Detroit rookie Garret Hill, making his major league debut. Cleveland lefty Konnor Pilkington (1-1, 4.31) starts the second game against RHP Alex Faedo (1-4, 4.84).
The Philadelphia Phillies, meanwhile, are scheduled off on July 4 for the first time since 1916.
LOOKING FOR 10
Toronto right-hander Alek Manoah (9-2, 2.09 ERA) has a chance to tie Tony Gonsolin of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Justin Verlander of the Houston Astros for the major league lead in wins when he starts for the Blue Jays in the opening game of a trip to Oakland.
Manoah is third in the American League in ERA but he has a 6.55 ERA in two career starts against the Athletics, allowing eight runs in 11 innings.
ROOKIE STRUGGLES
Cincinnati right-hander Hunter Greene is 0-2 with a 6.33 ERA in four starts since pitching seven shutout innings of one-hit ball to beat Arizona on June 7. He takes his 100 mph heat and a 3-9 record and 5.72 ERA into the series opener at home against Pete Alonso and the NL East-leading Mets.
Greene will be trying to avoid becoming the third pitcher with double-digits losses this year after Washington’s Joan Adon (1-11) and Patrick Corbin (4-10).
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WILLOW PARK, Texas, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProFrac Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: PFHC) ("ProFrac" or the "Company") announced today that its subsidiary, ProFrac Holdings II, LLC, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SP Silica of Monahans, LLC, and SP Silica Sales, LLC (collectively, "Monahans"), the West Texas subsidiaries of Signal Peak Silica, for approximately $90 million. No additional terms were disclosed.
Ladd Wilks, ProFrac Holding Corp.'s Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Our acquisition of Signal Peak Silica's Permian Basin operations is the latest example of scaling our vertical integration strategy as we continue to consolidate supply chain components to better serve our customers, lower our costs and improve our operating margins and profitability."
Matt Wilks, Executive Chairman, added, "The Monahans operation brings us a dedicated and dynamic workforce and, by the third quarter of 2022, would expand our total to three in-basin sand mines within the ProFrac portfolio. SPS Monahans provides nearly 3 million tons of annual sand production capacity of 40/70 and 100 mesh and includes nearly 25,000 tons of on-site storage. Once closed, this transaction brings our companywide annual sand production capacity to approximately 6 million tons, which is expected to increase to approximately 8 million tons when we complete our West Munger facility in the Permian, which is expected to occur by the third quarter of 2022."
Piper Sandler & Co. served as exclusive financial advisor to ProFrac on the acquisition and Winston & Strawn LLP is acting as ProFrac's legal counsel on the transaction. Evercore served as exclusive financial advisor to Signal Peak Silica and Sidley Austin LLP is acting as Signal Peak Silica's legal counsel on the transaction.
About ProFrac Holding Corp.
ProFrac Holding Corp. is a growth-oriented, vertically integrated and innovation-driven energy services company providing hydraulic fracturing, completion services and other complementary products and services to leading upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production ("E&P") of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. Founded in 2016, The Company was built to be the go-to service provider for E&P companies' most demanding hydraulic fracturing needs. ProFrac is focused on employing new technologies to significantly reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions and increase efficiency in what has historically been an emissions-intensive component of the unconventional E&P development process. For more information, please visit the Company's website, https://www.pfholdingscorp.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, the reader can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "may," "should," "would," "expect," "intend," "will," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "predict," or similar words. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or the Company's future financial or operating performance. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding: the expected timing and anticipated benefits of the Monahans acquisition, including benefits associated with scaling the Company's vertically integrated business model and increasing its sand mining capabilities; the Company's estimates of the production capacity of the Company's sand mining operations in future periods; and the expected timing for completion of the Company's West Munger facility. Such forward-looking statements are based upon assumptions made by the Company as of the date hereof and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, risks associated with the Company's ability to finance the Monahans acquisition on favorable terms or at all, the ability to effectively scale the Company's operations and integrate acquired assets and personnel into the Company's existing business model, the Company's ability to execute its business strategy and plans for growth, including with respect to the completion of the Monahans acquisition and development of the West Munger facility, the transition to becoming a public company, and other risks and uncertainties set forth in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. There may be additional risks about which the Company is presently unaware or that the Company currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. The reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its assessments to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it expressly disclaims any duty to update these forward-looking statements, except as otherwise required by law.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) will present at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's 2022 Global Healthcare Conference at 4:55 a.m. ET on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. Peter H. Griffith, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Amgen, will present at the conference. The webcast will be broadcast over the internet simultaneously and will be available to members of the news media, investors and the general public.
The webcast, as with other selected presentations regarding developments in Amgen's business given by management at certain investor and medical conferences, can be found on Amgen's website, www.amgen.com, under Investors. Information regarding presentation times, webcast availability and webcast links are noted on Amgen's Investor Relations Events Calendar. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 90 days after the event.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World's Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron's.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
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HOUSTON — Nathanial Pollard Jr. of Maryland-Eastern Shore earned MVP honors after leading his team to victory in the second annual HBCU All-Star Game, played Sunday as part of the Final Four weekend’s festivities.
There were 12 players on each team, which were named after HBCU legends. Team Reed was named for the late Willis Reed, the Hall of Famer who played at Grambling State before leading the New York Knicks to two NBA championships.
Team Barnett was to honor Dick Barnett, a former Tennessee State player and teammate of Reed’s in New York during his long professional career.
Team Reed got 26 points from Jordon Karl Nicholas from Texas Southern.
There were nine players from the Southwestern Athletic Conference in the game to lead all leagues. Texas Southern and Norfolk State were the only schools boasting multiple players in the game. John Walker III joined Nicholas to represent Texas Southern and Joe Bryant Jr. and Kris Bankston are both from Norfolk State. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/2023/04/02/hbcu-allstar-final-four/fcfd7eec-d1b0-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html | 2023-04-03 01:12:53 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/2023/04/02/hbcu-allstar-final-four/fcfd7eec-d1b0-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html |
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Toxic cesspools, bribery at center of Hawaii lawmaker’s case
HONOLULU (AP) — A former Hawaii lawmaker is expected in court Thursday for sentencing in a federal corruption case that’s drawn attention to a perennial problem in the islands: the tens of thousands of cesspools that release 50 million gallons of raw sewage into the state’s pristine waters every day.
Cesspools — in-ground pits that collect sewage from houses and buildings not connected to city services for gradual release into the environment — are at the center of the criminal case against former Democratic state Rep. Ty Cullen. He has admitted to taking bribes of cash and gambling chips in exchange for influencing legislation to reduce Hawaii’s widespread use of cesspools.
The toxic pits proliferated in Hawaii in the ’50s, ‘60s and ’70s. when investment in sewer lines didn’t keep up with rapid development. Today Hawaii has 83,000 of them — more than any other state — and only banned new cesspools in 2016.
Now Hawaii is in a rush to get rid of them because of the environmental damage they do and the risk of groundwater contamination.
Public spending on such efforts and the lack of knowledge about the specialized field can create conditions ripe for corruption, said Colin Moore, a political science professor at the University of Hawaii.
“That just creates a lot of opportunities because comparisons are so difficult to make, especially in a really small market like Hawaii where there may only be two, or in some cases even one, contractor who can do the work,” Moore said. “Who’s to say that the bid is inflated?”
Cullen faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 when he is sentenced in U.S. District Court on Thursday.
Prosecutors have recommended he spend between two and two-and-a-half years in prison. His attorney has asked for a 15-month sentence, given what he called Cullen’s “substantial assistance” to investigators.
Related criminal cases have led to guilty pleas from the Senate majority leader.
An estimated 16% of Hawaii housing units have cesspools, but the share is much higher on more rural islands like the Big Island, where more than half of the homes have them. They’re found everywhere from the mountains to the seashore and even in urban neighborhoods just miles from downtown Honolulu.
In these homes, effluence from toilets and showers flows through drains into a pit in a yard instead of into a sewer line and to a central wastewater treatment plant. Raw sewage — including all its bacteria and pathogens — then seeps from the pit into the ground, groundwater, aquifers and ocean.
The sewage can contaminate drinking water, and in the ocean it can fuel the growth of reef-smothering algae. As sea levels rise due to climate change, scientists expect the ocean to increasingly inundate cesspools on coastal properties, pushing sewage into waters where people swim.
Such concerns have prompted the Legislature to draft bills to phase out cesspools. In 2017 the state enacted a law requiring homeowners to close their cesspools and hook up to sewer systems or install cleaner on-site waste treatment systems by 2050. The most common on-site alternative is a septic tank and leach field combination, in which bacteria break down solids inside a tank and a disposal field removes wastewater and pathogens while safely returning water to the environment.
This year lawmakers are considering additional legislation, including one bill that would accelerate conversion deadlines for cesspools in more environmentally sensitive areas to 2035 and 2040. Another would establish a pilot program to expand county sewage systems.
In a plea agreement, Cullen admitted receiving envelopes of cash to help pass a bill related to cesspool conversions. He was vice chair of the powerful House Finance Committee for part of the time he received bribes.
Cullen accepted a total of $23,000 from Honolulu businessman Milton Choy, who is due to be sentenced next month. He’s also admitted accepting $22,000 in gambling chips from Choy during a trip to a New Orleans wastewater conference.
Court documents say Choy’s company regularly entered into contracts with government agencies to provide wastewater management services and was well-placed to benefit from publicly financed cesspool conversion projects.
J. Kalani English, a Democrat and the former Senate majority leader, has already been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking bribes from Choy, also in exchange for influencing cesspool legislation.
Separately, a former Maui County wastewater manager admitted taking $2 million from Choy in exchange for steering at least 56 sole-source contracts to his business. He was sentenced to 10 years in February.
Cullen wrote in a letter to Judge Susan Oki Mollway ahead of his sentencing that he has made “egregious mistakes” and feels “regret, shame, embarrassment and dishonor.”
“I am asking for forgiveness and the opportunity to allow me time to learn from my mistakes. I shall work hard to share with others and make my mistakes a teachable moment,” he said.
Meanwhile, observers noted the many cutting jokes that can be made about the case.
“We were joking that, ‘Oh, now these politicians have given cesspools a bad name,’” said Stuart Coleman, a longtime advocate for shutting down Hawaii’s cesspools and the executive director of the nonprofit Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations.
“It’s not too far a jump when you talk about this kind of corruption and (then) you talk about the cesspool that is politics.” | https://mynorthwest.com/3870957/toxic-cesspools-bribery-at-center-of-hawaii-lawmakers-case/ | 2023-04-06 09:03:40 | 1 | https://mynorthwest.com/3870957/toxic-cesspools-bribery-at-center-of-hawaii-lawmakers-case/ |
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously known as food stamps, is a federal program that helps people with low incomes to buy food. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government provided SNAP recipients with additional benefits.
Several viewers texted VERIFY to ask if SNAP recipients will continue to get “extra stamps” in March.
THE QUESTION
Will SNAP recipients continue to receive extra benefits in March?
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THE ANSWER
No, SNAP recipients will not receive extra benefits in March.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal program that gives families with low incomes a debit card they can use to purchase certain food at stores. Although it’s a federal program, SNAP is run by the states.
The 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act increased funding for SNAP so states could provide “extra allotments” to families receiving SNAP benefits. This increased the monthly allowance families could spend using their SNAP cards.
Although the federal government continued making extra allotments available into this year, 17 states voluntarily chose to stop giving SNAP recipients additional benefits before the start of 2023. SNAP recipients in those 17 states will not see changes in their monthly benefits between February and March.
When Congress wrote their budget bill for 2023, they included a provision to end the extra allotments for all states in February 2023.
So in states that had still been providing SNAP recipients with this increased allowance, people will have fewer SNAP funds to spend in March than they did in February.
In total, that’s 32 states, plus Washington, D.C., Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says. South Carolina ended their emergency allotments a month early, meaning the state’s SNAP recipients last got an increased allowance in January.
The USDA has a list of states that will be affected by the end of emergency allotments at the end of February. You can find the list here beneath the header “Acknowledged Extensions (through February 2023).”
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, every household in those 32 states will receive at least $95 less a month, and some households will see reductions of hundreds of dollars per month. How much a household loses in SNAP benefits per month will depend on the size of the household; whether there are children, disabled people or adults over 60 and the household income of the residents, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says.
Still, SNAP recipients will not return to pre-pandemic levels of SNAP benefits. According to a Jan. 27, 2023 blog post by the USDA, the average monthly SNAP benefits per person pre-pandemic was $121; that number is estimated to be $169 per person once emergency allotments end in March.
There are two reasons for the increase in benefits from pre-pandemic levels, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says. The first is because of annual cost-of-living adjustments, which automatically change the amount of benefits SNAP recipients receive based on inflation. The other reason is because of an October 2021 change by the USDA to make SNAP benefits more closely reflect the cost of a healthy diet. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/verify/food-verify/extra-snap-benefits-end-march-2023-emergency-allotments-for-32-states/536-52454686-783e-412f-b0f4-93f9617182ec | 2023-02-27 20:58:59 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/verify/food-verify/extra-snap-benefits-end-march-2023-emergency-allotments-for-32-states/536-52454686-783e-412f-b0f4-93f9617182ec |
FLINT – Five Flint-area high school football teams are ranked among the top 10 this week by The Associated Press while four are in the coaches association top 10.
In the AP poll, Davison (7-1) is ranked No. 8 in Division while Lapeer (7-1) received honorable mention. | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/10/five-flint-area-football-teams-ranked-in-top-10-by-ap-four-by-coaches-association.html | 2022-10-18 17:16:08 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/10/five-flint-area-football-teams-ranked-in-top-10-by-ap-four-by-coaches-association.html |
The state of Florida is pulling about $2 billion from BlackRock Inc. in the largest anti-environmental-social-and-governance withdrawal announced by a U.S. state as Republicans ramp up their fight against the world's largest money manager.
BlackRock wasn't aware of the decision until reading about it Thursday in a statement from Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. In a video posted the day before the announcement, Patronis said financial firms should brace for more actions by the state's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who campaigned for reelection on his so-called anti-woke agenda as he gears up for a possible presidential run.
Florida becomes at least the sixth state divesting from New York-based BlackRock, Wall Street's biggest champion of environmental, social and governance investing.
"We keep seeing action at a rapid pace, and it seems to be escalating," Joshua Lichtenstein, a partner at law firm Ropes & Gray, said Thursday. "It seems like a state which had already taken significant anti-ESG action is going even further."
Overall, 19 attorneys general from states largely with GOP-dominated governments, including Arizona, Kentucky and West Virginia, have lashed out at BlackRock for pursuing a "climate agenda," at odds, they say, with generating returns for state pensions. Louisiana and Missouri are among states that have also pulled money from the asset manager.
"Using our cash to fund BlackRock's social-engineering project isn't something Florida ever signed up for," Patronis said in the statement. "It's got nothing to do with maximizing returns and is the opposite of what an asset manager is paid to do."
BlackRock, which oversees $8 trillion globally, was "surprised" by Florida's decision, given strong returns produced for state taxpayers over the past five years, spokesperson Ed Sweeney said. "Neither the [chief financial officer] nor his staff have raised any performance concerns," Sweeney said.
Pressure is building on BlackRock to stem the outflows. An analyst at UBS downgraded the asset manager's stock rating in October, partly because its "early and energetic" portrayal of itself as a champion of environmental, social and governance investing made the firm a political target.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said this week he's been working to counter criticism from across the political spectrum for its support of sustainable investing. Republicans have retaliated against his firm's embrace of what they've described as "woke" capitalism, while Democrats and environmental activists have targeted BlackRock for investing in fossil fuel producers.
To help stem the backlash, BlackRock said it had picked Mark McCombe for a new role as vice chairman focusing on telling "BlackRock's story to more stakeholders across the U.S., specifically at the state level," according to an Oct. 3 memo.
Against that backdrop, BlackRock poured record amounts of money into U.S. political campaigns this year. Fink said Wednesday that he has been spending a lot of time in Washington to "correct the narrative."
The state treasury will immediately have Florida's custody bank freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove BlackRock as the manager of approximately $600 million worth of short-term overnight investments, Patronis said Thursday.
Information for this article was contributed by Neil Weinberg, Shelly Hagan and Michael Smith of Bloomberg News (WPNS). | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/dec/03/florida-withdrawing-2b-from-manager-blackrock/ | 2022-12-03 09:21:30 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/dec/03/florida-withdrawing-2b-from-manager-blackrock/ |
The Global Phenomenon Pinkfong and Baby Shark Returning To Movie Theaters With New Song-Filled Adventures on January 28 & 29, 2023
DENVER, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pinkfong Company, the global entertainment company behind Baby Shark, is partnering with Fathom Events to debut its highly-anticipated cinematic special, Pinkfong Sing-Along Movie 2: Wonderstar Concert, at movie theaters across the U.S. This feature-length film will arrive in theaters on Saturday and Sunday, January 28 and 29, 2023.
View Trailer HERE.
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Tickets for Pinkfong Sing-Along Movie 2: Wonderstar Concert can be purchased at Fathom Events or participating theater box offices. For a complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom Events website (theater participants are subject to change). Please contact your local theater for individual safety precautions.
Produced by award-winning creators, Pinkfong Sing-Along Movie 2: Wonderstar Concert is the sequel to Pinkfong and Baby Shark's Space Adventure, which was the fifth most-watched movie in Netflix's Today's Top 10 list in the U.S. Following the success of the first cinematic special, this limited-run film will delight kids and families with 14 fan-favorite Pinkfong songs including the iconic Baby Shark song from the most-viewed YouTube video of all time.
Pinkfong Sing-Along Movie 2: Wonderstar Concert follows Pinkfong and his best friend Hogi as they prepare for the first sing-along concert with Wonderstar friends and navigate various challenges to present a perfect show for their fans around the world. The film alternates between Pinkfong and Hogi's journey in preparing for the concert and several performing scenes full of fun dances and dazzling songs in a variety of genres like jazz, rock, and EDM.
"We are thrilled to bring Pinkfong Sing-Along Movie 2: Wonderstar Concert to movie theaters across the U.S.," said Bin Jeong, CEO of Pinkfong USA. "We hope this song-filled adventure will provide memorable and unique experiences that all family members can share together."
The Pinkfong Company is a global entertainment company that delivers content and entertaining experiences around the world. Driven by award-winning brands and I.P.s, the company has created and distributed a range of content across genres and formats including original animated series, world live tours, interactive games, and more. Believing in the power of entertaining and engaging content, The Pinkfong Company is committed to connecting people around the world and bringing joy and inspiration to worldwide audiences of all ages. For more information, please visit the website or follow the company on LinkedIn.
Fathom is a recognized leader in the entertainment industry as one of the top distributors of content to movie theaters in North America. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L), Fathom operates the largest cinema distribution network, delivering a wide variety of programming and experiences to cinema audiences in all of the top U.S. markets and to more than 45 countries. For more information, visit www.fathomevents.com.
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QUÉBEC, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - UgoWork™, a Canadian energy solutions provider specializing in lithium-ion batteries and Energy as a Service (EaaS) solutions in the material handling industry, just announced that industry veteran, Tim Ballard, is now the company's Director of Sales. This is yet another initiative UgoWork has taken as it continues to make inroads across the US and Canada.
Tim has over two decades of proven experience in material handling. After studying at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, he worked in several management positions at ProLift Industrial Equipment, an official full-service and material handling dealership for Toyota.
Apart from an in-depth and pragmatic understanding of industry needs and trends, Tim's strengths reside in his track record of working in all aspects of material handling, including operations, sales, training and support.
"We are thrilled to welcome Tim to the team," explained Philippe Beauchamp, UgoWork's CEO. "When I first met Tim through different projects, I already knew about his incredible reputation in the industry. We have an amazing response from the market and Tim comes at the right time. His approach and personality are a perfect fit in our team, and his contribution to our phenomenal expansion is extremely exciting. His background and rigor will definitely help our entire team achieve the very ambitious expansion goals we have set for the company."
Tim shares Philippe's eagerness to pave the way for UgoWork's innovative approach to energy management for material handling teams. "I was very impressed with UgoWork's vision and the performance of both its lithium-ion batteries and Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) model," he said. "No other manufacturer offers these types of solutions on the market—a solution that truly addresses today's material handling challenges."
"What started off as a customer-vendor relationship evolved into something much more. Right away, I saw the advantages of UgoWork's products and what they could do. The customer value speaks for itself," Tim added.
His plans for UgoWork in the upcoming months? "I want the business to have the very best sales team in the industry so that we can educate and serve material handling teams across North America about the benefits of lithium-ion batteries and EaaS as compared to other legacy technologies. UgoWork's future looks very bright indeed."
The UgoWork team will be at the Southern Automotive Conference from October 5 to 7 in Atlanta, GA. UgoWork will have booths in the Canadian pavilion (#404) and the EV Street display area.
UgoWork develops, manufactures, and offers energy expertise and innovative lithium-ion power solutions that unlock the possibilities of Energy as a Service for the material handling industry. The company provides a flexible and cost-efficient consumption model that guarantees uptime and peace of mind. Its cloud-based approach to fleet optimization, pay-per-use program, energy insight, continuous field service, uptime guarantee, and end-of-life management enable fleet managers to execute their energy transition seamlessly. UgoWork's products and energy solutions cater to industrial trucks operating in the food and beverage, manufacturing, transportation, and distribution sectors.
Based in Quebec, Canada, the company offers its advanced, cost-efficient, and proven energy management programs across North America to many fortune 500 companies. Visit ugowork.com.
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Rangers beat struggling Flyers 6-3 for 6th straight win
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jimmy Vesey scored early in the third period and the New York Rangers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 for their sixth straight win. Artemi Panarin, Barclay Goodrow and K’Andre Miller each had a goal and an assist, Jacob Trouba and Ryan Lindgren had empty-net goals and Mika Zibanejad had two assists for the Rangers, who are 7-1-1 in their last nine. Jaroslav Halak had 29 saves to improve to 2-6-1. James van Riemsdyk, Scott Laughton and Morgan Frost scored for the struggling Flyers, who have lost 17 of their last 20 (3-12-5). Carter Hart finished with 29 saves. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/12/17/rangers-beat-struggling-flyers-6-3-for-6th-straight-win/ | 2022-12-18 08:21:16 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/12/17/rangers-beat-struggling-flyers-6-3-for-6th-straight-win/ |
DALLAS (AP) — Tanner Mordecai threw three touchdown passes and SMU rolled to a 45-16 victory over Lamar on Saturday night.
Mordecai was 18-of-31 passing for 212 yards. He connected with Rashee Rice twice for scores, including the Mustangs' first touchdown. Rice also made an over-the-shoulder, 20-yard catch in the end zone late in the third quarter. Rice finished with nine catches for 132 yards.
TJ McDaniel found a crease up the middle, stiff armed a defender then ran along the left sideline for a 56-yard touchdown run that stretched the Mustangs' lead to 24-7 late in the first half. McDaniel scored his first touchdown since the 2020 season. He sat out last season due to injury. He added a 1-yard score and finished with 96 yards on the ground.
Velton Gardner had 100 yards rushing on 11 carries for SMU (2-0).
Khalan Griffin had a 1-yard touchdown run for Lamar (0-2).
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ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain on Saturday to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. There were standoffs with police as some protesters tried to reach the edge of the mine and the village itself.
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined the demonstrators as they protested the clearance of Luetzerath, walking through the nearby village of Keyenberg and past muddy fields. Protesters chanted “Every village stays” and “You are not alone.”
Organizers said about 35,000 people took part, while police put the figure at 15,000. On the sidelines of the protest, police said people broke through their barriers and some got into the Garzweiler coal mine.
Some who tried to get to the edge of the mine were pushed back. And German news agency dpa reported that police used water cannons and batons just outside Luetzerath itself, which is now fenced off, against hundreds of people who got that far. The situation calmed down after dark.
Some protesters have complained of what they say was undue force by police and about the size of the police response this week. Police, meanwhile, said some demonstrators had thrown fireworks at officers and damaged patrol cars.
Thunberg said the fate of Luetzerath and the expansion of the mine matters far beyond Germany.
In the global fight against climate change, “what everyone does matters,” she told The Associated Press shortly before the protest. “And if one of the largest polluters, like Germany, and one of the biggest historical emitters of CO2 is doing something like this, then of course it affects more or less everyone — especially those most bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.”
As the demonstration took place, the clearance of Luetzerath was well advanced.
The operation to evict climate activists holed up in the village kicked off on Wednesday morning. In the first three days of the operation, police said that about 470 people had left the site, 320 of them voluntarily.
They said on Friday afternoon that there were no longer any activists in the remaining buildings or on their roofs. They said Saturday they still had to tackle 15 “structures” such as tree houses and were trying to get into a tunnel in which two people were believed to be holed up, dpa reported. Work to demolish buildings was already underway.
Luetzerath has become a cause celebre for critics of Germany’s climate efforts.
Environmentalists say bulldozing the village to expand the Garzweiler mine would result in huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. The government and utility company RWE argue the coal is needed to ensure Germany’s energy security.
The regional and national governments, both of which include the environmentalist Green party, reached a deal with RWE last year allowing it to destroy the abandoned village in return for ending coal use by 2030, rather than 2038.
Some speakers at Saturday’s demonstration assailed the Greens, whose leaders argue that the deal fulfills many of the environmentalists’ demands and saved five other villages from demolition.
“It’s very weird to see the German government, including the Green party, make deals and compromise with companies like RWE, with fossil fuel companies, when they should rather be held accountable for all the damage and destruction they have caused,” Thunberg said.
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Chilly start to Tuesday, rain again by Thursday
Chilly mornings and pleasantly warm afternoons through midweek, and the next round of rain holds off until at least Thursday. Check the video forecast for the latest.
A FEW DRY DAYS
Spring showers and storms stay away for a few days, and the cooler, drier air makes for a pleasant period through midweek. It does get chilly at night, though. Expect early Tuesday morning (5-7 AM) temperatures to fall as low as the upper 30s in the usual cold spots east of Birmingham; it drops to the 40-45°F range over the rest of North and Central Alabama.
Tuesday and Wednesday feature cool mornings but nice, warm afternoons: starting in the 40s both days, rising to the 70s after lunchtime, and featuring a mostly clear sky the whole way.
GULF STORM SYSTEM HEADS NORTH
A storm system developing near the Louisiana Gulf Coast Tuesday begins to inch northward Wednesday and Thursday: spreading clouds into the region and bringing some showers to end the week.
Rain does not look especially heavy, nor does it appear we have any risk of severe weather this system across North and Central Alabama. We will get some wet, cool weather out of it for Thursday, and some spotty showers continue into Friday. Total rainfall Thursday looks to be around 0.25” to 0.75” with a few overachieving spots getting more than one inch of rain.
Thursday looks cool, too: highs only in the 60s with a cloudy sky and occasional showers.
The spring warmth rebounds Friday; expect highs back in the 70s Friday afternoon with some sun in between the showers.
WEEKEND PEEK
The weekend looks warmer than this past one! Temperatures jump to the 80s on Saturday, but that’s ahead of a weak cool front that sends some showers or even some (non-severe) thunderstorms across the state Saturday evening through Sunday morning.
Behind the front, the air stays seasonably mild: highs in the lower 70s, lows in the 40s/50s into early next week.
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Which futon bed is best?
Futon mattresses are a traditional form of bedding in Japan, going back as far as records began, but Western-style futon beds are a more popular choice in the United States. They’re thicker than Japanese futons and usually come on a slatted frame, so they double as couches when not used as beds.
The right futon for you depends on how and where you intend to use it, whether in your living room or spare room, as your main bed or a guest bed. The Lark Manor Burin Queen Futon is the top choice for regular use.
What to know before you buy a futon bed
Frame material
The frame of a futon is important because it supports the mattress both in couch configuration and bed configuration. Futons can have either metal or wooden frames.
- Wood: Frames made from wood are solid and highly durable. They’re unlikely to bend or break over time. They’re generally more attractive than wooden frames, as well, which is important if your futon is in the living room or anywhere else where you’ll have to look at it regularly. On the downside, they’re more expensive than metal frames and heavier so it can be trickier to convert your futon between modes.
- Metal: Metal frames are an inexpensive choice. They’re usually light so transforming your futon from a bed to a couch is easier. However, they’re not the most durable and can bend or warp with regular use.
Mattress material
Traditionally, futon mattresses are made from cotton batting. This provides firm support but it doesn’t always feel comfortable to people who are used to more conventional mattresses. Therefore, many contemporary futons have integrated foam or innersprings into their mattresses.
- Foam: Foam mattresses have a softer feeling than all-cotton versions while remaining supportive. They usually consist of a central layer of foam with cotton batting above and below.
- Innerspring: Some futons contain inner springs below a layer of more traditional futon materials. This retains the firm support but adds some bounce. It’s a great choice for anyone used to sleeping on a sprung mattress.
Size
While you can find a handful of smaller and larger options, most futons are either full or queen size. Full size is great for one person if they want more space than a twin would offer, but can fit two people at a push. Queen size is a more comfortable option for sleeping two.
You should also consider the length of the futon. Its length in bed mode is the same as its width in couch mode, so it’s often slightly shorter than a standard mattress.
What to look for in a quality futon bed
Color choices
You can choose from a range of frame colors and mattress colors. Consider the existing decor in the room where your futon will go and use this to help your decision.
Bi-fold frame
Bi-fold frames have just two parts and one hinge, while tri-fold frames have three parts and two hinges. Bi-fold frames are more common than their tri-fold counterparts these days because they’re much easier to maneuver between modes.
Adjustable frame position
In addition to an upright couch position and a flat bed position, some frames have one or two more points of adjustment. This puts the back of the couch into a more relaxed reclined position.
How much you can expect to spend on a futon bed
Most futons cost $200-$1,000. Pricier models tend to have solid wood frames and higher-quality mattresses.
Futon bed FAQ
Are futons healthy to sleep on?
A. As long as the mattress is adequately supportive, futons are perfectly healthy to sleep on. Cheap ones are fine for occasional use, such as when you have guests staying, but higher-end offerings are supportive enough for every night.
Can futon covers be washed?
A. Some futon mattresses have removable covers. These removable covers are usually machine washable, but you’ll need to check the label for exact instructions. Taking them off, washing them and replacing them can be a pain, so it’s better to keep the cover clean by using a fitted sheet.
How thick should a futon mattress be?
A. It should be roughly 6-8 inches thick. This is thick enough that it’s comfortable and supportive but not so thick that it’s impossible to fold.
What’s the best futon bed to buy?
Top futon bed
What you need to know: With its innerspring mattress, this futon is supportive enough to be used every night.
What you’ll love: The frame is wooden with a choice of two finishes: butternut and espresso. The mattress comes in five colors, including gray, black and dark blue. It’s a queen size so it’s large enough to sleep two people.
What you should consider: The mattress and frame are both heavy so you need an extra pair of hands to switch it from a bed into a couch.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Top futon bed for the money
Winston Porter Garrido Full Futon
What you need to know: This basic metal-framed futon makes an excellent guest bed.
What you’ll love: Assembly is straightforward and the frame and mattress are both light enough that it’s easy to change configurations. The gray color works well with most styles of decor.
What you should consider: The mattress isn’t comfortable enough for regular use.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Worth checking out
Nirvana Futons Eastridge Futon Set
What you need to know: Comfortable, sturdy and attractive, this is an excellent futon for regular or occasional use.
What you’ll love: The wooden frame has a gorgeous medium-dark finish and a flip-out table on the side of the arm. The mattress comes in a choice of 10 colors, including fudge, burgundy and navy blue. The cotton and foam mattress is comfortable and supportive.
What you should consider: Assembly is on the tricky side, especially for anyone with little flatpack experience.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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It's now a lot easier — and cheaper — for many hard-of-hearing Americans to get help.
Hearing aids can now be sold without a prescription from a specialist. Over-the-counter, or OTC, hearing aids started hitting the market in October at prices that can be thousands of dollars lower than prescription hearing aids.
About 30 million people in the United States deal with hearing loss, according to the Food and Drug Administration. But only about 20% of those who could use a hearing aid seek help.
Here’s a closer look:
WHO MIGHT BE HELPED
The FDA approved OTC hearing aids for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. That can include people who have trouble hearing phone calls or who turn up the TV volume loud enough that others complain.
It also can include people who have trouble understanding group conversations in noisy places.
OTC hearing aids aren't intended for people with deeper hearing loss, which may include those who have trouble hearing louder noises, like power tools and cars. They also aren't for people who lost their hearing suddenly or in just one ear, according to Sterling Sheffield, an audiologist who teaches at the University of Florida. Those people need to see a doctor.
HEARING TEST
Before over-the-counter, you usually needed to get your hearing tested and buy hearing aids from a specialist. That's no longer the case.
But it can be hard for people to gauge their own hearing. You can still opt to see a specialist just for that test, which is often covered by insurance, and then buy the aids on your own. Check your coverage before making an appointment.
There also are a number of apps and questionnaires available to determine whether you need help. Some over-the-counter sellers also provide a hearing assessment or online test.
WHO’S SELLING
Several major retailers now offer OTC hearing aids online and on store shelves.
Walgreens drugstores, for example, are selling Lexie Lumen hearing aids nationwide for $799. Walmart offers OTC hearing aids ranging from about $200 to $1,000 per pair. Its health centers will provide hearing tests.
The consumer electronics chain Best Buy has OTC hearing aids available online and in nearly 300 stores. The company also offers an online hearing assessment, and store employees are trained on the stages of hearing loss and how to fit the devices.
Overall, there are more than a dozen manufacturers making different models of OTC hearing aids.
New devices will make up most of the OTC market as it develops, Sheffield said. Some may be hearing aids that previously required a prescription, ones that are only suitable for people with mild to moderate hearing loss.
Shoppers should expect a lot of devices to enter and leave the market, said Catherine Palmer, a hearing expert at the University of Pittsburgh.
“It will be quite a while before this settles down,” she said.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Look for an OTC label on the box. Hearing aids approved by the FDA for sale without a prescription are required to be labeled OTC.
That will help you distinguish OTC hearing aids from cheaper devices sometimes labeled sound or hearing amplifiers — called a personal sound amplification product or PSAP. While often marketed to seniors, they are designed to make sounds louder for people with normal hearing in certain environments, like hunting. And amplifiers don't undergo FDA review.
“People really need to read the descriptions,” said Barbara Kelley, executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America.
And check the return policy. That's important because people generally need a few weeks to get used to them, and make sure they work in the situations where they need them most. That may include on the phone or in noisy offices or restaurants.
Does the company selling OTC devices offer instructions or an app to assist with setup, fit and sound adjustments? A specialist could help too, but expect to pay for that office visit, which is rarely covered by insurance.
Sheffield said hearing aids are not complicated, but wearing them also is not as simple as putting on a pair of reading glasses.
“If you’ve never tried or worn hearing aids, then you might need a little bit of help,” he said.
THE COST
Most OTC hearing aids will cost between $500 and $1,500 for a pair, Sheffield said. He noted that some may run up to $3,000.
And it's not a one-time expense. They may have to be replaced every five years or so.
Hearing specialists say OTC prices could fall further as the market matures. But they already are generally cheaper than their prescription counterparts, which can run more than $5,000.
The bad news is insurance coverage of hearing aids is spotty. Some Medicare Advantage plans offer coverage of devices that need a prescription, but regular Medicare does not. There are discounts out there, including some offered by Medicare Advantage insurer UnitedHealthcare in partnership with AARP.
Shoppers also can pay for the devices with money set aside in health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts.
Don’t try to save money by buying just one hearing aid. People need to have the same level of hearing in both ears so they can figure out where a sound is coming from, according to the American Academy of Audiology.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — One girl runs and hides when she sees thin people with long hair similar to the gunman who stormed into her Uvalde school and killed 21 people. One boy stopped making friends and playing with animals. A third child feels her heart race when she's reminded of the May 24 massacre that killed a close friend — once at such a dangerous pace that she had to be rushed to a hospital, where she stayed for weeks.
The 11-year-old girl has been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She and her family spoke to The Associated Press on condition her name not be used to protect her identity.
“I never lost someone before,” she said, adding that her friend who was among the 19 students and two teachers killed in the United States’ deadliest school massacre in a decade would encourage her through hard times. “She was a very strong person.”
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As students get ready to return to school in Uvalde on Tuesday for the first time since the massacre at Robb Elementary, PTSD symptoms are starting to show. Parents are finding themselves unable to help, and experts worry because communities of color such as the largely Hispanic city of Uvalde face disparities in access mental health care. For low-income families, it can be even harder, as access to limited resources requires long waits for referrals through medical assistance programs such as Medicaid.
“It’s hard hearing what these kids are going through at such a young age,” said Yuri Castro, a mother of two boys in Uvalde, whose cousin was killed in the shooting and whose sons were once taught by the two slain teachers. Castro knows of children so traumatized they have stopped speaking.
School shootings dramatically upend survivors' lives. For some, symptoms linger for years and high-quality treatment can be difficult to find.
In recent years, Texas lawmakers have focused on spending money on mental health services, devoting more than $2.5 billion during the current fiscal year.
But according to the 11-year-old girl’s family — lifelong residents of Uvalde — the only mental health center in the area — just blocks from Robb Elementary — was seldom used or discussed, raising worries about the lack of awareness regarding signs and symptoms of mental illness and the stigma surrounding seeking help.
The mother of the 11-year-old girl whose racing heart led to her hospitalization says open conversations about mental health were previously taboo in the heavily Latino community, where culturally, mental health is brushed off as feeling lazy, bored or throwing a tantrum.
“I remember growing up it was like, ‘Go over there, you are just being chiflada,’” the mother said, using a Spanish word that means “acting spoiled.”
Now, she said, the town is waking up to the reality of mental health even as some people still ask why survivors like her daughter need help.
Members of the community have been supporting one another by checking in with extended family and friends and taking advantage of community resources that have been set up, including counseling by the Red Cross and emotional support from the churches. The parents of one of the children who was killed started an organization that will be putting together wilderness retreats for victims’ families and survivors. Residents also have social media groups where they can share mental health resources and express their grief.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracted with organizations to create a mental health hotline that in six weeks responded to nearly 400 calls.
Martha Rodriguez, who coordinated efforts to help students recover after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said officials need to visit the community to make sure the right resources are available. She said addressing stigmas and sending providers who understand the families’ language and values are key.
“Some families may not feel comfortable sharing distress and needs,” she said.
Many families impacted by the shooting are Roman Catholic. The mother of a girl who survived the attack said her daughter has only been able to open up to a priest in Houston — 280 miles (450 kilometers) away — whom the family goes to see when they visit relatives.
“This is going to be a long journey. This is not going to be something that we can just do some work and fix it,” said San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller.
Julie Kaplow, director of the trauma and grief centers at the Texas Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital New Orleans, said many students who survived the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting that killed 10 in suburban Houston did not exhibit symptoms for six months.
“I am anticipating that we will see some similarities," said Kaplow, who has been training clinicians and others who are treating families in Uvalde. “Part of the reason is those symptoms haven’t manifested yet and will start to manifest when they are reminded of the event itself. Or the caregiver starts to recognize, ‘Wait a minute my child is still not eating, is still not sleeping.’”
The length of treatment varies depending on the severity of symptoms. For some, it can last up to two to three years.
Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, was the lead adviser to public schools in Newtown, Connecticut, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. She said officials need to make sure that families can get services at school. They also need to create spaces that feel friendlier, such as community meals, rather than clinics.
Parents of the incoming fifth-grader who is struggling with symptoms chose to home-school her this year so she can continue going to appointments more easily. She is also getting a service dog who will alert her if her heart rate rises.
But she worries about her brothers returning to the classroom and gets anxious thinking others will judge her because of how she has been affected by the massacre when she wasn't shot, her mother said. She is awakened daily by night terrors.
“We don't sleep. ... We don't even know what that is anymore since this has happened,” the mother said. “I am going to have to deal with that for however long it takes for her to heal.”
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis has agreed to a $700,000 settlement with family members who were locked inside two squad cars when police killed their father after officers refused their offers to try and help calm him down.
A federal judge ruled that officers were justified in shooting 52-year-old Chiasher Vue after he pointed a rifle at them on Dec. 15, 2019. The settlement will resolve a lawsuit his family filed arguing that police had illegally and unconstitutionally detained them that night.
Chamee Vue and her brothers Hailee and Nou Vue tried to intervene but weren’t allowed out of the police cars. And after the shooting, they spent hours detained in interrogation rooms while police questioned them.
“I couldn’t get out of the car, couldn’t give him reassurance that everything would be OK,” Chamee said.
A language barrier contributed to the incident because Chiasher Vue spoke little English and few officers there that night spoke Hmong. Hailee Vue said he wants the Hmong community to understand what happened to his family, and for their case to be instructive for future policing.
“I just don’t want any other family to go through what the four of us went through,” he said.
Since this incident, Minneapolis police have changed department policy on handling witnesses to say they must be treated in a constitutional manner. A police spokesman told the Minneapolis Star Tribune the policy change wasn’t related to this case, but the Vue siblings say they still take consolation in the change. The new policy makes it more clear that a person who has not been charged with a crime and isn’t being held on probable cause is free to leave at any time.
Family members say Chiasher Vue was going through a mental health crisis and suffering with untreated depression on the night he was killed.
A night of drinking and karaoke spiraled out of control when after a series of quarrels Chiasher fired several shots at a wall inside the house and another one of his sons called 911. An autopsy later determined that Chiasher Vue has a blood alcohol level of 0.20 at the time he was killed.
“Look, my dad is mentally ill ... Just let me and my little sister go talk to him. We can talk him out,” Nou Vue said to an unidentified officer, according to squad car footage. “You’re not getting out of the squad. Stop asking,” replied the officer.
But after Vue came out of the house pointing a rifle, he and officers quickly exchanged gunfire. Investigators weren't able to determine who fired first, but Vue was struck by 13 bullets. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/minneapolis-to-pay-700-000-settlement-with-18111288.php | 2023-05-21 22:19:13 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/minneapolis-to-pay-700-000-settlement-with-18111288.php |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is taking a first-in-the-nation step to tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining, under legislation that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Tuesday.
The measure comes amid growing scrutiny of the cryptocurrency industry following this month’s collapse of the FTX exchange. But New York’s measure, which passed the state Legislature in June, is specifically concerned with the environmental aspects of crypto.
“I will ensure that New York continues to be the center of financial innovation, while also taking important steps to prioritize the protection of our environment,” Hochul, a Democrat, said in a message explaining her approval.
The new law sets a two-year moratorium on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants used for energy-intensive “proof-of-work” cryptocurrency mining — a term for the computational process that records and secures transactions in bitcoin and similar forms of digital money. Proof-of-work is the blockchain-based algorithm used by bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies.
The law also requires the Department of Environmental Conservation to asses how cryptomining affects the state’s ability to meet its climate goals.
Environmentalists said New York was undermining those goals by letting cryptomining operations run their own natural gas-burning power plants.
Cryptocurrency advocates, meanwhile, argued that the measure would crimp New York’s economic development, and singled out crypto while not addressing other fossil fuel use.
Cryptocurrency mining requires specialized computers that consume large amounts of energy. One study calculated that as of November 2018, bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption was comparable to Hong Kong’s in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Some miners are looking for ways to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels to produce the necessary electricity. | https://www.fox16.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-ny-gov-signs-novel-law-that-limits-cryptomining-for-now/ | 2022-11-23 16:03:08 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-ny-gov-signs-novel-law-that-limits-cryptomining-for-now/ |
100 years ago
April 26, 1923
WASHINGTON, D.C., -- Nearly half a million dollars has been allotted by Secretary of War Weeks for river and harbor work on projects in Arkansas, it was announced by the War Department today. The allotment is made from the lump sum appropriation made by Congress for this work for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. By far the largest amount to be spent in Arkansas was allotted to the Ouachita and Black rivers. Part of the sum will be expended on the streams across the border in Louisiana. The amount, $400,000, however, goes for continuing work on the locks and dams near Camden, on the old project of making the Ouachita navigable to that city.
50 years ago
April 26, 1973
The Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission Tuesday approved plans for a computerized electronic sign, to be located at West Markham Street and Broadway, to serve as a "super marquee" for the new convention center. The sign would be financed by revenues from advertising messages the board would carry. It will not be built unless sufficient advertising revenue can be obtained. The Commission's approval of the plans gave the Little Rock Convention Bureau the approval to seek advertising. The sign would have two sides, one facing West Markham and one facing Broadway. Each side would be eight feet tall, 30 feet long and four feet thick. The whole assembly would be mounted on a 20-foot aluminum pedestal.
25 years ago
April 26, 1998
More than 400 volunteers from 45 counties gathered at the Arkansas' Promise summit in Little Rock this weekend with a goal of reducing the number of children at risk in the state, officials said. The volunteers attended meetings downtown that began Friday afternoon and end at noon today to strengthen and expand programs that target youth who lack parental and community support, said Becky Kossover, director of the Division of Volunteer Services within the state Department of Human Services. "What we hope to do is inspire these delegates ... and equip them with the materials that they can go back to their own communities and assess what resources they have," Kossover said. "So that they can say, 'OK, what needs to happen in this community?'" The state summit comes a year after the President's Summit for America's Future in Philadelphia that called on individual and corporate volunteers to mentor, protect, nurture, teach and serve children at risk. Arkansas' Promise hopes to answer the national challenge by reaching 20,000 Arkansas children by 2000.
10 years ago
April 26, 2013
The four-star-rated Peabody Little Rock hotel will become a Marriott on Wednesday, Gretchen Hall, chief executive officer of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Thursday. Hall also said that the ducks -- the Peabody's signature brand -- will take their last march in Little Rock within the next week. She said the ducks will move out by Wednesday, but she said she does not know where they will go or the exact date of their last waddle through the lobby. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/26/other-days/ | 2023-04-26 09:51:01 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/26/other-days/ |
LOS ANGELES — California was drying out and digging out on New Year’s Day after a powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of the state, snarling traffic and closing major highways.
“The roads are extremely slick so let’s all work together and slow down so we can keep I-80 open,” the California Highway Patrol said on Twitter. Several other highways, including State Route 50, also reopened.
More than 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow had accumulated in the high Sierra Nevada, and the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area said heavy, wet snow would cause major delays in chairlift openings. On Saturday, the resort reported numerous lift closings, citing high winds, low visibility and ice.
In the state’s capital, at least 40,000 customers were still without power early Sunday, down from more than 150,000 a day earlier, according to a Sacramento Municipal Utility District online map.
A so-called atmospheric river storm pulled in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across the state.
Rainfall in downtown San Francisco hit 5.46 inches (13.87 cm) on New Year’s Eve, making it the second-wettest day on record, behind a November 1994 deluge, the National Weather Service said. Videos on Twitter showed mud-colored water streaming along San Francisco streets, and a staircase in Oakland turned into a veritable waterfall by heavy rains.
In Southern California, several people were rescued after floodwaters inundated cars in San Bernardino and Orange counties. No major injuries were reported.
With the region drying out on New Year’s Day and no rainfall expected during Monday’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, spectators began staking out their spots for the annual floral spectacle.
The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California. The past three years have been the state’s driest on record — but much more precipitation is needed to make a significant difference.
It was the first of several storms expected to roll across the state in the span of a week. Saturday’s system was warmer and wetter, while storms this week will be colder, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento.
The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the week, Chandler-Cooley said.
Another round of heavy showers was also forecast for Southern California on Tuesday or Wednesday, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles-area office said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/california-dries-out-digs-out-after-storm-dumps-rain-snow/2023/01/01/3c5be344-89fe-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html | 2023-01-01 18:48:47 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/california-dries-out-digs-out-after-storm-dumps-rain-snow/2023/01/01/3c5be344-89fe-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html |
NEW YORK — Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $84.5 million to Girl Scouts of the USA and 29 of its local branches, the 110-year-old organization said Tuesday, calling it a vote of confidence.
"Her support of our organization means honestly just as much as the donation," Sofia Chang, CEO of GSUSA, said in an interview.
It's the largest donation the Girl Scouts have received from an individual since their founding in 1912, she said. The funds will help the organization recover from the impact of the pandemic, which drove down membership. The Girl Scouts plan to support volunteers and staff, make camp properties more resistant to the impacts of climate change, improve science and technology education for youth members and develop diversity and inclusion programming to make their troops more accessible.
The Girl Scout council in Southern Arizona decided to use the $1.4 million it received from Scott to elevate the work they are already doing rather than to start a new program or initiative, said its CEO Kristen Garcia-Hernandez.
"We are a small council and we're certainly not in a major metropolitan hub. So for us, gifts of this magnitude don't come around very often," Garcia-Hernandez said.
The gift accelerates their plan to hire more staff to reach most places in the seven counties they serve in under an hour and provide programming year-round. The council will also outfit a van as a mobile science and technology classroom, a project they have tried to fund for a year and a half. Many local funders seem to think that the Girl Scout's cookie sales cover their expenses, she said.
"While the cookie program sustains us certainly and it's wonderful and the girls are part of that process, which makes it even more beautiful, we certainly need more from the community," Garcia-Hernandez said.
Philanthropic giving to organizations that specifically serve women and girls represents less than 2% of all donations, according to a research project of the Women's Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The institute found that proportion has not changed significantly between 2012 and 2019, the years the study has tracked.
Tessa Skidmore, research associate at the institute, said major gifts from women like philanthropists Melinda French Gates, Sheryl Sandberg and Scott could inspire other donors.
"Those are the types of things that have the potential to change that number," she said.
The institute partnered with Pivotal Ventures, the investment firm founded by French Gates, and others to promote giving to women and girls on the International Day of the Girl, marked on Oct. 11 each year. It also shares its giving data in the hopes that donors or researchers will use it as one way to evaluate gender equity in donations.
Scott communicates infrequently about her giving, which has totaled around $12 billion since 2019. She has donated large, unrestricted grants to many different kinds of organizations, though her gifts have had a special focus on racial equity. Scott also made a blockbuster $275 million gift to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates this year.
In September, Scott filed for divorce from her second husband, Dan Jewett, whose profile was also removed from website of The Giving Pledge, a group that asks billionaires to give more than half their wealth away in their lifetimes. The former couple had jointly written on the site last year about their intention to give away Scott's fortune, which largely comes from her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Youth membership of the Girl Scouts fell dramatically during the pandemic, dropping nearly 30% from about 1.4 million in 2019- 2020 to just over 1 million in 2021-2022. Chang acknowledged the drop but made the case that the organization's programs consistently help girls build confidence and tackle problems in their community.
"Our traditional way of supporting girls was really upended during the pandemic as troops couldn't really meet in person," Chang said. "So to build back stronger than we ever had before, we're really listening to our Girl Scouts, listening to their families and to our volunteers to really ensure that what comes next for us is truly impactful in this moment."
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It’s been a very busy week for government meetings, but one more happened in Austin that is important to the ongoing discussion about equity across urban Texas cities as it pertains to environmental justice.
On Wednesday, the Sunset Advisory Commission met to review a staff report about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or the TCEQ.
The Sunset Commission’s job is to evaluate various state agencies and then make recommendations to state lawmakers as to what legislation might need to be enacted or changed to improve them. The TCEQ was last evaluated almost 12 years ago.
The report (which you really should read in full) outlines concerns that the agency had largely ceded control to the industries it was supposed to regulate, allowing them to police themselves. Those are significant concerns: the TCEQ is the backstop to curbing emissions, regulating industries that emit hazardous materials into the air, ground, or water. The commission also dug into whether permitting decisions and oversight were equitable.
“The commissioners’ lack of visibility in and ownership of TCEQ decision making has only inspired further frustration and distrust among both the regulated community and environmental advocates,” the report said.
The commission heard from dozens of Texans, including some from Houston who testified about environmental decisions that often disproportionately impacted neighborhoods of Black and Hispanic residents. If that sounds familiar, it’s because there are several neighborhoods in Dallas—including the neighborhood around the GAF shingle factory in West Dallas—that have pointed to historic zoning and environmental regulations that seem to ignore the health and safety concerns of their neighborhoods.
But it’s not just Shingle Mountain and the GAF plant that have North Texans concerned about how the TCEQ is regulating industries.
Jennifer Quick was one of the more than 100 people who signed up to testify at Wednesday’s meeting. She is a member of an Arlington group advocating for about 400,000 people who live near fracked gas wells and processing and extraction infrastructure—about a football field away in some cases—from where TCEQ permits allow drillers to emit up to 25 tons per year of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, and 250 tons per year of carbon monoxide, she said.
“There is no monitoring or accountability system by TCEQ to determine that these drillers don’t exceed these thresholds,” she said.”It’s kind of an honors system.”
One Farmers Branch resident said she agreed with the sunset committee’s recommendation that the TCEQ’s approach to equitable monitoring and enforcement “needs to be revisited.”
But she pointed out another issue the report mentions: 90 percent of the entities under TCEQ purview have not been inspected in the last five years.
“I find this unacceptable,” she said, adding that she brought this up because of a case involving a plant called Lane Plating, and is now on the list of national priorities among Superfund sites.
“That business started in 1926,” she testified. “The first inspection that it ever had—and we can’t find records of it, neither can the EPA—was 2006. Decades went by and that facility was never inspected.”
Lane Planting is a former electroplating facility located on Bonnie View Road, about five miles from downtown Dallas. It closed when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2015, and was then named to the roster of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund sites. The toxic chemicals used in the operation were removed by the EPA and the TCEQ over the next couple of years, but the site is still considered harmful.
A Superfund site is part of an environmental program that addresses abandoned hazardous waste sites.
“Texas is No. 6 in the country for Superfund sites,” the woman said. “We need to start getting inspections done.”
One Houston woman took the mic to chastise State Rep. Travis Clardy (who sits on the Commission) for his comments during the hearing. “I had to reconfigure my comments after his statement—and we all sort of gasped while we were having lunch— that we ‘choose to live where we live,’” she said. “Well, yeah we choose to live where we live because generationally our families have lived there when they could live nowhere else.”
The TCEQ regulates what comes out of those industrial plants, particularly the air quality and the water runoff. Cities regulate through zoning where plants are located, and draw rules around things like noise and other nuisance behaviors.
TCEQ Commissioner Jon Niermann insisted that where these factories end up (and whether they get their permits from the agency) was based on economics, not racism.
“I do not relish in permitting a concrete batch plant next to a school, but we don’t choose the site,” he said, adding that the decision belongs to the owner of the company.
One of the things that came out of the meeting was an admission that the TCEQ has never analyzed in any substantive way whether there is a correlation between race and pollution sources.
Perhaps that will change now that more neighborhoods that historically have borne the brunt of industrial zoning begin organizing and insisting differently. | https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2022/06/can-neighborhoods-depend-on-the-state-to-regulate-nearby-industry-a-new-report-asks-just-that/ | 2022-06-25 04:33:30 | 0 | https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2022/06/can-neighborhoods-depend-on-the-state-to-regulate-nearby-industry-a-new-report-asks-just-that/ |
Updated February 24, 2023 at 6:55 AM ET
A federal judge in Texas could rule as soon as today on whether to cut off access to a key medication abortion protocol, giving lawyers until day's end to submit additional arguments. Fearing another major blow to abortion access, some providers are already considering alternatives.
At the Trust Women clinic in Wichita, Kansas, it's already been crisis mode for months. And now clinic Director Ashley Brink says the staff is bracing for another — maybe even bigger — wave of uncertainty.
"We're at an unprecedented time," Brink says. "We've never faced this kind of crisis, and so there is a lot of unknowns."
First, they got patients from Texas after that state's abortion ban took effect in 2021. Then, patients came from all over the region after last summer's landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision. And now, they're facing the possibility of a nationwide ruling that would block access to a common abortion pill.
An(other) unprecedented moment
In states where abortion is still legal, providers know they could soon lose the ability to prescribe the abortion drug mifepristone. A coalition of anti-abortion-rights groups, arguing that the drug was improperly approved, is asking the federal judge appointed by President Trump to overturn that approval.
Under the current two-drug protocol, the patient first takes mifepristone, which works by blocking progesterone, a hormone that helps a pregnancy progress. The second drug, misoprostol, then causes contractions to bring on what's essentially a medically induced miscarriage.
If the judge overturns the approval of that protocol, Brink says the Wichita clinic will only be able to offer patients either a surgical abortion or misoprostol alone. For now, that means preparing the staff with extra training on how to communicate to patients about the impact of the new protocol if they're forced to make the change.
"Because it is a different procedure than using the two-medication regimen with mifepristone," Brink says, "we're having to make sure everyone has the right language and the right information to ensure that they're communicating that effectively."
Downsides and unknowns
A recent study by the Guttmacher Institute found that 98% of medication abortions in the U.S. used the two-drug protocol in 2020.
But internationally, the second drug, misoprostol, has been used alone for decades, says Dr. Jamila Perritt, president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health. Perritt says the case could leave both healthcare providers and patients facing complex medical and legal decisions about how to move forward without mifepristone.h
"At this point, there are still a lot of unknowns in terms of how this is going to play out," Perritt says. "What we do know is that misoprostol has been used on its own for decades around the world and is effective at ending an early pregnancy."
The World Health Organization says misoprostol can be used effectively alone, often with additional doses.
There are downsides, though, including a higher risk of side effects like nausea and cramping, says Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, a public health professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who is researching the misoprostol-only protocol.
"It's so important that patients understand how long they'll be bleeding after they take the miso alone," she says. "And it is longer."
A learning curve
Most available research also suggests using only misoprostol is somewhat less effective than when it is combined with mifepristone.
Upadhyay says removing mifepristone from the equation will mean difficult decisions for doctors and patients, particularly those traveling from states where abortion is illegal: "I think it's going to be a huge learning curve for clinicians to figure out — what's the best, right protocol for this patient? How should I counsel this specific patient based on their legal risks and based on how far they traveled to get here?"
But for patients who don't want to undergo a surgical procedure, misoprostol alone may become the option of choice.
Leah Coplon, director of clinical operations for Abortion on Demand, a telehealth medication abortion clinic serving 23 states, says her organization is preparing to make the shift to misoprostol-alone if necessary.
"Obviously we hope that we can continue to use mifepristone and misoprostol, but we're ready if necessary," she says.
For now, Coplon says the clinic is working to update the information that would be provided to patients taking the drug. She's also preparing to order more doses of misoprostol, as well as "comfort medications" to help patients manage any additional pain they might experience with the single-drug protocol.
An alternative protocol
While most medication abortion patients in the United States choose the two-drug regimen, a small number already are using misoprostol alone.
Carafem, an organization that provides medication abortion through telehealth as well as at clinics in Chicago, Atlanta and outside Washington, D.C., began offering the single-drug protocol in 2020 amidst growing threats to abortion access in general and mifepristone in particular.
"It made sense to us to better understand how to use it and make it available," says Chief Operating Officer Melissa Grant.
Depending on the location, Grant says the two-drug protocol typically costs patients at Carafem around $199, compared with about $175 for misoprostol-only. Grant says about 10% to 15% of her clients choose misoprostol alone, in part because it's slightly less expensive than the two-drug protocol — a number she expects to grow if the mifepristone regimen becomes unavailable.
"We [would] have one less option, which is not good," Grant says. "This is the next step toward making abortion completely inaccessible across the country."
Meanwhile, Elisa Wells, co-founder of the group Plan C Pills, which provides information for people seeking abortion medications online, says her organization will continue to point clients toward alternative sources of both mifepristone and misoprostol.
Wells estimates that since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision last year, at least 30,000 people have obtained abortion pills through these networks.
"These alternative sources of pills ... may be the only option for people who are seeking an abortion solution," Wells says. "We know that there is a very robust pipeline of product coming into the U.S. right now and being distributed within the U.S."
An uncertain legal landscape
Abortion rights opponents are quick to point out that misoprostol is currently approved for use as an ulcer drug — not as a standalone medication to induce abortion.
"Misoprostol alone would not be an FDA-approved use of that drug for chemical abortion," says Julie Blake, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the anti-abortion groups in the lawsuit challenging mifepristone's approval. "Using drugs that were approved for other purposes off-label certainly carries additional dangers and safety risks."
But off-label doesn't necessarily mean illegal, says Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel at If/When/How, a reproductive rights legal group.
"Off-label use of medications is very common; it happens every single day," Diaz-Tello says. "As long as it is within the standard of care that there isn't a problem with it."
But Blake's colleague, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Erik Baptist, says he believes doctors who prescribe misoprostol for abortion could open themselves up to lawsuits.
"When it's prescribed off-label, that puts the doctor or the prescriber in a little more tenuous position when it comes to medical malpractice or tort liability in theory, because it's never been FDA-approved for that particular purpose," Baptist says.
The current lawsuit doesn't directly target off-label uses. Perritt of Physicians for Reproductive Health notes that misoprostol is already widely — and safely — used off-label for miscarriage management, in procedures like IUD insertion and for abortion. But she worries about an increasingly murky legal landscape surrounding abortion pills.
"If they're coming for mifepristone, believe me, they're coming for misoprostol. It will not end with the one medication," Perritt says. "And so all of this is at risk."
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Whip Emmer vows House GOP will pass ‘historic’ debt ceiling package with or without Democrats
The debt ceiling package looks to curb federal spending while preventing the US from defaulting on national debt
FIRST ON FOX: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., vowed the House GOP will pass their "historic" debt ceiling package with or without support from the Democrats.
Emmer caught up with Fox News Digital in a phone call this week to talk about the Republican package to raise the debt ceiling while curbing federal spending that Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., reached a deal to coalesce the caucus behind the bill.
The House GOP whip told Fox News Digital the chatter that a deal like this "has never happened before" is "true" and that the bill is "a deal to extend the debt ceiling into next year with almost four and a half trillion dollars worth of savings."
BEHIND THE BELTWAY: HOW TOM EMMER IS DRUMMING UP SUPPORT FOR GOP PRIORITIES
"And, frankly, some things that would put this country at a much better footing, not only for the next decade but a lot longer when they become law," Emmer said. "So it’s pretty basic."
Emmer said the bill was a "bottom-up process in the House," and the proposal "was not written by the speaker," "majority leader," himself, or "any one of the different groups that identify themselves within the Republican conference."
"This literally was weeks of listening sessions in the whip’s office," Emmer said, noting the bill "actually includes data" that was "derived" from his meetings.
"This literally is the conference writing a bill that they can get 218 votes for, and that’s why I expect it to pass," he continued.
The number three House Republican also told Fox News Digital the bill is "not perfect, and nobody expects anything to be perfect," but will make it through the House, noting he does not "need any Democrats to pass this."
"That being said, I think any Democrat that votes against this, they’re crazy because you’re going to have to go home and look your constituents in the eye, and you’re going to have to tell them that ‘I voted against putting this country back on track to be in a better position financially,’" Emmer said.
"‘I voted against something that can finally get this inflation, this Biden inflation, under control. There’s just so many things I’ve voted against: work requirements for able-bodied, working-age adults to get back into the workforce and drive our economy,’" Emmer continued.
"I mean, this would be completely foolish," he added.
The debt ceiling package looks to curb federal spending while preventing the U.S. from defaulting on the national debt.
"The first piece is about limiting spending — that’s going back to pre-pandemic levels of spending, FY22 baseline — and then capping growth to one percent per year over the next decade," the House GOP whip continued. "That saves you a little less than $3.5 trillion."
Emmer said the "next piece" of the package "is saving taxpayer money" by curbing spending, such as prohibiting "Biden’s illegal student loan bailout" that would create "about $550 billion in first-year savings."
"And then there’s a piece about growing the economy… This piece is about growing the economy, which includes the REINS Act that’s been scored by an outside group as having a minimum impact of about $600 billion," Emmer said.
The whip said Republicans "are not going to cut defense" and are "protecting Medicare and Social Security," and that the bill does not specifically target certain programs.
"But this has to happen. There was an explosion of domestic spending in this place using the pandemic as the excuse. House Republicans finally got this president to acknowledge the pandemic is over, and guess what? Now we need to go back to pre-pandemic spending levels, and we need to put ourselves on a course over the next decade to get this thing under control."
McCarthy told a senior Republican on the debt ceiling plan last night that there "appears to be a deal" on the measure.
House Republicans have a razor-thin majority, with only four votes they can lose before the bill becomes in danger of not passing.
McCarthy struck a deal last night on the bill, altering ethanol tax credit provisions to garner support from Midwestern Republicans, especially from Iowa.
Additionally, the deal tightened up work requirements for healthy, childless adults who are receiving federal health and nutrition assistance while also cutting deeper into programs that are part of the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act.
Should the measure pass the House as expected, the bill will go to the Senate, where it will be met with support from GOP Senators Mike Braun of Indiana, Mike Lee of Utah, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Rick Scott of Florida.
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Emmer also noted that he was told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., directed the Senate GOP conference "to be very supportive of what we’re doing."
"He wants to see us get something over there," Emmer added.
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Israel came out swinging at Swedish officials on Friday following the decision by Stockholm police to allow the Bible and Torah to be burned during a protest scheduled for this weekend outside the Israeli Embassy.
Jerusalem called on the Swedish government to stop the protests, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The sacred books of all religions must be respected."
"I strongly condemn the decision of the authorities in Sweden to allow the burning of a Bible book in front of the Israeli embassy in the country," he said in a tweet. "The State of Israel takes very seriously this shameful decision that damages the Holy of Holies of the Jewish people."
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Other top Israeli officials "unequivocally" condemned the permissions granted during the planned protests, including Israeli President Issac Herzog, who said, "As the President of the State of Israel, I condemned the burning of the Quran, sacred to The Muslim world over, and I am now heartbroken that the same fate awaits a Jewish Bible, the eternal book of the Jewish people."
"Permitting the defacement of sacred texts is not an exercise in freedom of expression; it is blatant incitement and an act of pure hate," he added. "The whole world must join together in clearly condemning this repulsive act."
The decision by Stockholm police comes just weeks after Sweden faced backlash when the Quran was burned in anti-Islam protests outside a Stockholm mosque by an Iraqi immigrant late last month.
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Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen apparently spoke with Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Ziv Nevo Kulman, on Friday morning to discuss what steps have been taken to prevent the burning of the holy books.
"Burning a Torah scroll is a crime of hate, provocation, and serious harm to the Jewish people and tradition," he said in a statement Friday. "I call on the authorities in Sweden to prevent this despicable event and not to allow the burning of a Torah scroll."
Cohen said the Israeli ambassador had spoken with his Swedish counterpart and "explained to him the seriousness with which Israel views the police's approval of damage to the sacred sites of Judaism."
Fox News Digital could not immediately reach the Swedish foreign ministry for comment on any steps it may take to stop the holy books from being burnt.
The demonstrations scheduled for this weekend are an apparent response to the controversial anti-Islam protests and a request was filed and approved for Saturday to burn the Bible and Torah.
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A Jewish group is calling on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to remove City of New York (CUNY) Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez from his position following his response to a recent anti-Israel and anti-American commencement speech by one of the school's law graduates.
StopAntisemitism cited what it described as Rodriquez's "complete disregard for the safety of his Jewish students" after CUNY Law grad Fatima Mousa Mohammed delivered a speech that derided Israel and the U.S. as "fascist." The speech soon went viral and critics demanded that CUNY lose any federal funding it is currently receiving. The outcry led CUNY to release a statement that called Mohammed's address "hate speech," but critics argue Rodriguez has failed to adequately address the incident.
"For the past few years, we have been deeply concerned about intense Jew-hatred masquerading as anti-Zionism at the City University of New York under the leadership of Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez," StopAntisemitism Executive Director Liora Rez said in a letter sent to Hochul on Friday.
Rez cited Mohammed's speech as well as last year's CUNY Law commencement speech by Nerdeen Kiswani, whose group, Within Our Lifetime-United for Palestine, has been described by the Anti-Defamation League as being "radical," "anti-Israel" and supporting violence. Rez's letter also pointed to Title VI complaints against CUNY brought by Jewish students, a lawsuit from six CUNY professors looking to cut ties with the faculty union over alleged antisemitism, and Rodriguez's own failure to attend City Council meetings that were meant to address concerns of antisemitism at CUNY.
"Chancellor Rodriguez has proven that he cannot be trusted to uphold his pledge to 'champion student equity' when it comes to Jewish students, and therefore must be removed," Rez wrote.
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Rez's organization told Fox News Digital on Monday that they had yet to receive any response from Hochul or her office other than auto-replies.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was at the commencement and spoke before Mohammed, later derided her speech as "vile anti-American and anti-Israel speech promoting hate."
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Activist groups and a City Council member have also demanded that Mohammed be barred from practicing law regardless of whether she passes the bar exam, arguing that she fails the "character and fitness" requirements.
"I ask that should she pass the New York bar, her admission be denied," NYC council member Inna Vernikov said in a letter to the New York Bar on Wednesday.
A civil rights group called the Lawfare Project appealed to the New York Supreme Court, stating, "It's our belief that a person who has proved themselves to be a bigot is not fit to practice law," the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Hochul's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CytoSorbents Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSO), a leader in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in the intensive care unit and cardiac surgery using blood purification via its proprietary polymer adsorption technology, announced that the Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) has approved national reimbursement for CytoSorb® in certain cardiac surgery indications that is expected to take effect in 2023.
Specifically, the Hospital Technologies Committee of the Israeli MoH has approved national CytoSorb reimbursement, also known as "addition to the Healthcare Basket," for the following indications:
- Intraoperative treatment for urgent or emergency cardiac surgery in patients treated with ticagrelor or rivaroxaban
- Intraoperative treatment during cardiac surgery in patients with acute infective endocarditis
- Intraoperative treatment during surgery for correction of aortic dissection
With its decision, the Committee recognizes the importance and value of CytoSorb to remove a variety of antithrombotic drugs and inflammatory mediators intraoperatively during cardiac surgery. Once the policy revision is completed, public hospitals are expected to receive reimbursement for CytoSorb for these applications.
Christian Steiner, M.D., Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing of CytoSorbents, stated, "Israel has one of the highest quality and advanced healthcare systems in the world, strengthened by its leadership in adopting innovative medical technologies. We are pleased that the Ministry of Health recognizes the benefits of intraoperative CytoSorb use in cardiac surgery and has approved national reimbursement."
Israel has a population of approximately 9 million people, all of whom are covered by universal health insurance. Annually, the country spends about 7.5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare. Israel spends an estimated $2.4 billion annually on medical devices, with imports accounting for approximately 65% of the medical device market. According to the Israel Heart Society, heart disease is the second leading cause of death in the country. More than 4,000 heart surgeries are performed in Israel each year.
About CytoSorbents Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSO)
CytoSorbents Corporation is a leader in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in critical care and cardiac surgery through blood purification. Its lead product, CytoSorb®, is approved in the European Union and marketed in more than 70 countries worldwide. It is an extracorporeal cytokine adsorber designed to reduce the "cytokine storm" or "cytokine release syndrome" that occurs in common critical illnesses and can lead to massive inflammation, organ failure and patient death. In these diseases, the risk of death can be extremely high, and there are few, if any, effective treatments. CytoSorb is also used during and after cardiothoracic surgery to remove inflammatory mediators that can lead to postoperative complications, including multiple organ failure. As of June 30, 2022, more than 179,000 CytoSorb devices have been used cumulatively worldwide. CytoSorb was originally launched in the European Union under the CE Mark as the first extracorporeal cytokine adsorber. Additional CE Mark extensions were granted for bilirubin and myoglobin removal in clinical conditions such as liver disease and trauma, respectively, and for ticagrelor and rivaroxaban removal during cardiothoracic surgery. CytoSorb has also received FDA emergency approval in the United States for use in adult critically ill COVID-19 patients with impending or confirmed respiratory failure. The DrugSorb™-ATR antithrombotic removal system, based on the same polymer technology as CytoSorb, also received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation to remove ticagrelor and FDA Breakthrough Device Designation to remove the direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) apixaban and rivaroxaban in a cardiopulmonary bypass circuit during urgent cardiothoracic procedures. The company has initiated two FDA-approved pivotal studies to support marketing approval of DrugSorb-ATR in the United States. The first is the randomized, controlled STAR-T (Safe and Timely Antithrombotic Removal-Ticagrelor) study of 120 patients at 30 centers to evaluate whether intraoperative use of DrugSorb-ATR can reduce perioperative bleeding risk in ticagrelor patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery. The second study is the STAR‑ D (Safe and Timely Antithrombotic Removal-Direct Oral Anticoagulants) randomized controlled trial of 120 patients at 30 centers evaluating the intraoperative use of DrugSorb-ATR to reduce perioperative bleeding risk in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery who are taking direct oral anticoagulants, including apixaban and rivaroxaban.
CytoSorbents' purification technologies are based on biocompatible, highly porous polymer beads that can actively remove toxic substances from blood and other body fluids through pore entrapment and surface adsorption. The Company's technologies have received more than $39.5 million in non-dilutive grants, contracts and other funding from DARPA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Air Force Material Command (USAF/AFMC) and others. The company has numerous marketed and in-development products based on this unique blood purification technology protected by numerous issued U.S. and international patents and registered trademarks, as well as several pending patent applications, including ECOS-300CY®, CytoSorb-XL™, HemoDefend-RBC™, HemoDefend-BGA™, VetResQ®, K+ ontrol™, DrugSorb™, DrugSorb™-ATR, ContrastSorb and others. For more information, please visit the company's websites at www.cytosorbents.com and www.cytosorb.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Aide: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum running for GOP presidential nomination
(AP) – Two-term North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a former computer software entrepreneur, is expected to run for the Republican presidential nomination, a political aide familiar with the plans told The Associated Press on Friday, putting him in an already crowded field dominated by ex-President Donald Trump.
The aide said Burgum plans to launch his campaign with a June 7 event in Fargo, the largest city in North Dakota. The aide was speaking on the condition of anonymity because the event had not been publicized yet.
The 66-year-old Burgum is jumping into a field that includes fellow Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, seen by some Republicans as the strongest alternative to Trump. Other candidates include former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Former Vice President Mike Pence is also considered a likely presidential candidate but has not yet announced a bid.
The eventual GOP nominee is expected to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November 2024.
While Burgum has joined other Republican governors in signing legislation rolling back transgender rights, he’s expected to emphasize his business background, small-town roots and a large state tax cut this year. Burgum, first elected in 2016, was reelected in 2020 and is eligible to run for governor again in 2024.
In Iowa, where caucuses are expected to be the first-in-the-nation GOP contest, Republican Bruce Rastetter, a wealthy agricultural and energy businessman who met Burgum three years ago, described the North Dakota governor as “a successful guy” and “really smart.” But Rastetter, who has been an influential donor and adviser to presidential campaigns in Iowa, said Burgum’s strength also comes from presenting as “a regular guy.”
“He’s stayed a regular guy, but really understands issues on ag, energy and foreign policy,” said Rastetter, who is helping Burgum make introductions in Iowa, but is so far neutral in the developing 2024 Iowa caucus campaign.
The company Burgum started in 1983, Great Plains Software, was acquired by Microsoft in 2011, and Burgum stayed on as a Microsoft vice president until 2007. He also founded real estate development and venture capital firms.
He grew up in Arthur, an eastern North Dakota town of about 300 people, 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Fargo.
Burgum this year signed legislation that reduced state income taxes and provided local property tax relief, with the savings estimated at $515 million. His office touted the income tax cut as the largest in state history.
But with DeSantis building a national profile for anti-LGBTQ+ measures and describing his state of Florida as where “woke goes to die,” culture war issues dominated legislating this year in North Dakota and other states controlled by Republicans.
The measures signed this year by Burgum prohibit public schools and government entities from requiring teachers and employees to refer to transgender people by the pronouns they use; bar transgender girls and women from joining female sports teams, from K-12 through college; and criminalize health care providers who give gender-affirming care to minors. A new law also limits transgender children and adults in accessing the bathrooms, locker rooms and showers of their choice, from schools to state-run colleges and correctional facilities.
North Dakota also has one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation after Burgum last month signed a ban on abortion throughout pregnancy with slim exceptions up to six weeks’ gestation.
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WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania Friday killed two people and left nine people missing, authorities said.
Several other people were injured by the explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant, said West Reading Borough Police Department Chief of Police Wayne Holben, who did not confirm the exact number of injured.
The explosion just before 5 p.m. sent a plume of black smoke into the air, destroying one building and damaging a neighboring building that included apartments.
“It’s pretty leveled,” West Reading Borough Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site. “The building in the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward.”
The cause of the blast in the community about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia was under investigation, Holden told reporters.
Eight people were taken to Reading Hospital Friday evening, Tower Health spokeswoman Jessica Bezler said.
Two people were admitted in fair condition and five were being treated and would be released, she said in an email. One patient was transferred to another facility, but Bezler provided no further details.
Kaag said people were asked to move back about a block in each direction from the site of the explosion but no evacuations were ordered.
Dean Murray, the borough manager of West Reading Borough, said some residents were displaced from the damaged apartment building.
Kagg said borough officials were not in immediate contact with officials from R.M. Palmer, which Murray described as “a staple of the borough.”
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New Centers in Stockton and Hayward join other CSL Plasma locations in California to help meet growing demand for medicines derived from plasma
BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSL Plasma, the plasma collection business of global biotherapeutics leader CSL Behring, today announced the opening of additional plasma collection centers in Stockton and Hayward, California, bringing the number of CSL Plasma donation centers in the state to five. A sixth center in Citrus Heights is set to open in summer 2023.
CSL Plasma is one of the world's largest collectors of human plasma. Plasma is used to produce life-saving therapies that treat diseases such as primary immunodeficiency, hereditary angioedema, inherited respiratory disease, hemophilia and other bleeding or neurological disorders. Plasma can also be used in the hospital or urgent care settings.
Annually, CSL Plasma contributes about $4 million or more per center to local economies in employee payroll and donor payments. The company also supports local communities through job creation, community recruitment and career growth, as well as builds long-term alliances to support local schools, non-profit organizations and small businesses. On average, each CSL Plasma center employs a staff of approximately 60 people and hires local contractors for maintenance and other needs.
"CSL Plasma is proud to be a vital part of the communities where employees and plasma donors live and work," said Amanda Kitchen, Division Director, New Center Operations, CSL Plasma. "We're excited to continue our expansion on the West Coast and look forward to positively contributing to the local communities, as we have done throughout the country and beyond."
"CSL Plasma has grown its U.S. center network throughout the country recognizing the critical and ongoing need for plasma donations to help people affected by rare and serious diseases," said Walter Charles, Senior Vice President and General Manager, CSL Plasma. "California remains a key state in our effort to continue collecting life-saving plasma that helps patients in more than 100 countries."
CSL Plasma has more than 325 donation centers around the world, including these recently opened locations in California:
- 26905 Mission Boulevard, Hayward
- 8 N Euclid Ave., Suite 8-10, National City
- 2008 N. Riverside, Rialto
- 4135 Chicago Ave, Riverside
- 29 E. March Lane, Stockton
Plasma is a straw-colored liquid that carries red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. The proteins, antibodies, clotting factors and other nutrients in it also make plasma useful in treating those suffering from trauma, shock, burns or other emergencies that could happen to any individual.
To donate at a CSL Plasma collection center, donors must be in good health, between the ages of 18 and 74, weigh at least 110 pounds, have no new tattoos or piercings within the last four months, meet eligibility and screening requirements. and have valid identification and a permanent address. To learn more about donating plasma and find a local CSL Plasma Center, visit www.cslplasma.com.
About CSL Plasma
CSL Plasma operates one of the world's largest and most sophisticated plasma collection networks, with more than 300 plasma collection centers in the U.S., Europe and China. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, CSL Plasma is a subsidiary of CSL Behring, a global biotherapeutics company and a member of the CSL Group of companies. Plasma collected at CSL Plasma facilities is used by CSL Behring for the sole purpose of manufacturing lifesaving plasma-derived therapies for people in more than 100 countries. The parent company, CSL Limited (ASX: CSL; USOTC: CSLLY), headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs more than 30,000 people. For more information about CSL Plasma visit, www.cslplasma.com.
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Michigan rookie pilot pulls off emergency landing after wheel comes off in flight: video
The 21-year-old safely landed a Diamond DA20-C1 aircraft after she was told midair that it was missing the front wheel
A 21-year-old rookie pilot was given a helpful hand from an experienced pilot after she was told that her landing gear was missing. The older pilot assisted the younger landing the small aircraft safely-despite it missing its front wheel.
The dramatic incident was caught on camera as 21-year-old Taylor Hash safely landed a two-seat, single-engine Diamond DA20-C1 aircraft at Oakland County International Airport in Waterford, Michigan on March 24.
"Pre-flight the aircraft was normal, I checked that everything was good, did an exterior check and everything looked great," Hash told FOX 2. "I got in the plane, started the engine up, called on the radio and asked for clearance to taxi to the runway. Everything was perfectly fine."
FOUR DEAD IN MIDAIR PLANE COLLISION, INCLUDING COLLEGE STUDENT, FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR IN FLORIDA
Chris Yates, an experienced pilot from California, saw that aircraft Hash was flying solo was missing landing gear and immediately called radioed air traffic control, who in turn radioed Hash.
"Diamond 8 Charlie you lost your front nose gear tire on rotation and that’s definitely how it appears out the window," the operator is heard telling her.
Another voice interjects in the radio, Yates calming walks the inexperienced pilot through the necessary steps for her to land safely.
"We’re gonna be just fine kiddo."
"Taylor this is Chris, my daughter's name is Taylor, and I taught her to fly," Yates said over the radio. "We’re gonna be just fine kiddo."
Through the radio Yates gave Hash instructions on how to land the plane without that front wheel, all while asking her questions and cheering her on.
"I’m going about 67 knots right now," she said on the radio.
"Perfect, hold it, you look good, you’re doing great kiddo," Yates said over the radio.
"Those couple minutes were intense - my most important landing to date was that one and probably will be my most important landing ever," Hash recalled.
FIERY FLORIDA PLANE CRASH LEAVES COUPLE, DOG SEVERELY INJURED: 'QUITE TERRIFYING'
"That’s it kid, nice job, the nose is gonna come down, you’re ok, you’re ok, talk to me kid, proud of you," he said over the radio.
"Just having someone to have a conversation with me, and not be so official with the aviation language - it was just calming. It was perfect and just what I needed in that moment," Hash told FOX 2 following the stressful landing.
With the help of her new guardian angel, Hash safely landed the aircraft on the landing strip and lived to tell the tale of landing a plane without the front wheel.
Hash told FOX 2 that she feels a flood of emotion whenever she listens back on the radio recording with Yates.
"When I go back and listen to it, I cry. It was an emotional day to say the least," Hash said.
When asked if she still wants to continue flying, Hash did not hesitate, sharing that, "I'm meant to do this."
"When I was in the air, I told myself I’m done, this is it. I'm not doing this again. But as soon as I got on the ground and I realized everything was okay, I realized, I'm meant to do this."
"Yes 100 percent," she said. "I tell everyone, when I was in the air, through all that, I told myself I’m done, this is it. I'm not doing this again. But as soon as I got on the ground and I realized everything was okay, and I was okay, I realized, you know I'm meant to do this."
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, November 27, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
652 AM PST Sun Nov 27 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 AM PST THIS MORNING
ABOVE 2500 FEET...
Localized snow showers may continue through the day, but
additional heavy snow is not expected. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire at 7 AM.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY
ABOVE 1500 FEET...
* WHAT...Heavy snow above 1500 feet. Additional snow
accumulations of 3 to 14 inches. Winds gusting as high as 50
mph.
* WHERE...Cascade mountains and valleys of Snohomish and King
Counties, including Stevens Pass, and Snoqualmie Pass and
Cascade mountains and valleys of Pierce and Lewis Counties,
including the Crystal Mountain Ski Area, Paradise on Mount
Rainier.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on very difficult travel.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
For the latest road conditions in Washington state, call 5 1 1.
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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. announced that it has made an agreement with Qilu Pharmaceutical on strategic global collaborations to develop, manufacture and commercialize a proprietary "off-the-shelf" iPSC-derived Chimeric Antigen Receptor Macrophages (CAR-iMAC) for cancer immnotherapy.
This collaboration takes the advantages from both parties by integrating complementary technologies and expertise as well as combining industry-leading R&D, manufacture and marketing capabilities.Both parties will collaborate on new drug development and commercialization, and will push CAR-iMAC pipelines forward to clinical trials.
"Innovation, and bringing the best products to benefit patients are the core values we both appreciate", said Dr. Jin Zhang, the co-founder of CellOrigin Biotech and a principle investigator of Zhejiang University, "that's something that brings us together".
"We are excited to collaborate with Qilu Pharmaceutical because of its prestige in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry as well as its successful track record in new drug discovery. We (CellOrigin) will keep seeking other potential industry collaborators, jointly exploring and developing innovative anti-tumor drugs, and benefiting more cancer patients" said Dr. Tong Jiansong, Chief Executive Office at CellOrigin Biotech.
"CellOrigin is an outstanding startup with a strong research background and valuable industry experience. It has focused on original techniques in cell therapy and gained rich expertise in GMP manufacture. It is an ideal strategic partner for novel cell therapy and it is our pleasure to collaborate with such a great biotech company." said Qilu Pharmaceutical.
About Qilu Pharmaceutical
Qilu Pharmaceutical is one of the leading vertically integrated pharmaceutical companies in China focusing on the development, manufacturing and marketing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) & finished formulations. Qilu currently has 13 subsidiaries, 11 manufacturing sites and over 30000 employees worldwide, 70% of whom are with bachelor's degrees or above. It ranks No.8 in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry by sales revenue in 2019. Dedicated to offering more affordable medicines to the world and improving people's well-being, Qilu has exported its products to over 80+ countries.
About CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. is committed to the development of genetically engineered pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) derived immune cell therapies (such as macrophages, NK cells), with its own proprietary intellectual property. The founders are experienced leaders from Zhejiang University, Harvard University and top pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world. They apply cutting-edge technologies in editing and differentiating iPSCs to immune cells in order to deliver novel allogeneic off-the-shelf cell therapies for the treatment of cancer patients around the world.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY (KSNT) – The massive Keystone Pipeline has been shut down after oil was found to be leaking into a Kansas creek.
TC Energy said it shut down the pipeline at 8 p.m. Wednesday after a pressure drop in the system. Crews are responding to “contain and recover the oil,” the company said in a news release.
“Our primary focus right now is the health and safety of onsite staff and personnel, the surrounding community, and mitigating risk to the environment through the deployment of booms downstream as we work to contain and prevent further migration of the release,” the company said. It didn’t say how much oil was spilled or what caused the spill.
The leak is said to have happened 20 miles south of Steele City, Nebraska, on the Kansas/Nebraska border, a major junction for the 2,687-mile pipeline system. The pipeline carries oil from Canada down through South Dakota to Steele City, where it splits. One arm runs east through Missouri, the other heads through Kansas and to the Texas Gulf Coast. More than 3 billion barrels of crude oil have been transported on the pipeline since it began operation in 2010.
There was a brief surge in oil prices midday Thursday as word of the spill began to spread, with the cost for a barrel of oil for near-term contracts rising by nearly 5%, and above the cost of oil contracts further into the future. That typically suggests there is anxiety in the market over immediate supply.
Randy Hubbard, the Washington County Emergency Management coordinator, said there had been no evacuations because the break happened in a rural area in the middle of a pasture. He didn’t know the name of the creek or what body of water it flows into.
He said the pipeline operator hasn’t disclosed how much oil was discharged and that it could take a day and a half to get that data.
Hubbard said he hadn’t been to the site, but is supporting investigators with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and and Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
The Kansas department’s spokesman, Matt Lara, said it was sending a team to the site but had no information. The EPA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment and officials with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration didn’t immediately respond to questions about the oil spill Thursday.
“Everyone is in their fact-finding process,” Hubbard said.
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EPA: Water in Mississippi’s capital city is safe to drink
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
Associated Press/Report for America
JACKSON, Miss (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the water in Mississippi’s capital city is now safe to drink, following months of sampling at a water treatment plant overwhelmed by late August flooding. Officials announced Monday that water samples taken at the O.B. Curtis water treatment plant in Jackson show the water is safe. But they encouraged residents to stay vigilant about updates and follow all future boil water advisories. Jackson’s water system fell into crisis after 150,000 residents were left without running water for days after the flooding. People waited in lines for water to drink, bathe and cook during the crisis, and many have long been reluctant — and still are — to drink from Jackson’s supply. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/31/epa-water-in-mississippis-capital-city-is-safe-to-drink/ | 2022-11-01 04:29:36 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/31/epa-water-in-mississippis-capital-city-is-safe-to-drink/ |
(CNN) — Caden Cox made history in 2021 during his time as a student athlete at Hocking College as the first known player with Down syndrome to play in and score during a college football game.
Two years later, the 23-year-old is suing his alma mater for alleged discrimination, assault and harassment he faced as a student, the lawsuit says – and when the behavior was reported to school administrators, he was retaliated against, he says.
Cox was both a student athlete and an employee at the student recreation center at the two-year public school in Nelsonville, Ohio, when his supervisor, Matthew Kmosko, consistently made abusive, derogatory and inappropriate comments to Cox in the form of derogatory slurs about people with Down Syndrome, the suit says. Kmosko would also degrade Cox’s abilities, berate and yell at him often and in front of other co-workers, according to the lawsuit.
On several occasions, Kmosko even took Cox’s phone and looked through it without permission, according to the suit.
CNN has reached out to Kmosko and his attorney.
The last thing Cox’s family wanted was to file a lawsuit against a school that has been a major part of their lives, his mother Mari Cox told CNN, adding her son had a great experience there before the harassment.
“We just felt like our complaints to administrators went nowhere,” she said. “We really hope this leads to a change in how harassment is addressed for all vulnerable students at the school.”
The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, names the college’s board of trustees, its president, Betty Young, Kmosko and unnamed Hocking employees as defendants. It alleges Caden Cox was discriminated against because of his disability, violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and state anti-discrimination law.
Hocking College and its board will cooperate with officials on the investigation, the college told CNN in a statement Monday, but will not comment on active or pending litigation.
“Hocking College is and always will be committed to moving the college mission forward by continuing to train to meet the workforce needs of our communities and to promote student success and economic development within our region,” the statement said.
Kmosko was hired by Hocking College as a coordinator of the student center and campus recreation, and as a soccer coach in July 2021, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges abuse by Kmosko began a few months after he was hired. It ended in May 2022, when Kmosko held Cox at knifepoint during a shift, the suit said. Cox went into the men’s bathroom to change the garbage bags when Kmosko followed him, physically blocked the exit and yelled at Cox about changing the trash while pointing a black-handled, silver knife at his chest, the suit said.
College surveillance camera footage captured Kmosko walking in and out of the bathroom carrying the weapon, the suit said, and Kmosko was charged and found guilty of a misdemeanor charge in Athens County Municipal Court.
Unanswered cries for help
Kmosko had been recommended for hire by Young, the college president, at the word of an unknown Hocking College Board of Trustees member and no background check was completed, the suit said. It alleges Young denied a request for such a check.
The school administration “failed to adequately protect (Cox) despite actual and constructive knowledge of Mr. Kmosko’s abuse and harassment following reports,” the lawsuit said.
On two occasions, the college and Young were given complaints, in writing, of Kmosko’s behavior, according to the lawsuit:
- In July 2021, Cox’s mother, Mari Cox, who works at the school, hand-delivered a written complaint about Kmosko’s behavior to the Hocking College Human Resources Department, the lawsuit said.
- On January 10, 2022, Mari Cox emailed another complaint requesting her son be given a different supervisor for some of the same reasons listed in the first complaint, the suit stated.
Kmosko, who resigned from the college after the knife incident, was charged in July 2022 with aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor, in connection with the incident, criminal records show. An Athens County jury found him guilty of menacing in January and he was sentenced to 30 days in jail, records show.
Court records show Kmosko is appealing the conviction. His lawyer in that appeal declined to comment on the lawsuit.
In mid-November 2022, a college committee voted for Cox to receive three awards: the Inspirational Award, Scholar Athlete Award and Hocking College Trustee Award, according to the lawsuit.
Cox’s name was listed as the recipient of all three awards in the program that was submitted to the printing company, the suit said.
In early December 2022, a letter detailing the allegations of discrimination, harassment and assault was delivered to the college and the administration was notified about Cox’s legal representation, according to the lawsuit.
A week later, on December 9, Cox’s father, Kevin Cox, who also works at the college, arrived on campus to set up for graduation when he realized the programs omitted his son’s name as the recipient of two of the three awards he was originally slated to receive, the suit said. The lawsuit states there was no policy in place that students receive only one award.
Cox talked to the assistant to the vice president, who said the vice president of student affairs asked her to call the printing company and make a change, the suit said.
Cox participated in graduation and was awarded the Inspirational Award, but not the two others, according to the suit.
The lawsuit asks for a jury trial and seeks punitive and compensatory damages. It asks the university to set up and follow policies to protect students from harassment, abuse and discrimination.
After graduating, Cox did a football-related internship at Texas A&M University, where his older brother works as a strength coach, his lawyer, Mark Weiker, told The Washington Post. This June, he has plans to go to orientation at an Ohio State University program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - mCloud Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: MCLD) (TSXV: MCLD), ("mCloud" or the "Company") a provider of cloud technology solutions optimizing the performance, reliability, and sustainability of energy-intensive assets today announced it had received a written notification on October 26, 2022 (the "Notification Letter") from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") indicating that the Company's Market Value of Listed Securities ("MVLS") for the last 30 consecutive business days was below the required minimum of US$35 million for continued listing on Nasdaq under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2).
The Notification Letter is only a notification of deficiency and has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of mCloud common shares. mCloud will continue to trade on Nasdaq under the symbol "MCLD." The Company's common shares are also listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") and the Notification Letter does not affect the Company's compliance status with such listing.
In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(C), the Company has been provided a compliance period of 180 calendar days, or April 24, 2023, to regain compliance. The letter states that Nasdaq will close the matter and provide written confirmation that the Company has achieved compliance with rule 5550(b)(2) if at any time before April 24, 2023, the Company's MVLS closes at US$35 million or more for a minimum of ten consecutive business days.
mCloud's business operations are not affected by the receipt of the Notification Letter and the Company fully intends to regain compliance with Nasdaq listing rules. The Company will monitor its Nasdaq listing between now and April 24, 2023, and to evaluate its available options to regain compliance with Nasdaq's minimum MVLS rule within the compliance period.
mCloud is unlocking the untapped potential of energy-intensive assets with cloud-based solutions that curb energy waste, maximize energy production, eliminate harmful emissions, and get the most out of critical energy infrastructure. Through mCloud's portfolio of AssetCare™ solutions, mCloud enables asset owners and operators in energy- and asset-intensive industries such as oil and gas, wind, and commercial facilities to use cloud-based digital twins, AI, and analytics to optimize asset performance, reliability, and sustainability. mCloud has a worldwide presence with offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The company's common shares trade in the United States on Nasdaq and in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MCLD. Visit mcloudcorp.com to learn more.
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Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" — a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China. By early spring of 2020, Ling Ma was being hailed as an oracle of the pandemic.
But the prophetic quality of Severance only enhanced its power. The novel was already disturbing in and of itself because of its sardonic tone and its mundane imagery that smoothly morphed into the macabre. Ma's writing, in short, stays with you whether you want it to or not. And, so, I felt reluctant, but compelled to pick up her new book, a collection of short stories called Bliss Montage.
In one of those short stories, "Office Hours," a film professor declares to his class: "It is in the most surreal situations that a person feels the most present, the closest to reality." That pronouncement could serve as an epigram for this entire collection, an apt way to characterize its distinctive aura. Take the opening story, called "Los Angeles." Here's how our narrator introduces herself and her world:
The house in which we live has three wings. The west wing is where the Husband and I live. The east wing is where the children and their attending au pairs live. And lastly, the largest but ugliest wing, extending behind the house like a gnarled, broken arm, is where my 100 ex-boyfriends live. We live in L.A.
The deadpan tone of that narrator's voice implicitly urges readers to "just roll with it" and so we do. The Husband, who our narrator tells us she met on LoweredExpectations.com, only speaks in "$$$," not words, which is very funny on the page.
But nothing is just one thing in Ma's writing: Satire swirls into savagery; a gimmicky premise into poignancy. What does this story mean? Maybe something about the truth of most of us living with memories of people — old lovers and others — populating our headspace, except here the memories and the space are made literal. But beware: Another story, called "Peking Duck" explicitly warns against asking of any story, "What's the lesson here supposed to be?"
"Peking Duck" is a dazzling box-within-box story that reads like auto-fiction. In it an unnamed female narrator recalls moving to the U.S. from China as a child and living with her parents in Utah, as Ma herself did. There, the narrator's father goes to graduate school and her mother works as a nanny. Years later, when the narrator is a student in an MFA program, she writes a short story about an incident she witnessed when a creepy salesman came to the door and fixated on her mother. When she workshops the story, the narrator hears criticism from a fellow Asian student that: "it's just a tired Asian American subject, these stories about immigrant hardships and ... intergenerational woes."
That critic may be right about the subject, but not about the technique: In Ma's hands this story is a rough tug-of-war between daughter and mother who vie with each other for control. The answer to the vexed question of "Who does a story belong to?" seems to be: "Whoever is left holding onto it at the bitter end."
Every one of these eight stories ventures out of familiar situations into the weird. In "Tomorrow," a story set in the near future, a pregnant woman discovers her unborn baby's arm protruding out of her and waving. "It's not ideal [a doctor assures her], but I've seen worse." In "G," two women take a recreational drug that frees them from, among other things, "the male gaze" by making them disappear; and in the aforementioned "Office Hours," another professor discovers a portal to a different dimension in her office closet.
All of the stories in Bliss Montage are haunting; none are didactic. Ling Ma writes with such authority that we readers are simply swept along, like that professor, through the portal. If sometimes we wonder where we've ended up, maybe that sense of dislocation is the desired final effect.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson will be honored as next year's MusiCares Persons of the Year, celebrating the legacy of Motown a few days before the Grammy Awards.
MusiCares announced Thursday that Gordy and Robinson will receive the prestigious honor in Los Angeles on Feb. 3, 2023. Performers set to pay tribute to both will be announced at a later date.
Gordy, a music mogul who founded the Motown record label, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Robinson is a Grammy winner who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
It’s the first time the tribute ceremony will honor two greats. Joni Mitchell was this year’s MusiCares Person of the Year.
The Grammy Awards will air live Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles.
The MusiCares Person of the Year is a career achievement award handed out for a combination of inspiring artistic accomplishments and philanthropy.
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- IRD will ensure optimal system performance at 68 traffic monitoring sites in the Western part of New York State for the New York State Department of Transportation ("NYSDOT")
- A number of sites will utilize IRD's iTHEIA AI-powered, non-intrusive data collection solution which offers improved safety and cost-effectiveness vs. traditional automated traffic recorders
- The traffic data from IRD's systems will help NYSDOT achieve its mission to ensure that people who live, work and travel in New York State have a safe, efficient, balanced and environmentally sound transportation system
SASKATOON, SK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - International Road Dynamics Inc. ("IRD"), a Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") company (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF), announced today that the New York State Department of Transportation ("NYSDOT") has awarded IRD a two year, $13.8 million contract for installation and maintenance of permanent traffic data collection systems. IRD will be responsible for all parts, equipment, materials, labour and technical expertise to successfully repair, upgrade, install and maintain traffic data collection sites across New York State. All financial information in this press release is reported in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated.
The scope of the contract includes the provision of repair and maintenance services for the State's existing count, classification and weigh-in-motion sites – ensuring uptime of 95% or better – and the installation of new sites to grow and enhance the NYSDOT data collection program.
NYSDOT collects, summarizes and interprets information about the traffic that uses the State's highway system. The data is used to assess transportation needs and highway infrastructure performance, and to develop highway planning and programming recommendations. Traffic data is critical for route planning, developing safety programs, the designation of evacuation routes and their management and for the design of highway projects. Ultimately, NYSDOT has the objective to ensure safe, efficient, balanced and environmentally sound transportation for users of the State's roads.
To help meet its objectives, NYSDOT will utilize IRD's iTHEIA™ non-intrusive data collection solution. iTHEIA™ delivers new value in a safe and cost-effective manner by eliminating the need for road closures during installation and service. iTHEIA™ provides superior longevity in comparison to intrusive sensing and detection technologies previously deployed by NYSDOT. Unlike in-road sensor-based systems, iTHEIA™ is unaffected by the degradation of pavement, performing well regardless of road surface conditions.
"This exciting project with NYSDOT reinforces our commitment to enhance safety, improve traffic flows and address environmental challenges with our solutions and strengthens our long-term service and maintenance revenues, a key driver of stable and sustainable growth," commented Rish Malhotra, IRD's President & Chief Executive Officer. "This contract combines traffic data collection, construction services and advanced traffic data analytics reporting to meet the unique needs of NYSDOT. We are also pleased to see the broader adoption of iTHEIA™, which has received growing interest since its launch two and a half years ago. As US states become more aware of the benefits of high-quality, continuously collected traffic information, we expect that the demand for this innovative solution will continue to grow."
IRD is a dynamic technology company engaged in developing key components and advanced systems for the next generation of transportation networks. Together with subsidiaries PAT Traffic and IRD Europe (ICOMS Detections, SensorLine and VDS), IRD supplies Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to private corporations, transportation agencies, and highway authorities around the world. IRD's systems make highways safer, greener and more efficient. Known globally as a trusted partner providing sales, service and installation support on major ITS projects for over 40 years, IRD contributes to creating smarter cities by empowering engineering and urban planning professionals to access reliable traffic data. For more information: www.irdinc.com
Quarterhill is a leading provider of tolling and enforcement solutions in the ITS industry as well as, through its Wi-LAN Inc. subsidiary, a leader in Intellectual Property licensing. Our goal is global leadership in ITS, by organic growth of our Electronic Transaction Consultants, LLC and International Road Dynamics Inc. platforms and by continuing an acquisition-oriented investment strategy that capitalizes on attractive growth opportunities within ITS and its adjacent markets. Quarterhill is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol QTRH and on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol QTRHF. For more information, please visit www.quarterhill.com
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AE Industrial Partners, LP ("AEI"), a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, announced today that Marc Duvall, a seasoned executive with decades of operating experience throughout the aerospace supply chain, has joined the firm as an Operating Partner, effective immediately.
"We are excited for Marc to join our talented team of operating partners and leverage his deep experience across our target markets," said David Rowe, Managing Partner of AEI. "Marc's strong knowledge of the aerospace supply chain combined with his proven operating track record will allow him to contribute significantly to a variety of value creation initiatives throughout our growing portfolio."
Mr. Duvall brings more than 40 years of experience with leading aerospace OEMs, having most recently served as President of the Aerostructures division of Collins Aerospace / Raytheon Technologies (formerly Goodrich Aerostructures), which designs, manufactures and services aircraft engine nacelles, thrust reverser systems and aircraft structural components. Prior to this role, he served as President of the Engine Control and Electric Power Systems Division of Goodrich Corporation, and previously held a variety of leadership roles at Honeywell and Allied Signal. Mr. Duvall holds an MBA and BSE from Arizona State University.
"AEI is a proven investor with a differentiated approach to building strategic platforms within the aerospace, defense and space markets, all sectors that I have been dedicated to for decades," said Mr. Duvall. "I look forward to working closely with AEI's investment team and portfolio companies to help define winning strategies, optimize business performance and drive value throughout the portfolio."
About AE Industrial Partners
AE Industrial Partners is a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets. AE Industrial Partners invests in market-leading companies that can benefit from our deep industry knowledge, operating experience, and relationships throughout our target markets. AE Industrial Partners is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and the ILPA Diversity in Action initiative. Learn more at www.aeroequity.com.
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The University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University earned noteworthy rankings in some categories in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges for the 2022-23 school year.
The consumer reports publication ranks the country’s colleges each year, this year measuring 440 colleges and universities in the United States.
UNT ranked at No. 285 in the overall list. UNT came in at No. 46 among Top Performers on Social Mobility, which looks at a university’s ability to enroll and graduate a large number of economically disadvantaged students awarded with Pell Grants. UNT ranked No. 146 among Top Public Schools, a distinction that recognizes state schools that offer discounted tuition.
UNT tied with 18 other schools in its rank of No. 165 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. The ranking was based entirely on peer assessment surveys, and only schools recognized by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. were eligible.
UNT isn’t new to the rankings, and has seen a host of programs recognized in the annual report over the years.
TWU earned its best ranking in nursing, nabbing No. 39 among schools that offer bachelor’s degrees in health sciences. Schools are eligible for the ranking if their bachelor’s degree is accredited by either the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing. The institutions must have recently awarded at least 40 bachelor’s degrees in nursing.
Like UNT, TWU scored No. 63 in social mobility.
“Our highly skilled and knowledgeable faculty are keenly focused on student success, and are too often unsung heroes,” said College of Nursing Dean Damon Cottrell. “Our [National Council of State Boards of Nursing] pass rates exceed state and national averages, which demonstrates we truly are preparing the next generation of nurses.”
This marks the fifth year U.S. News has evaluated social mobility and the third consecutive year TWU has made the list.
The report calculated 10 distinct overall rankings, with colleges and universities grouped by their academic missions.
“For each ranking, the sum of weighted, normalized values across 17 indicators of academic quality determine each school’s overall score and, by extension, its overall rank,” the report said in the explanation of how it determined rankings. “The top performers in each ranking displays an overall score of 100. Others’ overall scores are on a 0-99 scale reflecting the distance from their ranking’s top-performing schools. Those placing outside the top 75% display their ranking’s bottom quartile range (e.g., No. 90-120) instead of their individual ranks (e.g., No. 102). “
The rankings saw multiple college and university programs tie across categories.
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Tom Brady swings for fences with Aaron Judge recruitment
Aaron Judge is set to be a free agent later this year
Tom Brady and Aaron Judge chopped it up on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback’s latest episode of his podcast on Monday night.
While the two talked about mentality in their respective sports, Brady swung for the fences and jokingly attempted to recruit Judge to play tight end for the end of the season as the New York Yankees slugger is set to his free agency once the season is over.
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"You know, obviously having such an incredible year and now on the brink of free agency I was certainly wondering what it would take to get you down here in Tampa to be a tight end for us next year," Brady asked on the "Let’s Go!" podcast. "So as a free agent, it looked pretty good to me the way he runs, the size, the catch radius, the power, I mean this could be something we could be on to. You were a great high school football player. I think obviously baseball turned out pretty well for you, but I don’t know, maybe this dual-sport athlete thing you might have to look into."
Judge chuckled and responded he’d only play if he was guaranteed to get looks in the red zone.
"We can get a nice little split contract. We can find a way to work this out. Just give me some looks in the red zone, and I can go off and hit some homers after that. We’ll figure something out nice," he said. "If Tom’s tossing me touchdowns, I’ll play for free."
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Judge is listed at 6-foot-7, 282 pounds. He’s taller and heavier than any of the Buccaneers tight ends right now, according to Pro Football Reference data. Kyle Rudolph is 6-foot-6, 265 pounds.
Judge played wide receiver at Linden High School in California and set a school record for touchdowns. But he maintained focus on baseball and put together a pretty nice career so far.
Brady told his co-host, legendary sportscaster Jim Gray, that Judge has the vitals for a decent football player.
"He has all the skills. The size, the speed, the length, strength, incredible power and that twitch he’s got in his swing would carry over nicely to football," Brady said. "But again, he committed so much time and energy to baseball, and look what’s happened. I’m sure if he committed the time and energy to football he would have incredible success too. But again, he picked the right sport, and he’s proven to everybody what he’s capable of, and it’s been just a spectacular thing to watch."
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With at least 25 people dead in Mississippi, tornadoes that ravaged parts of the Deep South overnight were the deadliest in the state in more than a decade, according to National Weather Service records.
By comparison, 31 people died in Mississippi in April 2011 during tornadoes that tore through several states, mostly in the southeastern U.S., weather service meteorologist Chris Outler said Saturday. Alabama was hit hardest during that so-called “super outbreak” of hundreds of twisters that killed more than 320 people and caused an estimated $12 billion in damage.
Just a month later, another deadly twister ripped through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people. Outler, in Las Vegas, called 2011 “the headline year for tornadoes for the last 20 years or so.”
The sheriff’s office in Morgan County, Alabama, reported one storm-related death on Saturday, bringing the overall total during overnight storms to at least 26.
Records show that 12 people died in Mississippi during Easter storms in April 2020, and 10 died in the state during a tornado event in April 2014.
National Weather Service records tally these deadly U.S. tornado events since 2012. Many were covered by The Associated Press:
2022: 23 killed in 14 deadly tornado events, including seven killed on March 5 in and around Winterset, Iowa.
2021: 103 killed in nine deadly tornado events, including a Dec. 10 outbreak in Kentucky and Illinois that authorities said left at least 88 people dead.
2020: 76 killed in 24 deadly tornado events, including 12 dead in Mississippi during Easter storms that swept from Texas to the Carolinas, killing more than 30 people.
2019: 41 killed in 12 deadly tornado events, including 23 people in a March 3 storm in and around rural Beauregard, Alabama.
2018: 10 killed in 9 deadly tornado events, including two people on Nov. 2 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
2017: 35 killed in 14 deadly tornado events. Authorities in Georgia reported that at least 20 people died during twisters and thunderstorms in January in the Southeast. In Mississippi, four people died during a Jan. 21 tornado, the weather service said.
2016: 18 killed in 10 deadly tornado events, including three in a Feb. 24 storm in Virginia and three in a Nov. 30 storm in Alabama.
2015: 36 killed in 13 deadly tornado events, including storms in December that left 10 dead in the Dallas area and nine dead in Mississippi.
2014: 47 killed in 14 deadly tornado events, including 10 dead in Mississippi during a swarm of tornadoes in late April 2014 that also killed 16 people in Arkansas.
2013: 55 killed in 14 deadly tornado events. Authorities reported at least 51 died in a May 20 twister that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Oklahoma.
2012: 68 killed in 22 deadly tornado events, including 11 during a March 2 storm that struck the Indiana towns of Henryville and Marysville. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/weather-service-mississippi-tornadoes-deadliest-since-2011/ | 2023-03-26 16:51:04 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/weather-service-mississippi-tornadoes-deadliest-since-2011/ |
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Rihanna is pregnant.
The singer's rep confirmed the news to Hollywood Reporter after rumors poured in Sunday night during Super Bowl LVII in Glendale.
The 9x Grammy award winner Rihanna performed at State Farm Stadium during the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime show on Sunday. This marked Rihanna's first performance in 7 years, so naturally, all eyes were on her. This will be her second child with rapper, A$AP Rocky. Her first son was born last May.
Decorated in a crimson jumper with a glossy peekaboo bandeau top, the singer appeared to rub her baby bump while belting out hits on a floating platform. She belted out her first hit, 'B**** Better Have My Money' as she hovered in the air over the turf.
Shortly before the performance ended, the term 'pregnant' became a trending topic on Twitter, with many users speculating a subtle, yet fashionable pregnancy announcement.
Twitter reacts to Rihanna's baby bump speculations
Dancers wearing what looked like white puffer suits moved in sync on their own suspended platforms and several danced on a stage on the field. Fireworks went off outside the stadium throughout her set.
She and her dancers were lowered to stage and moved in sync as she sped through three other hits, “Where Have You Been,” "Cockiness," and “Only Girl,” singing “Want you to make me feel like I’m the only girl in the world.”
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More exciting Stanley Cup Playoffs action is on tap for Friday night, with a battle between two rivals from the Metro squaring off in the second game of their series.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE
METROPOLITAN
(2) New Jersey Devils vs. (1) Carolina Hurricanes (Hurricanes lead, 1-0)
- Where: PNC Arena (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Time: 8 p.m. ET
- Channel: TNT
- Stream: DirecTV Stream
It was pretty obvious what team had been to the second round recently on Wednesday night. The Hurricanes dominated early on against the Devils, and were rewarded with three goals before New Jersey could even get their second shot on goal. The Devils had some pushback in the final half of the game, but Carolina was able to keep the distance, pulling away to grab game one with a 5-1 win.
Jesper Fast led the Canes with a goal and an assist, while captain Jordan Staal chimed in with two assists. While goaltender Frederik Andersen was not called upon a whole lot, he was solid, only giving up one goal on 19 shots. The Hurricanes started off their first-round series against the New York Islanders, but need to be sure to not let up, as this Devils team has the speed and youthful exuberance to get them back into the series.
That said, New Jersey looked like a team still recovering from a hangover after their big Game 7 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. Coach Lindy Ruff had to pull rookie Akira Schmid, who was a big part in helping the Devils turn things around to win in the opening round. It will be interesting to see who starts in net, as veteran Vitek Vanecek came in relief and played rather well.
The Devils are 2-2 on the road in the playoffs, while the Canes’ are now 3-1 at PNC Arena.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina insurance magnate must give up control of his private companies to comply with a 2019 agreement to ensure several insurers within his business empire are paid over $1 billion, a state judge has ruled.
Ruling in a civil lawsuit from which he heard testimony almost a year ago, Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley wrote that Greg E. Lindberg had failed to carry out his side of a memorandum of understanding, WRAL-TV reported.
Shirley decided that Lindberg, who is currently serving federal prison time after being convicted in 2020 on corruption-related criminal charges, put up obstacles to cede control, even though he and his companies benefited from the agreement with up to $100 million in debt relief and $40 million line of credit.
“Lindberg acted with deceit and with the intent to defraud the plaintiffs,” Shirley wrote in the order filed Tuesday.
Shirley ordered Lindberg to abide by the agreement and give up control over scores of his private companies that sit within his umbrella Global Growth Holdings company to a board upon which he could not serve. Many of those companies could be sold to generate revenue to pay the insurers the $1.25 billion that Shirley said is owed them.
Lindberg attorney Aaron Tobin told The Wall Street Journal that “Global Growth and Mr. Lindberg respect the court’s ruling, and are evaluating their post-judgment remedies.”
Shirley noted in his ruling that a Lindberg executive has said the restructuring arrangement couldn’t be accomplished for many reasons. And Lindberg’s lawyers had argued the memorandum of understanding wasn’t an enforceable contract.
The insurance companies that sued Lindberg -- Southland National Insurance Corp., Bankers Life Insurance Co., Colorado Bankers Life Insurance Co. and Southland National Reinsurance Corp. -- already are being overseen by state-appointed rehabilitators due to cash-flow concerns to pay on policies.
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey praised Shirley’s ruling.
“If Mr. Lindberg and his companies had honored the promises that they made to these insurance companies and their policyholders back in 2019, we might be well on our way to having this matter resolved,” Causey said in a statement, adding that his agency “will continue its work to hold Mr. Lindberg to his promises and get the policyholders of these companies full access to their policies.”
Lindberg, who lived in Durham and was once North Carolina’s largest political donor, was sentenced in 2020 to more than seven years in prison after being convicted of attempting to bribe Causey to secure preferential regulatory treatment for his insurance business. The convictions are being appealed. His projected release is 2026. Prosecutors accused Lindberg and others of trying to give over $1.5 million to help Causey’s 2020 reelection campaign. Causey, who wasn’t accused of wrongdoing, alerted authorities and recorded conversations for them.
The civil litigation involves in part the limits on insurance companies to invest in other companies owned by the same person or entity that controls the insurance company itself. The industry standard was 10%, but through an arrangement with Causey’s predecessor Lindberg was able to invest up to around 40%.
When Causey took office, his department sought to reduce the percentage and determined the insurance companies that Lindberg had invested in likely couldn’t cover their policies coming due. That ultimately led to the 2019 memorandum. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-NC-insurance-mogul-defrauded-companies-he-17184912.php | 2022-05-19 20:24:39 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-NC-insurance-mogul-defrauded-companies-he-17184912.php |
Peer-reviewed, published research adds to Pycnogenol®'s catalog of research in menopause and beauty, revealing new benefits for the celebrated super-antioxidant to address hair density
GENEVA, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new double-blind, randomized, placebo–controlled study reveals a natural, safe and effective path for women who face hair thinning, a condition commonly experienced in menopause. The new study, conducted with menopausal women, found oral intake of Pycnogenol® to significantly increase hair density, decrease transepidermal water loss in scalp skin and optimize resting flux of the scalp. The researchers' conclusions show Pycnogenol® helps support hair density in menopausal women.
"Hormonal changes during menopause can affect hair growth rate, hair diameter and diameter distribution. Scalp hair density often decreases with age, leading to a heightened perception of hair thinning," says author and renowned natural physician, Dr. Fred Pescatore. "Poor hair quality can have a significant psychological impact and may even lead to increased anxiety and depression. For women seeking hair health support and those frustrated by hair loss during menopause or a continued pattern of hair thinning, this study reveals a new application for an ingredient that has proven antioxidant and circulatory benefits, in addition to its already established benefits in menopause and skin care."
Published in Health Sciences Reports, the study analyzed 63 menopausal women, aged 45-60 years old. Thirty-three (33) women took 150mg of Pycnogenol® a day (50mg three times a day, with meals), while 30 women took the placebo. Hair status and response were documented at baseline, two months and six months. Findings include:
Significant increase in hair density
Hair density increased from the baseline of 225.8 hairs/cm2 to 293.6 hairs/cm2 after two months of supplementation with Pycnogenol®– a statistically significant increase of 30%. Additionally, the Pycnogenol® group experienced a 23% increase in hair density after six months. The placebo group experienced a non-significant increase in hair density after two and six months. Progress and results were measured through digital photography, which were further evaluated through Trichoscan® software.
Improvement of scalp microcirculation
Further analysis of the blood volume variations– measured by resting flux– revealed that the increase of hair density after Pycnogenol® supplementation was associated with a decrease in resting flux of the scalp skin by 21% after two months and by 44% after six months. This indicates an improvement of scalp microcirculation, as blood flow was improved.
Reduction of transepithelial water loss
A significant transient decrease of TEWL (transepidermal water loss) was observed in scalp skin in the Pycnogenol® group, but not the placebo. A significant decrease of TEWL values of 2.5 was detected after two months of Pycnogenol® intake and an increase of 6.0 was determined for the placebo group. After six months, the placebo group saw an increase of 4.8 and Pycnogenol® resulted in an increase of 1.0. Measurements were taken with a Vapometer.
"This study included various complex and sophisticated measurement tools, which embeds an added layer of trust in the results of this study for those looking for a natural path to address female pattern hair loss or overall hair health," said Pescatore. "Pycnogenol® is a leading ingredient for circulation, healthy skin, joint health and more, supported as safe and effective by 40 years of research. This study reveals an exciting new application of a trusted and effective ingredient with powerful antioxidant properties to benefit hair quality."
Horphag Research is committed to further investigate how Pycnogenol® intake improves hair density in future clinical trials.
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About Pycnogenol®
Pycnogenol® is a natural plant extract originating from the bark of the maritime pine that grows along the coast of southwest France and is found to contain a unique combination of procyanidins, bioflavonoids and phenolic acids, which offer extensive natural health benefits. The extract has been widely studied for the past 40 years and has more than 450 published studies and review articles ensuring safety and efficacy as an ingredient. Today, Pycnogenol® is available in more than 1,000 dietary supplements and health products worldwide. For more information, visit www.pycnogenol.com.
About Horphag Research
Horphag Research is the exclusive worldwide distributor for Pycnogenol® (pic-noj-en-all) brand French maritime pine bark extract. Pycnogenol® is a registered trademark of Horphag Research. For its patented ingredient, Pycnogenol®, Horphag Research has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Research Award, Nutraceutical Business & Technology Safety & Quality Award, SupplySide West Scientific Excellence Award and The American Botanical Council's Tyler Research Award. Horphag Research has the exclusive rights to market and sell Pycnogenol® worldwide and benefits from more than 40 years of scientific research assuring the safety and efficacy of Pycnogenol® as a dietary supplement.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has granted President Nayib Bukele another 30-day extension of the state of exception that has suspended fundamental rights since a surge in gang killings in late March.
The Legislative Assembly, controlled by Bukele’s party, voted overwhelmingly late Tuesday to extend the measures under which more than 46,000 people have been arrested.
“The results that we are producing as Security Cabinet can be seen,” Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro told lawmakers. “We are going to maintain firm the strategies.”
After gangs were blamed for 62 killings on March 26, Bukele sought extraordinary powers.
Under the state of exception, the right of association, the right to be informed of the reason for an arrest and access to a lawyer are suspended. The government also can intervene in the calls and mail of anyone they consider a suspect. The time someone can be held without charges is extended from three days to 15 days.
Without the new extension, the state of exception would have expired Saturday.
Authorities have made waves of arrests often with very little evidence. Generally, those arrested are accused of belonging or associating with one of the country’s powerful street gangs.
Civil and human rights groups say that arbitrary arrests are common and that when detainees finally see a judge they are almost automatically jailed for six months pending trial. Some people have died while incarcerated.
Villatoro said the arrests are making El Salvador safer, noting there have been days without any homicides nationwide.
“We have destroyed the transnational, criminal and terrorist structure, the drug business that the terrorists led, and we are going to completely erradicate them,” he said.
Villatoro said that many gang members fled into more rural areas to escape arrest, but that authroities had dismantled more than 100 of their rural camps.
While Villatoro requested the extension, hundreds of people marched to demad the release of their relatives and the repeal of the state of exception. Riot police erected barriers to stop their advance.
The gangs, which have been estimated to count some 70,000 members in their ranks, have long terrorized El Salvador. They controlled swaths of territory and extorted and killed with impunity.
Critics of the state of exception say a crackdown on the gangs could have been carried out without suspending fundamental rights. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/El-Salvador-extends-state-of-exception-in-gang-17317347.php | 2022-07-20 17:44:48 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/El-Salvador-extends-state-of-exception-in-gang-17317347.php |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a red wave that former President Donald Trump could triumphantly ride to the Republican nomination as he prepares to launch another White House run.
Instead, Tuesday night’s disappointing results for the GOP are raising new questions about Trump’s appeal and the future of a party that has fully embraced him, seemingly at its peril, while at the same time giving new momentum to his most potent potential rival.
Indeed, some allies were calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement next week, saying the party’s full focus needs to be on Georgia, where Trump-backed football great Herschel Walker’s effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is headed to a runoff that could determine control of the Senate once again.
“I’ll be advising him that he move his announcement until after the Georgia runoff,” said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “Georgia needs to be the focus of every Republican in the country right now,” he said.
Trump sought to use the midterms as an opportunity to prove his enduring political influence after losing the White House in 2020. He endorsed more than 330 candidates in races up and down the ballot, often elevating inexperienced and deeply flawed candidates. He reveled in their primary victories. But many of their positions, including echoing Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election and embracing hardline views on abortion, were out of step with the political mainstream.
Trump did notch some big wins Tuesday, particularly in Ohio, where his pick for the Senate, “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance, sailed to easy victory after Trump’s endorsement catapulted him to the front of a crowded primary pack. In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd, an early Trump pick, kept an open Senate seat in GOP hands.
But Trump lost some of the night’s biggest prizes, particularly in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz, who only narrowly won his Senate primary with Trump’s backing, lost to Democrat John Fetterman. Trump-backed candidates also lost governors’ races in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, and a Senate race in New Hampshire, though Trump seemed to celebrate the latter, bashing Republican Dan Bolduc for trying to moderate his stances by backing off his embrace of Trump’s election lies.
“Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily,” Trump said on his social media network. “Lessons Learned!!!” (Trump also cheered the loss of Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Joe O’Dea, who had said he thought it was time for the party to move on from Trump.)
Other high-stakes races in Arizona and Nevada remained too early to call.
Indeed, the Republicans’ biggest victory of the night came in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis cruised to reelection, cementing his status as a rising national Republican star as he eyes his own potential 2024 run.
“I have only begun to fight,” he told supporters in his victory speech.
While Republicans still appear well positioned to flip the House, and could ultimately take the Senate, too, those who had believed frustrations with record inflation, combined with President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings, would deliver swift and decisive victories were pointing fingers in the former president’s direction. The night’s message, they argued: The American people want to move on.
“I mean, we had a historic opportunity and Trump’s recruitment of unelectable candidates blew it for us,” said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist. “Trump’s now lost three elections in a row for the Republican Party and it’s time to snap out of this foolishness.”
Reed argued the party “had everything going for us: money, the issue agenda, Biden being in the tank,” but said Trump’s efforts to keep himself in the spotlight by teasing a run in the race’s final stretch “obviously worked up a lot of independents and Democrats to turn out and vote.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime Trump friend and adviser-turned-critic, who is considering his own run for president in 2024, said Republicans “have a fundamental decision to make.”
“We lost in ‘18. We lost in ‘20. We lost in ’21 in Georgia. And now in ’22 we’re going to net lose governorships, we’re not going to pick up the number of seats in the House that we thought and we may not win the Senate despite a president who has a 40% job approval,” he said. “There’s only one person to blame for that and that’s Donald Trump.”
He blamed Trump for elevating deeply flawed candidates, who won their primaries but struggled in the general election.
‘The only animating factor (for him) in determining an endorsement is, ’Do you believe the 2020 election was stolen or don’t you?'” Christie said. “It’s not, ‘Can you raise money?’ It’s not, ‘Do you have an articulatable vision for the future of your state or your district?’ It’s not evidence of past success in communicating to voters. It is a completely self-centered determination.”
Trump, meanwhile, insisted publicly he was happy with the results.
“While in certain ways yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, from my personal standpoint it was a very big victory – 219 WINS and 16 Losses in the General – Who has ever done better than that?” he wrote on his Truth Social network Wednesday afternoon.
His spokesman Taylor Budowich also touted Trump’s endorsement record, and said, “As President Trump looks to the future, he will continue to champion his America First agenda that won overwhelmingly at the ballot box last night.”
But Republican strategist David Urban, a former Trump adviser, said the Trump brand is wounded no matter what the former president says.
“Of course, he’s going to claim victory, right? The president touts an accomplishment record that includes victories in uncontested races. He can say whatever he wants. But how do people feel in America? I think people feel not great about the Trump brand right now,” Urban said. “It’s bad.”
Some now worry that if Trump goes forward with his planned announcement next week, he could pave the way for a rerun of Republicans’ 2021 losses in Georgia by dominating the race.
Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who now works for Fox News, advised on air that Trump should hold off on an announcement until after the Georgia Senate runoff.
“I think he needs to put it on pause,” she said. Asked whether Trump should campaign in the state, she said: “I think we’ve got to make strategic calculations. Gov. DeSantis, I think he should be welcomed to the state, given what happened last night. You’ve got to look at the realities on the ground.”
Budowich did not respond to questions about such efforts, but Trump seemed to throw cold water on the advice.
“We had tremendous success,” he told Fox News Digital Wednesday. “Why would anything change?”
Trump’s setbacks, meanwhile, were giving new hope to the long list of potential rivals who have been quietly waiting in the wings and now face the decision of whether to run, too.
That includes DeSantis, who emerged as the night’s obvious winner. “DeFUTURE,” The New York Post declared. In addition to his wide margin of victory, DeSantis carried Democratic stronghold Miami-Dade, and did so without Trump’s endorsement. (Though Trump did tell reporters he’d voted for the governor days after insulting him as “Ron DeSanctimonious.”)
“DeSantis comes out of the election with lot of momentum,” said GOP strategist Alex Conant. “Trump has been weak for a long time but it wasn’t clear who the alternative was. … For the first time, Trump really has a formidable rival within the party.”
Even some Democrats conceded DeSantis’ strength.
Miami-based Democratic strategist Jose Parra said the Trump rival enters the 2024 conversation with “a bunch of wind in his sails” after stronger-than-expected performance across the state — especially in south Florida’s Miami-Dade County.
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Biden said his “intention” is to run again. But noting the emerging competition between Trump and DeSantis, he said it would be “fun watching them take on each other.”
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-urged-to-delay-2024-launch-after-gops-uneven-election/ | 2022-11-10 14:02:51 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-urged-to-delay-2024-launch-after-gops-uneven-election/ |
HONG KONG (AP) — Ray Cordeiro, who interviewed music acts including the Beatles during a six-decade career on Hong Kong radio that earned him the title of the world’s longest-working disc jockey, has died, his former employer announced. He was 98.
Cordeiro died Friday, according to Radio Television Hong Kong, where he worked until 2021. It gave no cause of death.
Cordeiro, who was born in Hong Kong in 1924 of Portuguese descent, was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest-working DJ.
He joined Hong Kong’s public broadcaster in 1960 after working as a prison warden and bank clerk. His “All the Way With Ray” show of easy listening music was on RTHK Radio 3 for 51 years until his retirement.
“The audience followed me, grew up with me, and they’re all over the world now,” Cordeiro told The Associated Press in 2021 after his retirement. “They still listened to me on the internet.”
Cordeiro interviewed the Beatles, then the world’s biggest music act, in 1964 following a study course in London with the British Broadcasting Corp. He said John Lennon recounted their early days in Hamburg, Germany, where they lived in relative poverty and played in clubs.
Cordeiro said all four members of the Beatles autographed a magazine cover for him.
“It’s probably worth a fortune,” he said.
The broadcast of the Beatles interview on Hong Kong radio made Cordeiro a celebrity. He also interviewed other stars and met Elton John and Tony Bennett. | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-hong-kong-dj-who-broadcast-for-6-decades-dies-at-98/ | 2023-01-14 22:05:07 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-hong-kong-dj-who-broadcast-for-6-decades-dies-at-98/ |
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz aren't letting the spotlight transform their relationship.
When answering a question about how they handle "external commentary" of their relationship, the newlyweds shared in an interview with Vogue Hong Kong that they are staying devoted to each other through thick and thin.
"We always have each other's back, no matter what. At the end of the day we're best friends and we wouldn't have it any other way," the couple told the publication. "We don't think about our relationship as being in the spotlight we just think about us as being in a relationship."
Brooklyn married Nicola in April, though the 23-year-old knew he wanted to spend everyday with the Transformers star during her first London visit.
"Before she was about to leave, I bought the last seat on the plane and flew back to New York with her," Brooklyn said in his new interview. "That's the moment I knew I never wanted to be separated from her."
The couple have since split their time between exploring London and Los Angeles.
"Every time we go to London, Brooklyn gets so excited to show me all the places he grew up. When we're in L.A., we have our own little traditions that make us happy," Nicola said. "Every Sunday we go to the farmers market and it's the little things like that make it feel like home. Los Angeles is where we spend most of our time."
Location doesn't really matter to the lovebirds, who said, "when we're together it always feels like home no matter where we are."
When asked what qualities they treasure most in each other, Nicola noted, "His kindness, his heart, and his sensitivity."
Brooklyn, who is embarking on a cooking career, had no trouble mincing his words, telling Vogue Hong Kong, "She is perfect in every way."
The son of David and Victoria Beckham hasn't shied away from displaying the love he has for his wife, getting Nicola-inspired tattoos and a new joint last name: Peltz Beckham.
"I just thought it was different. Not many guys take their wives' names," Brooklyn told E! News' Daily Pop at Variety's Power of Young Hollywood event last month. "So, I was just like, 'Why not?' It fit really cool together." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1344789/how-brooklyn-beckham-and-nicola-peltz-address-external-commentary-on-their-relationship?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-09-03 00:36:16 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1344789/how-brooklyn-beckham-and-nicola-peltz-address-external-commentary-on-their-relationship?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories |
Maersk sues Evergreen over 2021 blocking of Suez Canal
By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — The world’s biggest shipping company has sued a rival shipping line in a Danish court, seeking compensation for ship delays that resulted from the blocking of the Suez Canal by a hulking vessel two years ago. The Panama-flagged vessel Ever Given operated by Evergreen Marine Corp., ran aground in March 2021, blocking the global waterway for nearly a week. The enormous vessel was released in a massive salvage operation. In an email to The Associated Press, shipping giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk said it filed a claim against Evergreen Marine and the vessel’s Japanese owner and technical manager in the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court in Copenhagen, Denmark. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/13/maersk-sues-evergreen-over-2021-blocking-of-suez-canal-2/ | 2023-02-13 17:56:57 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/13/maersk-sues-evergreen-over-2021-blocking-of-suez-canal-2/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy is set to face a case of deja vu come Tuesday. The political future of the 57-year-old will once again be at stake as Republican lawmakers decide if he should be elected as House speaker.
It’s a journey the California lawmaker took once before in 2015, fruitlessly, facing the same opposition from the right flank of the party he is expected to meet this week. His first speakership run came when then-House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, resigned after an internal party battle with members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
More than seven years later, he is the party’s nominee for speaker after leading the Republican Party to a slim majority in the November midterm elections. He secured the support of most of the conference during a closed-door leadership vote shortly after and overcame a challenge from Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
While McCarthy is as of now facing no serious Republican challenger for the constitutionally mandated office, which would make him second in line to the presidency, his ascension to speaker is an open question. He is facing entrenched opposition from a small number of conservative lawmakers who in a 222-213 majority could well tank his nomination.
Here’s what you need to know about how the House elects a speaker:
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NO HOUSE WITHOUT A SPEAKER
Choosing a speaker will be the first vote the House will take before new and returning lawmakers are even sworn into office on Tuesday. As set out under the Constitution, the session will begin at noon on Jan. 3, with all the lawmakers seated on the House floor and members from both parties joining in the vote for speaker.
The chamber cannot organize until it has a speaker since that person effectively serves as the House’s presiding officer and the institution’s administrative head. The House can elect a new speaker at any time if the person occupying that role dies, resigns or is removed from office. Barring that, a speaker is normally elected at the start of a new Congress.
Lawmakers call out the name of their choice for speaker from the floor, a rare and time-consuming roll call that heightens the drama on the floor. Members often liven up the proceedings by shouting or standing when casting their vote.
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WHO CAN BE NOMINATED?
In the weeks after an election, the Republican conference and the Democratic caucus hold an informal vote among their members to decide who they want to nominate to lead their party in January. McCarthy won the majority of the Republican vote in a closed-door November meeting. Weeks later, Democrats unanimously chose Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to become their leader as the party transitions into the minority.
But, once Jan. 3 comes along, members are not obligated to vote for the party’s chosen candidate. While it has been the tradition for the speaker candidate to be a member of the House, it is not required. In past years, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and even a senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, have received votes for House speaker.
To be sure, none of them received the majority of the vote.
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LET THE VOTING BEGIN
Once the House is in a quorum — meaning the minimum number of members are present to proceed — the speaker nominee from each party will be read aloud by the respective leaders before a roll call vote to elect a new speaker. The clerk then appoints lawmakers from each party as tellers to tally the votes.
The candidate to become speaker needs a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting.
Historically, the magical number has been 218 out of the 435 members of the House. But many previous speakers, including outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have ascended to the dais with fewer votes than that, as some members voted present instead of calling out a name. Every lawmaker voting “present” lowers the overall tally needed to reach a majority.
Many are skeptical that McCarthy will reach a majority to become speaker on the first ballot. Should he come up short, it is likely the clerk will repeat the roll call vote several times until he is able to garner a majority. McCarthy is expected to be making concessions and compromises with the holdouts until the moment he is able to grasp the gavel.
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PASSING OF THE GAVEL
Once a speaker candidate won a majority of the vote, the clerk will announce the results of the election.
A bipartisan committee, usually consisting of members from the home state of the chosen candidate, will then escort the speaker-elect to the chair on the dais where the oath of office is administered. The oath is identical to the one new members will take once a speaker is chosen.
The outgoing speaker will usually join the successor at the speaker’s chair, where they will pass the gavel as a nod to the peaceful transition of power from one party leader to another. This time around, that will be Pelosi, the California Democrat who held the gavel for the last four years. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-explainer-how-the-house-of-representatives-elects-a-speaker/ | 2023-01-02 16:27:58 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-explainer-how-the-house-of-representatives-elects-a-speaker/ |
(Our Auto Expert) — Jeep has some serious news. We are witnessing history in the form of technology combined with electrification and added capability. Jeep has given us a glimpse of its future. Vowing to go all-electric. They begin in early 2023 in the UK, with the North American roll in 2024. Four models have been selected. Let’s take a peek.
Jeep is going all electric with four distinct models. By 2024 Jeep will introduce Jeep to North America the Jeep Wagoneer S, Jeep Recon, Wrangler 4xe, and the Jeep Avenger, which will be released in 2023 and is going exclusively to the UK market.
For us in the states, we are already anticipating the Wagoneer S. The clean body lines and new posture make the quick Zero to sixty in 3.5 seconds a beautiful sight to watch. With up to 600HP and 400 miles of estimated range.
Following the Wagoneer S, we get the Jeep Recon. This is for you off-road outdoor people. Inspired by the Wrangler, It maintains the authentic open-air design we have all fallen in love with. Fully removable doors and windows with available one-touch power top.
The UK-exclusive all-electric Jeep Avenger is the first all-electric Jeep in Europe. Getting all new tech and infotainment center makes the range of 400 kilometers seem like a breeze to travel.
Jeep has something for everyone, whether you’re in North America or the UK. | https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/did-jeep-just-outpace-ford-bronco-with-the-next-big-thing-in-outdoor-adventure/ | 2022-09-10 15:14:31 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/did-jeep-just-outpace-ford-bronco-with-the-next-big-thing-in-outdoor-adventure/ |
GREENSBORO — Fire officials confirmed that two children pulled by firefighters from a burning home late Thursday morning were pronounced dead at the scene.
An adult female was outside the home in the 1800 block of Glenside Drive when firefighters arrived at 11:35 a.m. to find heavy smoke and flames, Greensboro Deputy Fire Chief Dwayne Church said by telephone.
The woman was able to direct firefighters to where the two children should be in the home, Church said. The department immediately called for additional resources or a "second alarm," he said.
"It's devastating for all of us," Church said.
Firefighters were able to remove the children from the fire and turn patient care over to EMS, which pronounced both dead at the scene, Church said. Their ages were not available.
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The adult female was transported to Moses Cone Hospital and was listed in critical condition late Thursday afternoon, he said.
Church said the department is not releasing any information about the woman's relationship to the children at this time.
Two dogs died inside the home, Church said.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze at approximately 12 p.m. Thursday and began remediating smoke and carbon monoxide levels so that fire investigators could safely enter the structure.
The cause of the fire is not known at this time. The Fire Marshal's Office and the Greensboro Police Department are investigating, Church said.
Glenside Drive was closed between Dodson Street and Chapel Edge Drive while approximately 35 firefighters were on scene. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/update-two-children-die-after-house-fire-thursday-morning-1-adult-in-critical-condition-officials/article_be0d8d0c-c437-11ed-b72e-c3b9e0297397.html | 2023-03-16 23:46:59 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/update-two-children-die-after-house-fire-thursday-morning-1-adult-in-critical-condition-officials/article_be0d8d0c-c437-11ed-b72e-c3b9e0297397.html |
BMW recently teased an electric off-road racer called the Dune Taxi in a promotional video released by its Middle East division.
The automaker hasn’t made a formal announcement about the Dune Taxi or where it will be racing, but the vehicle resembles the Odyssey 21 used in the Extreme E series. In the video, BMW said the body is made with a natural fiber-reinforced polymer—just like the Odyssey 21.
The specs differ a bit, however. BMW claims the Dune Taxi produces 536 hp, which is a bit less than the 550 hp Extreme E claims the Odyssey 21 makes in race trim. BMW also claims 738 lb-ft of torque and 15.7 inches of suspension travel, the latter figure slightly more than what Extreme E quotes for the Odyssey 21.
Still, the Dune Taxi and Odyssey 21 are close in specification, so perhaps BMW is mulling an Extreme E entry. Or perhaps BMW will take the Dune Taxi to the Dakar Rally to compete against the electric Audi RS Q E-Tron, which has been freshly upgraded to E2 spec with redesigned bodywork and tweaks to optimize energy efficiency, among other changes.
At any rate, the Dune Taxi looks pretty impressive in the video, which also features cameos by the BMW X6 M Competition and iX M60. Toward the end of the video, the Dune Taxi slaloms around some E53-generation X5s riding on two wheels, then climbs a 130-degree dune incline.
The video ends with a tease of the BMW Concept XM SUV, which will be revealed in production form on Sept. 27. Sporting a twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 in plug-in hybrid configuration, estimated to deliver around 750 hp, the XM is on track to be the most powerful BMW production vehicle to date.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
6-8-8, WB: 4
(six, eight, eight; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
6-8-8, WB: 4
(six, eight, eight; WB: four) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-17235421.php | 2022-06-11 18:57:53 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-17235421.php |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti awoke Tuesday stripped of its last democratically elected institution — this time, its Senate — an alarming development that solidifies what some call a de facto dictatorship nominally in charge of a country wracked by gang violence.
While only 10 senators had been symbolically representing the nation’s 11 million people in recent years because Haiti had failed to hold legislative elections since October 2019, their terms expired overnight, leaving Haiti without a single lawmaker in its House or Senate amid a spiraling political crisis. Organized crime groups have been running virtually unchecked since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, who himself had been ruling by decree.
“It’s a very grim situation,” said Alex Dupuy, a Haitian-born sociologist at Wesleyan University, “one of the worst crises that Haiti has had since the Duvalier dictatorship.”
The bloody regime of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who fled the country in 1986, marked the last time Haiti lacked elected officials.
The Parliament building in downtown Port-au-Prince remained deserted on Tuesday, with only security guards at the gate. Similar scenes were evident outside Haiti’s non-functioning Supreme Court and electoral commission.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who assumed leadership of Haiti with the backing of the international community after Moïse was killed, has failed to hold general elections despite multiple pledges over the last year and a half to do so. His latest promise, on Jan. 1, was that the Supreme Court would be restored and a provisional electoral council tasked with setting a reasonable date for elections.
But Henry offered no timeline, even as he asked Haitians to trust each other and “take me at my word when I speak of my government’s desire to do everything possible to reconstitute our democratic institutions.”
“There are no powers to check his decisions,” Dupuy said. “As long as that situation continues, Henry is going to be behaving like a dictator.”
A spokesman for Henry’s office declined to comment.
The U.N. has warned that security in Haiti needs to improve before elections are held. Reported kidnappings soared to more than 1,200 last year, double what was reported the previous year, according to the U.N., and at least 280 killings were reported in November alone, the highest monthly record.
Briefing the U.N. Security Council in December, Helen La Lime, who was appointed Haiti’s U.N. special envoy in October 2019, described what she called “alarmingly high levels of gang violence” in Haiti, which has fewer than 9,000 active police officers nationwide.
The gangs increasingly rely on kidnappings to fund their operations, with experts estimating that they control about 60% of Port-au-Prince.
“We are scared to step out of our houses,” said Daniel Jean, 25, who sells phone chargers and other equipment in the capital. “We are cornered: kidnapping, extortions. Gangs are killing people because we don’t have ransom.”
Haitians have lost all trust in the democratic process, Jean said, adding that he won’t vote if the same politicians and parties appear on the ballot: “They have more influence than the gangs. They control all the gangs.
“This is why the country is not going to move forward until the international community … comes in to help,” he said.
Henry requested the immediate deployment of foreign troops in October after the most powerful gang seized control of a key fuel terminal, cutting off supplies to hospitals, schools, businesses and homes.
But the United States and Canada, among others, have responded only by implementing sanctions, not sending troops.
“Haiti needs stability,” decried Andrea Marcele, 29, who sells yams, lemons, carrots and other goods in the streets of the capital after migrating from the northern region of Grand-Anse.
“The country has no president … no elected officials,” she said. “Everybody is hungry for power. We are paying the consequences.”
As the situation worsens, Haitians increasingly flee by plane or aboard rickety boats, desperately risking their lives to reach some safety and economic security. Many aim for the Bahamas, or Florida. President Joe Biden’s administration intercepted tens of thousands last year, sending them back to Haiti.
Rodelie Kator, 49, sells rice, beans and other goods, hoping to send her 18-year-old son to Chile or Brazil, popular destination points for Haitians who then try to reach Mexico and cross into the United States.
“I’m hoping for a better life for my son,” she said. “I don’t want to witness him being killed.”
Kator said she wishes he could stay in Haiti because she has seen in the news “what my brothers and sisters have to go through to get to Mexico. … being treated like animals.”
But Haiti holds no promise for her son, even as Biden announced last week that his administration would immediately turn away Haitians and other migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Haitian economist Enomy Germain tried to use this moment, with zero elected officials in Haiti, to encourage his countrymen.
“This date will have marked the beginning of the end of a political class without vision — without regard for the common good and without balance — if you good people get involved,” he tweeted. “Know that tomorrow will not be better without you.”
But even if elections were to be held, many Haitians wonder whether any candidate will be worthy of their support as they fear for their life.
“It feels like we’re heading toward a civil war,” said Marcele. “You’re walking with a coffin under your arm.”
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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-political-vacuum-in-haiti-deepens-as-senators-terms-expire/ | 2023-01-11 15:29:08 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-political-vacuum-in-haiti-deepens-as-senators-terms-expire/ |
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 3:05 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Broadband revenue up 20% and Video SaaS revenue up 58% year over year
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced its unaudited results for the second quarter of 2023.
"While we achieved double digit year over year Broadband and Video SaaS revenue growth and strong gross margins for the second quarter, we experienced hardware sales delays across our business segments resulting in total revenue that was below our expectations," said Patrick Harshman, president and chief executive officer of Harmonic. "Despite these short-term headwinds, we have the largest backlog in our Company's history and our operating model continued to deliver solid profitability. The strength of our market position was reinforced by several new customer wins which further supports our multi-year growth plan."
Q2 Financial and Business Highlights
Financial
Revenue: $156.0 million, down 1% year over year
Gross margin: GAAP 54.5% and non-GAAP 54.7%, compared to GAAP 52.3% and non-GAAP 52.8% in the year ago period
Operating income: GAAP income $10.0 million and non-GAAP income $18.2 million, compared to GAAP income $15.1 million and non-GAAP income $21.4 million in the year ago period
Net income: GAAP net income $1.6 million and non-GAAP net income of $14.0 million, compared to GAAP net income $14.8 million and non-GAAP net income $17.6 million in the year ago period
Adjusted EBITDA: $21.1 million income compared to $24.3 million income in the year ago period
EPS: GAAP net income per share of $0.01 and non-GAAP net income per share of $0.12, compared to GAAP net income per share of $0.14 and non-GAAP net income per share of $0.16 in the year ago period
Cash: $71.0 million, down $50.8 million year over year
Business
CableOS® solution commercially deployed with 98 customers, serving 21.0 million cable modems, and initial orders received from two new Tier 1 customers
Recognized for the first time as the "cable broadband equipment" market share leader, by the most recent Dell'Oro Group1 report
Signed a follow-on multi-year software contract with an existing Tier 1 customer
Live sports streaming SaaS expansions and new wins drove 58.3% Video SaaS revenue growth year over year
Select Financial Information
Explanations regarding our use of non-GAAP financial measures and related definitions, and reconciliations of our GAAP and non-GAAP measures, are provided in the sections below entitled "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" and "GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations".
Financial Guidance
Conference Call Information
Harmonic will host a conference call to discuss its financial results at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) on Monday, July 31, 2023. The live webcast will be available on the Harmonic Investor Relations website at http://investor.harmonicinc.com. To participate via telephone, please register in advance using this link, https://register.vevent.com/register/BI455acac6063542fb837fd89bddfb1d84. A replay will be available after 5:00 p.m. PT on the same web site.
About Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in virtualized broadband and video delivery solutions, enables media companies and service providers to deliver ultra-high-quality video streaming and broadcast services to consumers globally. The company revolutionized broadband networking via the industry's first virtualized broadband solution, enabling cable operators to more flexibly deploy gigabit internet service to consumers' homes and mobile devices. Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software platforms, or powering the delivery of gigabit internet cable services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and on-demand content on every screen. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements related to our expectations regarding: net revenue, gross margins, operating expenses, operating income (loss), Adjusted EBITDA, tax expense and tax rate, EPS and cash. Our expectations regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the market and technology trends underlying our Video and Broadband businesses will not continue to develop in their current direction or pace; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS and VOS product solutions; dependence on various video and broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability or the impact of increases in the prices of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in Harmonic's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and Harmonic disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company reports its financial results in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP" or referred to herein as "reported"). However, management believes that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide management and other users with additional meaningful financial information that should be considered when assessing our ongoing performance. Our management regularly uses our supplemental non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate our business, establish operating budgets, set internal measurement targets and make operating decisions.
These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for, measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. In addition, these non-GAAP measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. The Company believes that non-GAAP measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with Harmonic's results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP and that these measures should only be used to evaluate Harmonic's results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures.
The Company believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures, when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to its financial condition and its historical and projected results of operations. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative to, the Company's reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
The non-GAAP measures presented here are: Gross profit, operating expenses, income (loss) from operations, non-operating expenses and net income (loss) (including those amounts as a percentage of revenue), Adjusted EBITDA and net income (loss) per diluted share. The presentation of non-GAAP information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and is not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP results published by other companies. A reconciliation of the historical non-GAAP financial measures discussed in this press release to the most directly comparable historical GAAP financial measures is included with the financial statements provided with this press release. The non-GAAP adjustments described below have historically been excluded from our GAAP financial measures.
Our non-GAAP financial measures reflect adjustments based on the following items, as well as the related income tax effects:
Stock-based compensation - Although stock-based compensation is a key incentive offered to our employees, we continue to evaluate our business performance excluding stock-based compensation expenses. We believe that management is limited in its ability to project the impact stock-based compensation would have on our operating results. In addition, for comparability purposes, we believe it is useful to provide a non-GAAP financial measure that excludes stock-based compensation in order to better understand the long-term performance of our core business and to facilitate the comparison of our results to the results of our peer companies.
Restructuring and related charges - Harmonic from time to time incurs restructuring charges which primarily consist of employee severance, one-time termination benefits related to the reduction of its workforce, lease exit costs, and other costs. These charges are associated with material business shifts. We exclude these items because we do not believe they are reflective of our ongoing long-term business and operating results.
Non-cash interest expense and other expenses related to convertible notes and other debt - We record the amortization of issuance costs as non-cash interest expense. We believe that excluding these costs provides meaningful supplemental information regarding operational performance and liquidity, along with enhancing investors' ability to view the Company's results from management's perspective. In addition, we believe excluding these costs from the non-GAAP measures facilitates comparisons to our historical operating results and comparisons to peer company operating results.
Gain and losses on equity investments - We exclude the gain and losses from the sale of our equity investments in calculating our non-GAAP financial measures. We exclude these items because we do not believe they are reflective of our ongoing long-term business and operating results.
Discrete tax items and tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments - The income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments relates to the tax effect of the adjustments that we incorporate into non-GAAP financial measures in order to provide a more meaningful measure of non-GAAP net income.
Depreciation - Depreciation expense, along with interest, tax and stock-based compensation expense, and restructuring charges, is excluded from Adjusted EBITDA because we do not believe depreciation and the other items relate to the ordinary course of our business or are reflective of our underlying business performance.
Non-recurring advisory fees - There were non-recurring costs that we excluded from non-GAAP results relating to professional accounting, tax and legal fees associated with strategic corporate initiatives, including assessing corporate structure and organization, as we seek to optimize value for our business.
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Consistent High Grade Drilling Results to be included in upcoming Pre-Feasibility Study
VANCOUVER, BC, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH) (OTCQX: GPHOF) ("Graphite One" "G1" or the "Company"), planning a complete domestic U.S. supply chain for advanced graphite materials, is pleased to announce drill results from its 2021 field program at its Graphite Creek Project ("Graphite Creek" or the "Project"), located in the Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula approximately 37 miles north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite Creek is currently recognized by the US Geological Survey as the largest and highest grade graphite resource in the United States1.
The 2021 field program was conducted from July to October 2021 and comprised a total of 2,150 meters This included 8 core holes in the areas of inferred resources to upgrade them to measured and indicated resources, and 9 geotechnical holes.
The drill results will be included in the upcoming pre-feasibility study ("PFS"), with details provided below.
- 21GOC060 returned 16.03m of 6.9% Cg, 18.75m of 5.04% Cg and 28.5m of 5.13% Cg in three separate intervals starting from 54m downhole.
- 21GOC061 returned 29.15m of 5.83% Cg including 3m of 11.73% Cg starting from 51m downhole.
- 21GC062 returned 42.4m of 11.61% Cg from 45m including 15.21m of 22.2% Cg and 5.81m of 35.78% Cg.
- 21GC064 returned 53.95m of 5.67% Cg from 77.3m.
- 21GOC68 returned 24.99m of 5.56% Cg from 57.73m, including 5.51m of 9.1% Cg.
- Drill results continue to show consistent, near surface high-grade intercepts with numerous holes returning grades greater than 10% and up to 35.78% graphitic carbon (Cg).
- The deposit remains open downdip, as well as along strike to the east and west demonstrating potential for Graphite Creek to become a generational domestic graphite asset.
- The fault boundary to the north was more accurately identified, extending the mineralized zone in this direction by 50 to 75 meters down dip.
- Drilling targeted Inferred resources to upgrade to measured and indicated resource.
"Our 2021 drill results continue to demonstrate excellent continuity with our past exploration programs and should provide the opportunity to increase the resource and reserve estimates for the PFS", said Anthony Huston, CEO of Graphite One. "With our planned mine area of approximately 1 km of the overall 16 km anomaly, our deposit remains open downdip and along strike to the east and west of the known resource -- demonstrating that Graphite Creek has potential to become a critical domestic graphite supply for the United States for a long time to come."
Graphite One will be incorporating these drill results in its upcoming PFS, which is expected to be filed within 45 days from the date of this press release. The PFS will update the known mineral resource, while providing new economic guidance on the Project.
"The PFS will include the results from our 2021 program and should increase confidence that Graphite Creek is a generational asset -- a vital graphite resource in the United States," continued Mr. Huston. The United States currently has no domestic production and relies 100% on importing graphite to meet the nation's energy transition needs.
On January 15, 2021 Graphite One received notice that the Company's Graphite Creek Project has been designated a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the U.S. Government's Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Committee (FPISC). The approval is the culmination of a process that began on October 4, 2019 with Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy's nomination of Graphite One's project for High-Priority Infrastructure Project designation.
"Designating the Graphite Creek Project as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project will send a strong signal that the U.S. intends to end the days of our 100% import-dependency for this increasingly critical mineral," said Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy in his nomination letter.
According to the FPISC's notice letter, the FPISC has "…determined, in consultation with [Office of Management and Budget] OMB and [Council on Environmental Quality] CEQ, that this project clearly qualifies under the 'manufacturing' and 'renewable energy' sectors, among several other sectors."
The Graphite Creek designation came as the Biden Adminstration highlighted electric vehicles ("EV") and EV infrastructure as central to green energy policy. According to renewable energy analyst Simon Moores of the UK's Benchmarket Minerals Intelligence: "What we expect from the Biden Administration is to simply make one of their policies to make gigafactories across the whole country at scale in order to turbo-charge and protect their biggest automobile companies such as Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) and General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM)." As Shane Lasley of North of 60 Mining News reports in regard to the EV and renewable energy sectors, "Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is not the only automarket vying for graphite and other battery metals. With every major carmaker adding electrified models to their lineup, the number of EVs being built each year is expected to expand from about 2 million this year to more than 25 million by 2030 and 55 million by 2040."
Table 1: Length-Weighted Select Composites from 2021 Drill Results2
The 2021 field program also included engineering and environmental studies in proposed millsite and tailings/mine rock management areas, and along the proposed access corridor connecting to the State-maintained road system on the Seward Peninsula. The field program also continued environmental baseline studies across the project area. This work will provide input for the PFS that is anticipated to be completed by mid-2022 and will also help guide the 2022 field program and the anticipated Feasibility Study to follow.
Graphite One maintains a rigorous QA/QC program with respect to the preparation, shipping, analysis and checking of all samples and data from the property. Quality control for drill programs at the Company's projects covers the complete chain of custody of samples, including verification of drill hole locations (collar surveys and down-hole directional surveys), core handling procedures (logging, sampling, sample shipping) and analytical-related work, including duplicate sampling, "check analyses" at other laboratories and the insertion of standard and blank materials. The QA/QC program also includes data verification procedures.
Mr. Andrew K. Angel, P. Geo, with Alaska Earth Sciences, Inc. (AES) provided oversite to the 2021 drilling and sampling program. Mr. Angel is a Qualified Person as defined under NI 43‐101 and has reviewed and approved the technical content of this release.
With the United States currently 100 per cent import dependent for natural graphite, Graphite One is planning to develop a complete U.S.-based, advanced graphite supply chain solution anchored by the Graphite Creek resource near Nome, Alaska. The Graphite One project plan us anticipated to include an advanced graphite material and battery anode manufacturing plant expected to be sited in Washington State with the development of the Graphite Creek resource. The plan includes a recycling facility to reclaim graphite and the other battery materials, to be co-located at the Washington State site, the third link in Graphite One's circular economy strategy.
As announced on March 7th3, Graphite One's Graphite Creek resource in Alaska has been cited as the largest known graphite deposit in the United States by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in its updated U.S. Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN).
The USGS report confirms Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy's statement in support of Graphite One's designation as a U.S. government high-priority infrastructure project, stating, "Graphite Creek is the largest deposit of graphite in the nation and would be a superior domestic supply of this critical mineral.
GRAPHITE ONE INC. (GPH: TSX‐V; GPHOF: OTCQB) continues to develop its Graphite One Project (the "Project"), whereby the Company could potentially become an American producer of high grade anode materials that is integrated with a domestic graphite resource. The Project is proposed as a vertically integrated enterprise to mine, process and manufacture high grade anode materials primarily for the lithium‐ion electric vehicle battery market. As set forth in the Company's Preliminary Economic Assessment, potential graphite mineralization mined from the Company's Graphite Creek Property, is expected to be processed into concentrate at a graphite processing plant. The proposed processing plant would be located on the Graphite Creek Property situated on the Seward Peninsula about 60 kilometers north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite anodes and other value‐added graphite products would be manufactured from the concentrate and other materials at the Company's proposed advanced graphite materials manufacturing facility, the location of which is the subject of further study and analysis. The Company intends to make a production decision on the Project once a feasibility study is completed.
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All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, including those related to the timing and completion of the anticipated Preliminary Feasibility Study, future production, establishment of a processing plant and a graphite manufacturing plant, establishment of a battery materials recycling facility, and events or developments that the Company intends, expects, plans, or proposes are forward-looking statements Generally, forward‐looking information can be identified by the use of forward‐looking terminology such as "proposes", "expects", "is expected", "scheduled", "estimates", "projects", "plans", "is planning", "intends", "assumes", "believes", "indicates", "to be" or variations of such words and phrases that state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". The Company cautions that there is no certainty that tests of the Company's material will be successful or that such tests will result in the development of successful products. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continuity of mineralization, uncertainties related to the ability to obtain necessary permits, licenses and title and delays due to third party opposition, changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration and exploitation, and continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities laws. For more information on the Company, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — If not for the coronavirus pandemic, Feng-Feng Yeh might never have learned about a lesser-known chapter of Chinese American history in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona.
Yeh was an executive chef in New York City when the shutdown took away her job and career plans. She pulled up stakes and moved back home, turning instead to her passion for public art.
Looking for inspiration, Yeh delved into the local history of Chinese immigrants, which she’d heard only bits and pieces of all her life. On the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center website, she learned that Chinese-owned mom-and-pop grocery stores were a thriving industry in Tucson from the 1900s on.
More than businesses, they were lifelines for Mexican American communities. The stores even started preparing Mexican chorizo — the spicy, ground-pork breakfast staple. It earned the nickname “Chinese chorizo.”
“I was very moved by the story of allyship between Mexican and Chinese Americans at a time when all these pivotal immigration policies were being enacted that were quite racist,” Yeh said. “I thought that was something that you don’t learn in school, especially in Arizona. I thought it was something that should be recognized and shared.”
Chinese immigrants settling in Arizona were doing so in the shadow of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the U.S. government’s first race-based immigration policy. Both Chinese and Mexican immigrants faced racism despite being instrumental to the workforce.
It’s a history that older Tucson Chinese residents say they have spent years trying to make more visible.
Yeh proposed erecting an 11-foot (3.4 meters) tall sculpture of two chorizo sausage links, and recently won a grant through the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation. To promote the endeavor, she organized the inaugural Tucson Chinese Chorizo Festival. For the month of October, several local restaurants and food trucks have been serving weekend specials with meat and vegan chorizo.
Even many locals are unaware of Tucson’s significant Chinese presence.
The 15,000-square-foot Tucson Chinese Cultural Center is a bustling hub that’s part community center and part museum, and serves at least 5,000. Established in 2005, it has a multipurpose room, commercial kitchen, classrooms, and a lounge with tables for mahjong. On the walls are display boards with mini-profiles of long-gone Chinese grocery stores. The center also has a YouTube channel that includes a 2014 video on Chinese chorizo.
“A lot of people don’t know we exist after 17 years. So, we’ve been trying to get the word out,” said Susan Chan, the center’s executive director.
Starting in 1900, Chinese-owned grocery stores prospered and became an economic force in Tucson. By the 1940s, there were 130 families running a little over 100 grocery stores in the city. The number of stores dwindled in the ‘70s and ’80s due to an influx of supermarket chains, convenience stores, and a younger generation of Chinese Americans uninterested in the family business.
Allen Lew’s father, Joe Wee Lew, opened his first of three stores, Joe’s Super Market, in 1955. Lew began working in the market as a fourth grader. He still helped out until the last store closed after three decades in business.
He and his four siblings grew up serving Mexican and Native American customers. Everyone felt like they “were all a big neighborhood family.” In a pre-food stamp era, many Chinese grocers would let struggling customers pay whenever.
“A lot of them get paid like once a month, every two weeks, and they ran out of money,” Lew recalled. “They’ll tell my Dad or the other Chinese (grocers), ’Can you give me credit?… We give them credit — no charge, no interest, no nothing.”
Lew, 74 and a longtime board member of the center, remembers watching his father or the Hispanic butcher he employed making chorizo. They used the end pieces of “big rolls of bologna” or salami, boiled ham or other cold cuts.
“The butcher would cut off the fats and things that were part of the meat that were kind of bad. He would take that out and then you threw organ meats and all that and you make it just like hotdogs,” Lew said.
For the festival, Chinese-made chorizo is being celebrated with inventive dishes trying to fuse Chinese and Mexican cultures. At Mexican restaurant BOCA, for instance, chef and James Beard Award semi-finalist Maria Mazon made vegan and regular chorizo eggrolls with a carrot and papaya slaw topped with a fried egg.
Breakfast/brunch hot spot 5 Points came up with Tamal Niangao — charred, sticky masa cakes with chorizo, green onion, Napa cabbage and chilies in a soy maggi glaze. Jicama, cilantro and two poached eggs are then piled on.
The 500-plus pounds of meat and plant-based chorizo given to restaurants for the festival was made at a local butcher, Forbes Meat Company. Yeh devised the vegan recipe. She invited Jackie Tran, a Tucson food writer and owner of Tran’s Fats food truck, to work on the pork one.
“It was definitely something that fascinated” him, said Tran, who is of Chinese and Vietnamese descent. But he definitely didn’t throw in odds and ends. And he added dashes of spices like Sichuan pepper, coriander seed and Chinese five-spice powder.
For the sculpture, Yeh is partnering with Carlos Valenzuela, a Mexican and indigenous artist born in Tucson. Valenzuela will make the red mosaic tiles for the piece. His grandfather had a running account with a local Chinese grocery store. It didn’t occur to him at first that his involvement was a nice full-circle development.
“I just went into it thinking, ‘Wow, this is a really unique project, really an opportunity to talk about that history that hardly ever gets talked about,’” Valenzuela said.
If the idea of a balloon-animal-esque chorizo sculpture elicits a laugh, that’s the way Yeh wants it.
“I think it’s eye-catching for tourists to come and recognize that this town is a town that was heavily influenced by Chinese culture, which I don’t think a lot of people know,” said Yeh, who still needs more funds for the sculpture.
What does Lew, the son of a Chinese grocer, think about a chorizo sculpture?
“That’s great,” Lew said. “I was surprised because I think when you grow up and you’ve done something all your life here, you don’t think it’s a big thing. So, you don’t promote it. But someone outside thinks, ‘This is different. This is neat.’”
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration is temporarily delaying stepped-up legal protections for two imperiled species following efforts by congressional Republicans to derail the actions.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday it was postponing reclassification of the northern long-eared bat from “threatened” to the more severe “endangered” category until March 31. The change had been scheduled to take effect Jan. 30.
On Tuesday, the service announced that new designations for the lesser prairie chicken scheduled to take effect then had been bumped to March 27. The agency is granting endangered status to the grassland bird's southern population segment while listing the northern segment as threatened.
The administration said the delays were intended to give regulators and those affected by the changes — such as landowners, loggers, ranchers and wind turbine operators — time to adjust.
“This is basically a chance for us to get our guidance and tools ready for when the listing goes into effect,” agency spokesperson Georgia Parham said, referring to the decision on the northern long-eared bat.
In a separate statement on the lesser prairie chicken, the service said the 60-day grace period would provide a window for establishing grazing management plans and voluntary habitat protection measures.
“We are committed to working proactively with stakeholders to conserve and recover lesser prairie chickens while reducing impacts to landowners, where possible and practicable,” the service said.
The listings, both announced in November, drew pushback from GOP lawmakers who complained that stronger protections would disrupt infrastructure projects and other economic activity.
“While a delay gives industry stakeholders valuable time to prepare for more bureaucratic red tape, our preference continues to be that this listing of the lesser prairie chicken be dropped," said Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas. He was among senators who wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland this month requesting an extension.
Two dozen House members, led by Arkansas Republican Bruce Westerman, wrote a letter to congressional leaders in December pushing unsuccessfully to block federal funding for reclassifying the bat.
The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, accused the Fish and Wildlife Service of setting a dangerous precedent by holding off on the new designations.
“It's a red flag that they could continue denying the protections,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist with the center.
“This is happening behind closed doors, there's not enough time for us to challenge it legally and they're just caving to Republican pressure that's driven by industry."
The northern long-eared bat has been driven to the brink of extinction — primarily by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease. Declines are estimated at 97% or higher among affected populations. The bats are found in 37 eastern and north-central states, plus Washington, D.C., and much of Canada.
The disease causes the bats to wake early from hibernation and to sometimes fly outside. They can burn up winter fat stores and eventually starve.
In many cases, the service identifies “critical habitat” areas considered particularly important for survival of an endangered species. Officials decided against doing so for the northern long-eared bat because habitat loss isn’t the primary reason for its slump.
Still, the agency plans recovery efforts focused on wooded areas where the bats roost in summer, nestling beneath bark or in tree cavities and crevices.
Under the Endangered Species Act, federal agencies are required to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service to be sure projects that they fund or authorize — such as timber harvests, prescribed fires and highway construction — will not jeopardize a listed species’ existence.
Westerman and the other Republicans complained that efforts to protect the bat could impose “significant restrictions” on logging, which they said actually can help the bats by increasing roosting and foraging areas. Oil and gas development, mining and other industries also could be hampered, they said.
Parham said the service is crafting instructions to help regulators, landowners and business interests determine more easily how protecting bats' summer habitat might affect individual projects.
The service said it also is developing “conservation tools and guidance documents” involving the lesser prairie chicken for landowners and business interests as well as other government agencies.
The lesser prairie chicken's range covers a portion of the oil-rich Permian Basin along the New Mexico-Texas state line and extends into parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas. The habitat of the bird, a type of grouse, has diminished across about 90% of its historical range, officials say.
The crow-size, terrestrial birds are known for spring courtship rituals that include flamboyant dances by the males as they make a cacophony of clucking, cackling and booming sounds.
Environmentalists consider the species severely at risk due to oil and gas development, livestock grazing, farming and construction of roads and power lines.
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Monkeypox has 'variety of mechanisms for spread': Expert
World Health Organization declares the virus a global health emergency
Monkeypox has "variety of mechanisms for spread," Dr. Anne Rimoin, a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, noted on Sunday.
Rimoin, who said she had studied the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for two decades, explained how it can spread one day after the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the international monkeypox virus outbreak now constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Speaking on "Fox News Live," Rimoin noted that "we know a lot about monkeypox in the context of low resource settings, places like DRC, but we really have to be humble about what we know about how this virus is going to be spreading with the potential for global spread in a high-resource setting."
"What we’re seeing now is that this virus is spreading quickly with very close person-to-person contact," she continued, stressing that the virus "can spread in a variety of different ways."
FINANCIALLY STRAINED SEXUAL HEALTH CLINICS ARE ON THE FRONTLINE TO RESPOND TO MONKEYPOX
The monkeypox expert noted that the virus can also spread by what is called fomites, which are materials, including sheets, clothing and towels, that can carry infection.
She also stressed that "very close personal contact" is another cause for rapid spread.
Rimoin noted that in Africa, the virus often spreads from an animal exposure.
"And then often we can see this person-to-person contact, which then continues on and that can be from somebody who is sick, the lesions are in contact with bedsheets, clothing, those things, then somebody else who is in contact with it can get it," she explained.
While the United Nations (UN) health agency previously debated the matter, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained in a media briefing on Saturday that the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee generally agreed that transmission of the virus at the time "did not represent a [PHEIC]."
WHITE HOUSE COVID ADIVSOR ADDRESSES CURRENT MONKEYPOX THREAT LEVEL
Since then, he noted, the monkeypox outbreak has continued to grow, with more than 16,000 reported cases from 75 countries and territories. As of Saturday, there have been five confirmed deaths.
Tedros said there was a clear risk of further international spread, although noting that the risk of interference with international traffic remains low.The WHO's current assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate around the world and in all regions except for Europe, where the risk is assessed as high.
Although monkeypox virus has been established in central and West Africa for decades, it was not known to spark large outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread widely among people until this past May. In the U.S, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported 2,891 confirmed monkeypox and orthopoxvirus cases – the majority of which are in New York, where vaccination efforts have faced technical issues.
Rimoin stressed that "viruses never just stay in one community."
"We all live together, there’s a lot of travel, there’s a lot of trade, there’s a lot of mobility so that is probably what we will see," she went on to warn.
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If the Castro Theatre didn't exist, then neither would Sophia Padilla.
"I always joke that I was conceived at the Castro Theatre," said the San Francisco resident, who happened to be passing by the iconic, one-hundred-year-old movie palace on a recent afternoon while out walking her dog.
Padilla said her parents first met in line to see a movie at the theater, 27 years ago.
"Both of them were on dates with other people, actually," Padilla said. "They fell in love right here. And I've been coming to the Castro to see movies for my entire 26-year life."
Padilla also said the Castro Theatre helped to forge her queer identity.
"The Castro really helped me find who I was," she said.
Located in the heart of one of the country's most high-profile LGBTQ neighborhoods, the Castro Theatre has played a prominent role in San Francisco's cultural and social evolution for decades.
Besides hosting major film festivals like the San Francisco International Film Festival and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the venue has long been a bastion of queer cinema and community events. Highlights include the first ever public screening of the 2008 movie Milk about the pioneering openly gay politician Harvey Milk, the annual Frameline queer movie festival, and an abundance of drag performance nights.
"The Castro Theatre is like a sacred temple for the community," said Castro LGBTQ Cultural District board member Jesse Sanford. "It's where we gather to laugh together, cry together, learn our history, and mourn our losses."
But the recent purchase of the theater's lease by Another Planet Entertainment, which operates a handful of mostly music-oriented venues and festivals around the San Francisco Bay Area, has led to a struggle for the theater's future.
"Another Planet's plan will mean that films rarely get shown, and community events rarely happen," said Sanford.
Conservationists push back
The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District is one of several local groups pushing back against Another Planet's plans to refocus the venue's programming and make sweeping renovations.
"This is a hundred-year-old theater. You can't just change it any way you want," said Peter Pastreich, executive director of the Castro Theatre Conservancy, a group that was formed three years ago to address concerns about the increasingly dilapidated state of the building.
Pastreich said his group welcomes some of the proposed upgrades, such as putting in wheelchair access and a new HVAC system, and touching up the interior's grand mural'd walls, chandeliers and leather-effect ceiling. He estimates renovating the theater would cost $20-30 million.
"We aren't opposed to Another Planet or anybody else who will renovate the theater and keep it open," Pastreich said.
It all comes down to the seating
The activists' main point of contention is the leaseholder's plans for the theater's seating.
"The plans are to take out the seats and level the floor, which would make the theater no longer appropriate for movies," Pastreich says.
Thousands of people, including many celebrities like Francis Ford Coppola, Alice Waters and Tilda Swinton, have signed the conservancy's petition to prevent Another Planet's renovations from going ahead.
The building is already in-part protected. The City of San Francisco gave landmark status to the exterior in 1977. Now these activists are trying to get the city to expand the designation to include the building's interior. If that happens, it will be much harder for the leaseholder to rip out the theater's 1400 seats, and flatten the floor.
"Changing the seating is a big deal," said Matt Lambros, a Boston-based photographer of historic movie theaters who has written several books on the topic. "You could ruin the sight-lines."
There are a few thousand old, single-screen movie palaces like the Castro still in operation in the U.S. today, down from tens of thousands in their pre-World-War-II heyday.
Lambros said in order for these cinemas to survive, the seating has to do more than accommodate movie-goers.
"There's interest in restoring these places," he said. "The issue is, you have to find something that will bring people. For the most part, unfortunately, a 1500-or 2000-seat theater showing films, that's just not viable."
Those who want the theater's seating plan to remain intact point out that the Castro has hosted all kinds of non-movie events over the years.
"It is possible to have the theater be conducive to movie-going and concert-going and comedy and spoken word presentations and community meetings," said San Francisco Silent Film Festival director Anita Monga. "All of that is possible with the existing seats and same configuration."
Another Planet pushes ahead
Another Planet spokesman, Alex Tourk, said, despite its plan to remove the movie-style seating, the company is committed to honoring the theater's legacy. "They absolutely want to continue to show film," Tourk said. "They committed to making sure that 25% of programming would be dedicated to the LGBTQ community."
He said the company has been shocked by all the pushback, given its solid reputation as a concert and festival producer, and its plan to put $15 million towards renovating the theater. "Another Planet did expect some opposition," he said. "But the level of vitriol has been beyond the pale."
Tourk said even if the landmark designation for the theater's interior goes ahead next year, Another Planet will not, at least for now, be deterred.
"Another Planet will continue to work with the city to find consensus and move the vision forward."
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BARRIE, ON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MediPharm Labs Corp. (TSX: LABS) (OTCQX: MEDIF) (FSE: MLZ) ("MediPharm Labs" or the "Company") a pharmaceutical company specialized in precision-based cannabinoids, today announced the results of matters voted on at its annual meeting of holders of common shares held on Thursday, June 30, 2022 (the "Meeting"). The voting results for each of the matters presented at the Meeting are outlined below.
There were 293 shareholders represented virtually or by proxy at the Meeting holding 56,374,684 common shares, representing 20.564% of MediPharm Labs total issued and outstanding common shares as at the record date for the Meeting. As the Meeting was held virtually, all resolutions were passed by a ballot vote.
1. Election of Directors
Each of the nominees for election as directors were elected as directors of MediPharm Labs for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. Voting results for the election of the individual directors are as set out below:
At the completion of his term, Dr. Paul Tam did not run for re-election for the Board of Directors and effective today resigned from the position. The Company's Board of Directors continues to be composed entirely of Independent Directors, with David Pidduck being the only Executive Director.
2. Appointment of Auditor
KPMG LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, was appointed auditor of MediPharm Labs until the next annual meeting of the holders of the Shareholders at remuneration to be fixed by the directors. Voting results are as set out below:
3. Amendment to Equity Incentive Plan
An amendment was approved to the Company's rolling long-term omnibus equity incentive plan to increase the plan limit from 10% to 15%. Voting results are as set out below:
The amended equity incentive plan will, among other things, provide the Company with an equity-based mechanism to attract, retain and motivate qualified directors, employees, and consultants, to reward contributions towards the Company and to enable and encourage long-term investment in the Company.
About MediPharm Labs
Founded in 2015, MediPharm Labs specializes in the development and manufacture of purified, pharmaceutical-quality cannabis concentrates, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and advanced derivative products utilizing a Good Manufacturing Practices certified facility with ISO standard-built clean rooms. MediPharm Labs has invested in an expert, research driven team, state-of-the-art technology, downstream purification methodologies and purpose-built facilities with five primary extraction lines for delivery of pure, trusted and precision-dosed cannabis products for its customers. Through its wholesale and white label platforms, MediPharm Labs formulates, develops (including through sensory testing), processes, packages and distributes cannabis extracts and advanced cannabinoid-based products to domestic and international markets.
In 2021, MediPharm Labs received a Pharmaceutical Drug Establishment Licence from Health Canada, becoming the only company in North America to hold a domestic Good Manufacturing Licence for the extraction of natural cannabinoids. The Company carries out its operations in compliance with all applicable laws in the countries in which it operates.
Website: www.medipharmlabs.com
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the first of two cases this week that explore the extent of the legal protections given to tech companies that provide a platform for third-party users to publish content.
The case in question, Gonzalez v. Google, deals with recommendations and algorithms used by sites like YouTube that go further than simply allowing users to post content, but arrange and promote the content to users in a certain way. YouTube and Google are facing litigation over allegedly recommending videos created by ISIS and used to recruit new members.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act says sites like YouTube, Google, Facebook and Twitter are immune to legal claims based on the content posted by their users. The justices and parties involved wrestled with whether the way in which that content is presented is itself a form of speech and whether it is via clear recommendations or an algorithm.
At times, the issues and arguments got a bit murky, pushing even the justices to the point of confusion.
SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH GOOGLE AND TWITTER INTERNET FREE SPEECH POLICIES
"I mean, we're a court. We really don't know about these things. You know, these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet," Justice Elena Kagan said, drawing laughter from the room.
Minutes earlier, Justice Samuel Alito told the plaintiff's attorney, Eric Schnapper, he was "completely confused by whatever argument you're making at the present time." Schnapper had been discussing how YouTube presents thumbnail images and links to different videos when providing search results or content that an algorithm believes a user might want. Schnapper argued that while the videos themselves are created by users, the thumbnails themselves are joint creations of the user and YouTube, piercing YouTube's Section 230 protection.
Later on, Google attorney Lisa Blatt dismissed that argument by noting that it was never part of the plaintiff's complaint in the case.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, like Alito earlier, said at one point she was "thoroughly confused" by what was being argued because she believed the relevant issue was the scope of Section 230 immunity, not what might trigger liability. Schnapper noted that it comes down to how certain actions or practices are viewed in terms of being covered by the law.
"The contention we’re advancing is that a variety of things that we’re loosely characterizing as recommendations fall outside of the statute," Schnapper told Jackson, summing up a central focus of the day's arguments.
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"I guess the question is how do you get yourself from a neutral algorithm to an aiding and abetting?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked at one point.
Schnapper's argument was that YouTube's use of an algorithm to present a list of videos that the algorithm selects is itself a form of speech on YouTube's part, separate from the content of the videos themselves.
U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart appeared to have a more limited approach. Stewart, like others during the day's arguments, brought up a hypothetical in which a person enters a bookstore and asks for a book on Roger Maris and for the clerk to direct them to a table where the book is located. The clerk's direction would be speech about the book, separate from any speech contained within the book.
Sotomayor, however, pushed back against the idea that the store — or, in this case, YouTube or similar tech companies — should be held liable for such speech.
"You're creating a world of lawsuits," she warned.
Stewart countered that even if there were more lawsuits, those lawsuits would fail unless they allege that the company's speech violates some other law. If YouTube used a neutral algorithm that treats ISIS videos the same way it treats cat videos, it would be unlikely to violate antiterrorism laws.
If Google or another company were to outright say that they recommend a video, however, that would be unprotected speech that promotes content.
Blatt noted that the word "recommendation" is not on YouTube's site, so it is not engaging in an unprotected activity.
"[V]ideos don’t appear out of thin air," Roberts countered. "They appear pursuant to the algorithm your clients have."
Blatt explained that all search engines take a degree of a user's information into account when presenting results, such as their location search history and language. For instance, she noted, someone searching for "football" in the U.S. would get different results than someone in Europe, where the term refers to soccer.
Blatt also argued that there is not even a difference if an algorithm is neutral or not, because if, for example, there was an algorithm that was pro-ISIS, that would fall under an exception for criminal activity.
"So if you have material support in collusion with ISIS, that's excepted from the statute," she said.
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HONOLULU (KHON2) – A tourism helicopter carrying six people crashed in a lava field near South Point on Hawaii’s Big Island, according to Hawaii County officials.
K&S Helicopters, the operator of Paradise Helicopters, said the crash took place Wednesday at about 5:29 p.m. while the aircraft, a Bell 407, was operating a tour. Five passengers and one crew member were believed to be onboard, according to preliminary information
Officials said a 50-year-old male pilot and an 18-year-old female were in serious condition. Four passengers were reported to be ambulatory.
The Hawaii Fire Department said ground units were unable to access the crash site, which was located a mile from the nearest roadway. A helicopter was sent to extricate three ambulatory patients from the crash site and take them to ground medic units.
A second chopper arrived on the scene shortly after, and brought the most seriously injured patient to awaiting ground crews before going back for another patient in serious condition. Yet another patient in critical condition was transported to the Kona Community Hospital in a chopper.
All remaining patients were taken by fire department units to Kona Community Hospital as well.
K&S Helicopters said they initiated an emergency response plan. The full resources of the company had been mobilized to respond to the incident, according to K&S.
“The care of our passengers, crew members, and their families is our highest priority,” said Calvin Dorn of K&S Helicopters. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/tourism-helicopter-in-hawaii-crashes-into-lava-field/ | 2022-06-09 16:24:09 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/tourism-helicopter-in-hawaii-crashes-into-lava-field/ |
And that’s after a 25% increase in private bankers over the past two years. Chase’s private bank now has 100 advisers serving the market.
Chase just named co-heads of the Chicago private bank for the first time. They are Charlie Cooper, 45, and Maggie O’Brien, 42, both area natives. The private bank operates out of two offices, one in Chicago and other in north suburban Winnetka.
“We’re really bullish on Chicago,” O’Brien said in an interview.
Chase’s private bank in Chicago manages $120 billion in client assets, up nearly 40% since 2019. That’s the year O’Brien joined Chase after 17 years at rival BMO in commercial banking and private banking roles. Cooper is a 15-year veteran of Chase and a former U.S. Navy officer.
“We don’t see anything to make us believe that trajectory is going to slow,” O’Brien said.
Chase’s actions belie the narrative some are telling about the Chicago area — that people with money are leaving for lower-tax states or because of perceptions that crime is out of control. That debate has taken on new life since the election of Brandon Johnson as Chicago mayor. Johnson has proposed millions in controversial new taxes, while allies are urging $12 billion in financial moves, including enacting city income and wealth taxes, meant to affect the wealthy rather than the middle class.
Cooper and O’Brien don’t see much change from where they’re sitting.
“There’s business formation happening here,” Cooper said. He’s also seeing potential clients move to Chicago from out of state. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/jpmorgan-chase-adds-private-bankers-serving-wealthy-customers | 2023-05-24 19:10:16 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/jpmorgan-chase-adds-private-bankers-serving-wealthy-customers |
Churchill Downs extends trainer Bob Baffert’s ban for at least one more year
In a stunning development, Churchill Downs Inc. extended trainer Bob Baffert’s suspension from all of its racetracks, including its signature track that hosts the Kentucky Derby, by at least another year despite the fact he has had no violations in the two years since he was suspended.
Churchill Downs suspended the Hall of Fame trainer for two years in 2021 after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for a medication that is legal except for on race day. Medina Spirit had a positive test for betamethasone, an anti-inflammatory that is not considered a performance enhancer in the traditional sense. Baffert has contended that the now-deceased colt had been administered the medication as an ointment for a rash and was not given through an injection. The case remains in litigation with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, and Medina Spirit has been stripped of the victory. There are no current suits against Churchill Downs.
“Mr. Baffert continues to peddle a false narrative concerning the failed drug test of Medina Spirit at the 147th Kentucky Derby from which his horse was disqualified by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in accordance with Kentucky law and regulations,” Churchill Downs said Monday in a statement.
“Prior to that race, Mr. Baffert signed an agreement with Churchill Downs which stated that he was responsible for understanding the rules of racing in Kentucky and that he would abide by them. The results of the tests clearly show that he did not comply, and his ongoing conduct reveals his continued disregard for the rules and regulations that ensure horse and jockey safety, as well as the integrity and fairness of the races conducted at our facilities.
“A trainer who is unwilling to accept responsibility for multiple drug test failures in our highest-profile races cannot be trusted to avoid future misconduct. Mr. Baffert will remain suspended from entering horses at all racetracks owned by CDI through 2024. After such time, we will re-evaluate his status.”
Baffert’s two-year suspension status was thought to have ended Sunday at the conclusion of the Churchill Downs meeting at Ellis Park.
The meeting was moved to Ellis Park after a concerning increase of horse deaths at Churchill Downs before, during and after the Kentucky Derby. Churchill Downs was at the center of a national firestorm when nine horses died in the week and a half before the running of the Kentucky Derby. The death toll has risen to at least 13, after almost a month with no fatalities after racing was moved to Ellis Park. Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission do not routinely publicly report horse deaths.
The size of a race horse and its natural instincts make it nearly impossible to survive serious injuries at the track, but many are trying to improve the odds.
“I am at a loss to understand Churchill Downs’ latest action to suspend me,” Baffert told The Times in a text. “From the moment I learned of Medina Sprit’s post-race positive, now more than two years ago, I committed to find how it could have occurred, given we have never injected Medina Spirit with betamethasone, which the veterinary records confirm.
“A review of our treatment records showed we used a topical ointment called Otomax for a skin infection, and post-race testing of the sample confirmed the positive test came from a topical application.
“I have been open, honest and forthcoming about these events. I have acknowledged that our treatment led to the positive and I have fully informed the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission that we had treated Medina Spirit in this way.
“I have been advised by attorneys that the use of Otomax is permitted under the rules and this issue is presently being adjudicated by the Racing Commission in a case presently before them. In no way does this involve a ‘disregard for the rules.’
“In the interest of the sport we all love, I have made no public comments on this unfortunate episode for an extended period of time so the suggestion that I ‘continue to peddle a false narrative’ is patently false.”
Churchill Downs owns several tracks in Kentucky, including Ellis Park and Turfway Park; the Fair Grounds in New Orleans; and Colonial Downs in Virginia. It recently closed Arlington Park in Chicago.
This move, if it is upheld against legal challenges, would keep the six-time Derby champion from a third consecutive Kentucky Derby.
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PHILADELPHIHA (AP) — Daniel Jones took the day off. Saquon Barkley and his 1,312 yards rushing never saw the field. The New York Giants used a lineup more fitting for a preseason game — all so they could stay healthy for a playoff game.
The final score — Eagles 22, Giants 16 — was largely immaterial to New York on Sunday night. The Giants already secured the No. 6 seed in the NFC and just needed to get through the game to learn their playoff opponent.
Now they know, and the Giants (9-7-1) head to Minnesota (13-4) for a rematch of their first meeting this season, played just two weeks ago.
The Giants expect a better outing than their one Sunday.
“I’d say we did enough to get to the postseason,” coach Brian Daboll said.
The Giants, winners of four Super Bowls, are in the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
The game film and scouting reports are about as fresh for both teams as they can get. Greg Joseph’s franchise-record 61-yard field goal as time expired on Dec. 24 gave the Vikings a 27-24 victory.
Jones had 334 yards and a touchdown to Isaiah Hodgins with one interception on 30-for-42 passing. Barkley rushed 14 times for 84 yards.
The Giants were ready to get back to New Jersey and start thinking about the Vikings.
“We’ve got to take these buses home, get in the training room, get in the meeting room and have our best week of preparation,” Daboll said.
New York’s reward for clinching a playoff spot last week was the chance to give the backups a shot against the Eagles, who clinched the top seed in the NFC with a victory.
In a surprise decision, the Giants elevated Davis Webb off the practice squad and started him over No. 2 QB Tyrod Taylor. Webb, in his first career start, rushed for a 14-yard touchdown in the fourth that made it 19-9. He tossed a 25-yard TD pass to Kenny Golladay late in the fourth that made it 22-16. He threw for 168 yards on 23-of-40 passing.
“Very thankful for that opportunity,” Webb said. “It was a battle. They’re a really good team, but I didn’t play good enough for us to win early in the game.”
Daboll didn’t get into specifics on why he chose Webb over Taylor. And he had no regrets about running out his B-team against an Eagles team that had plenty to lose in defeat.
“It’s the NFL, so the guys you have on the team, you have confidence in,” Daboll said. “I thought our guys competed all the way to the end.”
Golladay, who had 11 touchdowns for Detroit in 2019, scored his first one in two seasons with the Giants.
“It felt good to finally get that first touchdown,” he said.
It was about time. So was their return to the playoffs.
The Giants overcame injuries and a 2-4-1 slide in November and early December to become the third NFC East team to qualify for the postseason, joining Philadelphia and Dallas. The bulk of the credit goes to first-year general manager Joe Schoen and rookie coach Daboll. They straightened out the franchise after the Giants went 4-13 last season, their fifth straight double-digit losing season. The Giants have made the playoffs only twice since they won their fourth Super Bowl in February 2012.
New York’s season already seems a success.
The Giants, though, want so much more.
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Title of course:
“Failure, and How We Can Learn from It”
What prompted the idea for the course?
When I was a high school teacher, I found plenty of joy and fulfillment in my work. But I also felt the sting of failure: from a student who remained disengaged throughout the semester, or even just from a lesson that went off the rails. Now I prepare aspiring K-12 teachers to navigate that messy reality themselves, and I’m struck by how tough it can be for them to develop the resilience necessary to work so hard and yet inevitably fall short of their goals.
So I began to wonder how other fields and professions might view failure. What resources do they draw upon? What common threads might exist that could help future teachers learn from failure more effectively?
What does the course explore?
We explore the role of failure in a wide range of fields, and how what counts as failure varies as well. A bridge collapsing is pretty clear, and maybe a business that goes bankrupt. But what about a team losing or a patient dying? We also consider what mechanisms and strategies these fields employ in responding to failure, and the ways in which they see failure as part of the learning and achievement process.
What’s a critical lesson from the course?
As the semester unfolds, students begin to recognize that success and failure aren’t neat and simple categories. At its best, this course helps them understand how failure will be an ongoing presence in their lives. That means they need to figure out how to restructure their relationship with failure, rather than anticipate a time when they’ve finally and fully succeeded.
What materials does the course feature?
The most compelling elements of the course are the guest speakers from the various professions that we explore. Their honesty about their own struggles – and their willingness to avoid simplistic cliches about simply trying harder – offer my students insight and encouragement in their own journeys.
For instance, a doctor working on Los Angeles’ Skid Row – an area known for poverty and makeshift housing – describes how she navigates overwhelming need and the inability to heal many of her patients. A professional mediator explains how he deals with complex dynamics in relationships in search of compromise between the parties. Every single speaker is a portrait of someone who continues to fail, learn and grow.
What will the course prepare students to do?
We look at how to evaluate risk more accurately, and how to develop a mindset that views failure as part of the growth process. Persistence is vital, but rarely sufficient. They learn the value of focusing less on the simplistic categories of failure and success and focusing more on making good decisions, evaluating outcomes, responding thoughtfully and maintaining perspective about what they can’t control.
The course is offered through the honors college at the university where I teach. It draws students from a variety of majors.
Why is this course relevant now?
When is it not relevant? A major theme of the course is that if people play it safe and never take any chances, they may be able to avoid failure, but they may also miss out on opportunities to learn and grow. When they reinterpret the significance of failure and make room for its presence, possibilities for learning and growth emerge.
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KISSIMMEE, Fla., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Experience Kissimmee, the official tourism authority for Osceola County, FL, and a trailblazer in the tourism industry, is making strides in sustainability efforts announcing two new programs starting May 1, 2023.
The first is the expansion of the "It Pays to Meet in Kissimmee" program, where meeting organizations can earn up to $10,000 cashback based on the number of actualized paid room nights. The expanded program will now include Trees4Travel, an initiative to plant trees to help with creating future forests, restoring eco-systems, and supporting biodiversity and local communities. Plus, an investment is made into a United Nations renewable energy carbon credit, which will help reduce a portion of the meeting organizations' CO2 emissions. For instance, if a meeting organization actualizes 1,500 paid room nights in Kissimmee, Experience Kissimmee will plant 1,500 trees through the Trees4Travel hybrid program. The meeting organization will receive a certificate of Planet & People Positive Action, which includes a UN CER certificate, post-meeting.
"We are proud to be amongst the first DMOs in the nation to offer a carbon reduction program for meetings and conventions," said Michelle Moore, Senior Director of Meetings Sales & Services at Experience Kissimmee. "Experience Kissimmee acknowledges that sustainability is of growing importance to meeting planners and delegates, and this is a creative and innovate way to address that."
The second program will reduce carbon emissions from all air and ground travel conducted by Experience Kissimmee staff by incorporating an emissions calculator into the staff travel request form. The calculator will automatically determine the number of trees that the destination marketing organization (DMO) will plant through the Trees4Travel program to rebalance the carbon footprint generated by each business trip.
"As we celebrate Earth Day, we are excited to announce the expansion of our sustainability efforts at Experience Kissimmee," said Jason Holic, Senior Vice President of Operations & Community Engagement at Experience Kissimmee. "This includes partially reducing the carbon footprint of meetings and group business for incentive contracts and all future work-related staff travel, starting May 1st."
Experience Kissimmee has been partnering with Trees4Travel on another initiative to encourage sustainability, inviting its clients to join the program by planting trees instead of giving away promotional items during trade shows and conventions.
"At Experience Kissimmee, we recognize the need to contribute in a more ethical, considerate, and regenerative way for the planet and its people," said DT Minich, President/CEO of Experience Kissimmee. "We are proud of our expanding partnership with Trees4Travel and establishing these progressive initiatives for sustainability."
About Trees4Travel
Trees4Travel is an award-winning environmental 'Tech For Good' company working with travel brands all over the world in the business and leisure sectors providing FREE carbon management technology to calculate and help reduce emissions impact, educating travelers and providing the necessary transitionary tools to get us from where we are today to our net zero targets in the future - making travel and events more ethical, sustainable, planet and people positive.
About Experience Kissimmee:
Experience Kissimmee is the official tourism authority for Osceola County, Florida. Located at the heart of Central Florida, Kissimmee is 25 minutes from Orlando International Airport (MCO), minutes from world-famous theme parks and attractions, and nestled in carefully preserved outdoor spaces so visitors can reconnect with nature. Also known as the Vacation Home Capital of the World®, Kissimmee has sprawling resorts with thousands of options ranging from two-bedroom condos to 15-bedroom mansions.
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Putin calls Kerch Bridge attack "a terrorist act" by Kyiv
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack that damaged the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea “a terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services.
The Kerch Bridge, which holds important strategic and symbolic value to Russia in its faltering war in Ukraine, was hit a day earlier by what Moscow has said was a truck bomb. Road and rail traffic on the bridge were temporarily halted, damaging a vital supply route for the Kremlin’s forces.
“There’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a meeting with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. "And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.”
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Bastrykin said Ukrainian special services and citizens of Russia and other countries took part in the attack. He said a criminal investigation had been launched into an act of terror.
“We have already established the route of the truck,” he said, saying it had been to Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar, a region in southern Russia.
'War crime:' Industrial-scale destruction of Ukraine culture
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500 years ago, was one of the world’s most valuable artifacts from the blood-letting rule of Attila the Hun, who rampaged with horseback warriors deep into Europe in the 5th century.
The Hun diadem is now vanished from the museum in Ukraine that housed it — perhaps, historians fear, forever. Russian troops carted away the priceless crown and a hoard of other treasures after capturing the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in February, museum authorities say.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukraine's culture minister alleged that Russian soldiers helped themselves to artifacts in almost 40 Ukrainian museums. The looting and destruction of cultural sites has caused losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros (dollars), the minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, added.
“The attitude of Russians toward Ukrainian culture heritage is a war crime,” he said.
N. Korea confirms nuke missiles tests to 'wipe out' enemies
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday its recent barrage of missile launches were tests of its tactical nuclear weapons to “hit and wipe out” potential South Korean and U.S. targets, state media reported Monday. Leader Kim Jong Un signaled he would conduct more provocative tests in coming weeks.
The North’s statement, released on the 77th birthday of its ruling Workers’ Party, is seen as an attempt to buttress a public unity behind Kim as he faces pandemic-related economic hardships, a security threat posed by the boosted U.S.-South Korean military alliance and other difficulties.
“Through seven times of launching drills of the tactical nuclear operation units, the actual war capabilities … of the nuclear combat forces ready to hit and wipe out the set objects at any location and any time were displayed to the full,”,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.
KCNA said the missile tests were in response to recent naval drills between U.S. and South Korean forces, which involved the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
Viewing the drills as a military threat, North Korea decided to stage “the simulation of an actual war” to check and improve its war deterrence and send a warning to its enemies, KCNA said.
20 years later, Bali bombing survivors still battling trauma
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thiolina Marpaung still panics anytime she smells smoke, immediately recalling the bomb explosion that upended her life 20 years ago.
Marpaung, now 48, was in a car with her colleagues on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in 2002 when the blast shook their vehicle from behind. Marpaung was temporarily blinded as shards of glass pierced her eyes. She remembers calling out for help and someone bringing her to the sidewalk, before an ambulance raced her to a hospital with other victims.
“I was traumatized by the sound of ambulance sirens,” Marpaung said.
She is one of dozens of Indonesian survivors who were outside of Sari Club on the night of October 12, 2002, when a car bombing there and the nearly simultaneous suicide bombing at nearby Paddy’s Pub killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, including 88 Australians and seven Americans.
Marpaung later had surgery in Australia to remove the glass from her eyes, but the pain still bothers her and requires treatment to this day. At the urging of her psychologist, she has thrown away and burned photographs, news articles, clothing and other reminders of that day. She even tossed the shards of glass that were removed from her eyes onto Kuta Beach in Bali, not far from the attack site.
'A time bomb': Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests
SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Growing up under a repressive system, Sharo, a 35-year-old university graduate, never thought she would hear words of open rebellion spoken out loud. Now she herself chants slogans like “Death to the Dictator!” with a fury she didn't know she had, as she joins protests calling for toppling the country's rulers.
Sharo said that after three weeks of protests, triggered by the death of a young woman in the custody of the feared morality police, anger at the authorities is only rising, despite a bloody crackdown that has left dozens dead and hundreds in detention.
“The situation here is tense and volatile,” she said, referring to the city of Sanandaj in the majority Kurdish home district of the same name in northwestern Iran, one of the hot spots of the protests.
“We are just waiting for something to happen, like a time-bomb," she said, speaking to The Associated Press via Telegram messenger service.
The anti-government protests in Sanandaj, 300 miles (500 kilometers) from the capital, are a microcosm of the leaderless protests that have roiled Iran.
Noem's balancing act: Big ambitions, South Dakota reelection
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — They had waited in the desert heat in a line that wrapped around the block and now the excitement was palpable when South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem took the stage in a suburban Phoenix convention hall. “She's our governor!” someone yelled.
Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona who hosted the event this past week, stood beside Noem and joined in the praise. She called Noem an “inspiration” who stood up for families against intrusive government mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The warm reception was familiar to Noem, who has made such appearances part of building her national profile as a potential 2024 White House contender.
“I wish I could vote for a woman like that,” Lake said. “But I don’t live in South Dakota.”
If Noem has ambitions beyond her state, she must first take care of political business back home: winning a second term in November.
Florida school shooter may have been his own worst witness
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It's possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence.
Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz's penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their questions about his massacre of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 — his planning, his motivation, the shootings.
While it can’t be known what the 12 jurors are thinking, if any are wavering between voting for death or life without parole, his statements to Dr. Charles Scott, a forensic psychiatrist, and Robert Denney, a neuropsychologist, did not help his cause.
“All of this made Cruz himself perhaps one of the state’s best witnesses,” said David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor who has been monitoring the trial.
The jury will likely decide Cruz's fate this week. For the 24-year-old to get a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous on at least one victim. But if all 17 counts come back with at least one vote in favor of life in prison, then that would be his sentence. Closing arguments are scheduled Tuesday, with deliberations beginning Wednesday.
Rain-fueled landslide sweeps through Venezuela town; 22 dead
LAS TEJERÍAS, Venezuela (AP) — A landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods, authorities said Sunday. Dozens of people are missing.
Residents of Las Tejerías in Santos Michelena, an agro-industrial town in Aragua state 54 miles (87 kilometers) southwest of Caracas, had just seconds to reach safety late Saturday as debris swept down a mountainside onto them.
The official death toll rose to 22 after the recovery of 20 bodies on Sunday, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez told state-owned Venezolana de Televisión.
“There was a large landslide in the central area of Las Tejerías” where five streams overflowed, she said from the scene of the disaster. “We have already found 22 dead people; there are more than 52 missing.”
“There are still people walled in," Rodríguez said. "We are trying to rescue them, to rescue them alive.”
UN ponders rapid armed force to help end Haiti's crisis
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres submitted a letter to the Security Council on Sunday proposing the immediate activation of a rapid action force following a plea for help from Haiti as gangs and protesters paralyze the country.
The letter, which was seen by The Associated Press but has not been made public, said the rapid action force would be deployed by one or several member states to help Haiti’s National Police. That force would “remove the threat posed by armed gangs and provide immediate protection to critical infrastructure and services,” as well as secure the “free movement of water, fuel, food and medical supplies from main ports and airports to communities and health care facilities.”
The letter also states the secretary-general may deploy “additional U.N. capacities to support a ceasefire or humanitarian arrangements.”
However, the letter notes that “a return to a more robust United Nations engagement in the form of peacekeeping remains a last resort if no decisive action is urgently taken by the international community in line with the outlined options and national law enforcement capacity proves unable to reverse the deteriorating security situation.”
A Canadian official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter told the AP on condition of anonymity that “we are watching the situation in Haiti closely and will be working with our international partners to assess Haiti’s broader request for international support.”
Musgrove pitches hometown Padres past Mets 6-0 and into NLDS
NEW YORK (AP) — With a magnificent performance on a memorable night in Padres history, Joe Musgrove brought this one home for San Diego and really stuck it to the New York Mets.
The right-hander brushed off chants of “Cheater!” after a bizarre spot check by umpires on the mound, pitching his hometown Padres into the next round of the playoffs Sunday with seven innings of one-hit ball in a 6-0 victory over the listless Mets.
“You could see the resolve in his face and the demeanor he had,” San Diego manager Bob Melvin said. “He was on a mission today.”
Trent Grisham hit an RBI single and made a terrific catch in center field that helped the Padres take the best-of-three National League wild-card series 2-1. Austin Nola and Juan Soto each had a two-run single.
San Diego advanced to face the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers in a best-of-five Division Series beginning Tuesday — ensuring the Padres will play in front of their home fans in the postseason for the first time in 16 years when they return to Petco Park for Game 3. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-12-04-a-m-edt/article_d414fefd-ac60-563d-aa0e-c76bf6c66294.html | 2022-10-10 04:48:45 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-12-04-a-m-edt/article_d414fefd-ac60-563d-aa0e-c76bf6c66294.html |
By TERRY TANG and DAVE SKRETTA, The Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are the reason Rhonda LeValdo is in Arizona for the Super Bowl. But she won’t be here to watch the game.
LeValdo and other Native Americans will be pushing again for the Chiefs to abandon the team’s name, mascot and fan-driven “tomahawk chop.” It’s the same goal they had in 2021 when the Chiefs were vying for a second-consecutive Super Bowl win in Tampa, Florida.
“People are trying to be really positive about Kansas City and what it does and how like ‘Yes, sports binds us all together,’” LeValdo, founder of the Kansas City-based Indigenous activist group Not In Our Honor, said at a news conference Thursday. “It’s not bringing our people into this celebration together. Really, it’s hurting us more because now it’s the bigger spotlight where you’re seeing this all over the world.”
LeValdo will be joined by others from Kansas City and tribes in Arizona to demonstrate outside State Farm Stadium in Glendale. The president of the Kansas City franchise says he respects their right to protest.
Fights against the appropriation of tribal cultures and images have endured for decades — not just with the Chiefs. Native Americans say using iconography and words with Native connotations demeans them and perpetuates racist stereotypes.
“The anti-Native mascot movement has always been about the betterment of our Native people, not hatred towards others who are football fans,” said Amanda Blackhorse, who is Diné. “We want to live in a world where our children can attend school and feel included and not met with reenactments of fake war dances on the football field.”
Some major sports teams have countered that the mascots are meant to honor and respect the tribes. But the racial reckoning and protests of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd compelled some franchises to do soul-searching.
The Cleveland Indians baseball team officially changed to the Guardians in November 2021. The team also axed Chief Wahoo, a logo that was a caricature of a Native American.
A significant victory came when Washington dropped the name “Redskins, " which is seen as a racial slur, and the logo after nearly nine decades. The team later became the Commanders.
Chiefs President Mark Donovan gave no indication there is room for change.
“We also respect that we need to continue to educate and raise awareness of the Native American culture and the things we do to celebrate, that we’ve done more over the last seven years — I think — than any other team to raise awareness and educate ourselves,” Donovan said.
The Super Bowl is playing out in a state that’s home to 22 Native American tribes who collectively oversee about a quarter of the land base. The NFL has been emphasizing its collaborations with Native and Indigenous people based in Arizona.
The Chiefs recently highlighted its long snapper James Winchester, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and center Creed Humphrey, who is from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma.
Lucinda Hinojos, who was born in Glendale and is of Apache and Yaqui descent, became the first Native and Chicana artist to partner with the NFL. Her painting is featured on all Super Bowl tickets and throughout the NFL Experience.
Colin Denny, a University of Arizona researcher and a member of the Navajo Nation, will perform “America the Beautiful” during the game’s pre-show. Denny, who is deaf, will utilize both American Sign Language and North American Indian Sign Language.
The Chiefs have made efforts to address concerns about cultural insensitivities going back a decade but always stop short of altering the team name or fan-favorite gestures and chants. In 2013, the team created the American Indian Community Working Group, which has Native Americans serving as advisers to the team on promoting tribal cultures.
This led to invitations for Cheyenne spiritual and ceremonial leaders to participate at some games. In 2020, the Chiefs banned fans from donning headdresses, war paint and clothing at Arrowhead Stadium.
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(NEXSTAR) – Amid high solar activity, many states have already had multiple chances to see the northern lights over the last two months. Another round of activity on the sun has caused a geomagnetic storm watch, bringing another chance for parts of the U.S. to see the auroras.
On Sunday, a partial halo coronal mass ejection, or CME, “erupted from the Sun,” according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SPWC). The CME is expected to impact Earth Wednesday, prompting a geomagnetic storm watch that stretches into Thursday.
CMEs are explosions of plasma and magnetic material from the sun that can reach Earth in as little as 15 to 18 hours, NOAA explains. Solar flares and CMEs (which can occur at the same time) can impact navigation, communication and radio signals on Earth, and CMEs are able to create a stunning show in the night sky. According to NASA, CMEs can create currents in Earth’s magnetic fields that send particles to the North and South Poles. When those particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen, they can create auroras.
In late April, when a similar storm watch was activated, states as far south as Alabama were able to see the northern lights.
While it can be difficult to forecast where exactly the northern lights will be visible, a moderate geomagnetic storm – like the one that could impact Earth on Wednesday – can send auroras as far south as New York and Idaho, NOAA explains. Should the storm reach strong status, the northern lights could dip into Illinois and Oregon.
As of Tuesday night, the SWPC is forecasting a strong likelihood of the northern lights being visible across most of Alaska and Canada. Some states in the northern U.S. have a low likelihood of aurora viewing. That includes parts of Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and the very northern tip of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
The auroras may, however, stretch even further south. Depicted with the red line on the map below, SWPC is forecasting the northern lights could also appear in parts of Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
What is causing the northern lights?
Much of the recent northern lights activity is thanks to activity on the sun.
We’re currently in Solar Cycle 25, which began in December 2019, according to Rob Steenburgh, a space scientist with the SWPC. During this cycle, an 11-year period, the sun will flip its magnetic poles and cause space weather, which are “variations in the space environment between the sun and Earth.”
That includes CMEs, which occur roughly twice a day when activity peaks during the solar cycle. While Steenburgh notes the majority of the eruptions don’t head toward Earth, those that do can spark stunning auroras.
Experts say we haven’t yet reached the most active point of the solar cycle, known as solar maximum. That likely won’t happen until next year, according to Steenburgh. The more activity on the sun, the better chances we have to see the northern lights.
While it can be difficult to tell when exactly the U.S. will have the chance to see the aurora borealis, NOAA does offer single-day and next-day forecasts for potential northern light viewing.
If you do have the chance to see the northern lights, it’s best to find a dark area away from city lights. If you’re hoping to increase the likelihood of catching the auroras, you’ll want to head north – Alaska and Canada frequently have the opportunity to catch the stunning colors light up the sky. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/another-solar-storm-may-bring-northern-lights-to-us-wednesday-thursday/ | 2023-05-10 16:28:56 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/another-solar-storm-may-bring-northern-lights-to-us-wednesday-thursday/ |
LINQING, China, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- From April 8 to 10, 2023, the 8th Linqing China Bearing, Spare Parts and Special Equipment Exhibition & Bearing Industry Summit Forum was held in Linqing city, Shandong Province. Themed "Leading Intelligent Manufacture, Driven by Innovation", the forum attracted delegates from China Bearing Industry Association and renowned enterprises of the bearing industry and experts from research institutes to discuss and explore the new development path for Chinese bearing industry, according to the News Office of the People's Government of Linqing.
Known as "joints of industry", bearing is a core part indispensable in machinery equipment, widely applied in every field of national economy. As one of the five bearing industrial cluster districts in China, the bearing industry cluster of Linqing boasts the most complete and vibrant bearing industrial chain in China. Over 1,000 registered individual businesses engaged in bearing production and sales locate here, with more than 100,000 practitioners, producing products of over 5,000 models under 11 categories including category 0-9 and non-standard bearing. The products are exported to countries and regions including Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Zhou Yu, the council director of China Bearing Industry Association, pointed out, with Linqing as the core, the bearing industry of Liaocheng has been keeping growing and developing rapidly with high quality, a batch of backbone bearing enterprises have grown quickly. The Linqing bearing exhibition has been keeping growing in both scale and influence, making a prominent contribution for China's bearing industry to be bigger and stronger.
At the forum, the first secondary node of identification and resolution for the Industrial Internet of domestic bearing industry was released, which will further promote the integrated development of bearing industry and information at a broader range, in greater depth and on a higher level.
The exhibition was attended by 628 enterprises, with an exhibition area of over 30,000 square meters. As the renowned main engine manufacturers and purchasing agents and clients from all corners of China gathered in Linqing, the exhibition became a comprehensive industrial event integrating finished product bearing exhibition, spare parts at upstream and downstream, numerically controlled machinery tools, industrial robots and bearing digitization.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Thirteen coal companies owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice are being sued over unpaid penalties for previous mining law violations that the federal government says pose health and safety risks or threaten environmental harm.
Justice, who was not named in the lawsuit, accused the Biden administration of retaliation. A Republican two-term governor, Justice announced in April that he is running for Democrat Joe Manchin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024. He will face current U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney in the GOP primary.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday says that over the past five years, the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement cited the companies for more than 130 violations. The lawsuit says the total amount of penalties, fees, interest and administrative expenses owed by the defendants is about $7.6 million.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Kavanaugh of the Western District of Virginia said the defendants were ordered more than 50 times to stop mining activities until the violations were corrected.
“Today, the filing of this complaint continues the process of holding defendants accountable for jeopardizing the health and safety of the public and our environment,” Kavanaugh said in a statement.
Among the violations, the companies failed to ensure the seismic stability of a dam, to maintain sediment-control measures, to clear rock and debris from a haul road after a rock fall, and to properly dispose of non-coal waste.
“Our environmental laws serve to protect communities against adverse effects of industrial activities including surface coal mining operations,” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Todd Kim of the U.S. Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division said in a news release. “Through this suit, the Justice Department seeks to deliver accountability for defendants’ repeated violations of the law and to recover the penalties they owe as a result of those violations.”
Justice listed 112 coal, agricultural and other businesses on a financial disclosure form he filed this year with the state Ethics Commission, including seven that were placed in a blind trust in 2017. His worth peaked at $1.7 billion in recent years, but he was taken off Forbes’ prestigious list of billionaires in 2021.
The governor’s companies have been perennially dogged in litigation over unpaid bills. He has tried to put distance between himself and the businesses, saying that his two adult children now run them. His son, Jay Justice, is named in the lawsuit, which lists Roanoke, Virginia, as the coal companies’ principal place of business. A message left for Jay Justice in Roanoke wasn’t immediately returned Wednesday
Jim Justice said he didn’t know details of the lawsuit but expects to be briefed by his son. During his weekly media availability Wednesday, the governor again tried to put space between himself and his companies while also pointing a finger at the Biden administration.
“I’ve announced as a Republican that I’m running for the U.S. Senate. The Biden administration is aware of the fact that with a win for the U.S. Senate and everything, we could very well flip the Senate,” Justice said. “There’s a lot at stake right now.”
Later Wednesday, Justice’s Senate campaign doubled-down on criticism of the lawsuit’s timing.
“Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats have seen the polls that show Jim Justice winning this race, and they’re panicking,” Roman Stauffer, Justice’s campaign manager, said in a statement. “So now the Biden Justice Department has decided to play politics. We will see a lot more of this as the Democrats work to help Alex Mooney because they know they can easily beat him.”
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NOVI, Mich., Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ITC Holdings Corp. ("ITC"), a subsidiary of Fortis Inc., today announced it has commenced a private offering of senior unsecured notes (the "notes").
ITC intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to redeem in full $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.700% Senior Notes due November 15, 2022, to pay the associated call premium, with the remainder to repay indebtedness outstanding under its revolving credit facility and its commercial paper program, and for general corporate purposes.
The notes will be offered in the United States only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to certain non-U.S. persons in transactions outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes have not, and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and the notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable securities laws of any other jurisdiction. This press release does not and will not constitute an offer to sell any of the notes or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the notes described herein or any other securities, nor shall there be any sale of the notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About ITC Holdings Corp.
ITC Holdings Corp. is the largest independent electricity transmission company in the United States. ITC provides transmission grid solutions to improve reliability, expand access to markets, allow new generating resources to interconnect to its systems and lower the overall cost of delivered energy. Through its regulated operating subsidiaries ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains, ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission infrastructure in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in development in Wisconsin. These systems serve a combined peak load exceeding 26,000 megawatts along 16,000 circuit miles of transmission line, supported by 700 employees and 1,000 contractors. ITC is based in Novi, Michigan. For further information visit www.itc-holdings.com. ITC is a subsidiary of Fortis Inc., a leader in the North American regulated electric and gas utility industry. For further information visit www.fortisinc.com. None of the information on ITC's or Fortis Inc.'s websites is incorporated into, or forms a part of, this press release.
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MORRISVILLE, N.C., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Soil Health Institute today announced five strategic goals it is pursuing to address climate change, regenerative agriculture, water resources, farmer empowerment, and consumer demand + policy.
By 2050, the world's agricultural systems will need to support another 2 billion people. Yet, in the last century, soils have lost 40-60% of the basic building block that makes them productive (organic matter). The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation in the United States alone are estimated to be as high as $85 billion every year. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have reached the highest level ever recorded and are continuing to increase. Scientists predict drought to increase from impacting 1% of the world's arable land to over 30% by the end of the century due to climate change. Approximately 80% of U.S. rivers and streams are in only fair to poor biological condition due to nutrient runoff and other contaminants.
"We are at a critical juncture in human history where we must address these challenges, and soil health is the framework to do just that," said Dr. Wayne Honeycutt, President and CEO of the Soil Health Institute.
Research shows that improving soil health in agricultural systems increases carbon sequestration, reduces GHG emissions, increases drought resilience, enhances water quality, boosts crop yield, increases nutrient availability, and suppresses many plant diseases. Yet today, only 5% of cropland in the U.S. is managed using the basic soil health practice of cover cropping. Adoption is hindered by gaps in information on the economic benefits of soil health practices, lack of scientific knowledge on how healthy a given soil can become and what that means for land managers and the environment, and a scarcity of locally relevant resources and mentoring networks for farmers.
To address these issues, the Soil Health Institute is pursuing the following strategic goals:
Climate Change: Provide the soil science knowledge and tactics needed for agriculture to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Regenerative Agriculture: Provide the scientific leadership for understanding, managing, and measuring soil health systems contributing to regenerative land management in agriculture and other ecosystems.
Water Resources: Provide the soil science knowledge and tactics needed for improving water quality and quantity with soil health systems.
Farmer Empowerment: Provide farmers with the information they need when selecting and implementing soil health systems to be profitable, resilient, and environmentally sound.
Consumer Demand + Policy: Provide the science, metrics, information, and partnerships that will inform consumer demand and policies for food, fiber, feed, and fuel grown using soil health systems.
"Bold challenges require bold action," said Dr. Honeycutt, "so we will use cross-cutting tactics that allow us to tackle several strategic goals simultaneously. For example, we believe land managers will be motivated to improve soil health once they learn how healthy their soils can become and what that means for increasing drought resilience, nutrient availability, and profitability."
To address this gap, the Institute is establishing "Soil Health Targets" that will illustrate to farmers, ranchers, and their advisers how healthy their soils are and how healthy they can become. Because organic carbon is an important soil health measurement, this will also provide farmers with an assessment of how much carbon their soils can store. Different soils have different capacities to store carbon.
"These science-based targets will empower farmers with the information they need when considering new management practices that will simultaneously reduce GHG emissions, build drought resilience, improve water quality, increase profitability, and meet the growing consumer demand for food and fiber grown using regenerative soil health systems," said Dr. Honeycutt.
For more information, please contact Byron Rath, brath@soilhealthinstitute.org, or visit the Soil Health Institute's website at https://soilhealthinstitute.org/our-strategy/.
The Soil Health Institute is a global non-profit with a mission of safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and productivity of soils through scientific research and advancement. Our vision is a world where farmers and ranchers grow quality food, fiber, and fuel using soil health systems that sustain farms and rural communities, promote a stable climate and clean environment, and improve human health and well-being. Accordingly, the Institute brings together leaders in soil health science and the industry to conduct research and empower farmers and other landowners with the knowledge to successfully adopt regenerative soil health systems that contribute economic and environmental benefits to agriculture and society. The Institute's scientific team holds doctorates in various soil science and related disciplines, with specialties in carbon cycling, nutrient cycling, water cycling, nutrient management, soil microbiome, farmer/adviser education, ecosystem services, soil-plant relationships, on-farm economics, and others. The team follows a comprehensive strategy for advancing adoption of regenerative soil health systems, as briefly described in this 5-minute video.
Healthy soils are the foundation for restoring our land. Together, we can create a secure future for all, mitigate the effects of climate change, and help farmers and organizations meet production and environmental goals at scale. Visit www.soilhealthinstitute.org to learn more, and follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site in this state, as he called for protecting “treasured lands” that tell the story of America.
The announcement is a boost to Colorado’s senior Democratic senator, Michael Bennet, who has for years advocated for the designation and is in a competitive re-election bid this November. The location is an alpine training site where U.S. soldiers prepared for battles in the Italian Alps during World War II.
“We’re doing it not just for today, but for all the ages,” Biden said, standing amid the rugged, sun-drenched backdrop flanked by mountains as far as the eye could see. The remote site was located off a winding road past an abandoned mine and an old mountain home. “It’s for the people of Colorado, but it also goes well beyond the people of Colorado. It’s for all the people across America and the world.”
The proclamation formally establishes the Camp Hale – Continental Divide National Monument, spanning more than 53,800 acres that will be protected and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Many members of the 10th Mountain Division who trained at Camp Hale returned to Colorado after the war and helped create the state’s lucrative ski industry, and the site is now used for outdoor activities such as hiking and camping, and is home to rare wildlife.
“Soldiers in Camp Hale learned to scale rock, ski and survive, preparing for the war they were about to fight,” said Biden, who for Wednesday’s announcement was joined by two veterans from the 10th Mountain Division. He praised the troops’ “skill, strength and stamina that could’ve been only gained in a place like this.”
While most national monuments protect extraordinary natural landscapes, there are at least 12 other military sites designated as national monuments by other presidents.
Biden on Wednesday called his designation a permanent one that none of his future successors can overturn, although previous presidents have reduced the size of national monuments. The issue of whether a president can eliminate a national monument has not been resolved in court.
Donald Trump shrank two national monuments in southern Utah, a decision that tribes and environmental groups challenged in court. Those cases had been pending when Biden restored full protections for the monuments and expanded one of its boundaries. Biden also restored protections for an area off the New England coast that Trump had opened to commercial fishing.
In a separate move, the Biden administration also announced Wednesday it is pausing new mining and oil and gas drilling on 225,000 acres of public land in the Thompson Divide, a natural gas-rich area not far from Camp Hale.
Citing a need to protect wildlife, the Interior Department said it is initiating a review of a proposed 20-year withdrawal of the area from new leasing. Preexisting natural gas leases that account for less than 1% of active federal leases in Colorado won’t be affected.
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose western Colorado district is home to the new restrictions, condemned the move as a “land grab” that would prevent domestic energy production.
The president’s stop in Colorado Wednesday is part of a three-state swing out West this week. Later Wednesday, Biden heads to California, where he will hold a pair of events promoting two of his most significant legislative achievements and headline a fundraiser for the House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Finally, Biden will stop in Oregon. where his party is in danger of losing the governor’s race, to rally Democrats. Early voting starts in Oregon and Colorado next week and is already underway in California.
He is notably staying away from states where his presence could hurt Democrats; on this trip he’s skipping Nevada and Arizona, where incumbent Democratic senators are battling tough reelection bids.
Democratic candidates have been far more likely to appear with Biden if it’s an official White House event, and that was the approach in Colorado, where Bennet stood alongside the president to tout the designation.
“You have excellent taste, Mr. President, for your administration’s first national monument designation,” Bennet said Wednesday. “Your designation means more Americans will come to appreciate the extraordinary history of this place — a history that goes back to before when Colorado was a state.”
Meanwhile, Bennet’s opponent, Republican Joe O’Dea, dismissed Biden’s visit as “a political stunt.”
“It’s not changing our economy. It’s not changing the price of gas,” O’Dea said in an interview of the Camp Hale designation. He added that while “Camp Hale’s a special place,” its preservation should have come through Congress. O’Dea called Biden’s unilateral action a “usurpation of power.” A far more sweeping conservation bill has been stalled in Congress due to opposition from Republicans.
O’Dea, a businessman with a moderate profile, has mounted a competitive bid against Bennet, who has served in the Senate since 2009. National Republicans believe he is among the party’s best recruits this cycle.
Still, the race still remains somewhat of a reach for Republicans, who see better offensive opportunities in states like Nevada, Georgia and Arizona. Still, the Senate Leadership Fund, the primary super PAC dedicated to electing Republicans to the Senate, made its first investment of the cycle in Colorado last week by sending $1.25 million to O’Dea’s super PAC.
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Kim reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi, Jesse Bedayn and James Anderson in Denver, and Matthew Daly in Washington, contributed to this report.
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ANDREW: THAT IS A NINE-YEAR-OLD NAILING A HALF-COURT BUZZER-BEATER. THE SHOT OF A LIFETIME, HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. SHANNON: PITTSBURGH’S ACTION SPORTS REPORTER EMILY GIANGRECO, HERE NOW IN THE STUDIO WITH THE STORY. I CAN’T STOP WATCHING THIS VIDEO. EMILY: I DON’T BLAME YOU. MAKING A HALF-COURT SHOT AT THE BUZZER IS ALREADY IMPRESSIVE BUT TO DO IT AT JUST NINE-YEARS-OLD THAT TAKES SOME SERIOUS TALENT AND THAT’S SOMETHING COEN PARONISH HAS A LOT OF COEN WAS THE HERO FOR NORTHERN CAMBRIA ELEMENTARY. WITH JUST 1.3 SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK, HE ATTEMPTS A HALF COURT SHOT AND MAKES IT. >> WHEN I SAW THAT HE WAS ROLLING THE BALL I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS AS YOU GOING TO TAKE THE SHOT? I KNOW HE PRACTICES ALL THE TIME AND HE COULD MAKE IT. BUT I DIDN’T THINK HE WOULD MAKE IT. WHEN HE MADE IT, I WAS LIKE OH MY GOODNESS. >> I LIKE TO THE CROWD’S REACTION WHEN I MADE IT. EMILY: SHOCK AND DISBELIEF TOOK OVER THE ARENA. BUT WHAT MOST DON’T KNOW, IS MAKING A HALF COURT SHOT IS JUST A NORMAL DAY FOR COEN. >> WHEN I DO ONE V1 WITH HIM HE IS DOING WEIRD SHOTS -- ONE VERSUS ONE WITH HIM HE IS DOING WHERE SHOTS. EMILY: WHAT SHOULD I DO? >> I JUST LOOK AT THE FRONT OF THE RIM AND THROW IT, TO AIM IT RIGHT AT THE FRONT OF THE RIM. EMILY: OK, TWO HANDS ARE ONE? >> I USUALLY DO ONE? EMILY: DO YOU THINK I CAN DO THIS? >> YEAH. EMILY: TIME TO FIND OUT. OK. STRAIGHT TO JACK’S. OK WELL. WE TRIED. HE SUNK ONE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. OH! LET’S GO! JUST A NORMAL DAY FOR HIM. I’M NOT AS TALENTED AS HIM. COEN’S TEAM WON THE GAME 18-9 WAS THE FINAL SCORE AND COEN MADE 16 OF THOSE 18 POINTS. LIVE IN THE STUDIO, EMILY GIANGRECO, PITTSBURGH’S ACTI
9-year-old makes buzzer beater half-court shot
Updated: 5:36 PM EST Jan 19, 2023
Coen Paronish was the hero of Northern Cambria Elementary. With just 1.3 seconds left on the clock, he attempts a half-court shot and sinks it. "When I saw that he was rolling the ball, I was like, 'Oh my goodness, is he going to take a shot?" said his mother, Jackie. "I know that he practices all the time and that he could make it, but I really didn't think that he was going to make it."The crowd erupted. Screams of shock and disbelief filled the arena, and Coen's team won 18-9. "I was very excited because it went in," said Coen, "I liked the crowd's reaction whenever I made it."What most don't know is that a half-court shot is just a normal day for Coen. "When I play one-on-one with him, he's always doing some weird shots and making them all the time," said his brother, Colton."In my mind, I was like, I have to shoot it to see if I can make it," said Coen.
Coen Paronish was the hero of Northern Cambria Elementary. With just 1.3 seconds left on the clock, he attempts a half-court shot and sinks it.
"When I saw that he was rolling the ball, I was like, 'Oh my goodness, is he going to take a shot?" said his mother, Jackie. "I know that he practices all the time and that he could make it, but I really didn't think that he was going to make it."
The crowd erupted. Screams of shock and disbelief filled the arena, and Coen's team won 18-9.
"I was very excited because it went in," said Coen, "I liked the crowd's reaction whenever I made it."
What most don't know is that a half-court shot is just a normal day for Coen.
"When I play one-on-one with him, he's always doing some weird shots and making them all the time," said his brother, Colton.
"In my mind, I was like, I have to shoot it to see if I can make it," said Coen. | https://www.wtae.com/article/9-year-old-makes-buzzer-beater-half-court-shot/42577796 | 2023-01-20 00:00:11 | 0 | https://www.wtae.com/article/9-year-old-makes-buzzer-beater-half-court-shot/42577796 |
A cold front is slamming into northern California starting Sunday, bringing dangerous temperatures for homeless people in the Bay Area and a winter storm in the Sierra that may snarl weekend travel.
Moisture will move in before the cold, said National Weather Service meteorologist Brayden Murdock. Although the Bay Area will see little to no precipitation, a winter storm will hit the mountains starting 4 a.m. Sunday.
The system is expected to bring three to six inches of snow and up to 60 mile-per-hour winds in Western Plumas County/Lassen Park and northern Sierra Nevada counties, including Interstate 80 over Donner Pass and Highway 50 over Echo Summit, until 7 p.m. Sunday.
The cold front will then sweep in later Sunday, plunging temperatures to the single digits and even below zero along the California-Nevada border and near freezing in the Bay Area, Murdock said.
On Sunday night, San Francisco is expected to see the temperature drop to 38 degrees, San Jose and Napa 34, Concord and Santa Rosa 32 and Livermore down to 30, NWS said. Temperatures will stay cold at night until Wednesday morning.
Murdock said the frigid temperatures expected in the mountains are fairly normal, but the predictions in the Bay Area are unusually low compared to historical averages.
The weather authority issued a freeze warning for inland areas in the Bay Area and frost advisories along the coast and warned that the temperatures are hazardous for people living unsheltered outside. It urged the public to protect people, pets, plants and pipes from the cold.
Coastal areas in Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco and the Peninsula will be under a frost advisory from midnight to 9 a.m. on Monday.
Inland areas, including mountains and valleys in the North Bay, could see temperatures drop below zero, accompanied by 15 to 25 miles per hour winds with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. The weather service issued a freeze warning for those areas from midnight through 9 a.m. on Monday and a wind warning from 1 p.m. Sunday to 1 p.m. Monday.
Frost and freeze could kill crops, other vegetation and damage outdoor plumbing, the agency warned. Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects or tree limbs, causing power outages.
“It’s rare enough for us to actually see freezing temperatures that are widespread,” Murdock said.
San Jose, Livermore and Oakland typically see temperatures in the lower 40s around this time of year, while San Francisco usually falls into the mid-40s, he said.
Mallory Moench is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: mallory.moench@sfchronicle.com | https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/it-s-about-to-get-extremely-cold-in-the-bay-17749120.php | 2023-01-29 05:09:01 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/it-s-about-to-get-extremely-cold-in-the-bay-17749120.php |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – One person was killed and three others were taken to the hospital in a crash on Central Ave. this weekend, Charlotte Medic said.
Man stabbed to death in south Charlotte: PD
Officials said the victim that died was pronounced dead at the scene. One of the others has life-threatening injuries and the other two were treated for minor injuries.
There is no mention of any charges at this time.
We are still working to learn more about what caused that crash.
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