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Education & Technology The power of lullabies Published June 3, 2023 at 4:37 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 14:09 We think of lullabies as a sweet way of easing children into sleep. But the power of a lullaby can go further — to comfort, and to heal, even under the most difficult circumstances. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kasu.org/education-technology/education-technology/2023-06-03/the-power-of-lullabies | 2023-06-03 23:39:09 | 1 | https://www.kasu.org/education-technology/education-technology/2023-06-03/the-power-of-lullabies |
DUBLIN (AP) — DUBLIN (AP) — Steris Corp. (STE) on Wednesday reported profit of $123.8 million in its fiscal third quarter.
The Dublin-based company said it had net income of $1.24 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $2.02 per share.
The medical products maker posted revenue of $1.22 billion in the period.
Steris expects full-year earnings in the range of $8 to $8.10 per share.
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23 Vitamins, Minerals, Superfoods and Probiotics to Support Children's Health and Well-being
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chewsy, a leading provider of innovative and delicious, candy style vitamin chews, is thrilled to announce the new Kids' Multi, exclusively available at Target stores nationwide and Target.com. This exciting launch delivers a complete blend of essential nutrients so children stay healthy and full of energy.
The Chewsy Kids' Multi is a unique supplement designed with kids in mind, offering a naturally flavored and tasty, wild berry chew that can be taken daily. Scientifically formulated with 23 nutrients and only 3 grams of sugar per chew, parents can rest easy knowing their children are getting the nutrition they need.
"We are so honored to partner with Target to launch our Kids' Multi," said Chewsy Co-founder Sean Ross. "Target's reputation as a trusted and accessible destination for families aligns perfectly with our mission to provide high-quality supplements that are not only effective but also enjoyable for our customers. This exclusive partnership allows us to reach a wider audience of parents who prioritize the health and wellbeing of their children and are looking for hassle-free and healthy everyday essentials."
From taste to texture, the new Kids' Multi stands out from traditional gummies or chewable vitamins as they feature a candy style that is bursting with juicy flavor but even juicer health benefits. Each chew contains key vitamins and minerals like Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Probiotics, Zinc, Selenium and superfoods like blueberry, elderberry, pomegranate and acai. Chewsy chews are individually wrapped for a convenient and on-the-go experience that can be easily packed in a lunchbox or backpack for a mid-day treat.
Along with the Kids' Multi, customers can also shop Women's Multi on the shelves of Target stores nationwide, created to work synergistically to support immune function, promote energy production, maintain healthy bones, and contribute to overall vitality in women.
For more information about the Chewsy Kids' Multi and Women's Multi, visit Chewsychews.com or Target.com
About Chewsy Chews
A leading provider of high-quality chewable supplements. Chewsy chews taste like candy, but they're filled with scientifically validated nutrition. Because Chewsy chews are bigger than gummies, they can fit more nutrients in them and contain only 3 grams of sugar, and no gelatin. The chews are individually wrapped to be portable, sanitary, and mess-free in heat/warm weather. Chewsy products can be found at www.chewsychews.com, Target, Sprouts, Whole Foods, CVS, and Amazon.
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SUNRISE, Fla., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Enhance Health, a leading digital health insurance brokerage and care navigation platform, announced Monday the addition of two members to their executive leadership team as the company's rapid expansion continues.
- Christopher Nicolopoulos, Vice President of Government Affairs: Christopher joins Enhance Health after serving as the New Hampshire Commissioner of Insurance. In his role, he will oversee strategic planning and engagement objectives, growing Enhance's direct government programs at all levels. Christopher will report to George Lyford, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel.
Founded in 2021 by industry veteran Matt Herman and backed by Bain Capital Insurance, Enhance Health has experienced rapid growth due to the record number of Americans enrolling in ACA health plans in 2022. As the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency came to an end earlier this year, Enhance Health's licensed agents will provide valuable support in enrolling individuals who no longer qualify for Medicaid into ACA health plans. Enhance Health has grown it's membership base to hundreds of thousands, and is rapidly expanding into other insurance business lines.
"We have assembled the industry's most experienced executive team, composed of individuals with exceptional track records in the insurance space," stated Matthew Herman, CEO and President of Enhance Health. "Shawn and Christopher's firsthand experience and expertise will be instrumental in scaling our business and ensuring that we can help even more people access affordable, high-quality health insurance."
About Enhance Health: Started in 2021 with a capital commitment led by Bain Capital Insurance, Enhance Health has expanded exponentially as a record number of Americans enrolled in ACA health plans in 2022. With the end of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency, the company's licensed agents will also help enroll people who no longer qualify for Medicaid into ACA health plans. Enhance Health also offers a full range of other insurance products, including dental, Medicare, and life insurance plus their proprietary Enhance HealthRx discount card. Visit https://enhancehealth.com/about-us/ for more information.
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and the panel’s Republicans on Wednesday dug in on their attacks on President Biden, unveiling new details alleging that more than $10 million flowed from foreign entities to companies associated with the Biden family and family members themselves.
But the 36-page report released by the panel’s Republicans on Wednesday that was based on bank records did not show any foreign money flowing directly to Joe Biden.
Biden has previously denied knowledge of his family’s business dealings as they were happening, and the report did not provide hard evidence that his family’s finances influenced any policy decisions.
But in a press conference presenting the findings — complete with a flow chart documenting the flow of funds through multiple individuals and entities — Republicans reiterated their suspicions.
“We’re pretty confident that the president was very knowledgeable of what his family was doing,” Comer said, adding that he is still in the “beginning stages” of his investigation.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), another Republican on the panel, said the transactions appear to show that “Chinese Communist Party-affiliated entities may have bought influence with the Bidens that they couldn’t get otherwise.”
“The Vice President during the last year of the Obama administration traveled around the world. He talked a lot about foreign aid in different countries, talked a lot about American policy, American assistance,” Comer said. “You look at some of the decisions that Joe Biden made as president, there are many decisions that we would make a strong argument – that put China first and America last.”
Some of the business and financial connections explored in the panel’s report had been previously reported. Connections between Hunter Biden and his associates and CEFC China Energy Co., for instance, were explored in a 2020 Senate GOP report. And business connections between Hunter Biden and Romanian business executive Gabriel Popoviciu, who was convicted in a fraud and corruption case in 2016, had also been reported before the 2020 election.
Republicans say that they plan to craft legislation to strengthen reporting requirements related to foreign transactions by senior business officials’ family members, to combat “influence peddling.” And Comer said that he will soon release a new round of subpoenas to banks seeking specific targeted information.
The White House and House Oversight Committee Democrats aggressively counter-messaged against Comer’s report and press conference.
House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said in a statement that Republicans are engaging in a “tiresome and aging smear campaign.”
“Unable to implicate the President directly, Committee Republicans have resorted to using cherry-picked bank records, misrepresentations about confidential and unverified bank reports known as SARs, and baseless conspiracy theories to attack the President’s family, including his grandchildren,” Raskin said.
A separate memo from the committee’s Democrats pushed back on the GOP’s representation of bank reports that flag suspicious activity.
And a memo from Ian Sams, Special Assistant to the President and White House Oversight Spokesperson, “long pattern of making absurd claims” about the president “using baseless claims, personal attacks, and innuendo to try to score political points.”
“Comer keeps insisting he will provide evidence – but it hasn’t stopped him from a cascading barrage of innuendo and insinuations in the meantime,” Sams said in the memo.
Abbe Lowell, counsel for Hunter Biden, also dismissed the findings in a statement, saying that Comer “has spent the last five months making wild predictions without proof, asking inane questions out loud and falling short every time – including today.”
“Today’s so-called ‘revelations’ are retread, repackaged misstatements of perfectly proper meetings and business by private citizens,” Lowell said, calling on Comer to investigate former President Trump’s family business dealings. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/hill-politics/house-gop-digs-in-on-biden-family-dealings-without-directly-connecting-president/ | 2023-05-10 20:50:31 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/hill-politics/house-gop-digs-in-on-biden-family-dealings-without-directly-connecting-president/ |
How to Watch College Softball Super Regionals Streaming Live - Saturday, May 27
Need more college softball in your life? Well, you're in luck. The NCAA softball schedule on Saturday, May 27 features two games that can be seen on Fubo. For a complete list, along with info on how to watch or live stream every pitch, check out the article below.
Watch even more NCAA Softball action with ESPN+!
College Softball Games Streaming Live Today
Watch NCAA Tournament, Super Regional: Teams TBA
- Game Time: 1:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Watch Tennessee vs Texas Softball
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Make sure you're following along with all the College Softball action all season long on Fubo and ESPN+!
Every team's path to the Women's College World Series starts with the NCAA Tournament selection show on Sunday, May 14 at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN2. Tournament play kicks off the next weekend with Regionals action from May 18-21, followed by Super Regionals from May 25-28, and concludes with the Women's College World Series from June 1-9, taking place at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Saturday, November 5, 2022
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SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
The National Weather Service in League City has issued a
* Special Marine Warning for...
Coastal waters from High Island to Freeport TX out 20 NM...
Galveston Bay...
* Until 200 AM CDT.
* At 1257 AM CDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from Wallisville to the Houston Ship Channel to
Rosharon, moving southeast at 25 knots.
HAZARD...Wind gusts to 40 knots.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and
suddenly higher waves.
* Locations impacted include...
Tabs Buoy B, Galveston Bay Entrance, Galveston Bay, Offatts Bayou,
Galveston Pier 21, Trinity Bay, Galveston 221, Galveston 282,
Galveston Causeway, Mitchell Bay, High Island 63, Surfside Jetty,
Bastrop Bay, Christmas Bay, East Galveston Bay, Galveston Ship
Channel, West Bay, Upper San Jacinto Bay, Tabbs Bay and Drum Bay.
This warning also includes the following channel lights...
Freeport Entrance Lighted Buoy 4...
Freeport Entrance Lighted Buoy 1...
Houston Ship Channel Light 45...
Baytown Marina Channel Light 17...
Houston Ship Channel Lighted Buoy 112...
Houston Ship Channel Light 55...
Bayport Ship Channel Light 5...
Anahuac Channel Light 1...
Freeport Entrance Light 10 and
Galveston Channel Lighted Buoy 1.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish prosecutor in charge of the investigation into leaks from pipelines in the Baltic Sea said Tuesday that he has ordered the area to be closed as he carries out a preliminary investigation into “suspected gross sabotage.”
“I understand the great public interest, but we are at the beginning of a preliminary investigation and I therefore cannot go into details about which investigative measures we are taking,” Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said late Monday.
The Swedish coast guard said ships, divers, fishing vessels and underwater vehicles, among others, are banned from approaching within 9.3 kilometers (5.8 miles) of the two leaks off Sweden.
Last week, undersea blasts involving several hundred pounds of explosives damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four locations off southern Sweden and Denmark and led to huge methane leaks in international waters in the Baltic Sea.
Over the weekend, authorities in Denmark said the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines had stopped leaking. However, the Swedish coast guard said Monday that one of its planes had reported that the smaller leak in Nord Stream 2 had increased and was about 30 meters (100 feet) in diameter.
The coast guard offered no explanation as to why the leak had increased. The other one, in Nord Stream 1, has stopped, it said.
A Swedish submarine rescue ship capable of advanced diving missions and a Swedish coast guard vessels have been sent to the two leaks off Sweden.
It remains unclear when divers or a submarine will be able to go down to the pipelines.
Danish authorities are monitoring the two gas leaks east of the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm with ships and a a military helicopter.
In Sweden, the Security Services are also taking part in the investigation, while Copenhagen police are in charge of an inquiry in Denmark.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Denmark’s parliament as it reconvened after the summer break on Tuesday that it was “an unheard deed which we look at with the utmost seriousness.”
She said that the investigation “is now underway. Preparedness in the energy sector has been increased. And together with our partners and allies, we are raising awareness of critical infrastructure.”
The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday on the pipeline attacks, and Norwegian researchers published a map projecting that a huge plume of methane from the damaged pipelines will travel over large swaths of the Nordic region. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-swedes-close-area-of-baltic-sea-around-pipeline-gas-leaks/ | 2022-10-04 13:09:06 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-swedes-close-area-of-baltic-sea-around-pipeline-gas-leaks/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador loves big projects and hates to leave them unfinished, but that is likely what he will do when he leaves office late in 2024.
The president pledges his big construction projects will be done by then. But one — a tourist train line in the Yucatan peninsula — will have to be jacked up on stilts for 50 miles to run over some of the most fragile and environmentally sensitive geography in the world.
Meanwhile, an oil refinery — and a string of planned industrial parks — don’t have a natural gas supply. And a government internet-for-all scheme has spent hundreds of millions of dollars without even matching private service coverage.
López Obrador has completed one of his top projects, building a new Mexico City airport. But because it was rushed into operation more than a year before rail and road links will be finished, it is little used. He cancelled another airport project his predecessor wasn’t able to finish, thus his rush.
López Obrador admits the government is unwieldy — he often calls it a “rheumatic elephant” that must be pushed. He also blames delays on what he calls a broad conspiracy of conservatives, businessmen and U.S.-funded non-governmental organizations.
“Pseudo environmentalists come from Mexico City and other parts of the country, financed by the government of the United States, and they file these injunctions against us,” the president complained.
Few disagree with his desire to bring jobs, development, banking services, internet and decent health care to Mexico’s poor and the remote countryside. But his big plans have been stymied, in large part by his own belief in a few central rules.
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THE GOVERNMENT MUST DO EVERYTHING
López Obrador has relied almost exclusively on state-owned companies of the kind that dominated Mexico’s economy in the 1970s, most of which were sold off by his predecessors.
Some he has recently created, like the government mining company he gave a monopoly over lithium deposits to hoping to jump on the U.S. electric car boom, touting its reserves of the key battery component. But the company has no experience in producing or refining lithium and hasn’t yet turned a shovelful of dirt.
The president also wants to revive some state companies, like a small government-owned bank for which he envisions building thousands of branch offices, and Mexicana, the defunct state-owned airline. Elsewhere, countries are walking away from such nationalized consumer companies.
Perhaps less controversial is López Obrador’s “internet for all” program. While Mexico’s private and foreign telecoms already offer coverage on about 85% of Mexico’s territory, Mexico’s poorest citizens live in communities so small or remote that it is not profitable to serve them.
López Obrador entrusted the task to the state-owned electrical utility, which has no experience in the field, and a small, cash-strapped telecom firm that the government bailed out and took over.
Gerardo Flores Ramirez of the Mexican think tank Telecommunications Law Institute notes that despite spending almost $900 million from 2020 to 2023, the government system has coverage of only about 70% of the country, and won’t reach even modest, reduced goals of 92% until 2028.
“They are not going to meet the goals,” said Flores Ramirez.
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GOVERNMENT CAN FORCE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DO ITS BIDDING
López Obrador seeks to persuade private companies to help with his goal of moving jobs south, farther into Mexico and away from the U.S. border, and to start using government infrastructure that doesn’t really suit their needs. He alternately cajoles them and threatens them.
Early in his term, he forced natural gas companies to re-negotiate supply contracts that he considered too lucrative. And he changed the rules for foreign-owned renewable- and gas-fired electrical power plants, to favor dirtier, state-owned power generation facilities.
He has, however, avoided expropriating anything, even things he really wants, like a limestone quarry owned by Alabama-based Vulcan Materials near the Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen.
The president wants to turn the crystalline quarry pools into a tourist attraction — though they are full of crocodiles — so he’s tried to force the company, so far unsuccessfully, to sell out, by ordering it closed and encouraging Mexicans to bring complaints against the firm.
Likewise, he has struggled to get airlines to use his new Mexico City airport despite limiting flights into the older one closer to the capital.
López Obrador is also desperately looking for customers for the rail-and-road corridor connecting the Pacific with the Gulf of Mexico, across the narrow waist of Mexico known as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
He hopes to build a string of about 10 industrial parks along the corridor, to lure foreign-owned manufacturing plants from the U.S. border. He has threatened not to grant any more permits for water-intensive industries on the border, where most firms cluster for reasons of logistics and proximity.
López Obrador — known in Mexico by his initials, AMLO — has basically issued an ultimatum to a U.S.-based firm to build a liquified natural gas terminal in Mexico. But the gas pipelines to feed such a plant would have to be built. Private companies have stayed away, instead announcing plans for LNG ports on the U.S. side of the Gulf.
“The government capacity to move projects forward has been weak and out of focus, as in the case of increasing the supply of natural gas,” said Adrian Duhalt, research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global on Energy Policy.
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START A PROJECT, THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMPLETE IT
López Obrador started off his administration with a big dream: the 950-mile (1,500-kilometer) Maya Train, a tourist line to run in a rough loop around the Yucatan Peninsula, connecting beach resorts and archaeological sites.
On the stretch between the Caribbean resorts of Cancun and Tulum, it was first planned to run on elevated tracks over the coastal highway, where most hotels are. But hotel owners complained about the effects of construction, road closures, and impacts on land on either side of the highway.
So López Obrador decided to change the route — with no environmental study — to cut a 68-mile (110-kilometer) swath through the jungle between Cancun and Tulum.
Environmentalists battled the tree-cutting, and pointed out the line would run over and probably collapse the area’s extensive network of underground caves and sinkhole lakes where some of the oldest human remains in North America have been found.
López Obrador changed the project again. Now he says that 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the double rail line will be built on an elevated platform 2.5 yards (meters) above the forest floor, supported on thousands of concrete pillars that purportedly won’t hurt the caves beneath.
China built a longer railway in similar terrain, and it took seven years. López Obrador has given army engineers one year to do the job in Mexico.
Few believe it can be done in that amount of time — if at all.
“This isn’t a farcical project, only because it’s not a project, it’s just a farce,” said Jose ‘Pepe’ Urbina, a diver who has explored the caverns for decades.
“This is not going to get finished, and it is going to cost a lot more than it was supposed to. It is going to cost the taxpayers today a lot, and the next generation will have to repair what is being damaged.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-mexicos-president-likely-to-leave-big-projects-unfinished/ | 2022-12-12 21:31:41 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-mexicos-president-likely-to-leave-big-projects-unfinished/ |
WeTrade Group Y-Health Celebrates the Daily Sale of Jiqing Biotech COVID-19 Antigen Kit to Reach 1 Million
Published: Dec. 22, 2022 at 7:34 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
BEIJING, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WeTrade Group Inc. ("WeTrade" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WETG), a global diversified "software as a service" ("SaaS") technology service provider committed to providing technical support and digital transformation tools for enterprises across different industries, today announced that the cooperation with Jiqing Biomedical Technology Co. Ltd. ("Jiqing Biotech") has reached a milestone achievement in that Jiqing Biotech's COVID-19 self-test kit has been sold up to 1 million units per day in China with the help of Wetrade Group's multi-dimensional marketing tool, SaaS.
With the gradual loosening of domestic pandemic prevention policies, the self-use of antigen products has expanded, allowing it to gradually transition from being a medical and professional item to an over-the-counter consumer product projected with a sizeable increase in market demand.
The accuracy of the Jiqing Biotech's COVID-19 antigen self-test kit exceeds 98%, and guarantees a rapid and accurate result within 15 minutes. It will facilitate the needs for rapid self-testing at home, and will serve to better meet the needs of COVID detection, prevention and control around the world.
The cooperation between Wetrade Group and Jiqing Biology began in August. Wetrade Group not only helps Jiqing Biotech develop in domestic and foreign sales channels through cooperation, but also contributes to the medical industry in general by investing in Jiqing Biotech. After cooperating with Jiqing, Wetrade Group has successively reached cooperation with Parkway Medical Limited, MobiLab Medical Innovatives, Zhixun Biotechnology Limited, among others. Up to now, Wetrade Group has formed three business segments represented by YCloud, WTPay and Y-Health.
Y-Health is a global public health business segment launched by Wetrade Group, and it focuses on facilitating global business of bio-health companies. At present, Y-Health mainly focuses on covid-19 detection and prevention, daily health, traditional Chinese medicine. This achievement signifies an official and successful entry of Wetrade Group into the medical field.
About WeTrade Group Inc.
WeTrade Group Inc. is a global diversified "software as a service" ("SaaS") technology service provider which is committed to providing technical support and digital transformation tools for enterprises across different industries. The three main business segments of the Company are YCloud, WTPay and Y-Health.
YCloud is a micro-business cloud intelligent system launched by WeTrade, serving global micro-business industry. YCloud strengthens users' marketing relationship and CPS commission profit management through leading technology and big data analysis. It also helps increase the payment scenarios to increase customers' revenue by multi-channel data statistics, AI fission and management as well as improved supply chain system.
Independently developed by the Company, WTPay supports multiple methods of online payment and eight mainstream digital wallets in over 100 countries to help customers quickly realize global collection and payment business. Customers can use WTpay for global acquiring business, global store opening, global payment collection, international banking, global remittance and currency exchange.
Under its global public health business sector Y-Health, the Company engages in developing global business for biological health and medical enterprises. Currently, Y-Health mainly focuses on detection and prevention of epidemic, daily healthcare, traditional Chinese medicines, and others.
For more information, please visit https://ir.wetg.group.
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Edmonton 0
Red Deer 5 Portland 4 (SO)
Prince George 5 Kelowna 1
Wednesday's results
Moose Jaw 6 Edmonton 3
Winnipeg 8 Calgary 2
Prince George 7 Kelowna 2
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 7 Calgary 6
Friday's results
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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– New offering will give patients and their families the definitive diagnoses needed and allow them to move forward with a better understanding of their condition –
NEW YORK, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dante Genomics, a global leader in genomics and precision medicine, today announced the launch of its Rare Disease Health Package to revolutionize rare disease diagnosis with whole genome sequencing testing.
The Rare Disease Health Package includes pre- and post-telemedicine consultations with specialist doctors, providing access to specialists who may not be available in a patient's area. Dante removes financial barriers to care by identifying potential treatments and management strategies for rare diseases. The package also prioritizes privacy and security, with a commitment to not selling genomic and personal information and to remain in compliance with all GDPR and HIPAA regulations. The 30X coverage, clinical-grade WGS used in the package ensures high accuracy and confidence in the results that are critical in identifying variants that may be causative of rare diseases or other conditions.
To learn more about Dante's Rare Disease Health Package, visit dantelabs.com.
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Which pumice stone for your feet is best?
A quality pumice stone is an excellent tool that, with regular use, can help keep your feet soft, healthy and pain-free. A popular pumice stone is the Pumice Valley Natural Earth Lava Pumice Stone. This natural product may be a little pricey, but it’s effective in removing dry, calloused skin in a comfortable and easy-to-use way.
What to know before you buy a pumice stone for your feet
What is a pumice stone?
When lava mixes with water, the result is a light, porous stone called pumice. Its naturally abrasive properties make it ideal for removing dead skin cells and softening calluses and corns.
Why does dead skin build up on my feet?
Your feet shed dead skin cells regularly. The most common reason those dead skin cells build up is lack of moisture. Additionally, the friction from wearing shoes and walking or running can cause a buildup of skin. Regularly scrubbing away those dead skin cells with a pumice stone is the easiest way to prevent any buildup
How do you use a pumice stone?
- Start by soaking: To help smooth those trouble spots on your feet, begin by soaking both your feet and your pumice stone in warm water for at least five minutes.
- Use the stone: Remove your foot from the water, pat it dry and use the pumice stone on any trouble spots in light, circular motions for two or three minutes. This process should never hurt. If you feel pain, stop using the pumice stone.
- Rinse and examine your feet: If you find any dead skin patches you missed, repeat steps one and two.
- Moisturize after use: When you are finished, moisturize your feet and clean your pumice stone.
- Repeat as necessary: While a pumice stone can be used on your feet every day, preventive maintenance only needs to be performed two or three times each week if you have no current trouble spots.
What to look for in a quality pumice stone for your feet
Natural materials
Not all products that are called pumice stones are made purely of volcanic rock. Some lower-priced options are manufactured using synthetic materials. The best pumice stone is 100% natural.
Ergonomic size and shape
Pumice stones come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are large and rectangular, while others are smaller with a more rounded shape. Your primary concern with size and shape is finding a pumice stone that fits comfortably in your hand. If it’s too large or too small for you to hold easily, you’ll have more difficulty using the product.
Appropriately sized pores
The pores are the tiny holes that appear in abundance on and throughout a pumice stone. The larger these pores are, the more aggressive the stone will be at removing dead and dry skin. Conversely, a pumice stone with smaller pores will be gentler on your skin. Choose the type of pumice stone that best suits your needs.
Added ingredients
Sometimes, you can find a pumice stone that has been infused with other ingredients that can help soften or moisturize your skin, such as shea butter, vitamin E or aloe vera. Additionally, you can find pumice stones that contain soap. While this is not essential, a pumice stone with added ingredients may be of interest to you.
How much you can expect to spend on a pumice stone for your feet
You can get synthetic, budget pumice stones for roughly $2 each, while pure, volcanic rock pumice stones may cost as much as $10 each. For options that include infused materials, you may find yourself spending over $20 for a single pumice stone.
Foot pumice stone FAQ
Are there any hygiene protocols to follow when using a pumice stone?
A. While pumice stones are relatively easy to use, there are five basic rules to remember.
- Never use a pumice stone when it or your skin is dry.
- Do not share your pumice stone with others.
- Do not use your pumice stone on delicate or inflamed skin.
- Do not use your pumice stone near surgical sites or injuries, especially if the skin is broken.
- Do not use excessive pressure. A light circular motion is enough.
Do I need to clean my pumice stone?
A. Yes. After every use, be sure to rinse your pumice stone clean under warm water. Additionally, using a toothbrush and a little dish detergent can help remove oils and skin flakes. For thorough cleaning, consider boiling the pumice stone for up to five minutes.
How often do I need to replace my pumice stone?
A. As a rule of thumb, a pumice stone will last roughly three to four weeks. However, if you notice your pumice stone isn’t very effective or feels smooth, and cleaning it doesn’t seem to help, it is probably time for a replacement.
What’s the best foot pumice stone to buy?
Top pumice stone for feet
Pumice Valley Natural Earth Lava Pumice Stone
What you need to know: This is a top choice for individuals looking to begin a healthy foot-care regimen to remove dry and calloused skin.
What you’ll love: This rounded stone is easier to hold in your hand than the rectangular options. When used as directed, this pumice stone can stimulate blood flow and help relieve fatigue.
What you should consider: Be sure to follow all usage directions to achieve maximum benefits.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumice stone for feet for the money
Love Pumice 2-in-1 Pumice Stone for Feet, Hands and Body
What you need to know: This pumice stone is best for individuals looking for a highly affordable option without the need for durability.
What you’ll love: Not only is this the lowest-priced product on this list, but it comes with four pumice stones, making it an excellent value. Each stone has both a rough and a smooth side so that you can tailor it to your preferred level of foot care.
What you should consider: This pumice stone is not quite as durable as some other options, but you get four in a pack.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
My Solemate 2-in-1 Foot Pumice Stone & Foot Scrubber
What you need to know: A unique 2-in-1 option that includes both soap and a pumice stone, so your cleaning and exfoliating needs are combined into one handy bar.
What you’ll love: One side of this product is a pumice stone that helps remove dry skin, while the other is a moisturizing bar of soap. Using this pumice stone can help rejuvenate your feet, so they are both smooth and soft.
What you should consider: This pumice stone is best reserved for lighter-duty foot care needs and might not be tough enough for thick calluses.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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TORONTO, ON — A bus carrying seniors to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba Thursday, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police said.
Rob Hill, Commanding Officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities in Manitoba were deploying all their resources to the scene. Ten people were taken to hospitals.
TV broadcasters aired images of what looked like a large van or bus smoldering in a ditch near a transport truck with a smashed engine on a road. The pavement was littered with debris — broken glass, a large bumper and what looked like a walking aid. Seven blue and yellow tarps were stretched out.
RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson said “as of right now the drivers of both the bus and truck are alive and in hospital." He did not say if they were among the 10 listed as injured. The dead were mainly seniors.
Lasson said the bus was heading south and there would have been a stop and yield sign. He said the bus was crossing the east bound lanes when it was struck by the truck that was going east, adding that who had the right of way is critical to the investigation.
“The public is reeling and asking a lot of questions and people are trying to determine if their loved ones were involved,” Lasson said. “Death on this scale is never normalized for us.”
The crash scene was in Carberry, a city 170 kilometers (105 miles) west of Manitoba’s capital of Winnipeg.
“The news from Carberry, Manitoba is incredibly tragic,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. “I’m sending my deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones today, and I’m keeping the injured in my thoughts.”
A family support center has been set up at a Lutheran Church in Dauphin, Manitoba for relatives. Police said the people on the bus were from Dauphin and the areas around it.
Flags have been lowered to half-staff at the Manitoba legislature.
A spokesperson for the Sand Hills Casino in Carberry said the van had been scheduled to arrive there later in the day.
Kim Armstrong, the administrator of the Dauphin senior center, said the bus left from the senior center Thursday morning.
The senior community is extremely tight knit in the city of around 8,600 people and the center is sometimes like a second home, she said.
“It’s huge to lose so many individuals of our community and of course it is shocking. We just pray for those that are surviving,” she said.
Armstrong said seniors and community members often go on trips on buses to nearby events or casinos.
The truck company said in a statement it was heartbroken about the crash but had limited details about what happened.
“We will fully cooperate with the investigation and offer any assistance and support that we can," said William Doherty, CEO of Day & Ross.
Nirmesh Vadera, who was working at a business on the side of the highway when the crash happened, said he went outside and saw a transport truck with a smashed engine on the highway. The bus was on fire in the grass on the side of the road. First responders were trying to get people out of the burning vehicle, he said.
“It was burning and all the (firefighters) and medical help and everybody was trying to get them away from the fire," he said.
The crash brought back memories of the 2018 bus crash in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan that killed 16 people from the Humboldt Broncos minor league hockey team. Lasson said investigators in that crash are assisting.
“Sadly this is a day in Manitoba and across Canada that will be remembered as one of tragedy and incredible sadness,” said Hill, the RCMP commanding officer. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/seniors-killed-bus-crash-canada/507-c1a1ebf8-744b-4e34-bc29-950a5c37cf46 | 2023-06-16 10:24:05 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/seniors-killed-bus-crash-canada/507-c1a1ebf8-744b-4e34-bc29-950a5c37cf46 |
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) announced today that it has moved into the No. 3 overall spot on Newsweek's 2023 list of America's Most Responsible Companies (up from No. 4 overall in 2022). The annual recognition, acknowledging the top 500 most responsible companies in the United States across 14 industries, is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The full list can be viewed here.
"We feel incredibly honored and humbled to be named among the three most responsible companies in America," said Marc Bitzer, Chairman and CEO of Whirlpool Corporation. "While a tremendous amount of work has been done over this past year in the area of environmental sustainability, governance and social responsibility, this public recognition ultimately reflects our lifelong passion for "doing the right thing" ever since our company was founded 111 years ago."
America's Most Responsible Companies were selected based on publicly available key performance indicators derived from Social Responsibility Reports, Sustainability Reports, as well as an independent survey. The results are focused on company performance across environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and corporate governance while the independent survey asked U.S. citizens about their perception of company activities related to corporate social responsibility. This year, Whirlpool Corporation received its exemplary ranking due in part to continued progress on its ESG commitments.
During 2022, Whirlpool Corporation built on its decades long commitment to sustainability, citizenship and Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, and received several external recognitions for those efforts, including:
- Named one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for the 12th consecutive year
- Named to Forbes' 2022 List of "World's Best Employers"
- Received a perfect 100 score on Human Rights Campaign Foundation's annual assessment of LGBTQ+ workplace equality for the 19th year
- Recognized as a leader in creating an inclusive workplace in Seramount's 2022 Inclusion Index
To learn more about Whirlpool Corporation and its ESG strategy, approach and progress on commitments, please see its Corporate Sustainability Report here.
About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. In an increasingly digital world, the company is driving purposeful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit, Yummly and InSinkErator. In 2021, the company reported approximately $22 billion in annual sales, 69,000 employees and 54 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami to wash ashore on South Pacific islands Friday. No damage has been reported, and the threat passed in a few hours.
Waves 60 centimeters (2 feet) above tide level were measured off Lenakel, a port town in Vanuatu, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Smaller waves were measured by coastal or deep-ocean gauges elsewhere off Vanuatu and off New Caledonia and New Zealand.
Vanuatu’s National Disaster Management Office advised people to evacuate from coastal areas to higher grounds. The office said people should listen to their radios for updates and take other precautions.
New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency said it expected coastal areas would experience strong and unusual currents, with unpredictable surges at the shoreline. The PTWC said small waves of 20 centimeters (8 inches) above tides were measured at North Cape, New Zealand.
The tsunami danger passed within a few hours, though the center said small sea level changes may continue.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was near the Loyalty Islands, a province in the French territory of New Caledonia. The quake was 37 kilometers (23 miles) deep.
The area is southwest of Fiji, north of New Zealand and east of Australia where the Coral Sea meets the Pacific.
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PARIS (AP) — French soccer federation president Noël Le Graët is under investigation for “sexual harassment” and “moral harassment,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
In a message to The Associated Press, the prosecutor’s office said the investigation was opened Monday following a report by the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research. It will be carried out by a special police unit dedicated to crimes against individuals.
The investigation was launched after sports agent Sonia Souid accused Le Graët of improper conduct over several years, saying he only was interested in her sexually. Souid said in an interview with L’Equipe sports daily that Le Graët repeatedly tried to approach her from 2013-17.
The 81-year-old Le Graët agreed last week to step back from his duties as president of the federation following an emergency executive committee meeting into his behavior.
Le Graët has faced several claims of sexual harassment and the soccer federation is the target of an investigation ordered by French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
Le Graët, who has also been criticized this month for a perceived disrespect toward France soccer great Zinédine Zidane, has agreed to step away from his role until the audit’s findings have been fully reviewed by the executive committee, likely by the end of January. Until then, he is being replaced in an interim role by federation vice president Philippe Diallo.
Oudéa-Castéra ordered an investigation into the federation in September after the body said it would file a defamation lawsuit against So Foot magazine, which reported that Le Graët allegedly harassed several female employees.
The French magazine published a six-page investigation quoting anonymous former and current employees, and inappropriate text messages that Le Graët allegedly sent to the women.
Le Graët was re-elected to a four-year term last March. He is currently a candidate for another four-year term on the FIFA Council, the international soccer body’s decision-making committee.
Souid, who said she first met Le Graët in 2013, told L’Equipe that he texted her to ask her out or tell her he missed her. Souid said he never went too far verbally but made clear she should have sex with him to move her ideas forward.
“He never looked at me like an agent but like a piece of candy,” Souid said.
Souid said she was hurt by Le Graët’s attitude and that she thought about ending her career as an agent. Asked whether Le Graët helped her professionally at some point, Souid said he helped her find the phone number of coach Corinne Diacre and that he tried to help her with business class plane tickets for France player Amandine Henry.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s currency fell to a new record low on Sunday, plunging to 600,000 to the dollar for the first time as the effects of nationwide anti-government protests and the breakdown of the 2015 nuclear deal continued to roil the economy.
Iranians have formed long lines in front of exchange offices in recent days, hoping to acquire increasingly scarce dollars. Many have seen their life savings evaporate as the local currency has deteriorated. Inflation reached 53.4% in January, up from 41.4% two years ago, according to Iran’s statistics center.
The dire economic conditions have contributed to widespread anger at the government, but have also forced many Iranians to focus on putting food on the table rather than engaging in high-risk political activism amid a fierce crackdown on dissent.
Iran’s currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar when it signed the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers. The agreement lifted international sanctions in return for strict limits on and surveillance of its nuclear activities.
The agreement unraveled when then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from it and restored crippling sanctions. Iran responded by ramping up its enrichment of uranium, and now has enough for “several” atomic weapons if it chooses to develop them, according to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog.
Iran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, but experts say it had a nuclear weapons program until 2003 and is developing a breakout capacity that could allow it to quickly build an atomic weapon should it decide to do so.
The Biden administration supports a return to the 2015 agreement, but negotiations hit an impasse last year and appear to have ground to a halt. Iran has further angered Western countries by supplying armed drones to Russia that have been used in its invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Iran has seen waves of anti-government protests since the September death of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict Islamic dress code.
The protests rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling Shiite clerics, marking a major challenge to their four-decade rule. Iran’ has blamed the unrest on foreign powers, casting it as an extension of the sanctions, without providing evidence.
The Trump administration had hoped that maximum sanctions would force Iran to make major concessions on its nuclear activities, its ballistic missile program and its military involvement in countries across the Middle East, but it has yet to do so. | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-irans-currency-hits-new-low-amid-anti-government-protests/ | 2023-02-27 05:09:15 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-irans-currency-hits-new-low-amid-anti-government-protests/ |
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Navneeth Murali would strongly prefer for the Scripps National Spelling Bee to get rid of the onstage, multiple-choice vocabulary questions that were introduced to the competition two years ago.
“It’s sort of hit or miss, the onstage vocab format, and it’s sort of brutal in my opinion,” the 17-year-old former speller said.
The vocabulary questions are part of a series of changes to the post-pandemic bee, which is leaner and, in some ways, meaner. Accomplished spellers can be bounced from the bee without ever misspelling a word. And because there is no alternative path to the bee as there was in the late 2010s, the regional bees spellers must win to qualify can be incredibly tense, and sometimes shocking. Last year’s national runner-up, Vikram Raju, didn’t make it back in his final year of eligibility.
The tweaks help ensure the bee, which began Tuesday with the preliminary rounds and concludes Thursday, finishes on schedule with a sole champion. That’s an important consideration after the eight-way tie of 2019. But some in the spelling community say they make the competition more dependent on luck and less about rewarding spellers for their years spent mastering roots and language patterns and exploring the farthest reaches of Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary.
During their initial appearances onstage Tuesday at a convention center outside Washington, spellers were asked to spell one word and define another, both from a list provided in advance. Of the 229 spellers, 57 were ousted for misspelling (24.9%), while 33 of the 172 who spelled their first word correctly (19.2%) got vocabulary answers wrong.
“Scripps has done a good job of evolving and not staying fixed in place, even if some of the particular choices they make, I would not myself have made if I were in their shoes,” said Scott Remer, a former speller, study guide author and coach who is tutoring 29 competitors in this year’s bee.
Navneeth, a high school junior from Edison, New Jersey, had his last, best chance to win a national title wiped out by the pandemic in 2020, and he has since poured his energy into coaching. Along with another ex-speller-turned-guru, Grace Walters, he mentored last year’s champion, Harini Logan.
The way Navneeth sees it, the SAT-style vocabulary questions are here to stay, and there’s no excuse for spellers not to be prepared.
“Last year, I did miss on a vocabulary word, and it felt like it was the type of vocabulary word I should have known,” said 13-year-old Shradha Rachamreddy of San Jose, California, one of Navneeth’s pupils. “They’re not obscure. It’s a mix of general knowledge and specific speller knowledge.”
During Navneeth’s time as a speller, vocabulary was only part of a written test that also included spelling. It was important — the test score determined who made the semifinals — but the stakes weren’t as high. Spellers could get a few definitions wrong and still make it through.
Now, vocabulary rounds are sprinkled through the onstage competition, and if a speller gets one multiple-choice question wrong, they’re out. Yet Navneeth still observes spellers treating vocabulary as an afterthought in their preparation. His students have been working on it for a full year, and he also wrote a book, “Defining Success,” intended to help spellers prepare for the vocabulary portion.
“Since the stakes are much higher, it’s not something you can wing,” Navneeth said. “It’s something that you need to prepare for and practice and get used to. Because I’ve placed an emphasis on it from the beginning of the next season, I feel that it’s something my students are primed for.”
SURPRISING ABSENCE
Vikram, last year’s runner-up, took eventual champion Harini all the way to a “spell-off” — Scripps’ term for its lightning-round tiebreaker. He looked forward to returning this year as an eighth-grader, the last school year in which spellers are eligible.
Instead, Vikram was bounced in his regional bee in Denver, which lasted 53 rounds over a span of more than five hours. Vikram and his parents argued that he misspelled because the bee’s pronouncer made one of several mistakes, but their appeal was unsuccessful.
“The bee went so deep off-list, there were several words that Vikram had to actually anticipate what the word might be based on the language or the definition,” said his mother, Sandhya Ayyar. “After these several rounds, he reached a point where, ‘I don’t know what’s the word or what I’m supposed to spell here.’”
In 2018 or 2019, Vikram still could have gone to nationals, because Scripps had a wild-card program meant to ensure that spellers from highly competitive regions had a chance to compete on the biggest stage. However, the program was open to spellers of widely varying abilities as long as their families were able to pay their way, and the 2019 bee swelled to more than 500 competitors, some of whom clearly didn’t belong.
Scripps had planned to curtail the wild cards in 2020, making them available only to eighth-graders like Vikram who had previously competed at nationals. But that bee was canceled because of the pandemic, and in 2021, Scripps got rid of the wild cards altogether. Ayyar’s request to Scripps to bring them back this year was rebuffed.
Corrie Loeffler, the bee’s executive director, wouldn’t rule out creating a new qualifying system in the future, but she declined to change this year’s competition rules retroactively.
“We heard from a handful of people, and it’s a tough thing,” Loeffler said. “You’re talking about kids who have worked really hard and want the opportunity to show off what they’ve worked for, and that’s something we don’t take lightly, but we also take the rules of our competition very seriously.
“I feel for Vikram very strongly, especially as a former speller. I told his parents that; I told him that. He has so much to be proud of. That spell-off from last year, nobody is going to forget that.”
UNAVOIDABLE ABSENCE
The bee began with television host Paul Loeffler — Corrie’s brother — sending well wishes to 12-year-old Lance Sanchez of Guam, who was unable to travel to Washington to compete because the U.S. territory’s airport was closed by Typhoon Mawar. Lance is a sixth-grader and has two years of eligibility remaining.
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Key Takeaways
- Fifty-two percent of CFOs view the current North American economy as good, a decrease from 64% in Q1. CFOs lowered their assessments of other regional economies as well.
- Just 18% of CFOs expect the North American economy to be better a year from now, a drop from 36% last quarter, and their outlook for other regional economies also dimmed.
- Forty-three percent of CFOs consider U.S. markets as overvalued, compared to 72% in 1Q22.
- Thirty-two percent of CFOs view debt financing as attractive, down significantly from 85% last quarter.
- Twenty-seven percent of CFOs indicate that their organizations will reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
- CFOs expect to incur the most significant costs related to their organizations' decarbonization goals in increased operating and capital expenditures, and in transforming their organizations' overall business model and value chain.
Why it matters to CFOs?
Each quarter, CFO Signals™ tracks the thinking and actions of leading CFOs representing North America's largest and most influential companies. Since 2010, the survey has provided key insights into the business environment, company priorities and expectations, finance priorities, and CFOs' personal priorities. Participating CFOs represent diversified, large companies, with the vast majority reporting revenue in excess of $1 billion. Nearly one-quarter are from companies with greater than $10 billion in annual revenue.
Economic outlook
Fifty-two percent of CFOs view the current North American economy as good or very good, a decline from 64% in Q1. Meanwhile, 9% and 12% of CFOs consider current economic conditions in Europe and China as good or very good, down from 31% and 29%, respectively.
Looking a year out 18% of finance leaders indicate that conditions in North America will improve, a drop from 36% last quarter. The downward trend in CFOs' assessments continued for other regional economies. Just 7% of CFOs believe Europe's economy will be better in a year, down from 26% in 1Q22, and 19% expect China's economy to improve, compared to 31% in the prior quarter.
Key operating metrics
The number of CFOs who viewed their own company's prospects as being better compared to the three months before the survey declined to 27% from 38% in Q1. Expectations for earnings growth decreased to 8.4% from 9.2% in Q1. Revenue growth expectations also dipped, to 7.8% from 9.1%. Capital investment growth expectations decreased to 11.2% from 11.3%, while expectations for domestic hiring remained flat at 5.3%.
However, CFOs did raise their growth expectations for dividends and domestic wages. Expectations for dividends rose slightly to 4% from 3.9% in the first quarter of 2022, while domestic wage expectations increased slightly to 5.3% from 5%.
Regarding risk-taking, just over one-third (35%) of CFOs indicate that now is a good time to take greater risks, down from 47% in Q1.
View of capital markets
Amid a tumultuous period for public equities, a smaller proportion (43%) of CFOs consider U.S. equity markets to be overvalued, compared to 72% in Q1. Additionally, just 32% percent of CFOs considered debt financing attractive, a significant drop from last quarter's 85%. Twenty-two percent of CFOs regard equity financing as attractive, compared to 37% in 1Q22.
Persistent concerns over the economy and talent
Externally, CFOs indicated that macroeconomic issues, including inflation and geopolitics, were among their top worries in Q2. The Russia-Ukraine war and its impact on supply chains weigh heavily on CFOs' minds.
Internally, talent remained the top concern for CFOs, followed closely by strategy execution. CFOs are acutely concerned with retention and wage inflation, among other areas related to talent.
CFOs' role in decarbonization efforts
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of CFOs indicated that they are involved or very involved in their organizations' decarbonization efforts as a strategist. Just more than 1 in 4 (27%) CFOs indicate that their organizations would reach net-zero emissions by 2030, with an additional 34% saying their organizations would reach it by 2050.
Costs of decarbonization strategy and funding approaches decarbonize
CFOs expect to incur the most significant costs related to their organizations' decarbonization goals in increased operating and capital expenditures, and in transforming their organizations' overall business. model and value chain. To fund decarbonization efforts, 69% of CFOs said they use internal cashflows from operational savings, while more than one-third (37%) said they reallocate growth capital from carbon-heavy resources, assets, businesses or product lines.
Key quotes
"CFOs are expecting an increasingly gloomy economic environment across the board, which aligns with their declining expectations for performance on a year-over-year basis. Against the backdrop of rising interest rates, the attractiveness of borrowing sharply diminished, and CFOs are less willing to take on greater risks. As we continue assessing the impacts of shifts in policy, inflation, and geopolitical conflicts, the next few months should prove critical for CFOs as they lead their organizations through turbulent times."
"Decarbonization is a business imperative across industries, and the survey shows that CFOs are increasingly involved in both strategic and financial aspects in the effort to reach net-zero. CFOs also indicate they need the ability and tools to capture relevant data to meet enhanced disclosure requirements proposed by regulatory agencies. A robust ESG strategy will be critical to driving reliable performance and resiliency and ultimately bring greater quality, transparency, and trust to stakeholders."
Download the complete findings from the Q2 2022 CFO Signals survey here.
Methodology
Every quarter, Deloitte's CFO Signals closely follows the thinking and priorities of leading CFOs that represent some of North America's largest and most impactful organizations. This report summarizes CFOs' opinions across four key areas: business environment, company expectations and priorities, financial priorities, and personal priorities.
The CFO Signals survey for the second quarter of 2022 was conducted between May 2, 2022, and May 16, 2022. A total of 97 CFOs participated in this quarter's survey. This survey seeks responses from client CFOs across the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the vast majority are from companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Participation is open to all industries except public sector entities.
For more information about Deloitte CFO Signals or to inquire about participating in the survey, please contact NACFOSurvey@deloitte.com.
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
701 PM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Windham, northern Tolland, northeastern Hartford and southern Hampden
Counties through 745 PM EDT...
At 701 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
East Granby, or 7 miles northwest of Windsor, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Strong winds could cause minor damage such as downed
branches. Little to no impact from hail is expected.
Locations impacted include...
Springfield, Enfield, Westfield, Vernon, Windsor, Agawam, West
Springfield, Mansfield, South Windsor, Simsbury, Bloomfield,
Longmeadow, Suffield, East Longmeadow, Ellington, Tolland, Wilbraham,
Windsor Locks, Coventry and Stafford.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Get indoors when you hear thunder. Do not resume outdoor activities
until at least 30 minutes after the storm has passed.
LAT...LON 4185 7289 4208 7288 4212 7215 4181 7217
TIME...MOT...LOC 2301Z 270DEG 36KT 4196 7275
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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What’s the difference between translation tools and language learning systems
Some people may seem to have an aversion to learning other languages. For Americans, this could be because English is by far the most popular second language worldwide. When traveling, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to find someone who also speaks English. Even if you can’t find someone, many translation devices can offer you assistance.
However, there is a big difference between using a translation tool, such as Meta’s No Language Left Behind, and learning another language’s nuances via a language learning system. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. It is important to know the difference so you can choose which is best for you.
What is No Language Left Behind
No Language Left Behind is an open-source project that seeks to tear down language barriers without changing the way an individual expresses themselves. It is an artificial intelligence-powered translating tool that seeks to attain global inclusion in online communities. Currently, No Language Left Behind can deliver high-quality translations between 200 languages.
How does AI work when applied to translate languages?
From a very high-level perspective, AI recognizes patterns in data sets and analyzes how these patterns are used in different contexts to solve a specific problem. Since language is built on a series of patterns that individuals use to communicate, AI can be harnessed to recognize similar patterns in different languages to provide a better translation. In other words, instead of translating “la pelota del chico” to “the ball of the boy,” it translates to “the boy’s ball,” which sounds much more natural.
Why is AI language translation better?
Meta’s belief is that using open-source AI-powered translation tools will provide the context needed to understand complex sentence structure and phrases and interpret tone, slang and humor successfully. The goal is to create an online community of inclusion, where no one is left out because they cannot adequately express themselves in another language.
What is a language learning system?
A language learning system is a systematic way of learning a language. It is a comprehensive approach that includes a broad scope of skills. For instance, there is much more to a language learning system than simply memorizing endless vocabulary lists. You study reading, writing, speaking and listening, so you have an in-depth, practical and balanced understanding of all aspects of the language. In short, using a language learning system ensures you develop a well-rounded set of skills.
AI translation tools vs. language learning systems
While some people speculate that AI translators may eventually take the place of language learning systems, there are many reasons why that isn’t a likely scenario.
AI Translation tools and a language learning system are two different things
AI translating tools are just that: tools. A language learning system, on the other hand, teaches you how to utilize those tools best. It is the difference between going to an art museum and admiring a finished painting versus knowing what to do with a blank canvas, a set of oils and brushes. Each has its purpose, and one will never fully replace the other.
Language is alive and ever-evolving
Language constantly evolves. Even if an AI translator perfected translation between two languages, over time, those languages would change, making the algorithms that were once so effective, not as accurate.
The best way to understand your native language is to learn a foreign language
If you really want to understand the various parts of speech and their function in communicating, study the structure of a foreign language. This shakes things up and forces you to relearn what you picked up over the years through context so you have a deeper understanding of how and why.
Learning a second language has benefits beyond communicating
Even if you never plan on leaving your hometown, there are a few important reasons to learn a second language. Learning a language engages areas of your brain that might be otherwise under-developed. People who know a second language tend to do better in school and lower the risk of degenerative brain diseases. Besides helping you gain a better perspective of other cultures, learning a second language can improve your concentration, memory and listening skills.
Best language learning systems
Rosetta Stone (Lifetime Access)
Rosetta Stone is one of the top language learning systems available. This lifetime subscription gives you access to 24 languages, allowing you to switch freely between them without additional fees.
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Babbel Language Learning Software (Lifetime Access)
This lifetime subscription to Babble lets you choose from 14 languages with courses designed with over 100 linguistic experts. The concise 10 to 15-minute lessons let you move at your own pace whenever convenient.
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The beauty of Pimsleur is all you need to unlock the lessons is a subscription to Audible Premium Plus. These 30-minute lessons can be done in your car, on vacation, in your home with Alexa or anywhere you want because you can stream or download each lesson. When you purchase a lesson, you also get an accompanying PDF.
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With Udemy, you scroll through the list of available courses and click on whatever catches your interest. This takes you to a page that gives you an overview of the course and lets you know if you will receive any certificates so you can decide if it is right for you. This method allows you only to purchase the courses you want to take so that the cost may be significantly lower than other options.
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Pocketalk Classic Language Translator Device
If you aren’t interested in learning another language but want to be able to hold your own during a conversation in a foreign country, this portable translator is for you. The device translates as you speak to help break down language barriers so you can focus on enjoying your travel adventures.
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EdX gives you access to online learning from over 160 member universities, such as Harvard, Berkeley, MIT and more. After signing up, you will receive access to courses in English, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and more. The courses range from improving your grammar to helping you conduct business in foreign countries.
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Rosetta Stone offers online learning courses in 25 languages. For almost 30 years it has helped people gain fluency in a second language. It offers plans for individuals, schools and enterprises.
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What to know about former Wisconsin star Keeanu Benton, drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers
Keeanu Benton is headed to the NFL.
The mammoth nose tackle from the University of Wisconsin was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers on Friday in the second round of the NFL draft, the No. 49 overall pick.
He was the second former UW player selected in the 2023 draft, going six picks after the New York Jets took center Joe Tippmann.
Who is Keeanu Benton?
Benton, 6-foot-4 and 309 pounds, graduated from Janesville Craig High School and signed with UW in 2019. He chose UW over Iowa.
Benton has been timed at 5.08 seconds in the 40-yard dash and has a vertical of 29½ inches.
What was Benton known for at Wisconsin?
Benton started 36 games and played in 45 at Wisconsin.
He enjoyed his best overall season in 2022 despite battling a knee injury suffered at Northwestern. Benton finished second on the team in sacks (4½) and tackles for loss (10) and led the linemen in tackles (35).
Known more for his ability to clog running lanes, Benton showed effective pass-rushing skills in his final college season and he then excelled during Senor Bowl practices.
Benton excelled at football and wrestling at Craig
Benton was a standout defensive lineman for Craig and also excelled at wrestling. He was the WIAA Division 1 runner-up as a junior and finished that season with a 48-2 mark.
Benton is the latest former UW player to join Pittsburgh
Benton should have plenty of friendly faces waiting for him in Pittsburgh.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A 12-year-old and 6-year-old stole a woman's cellphone and pointed a gun in her face, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
The crime happened Sunday morning in an apartment complex in southwest Charlotte, according to ABC affiliate WSOC.
The two children, who are brothers, reportedly asked a woman to use her phone to call their mom. When she gave them the phone, they took off running.
The woman chased after them to get her phone back. That's when the 12-year-old pointed a gun at the woman's face and tried to pistol whip her, investigators said.
When police got involved, the 6-year-old led them to the gun in question. It turned out to be a BB gun.
Capt. Jason Helton said this case could have turned out to be much worse.
"Let me paint a picture for you: What would've happened if that female would've been armed? We could be dealing with something really, really tragic here," he said.
The 12-year-old has been arrested and charged with armed robbery. The 6-year-old has not been charged.
"You have to look at that 6-year-old as a victim," Helton said. "He's a victim of his circumstances and environment, right?"
Helton said crime with suspects this age is unfortunate, but sadly not uncommon.
"Officers are dealing with juveniles every single day. Property crimes, violent crimes. And when I say juveniles, I mean kids -- I mean ages 11, 12, 13, 14 years old -- and it seems like they just keep getting younger and younger," he said. | https://abc11.com/charlotte-robbery-young-boys-brothers-rob-woman-crime/13286289/ | 2023-05-23 02:19:46 | 0 | https://abc11.com/charlotte-robbery-young-boys-brothers-rob-woman-crime/13286289/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ginnie Newhart, who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart” series, has died. She was 82.
Publicist Jerry Digney said Newhart died Sunday in Los Angeles after a long illness. No further details were available. The couple recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
Ginnie Newhart is credited with providing the idea for the 1990 “Newhart” finale that included a clever callback to her husband’s “The Bob Newhart Show.” The later show, which featured Newhart as a Vermont innkeeper, ended with him waking up in Chicago next to his on-screen wife from “The Bob Newhart Show,” revealing the second series to be dream.
Ginnie Newhart suggested the idea to her husband at a Christmas party that was also attended by Suzanne Pleshette, his on-screen wife in “The Bob Newhart Show.” That series ran for six seasons from 1972 to 1978 and helped cement Bob Newhart’s status as a legend of television comedies.
She is survived by Bob Newhart, 93, their four children, and 10 grandchildren.
The Newharts met on a blind date set up by actor-comedian Buddy Hackett, according to details provided by Digney.
The Newharts were close friends with comedian Don Rickles and his wife Barbara, frequently traveling together. In interviews, the Newharts said laughter was the secret of the longevity of their marriage.
Born Virginia Lillian Quinn, Ginnie Newhart was the daughter of character actor Bill Quinn, who appeared in “The Birds,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie” and had more than 230 other film and television credits.
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A Syrian American is suing the Syrian government for torture he says he suffered in custody there to raise awareness of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who still suffer in prisons.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – If you missed the supermoon Monday morning, there will be a few more chances to catch another one before the end of 2023.
A supermoon occurs during a full moon while the moon is at close range to Earth, making it seem even larger than other full moons to some.
The most recent supermoon peaked at 7:39 a.m. ET Monday morning. The moon will still appear full Monday night, according to WFLA Meteorologist Amanda Holly.
Holly points out that the next three full moons will also be supermoons. There will also be four consecutive supermoons in 2024.
Two of the remaining three supermoons will be in August, the second of which will be a blue moon — the name given to a second full moon in one calendar month. The third will be in September.
- August 1, peaking at 2:31 p.m. ET
- August 30, peaking at 9:35 p.m. ET
- September 26, peaking at 5:57 a.m. ET.
The August 30th full moon will also be the closest to Earth of the full supermoons in 2023, according to EarthSky.
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Canada vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 26
Published: Jul. 22, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
In the middle round of Group B matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 26 at 8:00 AM ET, Canada will square off against Ireland.
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- Game Day: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Game Time: 8:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Perth, Australia
- Venue: HBF Park
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Canada Group Stage Schedule
Canada's Recent Performance
- Canada's most recent game was a 0-0 draw versus Nigeria, taking 15 shots and outshooting by seven.
- Jordyn Huitema took three shots for goalless Canada in its match against .
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Canada's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Kailen Sheridan #1
- Allysha Chapman #2
- Kadeisha Buchanan #3
- Shelina Zadorsky #4
- Quinn #5
- Deanne Rose #6
- Julia Grosso #7
- Jayde Riviere #8
- Jordyn Huitema #9
- Ashley Lawrence #10
- Evelyne Viens #11
- Christine Sinclair #12
- Sophie Schmidt #13
- Vanessa Gilles #14
- Nichelle Prince #15
- Gabrielle Carle #16
- Jessie Fleming #17
- Sabrina D'Angelo #18
- Adriana Leon #19
- Cloe Lacasse #20
- Simi Awujo #21
- Lysianne Proulx #22
- Olivia Smith #23
Ireland Group Stage Schedule
Ireland's Recent Performance
- In its last action on July 20, Ireland fell to Australia 1-0, and was outshot 13 to seven.
- Abbie Larkin had a team-high two shots in the squad's scoreless performance.
Ireland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Courtney Brosnan #1
- Claire O'Riordan #2
- Chloe Mustaki #3
- Louise Quinn #4
- Niamh Fahey #5
- Megan Connolly #6
- Diane Caldwell #7
- Ruesha Littlejohn #8
- Amber Barrett #9
- Denise O'Sullivan #10
- Katie McCabe #11
- Lily Agg #12
- Aine O'Gorman #13
- Heather Payne #14
- Lucy Quinn #15
- Grace Moloney #16
- Sinead Farrelly #17
- Kyra Carusa #18
- Abbie Larkin #19
- Marissa Sheva #20
- Ciara Grant #21
- Isibeal Atkinson #22
- Megan Walsh #23
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More than a day after the discovery of a stifling trailer in San Antonio, Texas, where 53 migrants died after being abandoned in the sweltering heat, few identities of the victims have been made public, illustrating the challenges authorities face in tracing people who cross borders clandestinely.
Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.
By Tuesday afternoon, medical examiners had potentially identified 34 of the victims, said Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, who represents the district where the truck was abandoned. Those identities were not yet confirmed pending additional steps, such as fingerprints, and she described it as a challenge with no timeline on when the process might be finished.
"It's a tedious, tedious, sad, difficult process," she said.
The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation's deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border. More than a dozen people were taken to hospitals, including four children. Three people have been arrested.
The truck, which was registered in Alamo, Texas, but had fake plates and logos, was carrying 67 migrants, Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico's National Immigration Institute, said Wednesday.
The driver was apprehended after pretending he was one of the migrants, Garduño said. Two other Mexican men also have been detained, he said.
Among the dead were 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, he said. One of the victims had no identification, Garduño said.
The tragedy occurred at a time when huge numbers of migrants have been coming to the U.S., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago.
With little information about the victims, desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones.
Several survivors were in critical condition with injuries such as brain damage and internal bleeding, according to Rubén Minutti, the Mexico consul general in San Antonio.
Guatemala's foreign ministry said late Tuesday that it had confirmed two hospitalized Guatemalans and was working to identify three possible Guatemalans among the dead. Honduras' foreign relations ministry said it was trying to confirm the identities of four victims carrying Honduran papers.
Eva Ferrufino, a Honduras' foreign ministry spokesperson, said her agency was working with the Honduras Consulate in south Texas to match names, fingerprints, and complete identifications.
The process is painstaking because among the pitfalls are fake or stolen documents.
Mexico's foreign affairs secretary identified two people who were hospitalized in San Antonio on Tuesday. But it turned out that one of the identification cards he shared on Twitter had been stolen last year in the southern state of Chiapas.
Haneydi Antonio Guzman, 23, was safe in a mountain community more than 1,300 miles away from San Antonio when she began receiving messages from family and friends. There is no phone signal there, but she has internet access.
Journalists started showing up at her parents' home in Escuintla -- the address on her ID that was stolen and found in the truck — expecting to find her worried relatives.
"That's me on the ID, but I am not the person that was in the trailer and they say is hospitalized," Antonio Guzman said.
"My relatives were contacting me worried, asking where I was," she said. "I told them I was fine, that I was in my house, and I clarified it on my" Facebook page.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard deleted his tweet identifying her without comment. The other victim Ebrard identified turned out to be accurate.
In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, municipal officials in San Miguel Huautla were traveling to the community of 32-year-old José Luis Vásquez Guzmán late Tuesday to find out if his mother wanted to travel to San Antonio to be with him in the hospital.
Manuel Velasco López, San Miguel Huautla's municipal secretary, said that a cousin had been traveling with Vásquez Guzmán and was now considered missing.
Another cousin, Alejandro López, told Mexico's Milenio television that their family worked in farming and construction and that they migrated because "we don't have anything but weaving hats, palms and handicrafts."
"Growing corn, wheat and beans is what we do in this region, and that leads to a lot of our people emigrating and going to the United States," he said.
Miguel Barbosa, the governor of neighboring Puebla state, set off a scramble for information in the town of Izucar de Matamoros on Tuesday when he said two of the dead were from there although that had not been confirmed.
In the heavily migrant town, everyone was asking if their friends or neighbors were among the dead found in Texas.
Attempting to cross into the United States is such a tradition that most youths in the town at least consider it.
"All of the young people start to think about going (to the U.S.) as soon as they turn 18," said migrant activist Carmelo Castañeda, who works with the nonprofit Casa del Migrante. "If there aren't more visas, our people are going to keep dying."
Migrants typically pay $8,000 to $10,000 to be taken across the border and loaded into a tractor-trailer and driven to San Antonio, where they transfer to smaller vehicles for their final destinations across the United States, said Craig Larrabee, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio.
Authorities think the truck discovered Monday had mechanical problems when it was left next to a railroad track in an area of San Antonio surrounded by auto scrapyards that brush up against a busy freeway, said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.
In recent years, San Antonio has been a recurring scene of tragedy and desperation involving migrants in semitrailers.
Ten migrants died in 2017 after being trapped inside a truck parked at a San Antonio Walmart. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of the city.
Other tragedies have occurred before migrants reached the U.S. In December, more than 50 died when a semitrailer rolled over on a highway in southern Mexico.
During a vigil Tuesday at a San Antonio park, many of the more than 50 people who attended expressed sadness and anger at the deaths and what they described as a broken immigration system.
Back in Puebla, farmer Juan Sánchez Carrillo, 45, was sickened when he heard the news of the deaths in Texas.
He narrowly escaped death, when he and his friends ran away from dozing migrant rustlers in the mountains near Otay Mesa near San Diego.
"For the smugglers, we the migrants are not human," Sánchez Carrillo said. "For them we are no more than merchandise."
Additional reporting by The Associated Press.
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Despite 11 denials, John Lennon’s killer to appear in parole hearing
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon, is up for parole.
Officials said he is scheduled for a parole hearing sometime this week, Hawaii News Now reports.
Chapman was convicted more than 40 years ago of killing the famed Beatles member as he entered his luxury New York apartment on Dec. 8, 1980.
He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison and has been denied parole 11 times.
Chapman was an out-of-work security guard from Hawaii with a history of mental illness.
In 2000, Chapman was eligible for parole the first time. It was denied. He was denied parole again every two years thereafter.
Every two years, Chapman has gone before a parole board to plead his case. And every time, they’ve determined he should not be freed.
The latest denial came in August 2020. He was denied release and given a hold for 24 months.
The Board of Parole now has two weeks to make a decision on whether or not to grant Chapman’s release.
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Woman accused of driving more than 4x legal limit, crashes with 5 girls inside minivan, court docs say
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) – A woman in Cincinnati who crashed her minivan with five girls inside is accused of being more than four times over the legal limit to drink and drive, according to court records.
Melissa Frampton, 40, was arrested and charged with five counts of child endangering and one count each of operating a vehicle impaired, OVI breath .170 or over and failure to maintain reasonable control, WXIX reported.
The police citation shows Frampton had a blood alcohol concentration of .369 at the time of her arrest, around 6 p.m. Saturday.
“While operating a vehicle, Mrs. Frampton ran off the roadway causing an auto accident,” Green Township police wrote in her criminal complaints. “At the time of the accident, there were five juveniles inside the vehicle. ... Mrs. Frampton was arrested for OVI due to this incident.”
According to the University of Toledo, someone with a blood alcohol level of .31 and up can experience symptoms comparable to levels of surgical amnesia, and the onset of a coma, the possibility of acute alcohol poisoning and death due to respiratory arrest is likely in 50% of drinkers with that level.
Authorities said no injuries were reported in the crash.
Frampton’s relationship with the children was not immediately clear Monday morning. She shares the same last name as one of the girls.
Court records say Frampton had “control” over them at the time of the alleged crimes.
The citation states this is Frampton’s first OVI offense.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he’s considering a federal holiday on the gasoline tax, possibly saving U.S. consumers as much as 18.4 cents a gallon.
“Yes, I’m considering it,” Biden told reporters after taking a walk along the beach near his vacation home in Delaware. “I hope to have a decision based on the data — I’m looking for by the end of the week.”
The administration is increasingly looking for ways to spare the public from higher prices at the pump, which began to climb last year and surged after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Gas prices nationwide are averaging just under $5 a gallon, according to AAA.
Biden said members of his team were to meet this week with CEOs of the major oil companies to discuss rising oil prices. Biden lashed out at oil companies, saying they are making excessive profits when people are feeling the crunch of skyrocketing costs at the pump and inflation. But Biden said he would not be meeting the oil executives himself.
“I want an explanation for why they aren’t refining more oil,” Biden said.
The Biden administration has already released oil from the U.S. strategic reserve and increased ethanol blending for the summer, in additional to sending a letter last week to oil refiners urging them to increase their refining capacity. Yet those efforts have yet to reduce price pressures meaningfully, such that the administration is now considering a gas tax holiday. Taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel help to pay for highways.
The Penn Wharton Budget Model released estimates Wednesday showing that consumers saved at the pump because of gas tax holidays in Connecticut, Georgia and Maryland. The majority of the savings went to consumers, instead of service stations and others in the energy sector.
In an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressed an openness to a federal gas tax holiday to give motorists some relief.
Strolling on the beach with his daughter Ashley, granddaughter Naomi, and his granddaughter’s fiancé, Biden stopped frequently to chat with beachgoers who were spending the Juneteenth federal holiday at the beach.
He took a moment to offer assurances about inflation — the consumer-price index increased to a nearly 40-year high of 8.6% in May from the same month a year ago — and growing warnings from economists that a recession may be around the corner.
“We’re going to get though this, guys,” Biden told one group of beachgoers.
Last week, the Federal Reserve stepped up its drive to tame inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point — its largest increase in nearly three decades — and signaled more large rate increases to come.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that in his estimation, “the dominant probability would be that by the end of next year we would be seeing a recession in the American economy.”
Biden said he spoke with Summers, who served as treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, on Monday morning.
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DETROIT — The number of people killed on U.S. roadways fell slightly from April through June, the first decline in two years as roads became more congested as the pandemic eased. But the government says the number of deaths remains at a crisis level.
Estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that 20,175 people died in crashes from January through June, a 0.5% increase the same period last year.
Yet the second-quarter decline ended a string of seven straight quarterly increases that began in the summer of 2020. The agency estimated that 10,590 people died on roadways from April to June, nearly 5% fewer than the same period a year ago.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said while deaths may be declining, they are still at levels that require urgent action. “These deaths are preventable, not inevitable, and we should act accordingly,” he said in a prepared statement.
NHTSA Acting Administrator Ann Carlson told a group of state safety officials Monday that she hopes the recent decline is the beginning of a downward trend, but that the number of deaths remains unacceptable. “That is not the new normal we want,” she told the Governors Highway Safety Association.
Fatalities began to rise two years ago when roads were largely empty due to stay-at-home orders in many states. With less traffic speeds increased, as did reckless and impaired driving. Many people weren’t wearing seat belts, governments said.
Carlson said that because the estimates for this year are early, the agency doesn’t have specifics about why fatalities dropped. Agency estimates are typically close to actual numbers, which won’t be released until later in the year.
There also was a small second-quarter drop in the traffic death rate per 100 million miles driven, from 1.34 in the second quarter of 2021, to 1.27 this year, Carlson said.
Auto safety advocates welcomed the dip but said there is more the Biden administration can do to reduce traffic fatalities.
For many months now, crashes have declined even as deaths have surged, suggesting a pandemic-era reckless driving that could now finally be easing, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety.
“What it may be is that we’re seeing an easing of some of the issues that were caused by the pandemic -- some of the speeding, open roads, risky driving issues,” Brooks said. “Traffic is returning to normal, the roads aren’t as empty as they were.”
“But the fact is the fatality rate is still very, very high,” he said. “There is a lot that remains to be done.”
He and others described some of the administration’s efforts as helpful but noted that it also has yet to issue proposed rulemaking to mandate automatic emergency braking in all passenger vehicles as required under the recent bipartisan infrastructure law.
“I think it’s premature to be hopeful about the slight dip in fatalities especially considering the tremendous loss that we’ve experienced over the last couple years,” said Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
“We do know good safety systems if implemented will prevent many crashes,” she said.
Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16 years as Americans returned to the roads.
The 10.5% jump over 2020 numbers was the largest percentage increase since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began its fatality data collection system in 1975.
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The Company's Filespaces Solution Enables Flame Artists to Improve Speed and Efficiency of Teams Collaborating on High-End Finishing and VFX
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LucidLink, a global leader in remote collaboration software for creative teams, announced their qualification as a trusted and reliable solution for media-driven workflows with the Autodesk® Flame® Family of products.
LucidLink Filespaces is the latest high-performance cloud file service and storage solution self-qualified for use with the Flame Family of products for feature, episodic, and TV commercial finishing and visual effects.
"Media production projects are executed by teams and freelancers distributed across the globe, so having shared access to source files in real-time creates tremendous upside, from delivering on time and budget to sourcing great talent," says Steve McNeill, Director of Engineering at Autodesk. "With LucidLink Filespaces, creative teams will find a workflow experience that matches the speed and efficiency that Autodesk Flame® brings to their finishing and VFX workflows."
LucidLink Filespaces outperforms traditional cloud file services and storage solutions, as it was purpose-built to handle the most data-intensive media files. Its streaming design eliminates the need to download and sync files and offers real-time access and visibility to source files for everyone on a team—regardless of where they work. Self-qualified by Autodesk, media production teams can have confidence that LucidLink Filespaces will work flawlessly with the Flame Family of products and create fast and efficient post-production workflows.
Autodesk's self-qualification process for Flame helped ensure that LucidLink not only met but exceeded the reference benchmarks defined by Autodesk to enable various real-world scenarios and workflows.
"For years, cloud-based file services simply did not provide both the performance and the collaborative workflow that rich media teams needed. Eliminating these performance bottlenecks that previously deterred productions from relying on cloud-based file services is at the core of what drives us," said Matt Schneider, Director of Product Management, Media & Entertainment for LucidLink. "Being awarded this self-qualification from Autodesk is a testament to the quality of our solution and the user experience that customers now expect from LucidLink. Pairing such a powerful tool as Flame with one of the industry's most exciting storage technologies in LucidLink will bring enormous value and performance to creative professionals throughout our industry."
In addition to the technical and performance benefits that come from the pairing of Flame and LucidLink, creative teams can now source talent anywhere in the world without overhead costs and time delays. For example, a production company in London can contract with an award-winning Flame artist in Chicago for a last-minute project without adding time or costs for transferring source files. With LucidLink, once a Flame artist renders changes to their project files, the production company can see the changes in real time. No more waiting for downloads or for FedEx to deliver the files.
The company offers personalized demos and a fully-functioning 14-day free trial for any creative professional to experience how easy it is to work on projects together from anywhere without changing workflow.
LucidLink offers an innovative cloud-native file service designed specifically for extensive data access over distance. LucidLink Filespaces provides best-in-class security and high-performance scalability to run file-based workloads on object storage for maximum efficiency and productivity. The service is compatible with Microsoft Azure Blob and any Amazon S3-compatible object storage provider that utilizes cloud, on-prem, or hybrid storage. It supports all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and macOS. Investors include Baseline Ventures, Headline, Adobe, Bright Cap Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, S28 Capital, and Fathom Capital. LucidLink is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an office in Sofia, Bulgaria, with remote employees across North America, Europe, and Australia.
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ELKS RAPIDS — With three games remaining for the Elk Rapids boys basketball team, Elks coach Kevin Ball said the team is feeling confident on a potential playoff run.
Everything is coming together for the Elks, according to Ball, after defeating Division 4 No. 9 Lake Leelanau St. Mary 69-59 with three players finish in double figures.
"They are a tough team, and we fell into their trap as far as speeding the game up," Eagles coach Matt Barnowski said. "We've played a lot of teams this year, but we haven't seen a team as fast and deep as them."
Ball said it wasn't easy shutting down the Eagles' studs — Dylan Barnowski and Shawn Bramer — but made they made it work.
"This was a pretty good boost confidence-wise and going into the last week before the district draw," Ball said. "St. Mary is a good team with a lot of players back from last season's state finals run. Our guys played well, and I'm proud of their efforts."
Caleb Kerfoot had a team-high 24 points for Elk Rapids while collecting two boards and two steals. Senior Ryan McGuire tallied 17 points, six rebounds and a steal. Spencer Ball finished with 13 points and six assists.
"I'd put it up there as one of the top wins of the year," Kevin Ball said. "We still made some decisions down the stretch we need to learn from; but, all in all, I thought we played well."
Despite the loss, the Eagles' duo had a night.
Barnowski collected a team-high 24 points, and Bramer finished with a double-double, 22 and 13 boards.
"It's hard to stop Dylan and Shawn, so they got theirs; but we didn't let anybody else hurt us or else beat us," Ball said. "It was one of our most complete games of the year."
Elk Rapids (13-6, 7-5 Lake Michigan) closes their final home game on Tuesday against Grayling. The Eagles (15-3) host Onekama in their last home game of the season.
BOYS HOOPS
McBain 70
Pine River 41
McBain: Evan Haverkamp 22 points; Ben Rodenbaugh 12 points; Kalvin McGillis 7 points; Ramblers clinch Highland Conference title.
UP NEXT: The Ramblers (16-4, 14-1 Highland) host Lake City on Thursday.
Charlevoix 47
Kalkaska 39
Charlevoix: Joe Gaffney 16 points; Troy Nickel 7 points; Peyton Scott 7 points; Max Dixon 7 rebounds.
Kalkaska: Landen Hart 13 points; Thorston Booy 8 points.
UP NEXT: The Rayders (3-16, 2-11 Lake Michigan) welcome Elk Rapids on Friday. The Blazers (5-13, 2-11 Lake Michigan) travel to Cedarville on Wednesday.
Bellaire 78
East Jordan 58
Bellaire: Jayden Hanson 33 points, 7 rebounds, 5 blocks, 3 steals; Drake Koepke 17 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists; Dawson Derrer 13 points, 12 rebounds.
East Jordan: Lucas Stone 18 points; Devon Olstrom 14 points, 7 rebounds; Brendan Aenis 12 points 5 rebounds.
UP NEXT: The Eagles (10-8, 6-7 Ski Valley) host Johannesburg-Lewiston on Wednesday. The Red Devils (4-14, 2-10 Lake Michigan) travel to Harbor Springs Tuesday.
Gaylord 52
Hillman 42
No stats reported.
UP NEXT: The Blue Devils (11-9, 2-7 Big North) hosts Alpena on Friday for their last conference play.
GIRLS HOOPS
TC Central 54
Ludington 22
Traverse City Central: Lucia France 15 points, 11 rebounds, 4 steals, 1 block; Cate Heethuis 12 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal; Jakiah Brumfield 11 points, 4 assists, 5 steals; Halli Warner 7 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist; Ashlen Hill 4 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals; Sophie Simon 4 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist.
UP NEXT: The Trojans (15-5, 8-1 Big North) host Petoskey on Friday for the Big North Conference title.
Sault SM 36
Petoskey 20
Petoskey: Caroline Gray 8 points; Caitlin Matelski 10 rebounds.
UP NEXT: Petoskey (13-8, 8-1 Big North) travels on Friday to Traverse City Central for the Big North Conference title game.
Bellaire 17
East Jordan 13
Bellaire: Jacey Somers 11 points 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 steals, 2 blocks; Alayna Elandt 3 points, 3 rebounds, 3 steals.
UP NEXT: The Eagles (12-8, 7-8 Ski Valley) travel to Mancelona on Tuesday. The Red Devils (8-13, 4-10 Lake Michigan) hosts Central Lake on Thursday.
Glen Lake 64
Lake Leelanau SM 19
Glen Lake: Ruby Hogan 23 points, 4 rebounds, 10 assists, 6 steals; Maddie Bradford 19 points, 8 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 assist; Olivia Mikowski 8 points, 8 rebounds.
UP NEXT: The Lakers (18-2, 13-0 Northwest) host Harbor Springs on Wednesday. The Eagles (12-8) close out the season at Suttons Bay on Wednesday.
Burt Lake NMC 58
Ellsworth 27
Ellsworth: No stats reported.
UP NEXT: The Lancers (5-12, 5-7 Northern Lakes) travel to Gaylord next Wednesday for districts quarterfinals against Bellaire.
BOWLING
LANSING — Traverse City Central and Traverse City West participated in the Bobcat Regional Tune-Up at Royal Scot Lanes in Lansing on Monday before heading back to Lansing for regionals on Friday.
TC Central finished in fourth place for the boys division with a series score of 3,230. Senior Brian Wilkinson came away with third place in the All-Tournament Team with a 455 two-regular game score.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RNP) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on August 31, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2017, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
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The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2022 (January 1, 2022 through July 31, 2022) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2022. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending July 31, 2022 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2022. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
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Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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— Integrated Solutions Characterize, Test, and Optimize One or More Communication Antennas in Vehicles, Mobile Devices, and Similar Products —
ALLEN, Texas , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anritsu Company and AeroGT Labs have partnered to provide best-in-class 5G Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) Over-the-Air (OTA) test platforms to characterize, test, and optimize antennas. The platforms perform single- or multiple-use antenna performance and reliability tests on products, such as vehicles, mobile devices, and similar designs, in a simulated environment before commercialization.
Vehicle antenna performance is vital in advanced autonomous driving vehicles and critical automotive safety features, such as eCall. In modern vehicles, there is a minimum of 15 onboard antennas that link communications, entertainment, self-driving, and safety subsystems. They must be tested singularly and simultaneously to ensure proper operation and their ability to coexist.
"The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency range is characterized by high-performance and robust reliability and is ideal for 5G MIMO OTA applications," said Steve Wong, Chief Marketing Officer for AeroGT. "While performing OTA MIMO measurements in a mmWave anechoic chamber is necessary to obtain reliable and accurate measurements, a myriad of other instrumentation, such as vector network analyzers, signal generators, and automation software, is required and must be integrated to form a fully functional system.
"Our turnkey solutions use best-in-class products and technologies. The systems integrate solutions from General Test Systems (GTS), a world-leading specialist company in mobile device, antenna, and OTA testing, and Anritsu, a global provider of innovative communications test and measurement solutions."
"Anritsu's Radio Communication Analyzer MT8821C and Radio Communication Test Station MT8000A are field-proven and critically important solutions for MIMO OTA test," said Adnan Khan, Director of Technology and Market Development for Anritsu. "The high dynamic range RF performance of the MT8000A and MT8821C enables successful 3GPP-specified Radiated Two-Stage (RTS) testing in a MIMO environment."
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The China Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (CICV) Research Institute in Beijing standardized on an OTA MIMO measurement system utilizing an automotive communication performance measurement system developed by GTS, the Anritsu MT8000A and MT8821C instruments, and integrated by TOYO Corporation. It supports CICV's efforts to codify wireless communication standards for intelligent connected vehicles (ICV).
The system employs GTS' patented RTS method, a technology approved by 3GPP as a test method for mobile terminals and base stations for the measurement of in-vehicle wireless communication performance for connected vehicles. The GTS RTS implementation accelerates the measurement cycle without sacrificing accuracy.
These 5G MIMO OTA solutions can be used at many different product development stages – from research and development to quality assurance and production test. Industry professionals seeking OTA testing capabilities can contact experts at AeroGT or Anritsu for more information or a product demonstration.
About Anritsu
Anritsu is a provider of innovative communications test and measurement solutions. Anritsu engages customers as true partners to help develop wireless, optical, microwave/RF, and digital solutions for R&D, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance applications, as well as multidimensional service assurance solutions for network monitoring and optimization. Anritsu also provides precision microwave/RF components, optical devices, and high-speed electrical devices for communication products and systems. The company develops advanced solutions for emerging and legacy wireline and wireless technologies used in commercial, private, military/aerospace, government, and other markets.
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About AeroGT
Headquartered in northern California and with satellite offices around the world, AeroGT Labs (www.aerogtlabs.com) is a global provider of Over-the-Air (OTA) measurement solutions. Our patented products and solutions are used by leading automotive, consumer electronics, and medical device manufacturers to help them accelerate their product development cycles and ultimately develop higher-quality products. The techniques and technologies used in a number of our automotive test solutions have been adopted by several standards bodies including the 3GPP organization.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Auckland residents hunkered down Monday as they braced for a deluge from Cyclone Gabrielle, two weeks after a record-breaking storm swamped New Zealand’s largest city and killed four people.
Much of Auckland ground to a halt as train services were canceled, libraries and most schools were closed, and authorities asked people to make only essential trips.
Air New Zealand canceled all domestic flights to and from Auckland through Tuesday morning, as well as many international flights. Some international routes would continue operating, the airline said, although they might need to be diverted from Auckland. The carrier also canceled domestic flights to and from the cities of Hamilton, Tauranga and Taupo.
In all, Air New Zealand canceled more than 500 flights. More than 10,000 international customers had been affected, the airline said, with thousands still to be rebooked.
The cyclone, which was moving south, dumped more than 220 millimeters (9 inches) of rain in areas north of Auckland, cutting power to about 58,000 households and forcing many roads to close.
About 46,000 homes remained without power Monday afternoon.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in Northland, Auckland and some other regions, and were asking some residents in low-lying areas to evacuate.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the weather had made the start of the year “incredibly challenging” for people in Auckland and other northern areas.
“Extreme weather event has come on the back of extreme weather event,” Hipkins said. “For families and businesses, I know that that has been just exhausting, and I want to acknowledge how hard many of them are doing it.”
Gabrielle was expected to pass Auckland overnight Monday. Its windspeed was downgraded as gusts abated to about 130 kilometers per hour (80 miles per hour).
Weather forecaster MetService said there was a very high likelihood of “extreme, impactful, and unprecedented weather” over many regions, with heavy rain, strong winds and large waves.
With Hipkins and some other lawmakers unable to immediately travel from Auckland to the capital, Wellington, some events scheduled for this year’s opening session of Parliament were rescheduled, including Hipkins’ statement outlining his priorities for the year, which has been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Two weeks ago, Aucklanders experienced the wettest day ever recorded in the city, as the amount of rain that would typically fall over an entire summer hit in a single day.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jordan Spieth figured he would be the latest to pay the price at the TPC Sawgrass on a day of big numbers. Instead, he got a break he never imagined Friday at The Players Championship.
Not everyone so lucky, least of all Max McGreevy, who needed a birdie on the final hole just to break 90.
Spieth was just trying to avoid missing the cut. He had birdied his opening two holes and was tied for fourth, but he reached his last hole at the par-5 ninth, he was 5-over par for his round and in serious danger of missing the cut.
When his drive was in the air, he was certain of that. The ball was slicing so far to right it was headed for the cart path, and then water that shouldn’t even be in play.
And then it was in the fairway. That ball bounced off the leg of a fan and went away from the water and to short grass.
“Needing to probably birdie to make the cut, I can’t really birdie having to drop it over in the right rough over there and hitting my third,” Spieth said. “It would have been a one-in-a-million make. Instead, I ended up making a 3.”
He ripped a 3-wood from 277 yards to the right collar of the green, and then chipped in for an eagle to limit the damage to a 75 and assure a spot in the middle of the pack going into the weekend.
“I got an extremely lucky break on 9 or I wouldn’t be playing the weekend,” said Spieth, who was at even-par 144. “Trying to get that guy’s information and see literally whatever he wants this weekend. Because everything from here on out is because it hit him.”
Even some of the good rounds featured plenty of trouble.
Viktor Hovland finished his opening round Thursday with four birdies on his last five holes. He started Friday with four birdies on his opening seven holes. He was tied for the lead, 5 under for the day through 11 holes.
He wound up with a ho-hum score — 71 — that was anything but a ho-hum round.
Hovland nearly chipped it from the back of the green into the water at the front on his way to a double bogey on No. 4. He took bogey from a fairway bunker on the next hole. Hovland three-putted for bogey on the eighth.
He still was in reasonable shape, but not as good as he thought he would be, and not as good as he felt he played. Such is the nature of the Players Stadium Course.
“Obviously in a good spot, but pretty disappointed I didn’t finish it off today,” Hovland said. “Because I played some really, really good golf.”
There also was some really bad golf.
McGreevy opened with a 69 on Thursday. He was 20 shots worse on Friday, when he tied the Players Championship record at the TPC Sawgrass. He made double bogey on No. 4, followed with a triple bogey on No. 5, ran into short-game issues for a double bogey on No. 6 and left one in the bunker on the par-3 eighth on his way to another double bogey.
The good news? He chipped to a foot for birdie on the closing hole to break 90. He tied the record for worst score set by Michael Campbell in the first round in 2003.
Lucas Herbert of Australia already had quite the adventure in the opening round when he shot 82. He followed that with an 85 — he also made birdie on his last hole. His round included an 8 on the par-3 17th when he hit one tee shot and another long, and this being an island green, both had the same fate.
He also had a 9 on the fourth hole by hitting three balls into the water — one from the rough, two from the drop area.
For 36 holes, his card contained scores of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Such is the nature of Sawgrass, which keeps everyone on their toes.
Jason Day, who has quietly worked his way back into the top 50 in the world, played alongside Herbert. The other member of the group was Aaron Wise, who on Thursday made a 10 on the 18th hole by hitting three tee shots into the water.
Day felt badly for both of them, but tried to keep his focus. For the most part it worked. And then there was No. 7, where he was in the middle of the fairway 147 yards away, and he made one bad swing.
“Stupid enough, I was walking up 7 and I was talking to Luke, my caddie. I said, ‘It’s really easy to make a quick double here.’ And I ended up doubling the hole. But that’s my point. It doesn’t take much to get yourself out of position. And when you’re out of position, then it’s not like an easy bogey. Most of the time, you’re staring at a double.”
Or worse.
Or in the case of Spieth, an eagle.
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The Evolving Portfolio of AMD EPYC 9004 Series Processor Systems is Optimized with up to 128 of the New "Zen 4c" Cores, and AMD 3D V-Cache Technology Drives Unprecedented Heights of Density and Energy Efficiency
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing that its entire line of H13 AMD based-systems is now available with support for 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors, based on "Zen 4c" architecture, and 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology.
Supermicro servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors for cloud-native computing, with leading thread density and 128 cores per socket, deliver impressive rack density and scalable performance with energy efficiency to deploy cloud native workloads in more consolidated infrastructure. These systems are targeted for cloud operators to meet the ever-growing demands of user sessions and deliver AI-enabled new services. Servers featuring AMD 3D V-Cache technology excel in running technical applications in FEA, CFD, and EDA. The large Level 3 cache enables these types of applications to run faster than ever before. Over 50 world record benchmarks have been set with AMD EPYC processors over the past few years.
"Supermicro continues to push the boundary of our product lines to meet customers' requirements. We design and deliver resource-saving, application-optimized servers with rack scale integration for rapid deployments," said Charles Liang, president, and CEO of Supermicro. "With our growing broad portfolio of systems fully optimized for the latest 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, cloud operators can now achieve extreme density and efficiency for numerous users and cloud-native services even in space-constrained data centers. In addition, our enhanced high performance, multi-socket, multi-node systems address a wide range of technical computing workloads and dramatically reduce time-to-market for manufacturing companies to design, develop, and validate new products leveraging the accelerated performance of memory intensive applications."
To learn more about the entire line of Supermicro AMD-based servers, visit: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/aplus
"4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors offer the highest core density of any x86 processor in the world and will deliver outstanding performance and efficiency for cloud native workloads," said Lynn Comp, corporate vice president, Server Product and Technology Marketing, AMD. "Our latest family of data center processors allow customers to balance workload growth and flexibility with critical infrastructure consolidation mandates, enabling our customers to do more work, with more energy efficiency at a time when cloud native computing is transforming the data center."
Register for the Supermicro June 20 webinar "Achieve EPYC™ Performance and Density with Next-Gen Supermicro H13 Systems."
H13 Hyper-U – The new 1U and 2U Hyper-U servers are designed for the high-performance and density ideal for cloud-native workloads such as virtualization and HCI, with a single 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor for cloud native computing of up to 128 cores. In addition, storage-optimized configurations are available that contain either 12x 3.5" drive bays or 24x 2.5" drive bays. Using a single CPU with the Hyper-U may reduce software licensing costs and cooling challenges compared to dual CPU servers while still providing maximum core density and doubling the memory capacity with support for up to 12 channels of DDR5 in 24 DIMM slots. Learn more about these new Hyper-U servers here.
H13 All-Flash EDSFF – The new All-Flash NVMe storage systems powered by AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors, based on "Zen 4c" architecture, are designed with the latest EDSFF technologies allowing unprecedented capacity and performance in a compact 1U chassis. Taking advantage of 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes, the newest server supports 16 (7.5mm) EDSFF E3.S drives, or 8 E3.S (x4) drives and 4 CXL devices in E3.S 2T form factor allowing memory expansion for use cases such as in-memory database applications.
In addition, the following enhanced families of H13 systems provide seamless upgrade path compatibility with the newest AMD EPYC processors.
H13 GPU-optimized Systems – The open, modular, standards-based servers provide superior performance and serviceability with a hot-swappable, toolless design powered by dual AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors. GPU options include the latest PCIe, OAM, and NVIDIA SXM technology. These GPU systems are ideal for workloads with the most demanding AI training performance, HPC, and Big Data Analytics.
H13 Hyper – 1U and 2U dual-socket H13 Hyper series bring next-generation performance to Supermicro's range of rackmount servers, built to take on the most demanding workloads along with the abundant storage and I/O options that provide a custom fit for a wide range of application needs, as well as providing superb manageability with its 100% toolless design.
H13 CloudDC – The single-socket H13 CloudDC takes advantage of AMD EPYC processor core density and provides ultimate flexibility on I/O and storage with 2 or 4 PCIe 5.0 slots for GPUs and dual AIOM slots (PCIe 5.0; OCP 3.0 compliant) for maximum data throughput. The 1U and 2U H13 CloudDC systems are designed for convenient serviceability with toolless brackets, hot-swap drive trays, and redundant power supplies that ensure rapid deployment and more efficient maintenance in any size data center.
H13 GrandTwin™ – Supermicro's unique 2U 4-Node system is purpose-built for single-processor performance. The H13 GrandTwin with AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors optimizes the balance between computing performance, memory, and energy efficiency to deliver maximum density in the compact 2U form factor with four nodes in one system. In addition, the H13 GrandTwin features front (cold aisle) hot swappable nodes, which can be configured with either front or rear I/O for easier serviceability. As a result, the H13 GrandTwin is ideal for workloads such as CDN, multi-access edge computing, cloud gaming, and high-availability cache clusters.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are transforming into a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, and switch systems, software, and services while delivering advanced high-volume motherboard, power, and chassis products. The products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
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Just about two and a half hours after the Arkansas women claimed an indoor track and field title, the Arkansas men made it a clean sweep for the Razorbacks in Albuquerque.
The Razorbacks secured the men's NCAA indoor championship Saturday night, securing the 21st indoor title in Arkansas track and field history and the 49th overall NCAA championship in program history. It is the school's first men's indoor track and field title since 2013.
Arkansas becomes the first school to sweep both men's and women's indoor titles in the same year since Oregon did so in 2016.
Carey McLeod stood out for the Arkansas men on the first day of competition, winning gold in the long jump. He got the distance he needed on his last jump, which measured 27 feet, 6.75 inches.
In the men's triple jump, freshman Jaydon Hibbert took gold for Arkansas, as his 57-6.5 set a school, collegiate, Jamaican and World U20 record.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (the "Company"), an indirect subsidiary of National Grid USA ("National Grid"), announced that its Board of Directors has declared dividends for the period April 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022 at the following rates for all outstanding series of its preferred stock:
- .85% on the $100 par value, 3.40% Series;
- .90% on the $100 par value, 3.60% Series;
- .975% on the $100 par value, 3.90% Series.
The preferred stock dividends are payable on June 30, 2022, to holders of record on June 16, 2022.
The Company, doing business as National Grid, provides electricity service to approximately 1.6 million customers and natural gas service to approximately 565,000 customers in upstate New York. The Company is based in Syracuse, N.Y.
National Grid is an indirect subsidiary of National Grid plc (LSE: NG; NYSE:NGG). National Grid delivers electricity to approximately 3.3 million customers in New York and New England. It is the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern U.S., serving approximately 3.4 million customers in New York and New England.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Alex Bowman won his third career Daytona 500 pole and will be joined by Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson on the front row for NASCAR’s season opener.
The Hendrick dominance is no surprise.
Bowman, who missed five races late last season because of a concussion, is on the Daytona 500 front row for the the sixth straight time, and the organization has produced a pole winner in eight of the last nine years.
Jimmie Johnson made a triumphant return to NASCAR on Wednesday night and qualified for the Daytona 500, a tremendous start for the the seven-time champion as he heads into his first Cup race since 2020.
The 47-year-old Johnson returned from a two-year dalliance in IndyCar for an ownership stake in Legacy Motor Club — and he quickly added to his own, joining the 40-driver field Wednesday night in his No. 84 Chevrolet.
Yes, a reverse of the No. 48 he ran when he won two Daytona 500s.
“I think I really have a shot to win,” Johnson said before he qualified. “If I survive and get through the first two stages, there’s really a shot that I have to win this race.”
Johnson will be joined Sunday by another 40-something part-timer in former X Games thrill-seeker Travis Pastrana. Pastrana said racing in the Daytona 500 was one of his last motorsports goals and this was his last, best shot to get there. He landed a ride for Daytona in the No. 67 Toyota as a third entry for the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin.
With 36 drivers already locked into the 40-car field based on NASCAR’s charter system, Johnson and Pastrana were among six others competing for the final four starting spots at Daytona International Speedway.
Johnson and Pastrana embraced on pit row after they locked themselves in the race. They can rest easy for a night.
So can Bowman, who has yet to parlay the top spot into a Daytona 500 win, and Larson. Bowman, who received a new contract entering this season, turned a top speed of 181.686 mph and Larson hit 181.057. Both drive Chevrolets for Hendrick.
The final two open spots and the starting order will be settled in Thursday night’s duel qualifying races. Conor Daly, Austin Hill, Chandler Smith and Zane Smith will vie for the two open spots.
Smith was the first car out for qualifying and promptly stalled before he took a second shot at his lap. Smith’s meager speed at least was better than Daly, who suffered oil line problems in his Chevrolet and did not take a qualifying run.
Because NASCAR did not have practice at the superspeedway before Wednesday, teams did not have any time to hit the track and work out kinks in their cars.
It felt like old times for Johnson.
The former Hendrick Motorsports star had seemingly walked away from NASCAR after the 2020 season but he never scored a podium finish over 29 starts in two IndyCar seasons. So it was back to NASCAR, only this time with a say in how to run the operation. He bought into the ownership group of what was Petty GMS Racing and quickly rebranded it to Legacy M.C.
Pastrana was a bigger long shot to make Daytona. He has won championships in supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, rally racing and, most recently, offshore powerboat racing. He made a brief run at NASCAR a decade ago and raced a full Xfinity Series schedule in 2013 for Roush Fenway Racing. He later said the adjustment to stock cars led to far more struggles than he expected.
Pastrana drove the No. 67 Toyota like a seasoned veteran and will join 23XI drivers Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick in the field.
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Specialty Media Business Unit from the Stagwell Marketing Cloud is Incubating New Connected Marketing Mediums and Inventory for Brands
NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today announced a Specialty Media business unit to create net new brand and performance inventory. The unit—part of the Stagwell Marketing Could—will build media formats that offer brands novel ways to reach, engage, and monetize key consumer segments across sports, travel, retail, news and dining.
"Stagwell is bringing new experiences to consumers whether they are at the stadium, in a restaurant or getting on an airplane. Along with these experiences come a wealth of creative marketing opportunities," said Mark Penn, chairman and CEO, Stagwell. "Stagwell is at the forefront of these transformative technical innovations and new forms of richly targeted marketing."
Shared Augmented Reality (AR) Platform for Stadiums: ARound, a first-of-its-kind fan engagement platform, is a new stadium-level augmented reality platform, already in use by the Minnesota Twins MLB team at Target Field and the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium. ARound uses 3D spatial computing to map large-scale venues and localize content to individual users, enabling attendees to see the same real-time 3D effects and participate in the same shared experiences. This is a new, connected marketing medium, enabling brands to reach fans at scale with stadium-wide AR games, contests, effects, and a remote experience amplifying the energy and excitement of gamedays.
QR Code-Powered Advertising Platform for Restaurants and Bars: Stagwell Marketing Cloud is developing an advanced digital out-of-home platform that directly integrates into digital menu and point-of-sale systems to serve contextual ads native to the customer's experience. The platform provides brands with rich customer profiles and a new channel to place relevant, dynamic messages that complement the user's current experience; for example, a promotional offer for a specialty cocktail designed to warm consumers during winter, a recommended wine to pair with the dinner meal, or an aperitif to complement dessert, generating rich first-party data in the process.
Media Marketplace for Travel: Stagwell's Ink, the world's leading travel media company, has launched "The Travel Marketplace," a one-stop shop for brands to get unparalleled access to 5 million passengers a day. The new platform offers access to an unmatched portfolio of channels including airport TV screens, WiFi sponsorship, multi-channel digital and physical platforms, inflight entertainment, branded travel documents, targeted social media, and more. With exposure to international and domestic brands including United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, JetBlue and others, 2,500+ screens across 90 North American airports via Stagwell's ReachTV, and exclusive first-party passenger data to drive smart targeting, brands can now easily engage across diversified performance mediums that reach travelers at every stage of their journey.
Today's commitment is part of a larger focus at Stagwell on transforming media solutions through impactful technology to be announced throughout CES. Further announcements will come from business agency GALE and global omnichannel media shop Assembly.
Stagwell is the challenger holding company built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 13,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
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Portions of the Pacific Surfliner Route may experience service interruption starting on Thursday with an unknown end date
ORANGE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to ongoing contract negotiations involving freight railroad worker unions, sections of the Amtrak® Pacific Surfliner® service may experience a disruption beginning 8:00 PM Pacific Time on Thursday, September 15 until an agreement is reached. The impacted sections of the route will be between Fullerton to Los Angeles and Moorpark to San Luis Obispo as these portions of the track are owned or managed by freight railroads.
"We are hopeful that a resolution will be reached prior to Thursday but as the parties have not yet reached an agreement, we are doing everything we can to notify our customers and provide alternate service options if the rail service is interrupted," said Jason Jewell, interim Managing Director of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency. "We have closely coordinated with Amtrak and Metrolink to maximize service options for our customers including providing bus bridges where possible."
If an agreement is not reached by Thursday, Pacific Surfliner service will be adjusted as follows.
- On Thursday, September 15, 2022:
- On Friday, September 16, 2022, and ongoing until negotiations are concluded:
- For the duration of the potential service disruption, Pacific Surfliner trains will also stop at Laguna Niguel, Tustin and Orange stations and accept all Metrolink ticket types between Oceanside and Fullerton.
Unreserved Coach Ticket holders impacted by the service disruption can use their existing ticket for travel on a different date up to one year later. Business Class Ticket holders can adjust their travel date or request a full refund by calling 800-USA-RAIL or visiting an Amtrak ticket window.
Once a settlement is reached, service will resume as quickly as possible.
As this is an evolving situation, some of the information above may change. Please visit https://www.pacificsurfliner.com/plan-your-trip/alerts/travel-advisories/potential-service-disruption/ for the most current updates.
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Updated September 4, 2022 at 7:30 AM ET
NASHVILLE — Marie met her husband, Shaun Varsos when they both worked at a movie theater in Nashville in 2006 or so. A few years later, that movie theater flooded and was turned into a shooting range where the two would go shoot guns together.
That anecdote took on a tragic irony when Marie's brother, Alex Youn, got a phone call the morning of April 12, 2021.
"Shaun had shot Marie and my mother," he says.
Alex lost his mother, Debbie Sisco, 60, and his younger sister, Marie Varsos, 31, the people to whom he was closest - in an instant.
In the month leading up to their tragic deaths, records left by Marie show that she had exhausted every option available to victims of domestic violence to try and prevent what she saw coming.
But the system was not enough to protect her.
Marie had left a trail of the domestic violence that led to her death at the hands of her husband
Alex remembers being overcome with grief. It was like being trapped in some horribly tragic movie.
"It just hasn't seemed real and it still doesn't seem real," Alex, 37, says. "It's been hard to sort of process it."
He flew from San Francisco where he lives now back home to Nashville. To try and cope, he kept himself busy. He had so much to get done - planning their funerals, and settling their estates.
It was during this process that Alex found something that spurred him to turn that grief into action.
He remembers opening his sister Marie's laptop. It was locked. But then there, by the track pad, was a sticky note. With her computer password on it.
"It was almost like a sign that she wanted me to have access to her computer," Alex says.
And on that computer, Marie had been documenting her husband Shaun Varsos' abuse and her efforts to escape it.
She left notes to herself. She had texts from Shaun. She even made audio recordings of some of their fights, and Shaun's threats.
"It sort of really sort of weirdly turned into a solving a murder mystery," Alex says.
Marie had left a trail.
And her brother decided he was going to follow it, retracing the steps Marie took to get protection from law enforcement, and the courts.
"And through that process, I discovered the irregularities, the loopholes and the failures in the system," Alex says.
Failures that he believes led to the deaths of his sister, and their mother, Debbie Sisco.
Her family called the police to report the abuse but dispatchers said there was no one to help at the moment
Marie's attempts to get help from law enforcement and the courts began on March 7, 2021. Marie and Shaun had a horrible argument.
In recordings found on Marie's computer, she shouts, "Stop! Don't put your hands on me!" Shaun then wrapped his hands around her neck, choking her until she passes out.
When she came to, he was holding a gun to her head. She told police that he threatened to kill her, her family and himself.
Experts say strangulation and threats with a gun are two of the biggest warning signs that a domestic violence case could become lethal. And the police should have responded urgently.
But they didn't.
Marie escaped from Shaun. An hour later, she and her family sat in a pickup truck outside an empty police station, trying to file a police report. Bruises were forming on Marie's neck. Her mom, Debbie, was in the backseat, comforting her.
But when they called the police, they were told by dispatchers that they would have to wait.
"They're working on getting out there to you. There's just nobody in the precinct right now," the dispatcher says. "So what's going to happen is a patrol car is going to have to free up from whatever they're doing and come to. But they do have to take those life threatening emergencies first."
Alex, Marie, and their mom, Debbie, were in disbelief. Didn't her case qualify as life-threatening?
Alex kept calling. For hours. His frustration grew and grew.
"My sister was choked out when she passed out and her husband threatened to shoot her ... my patience is gone"
"I'm trying to be as appreciative and waiting as long as possible," Alex says to dispatchers. "But my sister was choked out when she passed out and her husband threatened to shoot her and threatened to shoot himself. So my patience is gone."
"That timeframe was completely unacceptable for response time to a victim," Metro Nashville Police Capt. Kevin Lovell later told Alex. Since Marie's death, Lovell says domestic violence calls are categorized differently to get victims help quicker.
Eventually, Marie was able to file a police report that night and get a temporary order of protection from the court. Shaun was charged with assault and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
He was summoned by the sheriff's office the very next day to pick up the order. But he walked in and out of the office without being arrested. The sheriff's department says when they ran Shaun's name, they didn't see any warrants ... even though one had been issued the night before.
It wasn't until days later, when Marie notified law enforcement of Shaun's location, that he was actually taken into custody.
"That has definitely been an issue that has come up many times; is the separateness of the work that the sheriff's department does and the work of the Metro police," says Susan Tucker-Smith, with the Office of the District Attorney Nashville-Davidson County.
The sheriff's department says it has added one more step to its process to notify the police in cases like Shaun's.
And then another mistake: Shaun was accidentally released early.
And another: Marie was never notified - even though she signed up for the state's victim notification system. A sheriff's deputy failed to follow through and would later be disciplined for it.
Records show Marie even tried to fix the department's mistake.
"I never got a notification, or a missed call, or anything that that happened so I just want to make sure my contact info was correct," she says in a call to the city's non-emergency line later that week.
And then there were the guns - the court ordered Shaun to give them up.
But Tennessee has no method to enforce that ruling. Part of the problem is that someone who has been ordered to turn in their guns can give them to a licensed firearms dealer, law enforcement or — the most potentially dangerous option — a third party like a friend or a relative.
"We're saying we trust you to give this gun to someone, and not to steal it back or have access to it whenever you want or for that third party to just give it back to them," says Becky Bullard of Nashville's Office of Family Safety, which works with domestic violence victims.
In Shaun's case, he said he was going to give his guns to his dad, but there is no documentation of that ever happening.
On April 12 of last year, Shaun took his guns, zip ties, and battery acid to Marie's mom's house. He waited outside in a rental car.
Marie and Debbie spotted him and tried to run away. But he shot them on their neighbors lawn.
Then he shot and killed himself.
In Nashville, nearly half of suspects in domestic violence homicides were prohibited from having access to a gun.
Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men, ranking 10th in the United States. Experts say guns play a big role in that statistic; in domestic violence situations, the risk of death is five times greater when a gun is present.
"We are not waiting for a homicide to happen," says Bullard of Nashville's Office of Family Safety. "They have happened and they are happening — they continue to happen — with individuals who should never have a weapon."
Domestic violence victims face similar barriers because when abusers are determined it's hard to stop them
These barriers that Marie faced are not unique to Nashville.
It's a challenge for domestic violence victims all over the country, says Ruth Glenn of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
"If they fall through the cracks or their needs aren't being addressed or something really bad happens," Glenn says. "It's mostly because they're a domestic violence victim, and our systems are not set up as properly as they could be to address the unique needs of every domestic violence victim."
To protect victims, Glenn says there needs to be a coordinated response. But they interact with so many separate agencies that don't work together it creates a safety net with too many holes in it.
And as Marie's case illustrates, that's a problem — especially because domestic violence abusers are incredibly determined, Glenn says.
"When they decide that something bad is going to happen, it's almost impossible to stop them," Glenn says. "They will cut off a GPS. They will go put a false record to get a gun. They will sit in the dark for two hours. The list goes on and on."
Pushing through legislation to protect domestic violence victims is challenging
Glenn says pushing through legislation to protect domestic violence victims is not easy. Federally, it took three years of negotiations for Congress to finally reauthorize the violence against women act.
And here in Tennessee, Alex took everything he learned about his sister's case and brought it to the state Capitol last session.
"I wanted to make sure ..."Alex said to a room full of representatives, his voice catching. "I wanted to make sure that no one — no family — had to endure what we had to go through."
In the end, Alex helped write four bills. But because of concerns about expenses, or implementation, only one became a law. It requires more communication between sheriff's offices and the police.
But Alex says it's not enough.
"For them, they view it as one thing that went wrong with their agency," Alex says, "but coupled together there are like eight things that went wrong for this person that is dealing with the government to try and get the help they needed."
Alex says he will return to Tennessee's state capitol as many times as it takes to close the gaps that Marie fell through. For him, the fight for justice has only just begun.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- d'Alba, the premium vegan skincare brand, is growing in the US market. Inspired by Alba, Piedmont in Italy. Alba is a World Heritage site known for their finest white truffles. d'Alba chose white truffles from Alba as d'Alba's signature ingredient. Thanks to white truffles, all d'Alba products have antioxidant effects and improve skin elasticity. d'Alba's exclusive ingredient, 'Trufferol', is a combination of Italian white truffles and tocopherol to incorporate moisture-hydration and elasticity care. What's more, d'Alba products are certified 100% vegan by V-label and rated excellent by Derma-test through strict standards.
Sold over 19 million bottles globally, d'Alba's best-seller, the White Truffle First Spray Serum, is achieving new records in sales. d'Alba naturally achieves these breakthroughs with great quality products that include valuable ingredients and are suitable for all skin types (hypoallergenic tested). However, d'Alba does not rest on its laurels but is holding three marketing plans in February for the next jump.
First, d'Alba is launching a new spray serum. 'd'Alba White Truffle First Aromatic Spray Serum' contains more white truffle extract than the White Truffle First Spray Serum. Also, contains Rosa Damascena Flower Water 77% and 8-oils-blend that provide more hydration and antioxidant care to the skin. The serum will be launched in two sizes, 60ml and 120ml.
Second, d'Alba joined hands with Allure, the American famous women's beauty magazine. The White Truffle First Aromatic Spray Serum is included in Allure's subscription beauty box in February. This will be a great chance for Allure subscribers to try the full-size White Truffle First Aromatic Spray Serum.
Third, d'Alba will release a new gift set for Valentine's Day. Targeting consumers who seek the perfect gift for their loved ones, this gift set consists of White Truffle First Spray Serum and White Truffle Nourishing Hand Serum in Cream to make the perfect portable hydration booster duo that can be used anywhere and anytime. Both products are useful for all skin types. Clinically tested for safe use on sensitive skin. Fit for everyone, this gift set will be an excellent choice for high satisfaction.
Apart from d'Alba's plans in 2023, consumers' demand for d'Alba's other product lines such as White Truffle Double Layer Revitalizing Serum, White Truffle Double Serum & Cream, and Double Serum All In One Multi Balm, are rising too. With time, consumer interest in 'slow aging' is getting higher and the age group that wants 'slow aging' is getting younger. Therefore, d'Alba, with proved anti-aging and moisturizing premium ingredients is obtaining a huge growth rate.
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ZOETERMEER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch national intelligence agency painted a grim picture Monday of a growing number of internal and external threats to the rule of law in the Netherlands compounded by Russia’s war in Ukraine, international cyberattacks and espionage.
In its annual report, the General Intelligence and Security Service called China “the biggest threat to the Netherlands’ economic security.”
The agency’s director-general, Erik Akerboom, said that China is targeting the Netherlands as an innovative country that develops new technology.
“We see that every day they try to steal that from the Netherlands,” he told The Associated Press.
“The Chinese use cyber as a weapon, cyber as a way to commit espionage, but they also send people to us — students, but also scientific persons of all kind to especially steal knowledge from very vulnerable places,” he said.
The Netherlands earlier this year announced plans to impose additional restrictions on the export of machines that make advanced processor chips. The Dutch joined a U.S. push that aims to limit China’s access to materials used to make such chips, amid fears they could be used in weapons, to commit rights abuses or to improve the speed and accuracy of military logistics.
China has criticized the moves as violations of market principles in international trade.
Akerboom highlighted overlapping threats ranging from terrorism, extremism, cyberattacks, espionage, covert influence and sabotage, to organized crime undermining the rule of law.
The war that erupted when Russia invaded Ukraine last year exacerbated the situation. Sanctions on Russian energy imports led to a gas shortage, feeding into soaring inflation. That in turn led to an uptick in conspiracy theories, among other threats.
“As a result, extremist boosters in the Netherlands were once again given the opportunity to spread conspiracy theories about an ‘evil elite’ after the corona crisis. Sometimes countries like Russia use the unrest in the West to secretly stir up contradictions in society,” the report said.
Russia also has long been actively trying to steal secrets from the Netherlands and other European and NATO allies, the agency said. The report highlighted the agency’s involvement last year in the expulsion of 17 Russian diplomats from the Netherlands who were suspected of espionage, and the unmasking of a Russian agent who tried to infiltrate the Hague-based International Criminal Court.
The agency pointed to a massive cyberattack targeting NATO member Albania last year as an example of “the massive threat that now emanates from countries with cyberattack programs, such as China, Russia and Iran.”
Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran last year over a July 15 cyberattack that temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites. Tirana called the disruption an act of “state aggression.”
The service also noted that “hatred, anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories spread in the Netherlands” and said it “prevented concrete threats within the Netherlands from becoming reality.”
The threats came, it said, from “jihadists, right-wing terrorists and people who are extremely hostile to the government.”
The Taliban’s takeover of power in Afghanistan also has ramped up the existing threat of jihadi extremists, the report warned. It said that the Islamic State group now operating in Afghanistan was “steering” networks elsewhere.
Reacting to the recent leak in the United States of highly classified military documents, Akerboom said the disclosures underscored potential weaknesses in intelligence agencies.
“We cannot exclude that something like that might happen” in the Netherlands, he said. “You cannot guarantee that, but we do everything to prevent this because I think in the end this is a real risk that we should face. I think it might hurt indeed the plans, the strategies that you have. That makes us weaker.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/technology/ap-technology/dutch-intel-agency-paints-grim-picture-of-multiple-threats/ | 2023-04-18 05:01:38 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/technology/ap-technology/dutch-intel-agency-paints-grim-picture-of-multiple-threats/ |
What gas stations are doing to save you money at the pump
With gas prices being out of control in New Jersey — up more than 20 cents a gallon from last week and 40 cents a gallon from last month — some owners are taking matters into their own hands. Well, actually they're putting matters into your own hands.
Sal Risalvato is the executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline, C-Store and Automotive Association and they plan on doing a day of awareness this Friday to show how much money we'll save if we simply pump our own gas.
"We have 78 locations that will lower the price on Friday and display these signs and hand out the $100 bills,” he said through text message.
Risalvato called into my New Jersey 101.5 show.
How did you come up with this idea?
"It started with an idea just to put up signs then it evolved in to this.”
How passionate are these station owners about us being able to pump our own gas?
"These guys are committed to passing self-serve and have contributed towards the cost of the campaign."
What would you say to those who still doubt that we'll save money by pumping our own gas?
"It is humanely impossible for competition to not prevail. It always has and it always will."
According to the Press Release from Fuel Your Way NJ, the following stations will be participating:
Bergen County:
Exxon, 142 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Montvale
North Arlington Gulf, 101 Ridge Road, North Arlington
Exxon, 782 Route 17, Paramus
Valero, 639 Route17 N, Paramus
Exxon, 100 Route17 North, Paramus
Sunoco, 456 Route. 17 N, Ramsey
Exxon, 700 Washington Ave, Washington Twp.
Camden County:
Berlin Phillips 66, 201 White Horse Pike, Berlin
Amoco, 2 Marlton Pike West, Cherry Hill
West Berlin Delta, 250 NJ 73, West Berlin
Cape May County:
Cape May Riggins, 1381 Washington Street, Cape May
Cape Harbor Auto Repair, 795 Route 109 Apt 109, Cape May
Essex County:
Livingston Sunoco, 247 S. Livingston Ave, Livingston
264 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair
625 McCarter Hwy, Newark
335 McCarter Hwy, Newark
Exxon, 550 Eagle Rock Ave, Roseland
South Orange Exxon, 68 W South Orange Ave, South Orange
Gloucester County:
Glassboro Delta, 100 Delsea Drive, Glassboro
Hudson County:
Bayonne Tiger Mart, 529 Kennedy Blvd, Bayonne
Willow Sunoco, 1301 Willow Ave, Hoboken
Lukoil, 200 12th St, Jersey City
Shell, 164 14th Street, Jersey City
Gold Coast Petro, Sunoco 588 Manila Ave, Jersey City
Newport Exxon, 245 12th Street, Jersey City
235 12th Street, Jersey City
Sunoco, 465 Grand Street, Jersey City
Exxon, 450 Route 3 West, Secaucus
3842 Park Ave, Weehawken
Newport Valero
Exxon, Holland Tunnel Svc Ctr Inc.
Hunterdon County:
Califon Exxon, 429 County Road 513, Califon
Hampton BP, 238 Route 31 North, Hampton
Lebanon Route 22 Sunoco, 1370 US-22 West, Lebanon
Lebanon Sunoco, 1237 Route 31, Lebanon
Lebanon BP, 1201 Route 31 South, Lebanon
Liberty Mart, 118 Rt 202/31N, Ringoes
Mercer County:
Lukoil, 2558 Pennington Rd, Pennington
1 Pennington Rd, Pennington
Lukoil, 3513 Route 1 South, Princeton
Middlesex County:
Exxon, 270 W Inman Ave, Colonia
East Brunswick Sunoco, 784 Route 18, East Brunswick
Ultra Mart Inc., 3875 Park Ave, Edison
Exxon, 1441 US Route 1 South, Edison
Exxon, GSP North, Colonia
BP, 2401 US 9 North, Old Bridge
Lukoil, 152 Old New Brunswick Rd, Piscataway
Exxon, GSP South, Iselin
Zackria Fuel, LLC, 4501 Stelton Rd, South Plainfield
South River BP, 258 Old Bridge Tpke, South River
Monmouth County:
Aberdeen Exxon, 1164 State Route 34, Aberdeen
BP, 44 South Street, Freehold
Hazlet Shell, 1355 Route 36, Hazlet
Matawan Sunoco, 323 Route 34, Matawan
Middletown BP, 863 Hwy 35, Middletown
Monmouth Road BP, 373 Monmouth Rd, West Long Branch
Morris County:
Denville Sunoco, Route 46 161 W Main Street, Denville
Long Valley Phillips 66, 43 E Mill Road, Long Valley
Peapack Sunoco, 28 US Highway 206, Peapack
Randolph BP, 260 S. Salem Street, Randolph
Whippany Lukoil, 1235 NJ-10, Whippany
Ocean County:
Exxon, 600 Brick Blvd, Brick
Exxon, 181 Drum Point Road, Brick
Exxon, 1444 Highway 88, Lakewood
Kelly's Sea Bay Sunoco, Route 35 North, Lavallette
Shell, 1350 Route 9 South, Toms River
Exxon, 13 Route 37 East, Toms River
Passaic County:
Exxon, 478 Haldon Ave, Haledon
Exxon, 716 Goffle Road, Hawthorne
Exxon, 1431 Route 23 South, Wayne
Somerset County:
Somerset Hills Exxon, 545 Martinsville Rd, Basking Ridge
7-Eleven, Payal Ent 650 Franklin Blvd, Somerset
1101 Easton Ave, Somerset
Union County:
Exxon, 162 Central Ave, Clark
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After years of opposition to any form of marijuana legalization in Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers are now working privately to build support for a medical cannabis program that could win bipartisan backing and be enacted into law later this year, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told The Associated Press on Thursday.
For now, the group of lawmakers — whom Vos declined to name — are working only among Assembly Republicans to build enough support, and he hopes to introduce the plan this fall. Vos has long backed some form of medical marijuana program, but no bill has ever received a vote in either the GOP-controlled Assembly or Senate.
Vos said he remains steadfastly opposed to legalizing recreational marijuana and does not want to create a medical program that would be a precursor to that. Wisconsin remains an outlier nationally, with medical marijuana legal in 38 states and recreational marijuana legal in 21. The push for legalization in Wisconsin has gained momentum, as neighboring Illinois and Michigan allow recreational use while Minnesota and Iowa have legalized medical use.
“We are not Illinois. We are not California. We are not Colorado,” Vos said in an interview. “We are a state that’s at best purple. And purple is not legalization of recreational marijuana.”
Vos’s announcement that Republicans have been working on a deal he hopes can pass the Legislature comes on April 20, or “420 Day,” marijuana’s high holiday. Advocates for pot legalization planned to announce a “Grass Routes Tour” that will make four stops across the state to promote cannabis legalization.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, who is leading the fight for full legalization, cast doubt on Vos’ intentions.
“We’ve seen this story before — but actions speak louder than words,” Agard said in a statement. “Session after session, the Speaker has come forward with empty promises but no tangible steps toward any form of legal cannabis Wisconsin.”
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed full legalization of marijuana in his state budget, an idea that Republicans vowed to reject. Last April 20, a Republican-authored bill creating a medical marijuana program received a public hearing, the first time any such bill made it that far in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
However, the bill died in committee.
Senate Republicans have been less open to pot legalization than those in the Assembly. But in January, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said a bill to create a medical marijuana program could pass this legislative session — as long as regulations are put forward to ensure it’s for those in serious pain.
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Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman dies at age 85
Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85.
Roman died Saturday afternoon at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, his booking agent and friend Alison Chaplin said Sunday. His daughter told the entertainment trade Deadline that he suffered a heart attack that morning.
Roman made his name performing at hotels and resorts in the Catskill Mountains, also referred to as the Borscht Belt for the largely Jewish crowd that vacationed there and the comics such as Mel Brooks and Don Rickles who entertained them. He later performed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Bally's Grand in Atlantic City, and he roasted the likes of Rob Reiner, Chevy Chase, Jerry Stiller and Hugh Hefner. He also conceived of "Catskills on Broadway," where he and his friends Dick Capri, Marilyn Michaels and Mal Z. Lawrence brought their nostalgia-tinged, Catskills-flavored standup to New York. He also appeared in various television shows and films over the years, including "Red Oaks" on Amazon.
"A great loss to the world of comedy," Paul Reiser wrote on Twitter. "He was such a huge supporter & mentor when I was starting out. A GREAT comic, the ultimate pro with the biggest heart. I will miss our phone calls and his big, beauty laugh."
Born Fred Kirschenbaum on May 28, 1937 in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in Jamaica, Queens, Roman got a taste for stand-up comedy early thanks to his family. His uncle and grandfather owned the Crystal Spring Hotel in the Catskills, where Roman started emceeing at age 15.
In "Catskills on Broadway," Roman commented about everything from his childhood in Queens to his "retirement life" in Florida.
"I took a cholesterol test," Roman quipped. "My number came back 911."
The New York Times, in its review of the show in 1991, wrote, "Catskill resorts may be fighting the recession, but Catskill comedy has not lost its flair."
The show, he'd later say, changed his life. It went to Broadway and then toured around the country, and Roman would continue performing for years to come. He was also made Dean of the New York City Friars Club, where he mentored many aspiring comedians and infused the private club with young talent.
One of those young comedians was Jeffrey Ross, who said of Roman in 2003 that, "When I was becoming a member, there weren't many of us who were younger. ... But Freddie would always come over and spend time with me and my friends and be real lovable."
Capri, in the same interview, said Roman was the perfect comedy ambassador.
"He's the social director of the world," Capri said. "And he loves every second of it."
The stint lasted a bit longer than he expected. Roman joked of his tenure that, "Eleven years ago I became president for two years. I'm like the Fidel Castro of comedians. I'm president for life." In 2014, he was succeeded by Larry King.
But, he told Atlantic City Weekly in 2011, the greatest job he ever had was opening for Frank Sinatra, when his regular opening comedian Tom Dreesen wasn't available. Roman learned about the opportunity on a layover in Chicago, left the plane and boarded another for Philadelphia to make the show in Atlantic City with just a few hours to spare.
He left the stage to see Sinatra laughing. The singer even called him back for another bow.
"Frank hugged me, and I saw my wife and daughter and they were crying," Roman said. "It was unbelievable. ... Nothing ever topped working with Sinatra." | https://www.koat.com/article/freddie-roman-dies-borscht-belt-comedian/42077773 | 2022-11-27 22:47:40 | 1 | https://www.koat.com/article/freddie-roman-dies-borscht-belt-comedian/42077773 |
The Washington Capitals have been playing catch-up in the Eastern Conference playoff race since their six-game losing streak in February.
That effort will continue Friday when they host the St. Louis Blues.
The Capitals rallied for 5-4 shootout victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday to improve to 4-2-1 in their last seven games. Washington overcame 3-1 and 4-2 deficits to force the overtime and shootout.
“Every game has to kind of be a playoff mentality for us, and there’s no time like playoffs when you’re down goals and able to fuel comebacks,” Capitals forward T.J. Oshie said. “There was some desperation out there that you typically see in the postseason, some big goals out of our big guys, some incredible setup shifts before those goals.”
The Capitals, Sabres, Florida Panthers and Ottawa Senators are chasing the New York Islanders for the last wild card slot on their side of the NHL.
So Washington star Alexander Ovechkin felt the urgency to return from his lower-body injury after missing his team’s 5-3 loss to the New York Rangers on Tuesday.
“This time of the year, you don’t want to miss any games. … You just can’t,” Ovechkin said after the Sabres victory. “Obviously, (Tuesday) night we have a chance to come back but we didn’t, and back-to-back play against a young, fast team was a challenge, and it was a good two points.”
While the Capitals are persisting with their postseason push, the Blues are moving forward with their retooling. They surrendered this season by making multiple trades ahead of the NHL trade deadline to gain long-term assets.
The Blues are 3-8-2 in their last 13 games. They are coming off of an 8-5 loss to the Minnesota Wild, featuring a second-period defensive collapse after they broke out to a 3-1 first-period lead.
Minnesota blitzed the Blues for five goals in the second 20 minutes.
“What bothers me is just our lack of puck play in the second period,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “And our lack of protecting our net better. They scored a few goals around our net tonight.
“That’s all we talked about before the game — that we gotta be better there — and we weren’t good enough.”
Pavel Buchnevich has been a bright spot for the Blues while seeing significant ice time at center for the first time in his career. During his 10-game point streak he has seven goals and 11 assists.
The Capitals missed forward Sonny Milano in the past two games due to a non-COVID illness. Aliaksei Protas filled in as coach Peter Laviolette shuffled his forward lines.
Washington also lost defenseman Nick Jensen to an undisclosed injury during their victory over Buffalo.
The Blues won the previous game between the teams 5-4 on Nov. 17 in St Louis. Ovechkin had a goal, two assists and nine shots on goal during that game while Thomas Greiss made 47 saves for the Blues to earn the victory.
Greiss figures to get another crack at the Capitals with Jordan Binnington getting a two-game suspension for his match penalty for striking Wild forward Ryan Hartman in the head with his blocker in Wednesday’s game.
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CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Mohawk Industries Inc. (MHK) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $80.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Calhoun, Georgia-based company said it had profit of $1.26. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.75 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.28 per share.
The flooring maker posted revenue of $2.81 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.72 billion.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.
SpaceX launched the ticket-holding crew, led by a retired NASA astronaut now working for the company that arranged the trip from Kennedy Space Center. Also on board: a U.S. businessman who now owns a sports car racing team.
The four should reach the space station in their capsule Monday morning; they’ll spend just over a week there before returning home with a splashdown off the Florida coast.
Sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first woman from the kingdom to go to space. She was joined by Ali al-Qarni, a fighter pilot with the Royal Saudi Air Force.
They’re the first from their country to ride a rocket since a Saudi prince launched aboard shuttle Discovery in 1985. In a quirk of timing, they’ll be greeted at the station by an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
“Hello from outer space! It feels amazing to be viewing Earth from this capsule,” Barnawi said after settling into orbit.
Added al-Qarni: “As I look outside into space, I can’t help but think this is just the beginning of a great journey for all of us.”
Rounding out the visiting crew: Knoxville, Tennessee’s John Shoffner, former driver and owner of a sports car racing team that competes in Europe, and chaperone Peggy Whitson, the station’s first female commander who holds the U.S. record for most accumulated time in space: 665 days and counting.
“It was a phenomenal ride,” Whitson said after reaching orbit. Her crewmates clapped their hands in joy.
It’s the second private flight to the space station organized by Houston-based Axiom Space. The first was last year by three businessmen, with another retired NASA astronaut. The company plans to start adding its own rooms to the station in another few years, eventually removing them to form a stand-alone outpost available for hire.
Axiom won’t say how much Shoffner and Saudi Arabia are paying for the planned 10-day mission. The company had previously cited a ticket price of $55 million each.
NASA’s latest price list shows per-person, per-day charges of $2,000 for food and up to $1,500 for sleeping bags and other gear. Need to get your stuff to the space station in advance? Figure roughly $10,000 per pound ($20,000 per kilogram), the same fee for trashing it afterward. Need your items back intact? Double the price.
At least the email and video links are free.
The guests will have access to most of the station as they conduct experiments, photograph Earth and chat with schoolchildren back home, demonstrating how kites fly in space when attached to a fan.
After decades of shunning space tourism, NASA now embraces it with two private missions planned a year. The Russian Space Agency has been doing it, off and on, for decades.
“Our job is to expand what we do in low-Earth orbit across the globe,” said NASA’s space station program manager Joel Montalbano.
SpaceX’s first-stage booster landed back at Cape Canaveral eight minutes after liftoff — a special treat for the launch day crowd, which included about 60 Saudis. “It was a very, very exciting day,” said Axiom’s Matt Ondler. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/spacex-sends-saudi-astronauts-to-international-space-station-on-chartered-flight/ | 2023-05-22 12:56:05 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/spacex-sends-saudi-astronauts-to-international-space-station-on-chartered-flight/ |
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Trump arrives at Miami court for historic appearance over charges he hoarded secret documents
MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Miami to formally surrender to authorities ahead of his court appearance on charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
He was expected to face a magistrate judge, kickstarting a legal process that will unfold at the height of the 2024 presidential campaign and carry profound consequences not only for his political future but more urgently for his own personal liberty.
Four black SUVs entered the garage beneath the Miami courthouse, followed by police officers, ahead of his scheduled 3 p.m. appearance. A fifth black SUV remained outside. Security remained tight outside the building but there were no signs of significant disruptions.
Trump approached his arraignment with characteristic bravado, insisting as he has through years of legal woes that he has done nothing wrong and was being persecuted for political purposes. But the gravity of the moment was unmistakable as he answers to 37 felony counts that accuse him of willfully retaining classified records that prosecutors say could have jeopardized national security if exposed, then trying to hide them from investigators who demanded them back.
The case is laden with political implications for the 76-year-old Trump, who currently holds the dominant spot in the early days of the 2024 Republican presidential primary. But it also poses profound legal impact given the prospect of a years-long prison sentence. Even for a defendant whose post-presidential life has been dominated by investigations, the documents probe has stood out for both the apparent volume of evidence amassed by prosecutors and the severity of the allegations.
It’s also a watershed moment for a Justice Department that until last week had never before brought charges against a former president. Attorney General Merrick Garland, an appointee of President Joe Biden, sought to insulate the department from political attacks by handing ownership of the case last year to a special counsel, Jack Smith, who on Friday declared, “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.”
The arraignment, though largely procedural in nature, is the latest in an unprecedented public reckoning this year for Trump, who faces charges in New York arising from hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign as well as ongoing investigations in Washington and Atlanta into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 race. He’s sought to project confidence in the face of unmistakable legal peril, attacking Smith as “a Trump hater,” pledging to stay in the race and scheduling a speech and fundraiser for Tuesday night at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
“They’re using this because they can’t win the election fairly and squarely,” Trump said Monday in an interview with Americano Media.
The court appearance is also unfolding against the backdrop of potential protests. Some high-profile backers have used barbed rhetoric to voice support. Trump himself has encouraged supporters to join a planned protest Tuesday at the Miami courthouse, where he is expected to surrender to authorities.
Trump is not expected to be subjected to a mugshot, according to a person familiar with the situation. Generally, Justice Department agencies, like the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service, take a booking photo as part of the arrest process and the photo is uploaded into a shared law enforcement database.
Some Trump supporters were also planning to load buses to head to Miami from other parts of Florida, raising concerns for law enforcement officials who are preparing for possible unrest around the courthouse. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the city would be ready, and police chief Manuel A. Morales said downtown could see anywhere from a few thousand up to 50,000 protesters.
Among those who arrived early Tuesday were the father-son duo of Florencio and Kevin Rodriguez, who came to the U.S. fifteen years ago as asylum seekers fleeing dictatorship in Cuba.
Wearing a shirt that reads “Jesus is my savior, Trump my president,” the younger Rodriguez, Kevin, said it was possible Trump was guilty of illegally retaining classified documents. But he questioned the fairness of the proceedings in light of other classified information probes concerning Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden.
Clinton was not charged for sending classified information on a private email server after FBI investigators concluded that she had not intended to break the law. The Biden investigation remains open, but no evidence has emerged to suggest he acted willfully — a core claim in the Trump indictment.
“We never abandon our amigos — those who love this country and our liberty,” Rodriguez added, highlighting Trump’s staunch opposition to Cuba’s communist government.
The crowd also included far-right internet personality Anthime Gionet, who served a two-month prison sentence for streaming live video while he stormed the U.S. Capitol. Gionet, better known as “Baked Alaska,” was livestreaming video of his interactions with other people as they waited for Trump to arrive.
Unlike in the New York case, where photographers produced images of a somber-faced Trump at the courtroom defense table, the public’s view will limited. Cameras are generally not permitted in federal courts, and a judge Monday night barred reporters from having phones inside the building.
A federal grand jury in Washington had heard testimony for months in the documents case, but the Justice Department filed it in Florida, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is located and where many of the alleged acts of obstruction occurred. Though Trump is set to appear Tuesday before a federal magistrate, the case has been assigned to a District Court judge he appointed, Aileen Cannon, who ruled in his favor last year in a dispute over whether an outside special master could be appointed to review the seized classified documents. A federal appeals panel ultimately overturned her ruling.
It’s unclear what defenses Trump is likely to cite as the case moves forward. Two of his lead lawyers announced their resignation on the morning after his indictment, and the notes and recollections of another attorney, M. Evan Corcoran, are cited repeatedly throughout the 49-page charging document, suggesting prosecutors envision him as a potential key witness.
Trump has said he’s looking to add to his legal team though no announcements were made Monday. He was expected to be represented at his arraignment by Todd Blanche, an attorney also defending him in the New York case, and Florida lawyer Chris Kise, who joined Trump’s stable of attorneys last year. Under the rules of the district, defendants are required to have a local lawyer for an arraignment to proceed.
The Justice Department unsealed Friday an indictment charging Trump with 37 felony counts, 31 relating to the willful retention of national defense information. Other charges include conspiracy to commit obstruction and false statements.
The indictment alleges Trump intentionally retained hundreds of classified documents that he took with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the presidency in January 2021. The material he stored, including in a bathroom, ballroom, bedroom and shower, included material on nuclear programs, defense and weapons capabilities of the U.S. and foreign governments and a Pentagon “attack plan,” the indictment says. The information, if exposed, could have put at risk members of the military, confidential human sources and intelligence collection methods, prosecutors said.
Beyond that, prosecutors say, he sought to obstruct government efforts to recover the documents, including by directing personal aide Walt Nauta — who was charged alongside Trump — to move boxes to conceal them and also suggesting to his own lawyer that he hide or destroy documents sought by a Justice Department subpoena.
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Guido Migliozzi won the French Open by one shot from Rasmus Hojgaard after a stunning nine birdies saw the Italian tie the course record with a 9-under 62 in the final round on Sunday.
It was the 25-year-old Migliozzi's third European Tour win, his first for three years, and one he'll remember a very long time.
“I was just in a good vibe on the course. I was enjoying my golf and it was a beautiful day. My girlfriend was with me and my coach as well," Migliozzi said. “Today golf gave something back to me. It was one of those days that was beautiful to live.”
His birdie on the 18th was the best, as he went against his caddy's wishes and used a 5-iron fade and even came close to an eagle on the course's most difficult hole.
When Migliozzi finished on 16-under 268, he was one shot ahead of Hojgaard, who had two holes left to play. The 21-year-old Dane's par on the 17th left him needing a birdie on the par-4 18th to force a playoff.
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But Hojgaard, who had led since posting a superb 62 of his own in Thursday’s opening round, teed off into the rough. He landed his approach shot cleanly, but needed a 48-feet putt for birdie and fell 7 feet short to finish with a 3-under 68 for 15 under overall. It was a bitter end to the tournament for Hojgaard, given his round on Thursday and that he led by six strokes after the second round.
Frenchman Paul Barjon (70), South African George Coetzee (71) and Belgian Thomas Pieters (70) failed to apply pressure on a wide-open last day and finished four shots behind Hojgaard in a tie for third at 11 under.
Hojgaard held a slender one-shot overnight lead from Coetzee after making a terrible start to Saturday's third round and ending it with a 3-over 74. The damage was done in that round with a quintuple-bogey on the second hole.
But he cast those bad memories aside in style as he began his final round, sinking a birdie on hole No. 2 and an eagle — his first of the tournament — on the next. However, he bogeyed Nos. 8 and 9 as Coetzee — a five-time European tour winner — moved level at 13 under.
Then it was Migliozzi's turn to shine as he shot up the leaderboard with five consecutive birdies on Nos. 6-10 to move within one shot of the co-leaders at halfway, along with Barjon and Pieters.
Coetzee fell back after a triple bogey on the 15th, and Migliozzi's incessant pressure finally got to Hojgaard. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/golf-migliozzi-wins-french-open/article_2601d3cc-3d0c-11ed-b33d-9fb19aae56f9.html | 2022-09-25 20:52:47 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/golf-migliozzi-wins-french-open/article_2601d3cc-3d0c-11ed-b33d-9fb19aae56f9.html |
Transit systems lost a lot of riders and revenue when the pandemic began. And for a variety of reasons, the ridership hasn’t returned. As they spend what remains of billions in federal relief money, some agencies are facing a difficult future.
Host Scott Tong speaks with Here & Now‘s transportation analyst Seth Kaplan.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Man uses $1.2M in fake checks to try to post bail, officials say
HONOLULU (AP) - A Hawaii man accused of using counterfeit bank checks totaling $1.2 million to try to bail three people out of a jail has been arrested and authorities are seeking to keep him locked up with no bail, according to court documents.
Samuela Tuikolongahau Jr. was detained by federal authorities on Monday and a U.S. Secret Service affidavit filed in court alleged that he presented the bank checks for $760,000, $400,000 and $50,000 in 2020 during the attempt to post bail for the three people held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
He left a Honolulu courthouse after being told the checks would need verification, the court document said. Officials determined the checks were counterfeit and the two men and woman he tried to get out of jail were not released.
Court documents did not specify his relationship to the three jailed people.
In August 2020, Tuikolongahau obtained a counterfeit cashier’s check for $36,000 purported to be from a credit union and tried to use it, and someone else’s identification, to purchase a Land Rover from a Honolulu used car lot, the affidavit said.
He also used someone else’s identification to open an account online at Charles Schwab and tried to deposit counterfeit and altered checks into that account, the court document said.
Tuikolongahau was scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday for a hearing. Walter Rodby, his court-appointed defense attorney, did not immediately return email and phone messages seeking comment.
According to state court records, Tuikolongahau is currently held on $100,000 bail at the same jail where he tried to release the three people from. He previously pleaded not guilty to charges of unauthorized possession of confidential personal information stemming from separate 2021 allegations.
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CHICAGO — A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges Chicago police misused “unreliable” gunshot detection technology and failed to pursue other leads in investigating a grandfather from the city’s South Side and charging him with killing a neighbor.
Chicago prosecutors used audio picked up by a network of sensors installed by the gunshot detection company ShotSpotter as critical evidence in charging Michael Williams with murder in 2020 for allegedly shooting the man inside his car. Williams spent nearly a year in jail, and The Associated Press reported last year that a judge dismissed his case at the request of prosecutors, who said they had insufficient evidence.
The lawsuit filed by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University’s law school seeks damages from the city for mental anguish, loss of income and legal bills for the 65-year-old Williams, who said he still suffers from a tremor in his hand that developed while he was locked up. It also details the case of a second plaintiff Daniel Ortiz, a 36-year-old father who the lawsuit alleges was arbitrarily arrested and jailed by police who were responding to a ShotSpotter alert.
The suit seeks class-action status for any Chicago resident who was stopped on the basis of the alerts. And among other things, it seeks a court order barring the technology’s use in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city.
“Even though now I’m so-called free, I don’t think I will ever be free of the thought of what they have done and the impact that has on me now, like the shaking with my hand,” Williams said. “I constantly go back to the thought of being in that place. ... I just can’t get my mind to settle down.”
ShotSpotter isn’t named as a defendant in the 103-page filing though the lawsuit claims the company’s algorithm-powered technology is flawed. The suit also alleges the city’s decision to place most of its gunshot-detection sensors in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods is racially discriminatory.
Messages seeking comment were left with the city of Chicago and ShotSpotter after the lawsuit was filed late Thursday morning.
ShotSpotter has vigorously defended the reliability and validity of its system, saying evidence collected by its system has been admitted in more than 200 court cases around the country. It has also pointed to an audit the company commissioned to study the effectiveness of the technology.
ShotSpotter’s website has described the company as “a leader in precision policing technology solutions” that helps stop gun violence by using sensors, algorithms and artificial intelligence to classify 14 million sounds in its proprietary database as gunshots or something else.
Those named in the lawsuit include Police Superintendent David O’Neal Brown and more than a dozen officers involved in Williams’ case, alleging they violated a host of rights guaranteed to him under Illinois law and the U.S. Constitution, including the right to due process.
Chicago police have long praised the ShotSpotter system, saying it puts officers on the scene of shootings far faster than if they wait for someone to call 911. Police have also said crime rates — not residents’ race — determine where the technology is deployed.
The filing places blame for Williams’ arrest squarely on investigating officers, who it says “put blind faith in ShotSpotter evidence they knew or should have known was unreliable” in order to charge Williams with killing 25-year-old Safarian Herring. The lawsuit alleges investigators used ShotSpotter material in a way that went beyond its intended use, quoting a disclaimer in one document related to Williams’ case that says the investigative lead summary “should only be used for initial investigative purposes.”
The AP investigation identified a number of flaws in using ShotSpotter as evidentiary support for prosecutors, and found the system can miss live gunfire right under its microphones, or misclassify the sounds of fireworks or cars backfiring as gunshots. Last year, Chicago’s nonpartisan watchdog agency concluded that actual evidence of a gun-related crime was found in about 9% of ShotSpotter alerts that were confirmed as probable gunshots.
The suit also accuses investigators of not pursuing other leads that could have produced credible suspects, including reports that someone previously shot at Herring at a bus stop.
Police and prosecutors never established a motive for Williams to have shot Herring, never found witnesses to the shooting, and never recovered a weapon or physical evidence tying Williams to the killing, the suit alleges.
“The Defendant Officers engaged in tunnel vision to target Mr. Williams, arresting him for First-Degree murder, without probable cause,” the lawsuit said. | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/lawsuit-chicago-police-misused-shotspotter-in-murder-case/article_55a7d3a3-1f48-5010-b1b2-65f5a339da67.html | 2022-07-21 20:28:44 | 0 | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/lawsuit-chicago-police-misused-shotspotter-in-murder-case/article_55a7d3a3-1f48-5010-b1b2-65f5a339da67.html |
Intel responds to claims of unsafe work environment after Chandler employee murder
CHANDLER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- Intel is touting a new $20 billion project at its Ocotillo Campus and the thousands of jobs it brings. However, Arizona’s Family has heard concerns from current and former employees who did not want to be identified, citing an unsafe work environment after an employee allegedly murdered a coworker. “Intel is its own beast,” said the anonymous former Intel worker.
One worker said they were pressured to meet changing project deadlines and had to deal with poor campus security. “I’m just happy that I got out. I took three months off after I quit to decompress because I knew it was going to take a while for me to switch my mentality out of Intel land to normalcy,” said the former employee.
Last month, police say 50-year-old Derrick Lemond Simmons, an Intel employee, murdered 49-year-old Dan Foster and hurt another coworker with a baseball bat. That’s not the first time police received a phone call. Between 2020 to 2023, Chandler Police received nearly 800 calls from the campus.
Arizona’s Family asked Intel about the alarming number. “It’s certainly a challenging environment, having a lot of people bringing in a very dynamic process. The fact is this, in my 21 years in the company, I have never seen an incident like what occurred a couple weeks ago; it was stunning,” said Jason Bagley, Intel’s Sr. Director of State Government Relations.
Bagley defended the work environment but said there are opportunities to improve. “And we are doing that,” said Bagley. “There’s a risk assessment team taking a look not only this incident but all of our practices, and that’s being evaluated very thoroughly.”
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(The Hill) — President Joe Biden’s bet on a rapid rebound from the coronavirus recession may have backfired.
The president and his top economic officials rallied Democrats around a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill in March 2021, urging Congress not to repeat the mistakes of the Great Recession and cut off support for the economy too soon. The bill was also Biden’s way of delivering on the promise made during the pivotal Georgia Senate runoffs, which gave his party a slim Senate majority: elect Democrats and get another round of stimulus checks.
Just more than a year after Biden signed the bill, the U.S. unemployment rate is nearly at pre-pandemic levels, the economy has added more than 10 million jobs and the gross domestic product is well above where it was when COVID-19 shattered the economy. By those measures alone, the recovery under his watch was far stronger than the slow trudge out of the Great Recession.
But despite the rapid rebound, Biden’s approval rating is at all-time lows as Americans feel the brunt of high inflation — a risk few within and beyond the administration took seriously when he signed the American Rescue Plan.
Consumer prices rose 1 percent in May alone and by 8.6 percent over the past 12 months, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Prices for food, gasoline, shelter and travel led the May inflation burst, giving Americans few ways to avoid higher prices.
“The Fed and the White House were trying to avoid the kind of long slog, decade-long recovery that there was after the Great Recession,” said Skanda Amarnath, executive director at research nonprofit Employ America.
“For some people, there was a certain complacency about inflation as a possibility. That’s probably true too. But that was viewed as a much more remote tail risk.”
It’s a risk voters are feeling. Eighty-five percent of voters said they think inflation is a very serious or somewhat serious problem, according to an Economist-YouGov poll from earlier this month. In the same, poll, 44 percent of respondents said Biden has “a lot” of responsibility for the inflation rate, and 31 percent said he has “some.”
Top Biden administration and Fed officials — along with dozens of economists — expected inflation to cool off last year as the world adjusted to life after COVID-19. Vaccination campaigns, reopening schools and a shift in spending from goods to services all figured to bring prices down and workers back into the job market.
But COVID-19 adjusted quicker. The emergence of the delta and omicron variants didn’t curb consumer spending or cost the economy jobs. Instead, it shifted a glut of saved-up money toward goods, which had been in high demand since the start of the pandemic, instead of services.
The new variants also led to factory shutdowns, port backlogs and other pandemic-related snarls, making it even harder for manufacturers and suppliers to meet higher demand powered in part by federal stimulus.
“Inflation wasn’t transitory because COVID was not transitory. Parts of China are still locked down. We’re not even through the COVID shock,” said Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve research director.
And while some of those pressures have begun to ease, the war in Ukraine has pushed inflation even higher with severe shocks to the global supply of oil, natural gas, wheat and other crucial commodities.
“There were people at the time who said given the gap, given how many people we have out of work, the American Rescue Plan is more than enough. That seems it could be especially true if you counted the excess savings as energy stored in the battery that could be used to get the economy rolling,” said Alan Cole, former chief economist for Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee.
“The U.S. has had higher inflation generally than most advanced economies, and I don’t think anyone’s saying the ARP created all of it — or if they are, they are not telling the truth. But the ARP kind of contributed more at the margins.”
Republican lawmakers, who voted in unison against the American Rescue Plan, have claimed vindication after warning Biden’s bill would trigger an inflation spiral. GOP lawmakers have centered their midterm campaign message — including their response to the Capitol riot investigation — around Biden’s failure to keep prices stable as the economy expanded.
“[My] constituents ask me about the historic gas prices, skyrocketing inflation, and the baby formula shortage,” tweeted Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the third-ranking House Republican, on Thursday.
“Why aren’t Democrats holding primetime hearings about these crises impacting the American people?”
Stefanik’s barb came two days after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted to lawmakers during House and Senate hearings that the administration misjudged inflation and likely spurred it higher through the stimulus plan. Yellen defended the American Rescue Plan’s role in spurring the economy, though she acknowledged how critical it would be for the administration to balance out its impact on the economy.
Most economists say it’s hard to blame the White House for trying to repair the economy as quickly as possible. Even former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, the top Democratic critic of Biden’s economic policy, spurned the stimulus package because he believed the money would be better spent on the president’s broader Build Back Better agenda. That bill has fallen by the wayside amid concerns from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) about its potential impact on inflation.
Even so, experts agree there is far more Biden could do to try to bring prices down.
In a fiery Friday speech, Biden blasted Big Oil companies for reeling in record profits instead of expanding production with gas prices above $5 per gallon on average nationwide.
“Why don’t they drill more? Because they make more money not producing oil. Prices go up on the one hand. No. 2, the reason they are not drilling is they are buying back their own stock — should be taxed quite frankly — buying back their own stock and not making new investments,” he said.
But Amarnath, of Employ America, said Biden should work with the industry to increase output through agreements to purchase oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at set prices, giving them cover if market prices for oil go down amid the glut of products. Amarnath also said the U.S. government should deploy the Treasury Department’s exchange stabilization fund to help keep prices down for crucial commodities hindered by the war in Ukraine, sanctions on Russia and Chinese lockdowns.
“Having some individualized attention on these markets would help, but you’d have to really do that systematically ahead of time. That takes a lot of work and that kind of work, just to be blunt, doesn’t happen anywhere within the government.”
Sahm, the former Fed research director, also expressed concerns about Biden’s plan to lean on the Fed to bring down inflation when much of the forces driving prices higher are beyond the bank’s control.
“[The Fed] should have moved sooner last year and it probably would have had some effect on inflation, but it would have had no effect on food and gas prices,” Sahm said.
“When the Fed lowers inflation, it does it by reducing people’s ability to spend. It’s not a happy way that we get inflation down,” she continued. “The Fed’s lever is impoverishing people. Hardship in the United States is never equally shared.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/why-bidens-bet-on-a-rapid-economic-rebound-may-have-backfired/ | 2022-06-13 15:29:31 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/why-bidens-bet-on-a-rapid-economic-rebound-may-have-backfired/ |
CAMARILLO, Calif. , July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- kathy ireland® Worldwide (KIWW®) has forged a brand partnership with PlushBeds, a leading luxury organic mattress manufacturer and retailer. This collaboration brings together two industry leaders to offer a collection of organic luxury mattresses, toppers, and pillows that prioritize sustainability and exceptional comfort.
"Kathy Ireland is an icon in the world of lifestyle branding, and we are honored to partner with her in this exciting venture" said Michael Hughes, CEO of PlushBeds. "Her unwavering commitment to excellence, innovation, and thoughtful curation to enhance people's lives is truly admirable. Kathy's principles align perfectly with our own, and we are excited to combine our expertise in organic luxury sleep with her unparalleled influence and vision."
The partnership between kathy ireland® Worldwide and PlushBeds represents a shared vision for creating more environmental consciousness in the bedroom. By combining kiWW's expertise in lifestyle branding and PlushBeds' mastery in organic bedding, the collection of luxury mattresses, toppers, and pillows will revolutionize the way people experience sleep, providing them with the ultimate in comfort, sustainability, and style.
"All of us at kiWW® are looking forward to working with Michael and his exceptional team," says Kathy Ireland, Chair, CEO and Chief Designer of kathy ireland® Worldwide, the 19th most powerful global brand per License Global. "PlushBeds' commitment to craftsmanship, sustainability, and their dedication to customer satisfaction align perfectly with our brand values. Together, we will provide customers with an exceptional sleep experience that promotes both their well-being and the well-being of our planet."
"This collaboration brings our customers the best in sustainable bedding products, which helps us to continue fulfilling one of our company's Millennium Development Goals of ensuring environmental sustainability," say Jon Carrasco and Stephen Roseberry, Worldwide Creative Director and President/CMO of kathy ireland® Worldwide.
Customers can expect a comprehensive range of eco-friendly and organic mattresses designed to cater to different sleep preferences and styles. Each mattress will be meticulously handcrafted in California, customized to deliver the utmost comfort and support.
PlushBeds' dedication to customer satisfaction extends to their generous offerings, including a free sleep trial, a lifetime warranty, and complimentary shipping and returns. This commitment ensures that customers can confidently choose the new kathy ireland® collection by PlushBeds as their preferred brand of natural and organic luxury bedding.
The new collection will be available for purchase online at www.plushbeds.com and select authorized retailers towards the end of 2023.
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About kathy ireland® Worldwide
Kathy Ireland and her company, kathy ireland® Worldwide, are one of the great American success stories. Launched in 1993, at Ms. Ireland's kitchen table, with a personal loan of $50,000, it is today acknowledged as the most successful woman-owned licensing corporation in history, according to WWD (Women's Wear Daily). The New York Times vales kathy ireland® Worldwide at over $500 million dollars, and Ms. Ireland's greatest passion is being of service through her multiple philanthropic efforts. Ms. Ireland is married to Dr. Gregory Olsen, and the couple lives in Montecito, CA. As parents, they have one son and two daughters.
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PlushBeds is a leading luxury organic mattress manufacturer and retailer headquartered in Camarillo, California. Specializing in organic latex mattresses, toppers, pillows, and bedding, PlushBeds offers a superior sleep experience through their commitment to craftsmanship, sustainability, and customer satisfaction.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — University of Oregon tight end Spencer Webb died in an accident Wednesday near Triangle Lake, authorities said.
The 22-year-old fell down a steep trail and hit his head around 2:30 p.m., according to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office, which said it responded to rock slides in the area. Bystanders reportedly tried to save him, but officials said they and responding paramedics were unsuccessful.
“Lane County Sheriff Search and Rescue personnel responded to assist with bringing him back to the roadway as he was approximately 100 yards down a steep trail,” the sheriff’s office said.
In a Twitter post Wednesday night, Oregon football coach Dan Lanning said, “So full of life in every moment of the day. Your smile and energy will be missed Spencer. I love you!”
Webb had played with the Oregon Ducks since 2019.
LCSO said his death appears to be accidental. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/oregon-football-player-dies-in-fall-down-trail/ | 2022-07-14 18:21:10 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/oregon-football-player-dies-in-fall-down-trail/ |
Social Media Health Trends Debunked
Social Media Trend: Inserting Raw Garlic into the Nostrils
As a decongestant?
Dr. David Patterson, immunologist, Ascension Health
“When eaten in pasta or some other dish, garlic is good for your body. It has a lot of excellent properties when it’s ingested orally. But when you stick it up your nose, it’s a very powerful topical irritant to the skin of the nose. It creates a tremendous irritated response to the lining—what we call the mucosa. Your nose has mucus glands, so it’s going to pour out all this mucus. That’s just a reaction to the irritant, not a medicinal thing. As a matter of fact, when you put garlic cloves up your nose, they may get stuck. You may irritate your nose and actually get dermatitis, which is an inflammation of the skin inside your nose that would be very uncomfortable. You can cause trauma when sticking a foreign body up there. There are just better ways to open up your nasal passages, such as using Vicks VapoRub, which has menthol in it. Or use some saline nasal spray, a sinus rinse like NeilMed, a neti pot, or even Sudafed. Those are all ways to open up your nose that are much safer than sticking garlic into it.”
Social Media Trend: Drinking Aloe Vera Juice
To clear acne?
Dr. Melanie Kingsley, dermatologist, IU Health
“Be wary. The people recommending these things on social media usually are not doctors. They’re influencers, and they’re looking for views. We’ve been using aloe vera topically on the skin for centuries for wound healing. It does have some anti-inflammatory effects. When drinking it, maybe the people who claim to benefit are getting an anti-inflammatory effect, which is calming down the acne. Aloe also has antioxidants in it, so that may play a role in clearing up and brightening the skin. But I would never say, ‘Hey, this is a great fad. Aloe is all natural, go ahead and drink it,’ because we still don’t know. More studies need to be done to verify that patients truly are getting the results that some are claiming. I probably would just say keep your body hydrated. The central component of aloe, that gel, is 99 percent water. The middle layer is latex. If you’re ingesting the aloe latex, you have a risk of kidney failure. There’s not one way to treat acne. Some people will respond to just washing their face. Some people need oral antibiotics and Accutane. Some people need salicylic acid. There are so many different components, and we have to tailor everyone’s regimen to what works best for them. Many times, even with over-the-counter medicines—benzoyl peroxide, things like that—we can actually get a great response.”
The 12-3-30 Workout
Walking on a treadmill set to 12 percent incline and 3 mph for 30 minutes to burn 30 pounds?
Dr. Richard Shea, cardiologist, Franciscan Health
“This workout actually has some benefits to it. It’s short. It’s simple. And it’s easy to remember: You walk into a gym, dial up a treadmill, finish your 30 minutes, and you’re done. Because you’re on an incline, it’s very efficient. It burns more calories than it would on a flat walk. You’re not going to be running, so you won’t have the pounding on joints, and it’s very good for building strength and endurance. Three miles per hour is typically what most of us would do just walking, but it’s the 12 percent incline that’s the killer. I don’t think most of us can walk into a gym and do this today. You’ll have to be able to walk for 30 minutes on a flat surface and then some degree of incline before you get it to 12 percent. Like most trends, though, the value may be overstated. Lauren Giraldo [the influencer who created this workout] said she did this five days a week and was able to lose 30 pounds. I think that’s pretty optimistic. As a steady-state cardio workout, I think it’s a good idea. But remember, having an element of cardio and an element of strength training—and perhaps a large element of diet—is what’s going to get you both fitness and weight loss. The workout is helpful, but it’s not magic. It does burn calories, though, so if it gets you engaged, give it a try.”
Social Media Trend: Drinking Lettuce Water
As a sleep aid?
Dr. Margaret Fitzsimmons, family medicine, Hancock Regional Health
“Lettuce is like 96 percent water, so there’s not much else in it. You’ve got a little bit of vitamin A, C, and K, some calcium. Iceberg lettuce really doesn’t even have a lot of that in it. Some of the other darker, greener, leafier lettuces will have more vitamins and antioxidants in them, like selenium and beta carotene. Although those things are good for your body to keep away inflammation and keep your immune system strong, I can’t imagine that it would make you sleepy. And honestly, there’s just not enough of those vitamins in lettuce, especially once you steep them in water, to really be helpful. Now, the warmth of the water before going to bed might make you feel soothed and warm inside, and could make you feel sleepy. But you could just boil warm water. If you want to actually solve this problem, there’s something we call sleep hygiene, and that involves measures like avoiding caffeine, turning out all the lights before you go to bed, and turning off all of your electronics for 30 to 60 minutes before going to sleep to give your brain a rest. Maybe take a warm shower just to get your muscles and mind relaxed. If those measures don’t help, people can try Benadryl at night. Melatonin is a natural hormone in our brains that is secreted in the evenings to make us tired, and over-the-counter melatonin can be used. But anytime you think sleep is a problem, have a conversation with your doctor, who will ask pointed questions to try to hone in on what might be causing the issue.”
Social Media Trend: Ingesting Papaya Seeds
As an anti-parasitic?
Dr. Janet Arno, infectious disease, IU Health
“Parasitic infection is an unusual problem in the United States. Most parasitic disease is found outside of the U.S. or in travelers who go to other places. People will bring in a stool sample where they see a thread or a little egglike entity and think it’s a parasite. Almost always, when we bring those to the lab, they’re not. They’re food particles or things like that. For those who actually do have a parasite, there is a study from Nigeria that showed some small anti-parasitic benefit to eating papaya seeds. But it needs to be validated. It wasn’t in adults. It wasn’t in this country. If it was so useful, you’d think a drug company would have picked it up and isolated a compound and sold it for a lot of money. They haven’t. Papaya seeds taste bad and they might give you an upset stomach. This particular trend isn’t as dangerous as some, and people might think, If it’s not going to hurt me, why not try it? Because you only delay finding out what you really have, and if it’s something important, you want to know about it as soon as you can. If someone is just taking something for the heck of it, it’s only going to lead to problems later on.”
Social Media Trend: Taking Zinc
To shorten a COVID infection?
Dr. Timothy Hodges, internal medicine, Community Health
“Zinc is useful in our body for over 100 enzymatic processes. It binds to the protein structure of an enzyme and helps it work. Some of those enzymes are helpful in immune system function. I don’t think that we have any hard-and-fast studies that say zinc supplements shorten the duration of a COVID infection. But studies have shown that if you use the right kind of zinc, you can shorten the duration of a common cold by a significant amount of time. There are different zinc versions out there. Zinc gluconate is the one that seems to be best at helping your body fight off viral infections. People need to be cautious about one variety of zinc, though: intranasal, which has been associated with a permanent loss of smell. The safest way to use zinc in the bolstering of your immune system is orally, either with a tablet or lozenge. Zinc acts as a protease inhibitor that inhibits the replication of viral RNA or DNA. When we use things like Paxlovid for COVID, that drug is actually a protease inhibitor, too. So zinc may both inhibit viral replication and also help your body’s immune system work more efficiently. Zinc should never represent an alternative to standard therapy, though. If you have COVID or any serious viral infection, you should always reach out to your physician to get a recommendation for a primary therapy, such as Paxlovid. Then maybe think about an adjunct like zinc to help with your symptoms.” | https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/lifestyle/health/social-media-health-trends | 2022-11-22 03:42:45 | 0 | https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/lifestyle/health/social-media-health-trends |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants shot and killed three police officers on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said, the latest violence in the restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
Senior superintendent of operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi said the three officers died as they chased militants who had earlier attacked a police station with hand grenades, sniper guns and automatic weapons in Sarband, near Peshawar.
The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group, or TTP, on Saturday claimed responsibility for the police station attack a day earlier and for killing the officers.
The TTP has waged an insurgency in Pakistan over the past 15 years, fighting for stricter enforcement of Islamic laws in the country, the release of their members who are in government custody and a reduction of Pakistani military presence in the country’s former tribal regions.
They also claimed responsibility for an attack Friday at a police checkpoint in Punjab’s Taunsa district that killed two officers.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said the central government was deeply concerned about deteriorating law and order in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Peshawar is located.
He criticized local authorities for failing to learn from previous assaults, including a militant takeover and hostage situation at a counter-terror department in Bannu district.
“Terrorists are attacking police stations, policemen and officers are being targeted,” said Khan. “It seems that the provincial government has not learned any lesson even from Bannu CTD headquarters,” he said, referring to the counter-terror department that was seized by militants.
He said the local chief minister's priority was politics not peace and, with even local police not safe from attacks, he asked what would happen to the safety of ordinary people.
The TTP has stepped up attacks on security forces after unilaterally ending a cease-fire with the Pakistani government in November.
The group is separate but allied with the Afghan Taliban. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Police-Militants-kill-3-officers-in-restive-NW-17717706.php | 2023-01-14 11:55:59 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Police-Militants-kill-3-officers-in-restive-NW-17717706.php |
For two parents from Chicago, getting their newborn twins safely out of Ukraine was difficult. Two months later, extracting them from Poland's bureaucracy has turned out to be even more arduous.
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For two parents from Chicago, getting their newborn twins safely out of Ukraine was difficult. Two months later, extracting them from Poland's bureaucracy has turned out to be even more arduous.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio will fund scholarships and a climate education program at the UCLA-based elementary school where he was once himself a scholarship student, the actor and the college said Tuesday.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Scholarship fund and the Climate Justice Education Program are set to begin in the forthcoming school year at the UCLA Lab School.
“I was fortunate enough to attend the Lab School due to the generous contributions of UCLA donors, and my experience profoundly transformed my worldview,” DiCaprio said in a statement to The Associated Press. “I am proud to have the chance to pass on my experience to those who might otherwise miss out on this opportunity, and to help create a program that will help guide the next generation of climate warriors.”
The school aims to provide innovative educational techniques for its students — whose ages range from 4 to 12 — that outside teachers can come to study.
DiCaprio’s scholarship fund will give its students who need financial aid, which he got as a child when he went to the school in the 1980s, and will help the school to maintain the diversity it seeks. About 40% of its students need financial help.
“This scholarship fund will provide many children access to UCLA Lab School, just as Leo had,” said Dr. Eric Esrailian, a professor in UCLA’s Health Sciences department and a longtime friend of DiCaprio.
The new and separate climate education program will seek to teach students from pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade about the science behind climate change and about the policy and leadership needed to address it. The school has sought to use its location, next to a creek amid redwoods on the Los Angeles university campus, to become a hands-on site for environmental teaching.
DiCaprio, 48, has long been an outspoken advocate for addressing the climate crisis.
Esrailian said the program “will position children — both at the Lab School and beyond — for a more sustainable and healthy life for themselves and for our planet.”
The amount of the donations behind the programs was not made public, but officials said generations of students will be the recipients.
“Expanding access to high-quality education and helping young people recognize the need to protect our planet are critical goals for our institution,” UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement.
DiCaprio, the Oscar-winning star of “Titanic,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “The Revenant” and “The Departed,” will next appear in “ Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by his frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-leonardo-dicaprio-to-fund-scholarships-climate-education-at-his-former-elementary-school/ | 2023-07-11 15:33:04 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-leonardo-dicaprio-to-fund-scholarships-climate-education-at-his-former-elementary-school/ |
After 30 years, woman finds biological dad through DNA test
PHOENIX (KNXV) - An Arizona woman found her biological father with the help of a DNA test and Ancestry.com more than three decades after her birth.
Whitney Thompson found and introduced herself to her birth father after 33 years. For decades, even her mother hadn’t known who the man was.
“I’m not gonna lie, I’m excited to send a Father’s Day card,” Thompson said. “It’s really cool to actually talk to him and kind of share who we are and things that we like, stuff like that.”
Thompson’s story began in 1988. Her mother wrote in a journal about a night she met a man named Chuck from Michigan, calling him cute and really nice during their one and only meeting.
Like so many these days, Thompson turned to Ancestry.com and a DNA test to learn more, immediately finding first cousins.
“All these years I didn’t know who it was and she didn’t know who it was, and this DNA test really opened up a lot of doors,” she said.
Needing further help, she turned to a Facebook group for advice. A woman in New York with an expertise on the site messaged her back.
“Within two weeks, she narrowed it down and was like, ‘I’m 100% that it’s this person,’” Thompson said.
Chuck turned out to be Charles Shirey, who never knew Thompson existed. The two connected by phone shortly after. Thompson learned she had two sisters, and she and her father shared the same birthday.
“He sent me a birthday card in the mail that said ‘Love, Dad’ in it. I ended up breaking down in tears,” she said.
She says the entire family has embraced her, as they plan to finally meet in person in the next few months, not wanting to waste a second making up for lost time.
“I feel complete. I know who I am. I know where I come from now,” Thompson said.
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LONDON and NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of London, the next-generation technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today announced the appointment of Tam Holmes as its Co-President & Group Chief Product Officer and Member of the Group's Executive Management Committee. As Group Chief Product Officer, Tam is responsible for oversight of the Group's overall customer and product vision, strategy, and innovation.
Prior to The Bank of London, Tam spent five years at 10X Banking ("10X") where he served as Chief Product Officer and Chief Development Officer, playing a key role in driving the business forward, including as a Board Member, and where he was principally responsible for managing all customer relationships, product strategy, product management and business development. Instrumental in building investor and customer confidence, he positioned 10X as the transformational partner of choice for Global Tier 1 banks.
Previously Tam was the Head of Digital Security and Fraud at Lloyds Banking Group, where he also served as Head of Programme Delivery for Digital Banking. Tam was responsible for the re-platforming of Lloyd's digital banking stack, as well as the design of innovative digital fraud and security controls, including the UK's first deployment of behavioural biometrics, and device ID systems.
Anthony Watson, Group Chief Executive & Founder of The Bank of London, said: "Tam's wealth of knowledge and experience across banking, large-scale transformation, and programme delivery, makes him a great fit at The Bank of London. He brings a particularly unique perspective from his time at 10X, where he led both the sales and product development of their cloud bank platform to JP Morgan Chase in the UK and Europe, Westpac in Australia and other global banks. With his flair for driving innovation coupled with a strong reputation for leading with humility and empathy, Tam will provide a world-class product experience for our clients globally."
Tam Holmes, Co-President & Group Chief Product Officer of The Bank of London, said: "I'm delighted to join The Bank of London at such a pivotal time. The market has been left under-served by incumbents for far too long and I'm excited to start driving forward our customer and product vision, strategy, and innovation, to build strong products and experiences that our will customers love - in the UK, the EU and beyond."
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About The Bank of London
The Bank of London launched 30th November 2021 as the sixth principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom, and only the second clearing bank in 250 years. With a $1.1 billion valuation, it is the first pre-revenue bank in history to attain 'unicorn' status upon debut.
The Bank of London is a leading-edge technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank. We leverage our patented technology innovations and differentiated bank capabilities to lift economies and communities by powering the borderless economic infrastructure of the future.
The bank has been established to assist banks, clearing houses, digital & traditional asset firms, governments, financial services companies from local fintechs to global institutions, payment networks and non-financial brands seeking to launch fully compliant financial products and services in-country and across-borders.
With headquarters in London and offices in New York and Belfast, The Bank of London is a principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom authorised by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority.
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David Shaun Bailey
June 30, 1949–February 10, 2023
SACRAMENTO, CA–David Shaun Bailey passed away on February 10, 2023. David was born June 30, 1949 in Cedar Rapids, IA to Richard L. and Alyce M. Bailey. He is survived by his mother, Alyce, siblings Deborah (Jeff) Astroth, John (Janet Carlson) Bailey and Barb (Paul) Fitzgerald. He is also survived by his aunt Shirley Bailey and many cousins. A Memorial Service will be held at 10:30am Friday, June 16th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City, IA, with Pastor Dan Dahl officiating.
Dave was a member of the Mason City High School class of 1967. Following graduation from St. Olaf College, Dave attended Drake University School of Law, obtaining his degree and passing the bar.
He began his career with the Iowa Legislative Service Bureau during Governor Robert Ray's tenure. Dave relocated to Illinois with the Health Insurance Association of America and finally settled in Sacramento, CA, working for the California of Emergency Services in the Public Assistance Division until retirement. Dave served in leadership roles with various civic organizations, his church, various bike clubs and the Sons of Norway. He enjoyed hiking, paddling his canoe in the rivers of Iowa, participating in 14 RAGBRAI, as well as other Iowa bike rides. He was an active member of the Sacramento Wheelmen coordinating and enjoying rides in the Amador wine country and obtaining and servicing bikes for underprivileged children. He had a passion for reading, politics, golf, wine tasting, being out in nature and discovering new and old places to explore.
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In the four years since she obtained her driver’s license, Yosmery Peña had never been in a car accident — until last week when she was unfortunate enough to collide with an unmarked police cruiser flashing emergency lights that was carrying Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Peña, 33, was driving home with her 1-year-old baby on Hyde Park Avenue in Roslindale the morning of June 7, she told me in an interview in Spanish. As she approached the intersection with Blakemore Street on the left lane, she saw the light change to green so she continued on. She said she never heard any sirens or saw any lights alerting her to the oncoming vehicle on Blakemore, which crossed the intersection on a red light. She also didn’t see it because the cars in the right lane were blocking her view, she said. Then Peña’s car collided with the driver’s side of the unmarked cruiser, which was driven by Boston police officer Keyanna Smith.
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“I thought, ‘¡Dios mío! That car shouldn’t have crossed,’” she said. “It was traumatizing for me, I was so scared and nervous for my baby, who started crying immediately.” Peña said she did not hear any sirens because they weren’t loud. “It wasn’t the noisy type of siren that an ambulance makes.”
Peña said she believes the crash could have been prevented. Wu told reporters last week that she was not heading to an emergency. If that’s the case, what can possibly explain the use of lights and sirens? Was the mayor just running late and was Smith trying to get through traffic? Peña said she had the right of way because her light was green. But the police report, which Peña told me she was not interviewed for, “makes it look like I was at fault for the crash,” she said. “The report is very convenient to their side.”
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A second video of the crash from a different angle that I obtained shows Smith came to a full stop at the intersection with lights on, then proceeded to make a turn after seeing two vehicles on the right lane stop. Mariellen Burns, the Boston Police’s chief of communications, said in a statement that the department’s “investigation will determine whether the officer’s driving was in line with our policies and procedures at the time of the collision.”
All the same, the accident is a bit of an embarrassment for Wu that cries out for transparency and clear guidelines for the use of emergency sirens and lights by unmarked police cruisers carrying elected officials and other important figures in the city. There’s an open question whether, in the blur of bureaucracy, the city will end up blaming the victim.
“The mayor told me on many occasions that she was sorry,” Peña said. And Wu rode with her in the ambulance to Children’s Hospital so Peña’s baby could undergo a checkup. Peña said she spoke in Spanish with Wu the whole time and that the mayor was very kind and warm. But “she is the city’s top authority and I believe they should assume responsibility for the crash because they provoked it. I am the most affected,” Peña said.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says she *wasn’t* heading to an emergency when her driver went through a red light with the lights and sirens on.
— Rob Way (@RobWayTV) June 7, 2023
They were hit by a car that had a green light at a Hyde Park intersection.
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In a statement, Ricardo Patrón, Wu’s press secretary, said that when “traveling by car, the Mayor rides with BPD’s dignitary protection unit, who exercise discretion on when to use lights and sirens, and must follow protocols on how to do so safely.” Patrón said Wu was on her way to the Copley Library for a full Cabinet meeting. “The Mayor is also drawing lessons from this incident for the City’s continued focus on making streets safer for all road users. Since the crash, she has heard from multiple residents who have also gotten into crashes at that same intersection.”
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As for Peña, her car is still in the shop. She got a repair estimate of $8,800, which she was told her insurance company would cover after she paid a deductible of $1,000. Peña, who is getting her associate degree in early childhood education at Urban College of Boston, said she went to Boston police headquarters on Wednesday to file her own police report so her side could be documented. But the police did not allow it, she said, because there already was a police report on the incident. “I am afraid my insurance policy will get more expensive,” she said.
To add insult to injury, Peña’s transportation problems worsened. The morning of the accident, Peña was driving home after dropping off her two older kids at the Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School in Mission Hill. The school bus would usually take them but since she had just moved to Hyde Park, her change of address process had not been finalized. The day after the crash, the school bus assignment was completed and a bus picked them up the rest of last week. But on Monday, as a result of the Boston Public Schools’ ongoing transportation woes, her kids had to miss school. The reason? The school bus didn’t show up.
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JACKSON — U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker still supports President Joe Biden’s nomination of Scott Colom to a federal judicial seat in north Mississippi, despite the Magnolia State’s other U.S. senator blocking the appointment.
Wicker, a Republican from Tupelo, told the Daily Journal in a recent interview that he and other Republicans in the state believe Colom’s track record as a state prosecutor makes him a qualified candidate for the vacant position for a district judge in the state’s U.S. Northern District.
“He was elected in a contested race to begin with, but he was re-elected unopposed,” Wicker said. “There are quite a lot of mainstream Mississippi Republicans who tell me they think he’s been a strong law-and-order prosecutor.”
A native of Columbus, Colom is the elected district attorney of the 16th Circuit Court District, which includes Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Clay and Noxubee counties. He is the first Black prosecutor in the circuit court district, winning that seat in 2015 by defeating the long-serving incumbent Forrest Allgood.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican from Brookhaven, announced that she would not approve of Colom’s elevation to the federal bench partly because New York billionaire George Soros indirectly supported his 2015 campaign.
Soros gave money to Mississippi Safety and Justice, a political action committee that supported Colom’s 2015 race for district attorney. Soros did not contribute to Colom’s personal campaign. The north Mississippi prosecutor in a letter told Hyde-Smith that he never had any contact with Soros during that campaign and never asked the billionaire to contribute to the PAC.
Hyde-Smith’s office did not respond to a request for comment, and Wicker largely declined to answer if he thought his Senate colleague should reverse her opposition to the nominee.
“That’s a decision that she has considered for a long time, and she’s entitled to make,” Wicker said. “It may yet be that she could reconsider that. She’s absolutely entitled to make that call based on her sound judgment.”
Hyde-Smith is able to thwart the nomination because of a longstanding tradition in the U.S. Senate that requires senators from a nominee's home state to submit “blue slips” if they approve of the candidate. Wicker returned a blue slip, but Hyde-Smith did not.
If both senators don't submit a blue slip, the nominee typically does not advance to a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, could upend the tradition and ignore Hyde-Smith’s opposition by conducting a confirmation hearing for Colom.
Though he supports Colom’s nomination, Wicker said he hopes Durbin will continue to honor the blue slip process for district court nominees.
U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills announced last year that he’ll take senior status, creating the post to which Biden nominated Colom. With senior status, Mills said he will remain on the bench and hear a reduced caseload.
If the U.S. Senate was to confirm Colom, he would be the second Black judge in Mississippi’s Northern District. Sitting District Judge Debra Brown is the first Black judge to serve in the Northern District and is only the third Black district court judge in Mississippi history.
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Homeland Security deputy secretary retiring
Posted/updated on: June 20, 2023 at 9:53 am(WASHINGTON) -- Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien is retiring from the Department, he announced in an internal message to department staff on Tuesday.
Tien, an Army veteran who served three tours of duty, including in Operation Desert Storm, is leaving the Department on July 20, according to the message.
“After 26 years of combined federal service including three combat tours in Iraq and living apart from my family for the last two years, I have decided to return to Atlanta to re-join them there,” Tien said to the Department workforce in an email. “When I depart from DHS on July 20, 2023, I will most fondly remember what the Secretary and I tried to do for the workforce to vastly improve the lives of our fellow employees in terms of pay, training, facilities, and technology support, all essential to improving morale.”
The outgoing deputy secretary served in the military for 24 years after graduating from West Point with the school's highest honor.
Tien is also one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the Biden administration. He spoke about it to ABC News last month.
"As a first-generation Asian American, I know that I've got a responsibility to be both seen and heard," he explained in May.
In a message to the workforce obtained by ABC News, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called Tien a "patriot."
"On behalf of 260,000 of us throughout the Department of Homeland Security -- across the country and around the world -- I express our profound thanks to him for making our Department and all of us the beneficiaries of his dedication to country and qualities as a person for the past two years," Mayorkas said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.
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The dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times, according to NASA. It will come within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of Earth Wednesday before speeding away again, unlikely to return for millions of years.
So do look up, contrary to the title of the killer-comet movie “Don’t Look Up.”
Discovered less than a year ago, this harmless green comet already is visible in the northern night sky with binoculars and small telescopes, and possibly the naked eye in the darkest corners of the Northern Hemisphere. It's expected to brighten as it draws closer and rises higher over the horizon through the end of January, best seen in the predawn hours. By Feb. 10, it will be near Mars, a good landmark.
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Skygazers in the Southern Hemisphere will have to wait until next month for a glimpse.
While plenty of comets have graced the sky over the past year, “this one seems probably a little bit bigger and therefore a little bit brighter and it’s coming a little bit closer to the Earth’s orbit,” said NASA’s comet and asteroid-tracking guru, Paul Chodas.
Green from all the carbon in the gas cloud, or coma, surrounding the nucleus, this long-period comet was discovered last March by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility, a wide field camera at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. That explains its official, cumbersome name: comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).
On Wednesday, it will hurtle between the orbits of Earth and Mars at a relative speed of 128,500 mph (207,000 kilometers). Its nucleus is thought to be about a mile (1.6 kilometers) across, with its tails extending millions of miles (kilometers).
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The comet isn’t expected to be nearly as bright as Neowise in 2020, or Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.
But "it will be bright by virtue of its close Earth passage ... which allows scientists to do more experiments and the public to be able to see a beautiful comet,” University of Hawaii astronomer Karen Meech said in an email.
Scientists are confident in their orbital calculations putting the comet's last swing through the solar system's planetary neighborhood at 50,000 years ago. But they don't know how close it came to Earth or whether it was even visible to the Neanderthals, said Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
When it returns, though, is tougher to judge.
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Every time the comet skirts the sun and planets, their gravitational tugs alter the iceball’s path ever so slightly, leading to major course changes over time. Another wild card: jets of dust and gas streaming off the comet as it heats up near the sun.
“We don’t really know exactly how much they are pushing this comet around,” Chodas said.
The comet — a time capsule from the emerging solar system 4.5 billion years ago — came from what’s known as the Oort Cloud well beyond Pluto. This deep-freeze haven for comets is believed to stretch more than one-quarter of the way to the next star.
While comet ZTF originated in our solar system, we can't be sure it will stay there, Chodas said. If it gets booted out of the solar system, it will never return, he added.
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Don’t fret if you miss it.
“In the comet business, you just wait for the next one because there are dozens of these," Chodas said. "And the next one might be bigger, might be brighter, might be closer.”
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Clinicals Show Positive Skin Changes When Iron is Removed
NEW YORK, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- i-On® Skincare, the beauty tech brand that targets excess iron on the surface of the skin, today unveiled its latest innovations, i-On® Age Disrupting Skin Emulsion and an AI-powered Skin Diagnostic Tool from Perfect Corp. This technological partnership is a natural step for the brand as it continues to expand its educational footprint on the correlation between biological aging (indicated by how cells function over time and demonstrated by skin's appearance) and our lifestyles and routines.
One factor that significantly impacts biological aging is the buildup of excess iron on the skin—the element most responsible for the formation of oxygen free radicals that are known to cause visible signs of skin aging—which occurs with the cessation of menstruation. i-On® Skincare's patented DII® Technology with vitamin C and pearl powder is the only cosmetic product on the market to remove excess iron from the surface of the skin, allowing the skin to focus on repairing and rebuilding. Powered by DII® Technology and other key ingredients, i-On®'s new Age Disrupting Skin Emulsion is a lightweight formula that easily absorbs into skin for a healthier, more supple, and renewed appearance. i-On®'s Skin Emulsion is a perfect solution for people who prefer a lightweight moisturizer as we approach warmer weather.
In a clinical trial for i-On® Age Disrupting Skin Emulsion, 100 percent of participants reported skin felt softer, smoother, and more hydrated after two weeks, 97 percent reported that skin looked and felt firmer and more elastic after four weeks, and 88 percent reported fine lines and wrinkles had been noticeably diminished after six weeks.
i-On® will be releasing an AI Skin Diagnostic Tool developed by Perfect Corp., a global leader in artificial intelligence solutions, to help inform consumers about overall skin health and skin aging. Using the i-On® link and their phone's camera, consumers can scan a photo of their face for an analysis of spots, wrinkles, texture, and dark circles. The photo is then compared to Perfect Corp.'s extensive image database to determine individual skin health and provide a skin age.
"Our goal is to shift the conversation about how we think and talk about aging," said founder Dr. Xi Huang, one of the world's leading scientists on the impact of iron levels on health. "We are honored to partner with Perfect Corp. to continue empowering consumers with knowledge surrounding skin health and iron's impact on visible signs of skin aging. The AI Skin Diagnostic Tool will reveal your skin's health and age."
i-On® Age Disrupting Skincare products are free of parabens, synthetic fragrance, silicones, dyes, mineral oils, DEA/MEA, BHA, gluten and GMOs.
The i-On® Age Disrupting Skin Emulsion ($125.00) is available for purchase now on iOnSkincare.com. i-On® Skin Diagnostic can be accessed at iOnSkincare.com/pages/skin-diagnostic.
ABOUT I-ON® AGE DISRUPTING SKINCARE
Founded by Dr. Xi Huang, one of the world's leading researchers on the correlation between iron levels and health, i-On® Age Disrupting Skincare is a groundbreaking beauty brand featuring proprietary technology stemming from over a century of research. After finding that iron overload, caused by the cessation of menstruation after menopause, is a leading cause of visible skin aging, Dr. Xi developed the cornerstone of i-On® Age Disrupting Skincare: De-Ironizing Inducer (DII®) Technology, which does what no other cosmetic skincare product can do. It removes iron from the surface of the skin before it is converted to skin-damaging free radicals. For more information, visit www.iOnSkincare.com, Nordstrom.com or follow on social media @iOnSkincare.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Soriano had 17 points, 18 rebounds and three blocks, David Jones added 15 points and eight rebounds and St. John's scored 50 second-half points to rally past Nebraska 70-50 on Thursday night at the Gavitt Tipoff Games.
St. John's had just 20 points in the first half before scoring 24 of the opening 30 points after halftime.
St. John’s made its first 3-pointer of the game with 17-:09 remaining in the second half to take its first lead, 30-27, since 6-4. It came during St. John’s 18-3 run to open the second half. Jones made 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to make it 44-33.
Posh Alexander scored 13 points for St. John's (4-0).
Keisei Tominaga was the lone double-digit scorer for Nebraska (2-1) with 15 points. Sam Griesel, Nebraska’s leading scoring coming in at 20 points per game, made his first field goal of the game with 8:28 remaining in the second half and finished with six points.
Nebraska led 27-20 at the break after holding St. John’s to 23.4% shooting, including 0 for 10 from 3-point range. The Red Storm had eight field goals in the first half and 10 turnovers.
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Suspect arrested after getaway car trapped at car wash, police say
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio (WOIO) - Police arrested a man suspected of robbing an Ohio grocery store after his alleged getaway car was trapped at a car wash.
According to police, the manager at a Giant Eagle grocery store spotted a man leaving with a shopping cart full of $498.41 in unpaid merchandise last Saturday in South Euclid, Ohio. She reported the incident to store security, who saw the suspect attempt to get into a potential getaway car.
However, officials say the driver of the possible getaway car had gone to a nearby car wash while the suspect was in Giant Eagle. The car was trapped between several others and couldn’t move, WOIO reports.
Police arrested the suspect, who had an oustanding warrant in South Euclid, and charged him with theft. They also arrested the driver of the possible getaway car, who had an outstanding warrant with the Lakewood Police Department.
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The acquisition of Data Advantage Group Inc. rapidly elevates Bigeye's support for enterprise data sources and tools.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bigeye, a data observability company, proudly announces the acquisition of Data Advantage Group, Inc. The integration of Data Advantage Group's extensive data lineage capabilities allow Bigeye to automatically map data lineage across transactional databases, ETL platforms, data lakes, data warehouses, and business intelligence tools.This acquisition gives Bigeye customers the most sophisticated view of data pipelines available to date from a data observability provider.
Data Advantage Group was founded by Geoffrey Arone. The company has spent the last two decades building the world's most comprehensive metadata collection and data lineage platform, MetaCenter. The team leverages more than 20 years of domain expertise to manage metadata, change control, and data governance for enterprises across a range of sectors, from financial services to industrial to government and healthcare.
As enterprises increasingly adopt cloud data warehouses and cloud-native data tools, they leverage a wide range of "traditional" data stack components: application and transactional databases, ETL tools, and BI and analytics tools. The emerging data observability market has primarily focused on supporting these traditional cloud data warehouses, leaving enterprises unable to effectively modernize their data pipeline monitoring. The joint capabilities of Bigeye and Data Advantage Group will lead the market in closing this gap.
Integrating Data Advantage Group's extensive data lineage connectivity will make Bigeye the most advanced platform for mapping complex enterprise data pipelines. Customers gain new data lineage capabilities unique among data observability providers, including the ability to automatically map column-level lineage within transactional databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Bigeye will also provide job-level visibility within enterprise ETL platforms—including Informatica, Talend, SQL Server Integration Services, and IBM DataStage—to pinpoint pipeline or quality issue root causes down to the exact step in the ETL process. Finally, Bigeye will leverage Data Advantage Group's state-of-the-art connectors to extend visibility into a variety of business intelligence tools like Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, and others.
"We've met with hundreds of enterprise data teams," says Kyle Kirwan, Bigeye's CEO and co-founder. "Universally, their pipelines are built on a mix of technologies. That's why we're investing in best-in-class lineage support, so we can truly deliver on the promise of end-to-end observability for these enterprises, regardless of how their data stack is built."
The acquisition includes a mixture of cash and equity. The Data Advantage Group team will be retained by Bigeye. New capabilities will gradually become available to Bigeye enterprise customers through regular product launches.
"We are excited to be able to combine the class-leading capabilities of Bigeye's data observability platform with MetaCenter's data lineage automation," says Geoff Rayner, CEO of Data Advantage Group. "Both companies are customer focused and design solutions that provide best-in-class automation. I believe our combined solution will deliver a value proposition not found in any other platform on the market today."
Data Advantage Group's acquisition builds upon the success of Bigeye, which solves data quality and data pipeline issues for customers in both the public and private sectors. A recent Bigeye data quality survey survey found that around 250-500 hours are lost every quarter dealing with data pipeline issues. Across Bigeye's customer base, users have saved millions of dollars in operational costs and issue mitigation.
Equipped with Data Advantage Group's lineage and metadata capabilities, Bigeye will help customers unlock the full potential of their data, drive cost reduction, and tackle data issues before they become bigger problems.
For more information on Bigeye's data observability solution, visit www.bigeye.com.
About Bigeye:
Modern businesses rely on accurate, reliable data delivered without interruption. Bigeye was founded by two of Uber's earliest data team managers, and is backed by prominent venture capital investors like Sequoia Capital and Coatue. Bigeye is an industry-leading data observability platform that helps data engineering and science teams ensure data reliability. Organizations like Zoom, Confluent, Unity, and a U.S. national intelligence agency use Bigeye's automated data quality monitoring, ML-powered anomaly detection, and granular root cause analysis to detect and resolve issues before they impact the business.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday won a third term in office, fending off a challenge from first-time candidate Leora Levy, a Republican who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Blumenthal, the state’s former attorney general, focused much of his campaign on being a backstop for abortion rights in Connecticut and Democratic policies in Washington. Blumenthal vowed to fight any effort in Congress to impose a national abortion ban that would override Connecticut’s current law. Abortion is legal in Connecticut with restrictions.
He also warned democracy would be at risk if the GOP gained control of the U.S. Senate.
“We are in a break-the-glass moment in this democracy,” Blumenthal said after accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination in August. “And we need to stand up to the Trump Republicans, to special interests, to anyone who would put us back in time on workers’ rights, women’s rights, civil rights and liberties. It is the fight of our lifetime.”
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In the Republican primary, Levy defeated the party's endorsed candidate, former state House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, a social moderate. Levy received a late endorsement in that race from former President Donald Trump, who also held a fundraiser for Levy at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Levy had hoped to become the first Republican U.S. senator from Connecticut since Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who served from 1971 to 1989.
Levy tried to make the race more about President Joe Biden than Trump, working to capitalize on voters’ concerns about inflation and financial struggles.
She also took a socially conservative tack that hadn't been seen much in Connecticut statewide elections, opposing abortion rights except in certain situations and taking a stand against various gun control measures. Levy has also made parents’ rights a major campaign issue, calling for the end of “indoctrination and discrimination” in Connecticut schools after a Greenwich assistant principal was apparently secretly recorded saying he’d prefer not to hire politically conservative staff, including Roman Catholics.
Some moderate Republicans predicted that Blumenthal, 76, would sail to victory after Levy won her party’s primary in August. Party leaders had originally hoped Klarides, who supports abortion rights, would be a strong contender, especially after Blumenthal registered his lowest job approval rating since taking office in 2011 in a Quinnipiac poll conducted in May.
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(Bloomberg) — Contract workers at Google’s data centers allege that they were fired for supporting a union and faced retaliation after pushing for better benefits, according to a pair of complaints filed this week with the US National Labor Relations Board.
The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents full-time employees and contractors across Google’s parent company, claims that two workers at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, were terminated for discussing their working conditions and because of their affiliation with the labor organization, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg.
Another worker at the site faced retaliation for having a role in the union, according to the complaint, which was filed on Wednesday against Google and Modis, an information-technology firm that serves as a subcontractor.
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Labor groups have been pushing to make inroads this year in big tech companies, long seen as resistant to union organizing. In addition to Google, Amazon, and Apple have faced labor campaigns in recent months — with mixed results.
In another complaint filed with the NLRB on Wednesday, two contract security guards working at Google data centers in North and South Carolina allege that they lost their security clearances after discussing working conditions. The workers said they had spoken out about a lack of benefits such as sick days and parental leave and have been unable to work without their security clearances.
The cases appear to be the first in which Alphabet Inc. workers were fired for their union membership, according to Parul Koul, a Google software engineer and the executive chair of AWU, a so-called minority union that doesn’t have collective bargaining authority but advocates on behalf of workers.
Google didn’t have an immediate comment. Modis, which is owned by Adecco Group, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Claims filed with the NLRB are investigated by regional officials. If they find merit in the allegations and can’t secure a settlement, they issue a complaint on behalf of the labor board’s general counsel, which is considered by an agency judge. Those judges’ rulings can be appealed to the NLRB members in Washington and then to federal court.
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The agency has the authority to order companies to reinstate fired workers and change policies, but generally can’t hold executives personally liable for alleged wrongdoing or issue any punitive damages.
Last year, another NLRB complaint filed by AWU on behalf of a subcontracted Google data-center worker in South Carolina led to a settlement. As part of that agreement, the tech giant promised to obey federal law by not silencing workers about their pay.
The treatment of the workers in Council Bluffs violates that settlement, AWU alleges. In June, one of the workers, Eli Cave, who uses they and them pronouns, suggested a walkout to protest a new timekeeping system that they feared could lead to lost wages. Shortly thereafter, a manager said Cave’s actions “could be considered insubordination” and threatened to put Cave on a performance improvement plan, according to a statement of facts in the case viewed by Bloomberg.
In July, two other workers at the site, Dustin Sommers-Hehn and Leilani Morton, met in the data center’s common area to discuss working conditions, according to the statement of facts. Later that week, management gave Sommers-Hehn a “final warning” for having a “union meeting” and told Morton that discussing unions was forbidden, the document states. Sommers-Hehn and Morton learned in August and October, respectively, that their contracts wouldn’t be renewed.
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The other complaint filed Wednesday is tied to security guards at Google contractor Allied Universal. Earlier this year, Allied workers realized they weren’t receiving key benefits, such as sick days, special leave for Covid-19 and parental leave, though they were guaranteed under Google’s minimum benefits standards for US contractors, according to the complaint.
Allied rolled out some benefits in September after a petition circulated by employees attracted hundreds of signatures, workers said. Cynthia West, who was working as a security guard in North Carolina, said she helped organize the petition, but she feels she has paid a steep price. Shortly after accepting a new job at another Google contractor on the site, she learned that she had lost her security clearance.
A representative for Allied didn’t have an immediate comment.
Although she was employed by Google’s contracting firms, West said that the client bears responsibility for working conditions on the site.
“The client does or should have some culpability for that,” said West, 37, who is cited by the complaints filed by AWU. “If they don’t know, they need to know.”
Another worker who is part of the complaint against Google and Allied, Heather Smith, said she had spoken out about the lack of benefits and also advocated on behalf of a pregnant colleague.
In late September, she learned she had lost her security clearance. “It was a blow out of nowhere,” said Smith, 31. “I was terminated without them actually saying ‘terminated.’”
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“The Last of Us” becomes one of HBO Max’s top debuts
Less than a week ago, HBO Max premiered “The Last of Us,” a new TV series based on the bestselling third-person video game released a decade ago for PlayStation 3. The first episode attracted 4.7 million viewers, making it the streaming service’s third-highest debut ever.
While this is great news for HBO Max, it’s hardly a first. Video games have been source material for TV shows and movies since the last millennium. Some of these ventures were wildly successful, while others are best if forgotten. Here is a rundown of some of the iconic video games that made the leap to another screen.
What makes a story idea marketable?
Story ideas can come from anywhere at any time. You could think of one while you are in the shower, walking, driving, reading a short story, reading a comic book, playing a video game or even while watching another movie or TV show. To be marketable, however, that story needs to contain a few specific elements. Ideally, it’s a high-concept story with a well-defined conflict and relatable or intriguing characters with a satisfying conclusion. Beyond that, it needs to fit cleanly in a genre and have a target audience.
Why Hollywood is interested in video games
Entertainment is an investment. TV shows and films are made primarily because someone believes they can make money off of them. Popular video games have already cleared many of the most important marketability hurdles. Namely, they have established an audience in a particular genre. In short, the target audience has already spent money on the game, so it’s a good bet they will flock to a well-made movie or become engaged with a quality TV series.
Why video games are great source materials for movies and TV shows
Besides the financial elements, such as a built-in audience, video games are uniquely suited for transitioning into film and TV shows for creative reasons. Video games have an established storyline with a specific quest or goal. Players are familiar and sympathetic to the character’s plight, especially after having been the character themselves. Also, the style, fashion and other creative details have already been established — a wise creative team won’t change a thing, like giving a hedgehog creepy teeth. In short, all the creative elements are there, so making a TV show or movie from a video game gives a production team a huge head start.
Best video games that became TV shows or movies
Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection
While the movies have been uneven, Mortal Kombat games have always been killer. In this outing, you get to play as Sheeva, Fujin, RoboCop, Spawn, Joker and more. There are also all-new iconic fatalities and stages. Sold by Best Buy and Target
The film starred Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa, who must battle giant creatures with fearsome powers to survive. The game is set in Kamura Village, and players can hunt solo or at a party to earn rewards to become the ultimate hunter. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
The 2022 Halo TV series was a hit. And why wouldn’t it be? It was based on the classic first-person shooter game. In the Halo Infinite game, players get to don the armor of the greatest hero to help save humanity. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
There are so many Resident Evil films and TV shows that it’s hard to keep track of the problems that nasty T-virus is causing. In the latest game, the eighth major installment in the series, players face new challenges, discover familiar faces and have new mysteries to solve. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
While you might not have ever seen it, there was a TV series that aired way back in the late 80s. With the newest game, you can explore Hyrule like never before. Players can live off the land, scavenge weapons, make their own choices and face the consequences. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet Double Pack
While it seems like the Pokemon anime series has been on TV forever, the video game actually came out one year before the series started. With the newest versions, Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet, you can take classes with teachers or embark on an independent study to gain new experiences and find treasure. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
Not only has Sonic inspired several animated shows, but there have also been two huge movies. In Frontiers, players race across five massive overworld islands that are filled with secrets and new challenges. The open zone platforming allows you to experience the game in a variety of new ways. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
The series just started on HBO Max, yet it’s already a hit. Part II is a complex emotional story that will have you rethinking the difference between good and evil. Besides new groups of survivors, this game features horrifying evolutions of the infected. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
2022’s blockbuster, Uncharted, starred Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in a thrilling treasure hunter adventure. This video game collection combines cinematic storytelling with highly immersive sights and sounds. You will feel as if you are living the experience. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
Super Mario 3D World and Bowser’s Fury
With the new Super Mario Bros. Movie coming out in just a few months, excitement for this stalwart from Nintendo is high. To get in the spirit, try this two-pack of popular games: Super Mario 3D World and Bowser’s Fury. Sold by Amazon, Best Buy and Target
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Grant Williams of Boston Celtics is guest speaker at Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame
Former Tennessee basketball star Grant Williams of the Boston Celtics will be the guest speaker at the 42nd annual Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The event is scheduled for Aug. 31 at the Knoxville Convention Center. Reception starts at 5 p.m. and program starts at 6:30.
Williams was picked with the No. 22 overall selection by the Celtics in the 2019 NBA Draft.
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Williams averaged 18.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in his final season at UT. He earned consensus All-American honors, joining Dale Ellis (1982-83 season) and Bernard King (1976-77 season) as the only Vols to do so.
The Charlotte, N.C., native won back-to-back SEC Player of the Year awards and is one of only 10 players to win the award in consecutive seasons.
Williams was a mid-level recruit, brought to Tennessee as part of a program-changing 2016 recruiting class. He made an impact early in his career, averaging 12.6 points per game with 29 starts.
He earned SEC All-Freshman honors, which was just the beginning of his achievements at UT.
Williams dominated his sophomore season, leading Tennessee with 15.2 points per game as the Vols won a share of the SEC regular-season title. He split the SEC Player of the Year award with Georgia's Yante Maten but won it outright as a junior.
Now in his fourth season with the Celtics, Williams averaged a career-high 8.9 points per game and 4.6 rebounds in 2022-23. He also appeared in a career-high 78 games this season and started 23, also a career best.
The Celtics are playing the Miami Heat in the NBA Eastern Conference finals.
The class of 2023 for the hall of fame has not yet been announced.
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- The suspect involved in an Innsbrook-area shooting on Sunday evening died from injuries at the hospital, Henrico Police said on Monday.
While his next of kin have been notified, Henrico Police are not identifying the deceased due to his age. Police are working with the State Medical Examiner to determine the manner and cause of his death.
Henrico Police were initially called to 4000 Cox Road on Sunday for a disorderly situation.
A guest at a hotel there told the Richmond TImes-Dispatch a man and woman stole his cell phone from the hotel lobby, and the police were called.
Responding officers identified the man and woman involved in the larceny and a foot pursuit occurred, stretching from the Cox Road area to Old Sadler Road, about a quarter mile down Broad Street, officials said.
Investigators said the man fired toward the officers in pursuit and those officers returned fire. The woman was taken into custody and the man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Henrico Police.
In their investigation, police determined that three Henrico Police officers returned fire at the suspect. These officers have been placed on an administrative assignment as the investigation continues.
At this point, there are no charges pending against the female suspect involved in the incident.
Officials were asking witnesses of the events to come forward since it happened during the daylight in a usually busy part of the county.
This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can email newstips@wtvr.com to send a tip.
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QINGDAO, China, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Devoted to technological innovation and consumer focus, developing better and high-tech products that benefit society and create a better lifestyle for all, has always been Hisense's constant adherence.
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Cold recipes for hot weather
I know hot weather isn’t unusual for L.A., but still, when you have to start using the air conditioner during the day, you know it’s officially too hot out. And I say this after returning from a two-week trip in France, where I experienced the much-discussed heat wave there, and let me tell you, THAT is hot. Each day felt like walking out into an oven that slowly dried you from the inside out. It was on those 104-degree days that all I wanted was cold fruit and salads and iced coffee injected into my veins.
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Now that I’m back in L.A., where we’re blissfully insulated from the worst of the heat wave that virtually everyone else is experiencing beyond the mountains, I’m maintaining that habit of eating nothing but cold salads and soups for the foreseeable future.
One is my Spicy Watermelon and Tahini Salad With Pistachios and Mint, which I wrote about previously. It takes the often pallid watermelons you find at the grocery and boosts their flavor with a short maceration in sugar and salt before getting drizzled with a spicy tahini sauce that perks up the cold cubes wonderfully.
For something more substantial, there’s my Sesame Cold Noodles With Crab and Crunchy Vegetables. You can use any seafood (or none) that you want, but the cold veggies are essential to give you that crunch against the chewy chilled noodles and toasty sesame dressing. Or, if you want something more acidic and vegan friendly, try my Kale Pasta Salad With Parm and Smoked Almonds. Orzo soaks up a lemony dressing that gets better as the kale softens over days in the fridge; the smoked almonds and parm pack an umami punch to balance all the leanness of the salad, too.
My friend Paola Briseño-González has a wonderful recipe for Potato Salad With Spicy Green Goddess Labneh and Lobster that I make often, swapping in shrimp or scallops or even cooked salmon if I can’t find lobster. The dressing is extremely flavorful and the salad is as substantial as a full meal on its own.
And when I want a smoothie for lunch on a hot day (but I hate smoothies), I turn instead to this Cold Almond and Garlic Soup. It’s a Spanish classic for a reason: blanched garlic and almonds puree to a smooth soup sharpened with lots of sherry vinegar. It’s so simple and adapts wonderfully to whatever tart-and-maybe-a-little-savory fruit you have to eat with it, like figs, plums or cherry tomatoes.
Spicy Watermelon and Tahini Salad With Pistachios And Mint
This salad adds a spicy richness to lean, sweet watermelon. Sprinkling the melon with salt and sugar for 20 minutes draws out excess liquid to concentrate the melon’s flavor.
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Cook time: 30 minutes.
Sesame Cold Noodles With Crab and Crunchy Vegetables
The Chinese sesame paste and noodles are the two components of this dish that are essential. The sesame paste is like a toastier, nuttier tahini, and the noodles provide the proper chew with all the crunchy vegetables. Use ramen noodles because they’re the easiest to find.
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Cook time: 45 minutes.
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Kale Pasta Salad With Parm and Smoked Almonds
Measure out your dressing ingredients and chop your vegetables while you’re waiting for the water to boil so you can make this salad super quick. It’s a great repository for any other leftover meat or vegetables you have chilling in the fridge. Instead of Parmesan, add the same amount of crumbled goat cheese or feta.
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Cook time: 20 minutes.
Potato Salad With Spicy Green Goddess Labneh and Lobster
Commonly paired in many Latin cuisines, briny rich seafood — in this case, lobster — goes wonderfully with creamy potatoes in this salad, invigorated by a tart, creamy green goddess-style dressing. Because you only use a little, the lobster is affordable, and its flavor goes a long way, especially when tossed with lemon for a vibrant topping to the salad, garnished with crunchy rendered-and-chopped prosciutto.
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Cook time: 40 minutes.
Cold Almond and Garlic Soup
Almonds and garlic transform into a hearty but refreshing, flavorful soup in this Spanish classic. Keep the soup in the fridge until ready to serve it, and top with figs, plums or even cherry tomatoes.
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Cook time: 1 hour 10 minutes.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Francis made the first foreign trip of his papacy, to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day in 2013, he urged young people to make a “mess” in their local churches, to shake things up even if it ruffled the feathers of their bishops.
As he embarks this week on another edition of World Youth Day, in Lisbon, Portugal, Francis in many ways has taken his own advice to heart. After 10 years as pope, Francis is accelerating his reform agenda and making revolutionary changes in personnel and policy that are definitely shaking things up.
Unencumbered by the shadow of Pope Benedict XVI, who died seven months ago, and despite recovering from a second intestinal surgery in as many years, the 86-year-old Francis is opening a frenetic second half of the year with his Portugal visit. He seems aware that he has a limited sweet spot of time to solidify the changes he believes are necessary for the 21st century church, and is looking to the next generation of faithful and leaders to execute them.
“The sense I get is that this is the consolidation phase of the pontificate,” said papal biographer Austen Ivereigh. “He’s laying the basis now, laying the ground, for the future.”
And no better place to put it on display than at a World Youth Day. The international rally, which St. John Paul II launched in 1986 to galvanize young Catholics in their faith, is expected to draw up to 1 million people for the first post-pandemic event of its kind. Francis’ perennial social justice concerns about climate change, social inequality and fraternity, as well as Russia’s war in Ukraine, are expected to be major themes.
Beyond Portugal, though, Francis’ multifold strategy for laying the groundwork for the future is coming together and will hit significant marks in the coming months.
His global canvassing of rank-and-file Catholics about their vision for the future comes to fruition this October with a big synod at the Vatican. The meeting is intended to give direction on such hot-button issues as the place of LGBTQ+ Catholics and women in the church, and for the first time will feature women and young people voting on proposals alongside bishops.
“I really think that for Pope Francis, he felt that ‘OK, now it’s mature’ and it would be good really to involve all the members, all the people in the synod as members” with the right to vote, said Sister Nathalie Becquart, who is one of the key synod organizers.
To then implement the vision that emerges from the synod, Francis has been naming a slew of unusually young bishops for key archdioceses — in his native Buenos Aires, Madrid and Brussels, among others. At the same time, he’s elevated several cardinals in their 50s — and in some cases their 40s — including the auxiliary bishop of Lisbon who is organizing World Youth Day.
Putting such young clerics in such important positions ensures a generation’s worth of likeminded leadership in the Vatican and archdioceses around the world. While not all are cookie-cutter proteges of Francis, many are seen as similarly pastorally minded and thus more game to implement his reforms, especially as the older generation of bishops and cardinals dies out.
After Francis is gone, the youngest of these new cardinals will have some three decades’ worth of local leadership and conclave votes to select future popes, suggesting a generational and ideological shift in the church leadership is very much underway.
Francis’ most important young “legacy” appointment was that of the Vatican’s new doctrinal czar, Argentine Cardinal-elect Victor Manuel Fernandez, 61. Francis’ theological ghostwriter ran into Vatican problems in the past over questions about his doctrinal orthodoxy, and his appointment sent shockwaves through the conservative and traditionalist wings of the church.
Fernandez sees his appointment as part of Francis’ longer-term agenda. “He is proposing a more inclusive church, more respectful of different ways of living, even of thinking,” Fernandez said in an interview.
Portuguese Cardinal-elect Americo Aguiar, who is in charge of World Youth Day, is another young churchman who also understands his appointment as part of a generational turning point for the Catholic hierarchy.
At age 49 he will become the second-youngest member of the College of Cardinals when he is installed Sept. 30. He is just six months older than the current youngest cardinal, whom Francis elevated this time last year: Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, head of the church in Mongolia where Francis will travel at the end of August.
“My reading of it is that this has to do with young people, it has to do with youth, it has to do with Portugal, it has to do with World Youth Day, it has to do with all of that,” Aguiar said in an interview. “I think that his objective and his underlining was exactly to send a signal to the young people, to every young person who is preparing the day, whether in Portugal or in the world, to feel identified with this decision.”
Francis said as much in his monthly prayer intentions for August, this time dedicated to the Lisbon event.
“In Lisbon, I would like to see a seed for the world’s future,” Francis said. “A world where love is at the center, where we can sense that we are sisters and brothers.”
His wish in many ways echoed his words at the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio, which now seem prescient in outlining many of the key pastoral messages Francis has emphasized over the past decade. Delivering a spontaneous, off-the-cuff exhortation to a gathering of Argentine pilgrims that was organized at the last minute, Francis urged the young to get out into the streets, spread their faith and “make a mess.”
“I want to see the church get closer to the people,” Francis said then, speaking in his native Spanish. “I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures.”
Realizing the radical nature of his message, Francis apologized to the bishops for what was about to come, even though in the 10 years since, he has only gone further than anyone could have imagined at the time.
“The true reform of the church, you know, is not a revolution bringing something completely from outside,” said Becquart, the French nun, as she reflected on Francis’ agenda. “It’s a path of change that is a way to unfold tradition, but in a very dynamic way.”
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AP reporters Helena Alvez in Lisbon, Portugal, and Almudena Calatrava in Buenos Aires contributed.
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Man United set to terminate Ronaldo's contract
Portugal captain Ronaldo caused a stir this week in a wide-ranging interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, criticising United, senior figures at the club and manager Erik ten Hag.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner said he felt "betrayed" by United, who he claims has made "zero progress" since Alex Ferguson departed Old Trafford in 2013.
Portugal showed no signs of distraction with a 4-0 friendly victory over Nigeria in a World Cup warm-up game and Silva says he has no interest in the situation with Ronaldo at United.
"The news coming from England has nothing to do with Portugal," the Manchester City midfielder said.
"It concerns him, I don't have to comment, it has nothing to do with me. It's not about the Selecao but about Cristiano.
"It's still for Cristiano. I am not a Manchester United player. If I were I wouldn't answer you. It's a rival club. I have nothing to do with it.
"We are with Portugal, focused on our matches, we are not focused on Cristiano's situation with his club.
"So I'll answer questions about the World Cup and our team."
Ronaldo missed the Nigeria triumph through illness with United teammate Bruno Fernandes scoring twice before late goals for Goncalo Ramos and Joao Mario.
Silva acknowledged Portugal remains somewhat reliant on the firepower of Ronaldo but insisted Fernando Santos' side has the quality to compete without the 37-year-old.
"Almost all our players play for big clubs in the best leagues," he said.
"This is a team that relies on Cristiano, he's part of it of course, but when he's not here we know how to respond on the pitch as we have done lately.
"Not only in this game [against Nigeria], but also in the Nations League, in some of the qualifiers, where we responded well [to his absence]. That's what counts.
"There are 26 of us. When one is not here another one replaces him. We will give our best to represent our country."
Fernandes appeared to give Ronaldo a frosty reception on arrival for national team duty before assuring there were no problems between the pair before Portugal's World Cup opener against Ghana on Friday (AEDT).
Silva reiterated Fernandes' viewpoint as he suggested the interview has not altered the harmony within the Portugal camp.
"I don't see any strange atmosphere between Cristiano or anyone else," he said.
"Again, it's a matter for him and his club. I have nothing to do with it, I don't even play in it. It's a question he has to solve on his own.
"I see him motivated for our team as we all are.
"One more to help our selection and help our team to achieve its goals.
"I don't see what the problem is. It's an individual matter that we have already talked about.
"We only talked about this in the last press conference, while Portugal has a World Cup to play that is more important.
"I understand your questions and your persistence in trying to pull out whatever it is because there is nothing." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/2022-fifa-world-cup/video/ronaldo-uproar-of-no-concern-for-silva/1989663 | 2022-11-20 06:17:56 | 0 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/2022-fifa-world-cup/video/ronaldo-uproar-of-no-concern-for-silva/1989663 |
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (WFRV) – The National Railroad Museum hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate the completion of its shoreline stabilization project.
After high water and flooding eroded more than 1,000 feet of shoreline and began to undercut portions of the operation track in 2020, the Museum utilized the opportunity to address the emergency through targeted stabilization.
The museum was able to create a beautiful view of the Fox River and a space that the community can gather and enjoy.
“Right now, where the track curves around, it’s closer to the shoreline,” said Daniel Liedtke, Curator with the National Railway Museum. “By having that stabilized more we can just worry about the maintenance of the track. We don’t have to worry about the ground eroding underneath.”
The project was completed through donations from the 1923 Fund and the City of Green Bay. The two-year stabilization project was completed by Payne and Dolan and finished with a fence from Fox Valley Custom Fence.
The stabilization also opens the space for the Fox River Expansion, which is a planned addition to the museum’s Lenfestey Center that will feature four tracks for restored rolling stock, a classroom, an interior events space, an outdoor patio, and a mezzanine that will display small collections and overlook it all. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/national-railway-museum-gets-major-upgrade/ | 2022-09-14 21:37:41 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/national-railway-museum-gets-major-upgrade/ |
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan is in a stable condition after being shot and wounded during a protest march, a senior leader from his party said Friday.
Khan’s protest march and rallies were peaceful until Thursday afternoon’s attack, raising concerns about growing political instability in Pakistan, a country with a history of political violence and assassinations.
One of Khan’s supporters was killed and 13 others, including two lawmakers, were wounded in the attack.
“There is no doubt about it,” said Fawad Chaudhry, a senior leader from Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party. “We are convinced that it was a well-planned assassination attempt on Pakistan’s most popular leader Imran Khan, who is now in stable condition at the Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore after undergoing surgery there.”
He said the party leadership was meeting in Lahore later Friday. “We will announce today exactly when our march will resume from Wazirabad,” Chaudhry told The Associated Press. He provided no further details, but Khan’s party in a brief statement urged supporters to hold nationwide rallies to condemn the shooting.
Asad Umar, a senior figure from Khan’s party, blamed the shooting on Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the country’s interior minister, and an army general without offering any evidence.
The government called the allegation baseless, saying it has ordered a high-level probe and that the attacker is being questioned.
Police are still questioning the alleged attacker, who is shown in a video saying he carried out the shooting and acted alone.
Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif on Friday said the Punjab government suspended the police officials who released the video to the media.
The attack took place as the former cricket star-turned-politician was traveling in a large protest convoy of trucks and cars toward Islamabad. Video footage shows him and his team ducking for cover on top of a vehicle as gunfire rings out.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said some political elements from Khan’s party were trying to create chaos in the country following the attack.
His comments came after scores of Khan’s supporters demonstrated in various parts of the country, with some chanting slogans against the military and vowing to avenge the attack. The interior minister called the alleged gunman a “religious extremist” who had accused the ex-premier of comparing himself to prophets in some of his recent public speeches.
Khan, 70, is likely to be allowed to go home soon, according to Faisal Sultan, who is heading the team of doctors who treated Khan. He told reporters Thursday that Khan’s surgery continued for two hours, and he had a bullet wound in his right leg.
He maintains that his April ouster from Parliament was unlawful and a conspiracy by his political opponents orchestrated by the United States, a charge denied by both Washington and Sharif.
Khan wants the government to announce snap elections. He led the protest from Lahore last Friday along with thousands of supporters, saying his protest will continue until his demands are accepted. Pakistan says elections will take place as scheduled in 2023.
His supporters rallied overnight in different parts of the country after the shooting.
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Associated Press writer Babar Dogar contributed to the story from Lahore, Pakistan. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-pakistans-ex-pm-khan-stable-after-shooting/ | 2022-11-04 11:45:16 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-pakistans-ex-pm-khan-stable-after-shooting/ |
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. women pulled a shocking upset over Jamaica in the 4×100 relay at world championships Saturday, while the men finished second after a sloppy baton exchange that has become a ritual for that star-crossed team.
Andre De Grasse beat Marvin Bracy to the line by .07 seconds to lift Canada to the victory in the men’s race in 37.48 seconds.
Bracy fell behind in the anchor leg after twice reaching back and whiffing on the exchange from Elijah Hall, who went tumbling to the ground after he finally got the stick into his teammate’s hand.
The U.S. women, a clear underdog to a Jamaican team that had won all but one of the six sprint medals at this meet, pulled the upset when Twanisha Terry held off 200 gold medalist Shericka Jackson for a .04-second victory.
The American team, which also included Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner and Jenna Prandini, finished in 41.14.
Jamaica’s fate might have been sealed on a messy first pass between Kemba Nelson and Elaine Thompson-Herah. With Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce running the third leg, Jamaica came into this with all three members of the team that swept the 100 meters last weekend and both members of the 1-2 finish in the 200. The U.S. had taken all six medals in the men’s 100 and 200.
The relays proved, yet again, that pure speed is not all that matters in these races.
Though the U.S. men will walk away with a medal this time — they’d been shut out in six of the last 13 worlds and three of the last four Olympics — this can’t be framed as anything but an unsatisfactory result.
De Grasse, the Olympic champion at 200 meters, could barely walk up his stairs four weeks ago while recovering from COVID-19. He didn’t make it through 100-meter heats last weekend and pulled out of the 200 altogether.
He won the gold medal with a team that also included Aaron Brown, who finished seventh in the 200 and eighth in the 100; Jerome Blake, who didn’t make the final in either; and Brendon Rodney, who was part of Canada’s relay pool.
Meanwhile, the U.S., apparently buoyed by a solid race in prelims the day earlier, put out the same lineup and left a bunch of its medalists from earlier in the week — Trayvon Bromell, Erriyon Knighton, Kenny Bednarek and the injured Fred Kerley — on the bench.
Hall stayed on. His resume: A fifth-place finish in the 100 at nationals last month, but also an NCAA relay title in 2018 at University of Houston, where the legend, Carl Lewis, who is also a constant critic of the U.S. relay process, has been coaching for years.
One thought for the men: Take a page out of the book being written by the women’s relay coach, Mechelle Lewis Freeman.
Her team consisted of the eighth-place finisher in the 100 (Jefferson), the fifth-place finisher in the 200 (Steiner) and two others (Prandini and Terry) who didn’t make it out of their semis.
The initial pass between Jefferson and Steiner might not have been amazingly smooth, but neither was Jamaica’s.
Terry took the stick for the anchor leg with about a four-step lead over Jackson, who, two nights earlier, had run the second-fastest time ever in the 200 (21.45).
The Jamaican closed, and closed some more, but when Terry leaned into the line she had America’s first win at worlds in this race since 2017, when Fraser-Pryce was out after having her baby.
Other winners Saturday included Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir of Kenya in the men’s 800, Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia in the women’s 5000, Anderson Peters of Grenada in men’s javelin and Pedro Pichardo of Portugal, who backed up his Olympic title with a world title in men’s triple jump.
The evening also featured a (final?) curtain call for Allyson Felix, who was lured back to the worlds stage to run the prelims in the 4×400 women’s race.
It sets up Felix to win her 20th world championship medal, and her 14th gold after Sunday’s final. The U.S. has won the 4×400 at seven of the past nine worlds.
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Aaron Gordon bristled at the notion the Denver Nuggets must operate the “rust versus rest” seesaw with 10 days between their Western Conference title celebration in Los Angeles and the start of the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat.
Rest?
“We’ve been working,” Gordon declared about 15 hours after the Nuggets finally learned who they’ll have to beat to secure the franchise’s first Larry O’Brien gold ball trophy. “It’s not like we’ve had our hands back and feet kicked up.”
Rust?
“We’ve been locked in, in the gym, working diligently,” Gordon insisted. “So, we feel like we’re in a good space. It’s been a good balance of work to rest. Happy we have home court advantage.”
Miami’s 103-84 shellacking of the Celtics in Boston in Game 7 on Monday night sent the Heat to Denver for Game 1 on Thursday night. Had the Celtics been the first of 151 teams to ever overcome a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven basketball series, the Nuggets would have headed East for Games 1 and 2.
Instead, the Nuggets get to stay in the Mile High City, where they’ve been since returning from their 113-111 win over the Lakers on May 22, and host a Heat team that’s been playing every other night and won’t have much time to acclimate to the city’s mile-high altitude.
So, yes, Gordon acknowledged, he was actually rooting for Jimmy Butler to come to Denver this week, and not because he wanted to avoid Jayson Tatum, either.
“You always want to keep home court,” Gordon said. “So, first and foremost what we worked for all season was to get home court advantage.”
Top-seeded in the West for the first time in franchise history, the Nuggets have won all eight of their playoff games at Ball Arena, pushing their league-best home record to 42-7, while going 12-3 overall in these playoffs, including series clinching wins on the road against the Suns and Lakers.
The Heat haven’t won in Denver since Nov. 30, 2016, but it’s the Nuggets who are novices on this stage.
Miami has been to the Finals many times before, winning it all in 2006, 2012 and 2013.
“We’ve got the utmost respect for them. They fight and they scrap, they have no quit in them,” Gordon said
The Nuggets are one of six teams who have never won an NBA title. This is their first championship series appearance since losing to Julius Erving and the New York Nets in 1976, after which the wonderful and wacky ABA was disbanded.
Fanduel Sportsbook favors the Nuggets to win their first NBA championship over the Heat, who are the second No. 8 seed to make it this far. But coach Michael Malone repeated his admonition to his players not to pay attention to all the accolades or outside noise.
“Well, as I told our team, forget the eight seed stuff,” Malone said. “They beat Milwaukee 4-1. That team had the most wins in the NBA this year. They beat Boston 4-3 and they were up 3-0, the team with I think the second most wins in the NBA this year.”
“So, you get to the NBA Finals, it’s not about seeding anymore,” added Malone, “and for those who are thinking that this is going to be an easy series, I don’t even know what to say to you people.
“This is going to be the biggest challenge of our live. This is the NBA Finals. We’re trying to win the first NBA championship in franchise history, and it’s going to be the hardest thing that we’ve ever done, which is the way it should be.”
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Public health workers have been on the front lines of it all, from the pandemic, mass shootings, racial injustice and intense natural disasters.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the toll that is taking on their mental health.
In 2021, more than half reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD and thoughts of suicide. That improved slightly this year, but 75% still feel like their employer hasn't done anything to increase mental health support, and about half are considering leaving their job in the next five years.
“And so this mental health crisis is only going to get worse as people are more and more burnt out and stressed and not able to deal with the workload in front of them, which is trying to keep our communities healthy,” said Lisa Carlson, past president of the American Public Health Association.
Workers said having more time off and staff so they're not frequently working 60 hours a week would help. The CDC recommends that employers facilitate access to mental health resources and services. Experts said more consistent funding for public health agencies is needed to prepare them for a crisis.
Carlson said support from the community is also crucial.
“Now we don't have a vaccine for our mental health like we do for our physical health,” Carlson said. “And so we've got as a community to come together and figure out how we can support each other and support our public health workers or other health care workers on the front lines so that they can help us all stay healthy.”
The CDC estimates that we need about 80,000 more public health workers across the country right now. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/public-health-workers-mental-health-taking-a-toll-data-finds | 2022-07-25 19:34:33 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/public-health-workers-mental-health-taking-a-toll-data-finds |
LONDON (AP) — British rail workers will go on strike on July 27 over an ongoing pay dispute, a month after the country's most disruptive railway strike in three decades paralyzed train networks across the U.K.
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers said Wednesday its members will walk out for 24 hours, threatening travel chaos during the busy summer holidays.
Union leaders said they have rejected a new pay rise offer from Network Rail to resolve the dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions. They said the “paltry sum” is conditional on union members agreeing to ”drastic changes in their working lives."
“The train operating companies remain stubborn and are refusing to make any new offer which deals with job security and pay," the union's general secretary, Mick Lynch, said.
“Strike action is the only course open to us to make both the rail industry and government understand that this dispute will continue for as long as it takes, until we get a negotiated settlement," he added.
The union staged three strikes last month that saw 40,000 workers walk off their jobs, crippling services across the country.
It said the government's new offer was for a 4% pay rise, another 2% next year and a further 2% conditional on achieving “modernization milestones."
Union leaders say that isn't enough amid soaring inflation — currently at 9.1% — and the worst cost of living crisis in decades.
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DALLAS, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a letter from AWH Capital, LP to the chairman of Purple Innovation's board of directors in regard to the recent acquisition proposal by Coliseum Capital Management.
December 15, 2022
Via FedEx
Paul Zepf
Chairman of the Board
Purple Innovation, Inc.
4100 North Chapel Ridge Road, Suite 200
Lehi, UT 84043
Dear Paul,
We are stockholders of Purple Innovation, Inc. ("Purple"). We believe that Purple currently trades at a substantial discount to intrinsic value and could, over time, appreciate significantly. As such, we believe the recent acquisition proposal by Coliseum Capital Management meaningfully undervalues Purple and should be rejected.
In a challenging year for the mattress industry, Purple CEO Rob DeMartini and his team have achieved quarterly profitability while making significant improvements to its operating structure. These improvements include: focusing marketing spend on more effective channels; optimizing the manufacturing footprint; addressing balance sheet concerns; and completing an accretive acquisition that enhances the premium end of its product portfolio. The company is now preparing to launch new products that will increase the breadth of its offering and provide better differentiation between pricing tiers while reducing input costs.
The mattress industry is generally resilient over time and now appears to be stabilizing. We are pleased to see Rob DeMartini as CEO given his history of achievement as the CEO of New Balance, his understanding of the value of the Purple brand, and his focus on execution. Further, we have a strong degree of confidence in Purple's competitive positioning given its leadership role in the nascent but growing gel grid segment of the mattress industry.
We urge the company to fulfill its fiduciary duty to all stockholders and reject Coliseum's proposal.
Sincerely,
Austin Hopper Mason Bourne
AWH Capital, LP
AWH Capital, LP is a private investment partnership based in Dallas, Texas.
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